skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This can be solved in a zero-knowledge way, and the government should commit to open source here.

This is what France's government is working on if i understand correctly what i'm hearing (i'm working for the private sector right now, so i'm not as well informed as i should be on those kind of things). Not really a fan, but i note when they're doing good shit, and on that they're on point.

I don't mind a zero-knowledge age verification, i will strongly oppose anything else (with both money and time).
>>age appropriately of course)

UK research into this is staggering though - children as young as 8 already report having seen porn, and learn behaviours from it. I also support the need for full, open, completely honest and comprehensive sex education, but there's a reason why even the most liberal programs in the world don't teach 8 year olds explicitly about sex other than mentioning it very broadly - 8 year olds are not ready to learn about all the details yet(this is an opinion of child psychologists, not my own), but obviously with porn you sidestep all of it, kids don't even get the chance to learn properly.

Part of it is obviously the fault of parents - a lot of whom are completely incompetent and who probably shouldn't use any electronic devices themselves, much less give them to children. But the sheer prevelance of porn is also a problem.

I don't know what the solution to this is. Definitely not what the government is suggesting, that's for sure.
IntelliJ Idea for Java is not exactly free either. How would you go about debugging parallel code in Go, Rust or C++ there?
I don't know that there's a solution because the fundamental cause of the problem is that Javascript has a huge dev base and everybody wants to have at least one active NPM package they maintain for their resume. Nobody ever asked me as a Perl programmer what CPAN packages I've created because very few Perl programmers made them, but hiring managers will look at Javascript devs' NPM footprint.
No, he didn't say that. He just said that sermonizing didn't make good literature. Have you not had that experience?
Can someone explain the modern American usage of the word "ideology" to me? Because in my books, an ideology is something that promises to hold the key to all secrets and all future wonders, the explanation for all evils (which is usually failure to comply to the ideology). E.g. there is even a difference between just being racist on an individual level -- as sucky as that may be -- and explaining the whole world and who is to blame for evil in those terms, the latter being ideology, like white supremacism. Or say, Bitcoin. It can be just technology, but people can also turn cryptocurrencies into an ideology. Same with "AI" and so on.

That's how I understand ideology, to me it implies a narrow and distorting lens through which to squeeze all problems.

But the way I see it used, it seems to be more like something that makes some kind of moral judgement, or has an opinion on a few issues that are framed as "left" or "right" in the US public. I honestly don't know and just can't parse that word the way it's often used.
The thing is, this isn't responding to listener's reaction. It's determining their personality ahead of time through research and then executing a rhetorical strategy. This kind of focused information-gathering about a target before engagement is also the kind of calculus used by serial killers, btw.
You must not be a parent. A non technically savvy parent really has very limited control. Even a technically savvy parent can control the devices they buy for their children only, on the wifi network they pay for for their own home, only.

This leaves them totally exposed if school gives them a chromebook or anytime they're in range of another open network.

Besides, the effects of this content are society wide. You can be the one parent who keeps your kids away from dangerous content, but if all their friends don't, they will be influenced by them.

> Parents can easily control which parts of the internet their kids have access to,

Oh, that said, the specific technical way they want to implement this is awful. Making or even allowing individual porn sites to administer the ID system is horrible. Have they never heard of Oauth? There should be a "adultidcheck.gov" type central government service that handles this.

Friendly reminder that prior to the popularization of the internet 20-30 years ago, there was absolutely no equivalent situation where you could have the kind of anonymity the internet provides. It is not any kind of natural right. If you wanted to send or receive information it had to be done in some physical way, so your identity could not really be hidden. Privacy, yes, anonymity, no.
ah meyers briggs, the tabloid astrology of the office worker.
Microsoft was pushing something like that few years ago under the name Fluid Framework: https://youtu.be/tPw5kFkXtt4

But seems to have devolved into generic state synchronization library these days.
This but on Windows 7 please. It is still my favourite version of Windows.
Yes, the government should provide digital ID services. On my Coinpassport site in the documentation, [0] I make this plea to governments.

I've made a testnet version that uses a basic ZK circuit to provide anonymity. [1]

There's so many holes to my approach though with overlapping renewals, dual citizenship, etc. If governments simply provided this service it would be great.

Passport NFC chips get close. [2] They contain the passport data signed and there's a project to extract those details into a ZKSNARK proof which is awesome but this doesn't prove that the person holding the passport is the person verifying like Stripe Identity does with the photo check. And it requires the nfc reader hardware, but that's not too bad for a requirement.

Maybe something like risczero could prove that a phone photo matches the passport photo using ZK but it seems like a big project.

[0] https://coinpassport.net/docs.html

[1] https://test.coinpassport.net

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/878.pdf
If you're interested in the origins and future of humanity, I'd recommend Isaac Arthur's YouTube channel as a complementary source as well.

https://www.youtube.com/@isaacarthurSFIA
> They should have done so anyway, obviously. There's no chance they would have been prosecuted for it. Not with all the uproar. I walked in the candlelight demonstrations too.

Can you give me some evidence that you're willing to destroy your career in a country on a point of principle?

Like, I completely agree that they should have done that, but that's pretty easy for me to say, it wouldn't be my career on the line.

> Only after a referendum which the church opposed, and it's still one of the most restrictive countries in terms of abortion.

Look man, my wife had a missed miscarraige under the old rules, and I completely agree, but at least that shit won't happen anymore. I did query this with our fertility consultant about what would happen if we were past 12 weeks and got a seriously bad genetic test result, and he just shrugged and said we could go to England, which was pretty disappointing, post referendum.
Good.

Will they make search engines provide relevant porn results for me then? I have to wade through thousands of irrelevant and disgusting stuff that doesn't fit my porn needs.
It certainly is, Community edition, available in macOS, Linux and Windows, contrary to VS Community that is Windows only.

What the hell has Go, Rust or C++ to do with C# and .NET code?
Yep... Everyone in academia complains about publishing papers, about the high prices of publishing, about "publish or perish", and then when they come high enough in "academia", require the same pain from the newcomers. It's like a closed circle of people both requiring papers for maintaining and advancing your carreer and at the same time complaining about those papers (and the publishing process), and not even thinking about some kind of "change".
2000 was also the last version that didn't require activation.
Something I find myself thinking about very frequently is how little community code reuse and composability there seems to be around graphics programming.
> crawl along by feeling said hose

Smooth bump bump, back to the pump!

But yep, absolutely. We will risk a lot, in a calculated manner, for savable life. And I will not send my guys interior on a confirmed empty defensive fire.
Let's not rewrite history here, OEMs shipped a ton of preinstalled bloatware. If you got an image of XP from Microsoft, it was totally clean.

Contrary to today when Microsoft bundles bloatware directly with the OS itself. You can't install a clean copy because a clean copy just doesn't exist.
I agree with you, but to be fair:

- The worst case worry about AI is a much bigger problem than the worst case worry about moon life. (IMHO)

- With moon we had a good idea on how to mitigate the risks just to be extra safe. With AI I believe we don't have any clue on how to do containment / alignment or if it's even possible. What is currently being done on the alignment front (e.g. GPT refusing to write porn stories or scam emails) has absolutely nothing to do with what worries some people about superintelligence.
The key phrase is is "from manufacturers". Most power users and DIYers have always done fresh installs.
DNS is everywhere. It offers massive caching potential. It is well-understood and there are multiple, interoperating, implementations. It is a data diode, which is to say read-only, which can simplify some risk assessments related to attack surface.

The README for this project may explain some of the general benefits (my project): https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns

HTTP is everywhere. I think SOAP sucks, but it's everywhere and it works well enough. (For that matter XHR sucks, but even I use it occasionally.)

(This is not the first time DNS Toys has shown up on Hacker News, there's a link in another comment.)
Live Objects All the Way Down: Removing the Barriers Between Apps and VMs
I hate to be the “halfassed suggestion after you’ve put a bunch of work into a problem” guy, but did you try pipewire?
> Engineers in the 19th century would be amazed

Would they?

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vis...
China has also started experimenting building commercial molten salt reactors so it'll be interesting what the fourth generation power plant shootout will look like.
This is the compatibilist view. But if it is an illusion, then that means the "choice" is computable and a computer can create the same outcomes.
If the Wave keyboard is not on the list, I'm not interested
Yes you've done 'bribe', just not 'direct'.

> How can't you see for what it truly is??

Essentially implies it isn't.
people used to say that exact same thing about climate.

Yes, Earth is deep. So is our species' hunger for more. This scenario has played so many times but surely this is different! It's "limitless" energy. Eat the hype and ignore (well, downvote) all concerns.
I love to eat Buldak ramyun, amazing flavor.

I can generally enjoy very spicy food (I use Habanero hot sauce regularly), but I only put about 1/2 to 2/3 of this noodle's packet in it. It is insanely spicy.

Anyways, cool backstory to read about.
Best and Worst Jobs for a Pay Rise in 2024
Yeah. I mean R+G is pretty much created a reverse nesting category I guess.
Assistant with Bard: How Google Shrunk Bard's UI for Android
Indeed it is. For example, Robert Maxwell’s longtime lawyer was Samuel Pisar, who happens to be the stepfather of current US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
Just torrent your porn. Regulations like this will achieve nothing.
U.S. LNG Growth Sparks Climate Activism Uproar
That was a political statement by imagining a world where LGBT is a non-issue. It was like a TV show version of John Lennon’s “Imagine”.
I believe Apple’s goal is to exploit network effects of having multiple users with headsets in a semi-persistent environment. As in, a simultaneously physical and virtual conference room where your whole team can meet and interact with one or more applications at the same time. Instead of sitting in a room having a PowerPoint read to you, you can be at home in your pajamas and attend the meeting with all of the non-verbal cues you would get as if you were in the meeting room. Your Teams/Slack chat would get projected onto the wall so the presenter doesn’t miss a question.

Idk probably it’ll just be games though…
> So, what doesn't Mars have?

Oil. /s
I'm pretty certain Satoshi's identity is known, although not publicly stated and/or confirmed by anyone. I believe a handful of the early developers had very strong suspicion as to who was behind the name, but never pursued a confirmation of it.

My money is on Len [1]. The sheer number of coincidences, crossing of rare skill sets and interests, time, place, penchant of pseudo anonymously publishing things and happened to take his own life <2 months after Satoshi's final gloom-filled message, "I’ve moved on to other things and probably won’t be around in the future".

[1] https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...
I know someone who worked in finance HR for approx 20 years. Nearly every time the business hired someone who would have been identified as a poor fit by Meyers Briggs they wouldn't last 12 months.
In the service of trying to be clear and not confuse anyone they actually create things that are confusing and obtuse.

Some technical people get past this stage and realize the flaw while others clutch onto it as a virtue and double down.

Also, it's usually done sloppily. They'll mix in the imprecise with precise and you'll scratch your head trying to find what this particular documents special definition of a word is because you assume that they're trying to be excessively formal and must not just mean something informally when in fact they do.

Other times they'll just toss something in like "observer functoid" and assume that you know what they think it must mean.

It's just bad writing. In my head I just visualize a green college aged kid writing it thinking this is the big league. When you peal back the jargon curtain you invariably find it's just a couple basic ideas all dolled up strutting down an 8 1/2 x 11 catwalk in a word pageantry.
Yeah, as another firefighter, please don't. That often ends tragically, a t-shirt or towel will do nothing to stop smoke particulates.
No, but I've had at least ten counts of apt gimping itself somehow during an update.

Who here isn't intimately familiar with

> Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock
Yes but the life that is possibly currently on Mars would have evolved significantly since life there originally came to Earth.
To play a devils advocate for a second - when I was growing up(in the 90s) I also saw porn way too early than even remotely appropriate - a friend had a VHS tape that he got somewhere, we had to find a moment in time when his parents weren't home, and we put it on for like 5 minutes, we were so scared we were going to be found out we immediately dumped the tape afterwards and didn't find the contents even remotely exciting - I remember just being really disgusted by it(turns out the overproduced fake 90s porn really isn't a great way to introduce anyone to sex).

Nowadays if you speak to any child psychologist about it it's obvious that kids get exposed to it really early(in the UK it's estimated that nearly all kids below age of 10 will have seen some kind of sexual material already) and they do it regularly.

It really isn't comparable to what we(pre-internet people) had and what's happening to kids right now.

I also want to make it completely clear I'm 10000% against this insane idea proposed here. Just pointing out that it isn't even remotely the same as us watching a random VHS tape.
>Certainly in the U.K. small businesses with a turnover under a certain amount can have their accounts signed off by a chartered accountant and then submitted to companies house.

For very small businesses you can handle it all yourself with the help of an HMRC tool.

https://www.unbiased.co.uk/discover/tax-business/running-a-b...
Human health cost of global warming isn't exactly cheap. Delayed costs are still costs. It's just my generation and my kids who have to pay while my parents generation reaped the rewards and profits up front.

I, like many of my peers feel like we are being grifted by the boomer generation.
The most interesting part of Quickwit for me has been that because it stores the index in object stores, you can theoretically abstract away a lot of the horizontal scaling with things like MinIO or SeaweedFS that have S3-compatible APIs w/o having to go to the cloud.

Unfortunately, I think it's a large reason why it was made a design choice that indexed documents are immutable (IIRC), which doesn't work for my use case.
I feel dumb that it's never occurred to me... But I should really try this. I can spend the whole evening feeling sleepy and avoiding a nap because I don't want to mess up my sleep, only to get ready for bed and suddenly be wide awake and ready to go. Very annoying.
I have a current gen developer edition XPS and haven't had any qualms with it other than not enough usbc ports. I've updated the OS it came with (Ubuntu) and it still works as expected. Since I stayed with the same OS and did an in-place update and not a fresh install, I can't speak to what hacks are still in place today.
MS blogs say that a way to associate ports to hosts is coming.

Unfortunately it doesn't look like they are planning to support ports directly in UNC paths.
For the commenters taking the question of efficient ID solutions seriously, you're missing the point. Simply put, this is an anti-porn bill. The legislatures are fully aware of the ridiculousness of the requirements--that's the point. No one in their right mind is sending passports and videos of themselves to the shadiest corners of the internet. An outright ban would be difficult to achieve, a set of requirements to protect children from offensive material is much easier.
Okay and if ChatGPT did that then NYT wouldn't have a case. Except that's now how it works.
> nothing beats the late 19th- mid 20th century era

That is why we have climate change in the first place.
You cannot add/subtract things which don’t have the same dimensions. Further, such formulae cannot forbid negative answers even though you’re trying to model strictly positive quantities. That naturally lends to multiplication.

If you want to exponentiate, you can only use dimensionless quantities in the exponent (and that kind of dependence does pop up sometimes, in interesting places). But the exponential dependence means very low sensitivity for small values for the exponent, so (by Taylor approximation) you might get away with using a constant, or redefining variables (by subtraction/rescaling) to come back to the multiplicative format. In other words, you’re taking the log on both sides and doing dimensional analysis with the new variables.
Why is anyone's data mined for ads? If you're going to make a kids mode flag that denies data mining effort, then just fucking make the don't mine me switch and open it to everyone.
Meh don’t trust these companies to be honest in this survey
3:27 I wasn't expecting this to include a mandatory registration and sign-in to an online account. I thought the inability to have offline/local accounts was one of the hated points of the new Windows OSes.
But this was a rule that was devised in response to a specific problem in the ecosystem…
> If you have hardware that has linux support then everything should work at install time or after install.

So, if you buy something that works, it will work, and if you buy something that doesn't work, it won't. Wow, what insight. It really does boggle the mind why people don't just buy things that work. Am I right!?!
You know, at this point in the complexity story, you're literally at (or beyond) the level of Nix complexity which is the very solution that everyone who engages with this level of tooling seems to be trying to avoid, and since Nix solves this problem already definitively without having to jump through all these hoops, why don't Python projects just use Nix? Then they could all be colocated on the same machine and all be accessible from the same PATH and all have their specific dependencies none of which would ever collide with each other!

Like, you're LITERALLY making a FANTASTIC argument for Nix usage in the Python ecosystem, here. In fact I'm going to bookmark this conversation now because of how ridiculously complicated your answer is compared to just using Nix.

Here's the Nix whitepaper. It's 14 pages or so. Read it on your next lunch break.

https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf
If you're not brain damaged from vi use, there is really no problem with the default settings for emacs. Copy-paste using different keys? Well, that's Mac and Windows brain damage, emacs was there first with yank and kill.
Yes, and that's great. But coal is still king and the enemy of coal is our friend: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...

It shouldn't be an either or equation. It should be yes, and.
I think the fundamental problem with semantic web content is that it is binding two things together.

1. This feature does X

2. This feature is for Y

Misuse happens when people want the functionality for another purpose. I have seen some attitudes that are strongly against doing this even going back to the days of WinAmp where people were arguing passionately that custom user interfaces like that should not be permitted. On the other hand lots (I would guess millions) Opted for WinAmp precisely because of it's UI customization. It wasn't for everybody, but optional things do not need to be for everybody.

Binding what an element does to what it is for pollutes the semantic space whenever someone wants the functionality for another purpose. They end up with a feature that does one thing and broadcasts that it is supposed to be doing something else.

Perhaps an attribute could assist in this area (perhaps offlabel or something similar or more appropriate)

<meter min="0" max="250" value="180" offlabel>???</meter>
To indicate that that an element performs functionally like a meter, without any semantic assumptions.

Given the greater degree of awareness that a developer should have when developing accessible content. I think it would be better to have the default to be the raw functionality and an attribute to indicate that the semantic context is valid. I don't believe that proponents of the semantic web would go for that, because not enough people would opt-in. They would prefer opt-out or no option at all.
It's basically a religious view. For a "judgement" to be non-computable, it'd need to come from some factor in the human brain which violates know physics and can't be reproduced outside a human brain.

It's little more than arguing for a "soul" with no evidence for any effect that can't be explained by cause and effect.
There are many folks who have little sympathy for this argument, because they believe one or more of these:

- each student is not an individual, but a representative of an ethnic group

- the use of test scores discriminates against ethnic groups who, in aggregate, do poorly due to reasons that are unrelated to merit or potential (socioeconomic factors, legacy of discrimination in the past etc.)

- Asian students who are rejected from Harvard 'will do fine' wherever they land

- SAT/ACT scores aren't predictive of academic success

- college admissions processes shouldn't be trying to maximize expected college GPA

The most balanced work I've read about these issues is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4354321

I disagree with the author on many points, and the paper (at least the earlier versions) had a couple of arguments that I thought were weak and one-sided. But overall it's an excellent read. Even better than the Harvard vs. SFFA ruling.