skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically the building of housing and the use of land in fairly exclusive resort/beach/etc. communities is very tightly controlled. People in the Hamptons on the weekends don't want it to be another Manhattan. They already probably have a condo in Manhattan. Some real estate is desirable because of location (often beach/mountains) and community exclusivity--and often some degree of accessibility to wealthy population centers. (As you go up the Maine coast waterfront property is not necessarily outrageously expensive.)
I can think of a few situations where taking the life of another human being would be justified, as a last resort.
Yes. Though I suspect a lot of users know the site by reputation and may not specifically know others other than indirectly when they search (google/bing) or are linked to them from elsewhere (reddit, etc.). For those people the constant VPN advertising via sponsorship of podcasts and youtube channels will attract a number of users. The other porn sites can't advertise in those mediums.
Pick a number between 0 and infinity
Original idea from David Chalmers: https://consc.net/notes/pick-a-number.html
That is completely false. Dropping your blackberry and watching the battery cover skitter across the street and fall down a sewer grate was a common experience in the blackberry era.
Well, because then we can hold someone else responsible instead of having any personal responsibility for our own actions.
Ask HN: Why is there no context button in hn.algolia.com comment search?
I was trying to search something I read in a comment and was trying to get to the original comment, but it was leading me to the article instead of the comment. It'd be nice if it included context button like we see when visit someone's comment history like this.

1 point by shoebham 3 months ago | parent | context [–]
There is an effort to write linux drivers for peripherals in Pine Ox64 https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Ox64, the chip(BL808) documentation is not that great. But would be a good exercise to write some drivers.
PBKDF2 should only be used if compliance with government requirements is a concern. While it can be adjusted to be arbitrarily difficult by changing the iterations it's still not memory intensive and can still be fairly easily cracked with a GPU (when compared to scrypt or argon2id).
> Until these companies turn around and sell that data to the government...

Yes, the larger issue is that the government has just outsourced a lot of the work to corporations to get around the Constitution. If there were any integrity left in the US government, there would be a reckoning about this. We worry about regulatory capture, but the bigger problem is deep state/military-industrial complex capture.
The law is more about intent than technical compliance. Both are important, but the most important thing is demonstrating good faith efforts to comply.

It's a very different world from technology, where technical compliance is more or less the same thing as policy compliance.
given all the other places where it has been tried. "poorly" is the likely answer.
Damn they're gonna be rich.
You clearly fell for BigBanana's propaganda.

More seriously -- challenging "US standard" dietary norms often leads to fruitful discussions of nutrition and how off-optimal most "common sense" tends to be.
I wonder if they do escape - my definition of a really rich person would include they have their only plane - are the costs of those flights artificially cheap or do they pay the actual price?
> Unions have shown time and time again to not be able to scale efficiently, shifting power from the "people" to the secretariat when becoming a mass organization. Secretariat that engage in political squabble to enlarge its own power and those of its associates. Unions become a tool for societial corruption.

Isn't this true of corporations or any other mass organization? Unions, AFAIK, are at least democratic.
Time to open up orphanages in third-world countries and harvest children for flight miles.
I see. That's probably why while Merkel was in power, the overall dependence on Russian gas imports raised significantly and her administrations essentially stopped renewables. Meanwhile she decided to end nuclear earlier.

There was no "realizing things" in her administrations. There was just erratic opportunistic actions.
That service would need to be run by a third party, which would know your id and the fact that you are trying to access pornhub, wouldn't it?
Show HN: Diofanti.org Tracking government decisions in Greece
Hello HN,

I'm Florents, and I'm a data engineer based in Greece.

I've developed Diofanti.org , an application that tracks public spending and government procurement & decisions in Greece.

Here's the big picture:
There's diavgeia.gov.gr (diavgeia kinda translates to "transparency") where all Greek state organizations (think ministries, authorities, municipalities, regions) should publish their executive decisions. There are roughly 20K decisions published daily (Greece has a population of 11M). If a decision is not openly published, it cannot be executed legally. So it is a legal prerequisite.
A decision could be a payment from a municipality or ministry to a vendor, a procurement of software licenses, or even a parking permit to a disabled citizen.

Now, decisions are typically published as PDF documents (with all the legal jargon and details), which makes the law happy but doesn't say much to the average citizen; There's also an API, though, and diofanti taps on that to fetch and analyze those decisions and make them easy to visualize and analyze.

So the use cases diofanti supports are like the following:
• How much did my hometown pay during the last week? Which vendors are the most frequent receivers?
• What are the decisions that my local town makes and that I should know about?
• For non-financial decisions, one could go back in time and assess a state's stance on a particular issue. For example, a few years back, diofanti was used to uncover anti-abortion campaigns financed by some state organizations.

As you might expect, it's become very popular among journalists and political (opposition) parties.

The reason I'm publishing this on HN is to ask the following:
1. Do you have any pointers to similar efforts in other countries?
2. Any ideas to make this better ?
3. Forward this to anyone / any organization that you think would like to support financially

Additional material

* Blog post describing the thinking behind this [0] (in Greek, but can be translated easily):

* Demo video [1]

0: https://tselai.com/diofanti-2023.html
1: https://youtu.be/vdpHyxQqyWQ
People who die traumatically don't remember the event because their last back-up is a few hours old.
This -0.2% figure you're citing is hiding rapidly aging population. TFR is 0.8. They'd have to let in about half a million immigrants, every year.
But the insect population is rapidly decreasing, so are many fish and birds.
No if you ask me, most of us will reincarnate into bacteria.
there's tons of free storage too

I know people are allergic to the word blockchain, but you can store variables on them for nearly free (its a one-time cost), have unlimited free read traffic, and have your users pay to update your state for you

your frontends just read that and update dynamically

cloud platforms aren't able to compete with that, and you can just do system design that is applicable to this infrastructure while scrapping every idea that doesn't work - just like in the before times
20 years ago, Microsoft Internet Explorer had settings for exactly what maximum age rating of websites you wanted to be allowed to see. I vaguely remember one of the options being "full frontal nudity". Were there separate options for sex vs. violence, or was that just my imagination?
> raised over $1 billion, which is just too much for a media firm. This is not a software business with high margins to justify such capital.

I'll bite. Why is it too much? This sum could be spent on purchasing smaller, struggling media companies covering various niches, or companies unrelated to media, to bootstrap a conglomerate.
>Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if they did something.

If it were instead illegal for sites to check for your ID outside of a handful of circumstances, that would be much preferable. Last thing we need is more privacy invasions on the web. Unfortunately, things are going in the wrong direction, both from private interests and from newer govt regulations.
> Every doctor tries their best,

This could not be more false. The bell curve also applies to doctors.
Pornography is prohibited by Islam, and yet Islamic countries are among the largest consumers of pornography in the world. Humans need an outlet for sexual urges, and sexual repression only makes those urges more acute.
Some notes:
- based on GPT3.5 - essentially, the test was “how well can GPT produce ML code” (tune hyper parameters, base off of case studies)
- did not compare to the human case, only to other ML models (unless “human” is considered perfect, in which case GPT got 86%. Although I don’t think a human would perform at 100% of the benchmark)
That obviously is true, but you are completely ignoring the argument of the person you are answering to. He told that the brain might be learned using effect of some substance by the same principle when Neurophysiologists observe people with damaged brain and realize what the damaged surface is doing. And you are telling that people without brain damages can be observed by Neurophysiologists as well which is just a truism.
There are some people who believe that access to certain services should be age-gated. Thus follows that a web page offering the service should handle this age gating, in the same way that alcohol sellers are responsible for checking that their customers are of drinking age.

In the Real World(TM) this is a fairly uncontroversial idea. The Internet is very wild west on these things and that has lead to interesting outcomes... but really age gating porn is in line with many things in the world.
Or maybe just the beginning of Flatliners?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatliners
probably because it is in the interest of arm, for people intersted in investing in arm to have that information
You should get an induction top. They're just as fast as - if not faster than - gas. There's no way I'd switch from my induction top back to gas.

I haven't had any trouble cooking a lot more than 'pizza pockets.'
Build a infrastructural Val Town or Scrapscript hobbyist side project hosting.

For ideas, I have a repository called startups. I also journal computer software ideas everyday of things I want.
Ukraine Is Now Using Steam Decks to Control Machine Gun Turrets
> There's entire political movements predicated on a lack of understanding of the term "scientific theory".

Really? Is it like a specific party or something?
can you give examples? genuinely curios
One project I made for myself was to to wtite a kernel module that could control the led backlight of my laptop keyboard.

I had to first reverse engineer the windows utility that was written in c# and found out that it used wmi commands. After reading the kernel code for a while I realized there where already some code that implemented HP WMI commands.

Using that as a foundation it was quite easy to write my own kernel module that could change the led colors. Then I tried to integrate it with the linux kernel's led API. Since the LEDs where RGB it was a little different to integrate but I managed to find some examples in some playstation joystick driver code.

This project was a lot of fun, but I would say that you should be careful not to break your hardware. I have broken devices even from the user space by pushing it beyond it's limits.
I don't believe in reincarnation but had a phase of religious study. It's generally not a 1-to-1 mapping of you die and come back as a human. Depending on the religious school of thought "you" can spend some finite time in some afterlife (good or bad) then come back as some organism, not necessarily human. Also accounting for continued biological evolution may not be homo sapien if your "soul" comes back 1000 years later. Can't say I believe in reincarnation at all.
I think we have both problems, actually. We definitely have names that are good, like New York, Justice, Earth, Peace, Aphex Twin’s Windowlicker.

But we also have names of things which are bad, because they are false. These the are names which are you talking about.
When I purchase flight tickets I like to review the breakdown of associated fees and taxes - usually plenty of entities taking their pound of flesh. So I was pretty surprised to learn that airlines have enjoyed tax exemption for jet fuel for international flights, on a worldwide basis apparently since the 1940s. IATAs position is unsurprising [0]. I find it curious that the airline industry has enjoyed such generous tax treatment for so long [1].

Granted, unlike today, in the 40s when this tax treatment was being established I doubt any government was considering taxes as a way to tackle climate change.

[0] https://www.iata.org/contentassets/ebdba50e57194019930d72722...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene_tax#Criticism_of_kero...
Half of the probability mass is below the average in a normal distribution so, yeah, it makes sense for the average to sit at a nonzero and nonunit number. The fact that it's a nice and neat number like 100 is interesting. That's about one box of bananas.

Maybe someday the banana industry will address your concerns by making the fruit more radioactive.
I believe it is not the responsibility of the government to police what your child is doing.
People unfamiliar with Rust constantly ask this question and the answer is always the same: because they're not reinventing the wheel and rolling their own cryptography, hash functions, etc. The more you do that, instead of using battle-tested existing libraries with plenty of maintainers, the more likely it is that you'll introduce a security vulnerability. Plus it duplicates effort unnecessarily, when it would be better to pool it.

For context, if anyone's curious, here's the dependency list:

clap = "4.0.32"
libc = "0.2.139"
thiserror = "1.0.38"
glob = "0.3.1"
sha2 = "0.10.6"
digest = "0.10.6"
signal-hook = "0.3.15"
log = "0.4.17"
syslog = "6.0.1"
env_logger = "0.9.3"
This is beautiful! Thank you for making this!
> there's no workable mechanism for compensating the copyright holder

You don't think copyright holders make money on their works?
I’m not aware of any cases holding that distribution of pornography to minors is protected speech, but I’d be happy to be educated if you have one.
Think like a state. No surplus population means that soldiers aren't disposable. No disposable soldiers might lead to vanishing from the world map.

According to Google, Russia's rate is -0.4%, this might be the last war they can afford.

China didn't end their one-child policy out of a great love for children.
One example: in Japan cell phone operators provide a mechanism by which you can OAuth into their system, and then they will tell you whether the user is over 18 or not. This lets Line age-restrict "become friends with random people online" functionality.
Some people will have their fix anyway, while others will find that the friction starts to change their habits away from it. Unless you believe access friction has no psychological impact at all.

And the friction is going to be especially impactful if you're a young teen and haven't been hooked into it as a habit yet.

I speak partially from experience, as someone from a country with a lot of porn blocked. It was super annoying at first, but I just (mostly subconsciously) shifted to written erotica and other forms of erotic media. Sexual need is of course a deep seated human need, but porn is hardly the only way to deal with it, and in fact is one of the least healthy ways. There's a lot of f'ed up erotica out there, but in the end it's still much easier to see the characters as people and remember that sex happens in the larger context of life.
This does not invalidate my comment at all. It only shows that Fasting can be an effective way to reduce symptoms - but it won't cure RA. There is no known cure for RA.
There shouldn't be anything wrong with having an open mind about such phenomena. While it's very likely that they are of biological origin, to immediately dismiss any other possibilities is closed minded dogmatism.
If we read a document, that's preprocessing it. It's useful for being able to discuss later, or bring that understanding to bear on a different, yet related problem space.

I agree that a combined approach is likely useful.
If Reddit is any guide, Brazil seems to have come up with the innovation of bystanders beating the crap out of any criminals they can catch in the act. Problematic for a lot of different reasons but you gotta admire the simplicity of the idea.
Not to mention that "identifying users by their device" is the wet dream of BigTech - it's like a "hardware cookie" that can track you anywhere you go on the internet. (And that's exactly why BigTech like Microsoft, Google, Apple etc. are already promoting user authentication by device, as the first step towards this).
Content Advisor, it was added in IE6.
Mick Gordon did some fun hidden spectrogram imagery in the Doom 2016 soundtrack.

He talks about that and plenty of other cool stuff in his talk at the 2017 GDC conference. One of my favorite conference talks ever, he did so much cool experimentation to get the sounds he used on the soundtrack, and watching his talk is one of those moments where you really get to see a master of his craft let loose and explain his process.

https://youtu.be/U4FNBMZsqrY
Tangential question: given the Cold War memes of the "red scare" and "better dead than red", how/why did the Republican Party decide to keep that colour scheme?

I mean, if even the British Royal Family had to change its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor…
Usually it's Maxmind supplying the data. They might get it from ISPs, but not necessarily.
> Did we have some ethics discussion when the lightbulb was invented? Or when the car was invented?

Yes, yes we did. We debated photos, voice recording, radio waves, TV shows. Every innovation spawns years of Ethics discussion.

Weird to see someone on this site, presumably in tech, who hasn't been taught or learned that yet.
Fwiw most of the academic labs working on AI safety also work on these threats. Future of Humanity Institute, Center for the Study of Existential Risk, etc.
No, coal usage is reaching all-time highs of

https://www.iea.org/news/the-world-s-coal-consumption-is-set...

10 years of coal is 100 years of aviation. Maybe we solve coal immediately and worry about aviation in 100 years? Technology a 100 years from now…
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Chegg warning over ChatGPT hits Pearson shares down 38%
It seems most people recognize that the proliferation of easily-available porn has been a detriment to society, but short of blocking it there has been no proposals for rectifying the situation. IMHO society seems to have just shrugged its collective shoulders about it, especially about kids watching porn and the greater availability of it.

I guess we should get used to a future where porn is freely available to everyone, at every age, because it doesn't appear to be slowing down.
>Brutalism in architecture is often very playful

>not at all about the pure functionality absence of any aesthetic as

That's exactly the vibe I got from https://brutalistwebsites.com. Like many, I like both the aesthetics of brutalist architecture and brutalist websites – but that doesn't mean "form follows function" can be applied here. Many "brutalist" websites are very confusing, inaccessible, and/or impracticable. I suspect that minimalism or simplicism would be a better term for what the guidelines want to achieve.

Nevertheless, it is quite possible to combine playful aethetics with accessible technology, but that requires compromise and a lot of experience.
Best bet are species that thrive despite or even thanks to humans. Like pets, pigeons or cockroaches.
> what do you mean can't be replicated? that's how they manufacture the drug.

because manufacturing is much more complex, depends on genetic modification of bacteria or things like that, and there are trade secrets involved in the manufacturing process - so you won't be able to replicate it even if you know the final structure.
AI artist explains 17 hour workflow to create an image[video]
thanks for sharing your opinion! It would be great if browsers allowed for more flexible locale settings (separate language and country/locale options) to accommodate these cases.
I've created an issue (https://github.com/rare-magma/guitos/issues/39) to track this feature, if it gets some traction I'll consider implementing it.
The goal was to provide a stable ABI like non Linux OSes, with all the plus and minus it entails, not to upstream stuff.

Project Treble was only the begining, besides none of the PlayStore acceptance requirements forces the OEMs to update the drives.

Project Mainline followed Project Treble, where Android was further modularized.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system

Followed by GSI (Generic System Images), where AOSP can be plugged alongside modular component packages, thus allowing OEMs a more Lego like experience to creating custom Android builds

https://source.android.com/docs/setup/create/gsi
There are countless programmers, from self taught amateurs to professional SWEs, white hats, grey hats and black hats, who would immediately jump at the opportunity to create stronger VPNs, mirror sites, Tor nodes, and other tools to allow the public to bypass these restrictions. Trying to control the Internet in America is a losing proposition, for better or worse.
People stop accepting dollars.
It's about time for something new anyway.
First, let me acknowledge I was not trying to single you out. Your comment just prompted that thought. I have seen such talk in a lot of places (and I consume a lot of GPT stuff these days). Sorry if it came off that way.

Second, I think you are being too pessimistic. In the sense that you feel like it isn't a solvable problem. I feel like people have thrown their hands up on this problem because in the history of the internet we have not been able to solve it. For me that just looks like a conclusion drawn from insufficient data. To me modern internet is quite young in the grand scheme of things. We haven't even had a generation live out their full life all online. I think we at least should have a hopeful tone about this problem and encourage people to work on it. Presently it feels like everyone is in doom mode.
This will be only logical output of any proposed "carbon tax". Making things expensive for poor people. At the same time society can be surprised why those people are voting for extremist or outright clima-sceptic parties. Not because they don't believe in existence of climate change, but because they can't afford to exist in the New Green World.
YouTubers produce their own content, though. And they often are limited companies, as they need to pay an editor, receive sponsorship, etc. Sometimes it's easier to be a company, legally.