skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under current US law, it is a very meaningful distinction. Possesing pictures of real child abuse. Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002) makes this distinction very clear.

> The argument that eliminating the market for pornography produced using real children necessitates a prohibition on virtual images as well is somewhat implausible because few pornographers would risk prosecution for abusing real children if fictional, computerized images would suffice. Moreover, even if the market deterrence theory were persuasive, the argument cannot justify the CPPA because, here, there is no underlying crime at all. Finally, the First Amendment is turned upside down by the argument that, because it is difficult to distinguish between images made using real children and those produced by computer imaging, both kinds of images must be prohibited.

With the current composition of the court, I'm not convinced this precedent will hold up if a case reaches them. But until that happens, the law seems quite clear.
Sure. But it also brings joy.
Exploring domestic cat behavior using the Fe-BARQ
for main roads. However for back roads and residential streets the road is designed assuming only a few semis per year (mostly moving trucks which are already lighter than average) and so the heavy car every day is a much larger share of the wear.
> It might be why pedophilia seems to be more and more common post internet.

I suspect (admittedly without evidence) that it's not more common—it's just more socially unacceptable, and also easier to get caught.
Title should probably be "Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens lived side by side..."
The rewilding guys would probably say 'that tracks'. Many of their efforts to get rivers to flow year round usually involve trees. Moss, bugs, rodents and grasses first then trees. Usually can help many areas to have year round streams again. As roots help water linger longer in an area. Which leads to streams.
At the scale of hundreds of millions of embeddings (the most I have experience with) pgvector has some sharp edges. Vacuuming is a huge one; it’s difficult to vacuum indices that are hundreds of GBs in size. And reasoning about recall is therefore challenging. Pgvector’s HNSW implementation also lacks support for certain features (e.g. filtering), which is fine when silently falling back to brute force is acceptable but otherwise not so much. To be clear I think pgvector is an awesome project but it certainly has limitations.
They don't need to differentiate to charge you with possession of child abuse material - they can still do that for drawn images.

This just means that efforts to find and protect real children will become harder, as those children will be mixed in with photorealistic 'fake children'.

But possession will still (and quite rightly) be illegal.
Very cool project! I think JS is very underrated for quality games.

Another "easy" optimization opportunity: don't use .forEach() unless necessary. I noticed it was used in the benchmark.

.forEach() has the overhead of a function call on every iteration, you can't break out of the loop early if needed, and the scoping is different depending on whether or not you use a classical function or an arrow function.
I just ran into something weird with my taxes that looks like I could cut my income by 25% and barely lose any money, because it's all taxes.

I know it doesn't make sense. I know how marginal tax rates work. And yet when the tax service estimates my income for 2024 at € 130k, they expect me to pay 50k in taxes, but if my accountant lowers the estimate to $100k, I'd only have to pay 22k. I have no clue how that works, but it looks to me like I should switch to a 3-day work week or take 3 months vacation.
A direct translation is: "A Clockwork Orange, the workings (machinery pieces [1]) of violence."

An even more literal alternative is: "A mechanical orange, the machinery pieces of violence."

[1] https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/rouage/69972
Perhaps try two stages.

Stage 1: Generate detailed description from image w/llava.

Stage2: Code the page using miqu 1.
They're invested in the brand of Harvard and not a set of values though.
In the same position. There's very few 'green tech' options for apartment dwellers.

It all has the prerequisite of owning a large and very expensive home. You need significant space for a solar(+battery) installation. Or for a heat pump.

Charging an EV at home requires you to have a garage or driveway, and we all know that public chargers are going to do a massive bait+switch, hiking prices way up once companies running them have established local monopolies and demand has built up.

Even a bike or e-scooter can be a pain to own without secure storage space if you've got to carry it up/down stairs each time you want to use it.
>biofuels

Absolutely not. The land use impacts are enormous.
Free ransomware recovery tool White Phoenix now has a web version
Brain Connection Maps Help Neuromorphic Chips
Don't think so, this is for simple scripts. Have been trying to build an AI developer for a month, AI is not good enough, without a human director an AI Dev is like a virus, (for now) we are all safe.
Cool! DSL replaced LNX-BBC for me some time in 2005. Glad to see development has resumed.

In a similar vein, I think there's a Slackware-based release of Slax again!

(posting this from a ThinkPad T61 running Slackware 15)
It used to be about protecting the children. Now it's about thought crime. Once the link to protecting children is severed, the category of thought crime is free to expand without limit. Where does it end?
US Is Dealing with an 'Out-of-Control' STI Epidemic
All modern cars do a very good job protecting the driver, at the car's expense, so I'm not sure any of that really makes all that much sense.
Yes:

https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt

There are quite a few GUI front-ends options available:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects#gui
'Obelisks': New Class of Life in the Human Digestive System
What is their accident rate during winter? Cycling on ice is something I definitely will avoid even when the wheels are spiked.

I have seen this passive/aggressive policing in my city against the car commuters (I'm using public transport mainly) while the main cause of the problem is not the commuters but the city that doesn't encourage enough residential real estate development near the large office hubs.
It is still a lot
The images would desensitise them, and it would normalize them. But there is a huge step between having a fantasy and taking it to reality. There are people who fantasize about being raped, but would hate for it to become reality.
It's not true. Out of 13000 employees a dozen were found to have committed acts of terrorism and were fired immediately once this was found out. That is definitely not "hiring active terrorists". It's what any org of that size would do.
So being highly skeptical when pointed to mountains of evidence is the reasonable conclusion?

Perhaps I just can't express myself.

There is nothing controversial here, unless you are wildly disagreeing with evolution.
From the article
> The presumed software release timespan (at least 33 months between August 1986
> and May 1989) is particularly odd considering this is an extremely rare and
> unknown system.

I wonder if there is a connection to Japan's FGCS project which was active during that time frame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst...

It would make sense if Sega was involved and the activity on this "extremely rare and unknown system" was due to it being funded by research grants instead of purely commercial new product development. The FGCS was heavily invested in advancing Prolog based systems and that makes the possibility of a connection to this system even stronger.
That kind of speed is wild. What kind of switching hardware does 25 gigabit symmetric require? Do you have 25GbE to Thunderbolt adapters for your computers?
density can be hugely detrimental to climate change if the city isn’t built in a green way, which no US city currently is and will likely not be in your lifetime. under the guise that your desire to live in a highly dense climate wasteland, by 2035 we should require either everybody move away from city centers, or require cities be zero emission.

your decisions are affecting me, isn’t that the norm now?
I just don't see how. I have several neices and nephews. I use facebook to share photos of family and such. I rarely see any activity at all from the younger relatives that I'm following. I just don't think it happens, they should be getting at all social media rather than just facebook. I don't support any of these "think of the children" laws though, because basically the government wants to use it as a backdoor to track everyone and their cat on social media.
That might explain the angle as well. It seems to me that someone ramming a barricade would likely do so at a perpendicular angle.
Not OP but these evaluations should be taken with a huge grain of salt. It's almost impossible to rule out data leakage of open datasets such as HumanEval.
> Steam Punk

Cyber Punk?
Copyright police with armed units.
That is indeed not the case here, as both systems I discuss are Turing complete.
Same experience which lead Java to change from feature-based release cycle to time-based release cycle later. Make regular releases, everything that is ready gets included, everything else can go onto the next train. Far better.
If you don't think you will be living there in 5 years, you probably shouldn't have bought the place, as the up to 10% or more transaction costs will eat you alive.
I think that what the GP is saying is that they could each be correct, individually, but not all collectively.
This must be a really dark glitch in the matrix, that the greatest(?) real life villain in Nintendo's History has the same name as the greatest fictional villain of Nintendo's most well known franchise. And on top of it, he is a Canadian, while Nintendo USA has also a High Ranking worker of the name Bowser, but he is a good guy. Which is very opposite to the usual fame of people from Canada and USA.
>flow batteries

Not a type of fuel. The only advantage is that they're easy for hobbyists to build. Otherwise it's just a battery with more stuff that can break.
Could the lack of sunshine play a major role? I grew up in Florida and have sisters, they spent time outdoors and I did not. We’re now in our 30s and my skin looks the best.

I don’t have a good diet, but I do avoid the sun and alcohol. I also have an extremely basic skincare routine (exfoliate twice a week, use moisturizer every night).

I don’t doubt diet plays a role but there’s a giant flaming ball outside that gives people radiation burns, if you live closer to the equator your chance of getting radiation burns increase.
> Nevertheless, good human output always add something new and original to the elements that are derived from prior art.

My personal opinion is that even the new and original elements are derivative. Once a creation derives from a sufficiently large number of sources - some unrelated, such as being inspired by music when painting - you consider it original and new, and once the space of experiences and current inputs you derive from grow sufficiently large and chaotic - including in particular that inputs and outputs become experiences, forming a feedback loop currently lacking in machine learning - you get what we consider "free thought" . That's at least the model I believe in.

> Without an ability to select like a human, which from the possible random combinations is more suitable to achieve a purpose, or ...

Untrained humans do not have this ability. It takes training to identify and categorize things. For example, my mother may appreciate a photo that most people would consider "good", but does not have the practice needed to either frame the scene herself or select the best framing to be deemed "good". At the same time, others might outright dislike the same picture - "good" is not exact in the first place.

I see no reason to believe that our models could do this as well or better than us. If an LLM generates reasonable responses, it must already have applied a standard of "best fitting". It is just not a distinct step, just like how we are not manually filtering our thoughts as we say them.
I remember reading how the patent applies to the pen and not the molecule. Apparently, the production of the hormone itself isnt incredibly tough, its mostly the pen thats problematic; it is meant to be really easy to apply and thus is hard to produce. But I dont understand why having more competitors trying to replicate your pen would be a bad idea. Those treatments are horribly expensive, so competition is more than welcome imo.
Weight of the car is not as big of a factor as people think. Per the IIHS, the size of crumple zones actually may have more impact than the weight: https://www.iihs.org/topics/vehicle-size-and-weight

That might suggest that a car like a Tesla which is very heavy but can't crush very much thanks to the battery has an unclear safety benefit, but a truck does.

Realistically, practically nobody is going to get into a fatal crash anyway, though, so if you honestly attempt to price the difference in safety, you may come out to a few dollars. Certainly not enough to justify buying an SUV over a civic.
> keeping otherwise usable hardware out of landfills

while i like this idea in theory, in practice the energy efficiency and lower electricity costs of newer hardware mean that in terms of both cost and environmental impact it would probably be better to recycle the old hardware and buy something new in most cases.
If this is real, please hit up ICE C3 [1]. They specialize in investigations for this type of thing, specifically sexual exploitation and trafficking.

[1] - https://www.ice.gov/partnerships-centers/cyber-crimes-center
We also like making sure there’s sufficient energy to power the world.
>simply remove the fiat, and let the market take over again.

You should look into what the US financial system was like before the Civil War. It was wild. The government issued gold coins. But most people's day-to-day currency was paper money issued by individual banks. Each bank issued its own notes, with their own design. In theory they were redeemable for gold, but in that era of low/no bank regulation, banks often failed, leaving the currency worthless.

People issued books detailing the design of each of the banknotes and estimates of the solvency of each bank. Counterfeits were a huge problem.

Of course, news traveled more slowly in those days, so the further you got from an issuing bank, the less anyone could trust the notes. If you tried to spend your home bank's notes out of state, you'd get pennies on the dollar.

Seems like an incredibly inefficient system to go back to. And one which still wouldn't stop the federal government from borrowing.
I am not saying you should use Unicode symbols in your code... What I am saying is that not knowing how to read greek alphabet, a corner stone of math and physics, does not bode well for someone working on cryptography algorithms, arguably one of the most practical uses of math.
Sure, but the answer there is to marry a billionaire.

And, I never met Susan who ran YouTube, but I have heard she's very capable.
Interestingly, I’m not particularly young (approaching 40), and can’t stand living in the suburbs (where I moved, from a city, last year). I feel so completely trapped, unfree, and dependent on my car, it’s ridiculous. I’ll be eating a $40k+ loss on this house purchase to move back asap, and it will be worth it.

I find the ability to walk to my library or grocery store infinitely more freeing than having to buckle in to my car and drive to my destination. I like being able to hop on my bicycle and get out of the city, without having to navigate suburban style 45mph stroads. I like the actual peace and quiet as opposed to the leaf blower brigade firing up at 7am. This suburban lifestyle ain’t for me.
Same. It's almost like an allergic reaction. As soon as I perceive a hint of "AI" origin I feel a strong aversion. Probably some uncanny valley dynamic, plus the sense of over saturation with "content" in general, where AI in particular contributes nothing of value.
Always seemed odd to me that House was even able to think clearly while high all the time, much less do his job at such a high level.
Astro 4.3
EVs are heavier but by far the heaviest vehicles sold by volume are ICE SUVs and trucks. This should be a neutral measure based on the risky attribute since heavier vehicles are more dangerous to everyone regardless of the power source.
Have you ever tried to rent a car for long trips? To rent a minivan is $100/day and my vacation is going to cover several days. My mom lives 300 miles away - close enough to make this trip over a weekend every month. The savings in rental costs more than half the payment on a new minivan, and with your plan I'd still need to pay for the EV I use most days.

Rental cars also have damage clauses. When I own it I don't worry about what my kids are doing to the car - as anyone with kids knows they will do something.
> I've got an abstraction that I think in that then needs to be translated to code. e.g. if I want to append to a list, I think "push to list", regardless of language/framework/whatever. Then somehow my hands will translate that automatically to code in the language I'm working in. If I'm not in my usual editing environment, that magic just sort of breaks, and I just look incompetent.

Thank you for putting all of that into words that I can look at and go: that's exactly how my brain works!

I don't think everyone has that issue or can understand it. I think in more abstract terms (the problem and how to solve it) and more often than not the syntax is just an implementation detail that I prefer to increasingly outsource to my tooling.
Fantastic project, I use it with ntfy.sh and it really makes things easier.

I wish it supported Jami messages though, but Jami is somewhat hard to do programmatically on Ubuntu, the DBus doesn't seem to cross between Snaps.
Batteries are a major part of the cost of an electric car. If you spent $100k on an electric car that had a 100 mile range, it must be a Maybach.

It would be much more realistic in this scenario for the electric car to be $30k, in which case you can earn interest on the $20k not spent, and have plenty of money to rent a car when you need it.
I think you misinterpreted their comment. It's not that only people who use Unicode characters should be doing crypto math. It's that if you're doing crypto math, you certainly know what the symbols mean since they're used in the original specification, so reading the code shouldn't be a problem.
Oof, I didn't know that the sexual violence bit was autobiographical...
In the 80s & 90s, many people feared that violence in video games, movies & music would desensitise young people to violence and lead to an increase in crime.

But the exact opposite happened. The generation who murdered and robbed their way through the streets of San Andreas committed much less IRL crime than their parents generation.
I don't think having extensive tests makes it possible to change anything.

Much of the work of a programmer is splitting up problems in to chunks that can easily fit into our very limited bulbs. This article highlights that there are two aspects to this; one is the one widely known, which is using appropriate abstractions to reduce complexity of any isolated part of the program; but the other part is keeping the changes at a manageable scale. To me this sounds like a very valid and potentially underapprechiated part of working on code with other people involved.
> What is the causal connection you are talking about?

↑ Saturated fats > ↑ LDL > ↑ Cardiovascular Disease

We have mendelian (genetic) studies that attest the causality of this link, ie. people who are naturally born with low LDL have less CVD. Not sure why you think this is not a compelling narrative.
William Gibson is the father of Cyberpunk, not Steam Punk.

Though if Gibson is the father, I might say Bester is the grandfather.
I just checked Wikipedia, and was surprised to see the original DSL only had releases for about 3.5 years.

> Though it may seem comparably ridiculous that 700MB is small in 2024 when DSL was 50MB in 2002

If you go all the way back to 2002, 50 MB for an old computer wasn't that small. I bought a new computer with 192 MB of RAM as late as 2005. My 32-bit, $400 discount laptop from 2009 has 4 GB of RAM, so 700 MB is reasonable.
It appears to work for them, but they have also relatively mild weather, much better than in my city for example.
gopherus is a decent, low resource, console-able, gopher client.
MessageBird rebrands as Bird, and slashes prices by 90% on SMS to take on Twilio
Looks like it's limited for Graphql ?
I think the contextual clues are enough to correctly interpret the current wording.
>recycle the old hardware and buy something new in most cases.

Completely agree, other than nobody is willing to recycle the hardware in any environmentally friendly way. So "recycle" pretty much just means "send it to some poor country who is perfectly fine polluting their ecosystem to pull anything valuable from the junk".
Yeah well, that's the cost of the Austrian welfare state and the "m'uh most livable city in the world" which is only so livable if you're on cheap social housing instead of paying private market rates.

And now the people expect even more handouts from the state to combat the insane inflation and the higher consumer prices than in Germany and even higher corporate and "high-icome" taxes to fund it all because that's what people vote for, whichever party promises more handouts and getting rid of foreigners, so say goodbye to all the skilled workers ever thinking about moving there to pay taxes.

The country is going down the drain and the rats are leaving the sinking ship. Last one to leave please turn off the lights.
Intel was literally at $25 in February last year, that's the 10-years-ago stock price.

Intel's P/E was about 50 at that time, AMD was over 1000. That's "throwing in the towel" in as pointed of a way that the market can possibly do.
I had never heard of Post Traumatic Growth until this week, when I noticed several people mention the phrase. A related concept I found fascinating is Positive Disintegration.

> The theory views psychological tension and anxiety as necessary for personal growth.

> These "disintegrative" processes are "positive", whereas people who fail to go through positive disintegration may stop at "primary integration", possessing individuality but nevertheless lacking an autonomous personality and remaining impressionable.

> Entering into disintegration and subsequent higher processes of development occurs through developmental potential, including over-excitability and hypersensitivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_disintegration
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I don't think that is the case, especially not in Japan which was in the middle of heavy investment in AI via the FGCS. FGCS ran from 1982 - 1992 and promoted both hardware and software research into the development of high performance concurrent prolog systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst...
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Damn this isn't a name I haven't heard in a decade.

Left PC repair in 2012, but always loved this tool, made dealing with really busted Windows installs tolerable.
Avoid exhaustive switch case in API clients
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