skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two parts to this:

1) On the technical side, Telegram groups operate more like a bulletin board, content is posted and can be fetched over and over again, a bulletin board owner can be compelled to remove material and if non-cooperating considered to be facilitating. Signal is more like a conversation in the town-square or a letter box of sealed envelopes. Once the content is fetched, it's gone. If signal is made aware that certain envelopes contain material that needs to be removed, I'm sure they would do so provided they still possess them.

2) On the non-technical side, many countries have crimes that are all about who knew what and when did they know it and could that have acted (or did they have a duty to do so). Facilitating, accessory, accessory after the fact call it what you will but that's more of a legal / philosophical argument to be had about the legal system in general rather than telegram specifically. A situation were telegram was made aware of illegal activity and was hosting said content in the clear and did nothing is manifestly different from a case where those facts did not exist, in most legal systems.
spread it around, everybody knows someone with depression and if 30% of ppl respond to change in diet you'll improve the world a lot
How to verify boot firmware integrity if you prioritize neutralizing Intel ME?
It was difficult to make a title because of char limit.

when you use me_cleaner to neutralize intel ME, it also removes TPM. TPM is required for boot verification technologies like Heads or AEM. So you can't use Heads/AEM and me_cleaner, you have to choose one and in this case we choose to prioritize me_cleaner.

Heads: https://osresearch.net/
me_cleaner: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

Then the question becomes, what do you personally do to protect your computers boot firmware? There are many ways you can do that such as the popular glitter nailpolish technique. The problem with that technique is you need a good camera with a firm stand so you can take the before and after pictures at the exact same distance and place to compare them. It's also quite a lot of work to do that every single time you leave your computer which could be several times every day. AEM is also most popular to use when traveling and when traveling, having all that extra equipment with you is a problem.

What else? Maybe a secret camera without any internet connection capability which you can place somewhere in the room with the computer and that way you can know if someone was inside the room and if they did anything with the computer. The camera would have to record to a local storage like a micro sd card and you overwrite all data on that card every day so you won't need too much storage capacity. And maybe the camera only activates on movement triggered then its even easier to quickly check if there's any video when you come back to your computer. You would also need to be sure that the adversary doesnt replace the camera so you dont know its not your camera anymore or if they can erase the video files before they leave like hackers who erase logs. What do you think about that?

Another idea is a container for the computer. The container can of course be destroyed easily but then you will at least know they did something with the computer. But you would need a container that the evil maid can't go get a duplicate of or have one manufactured so they can replace the container after destroying original one.

Same problem with a sticker on the screws to open up the laptop, they could get a duplicate sticker to replace yours. I also heard there are ways to remove a sticker and then put it back again.

Practically I think camera technique is best to use on daily basis because its effective and relatively simple but maybe in some situations you have to gamble by using a container or sticker.

And then you also need to check your firmware once in a while even if you don't suspect anything. I'm not sure the best way to do that because I've read it is practically impossible to know if rom has been maliciously modified. So its probably not enough to simply dump the rom and do a diff against the rom you flashed. Maybe you just have to redo the flash again not knowing if it was necessary or not.
Can't speak to the other 49 states, but California does have a legal requirement for taking time off to vote on Election Day. We also have polling stations that are open in the days before the election so I was able to simply vote on a Saturday morning in the last election which feels like a solid policy.
What is the primary source of the bacteria? Is it somehow the vagina/labia itself?

It seems C-section would have about as much overall fluid exchange, if not more.
Yes I am really interested in good use-cases, send me an e-mail at kaspermarstal@gmail.com! It’s called Cellm, implemented with ExcelDna and is fully functional for Anthropic models. Currently preparing the repo for public release and writing some docs.
I worry that making voting a holiday or putting it on the weekend would lead to LESS turnout. If you give vacation-starved Americans an extra day off, many of them will just take a day off instead of using it for its intended purpose. Also: it’s not like all businesses would close- the white collar folks would get a day off, but all the retail/service people would still need to work.

A better solution is to expand and require early voting periods. Give people 1-2 weeks to stop by and vote. It gives maximum flexibility and keeps lines short.
Huh, I was going to point out that the Signal server isn't Free Software either, since for a while it wasn't being published, but it seems they have gotten back into publishing it.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
> the reality is that we can no longer allow any of these companies to control who does and who doesn't get access. getting access must be a right that mustn't be denied to you if you choose to use it.

A right to an account on web platforms? Okay... does that apply to every single platform, or only those of a certain size? What size? What about people using the platform to spam, harass, or threaten other users?

> or, better, all major messaging systems should be made interoperable so that you can stay in touch without needing an account there.

This is a far more reasonable take, though still not probably viable.
but what if H0 = Hewlett Packard did not plan to eliminate Mike Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain...
Despite never having seen any CSAM, and despite my terrible drawing skills, I could probably draw something that would qualify as CSAM.
That shouldn't the USA as there are more people moving from there to Germany than vice versa.
Wallpaper Symmetries
Er, the killer apps were word-processing and spreadsheets, dude.

The Internet is nice, but the PC Revolution happened long before it.
Absolutely this. Only trust phds from top schools practitioners of evidence based therapies. Unfortunately there is a lot of quality dilution in the field and good practitioners don’t get reimbursed any more than quacks
This looks exactly like it was copy pasted output from a LLM that was instructed to parse that post.

What is the point here?
See also:
https://www.scaleway.com/

They have three zones, Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw.

Not sure if they have a free tier, but I still pay about 1€/month for two (really) small instances that I used for testing their service (and kept around for personal stuff).
Everything you could want to know is here [1].

Basically, you request a mail-in ballot. You are checked to see if you're registered to vote. If you are, one is sent to you. You fill it in and mail it back by the required date.

You sign a declaration on that mail-in ballot. When the votes are counted, your details and your signature are physically checked. If they're accepted, your ballot is added to the pile, basically.

So your ballot isn't associated with your name but the envelope it came in is.

There are lots of checks on integrity for this sort of thing. Monitors from the major parties who can object to whether a signature matches that which is on file and so on.

[1]: https://whenweallvote.org/voting101/votebymail/
Seasonal leveling would be done by combining solar/wind (which tend to have opposite seasonality) and by use of overprovisioning and production of e-fuels, like hydrogen.

To see how this would work, go to https://model.energy/ and find optimal solutions for synthesized constant output using solar, wind, batteries, and hydrogen storage. The cost optimizing solutions are found vs. real historical weather data.
This is super interesting to me as I have been focused on picking up Emacs and Common Lisp this year for my own freelance and startup workloads. Would you ping me or reply here if you do end up open sourcing this?
Mostly agree with this. In my heart of hearts I truly believe many problems are best left to be abstractions and not "explored." When you explore your problems, you dwell on them and when you dwell on them, you're often not in a good place.

It is all anecdotal of course but like you, I notice that my friends and family that constantly go to therapy never seem to get better... and often times worse. I don't think its a case of correlation either, I think they've just made a mountain out of molehill.

Now, I do want to say there are _many_ people that absolutely need therapy. I think if you just can't function, you need professional help. That shouldn't be discouraged.
It's no different than the logic behind medication regulation. Some substances are known to induce bad/undesirable/harmful behavior and need to have access restricted. There may be a scientific argument about whether or not the argument is correct in this particular case, but the legal paradigm is sound.

Yes, basically. You can absolutely criminalize fake images.
Yes, maybe I have experienced something similar in my research area in machine learning. Fundamentally, the best people of the best labs use the same tools in roughly the same ways as I do, there's no set of magical secret tools on that tier. They also aren't really using any math I don't know about.

They just comprehend papers quite fast, understand what's relevant and what is not with great intuition, have a lot of prior work in their memory, have gone through lots of projects so they know how to approach the new problem, they are aware of what actually are interesting open questions, they have refined "research taste", (and of course stuff like understanding the academic system and how to make the most of it etc). But the day to day activity is not fundamentally different than for lower tier researchers. They just have better ideas, better overview, and better execution. When they explain it all in hindsight it appears simple and as if you could have done it too. And of course they also run up against bugs and hardware issues and big messes but often just plow through and grind it out because they can see the light at the end of the tunnel well.

It's kind of a bummer in a way. Life is just less magical than we imagine. When I was much poorer as a kid than now as an adult, I used to imagine that being rich must be so different. But actually people are just people, there is no discontinuity anywhere. I've flown business class and been to fancy dinners, it's not fundamentally different from taking a bus trip or throwing a student party at the dorm. The people talk about somewhat different subjects, or are more polite, but overall it's nothing that a poor person wouldnt be able to comprehend.

It also reminds me how there's no "arrival" in life. There's alsays a next thing to do. But for example as a student you think graduation is "making it" but then you realize it continues in somewhat different form, but it's now about acing job interviews and you think landing a job will be the goal line, but then you see it goes on and now you chase promotions and good evaluations and so on. Similar things about private life.
Hotglue: Unique tool for web publishing and internet
What exactly do you think this tells you?
> Surprisingly, the type wrapped by std::result::Result::Err doesn't need an Error bound:

None of the errors types I create implements the trait Error. I'm just using simple enums with various variants and that's sufficient for me. The crates that I develop are mostly binary crate [1] so implementing the trait Error is maybe more prevalent in libraries crate. Reading the article, it feels a little overkill to me. I like the simple, straightforward approach (the one that you learn in the Book). I don't use anyhow also, I actively try to limit the dependencies I'm using.

[1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
> and you knew about the illegal behavior

Your analogy is terrible and doesn’t make sense.

If you provide a service that is used for illegal behavior AND you know it’s being used that way AND you explicitly market your services to users behaving illegally AND the majority of your product is used for illegal deeds THEN you’re gonna have a bad time.

If one out of ten thousand people use your product for illegal deeds you’re fine. If it’s 9 out of 10 you probably aren’t.
Spotify, ASML, Hubspot, Dashlane, Ericsson, Siemens, Airbus etc. I can get behind with pride.

But SAP is a plague upon Earth and I often pretend that it is imaginary myth.
No new law is necessary. The PROTECT Act makes all sexually explicit imagery of a minor that does not have artistic or literary merit illegal to produce, distribute, or possess. It closes the "no actual children were involved, it's just fiction/cartoons" loophole.
What about people use the platform to spam, harass, or threaten other users?

those are a matter for a court to decide. noone should lose their account without due process.

in germany some law firms offer a service to help you get your account back with a well crafted letter from a lawyer
Low in pathogens, maybe, but high in pollutants such as diesel particulates, second hand cannabis, wildfire emissions, etc.
It’s not the degree that matters, it’s just that most people have no way to screen for properly trained practitioners of one of the above plans. A top school will be more likely to have trained the students in these plans correctly by experienced trainers
I believe some of it is from the rectum, which you wouldn’t get from a c-section.
It's typical for authoritarians, not specific to AI. There are laws hiding all over the place that make drawing pictures illegal. Another Florida Man, Mike Diana, was convicted and sentenced for his (absurdly far from pornography or realism) zine-comic book Boiled Angel, which had a circulation of 300.

For 3 years of probation, he was banned from drawing at all, even for personal use.

https://cbldf.org/2016/09/mike-diana-case-still-resonates-in...
> every access in the mapped region would be really slow.

Would certainly be slower. The compiler would need to be aware we want this behaviour and split the access in two parts, one to trigger the page read and yield to the app’s async loop, and another to resolve the read when the page has loaded. This would only need to happen for explicitly marked asynchronous memory reads (doing that without hardware support for all memory reads would be painful).
> Is it really child abuse if no children were involved?

The "harm" principle which is very popular these days to see if things are bad or good or punishable or not, I think it has a lot of problems. There are a lot of things that don't map onto this principle well. Social cohesion is a huge one. Something may not directly harm someone, but it can harm the fabric of society and many other things.
For example, Apache Iceberg is exactly this. Complete with bitemporal query support.
Not only that but them being stubborn and with a superiority complex. DACH companies rule EE with their capital and often manage to prototype and execute very much innovative features focused on convenience in the EE region (with local engineers etc). But this will never transform into something bigger because management wont allow non DACH people to assume executive roles + conservative market in their countries.
The Last Supper in 1993[4,5], is the likely root cause of all of this, in my opinion. It lead to the "feeding frenzy", a series of mergers.

Its my understanding that the actual "crushing blow" for Boeing was the merger with McDonnell-Douglas[1] in 1997, and the profit über alles management style[2] that they were infected with as a result.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism

[3] https://indi.ca/the-boeing-737-max-and-the-crash-of-capitali...

[4] https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/03/01/the-last-supper-how-...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper_(Defense_industry)
>I often wonder if therapy is "over prescribed" these days.

Relevant: "Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up" https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Therapy-Kids-Arent-Growing-ebook/...
On the subject of coincidences, I went to order one of the Strandbeest mini sets from this very website last week.

Unfortunately their virtual store is closed for a couple weeks more. I was prepared to place an order and wait, but on the website checkout page there was a random person's name as if I was checking out someone else's order. It's probably an innocent mistake, like a hard coded default value or something.

I like to support artists directly, and it was a bit disappointing that there was so much friction with the buying process.
Mike Diana: https://cbldf.org/2016/09/mike-diana-case-still-resonates-in...
> This seems like the Kim Dotcom situation again.

I'm not sure where this myth originated—perhaps from Kim Dotcom's Twitter account? I clearly remember the Megaupload case. They knew they were hosting pirated content, didn't delete it after requests[1], and shared money with the people who uploaded it because that was their business model.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/21/the-fasc...
And Scaleway (Online.net/Iliad). And Hetzner.
Sure thing! Also happy to just provide access to the repo as-is, just write if interested. But it's 20% duck tape and prayers, still.
I’ve spoken at length with individuals directly responsible for rehabilitation of such children. But of course if the facts go against the government narrative, the “studies” will not report them. Talk to people, not studies.

Do you have many cases of children being in homes where they have limited access to people speaking the national language? Do you talk to individuals who are directly responsible for teaching those folks the language?
> I just want to check up on what my friends and family are up to

Literally just call them. You don't even have to ask for permission. Cold call them. If they don't want to talk now, they won't answer. That's fine. Call again another time.

In the last year I have just started cold calling my friends and family. It's been great.
Like, say, whistle blowers, and journalists who speak out and reveal evidence of government crimes? Like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden?
Gros michel bananas went extinct 70 years ago - Now a fungus is trying with cavendish bananas.

Beats me why do journalists insist there's a single kind of banana.
Incorrect . Obscene material can be restricted in terms of its distribution and advertising. It is not an excuse to make it illegal to possess or distribute privately. This is why things like porn and vibrators are illegal to sell in stores in Texas, but you can still order it online.

The reason why child porn is illegal completely - not just restricted in its advertising and distribution - is because it's production necessarily involve abuse of actual children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_po...

> In response to Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, Congress passed the PROTECT Act of 2003 (also dubbed the Amber Alert Law) which was signed into law on April 30, 2003, by President George W. Bush.[126] The PROTECT Act adjusted its language to meet the parameters of the Miller, Ferber, and Ashcroft decisions. The Act was careful to separate cases of virtual pornography depicting minors into two different categories of law: child pornography law and obscenity law. In regards to child pornography law, the Act modified the previous wording of "appears to be a minor" with "indistinguishable from that of a minor" phrasing. This definition does not apply to depictions that are drawings, cartoons, sculptures, or paintings depicting minors or adults.

Now, there is an argument that if the fictional content is indistinguishable from real abuse, it may be illegal. But that could probably be circumvented by providing the inputs and seed to generate the image, rather than the image itself.

I'm not super motivated to defend AI generated child porn, but the notion of banning it introduces ambiguity. Actual child abuse material can be identified because the people involved were born on a specific date and so whether or not it's illegal has a clear threshold. But AI generated content is not so easy to distinguish. The fictional characters don't have a birth date, so whether or not it's illegal becomes a lot more subjective.
This is a common misunderstanding of the poorly-named “hygiene hypothesis”. For a fuller explanation of how immunologists think about this today, see this article: https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-08-13-crowds-vs-friends/

In short - viruses can actually harm your immune system and lead to long term problems. OTOH, we co-evolved with certain parasites that can help us.

Airborne pathogens are not likely to be the helpful type we’ve co-evolved with — they’re much more likely to be the type we’ve only had to deal with since the creation of higher density living and rapid long distance travel. Therefore air filters are likely to help children’s health both short and long term.
Yes but that's not "walled garden" that's just a feature they allowed users to turn on.
I suspect there's a number of factors:

If you are comparing to the population of the world as a whole, then I suspect that's because many people in poorer regions simply don't have access to therapy.

If you are comparing to wealthy industrialized nations (e.g. Western Europe and Scandinavia) then I suspect that America's lack of work life balance, lack of social safety net, repressive moral culture, high gun violence, etc. play a role.

I suspect that in some cultures people like pastors and family members play some of the role of therapists to a greater degree than in America.
Being born at home was fairly common in rural areas before the 1940s (cars and roads being more accessible). Even for white people.

I would be interested in the number of voters who have no birth certificate. Do you have sources?
Possibly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)
They had a scandal where they allowed the furry equivalent of child porn, and quietly banned that type of porn from the platform later on. I assume due to legal requirements.

Edit:

I think the lack of bulk reporting is a pain too. They used to ask for more context. One time I reported a literal nazi admin (swastika posting, racial slurs, and what have you), but the post was "months old" and they told me essentially to "go screw myself" they basically asked why I was in the server.
The big advantage to having in-person voting on a weekend is you greatly expand where you can have polling places. In Australia, for example, voting is on a Saturday and your local polling place is very likely to be a school.

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to take time off work. This is worse on a weekday. White collar workers may have that flexibility more often but if, say, you're a health professional, you're required to be there for your shift and that shift could be 24 hours or more. So you're going to have this problem regardless but it is worse on weekdays.

Likewise, it'll be easier to find people to man polling places on weekends.

Anyway, weekend voting is part of a comprehensive voting accessibility strategy, not the sole solution.
What a shame! This may stain Illinois otherwise spotless record of voting integrity through the decades.
Python 2 docs used to be greenish https://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/modules.html#intra-pack...