skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's lots of really good options available now at some very affordable prices. There's quite a few reflectors in the 6"-8" size that are very small and easy to set up. Because the planets are so much brighter, especially the moon, than deep sky objects, all of the tracking and image stacking software is not necessary to start. There are scopes now that come with a mobile app and a built in camera.

Because I don't have hands on experience with anything other than my gear, I can't really recommend specific models. Celestron would be a good safe starting point. The magazine/sites from places like Sky&Telescope or BBC Sky at Night, will publish reviews of new gear ranging from "baby's first scope" to as much money as you have.

https://skyandtelescope.org/

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/
Ask HN: Does your team/company keep meeting recordings for future use?
I notice that both impromptu and planned Zoom (etc.) meetings are so good that if recorded they would make a great asset for people who didn’t attend and might be relevant for years after. I wonder if this is something other companies are doing and how they go about it. Do you find it valuable? If you are doing this well how do you manage it?

Are you just using the cloud upload from Zoom, or something more sophisticated?
I'm working on a online course that involves gamification with elements from movies and video games to make topics easy to understand and take people from "passive learning" to "active learning".
> Yes. Since becoming an abuser is a process and not a moment, part of the solution must be making access to CSAM much harder.

This is a very big assumption. Sexual abuse of minors has existed long before the internet, and long before photography. The notion that less availability of CSAM leads to less real-world abuse is not at all clear.

> If that's the best we can do, I'm very disappointed. That position says that to achieve privacy, I must tolerate CSAM. I want both privacy and for us not to tolerate CSAM. I don't know what the solution is, but that is what I wish the industry were aiming for. At the moment, the industry seems to be aiming for nothing but a shrug of the shoulders.

As other commenters have pointed out, the solution is to prevent children from being abused in the first place. Have robust systems in place to address abuse, and give kids effective education and somewhere to speak out if it happens to them or someone they know.
I think a big problem in the West is we don’t have great leaders anymore. The election is between a few nincompoops that all make you kind of sick to your stomach. Where are the Winston Churchill’s or the Abraham Lincoln’s?
Whenever a company is tracking such data, there is no way for users to know if collected data is used or sold for other purposes, now or in the future, so the default should always be to collect no data at all.

If you want to run UI/UX tests/experiments on users, just ask them (and maybe offer incentives to participate?).
I've used devices like https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-110VDSLEXT-Ethernet-Exte... in similar cases. You will likely need to modify your phone lines to get a pair from the living room to the work room, though.
You can get very creative in your instructions to a human, but that creativity still won't get you any copyright.

And afaik, in a work for hire scenario, the artist just agrees to transfer their copyright automatically. If there's no copyright in the first place, there's nothing to transfer
Those are terrible IMO. I've been through several that were tripping false alarms. You can't take the battery out and deal with it later, you have to throw the "break irreparably" switch.

I prefer the cheap ones that take a 9V battery. You can take them apart and actually dust them.
I assume it's ChatGPT propaganda full cycle. Eg, people who want no censor ship on their AI are using it to generate these nonsense.

Which basically runs against their argument.
Can you give examples of those macros? Very interested in using them.
I’m sorry that there are victims, and it’s a horrible crime but no matter what I don’t believe my privacy and my freedoms should be sacrificed for this.

A small percentage of people are involved in this crime and subjecting every single person to illegal searches and possibly getting wrongly identified or nation states using this to imprison its enemies is wrong.

Sometimes there is no solution that satisfies everyone and sometimes the only good solution is the least shittiest solution but still a shitty solution. In this case, I believe that my and everyone else’s freedoms and privacy are worth it and we should instead spend much money time and effort trying to catch these criminals instead of scanning everyone’s phones which won’t ultimately work.
I guess my car isn't that modern. Our car nav is okayish, but the ui is crap and the maps are outdated.
High school. We were able to keep our oldest from having a smartphone until then. She’s in college now.

The external pressures are nuts. It got to where she was just staring at the screens of her friends phones.

My next oldest starts middle school next year. She has a smartwatch set to “family mode” for when she wants to walk to her friends or the park without an adult. She has access to the internet on a home computer. I think that better because she just ends up researching her curiosities over “engaging” with some mobile app. I get a report of her search history to make sure there’s nothing that is a code red.
I endorse this as well. I worked through the course back when it was on Coursera, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've also found what I learned applicable many times since - most recently when experimenting with some computer vision algorithms.
Very true. Be honest with your kids.

Also, talk to them. Tell them what the dangers are, tell them what they need to talk to you about.

I just had a conversation with my 15 year old about who she talks to online, how she decides what is trustworthy, the fact that conmen and paedos might play a long game etc.
Turns out libraries will be sitting on gold mines, the only cache of books guaranteed to not be tainted by AI! :D
Sorry to hear that. Maybe chase up with their managers and coworkers? You might get the job or they might have another job in mind and impressed that you called and chased up, and they know you or know of you already.
The page is currently failing to work for me, because `model_quantized.onnx` isn't loading -- I'm watching it and it has currently managed to get 19.2MB downloaded (at ~50KB/sec) as I type this, so if every visitor is triggering that...

I think we may be doing awful things to Lee Butterman's bandwidth bill.
> How was this done in the past? Did we just never catch any human traffickers / rapists?

Recently invented encrypted chat rooms allow people to coordinate and transfer CSAM without any government official being able to infiltrate it. And just being able to freely discuss has been shown to make the problem worse as it facilitates knowledge transfer.

This is all completely different to in the past where this would have been done in person. So the argument that we should just do what we did in the past makes no sense. As technology advances we need to develop new techniques in order to keep up.
You are missing a very obvious piece of the puzzle here: assets seized by the government during bankruptcy get used to offset liabilities of the bankrupt company. This doesn't need to be explicitly said; it wouldn't make sense for it to work any other way.
I think that if you made something look like the Japanese wabi sabi design, but while using industrial materials and methods, a Bauhaus person would probably consider it to be "ornamentation", because they hate everything that hides instead of reveals, and would rather have unnatural things look unnatural.

If a 3D printer makes an irregular shape, it's because it was specifically designed that way for appearance and no other reason, which they would probably consider lying, and the old school Japanese architects might too...

Even if you did make a building however they did in Japan 100 years ago, I would imagine a Bauhaus person might think you were just being extra, and your choice to do that was just a giant unnecessary performance piece, because you didn't just take the shortest path to pure function.

I'm not exactly sure why people all of a sudden really started caring about philosophy in 2009, but it seems to coincide with the rise of the red pill forums and such.

Before that it seemed like there was a lot more things imitating more organic shapes and traditional materials with modern methods, or hiding modern things behind old things.

I'm also not sure why people even like the entire concept of simple functional things, in the digital age. They take active effort to even remember they're there, the shortest path is just to chop the garlic with a knife and take notes on a phone.
Can't solve social problems with technology, as they say. And as mentioned elsewhere, most child abuse is perpetrated by family members and other close connections.
> using a gene-editing technology to artificially reduce natural genetic diversity in humans for monetary gain

There could be a regulation that they must artificially increase (or at least balance) natural genetic diversity as well by putting some random mutations in the genome every time they clear out something like colorblindness or huntington's disease or cystic fibrosis. Maybe this will help speed it through FDA approval.
Octopode is a wider category
Something... very strange is going on. I'm able to access a dedipath server over my phones network connection but not home internet. I'm definitely not hitting a cache as I'm able to e.g. ssh in. I have no explanation for what's going on, but if you're in the same boat I suggest pulling any data you might need
It's obvious that native binaries are replaced by web more and more every day. Web uses runtimes (Wasm and JS). We can definitely afford to run everything in runtimes and emulation. Btw, Theseus recently got Wasm support.

Games? Write them thar thangs in Rust.

The ideas of Theseus is akin to those of NixOS, one easily feels they are 'the one obviously correct way' of doing it. I recommend the founder's presentations on YouTube.
Actually, in my country, Portugal, if your salary is the Minimum wage, you are exempt from paying taxes, but if you get a raise as little as 15€ or so, you move one category up and start to pay taxes, and you will receive less money than what you used to get before the raise.
At Leela AI we're developing hybrid symbolic-connectionist constructivist AI, combining "neat" neural networks with "scruffy" symbolic logic, enabling unsupervised machine learning that understands cause and effect and teaches itself, motivated by intrinsic curiosity.

Leela AI was founded by Henry Minsky and Cyrus Shaoul, and is inspired by ideas about child development by Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Gary Drescher (described in his book “Made-Up Minds”).

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262517089/made-up-minds/

https://leela.ai/leela-core

>Leela Platform is powered by Leela Core, an innovative AI engine based on research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. With its dynamic combination of traditional neural networks for pattern recognition and causal-symbolic networks for self-discovery, Leela Core goes beyond accurately recognizing objects to comprehend processes, concepts, and causal connections.

>Leela Core is much faster to train than conventional NNs, using 100x less data and enabling 10x less time-to-value. This highly resilient AI can quickly adjust to changes and explain what it is sensing and doing via the Leela Viewer dashboard. [...]

The key to regulating AI is explainability. The key to explainability may be causal AI.

https://leela.ai/post/the-key-to-regulating-ai-is-explainabi...

>[...] For example, the Leela Core engine that drives the Leela Platform for visual intelligence in manufacturing adds a symbolic causal agent that can reason about the world in a way that is more familiar to the human mind than neural networks. The causal layer can cross-check Leela Core's traditional NN components in a hybrid causal/neural architecture. Leela Core is already better at explaining its decisions than NN-only platforms, making it easier to troubleshoot and customize. Much greater transparency is expected in future versions. [...]
> When tech creates problems should tech tried to solve it or should tech be limited?

You haven't explained the problem 'tech' has created, I'm confused as to what your point is?

CSAM isn't a problem caused by 'tech' unless you're going back to the invention of the camera, and I think that toothpaste is well out of the tube.

Additionally, and this is where a whole of arguments about this go wrong, the important part: the actual literal abuse, is human to human. There is no technology involved whatsoever.

Technological involvement may be an escalation of offense, but it's vanishingly secondary.
> > much bigger adventure

I believe that without the familiar elements waiting for us at whatever the destination might be, it would be an asylum not an adventure.

If you play a word association game using the word 'adventure' the first thing that realistically come up to mind are:

1) Hike

2) Mountain bike trail

3) Motorcycle trip

4) Boat trip

Etc. etc.

All the above adventures have the common thing that while you are out and about you feel the elements very strongly on your skin and all your 5 senses are intensely stimulated .

In space you'd be confined and in your spacesuit your whole life and you'd also be confined in the spaceship or artificial spaces. No stimulation at all, maybe only the visuals would be stimulated but you'd be mostly staring at empty space, and the space that is not empty such as clusters and stars might be beautiful to look from afar but they are so big that you can never quite touch them, unlike a flower or a sequoia.
I think it's important to differentiate social media with social networks. I would vigorously argue that Instagram & TikTok are media setup for doom scrolling, and almost nobody gets anything positive from the experience (unless they're selling something). On the other hand -- and perhaps I'm dating myself but I ran a dial-up BBS in the early 90s -- platforms that lend themselves to formation of meaningful relationships aren't all cesspools. I think it's important to have open conversations with one's children to assess what they need in their lives to become open-minded, rational, compassionate and helpful contributors to society, and that's impossible without cultivating the right relationships.
You would have a fairly difficult time convincing me that some Trump grievance junk reported only by RedState and InfoWars, sourced from Twitter, would be worth spending any time pondering. Conserving one's mental capacity is really the entire benefit of filter bubbles.
These are all satire. The point is to KISS. I doubt doco sites need JS except for say running code snippets type stuff. But not for the UI itself. And a big long page with a default scrollbar cannot be beat for accessibility and searchability.
Most of the problems I was made aware of had to do with international trade, not domestic trade.

One guy I met said he privately imported (some of) the goods needed to build his home by containers from Europe because buying them locally was like double the price, because that meant buying them from essentially government-party-appointed resellers.

I obviously have no way of verifying the truth of that statement but you did ask.
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https://tailscale.com/careers/
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As someone working in a company using old hardware and slow connections, hard disagree.
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:D appreciate the kind words
This cannot be upvoted enough - thanks for posting it!
Most child abuse is perpetrated by family members and close connections. While that may not be true in the future, I think there are better avenues of action than jumping to completely backdooring an extremely valuable tool that allows people to exercise their rights more effectively.
That's part of the issue and why I try not to fool myself that I'm more technically literate and cool / aware dad, than my dad was.i may work in IT but a teenager's experience of online world is a perplexing mystery to me. They use different social media very differently than I did / do. Their online and offline peers and circles are strange to me. Not that they're bad! I just recognize I don't grok their world.

I met my spouse online and a lot of my generation did. I too met a lot of friends online first. But the exploits and weirdness and threat vectors on the interwebs today is just very different.
I believe it. The open source community has always had a large portion of trans people. I always assumed it had to do with trans individuals traditionally being socially outcast and the "nerd" community being built by traditional outcasts. So hand in hand, in a correlative and non-causative manner.
I got the same blank page for over an hour, after a while it just started working again. No ads in sight.
Isn't that good news? It means when they melt the sea levels will rise less than the earlier prediction.
I see that animal-farm-assembly.com has yet to come to the lawyers attention.
It is foolish to measure the usefulness of bike lanes or bus lanes by idle time. I see lots of people make this same mistake. These transportation methods are inherently more space efficient than personal vehicles.

Also, as a cyclist, I’d much rather be in a separated bike lane as opposed to directly behind a car and breathing in fumes there.
We have a slew of safety regulations that apply to, for example, chemical plants that handle substances every bit as dangerous as anything in a nuclear reactor. They basically work. They increase the operating cost a little bit. But they're not purposely designed to make the operation prohibitively expensive, so they don't.

Pricing externalities is a cost/benefit calculation, because overhead and inefficiency are externalized harms too. If you can prevent a 1 in 100 chance of a million dollar loss for $100 then you do it. If you have the "opportunity" to prevent a 1 in 10,000 chance of a million dollar loss for $10,000, you don't, because the expected cost of preventing the loss is more than it is to incur it. Unless you're trying to destroy something, and then you insist on it.
>I don't really see how the ISA is relevant

There's definitely better and worse ISAs e.g. some are unjustifiably complex.

Yet the key advantage of RISC-V is not at all technical, and lies in its licensing scheme.

There is no need to ask for permission to implement RISC-V and thus be able to leverage the best ecosystem out there, which RISC-V is rapidly building.

There is also no need to ask for permission to extend it with custom extensions, to suit your specialized needs.

Using the RISC-V trademarks is only a little more complicated, as it requires proving standard compliance.

Yet this aligns well with most implementations; Compliance is desirable as it enables tapping into existing software and tooling, which is much cheaper than building and maintaining bespoke solutions.
I don't think it's an MD5 or SHA512 hash, since just changing one pixel would be enough to evade the scanner. My understanding is that it's heuristic similarity detection, which has a much wider footprint for collisions.
Making space for India: Chandrayaan-3's big implications for the rocket leagues
It’s ironic that you’re asking me my age and calling me, indirectly, a dinosaur, but used a brand new potentially throwaway account. :)

I guess some of us do value our privacy and want to impart that to our kids.
Haven’t FTX’s bankruptcy lawyers already billed $200m? That’s money that isn’t going to FTX’s creditors.

Sure, people have scammed larger sums, but I wouldn’t conclude the traditional financial system is thoughtfully designed with checks and balances while lawyers are making hundreds of millions processing bankruptcy transactions.

There’s gotta be room for improvement along the moral/legal/ethical dimensions for our current system.
That's a quote from Schenck v. United States which was decided in 1919, and overturned by Bandenburg v. Ohio in 1969. It's by no means the law (it came 150 years after the law was written), and it was never a particularly good analogy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was talking about handing out anti-war pamphlets as akin to "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" and thus ruled that the First Amendment didn't protect protests during wartime—a decision even today's most anti-free-speech advocates would probably disagree with. He later backtracked on it.

Using "fire in a crowded theater" to justify suppressing speech is like quoting Pope Urban VIII as support for your argument that the sun revolves around the Earth.
How did you get a checking account without showing up to verify ID?
Thanks! Might relax the in-person restriction when we get bigger, but tied to it for the time being.
Here’s one on boomer retirements causing labor shortages dated yesterday. https://www.marketplace.org/2023/08/31/labor-shortages-baby-...

The numbers that came out today indicated increased unemployment.

Maybe it’s just as chaotic as it seems. Econ bread and butter is the labor market is one of the slowest to reach equilibrium.
Robotic milling based on passive variable operational space interaction control
I think this is more common than you think.

For instance, I've lived in two provinces in Canada and neither required official instruction.

Hell, to get your learners you don't even have to have your parent teach you anything. There is an app nowadays that teachers you to pass the written exam (which is multiple-choice anyways, and kind of a joke)

Then you can drive a car as long as you have a licensed adult > 25 years old in the front passenger seat.

My nephew recently got his learners at 15, with a written test only, then drove his mom home.

How's that for lax?
I’m not saying it’s good or bad, I’m saying life will survive us.

I’m not particularly eager to see humanity extinguished or the world reset into another age. But if it happens, life won’t be gone from the universe even if there’s only life here on earth.

Nature might, who knows? And maybe we are just “programmed” to feel our own importance, and thats perhaps necessary but not sufficient to save us.
I think people would agree with that though.
Absolutely true. If there are new ways to commit crimes, there must be new ways to fight crimes. Child abuse has been accelerated greatly by technology and we are fighting it with sticks and stones because we don't want to accept that the terribleness of these crimes is worth giving up some of our privacy to stop.
Thanks - that's was the kind of answer I wanted.
Is there any work trying to "merge" the two together ?
Okay maybe you are right, I don't know. I just want less people to get hurt.
I think military will take over his work.Snowden documents reveled the cyc was been used to come up with Terror attack scenarios.