skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you have a source for this? I've seen a lot of porn in my time and the title almost invariably matched the content.

Not on these sites today my pirate friend. Pick any of the channels of commercial sites and look for actual titles. You will find short excerpts from the full videos for sale on the sites with no ability to cross reference the two. Thats working as intended. You wont ever find the actual title of a clip on a free site. They are all placeholders.

>* Russian Soldiers Rape Ukranian Bi-atch

There is simply no way that you will find any video containing the word "rape". Those got purged a long time ago. Like most other terms mentioning violence.

>If that last video is not produced with a racial element in mind then why is it titled that way? Is that the randomer generator?

The nationalities are exactly that, nationalities. Turns out people from India like to watch porn with Indian people. I even heard rumors that some people even find people attractive who look different then the ones they grew up with. Kinky stuff, i know.

>What is the issue with making such allegations? If someone believes that illegal sexual violence is taking place then I would only ever encourage them to speak up about it.

>> They also call "Teens" category child porn

>Which page to they do this on? I can't find it.

page 20
>(« teen », la catégorie pédopornographique étant une des plus populaires),

If you think you are able to find actual illegal stuff (let alone a child porn category) on any of these sites, go call the police now and file a report. All of these sites now have production studios for every clip on file, which means people who will go to jail over this. Including the site operators if they actually supplied people with a childporn category.

The fact that you arent should say everything about the credibility of the report. This is by all means an important topic, too important in fact to base any discussion on this utter nonsense.

The rest of the report could be spot on and you still couldnt do anything with it given these ludicrous and false claims.

edit: Didnt realize you switched back from racist to racial. Cheap shot.
In this and other discussions of this there have been several wrong explanations of why he was released from prison. Here is what actually happened.

His sentence was for 30 years with 16 suspended, which in effect means a 14 year sentence with the possibility of the other 16 becoming unsuspended if after release he violated the conditions of his release.

Inmates in Maryland can earn credits through good behavior, successful participation in work programs, and successful participation in educational programs. These credits knock time off their sentence.

You can earn up to 30 days worth of credits in a month if your crime was not violent, was not a large drug crime, and wasn't a sex crime. You cannot earn credits if your crime was a sex crime with a victim under 16.

His crime was between those two extemes, allowing up to 20 days of a credit per month. He was able to earn close to that, so after 9 years he had enough credits to cover the remaining 5 years on his 14.
Sure. I don't need to be a grumpy elitist.

The problem isn't that you get a usage message when you ask for it. It's that you get a usage message (written to STDOUT) when you don't. Many commands will print out the usage message when command line options specify a condition that can't be met. I find this frequently when ssh'ing into busybox based systems. Busybox's find command is much less "refined" than comparable desktop OS finds (BSD & GNU/Linux).

So if I do something like:

ssh me@foo.example.com "find . -type f | while read line; do sha256sum \$line; done" | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2,1 -d ' ' | sort | uniq -c

And expect output that looks something like a sorted line of hashes, I will be sorely disappointed.
Engineering people to die at a specific age is as far fetched as engineering them to live forever, so you might as well imagine the latter.
I'm really curious how the bioethicist debate around this would work. At some point it feels like you're experimenting on humans without their consent. I guess that can be said about many treatments that are used to make babies (like IVF) or otherwise affect the young, but given the inherent uncertainty that would surround the first couple human babies that would be made using this technique, it does seem like a pretty wide bridge to cross.
https://www.dezeen.com/2022/06/07/prometheus-biocomposite-ce... :

> This bio-cement was made from biomineralizing cyanobacteria that are grown using sunlight, seawater, and CO2.

> The blocks were created by mixing this bio-cement with aggregate to create a low-carbon building material with mechanical, physical and thermal properties comparable to portland cement-based concrete
I'm sorry for derailing this thread, but am curious. Have any of you used services (e.g. classes, study groups) at the local community college? How does it work out when you're a decade beyond your graduate program? I miss a lot of aspects of the university system but have a full-time job and a life now (sadly.) I've been thinking of taking classes and networking at some of our really well-rated community colleges but I'm not sure what the experience is like.
Dumps are the ultimate expression of surface area vs volume.

A single 2200 acre landfill can handle 5 million metric tons per year for ~250 years. 80M metric tons isn’t a particularly big issue from an environmental or cost issue it’s all a question of collection and transportation to disposal sites not long term storage.
I like the random facts in the payload! That's fun! [0]

[0]: https://github.com/NalinPlad/OuterFlightTracker/blob/main/tr...
I missed that blog post somehow, thanks for sharing that. Bit disappointing that it's just the 7B model, it's a good starting point for fine tuning another small model, but it really isn't useful on its own.

> This is just a press release, and not a great source of in-depth info

Not sure I'd call outright lying/getting the most basic points wrong "not a great source of in-depth info", like the "local-first" part.
Interesting - I had never never seen nyxt - but it doesn't seem to be a new renderer as far as I can tell? I could be wrong! I'm curious if it is though! It seems to say in the FAQ it is agnostic and currently supports a few engines as the renderer https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/faq
Seems like something a Wikimedia project could do well
The business should protect their product with a patent or other trademark then. Nobody is forcing people to provide Amazon data by selling products on Amazon.

There is no victimhood if the business voluntarily transacts.
I just think it's loading the models and revenue sharing.

It would be similar as their partnership with Huggin Face, I suppose.

What data would be useful to capture? Outside of a human feedback loop, I don't think there is an actual use-case for it.

Note: not certain
I'm not a mathematician, but I feel the "syntethic"/"analythic" distinction in mathematics is an interesting and useful concept.

"In modern mathematics, an analytic theory is one whose basic objects are defined in some other theory, whereas a synthetic theory is one whose basic objects are undefined terms given meaning by rules and axioms"—Michael Shulman

In programming terms, I guess "synthetic" mathematics feels a bit like programming to an abstract interface.

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/synthetic+mathematics

In the first part of this video Cédric Villani gives (in French) a nice explanation of the distinction: https://youtu.be/xzVk56EKBUI?t=258

Edit: an English explanation, also by Villani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIrLXbwyYXQ
>Elephants rely on visual cues [when striding]

So did I. I had an ear infection in the summer of 2021 that apparently caused something called "vestibular neuritis" (?). I only figured it out because I was getting up in the middle of the night and finding items of furniture (from my point of view) rushing upward to meet me as I walked upright. The doctor's explanation was:

Balance is regulated by 3 senses: {inner ear, body weight on feet, sight}. You can take away any two senses and still maintain balance via the third. In my case the infection had taken away one (inner ear), but my body could still keep my balance by seeing OR by standing still. Walking around my living room at night took away both, thus, I would fall over without knowing it.

P.S. thankfully it was only temporary
Well, okay, very fair point. They shall be forgiven then. :-)
> Unifying gun laws in America

We tried unifying the gun laws (and all borne-arms laws!) in America: we passed a single Constitutional amendment which states that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. It’s the supreme law of the land; no law which violates it has any legal effect. The several states and the United States went ahead and infringed the right anyway, in 51 different ways, and plenty of localities got in on the act, too.
In fundamental physics there are few very hard problems that are unambiguously real problems of which I would name: (1) what is dark matter? (2) what is the mass of the neutrino? (3) why is there so much matter in the universe and not so much antimatter? (4) Quite a few strange things about very high energy cosmic rays (Notably 2 is not "physics beyond the standard model", it is "a missing piece of the standard model")

A lot of other questions might not really be "real" in various senses like: it's interesting to speculate that the interior of a quantum black hole is entirely unlike a classical black hole but you're not going to have anyone take a look and come back and tell us and we can just speculate if something kills you at the apparent horizon or not (so many bad ideas including the idea there is an "information paradox" come out believing the classical picture of the black hole interior which is probably just wrong), the "hierarchy problem" and various allergies to fine tuning are really human preferences or things like

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

where between the experimental errors and the possibility that theorists aren't quite doing the math right and that the answers to 1-4 might account for any difference (I wouldn't be surprised it is if 1-4 have the same answer)

The experiments for (1) and (2) are devilishly hard, there are accelerator observations of CP violations that are a line on (3), but the cosmic scale of (3) and (4) imposes its own difficulties.

Really there are a lot of grad students chasing a moderate number of postdocs who hope to get one of very few permanent positions and out of it all there is a tiny amount of glory to be had.

Condensed matter physics lacks the cosmic difficulties but it isn't dramatically better. How superconductivity works in cuprates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconducti...

is still quite mysterious after 35 years. I would name check Mark Newman as a standout in the "complex systems" area but the real accomplishment he made in my mind wasn't finding an explanation for "universal" power laws in complex systems but instead proving we didn't know what we were doing when we plotted our statistics on log-log paper and drew a line... And he published about that in a statistics journal not a physics journal but it's OK because the paper is in arXiv anyway.
Like I said, the founding of such studies predates the increases in tuition. Trying to argue that specific academic studies causes tuition increases by making students mistrustful of government, but only several decades later, needs a lot of evidence for that kind of claim. There are far more direct, closely related situations, like the federal and state governments decreasing funding or the inverted proportion of funds coming from govt/grants vs student-paid tuition via the loan system.
Mullvad Leak
The vulnerability was discovered by a cyber intelligence and hacking group called ZATAZ. Mullvad VPN's API offers access to user information, something called “account_id,” which Mullvad uses instead of actual usernames, emails, and passwords. These “account_ids” are comprised of only a few digits, meaning that it’s easy to use brute force attacks and get private information from the API without any authentication.

This could potentially be a serious issue; however, it’s unclear whether any actual user information (such as an IP address) can be exposed this way. Mullvad has already fixed this security flaw, but there hasn’t been any official statement from the company: nothing on their official webpage or replies to worried Twtter users.

This is probably the most worrying part: VPNs are all about privacy and trust in the VPN service provider: if Mullvad avoids being transparent here, this is a serious hit to their credibility.

Source (https://www.zataz.com/vpn-mullvad-corrige-une-fuite-decouver...)
Yeah, if I had my druthers, brace-less shorthand syntax like that would never be allowed. I never use it in my own code.

Beautify takes care of all questions about what an indent means. C-syntax devs never assume an indent has syntactic meaning. We use it has a helpful hint. We innately understand that it's the braces that matter, and it's really easy to Beautify a file if the original author was sloppy.

C-syntax devs read differently. We're not reading a book. We're reading code.

And we generally strongly prefer correctness. Braces avoid all unintended bugs related to where the instructions are located on the screen. Pretty is nice. Structure and correctness are better.
That's beside the point; you can build a UEFI bootloader for at least as far back as the Pi 3, but you have to stick it on an SD card because there's no on-board memory to hold it. I mostly just want enough flash built in to hold it.
Yah- I don't think they're disagreeing with you, but just suggesting that CCs and other adult education may be a practical way to scratch the itch that you described.
In what ways will this differ from picking any of the sources clustered at the top of the Ad Fontes Media bias chart? Those are all vetted journalists, too, and I suspect you'll end up pulling mostly from them.

The problem that you'll face comes from the fact that other sources also want to be considered "vetted" but Ad Fontes considers them less reliable. Those sources accuse the mainstream sources of bias (and in fact usually consider the term "mainstream" a codeword for "bias".)

You seem to be stuck with the same problem they have. If you're inclusive, you'll be accused of publishing misinformation. If you're exclusive, you'll be accused of bias. Probably more by one side than the other -- it wouldn't even be a case of "I'm leaving out both sets of extremists so I must surely be moderate".
I was trying to figure out the significance of this tree. It is alongside the wall but does not date to its construction, or anywhere near.

It is several hundred years old, which is certainly remarkable though far from unique. It seems to be known primarily for being picturesque, which is less about the tree itself and more for being located in an interesting gap in the hills. It shows up in a number of movies, and as far as I can tell, its being really famous only dates to the 1990s.

I don't mean to diminish this. It was a much-beloved icon destroyed in senseless cruelty. I was just trying to put it into context for myself. Its proximity to the much older icon is largely coincidental.
Based on the current top comment those IPs may not have been assigned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37693293
To be fair, the analog output of the RPi delivers a crappy low-pass filtered 11-bit PWM signal. Even the cheapest USB audio adapter will give you a better signal. (Personally, I have been quite happy with https://www.pollin.at/p/logilink-usb-2-0-5-1-audiocontroller...)
I used to have Ray-Bans, but only buy Maui Jims these days. I tried Revos, which I had always thought of as very high-quality, but they were not good (lenses reflected lots of light from behind me, as if they lacked an anti-reflective coating).

But even some MJs are not as good as the price would suggest. I have tried $300 MJs that didn't have spring hinges. They were just like regular lousy hinges.

Costco has a selection of Maui Jim sunglasses for ~$100, which is far below retail.
Pornography driving UK teens towards child abuse material, say experts
But if you raise the products now you have the opportunity for others to re-enter the market since there is arbitrage room.

I get the argument, but it's a grim reaper strategy taught in econ 101. It's a well known strategy and completely valid.

Consumers win in the short term but lose in the long term. Except they can just consume different products or wait for someone to re-enter the market.
No worries - all I mean is that you, from Java domain, interpret the word one way. Different domains interpret it very differently.
Now that you mention it, they haven’t really answered my calls in weeks.
Joking aside, we actually had a lot of fun and they thought it was very eye opening, not only about AI, but also about what my work life is like.
> Its hard to overstate how important it is to not make asking these kind of questions necessary again. I am doubtful about humanities chances for survival otherwise.

Here's a problem though: those are the kind of questions I'd expect physicists to ask and give back-of-the-napkin answers to while killing boredom in a cafe or a bar. So I guess it's really more about what you'll do with the answers afterwards.
Having worked on SAR (polarimetric and interferometric) for my PhD, I always wondered why most explainations of SAR take the frequency-domain approach of describing it in term of Doppler resolution instead of explaining the process of aperture synthesis in the spatial domain in terms of a sum of phase delayed signals. In this way the analogies with optical systems and phased arrays would be much clearer
It's interesting to me that I've never noticed this kind of thing. I've certainly seen content mills that have underqualified barely college-age humans churning out noninformation by the hour with no time or budget to do any actual research or news collection, but this kind of blatantly obvious automated plagiarism platform that is serving up unreadable nonsense I've never seen. What can possibly be the play here? Nobody is going to read this. The only motivation I can even think of is a sufficiently enticing headline spammed into enough link aggregators may get people to click, and if you can serve them enough immediate annoyances they have to dismiss before they actually read anything, they may take a few seconds before closing the tab and that counts as an ad impression.

How can that possibly be a sustainable business model? For Microsoft of all companies? MSN is their official news platform, apparently synchronized with a Microsoft news app I didn't know existed, with tiles for the stories served into people's start menus if they use Windows. If anyone can pay an actual journalist, it's Microsoft. Why choose this route? Say what you will about Amazon, but the Washington Post still does actual investigative work and uncovers interesting facts and stories the world would not come to know about if not for their work. Why intentionally turn a news platform into shit when you're going to make more money than God either way?
Because people who are at risk of long covid as determined by the blood test would want to take extreme precautions to avoid getting covid.
That's sort of true. It's why I stopped thinking about my carbon emissions. Even if I kill myself and bring myself to zero, the net carbon emissions per year will only move from 37.12 billion metric tonnes to about 37.12 billion metric tonnes. And if I 10x my emissions, net carbon emissions per year will still be 37.12 billion metric tonnes.

It's been quite liberating, actually. I got rid of my motorcycle, got a Nissan Titan, and now I fly everywhere. Knowing that no matter how green I become doesn't matter and that if I 10x my emissions means that I'm free to act in whatever manner I choose!
> YAML was always intended to be written by hand.

No, it was intended to be an alternative to XML. But it was the renamed to YAML Ain't a Markup Language, because it's really intended to be used for data, not human-centric markup.

YAML uses hard data typing, and types are inferred (though can be explicit). When a program serializes data, it does not add the explicit types. Therefore for a human to edit the file, they would need to have the entire YAML parser semantics in their brain, or add the explicit types, and hope the YAML parser they are using will re-serialize the explicit types (most are poorly implemented and won't).

Therefore it is virtually impossible for a human to write YAML correctly by hand. Its only reliable use is as a data language for programs to serialize data. It just happens to be easy to read.
Alchemy opensourced their Bundler in Rust
Yeah, the client OS will reject the "bad" packets destined for the other device as unknown.
Podcast players like Overcast use push notifications to learn about new episodes of podcasts that should be downloaded in the background. Presumably text-based RSS readers do the same.
Because the context is relevant here. Net neutrality is not some government over-reach. It was a specific reaction to a captive telco trying to fundamentally change how the internet works by having an intermediary convert certain packet traffic into a "premium" service.

The only reason net neutrality wasn't already law or part of the peering or ARIN contracts to even be on the internet at all was that no one could imagine that ISPs would become monopoly/dualopolies that might try to block traffic to extract extra rents from from both their existing paying customers and the owners of the servers their customers wanted to connect with.

In retrospect it should have been part of the contract to get a netblock from one of the NRO organizations (like ARIN) that such conduct is prohibited.

And before anyone raises a straw man: the policy could have been clear that traffic-shaping for fairness, QoS, network health, or even non-service-specific transfer caps was allowed.

In some ways how ISPs handle transfer caps is similar: their stated reasoning is garbage. The cap does nothing to discourage high use during peak periods and punishes customers who do bulk transfers at midnight when the ISP's network has plenty of capacity. The real purpose of caps is to extract more rent for doing nothing.

The ILEC and Cable ISPs look back on the $1/minute long distance telephone days of Ma Bell with sparkles in their eyes. Funny for a service that entirely depends on the government giving them free access to my and your property for right-of-way.
It's a massive coordination problem. Few universities have the resources, even if central admin had a clue. Even UC Berkeley's fight with Elsevier was a huge undertaking: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/03/16/ucs-deal-with-elsevier-...

For most, that means collaborating with others. UC system and B1G academic alliance are making moves, but it's herding cats. Even within universities, it's a nightmare of competing interests. How do you convince your faculty to publish through your own press or consortium instead of the higher impact factor journal owned by Elsevier?
I really hope Bandcamp stays neutral/independent, as that's the only place I legitimately buy music from (and a little bit of Amazon Prime), because they offer convenient .flac downloads immediately after purchase, no streaming, no "app" no garbage like that.
Sadly, several persons in non-US countries are rubbing their hands with jealousy, thinking about the US system.
To some, it's a thing to be admired.
> Having a modern up to date, searchable central registry of guns, ownership, and requiring every sale to be recorded is a major advantage for Australia over the US.

Some folks think that having a single, accurate, searchable registry of arms and their owners makes it tremendously easy for the government to confiscate those arms, and consider that a disadvantage. Imagine how a government might misuse a central database of citizens which indicated who belonged to which disfavoured minority groups …