skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
watching porn is not a right if any kind

While I have little interest in porn, I have a right to publish it under the first amendment and that necessarily includes a right to view it.

states can restrict any aspect of your life that isn't protected as a right

And I can reject those restrictions insofar as my own person is concerned. There's a stronger argument for states mediating conflicts of interests between persons (eg police existing because not everyone is able to provide their own security) but your interpretation is a recipe for overreach.
It will be a wondrous day that we can finally see a computer capture the distinctly-human Urge to Post. The je ne sais quoi that makes us all donate our takes to the needy is an organic phenomenon so far.
So, if I'm using Chrome and I can't log out of my Google account any more, does that mean that site-owners are incentivized to use Google-based tracking? Because if they add Google-based tracking to their first party, it could use the data of my logged-in session of my Google account.
What am I missing? This doesn't seem as if this should be possible.
perpetual motion is kind of guaranteed by quantum mechanics because absolute stillness is impossible.
I think it's more about consistency. If delay is consistent, you get used to it, but if it's all over the place it's more noticeable.

I prefer to cap FPS in games for the same reason, if my PC can't deliver consistent frame rate.
It’s pretty slick. I’m mostly a back sleeper but do roll onto my side maybe about 2 night in 3. Totally fine.
I feel like use of porn is a symptom of isolation and lack of education/support structures. Fix those and people will be less vulnerable and addicted.

The problem is loneliness is stigmatized and porn creates a "safe haven" where people don't have to confront the challenging dullness and angst of their life. Kurt Vonnegut once said: "What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I’m told."

What is the solution, to just do what Utah and sexually repressed countries do, "Sorry no porn for you, it's in your best interest, I'm sure you will stop wanting it if we arbitrarily restrict it". It's not a solution and makes people go further "down the rabbit hole" to scratch that itch.

Here's a simple way to look at it:

This is a map of where pornography is illegal or restricted in the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_India#/media/Fi...

Do attitudes towards pornography scale with healthy societal sexual attitudes? Judging by the map I don't suppose so.
> If you give a few billion people vaccines, you will find literally every effect that follows. Car crashes. Broken arms. Death by mauling. Syphilis. Turbo-cancer of the elbow.

Yeah. Lightning-induced arrhythmia was (amusingly) a registered side effect (Serious Adverse Event) of Moderna's covid vaccine. https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/18/covid-vaccine-volunteer-struc...
That's not true. Ask me how I know. :)
Former OpenSea employee convicted in first NFT insider trading case
I think that in general, as an citizen here that most people definitely think about laws as generally similar across states with the odd things like liquor laws frequently standing out. The current push towards emphasizing state's rights is a slippery slope the conservatives have been abusing quite handily like they did with the new ban on abortion. The minute they got invalidated Roe v. Wade, suddenly it immediately swung towards a federal ban on abortion. States rights are important but again, as a citizen, you know the couple things your neighbor state does differently but only recently has this felt like it split so far.
Prove damage
Ransomeware, eh? In the same way that me not paying my Office 365 license is a ransomeware time bomb by a greedy vendor when I suddenly can’t access my data after license expiration unless I pay up? Sounds more like a licensing dispute than ransomeware.
That's an interesting one. I imagine there are loads of legacy apps and captive customers lying around that could benefit from linux.
Agree, however Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok somehow made it through. If I'm not mistaken each of these platforms also force-stripped select users of their usernames and reattributed them to "the real" user. So, it'll be mildly interesting to see how Discord manages this. For instance, are certain usernames "off-limits"/"restricted" status, as a preventative mechanism, or is it totally open for the taking? If it's the latter, I'm inclined to create a few more accounts.

It's also the case that Discord users can change their username and display name at any time. It isn't clear to me if this functionality will change in the near future. How much "tech debt" is it really, and why?
That would allow them to share doubleclick cookies across all subdomains of google.com. This FPS feature will allow them to share doubleclick cookies (or whichever cookies) across any domains that they choose to group into a "set." So regardless of whether you selected the "block third party cookies" setting, Chrome now ships with an internal list of domain groups for which it will ignore that setting.
PacWest Is Weighing Strategic Options, Including Possible Sale
Angular v16 is the opening sentence of an apology letter addressed to the Angular Community.
Without naming names - the other day, I sat on a presentation related to a commercial offering of some SOTA LLM APIs; there was a slide listing a dozen use cases claimed to have been piloted or already tested. I distinctly remember being a bit disgusted by how all, excepting one or two, were highly morally questionable, as they boiled down to improving or scaling all the usual ugly kinds of marketing and marketing-related surveillance schemes.

The last time I felt this kind of disappointment was when those Bluetooth Low Energy beacons ("iBeacon") became a hot topic - a lot of startups popped up, and quite quickly, they've mostly settled on the same primary use case: retail. That is, tracking and spamming unsuspecting users as they move about shopping malls.
> We want to be particularly considerate of longtime Discord users who have had their usernames for quite awhile, so we will be assigning priority to choose your new username based on when you registered for Discord.

So anyone who joined in the last ~3 years will have no chance of getting a short and memorable username?

Yet the username is what's actually required for all the same functions, such as adding a friend, etc...

I can't see the upside for newer users, especially if their native language doesn't use latin characters.
> Google doesn't have a way to MITM that

Google controls the software so it can MITM.
How does it work? I personally use this one https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

It requires users to provide timestamps for "sponsored by" content, so the player skips over it.
lmao too realistic /s
I’ve seen a lot of new users today that were rage silenced, including obviously human ones.
I don’t want to put words in your mouth so please correct me, but are you asserting that laws restricting porn are not religiously motivated?

Also o/t but France might not be the best example to use of healthy politics that represent the will of the people right now…
people will still be making porn for free if commercial activity is banned. always have been. It's likely that people watch more porn-hours on twitter than on PH. Social media competition treadmill otoh is unhealthy AF
Tried it, work like charms!
You can import the Fragment component of the React package or stack them directly, it works too.
Normally, the empty bracket syntax should work, they have a few issues closed and open that talk about it in their repo.
Don't blame me you didn't understand the assignment. The question was, what more could framework do to make their mainboard more of a standard, and was asked in a way that implied that the comment's autjor could not imagine a way they could do more than they have already.

As to the VCs funding the endeavor, maybe you've heard of the open source movement? While funding is still sometimes slim, there are still businesses being funded "for the greater good", rather than primarily trying to enrich the executives. I'm also of the mind that funders of Framework knew what they were getting into. Their openness wasn't exactly a secret, nor would it have been from the board or any investors.

If Framework was able to move the needle on modularity and reusability (and thus poison less of the Earth *) of what was previously mostly ewaste, then even if they went bankrupt, it still would be progress for humanity and the founders can hold onto that for the rest of their lives.

* The 2nd R of environmentalism is reuse.
Edge Latency
> It's not useful at all. It effectively measures IPC (instructions per clock), which is just chip vendor bragging rights.

+1. Moreover the author then seems to conclude from this benchmark:

> Overall, these numbers suggest that the Qualcomm processor is competitive.

This is an odd conclusion to draw from this test and these numbers, given how little this benchmark tests (just string operations). Does this benchmark want to test raw CPU power? Then why "normalize" to 3GHz? Does it want to test CPU capabilities? If so why use such a "narrow" test?

IMO this benchmarking does for a good data-point, but far from enough to draw much of a conclusion from.
And showdead is a feature available to everyone who wants to decide for themselves. I leave it on, and I'd agree people should be made aware of it. But for me this was just another example that what gets downvoted to grey here often is speculative, conspiratorial, and/or hostile to the detriment of making a meaningful point.

As pointed out in its replies, the article linked in that comment includes some basic mistakes like attributing to death certificates that RSV kills 35 American adults every year, when NFID claims 14k. Launching a conspiratorial discussion from the platform of an article with such rudimentary errors is always going to result in downvotes on this community, so nothing seems unusual about this instance to me.

And it's not like they linked a review of the paper by any kind of medical doctor. Anyone who recognizes the name Alex Berenson would reasonably assume the article is bogus, especially in the context of infectious diseases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Berenson
> Though I don't really understand why governments need a single currency.

"need" is probably too strong a word. A single currency just makes things easier.

Having a single currency, or using many different currencies is sort of like the difference between a barter system vs a money system (multiple currencies is equivalent to bartering). If the buyer is trying to buy in a currency that is not desired by the seller (i.e. there is nothing that they want being sold in that currency), the seller has to offload it somehow to someone that does want it. There is a cost to that, in additional risk and effort.

Bartering works ok, up until a point. But a shared currency just removes friction, so is preferable.
It’s not worth investing in private companies unless their long term growth outlook is significantly outperforming public ones. PEG on the other hand is by necessity a backward looking metric.

That self selection means they really should have a higher multiple even if you judge them using the same metrics. IE if you have a public company growing by 20% per year and a private one growing by 20% per year you should only invest in the private one of it’s at a significant discount or it’s growth will likely continue for significantly longer than the public one.
Thanks God I'm in Europe and we have access to alien technologies such as roller blinds, which are basically the default on anything modern
SpaceX has few alternatives if lawsuit upends Musk's Texas launch plans
"Quiet quitters" frankly ruined work from home and these executives are pushing back. This is not surprising.
Can that dedicated server magically be in completely different locations in seconds at the press of a button?

It's not like vpn providers are renting out one shared server. Being able to pick between countries is a key feature. Shared servers might actually be an advantage too. If your vpn is on a unique IP, it's probably easier to deanonymise you from bulk data.
If you look at historical submissions from chrome.com you'll find that Chrome 112 and Chrome 111 release posts are submitted to HN as well. The fact that this submission was near the top probably reflected people's excitement over WebGPU.
Yeah... Imagine if in iOS every link opened in Safari and the only alternative browsers allowed were reskins of Safari.
Ya forgot Extinguish. Microsoft didn't.
Is the law written such that the vpn is liable now or is it treated like the ISP?
What do historians lose with the decline of local news?
> Microsoft needs to get their brand straight and decide, once and for all, what they stand for.

Money. How would it be possible for an absolutely gigantic company to stand for anything else?
Isn’t perpetual motion the basis of the whole universe?

I mean, it hasn’t stopped yet, right? And it technically does all the work we do?
Correct, the workflow's guarantee to always complete executing independent of process/hardware failures is dependent on the database not losing data. You host your workflow code with Temporal's Worker library, which talks to an instance of the Temporal Server [1], which is an open-source set of services (hosted by you or by Temporal Cloud), backed by Cassandra, MySQL, or Postgres. [2] So for instance increasing Cassandra's replication factor increases your resilience to disk failure.

[1] https://github.com/temporalio/temporal

[2] https://docs.temporal.io/clusters#persistence
The 'Chrome 113 deprecations and removals' link in the 'Further reading' section leads to an error page:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/deps-rems-113/

Does that mean there are no changes here?
Kitty?
I don't know how stylish it is, but it has support for inline images, that's my killer application.
Yes, increasingly some places just don't maintain a print menu of any kind anymore.

At least in one case I was referred to an illegible chalkboard which I guess is better than nothing, even if it was incomplete. But being near-sighted it's preferable to hold a paper menu... Even if it's just some low-brow unlaminated printout I'd be satisfied! But nope, welcome to the future.

Nowadays if I find myself in such a place and they at least will accept cash for payment, I'll just make them describe the menu verbally. Maybe if enough of us generate that amount of inconvenience for them they'll get a clue and learn how to use a printer.

It's like it's part of their trendy/hipster image to not have menus and do everything through a phone. Part of how they appeal to a younger demographic perhaps? I think that's the visible aspect, but the deeper motive is more about invading customers' privacy by getting hooks into their phones. Then on the cashless side it's discriminatory and rooted in mistrust of employees handling cash...
The Digital Fragments We Leave Behind After Death
You have a point, but I think there are some big trade-offs...

Nature uses replication, but it's also horrifically complex and we have no real idea about the specifics of how it all works, or what to do when many, many things go wrong.

Also, I think nature uses cloning, which I kind of think would be called a 'library' in this case, for single-celled organisms (archaea and bacteria). In addition many eukaryotic organisms can reproduce via cloning under special situations.

I don't know, I'm not really trying to argue one way or the other. I'm kinda' thinking out loud here... but I'd like to see LLMs used to create really great libraries, or some other abstractions, that are easy to use and also understandable. It might not happen soon, but I think that there is a lot of value in moving things that way.
For an commercial entity that cares enough to have that blue mark, $1500/yr is barely a drop in a ‘tank’, not even bucket
This sounds backwards from both an energy perspective and human factors perspective. I don't understand the throughput vs. smooth scrolling tradeoff though.
> For cloud customers as well

Cloud costs are dominated by power delivery and cooling. Both of those are directly influenced by how much power the chip uses to achieve it's performance target.

I guess it does indirectly influence dollar cost, but I was referring to MSRP of the chip. As a simple example: the per-chip cost of Graviton is probably enormous (if you factor R&D into the cost of a chip), but it's still cheaper for Amazon customers. Why? Power and cooling.
And we get 5-10x the people using electricity instead of burning either traditional biofuels or fossil fuels using renewables.

What are we optimizing for here? Impact or through any means possible justifying nuclear?
If the user is perpetually confused using 'show all popups' Chrome, why wouldn't they switch to another browser that does that anyways?
You saying laws restricting prostitution is religiously motivated? Laws restricting gambling? Drugs?

Where's the line between religious motivation and morality?

Just because you don't like the law, you accuse the proponents of the law of being religiously motivated.

When you like the law, it will be because of blah blah blah morality of course.
There are a lot of sites that use react that don’t need it.

Some uses benefit from a good framework.
Humans unconsciously echolocate. A lot of claims of "blindsight" turned out to be unconscious echolocation (obstructing hearing killed the blindsight.)

> Researchers from the 1940's through the present have found that normal, sighted people can echolocate - that is, detect properties of silent objects by attending to sound reflected from them. We argue that echolocation is a normal part of our perceptual experience and that there is something 'it is like' to echolocate. Furthermore, we argue that people are often grossly mistaken about their experience of echolocation. If so, echolocation provides a counterexample to the view that we cannot be mistaken about our own current phenomenology.

How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation

https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/Echo.htm
The Utah law doesn't ban porn production.
https://archive.today/dk6cL
> Also, Russia is not even in the top 15 countries in terms of alcohol consumption

That depends on which stats you take and for which country.

But Russians are always among the top in the world, especially males.

Also don't forget in Russia muslims make 14% of the population which lowers the nation averages a lot.
> The majority voted for him.

Just to be precise, the popular vote was 62,984,828 to 65,853,514 in favor of Clinton, with roughly 60% turnout. The majority did not vote for Trump.

But that doesn't matter in US presidental elections.
Get better drapes that black out and instead
As companies trying to do open source have found out, throwing code over the wall does not a community make. Similarly, shoving specs onto their website but not engaging with the community (other laptop manufacturers in this case) does not make for a vibrant ecosystem of parts.
Huh? The city itself is really flat - I've been through it, and a quick image search confirms as much. There are mountains nearby, but saying "there is absolutely nothing 'flat'" about it is pretty disingenuous.
fuck off and bring back smtp access!
You think those licenses for Visual Studio and those Azure VMs sell themselves?
"The fundamentals that a good CS, math, and stats education teach you are invaluable"

I agree. What I'm saying is a 2 year program would satisfy that. Basically 2 years of college is for learning non-domain related junk (health class from HS, music history, English proficiency from HS, etc).

I mean the engineer and programmers get lumped together because there is no real separation today. Put "programmers" on a project designed by "engineers" is a disaster. Documentation and communication always leaves something to be desired. Not to mention everyone calls themselves an engineer. Also I work in finance IT.
What reason do you have to do so? What purpose would doing that serve?

As it stands you are just suggesting complicated, untestable theories. The point above is, that is ultimately pointless.

The simplest possible argument goes as follows: I am conscious, and I am made of matter. Everything else that is real is made of matter. There are other minds out there who also have this experience. With no further information, I must assume as the null hypothesis that everything in reality is conscious. An alternative hypothesis may be presented, but it would then need to be proven using reproducible studies and real evidence before we can assume the alternative hypothesis and reject the null hypothesis, per the consensus definition of formalized "science".

The rebuttal along epistemological lines goes as follows: you can know you are conscious, but you cannot necessarily know things that are witnessed through physical (limited, imperfect) sensory organs, so there is a wall beyond which we are forced only to postulate truths rather than conclusively prove them.

And the response to that is: if we are to progress in our analysis at all, we must postulate certain truths, and it is "best" to postulate only the least complex (in the Kolmogorov sense) assumptions given the data (Occam's Razor). "Best" is defined according to humanity's scientific principles.
Many sources put Russia in the top five for incidence of alcoholism, and the life expectancy of Russian men is famously diminished due to their high intake of alcohol. The life expectancy of Russian women is 13 years longer than for men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_in_Russia

"A recent study blamed alcohol for more than half the deaths (52%) among Russians aged 15 to 54 from 1990 to 2001.[14] For the same demographic, this compares to 4% of deaths for the rest of the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Russia#Alcohol_consu...

I don't think it's just a stereotype.
That's a lot of unbacked claims.

How is the age verification an attempt to stop an industry?

Where is it stated that that's the goal?

How did you decide that most porn workers were sexually abused as children?
> trying to argue about safety data for a different vaccine

I turned on showdead and promptly reënabled it. Referencing Covid and mRNA vaccines in response to a non-Covid non-MRNA vaccine seems like using "Hacker News for political or ideological battle" and pursuing "generic tangents" [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
365 web apps are still shockingly terrible in 2023.
An open framework for data lineage collection and analysis
Inflation is cooling but prices aren't going to fall. Here's why
There's a great Russian restaurant in NYC known for their infused vodkas, and this part of their website sheds some light on the history of vodka in that region: https://www.russiansamovar.com/vodka/

Not doubting you in the slightest, just adding some flavor.
Maybe not in alcohol consumption. But in alcoholism, Russia takes an honorable second place after Hungary: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcoholis...
$200 vs $130, billed by one provider instead of several, and you can figure out how to do it via the internet seems... fine?
> They also want your biometrics, and keep pushing the narrative that biometrics are for authentication, but biometrics should only represent identity, not authority.

What does "authority" mean here?
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Probably not, but only because it would be too technologically complex for them to do. VPN companies don't operate in their jurisdiction and don't care about Utah law.
https://archive.ph/xDrN1
Net neutrality rules come to mind