skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at your computer. Are all its parts and pieces strictly necessary to display the text "Hello world" on your screen? No. Why don't you throw it away and buy something simpler, then?
Cancellation in Concurrency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haus_am_Horn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen
What I especially like about Organic Maps and OSM in general is how searching for "water" shows nearby water fountains. Depending on the country and region it helps if your running out of water while hiking. It's not necessarily the best water but at least where I live drinking it is usually not a problem (especially if your drinking a small amount). Water is also listed in the categories tab next to WiFi, Pharmacies, and similar points of interest.
The article wouldn't hold water in an art history 2 class (second half history).

They ignore much and use Bauhaus Style as a term. The proper term for architecture from that school is International Style.

A style that was intended to promote world peace through judicious use of materials and lack of culture references.
> "Apple" wasn't scanning your phone, neither was there a "backdoor".

Yes, you're right. But I've seen calls for phones to scan all content before being uploaded or encrypted, and it often feels, at least in some countries, that could still plausible happen. I suppose that's what I had in mind when I wrote my comment.

> But the exact same risk exists when you upload stuff to the cloud anyway and on an even bigger scale.

There's a difference with them actively doing it and announcing they are doing it, vs the possibility they are doing it silently without consent.
It's called "Advanced Data Protection for iCloud"

It's kinda complicated to turn on, as it disables most account recovery options.
>"reproducing without 100% incest"

This seems like such a contradiction with Christians. They just do lot of hand-waving and ignore it.

Then went and read the Bible and what did I find, there were other people at the time of Adam and Eve. The Bible actually discusses the other humans that were living in other lands At The Same Time As Adam and Eve. Totally blown away.

So then, why do Christians today completely believe that God Created Adam And Even and they were the very first humans and thus Evolution is Wrong. How can you argue that Evolution is wrong, because of Adam and Eve, when right in the Bible it discusses the other groups of humans?
This is the place I've come to, too. Nature is a boiling tumult of constant change and shoving my categories into it seems increasingly presumptuous. I live on 6 acres of what feels like barely contained chaos. This summer in particular the wet and heat have conspired to cover every surface with a froth of green. In the woods I have at the back it would be hard to say what's native and what's invasive; the fantasy that one could classify anything as either seems to me to come from the mindset that really wants to see the world of flora and fauna as a self-balancing system with some sort of natural equilibrium. It just isn't it's constantly changing.

I do 'encourage' things that are native and that I find interesting, but not clear my interventions accomplish much. But what I know is what's here is alive so much more than the cultivated fields and yards around me. And that's my excuse for avoiding my yard chores.

Because of climate change this area around the north side of Lake Ontario has become a kind of moving target of what's "really" native; every year it seems like more "southerly" plants become established here. Plants whose "normal" home is US appalachia ... sassafras, tulip trees, pawpaws, vitis aestivalis, all plants that only seemed before to only thrive down in the valley closer to the lake ... they're establishing themselves up here above the escarpment. Are they native because they're from the same continent? Where does the boundary lie? They weren't here before....

For the first 10 years japanese beetles decimated my vineyard every summer; this year is the first year I've noticed the birds have decided that they're an acceptable snack and they're not causing me nearly so many problems. I've heard they've been a bit of a 100 year wave slowly making its way north across the midwest and northeast, causing crazy disruption and then settling down to a periodic annoyance.

The vines I grow in my vineyard are hybrids with native north american species; and yet those same native vines growing along the fencelines and edge of the woods don't have problems with the beetles at all. The shelter of the woods probably housing birds and other insects and fungus that make quick work of the beetles.

In the end, we're all just "Becoming Native to this Place" whichever that place might be https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/becoming-native-to-t...
This is a beautifully done website. I found a book on knots at a used bookstore and bought it. I got a few lengths of paracord and tried them all out. It's a great way to spend an evening. Quite relaxing and doing something physical with my hands was a great stress buster too.
Ask HN: Why is 1776 a black-holed keyword on YouTube?
If the keyword "1776" appears anywhere in your YouTube search, the auto-complete functionality vanishes. As far as I can tell, this is not the case with any other important year. Does anyone know why this is the case?
It usually takes government to tie people up in these sorts of knots. These people have enthusiastically done it to themselves. Resume driven development is a hell of a drug.
> Whenever I look at the Reddit history of a person attacking immigration by bringing up housing, I almost invariably see comments full of racism, xenophobia, a hatred of non-European-origin people/cultures, etc.

I think it is unfair to make these kind of statements. You are essentially telling the parent poster that they are racist. Perhaps your experiences have created your own kind of biases and hatred.

I agree that often times people do use secondary arguments to guise what they really mean but I think the way through that is to either refute their arguments, not to suggest they are racist.
What I meant to say is that there's always the analog hole, that DRM can't close. With a modest contemporary phone it works surprisingly well, especially since streaming media are rarely of high fidelity.

And if you insist on a digital copy, plug an HDMI cable into a capture device.
Attempts like HDCP have attempted to close this one, but I doubt DRM software would attempt relying on that.
It was announced some time ago, but remember that you need modern devices on both sides to enable that feature.
you mean you cannot go to the Samsung website and find out, such as this page:

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/processor/showcase/smar...

Ah ah just a simple change on the upper right from US to EMEA to get Europe
Maybe slightly better, but still not great. It's skipping the eastern part of the Sarphatistraat. Also it struggles with street names and encourages you to only type a town, which isn't very useful.

I like that it allows you to choose between paved, gravel or any. Although gravel may still be too limited for some; mountainbikers like dirt tracks, and I've had Google Maps send me through loose sand that would probably require a BMX.
I don’t think top commenter Angus Rueful has used Apple Maps in a while

‘the real issue is the traffic display, which no longer shows “green” when the flow is good - it shows nothing at all, like Apple Maps.’
I think personal action can still make a difference. What if we were to develop a coalition of people that believed in that, sort of like a union for a healthy society?

The coalition would have a common set of standards and ethics, which would include the development of more community-based standards for technology. With such a coalition, we could create our own technology not in the hands of technology companies, and we could be more responsible in the development and use of technology. Then the entire coalition could stop using Google for example...and crush the life out of them.

If such a coalition had ten million people in it, it might work if many of them are technologically capable. Ten million seems like a lot but it's only 1 person getting 2 new people to join, who in turn each get 2 new people to join, etc... 24 times.
And yet they are routinely used to solve "simple hello world" apps. Riddle me that.
This isn’t really a problem in modern buildings built from concrete to condo specs. It just happens that most dense US cities have much older buildings, or that people put up with low quality buildings built to rental specs because landlords are allowed to get away with it.
Ok I get what you're saying now. Still though, you can't exactly identify as such without the blood...

But this is the whole ludicrous thing; what are they actually identifying as?. Traditional landowners? Cultural martyrs? 'Aussie?' 'Neglected outsiders? It gets really tricky if they start to actually really dig into the problem.

It's like the argument is saying they're disadvantaged because they're not living their 'full modern Western life' while also supposing somehow 'we' will give back the old ways and apologise. Which is it? Hence I've been saying we need to work out what future 'Australian' is and all head towards that, as best we can. I don't even know what Australian culture is now, it's a mess of trying to be all cultures to everyone.
It is easy, the web is awash in memes that use screenshots.

On Windows it's as easy as pressing the PrintScn key to copy a screenshot to the clip board then paste it in to any image application. Google tells me "Command+Shift+3" is the equivalent on Mac.
This in no way makes the situation ok, but in my experience the full model number is always possible to find both for shops and contracts and a quick google shows which model has which chip. Most people simply don't care enough and/or are not aware of the difference and don't check this.
When I was building them +20 years ago the hardest thing for me was finding people that could build the world. I can see where an LLM would be useful there, too. For a small team it’ll let you scale it up very fast.
Why is my Rust example slower than Python?
"anthropic principle" = Survivor Bias.

Never liked the anthropic arguments.

Even back with Leibniz, arguing this is the 'best of all possible worlds' because it is the one we exist in that god provided. It's circular, or calls for some mysticism or parallel universes.
> Is being against child sexual abuse really an unusual opinion in the tech industry?

Nobody said that. You are being manipulative an trying to make it look that people who disagree with you are somehow pro-child abuse.

In saying "Does the tech industry have any alternate solutions that could functionally mitigate this abuse?" you are trying to pain a picture in which child abuse is somehow "tech industry" fault.

You are also trying to paint a complete Panopticon in which every interpersonal communication is subjected to surveillance by the state as somehow the default, that end to end encrypted electronic communication is changing - while the truth is that personal communication was private for hundreds of years, because it was impossible for the state to listen in on everything.
If CSAM was still done the way it "always has been", then "cops" relying on the methods they always had would be a valid answer. But since tech has enabled the distribution of CSAM at unprecedented scales, I think the requests by law enforcement to also make their job a bit easier have some merit...
I made a dual tab file manager 10 years ago for mac (https://github.com/neoneye/newton-commander). It's written in Objective C.

Unlike other dual tab file managers, it use the spacebar for quicklook which I find more handy. In order to select files, use shift arrowup/arrowdown.
I've used https://urlwatch.readthedocs.io but this definitely seems much easier to use—though possibly not quite as powerful regarding page filtering. But at least ChangeDetection supports jq which is already quite a nice feature in that department.
> Phrases like "transformative way" are meaningless woospeak to me

Fortunately we live in a society that supports specialization where something that is woospeak to a smart person can still be a very well understood topic. AI transformations are methodologically well documented, even if transparency of neural network node activations is yet to be fully formalized.
How about we start with this version of surveillance: currently it is almost impossible, and frankly stupid, for kids to ask for help with abuse, because they'll end up in this sort of system (with no way out one might add)

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/26/texas-foster-care-ch...

So how about we implement mass-surveillance by giving victims a good reason to report crimes? Starting with not heavily punishing victims that do come forward. Make the foster care system actually able to raise kids reasonably.

Because, frankly, if we don't do it this way, what's the point? Why would we do anything about abuse if we don't fix this FIRST? Are we really going to catch sexual abuse, then put the kids into a state-administered system ... where they're sexually, and physically, and mentally, and financially abused?

WHY would you do that? Obviously that doesn't protect children, it only hides abuse, it protects perpetrators in trade for allowing society to pretend the problem is smaller than it is.
NYT article about exactly this situation[0]. Despite the generally technical competency of HN readership, I imagine there would be a lot of people who would find themselves completely fucked if this situation happened to them.

The tl;dr is that despite this man ultimately having his name cleared by the police after having his entire Google account history (not just cloud) searched as well his logs from a warrant served to ISP, Google closed his account when the alleged CSAM was detected and never reinstated it. He lost his emails, cloud pictures, phone number (which losing access to prevented the police from contacting him via phone), and more all while going through a gross, massive invasion of his privacy because he was trying to do right for his child during a time when face-to-face doctor appointments were difficult to come by.

This should be a particularly salient reminder to people to self-host at the very least the domain for their primary and professional e-mail.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
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Have been using AWS since S3
> Yes. And make it not unsafe

That's simply not possible, all intrinsics are unsafe by definition, the rust compiler can't check them for the same guarantees.
Part of the reason why this was (and is) a terrible idea is how these companies operate and the cost and stigma of a false negative.

Companies don't want to employ people. People are annoying. They make annoying demands like wanting time off and having enough money to not be homeless or starving. AI should be a tool that enhances the productivity of a worker rather than replacing them.

Fully automated "safety" systems always get weaponized. This is really apparent on Tiktok where reporting users you don't like is clearly brigaded becasue a certain number of reports in a given period triggers automatic takedowns and bans regardless of assurances there is human review (there isn't). It's so incredibly obvious when you see a duet with a threatening video gets taken down while the original video doesn't (with reports showing "No violation").

Additionally, companies like to just ban your account with absolutely no explanation, accountability, right to review or right to appeal. Again, all those things would require employing people.

False positives can be incredibly damaging. Not only could this result in your account being banned (possibly with the loss of all your photos on something like iCloud/iPhotos) but it may get you in trouble with law enforcement.

Don't believe me? Hertz was falsely reported their cars being stolen [1], which created massive problems for those affected. In a better world, Hertz executives would be in prison for making false police reports (which, for you and me, is a crime) but that will never happen to executives.

It still requires human review to identify offending content. Mass shootings have been live streamed. No automatic system is going to be able to accurately differentiate between this and, say, a movie scene. I guarantee you any automated system will have similar problems differentiating between actual CSAM and, say, a child in the bath or at the beach.

These companies don't want to solve these problems. They simply want legal and PR cover for appearing to solve them, consequences be damned.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...
I'm sure that React is engineered way better than not only what I achieved, but also what I could ever hope to achieve. I'm not against React. I'm just saying that it's an implementation of really natural (good?) old ideas. Just in JS.
What makes you think that server-side JS could not call a private API with authentication?

If it's a "front-end generator", we are talking about gerating static HTML, CSS, JS though. This means all "secrets" have to be embedded in client code, or the API calls have to be made at build time, with the static result embedded into the output.

So I don't see your point really.

If your point is talking to a database "directly", using only a database client and no remote intermediary, you can do this in Node as well.
And presumably also in RSCs, since it's already possible in SSR.

None of this is prescribed by React.
Nissan is reusing batteries from old Leaf cars to make portable power sources
I think now you can search for a city or something and download the offline map
It would be awesome if they could put the sweeper in front of the bike somehow. Imagine getting a flat from the broken glass you’re about to sweep up.
Seems related to your case study here: https://stratoflow.com/case_studies/highly-scalable-travel-s...

Basically, you worked with a hotel aggregator that happened to do direct SQL queries for searches. Then you migrated them to this pattern:

"decided to extract the availability search into a separate cache layer based on in-memory data grid (IMDG) platform. This new solution holds in memory a complete set of data required to return a hotel availability information. We also implemented a custom, fast data loading mechanism to populate the memory grid from database as well as a message queue pipeline supporting incremental intraday data updates."

So, putting something like Apache Ignite in place, with intraday updates.

That's an improvement for the client, for sure. But, most hotel aggregators aren't doing live SQL queries against a single database. You happened to find a client that was at the tail end of figuring out that wouldn't scale for them. Any of them with serious volume is doing something similar where they keep the main relational database for data entry and updates. But the live search is done with ElasticSearch, Redis, Geode/Gemfire, Cassandra, plain old read replicas or some other tech that's better suited for the complex availability queries. And some mechanism for intraday updates.
Lentils, much like most legumes, have a neat trick up their sleeve. They partner with root bacteria to capture nitrogen from the air and stash it underground. This not only gives the legumes a nutrient boost but also helps the soil retain more water and essential nutrients for the next crop. Plus, it reduces the need for those carbon-heavy nitrogen fertilizers.

When it comes to meat production, it operates quite differently from legumes like lentils. Meat production primarily relies on the consumption of feed by animals, such as cows, pigs, or chickens. These animals don't have the nitrogen-fixing capabilities found in legumes. Instead, they require protein-rich diets, often in the form of soybean meal or other crops.

The issue arises because these animals, during digestion, release a significant amount of nitrogen into the environment in the form of ammonia and other nitrogen compounds. This process is known as nitrogen excretion. Unlike legumes, which enrich the soil with nitrogen, meat production can lead to nitrogen pollution when excess nitrogen is not properly managed. This pollution can harm water quality and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, making it less environmentally sustainable compared to legume cultivation.
That's just nonsense. There are vegan bodybuilders & other top athletes out there.

I've been vegetarian since I was ~10y old, now 50+ and bordering on vegan, and doing fine health wise. If not better than many peers my age.

It's just a matter of making sure you get all vitamins, minerals & other nutrients the body needs. As opposed to just dropping food categories & hope for the best.

For vegans in particular, that means vit. B12 supplements, and have a good look at things like calcium and iron intake. But with that in order: NO problem.
It's like Ian's shoelace site but for knots :D
The way op put it did imply it, but I take your point that it doesn't actually mean it.
I would prefer advocating more money for mental health as it would provide additional benefits in other areas of society down the line too? I can't imagine child porn consumption rising from a healthy mind.
> criminals are using E2EE communication systems to share sexual abuse material

Blah blah blah, the same old argument given by the "think of the children" people.

There are many ways to counter that old chestnut, but really, we only need to remember the most basic fundamental facts:

1) Encryption is mathematics
2) Criminals are criminals

Can you ban mathematics ? No.
Can you stop criminals being criminals ? No.

So, let's imagine you are able to successfully backdoor E2EE globally, on all devices and all platforms.

Sure, the "think of the children" people will rejoice and start singing "Hallelujah". And the governments will rub their hands with glee with all the new data they have access to.

But the criminals ? Do you honestly think they'll think "oh no, game over" ?

No of course not. They'll pay some cryptographer in need of some money to develop a new E2EE tool and carry on. Business as usual.
My RSS reader. It invests more than 100 feeds, about 3000 articles a day. It does content-based recommendation (no collaborative filtering, popularity data, pagerank, anything like that) and looks like “TikTok for text”
The problem is that in order to do anything even slightly meaningful like displaying profile pictures you need to grant the right to store and process. Since it is hard to keep track of distributed data at scale and some data being quoted by other users you need these rights indefinitely. The problem is of course the generalization of data in conjunction with generalized rights gives away de-facto everything. On the other hand narrower general terms risk creating liabilities for companies.

I don‘t think building rules based on low level technical functions for a portfolio of high level applications is feasible. Honest actors in their natural interest to self protect have created a legal framework which allows bad behavior by bad actors (or their future bad selves).

Not sure how a future framework could look like but the evolution of RBAC may give some clues. Data probably needs to be labeled. Processing needs to be tied to intent. Acknowledging that rules for larger datasets must exist and need to differ by size.
The difference is that the software is in active use in your scenario. Consider if you took a copyrighted program and calculated the sha hash of it. You can then use that hash without needing to have a copy of the original program. The hash is also not infringing, because it's a simple fact.
Or maybe even time reverses course and runs backwards. See: PK Dick, Counter-Clock World, 1967.