skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much this. But there is a fine line somewhere in there. I have seen and admittedly worked on such projects where time constraints simply do not allow you to polish all bits and pieces. That's perfectly reasonable during POC/early development stages and if anything, I encourage it: Writing hundreds of tests when all requirements change three times a day is incredibly counter-productive, slow you down and eventually burn you out. It may happen that crappy is much better than shiny, polished and over complicated if the project itself is not going to scale any further than it already has. And once you get a more complete picture of what the end goals are, then you can go back and gradually start doing things "the right way". But I've also been in another extreme. Take my old job for instance, which despite my at the time cognitive dissonance, I hated to a large degree because of this: relatively early stage with ever-changing requirements, endless dependencies, brutally unstable setup for development where deploying a single pod in minikube was a terrifying prospect because everything was hanging by a thread and rebuilding the cluster took hours. That was made even worse by dozens of forked open source projects that were patched left and right to fit the needs, lagging years behind the original projects, wild dependencies between repos, no real observability over what was going on, the version control was catastrophically packed with auto-generated code(like 80% or more) which was made worse by the fact that everything was git push --force so they don't have to deal with conflicts. Imagine having to explain that this practice should be avoided in nearly all cases. In a nutshell imagine crappy code and infrastructure which pretends to be and is sold as an enterprise grade software. I guess cognitive dissonance was a common theme in the company since everyone was under the impression that everything is perfect. Which couldn't have been further from the truth.
That depends on what you mean by deregulate. There's a lot of simplification through the single market and free movement of labor.
People in the EU don't equate "communist" to "evil", or even to "wants everything to be like the USSR".

Recently in the EU, foreign (also Russian and Chinese) interference has been more visible in parties on the political right. More generally, I would assume any party to be roughly equally susceptible to corruption and foreign influence, absent strong measures and procedures to find and prevent them, regardless of where it finds itself on the political spectrum.
Yes but the state should know everything.
Several of these apps currently have end-to-end encryption, which means that no, they aren't scanned. Even if they were, what a state can do with them (falsely accuse me of heinous crimes) is a lot more dangerous than what a corporation is likely to do with them (show me different ads).

> Pretty much all of the blackmailing scams that drove teenagers to suicide were being perpetuated from outside the country that the victim was living in

The recent cases in the Netherlands (where I live) were all Dutch perpetrators.

Anyway, this technology won't catch that -- sending nude pictures is, after all, both perfectly legal and very common. The scanning software can't know that the picture is sent to somebody only acting as a boyfriend rather than an actual boyfriend.

I can see the point of a database of known child porn pictures. The phone app could keep a database of hashes of those exact files, and check for them.

Other than that, I don't see what good automatic scanning can possibly do, and there is a HUGE potential for abuse.
Drilling 2 meters down for samples on the moon is pretty impressive. I believe there are also some samples lying around Mars ready for pickup and return in a few years. I'm far less excited and more worried about Artemis, it's so clearly the wrong approach smh
> everybody just opts-in to everything all the time, just to make the thing go away.

I actually bother to decline those things.

So, not everybody. Your statistics are off by at least one.
For me it feel just like smoke screen rather than genuine intention to help child abuse. Is child abuse from predators such a big problem to variant all population being under radar? Most likely predators are not even 0.1% of population.

It would be better instead to empower and educate parents with tools to protect their children rather than outsourcing to government or public companies.
Is there any hard data on what you refer to as "the cookie banner madness"? Personally, I click 'refuse' on every banner that pops up. They're not all that annoying, so I'm not sure that "everybody" opts-in to "everything all the time"
if this is real, that is sad from vercel and sad for all the lunatics that listen to him. we move this yelling crap from politics to programming.
Newspapers and TV news had the same problem? Perhaps social media has amplified the problem but I don't think it's a new phenomenon.
> “you’re not going to change until the pain of change is less than the pain of staying the same.”

A thought I have had in the past also, I think it is very true.
The main cause of warping is inadequate supports and/or unfortunate angles you place the part with. Remember you have both gravity and separation force pulling on the part each cycle, unlike with FDM.

Align the bed, clean it thoroughly with alcohol before printing and increase base exposure. Make sure there is no debris in the vat. It'll stick.

All printer resins are variation of acrylic and you have to design your parts with material limitations considered. However there's a range of premium resins for performance prints, look into Henkel Loctite or BASF offerings. We use BASF RG 35 and RG 9400 for small volume production parts. Also, make sure you do not overexpose: print an exposure target for any new resin to zero out the settings.

Supports are certainly unavoidable but are largely a skill issue. After hundreds of prints it takes me minutes to depanel very elaborate designs.
No way of searching by location? Or technology?
Pretty sure Signal currently can't look at my photos that I send to friends. So that part is wrong. AFAIK WhatsApp is also encrypted. But I don't know if they can see the photos server side.
But you are not actually learning anything while doomscrolling.
Very likely, and self-hosting too. I imagine some sort of licensing system eventually.
> It would be better instead to empower and educate parents with tools to protect their children

Do we think that CSAM comes from poor parenting? That the parent's didn't do enough?
I give it 6 months before someone goes to trial for sharing AI-generated CP and is acquitted.
I did that trickery and it works: https://github.com/AdrianVollmer/Zundler

(I had to fix the mime type detection and I'll have to push that fix to PyPI, so use the main branch if you want to try it yourself.)

Unfortunately, since we have to ship it with the gzip lib pako.js, the size more than quadruples to 77kb, so no QR code with this approach. Maybe I should look into making compression optional.
It’s absurd to suggest that users of an e2ee chat service can reasonably expect the government to “take a look” at the pictures they share. Software should have no such backdoors. This law does nothing to dissuade criminals but it does degrade the privacy expectations of regular people who are not suspected of any wrongdoing.
My take:

Unix utilities are stand alone and used as needed for specific tasks. They hardly change much, have no data persistence, usually no config persistence other than runtime params, and don't know about or call each other directly.

Microservices are moving parts in a complex evolving machine with a higher purpose that can and do affect each other.
Ignoring the fact that TFA is about the EU and not the US, can you elaborate on what you mean by that? Everyone is more authoritarian?
>a power plant for a major airline

an airline owns power plant?
This is a naive view of the matter.

These proposals keep returning because there are legitimate concerns that are being left unadressed by industry self-regulation.

When nobody wants to have a conversation about good measures, politicians are going to try again, even the new ones.

It is sincerely horrifying what the reckless deployment of generative AI is doing in this space. And it's all dismissed as "Well you can't stop math anyway so we're not going to do anything" and (implicitly) "The ends justify the means, sacrificing a few children is worth it to get AGI". These are terrible optics.

If tech does not hold itself accountable, privacy is going to die sooner or later. The politicians need only win once.
When responsible people with power feel powerless

In other words, the problem is these peoples' insatiable power addiction.
It's the "precession of the equinoxes", not the "procession of the equinoxes".
- "As O'Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped."

- "Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue."

- "'You can turn it off!' he said."

- "'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.'"
Its literally how politicians do their job without having to be an expert in the field.

You'll be gobsmacked by how few financial ministers have a background in economics.
I tried some BIOS flashing with an Arduino Uno I had, a level shifter to 3.3V, and a SOIC clip from AliExpress. I had tons of issues connecting to the chip, so I moved to an old RPi I had laying around, and it just worked flawlessly, every time. I assume it was the level shifter but I can't be sure
It is the first ever far-side sample-return mission ever (and I think only the second far-side landing at all, the first being Chang'e 4 in 2019), so there's certainly some non-trivial element of "doing something no one has done before".

And the far side is somewhat geologically (selenologically?) different to make that a useful scientific thing rather than solely for bragging rights, not that those aren't in the calculus with these things.

Chang'e 7 will be pretty interesting as it's going to Shackleton crater, which is a hypothetised water source (though evidence of surface ice is pretty weak) and has never been explored other than orbitally and an impactor from Chandrayaan-1.
Yes, I can roam freely in all the Union's states, use the same currency in most of them, use my cellphone with no roaming costs, have access to health care if needed... that's the result of imposing less regulation, not more.
But no, really, where are you finding this lucrative work?
> It takes up brain space.

It is a strange modern metaphor to think of our brains as hard drives that fill up.

The precious resource is your time and attention invested (another odd metaphor), not the "capacity" of your brain.
BDFALAISM

Beneficial Dictator For As Long As It Suits Me

:)
Derek Sivers – Books I've read
I'm seriously surprised by seeing Erdogan and "strong leader" together.
Notable that I can't find any reviews that directly compare the performance of this $4500 printer to one of the higher-end consumer resin printers available today for $500. What are you getting to justify the massively higher price? With the laser + galvo setup it was clear, but now that it's also LCD is the print quality better? Speed better? Reliability? Build quality? All of these have improved massively from the Chinese brands in the last couple years so I really hope Formlabs isn't planning to coast on their brand name.
Russia has given up "communism" as an economic policy. The soviet union, however, generally seems to be seen quite positively by the current political establishment.
I think the first thing to me is that I don't feel I'm giving a reason why I should trust you with my financial data. Banks, I have to because it's my bank. Investment services like Charles Schwab they are large, well respected fiduciaries which have legal obligations with respect to my money and information.

Are you an licensed accountant or other similar licensed/bonded profession? It really just looks. Like some guy doing this and that doesn't inspire confidence. It's great to say that things are secure and encrypted but everybody gets hacked and servers must decrypt data to use it. It's also nice the you say you never sell data, but we've all been lied to too many times.

Partnering with a actual accounting institution I think would give more credibility.
The first proposal got rejected on the commitee stage, see https://edri.org/our-work/eu-parliament-committee-rejects-ma... and https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231110IP...

The might be a list of votes there somewhere.
>This is just annoying

That's the most positive take you can have on this.
I think there is a close limit considering most of these gains are coming from the reduced memory bandwidth consumption that comes with the smaller data types. This would line up with Nvidia’s crazy graph from yesterday where data types were specified.

How much lower can these go though? 2bit? 1.58bit? 1bit? It seems that these massive gains have a very hard stop to gains that AMD and Nvidia will use to raise their stock price before it all comes to a sudden end.
In theory, only the network boundary. Which allows you to independently scale different parts of the system

In practice, a way of splitting work up between teams. Also it makes it easier to figure out who to blame if something breaks. Also a convenient unit for managerial politics

So because manager X "owns" microservice Y, it's going to stay around so that they have something to manage. Over time the architecture mirrors the organization
Yes, but...

Depends how you use it too. I have trained mine to only show me standup comedy skits. There is no live standup shows in my neck of the woods, but once or twice a month I do get entertainment value out of it that I would not get from other media.
Atos embattled French IT firms weighs rescue deals
Except for a usable UI.
How to Spot a State-Funded Chinese Internet Troll
It's even worse in Europe from what I can tell. The shift took me by surprise, but a decade or so a go I noticed people around me were becoming increasingly authoritarian and pro-surveillance.

Today I'm in a very clear minority today and I think for now that trend will only continue.
They're aren't responsible. They've convinced a lot of people to pay them a fortune over their lives to be responsible, but they aren't. The perpetrators are responsible.
The cellular carriers very obviously already have a system like this for location tracking.

Their tower dumps contain enough metadata to determine all the people who spend most workdays at office buildings in McLean Virginia. And then, of course, where those people sleep (i.e. charge their phones) at night. It takes positive effort to erase that data, and believe me, it's being erased. The powerful people don't want it to exist.

So yeah, there is already a system for doing this kind of thing. It will be extended. Plebs like you and me don't get to use it.
I see the discussion of instruction fusion for AVX512 in Intel chips. Can someone explain the clock speed drop?
I mean... technically that is a new regulation. Some Polish providers already didn't have roaming fees in EU before that.
Apple and Google could provide devices or OS versions that disable these features, which could be issued as work phones to military and security personnel.

Not saying it’s a perfect solution, but they might consider it a “95% good enough” solution.
Yup. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
M*R^2 is understandable but what's this raised to 5th power stuff in rho*r^5? And is this lowercase r the same as the uppercase R?
If you give an app access to your photos, it can do whatever it wants with them. Even if the normal operation is end-to-end encrypted, the app could still upload straight from your photo library to servers.

I'm not saying this is happening. In Meta's case, I simply assume that they at least collect meta information on your photos, such as GPS coordinates to build a better ad profile of you. I might be wrong, but maybe not. That's why I don't give WhatsApp access to my photo library.
EP is a fundamentally a weaker body than its name suggests. The European Council can keep proposing pretty much the same law over and over again until they get a pliant EP that will accept it.

Once accepted, it's almost impossible to repeal the law by the EP because they will need the approval of the EC and Council of the EU, both of which have members that are not directly elected by the people. EC and Council of the EU is also that body which so far has proven to be far more authoritarian in it's approach.

So, the parent is largely correct.
Why does this read like a child defending his dad before other children? Propaganda and nationalist ideology really makes people sound like children. Liberals prediction of china's economic collapse is especially funny, you have predicted china's imminent collapse for decades, at some point you should realize that western "economics" is a faith-based cult that can't predict anything.
China isn't the global military hegemon. They see themselves as inheritors of the position, but they're not it currently and they are the beneficiaries of the fact the US is - i.e. the US Navy is the size it is because that provides guarantees against piracy, which is an expense the Chinese have not had to pay to enjoy the trade boone a shipping economy to the US benefits from.

It's a mistake to compare the US and China's decisions like-for-like, because they're two countries with very different strategic situations and thus opportunities (i.e. China benefits from the US's middle east involvement via a number of means, namely though that stable oil prices are of a huge benefit because oil is a fungible commodity - there's no such thing as "having your own supply" unless you're literally at war and under a command economy - and at that point you're paying for that in a large number of other ways).
All resin printers have converged to the same tech years ago for good reasons. The differences are mostly aesthetic.
All of these are cases where EU was removing state regulations in favor of their own regulations. I don't think this falls under deregulation at all, it's just centralization.
Not all of it, for sure, but certainly some amount of it. Most perpetrators of child sexual abuse are close to the child, either family members or authority figures (priests, teachers, etc). I expect at least some amount of CSAM originates from these places as well, that the child's parents absolutely had the power (and responsibility) to stop.

Of course, a lot of it comes from major organized crime networks that parents are powerless against. But that then falls under the incidence of more regular police investigations to stop and curtail. You don't need to monitor everyone's chat history to be able to find and dismantle a crime ring.
Only reason I sometimes say I'm a programmer is because developer sounds like I work for an NGO
The author's X account[1] and associated posts are decidedly Chinese, so it's a valid inquiry.

[1]: https://x.com/ccbikai
Isn't CAMM2 providing higher bandwidth? MOBOs with CAMM2 for AMD are already popping up.
If you make a law that cancels a previous one, it's still a new law, but if you want to measure "regulation", it is less?
I don't think they have this filter. I can only see role, job type and experience. But I think having location and technology filter will be a good addition.
Sadly, "end-to-end encryption" by itself does not guarantee what happens before content is encrypted or after it is decrypted, meaning Facebook can easily spy on your private stuff by sending the data out via a side channel. There's also nothing stopping them from running an AI model on your (still-unencrypted) data before they send it.

I agree with you that we shouldn't consider communications platforms as "voluntary" anymore. In my opinion, that means we want to hold them to stricter regulation, like we do with utilities like electrical companies. I wonder if that could actually be used as a an argument in favor of moving the content scanning from what Facebook is already doing towards a government agency. At least in theory, it should be easier for the public to hold a government agency accountable, than for example Facebook's moderation team.

I appreciate your slippery slope argument and I agree. Allowing the existence of these tools places a large amount of trust in governments. But to me, it looks like the only alternative is to trust private companies who already are doing such scanning. And to me, that seems even worse.
Interesting!

I just tried your tool. I asked people in the US who they'd rather work for and put five images of Musk, Zuck, Bezos, Cook and Huang. I guess the ranking mode does pairwise comparisons of the images if I interpret the resulting .json file correctly.

This what I got (win rates):

1. Elon Musk (67.7%)
2. Mark Zuckerberg (52.5%)
3. Tim Cook (51.6%)
4. Jensen Huang (46.4%)
5. Jeff Bezos (31.4%)

(also as a bar plot here: https://imgur.com/a/M0NDD6Z)

Took me a while to figure out the UI though...
It isn't faster than cursive. I think even when you're used to it it will be dramatically slower. Except the four vowels, every letter is more intricate, many involve multiple strokes, and most start with or leave your pen on the wrong side.
> So they explain it to people as being able to catch criminals, but they known it won’t work against that?

Why a law is enacted is more complex than just the here and now. Some of these law-and-order types dream of the day they can order Apple or Samsung to completely lock down their smartphones and forbid any user controlled cryptography. Some just want to be able to feel that they are doing everything in their power to prevent children from being harmed, even if the measures only cover naive users. Some just want people to know that they are being watched, and have these laws act as deterrent.

And as a bonus: some parents really like the idea that none of their children or any of their mates are sharing (their own) underage nudes and that this is enforced automatically.

The law will likely work for some of these points, to some extent. It's still a bad law, but the people pushing it aren't idiots; just dangerous.
I think it's no surprise that it might appear like that.

For me, I found the way EU handles food safety as opposed to the US to be a great summary of their philosophies: in EU a food needs to be proven to be safe to be allowed, while in the US the food needs to be proved unsafe to be banned.
AFAIK, astronomers use Julian DATES. It's related but not the same as the Julian calendar.
" People in the EU don't equate "communist" to "evil", Actually they do it if you step out of your left wing Western European buble.

" Recently in the EU, foreign (also Russian and Chinese) interference has been more visible in parties on the political right. " It also clearly visible on the Left (in Germany Wagenknecht, die Linke, in France le francais insoumni, every Communist and Left populist party I am aware of) but I guess somebody on this thread has to be step out of its buble.
> privacy is going to die sooner or later. The politicians need only win once.

If privacy dies, it ends creativity, civil society and funding for politicians. That scenario would be painful, but self-correcting. On the other side, something new can be born.

Note: "privacy" is not a car that can be stolen once. Like freedom, it is infinitely divisible, and even those who have lost 99% will keep fighting for what little remains. There are countless examples in history, independent of temporal technology minutiae.
Maybe it was written by the AI CEO of an AI CEO as a service company. Very effective.
Late stage sexual revolution.
Usually consent is one click and decline is a lot of extra clicks, if at all available. I just consent to everything and employ a Firefox extension that clears all cookies and site data when a tab is closed.