skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you implying that after the Italian mafia there were no more organised crime gangs in the US? There's a huge number of organised crime gangs nowadays; who do you think is distributing the drugs responsible for America's massive drug problem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gangs_in_the_United_St... . A policy isn't a success if it kills one crime group only for it to be replaced with more, and the overall drug consumption/distribution rate doesn't decrease. More people are using illicit drugs than ever before: https://www.ibanet.org/unodc-report-drug-use-increase
If the police tell them illegal activity is happening and give them a warrant to wiretap and they are capable of doing so but refuse then yeah they’re looking the other way. That’s not even getting into things like PRISM.
It has an LCD that'll give you a "problem" (low 12v) but won't show you sensor values, stored codes, disable limp-mode, etc.
haha this is so ancient not a single person or channel i read even remembers this. Canceled in 2017, i guess the cancellation part has not been as widely reported (probably not as exciting for sky news to report that) https://old.rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news48342.htm
Apple: UI Design Dos and Don'ts
TV drama tends to give people the wrong idea. Your lawyers aren't allowed to aid you with doing any crimes, they're just advocates.
I can agree with this.

Just a quick anecdote. One of my problems was public speaking. This was in HS so my parents and teachers encouraged therapy. Unfortunately, this now meant dwelling on my fear of public speaking 3 times a week. We went so "deep" with why I was afraid but tbh it was probably best to keep it as simple as "I'm afraid to mess up"

I was "cured" of this fear by a damn video game. It was coming out the day of my presentation and 90% of my brain was focused on the anticipation of the game, only 10% left to worry about the public speaking. I got up, did the presentation on autopilot and then realized "oh, this isn't the worst thing ever" and never had a problem after. Sure, I get nervous but before I would actually throw up on days I knew I had to speak so... I consider it cured :)

My therapist was a great and qualified person... but I think I would have never made any true progress... just dwell on and dissected my fear into adulthood.
Andy Herzfeld explains the backstory of the Mac disk drive in that classic Folklore.org story:

https://www.folklore.org/Hide_Under_This_Desk.html
News flash: they do. They just see their users as $$$ or don't give a damn. And their users don't care/don't know because they just want piece of mind or legal risk transferrance.

Legally speaking, if you get right down to it, privacy is de facto illegalized, and the old aphorism about "if you make a country where witchhunts are illegal, the population will be 3 civilly minded libertarians, and the rest witches" applies.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here; or just realize your dream is effectively only realizable for the exact type of people you don't trust to have it. Then find another line of work.
If you know your services are going to be used to commit a crime, then yes, that makes you an accessory and basically all jurisdictions (I know basically nothing about French criminal law) can prosecute you for that. Crime is, y'know, illegal.
That some Israelis believe the settlements help security only makes sense in the same way white Rhodesians believed counter insurgency made them safe[1]. The settlements are unambiguously illegal and they do infringe on civil rights of Palestinians. There is nothing complicated here. The Israelis that believe this are just wrong, and probably racist, and they have no rights to these wrong beliefs to be entered as policy.

Relevant here is what actually gets enacted as a policy and at what time. The Israeli government knows full well that these settlements are illegal, that they are morally wrong, and that they strip Palestinians of their civil rights, but they keep it as policy to maintain and expend them anyway. With that knowledge we can assume they don’t care about Palestinian civil rights. And as long as the Israeli electorate doesn’t see this as a deal breaker—which demonstrably, they don’t—we can (and honestly should) assume similar policies in Gaza. At the very least we should belief elected official when they claim they want to violate human rights of Palestinians. Especially now as they have demonstrated they are both willing and capable of committing a genocide.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLmD23UpLOo&pp=ygUIcmhvZGVza...
> Why are these service providers being punished for what their users do ?

Because they crossed the line from common carrier to editor - an entirely different set of obligations.

Also, even such common carrier as telcos must abide to state injunctions against their users.
Working on the concept of Computer 2.0 idea by Andrej Karpathy.

Basically it is an AI computer. It is nothing like we have seen before.

May open source it soon. With working zero hallucination (need additional evaluations).

Works with all devices. Created a MVP, air-gapped for military use, but it can be used for anyone including businesses/consumers who need an on-prem AI computer.

It has zero lag or zero second delay in responding your questions, and does not use any third party AI cloud platform. This is critical, because some of our customers have restrictive requirements for their data and they can't have anything of their customers to be placed on these cloud platforms. (eg. OpenAI, Google, Apple).

Adding additional features including Self-Teach, Cloned Personality, the holographic UI Wear, makes calls on behalf of the user, uses voice imprinting, edit videos, autonomously, for content creators and remembers 100 years of your life. And, more.

The UI Wear uses the exotic sensors I used in military to make it light and performant unlike Apple Vision Pro. Imagine interacting with something like "Jarvis" from Ironman. Quiet similiar but much more grounded in a sense that it's simpler and logical. Also, you can take it with you to play fast action sports or play games like Dragon-Ball-Z type game with your buddies. And it lasts a day, not two hours, on a full charge.

You can interact with the Personal AI Computer without the UI Wear, but it takes you to another level of experience.

Currently, doing it solo and looking for a cofounder who has experience in large distribution, logistics, creating polished commercial hardware, etc. Even if you don't these experiences, please contact me, if you want more info, interested, and/or want to work for this startup.

Some sample photo to help you on imagine.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwsdyvjkIcTk41JFXK...
This piece of software is so good and fast even I'm using it for presenting my work at dayjob
And makes you humble.
Many branches of math aren't focused on numbers. One cool branch that has almost no prerequisites and isn't focused on numbers is graph theory. It can be a great subject to cut your teeth on, regarding formulating theorems and proving them.
Doesn't matter if an actual child was abused or not. Under the PROTECT Act, obscene child porn is illegal to produce or distribute whether actual children were involved or not. The Supreme Court has ruled that material deemed obscene is NOT subject to First Amendment protection.
> WhatsApp's cryptography has made judges in my country foam at the mouth with rage

Oh wow, they need to get that checked, could be pulmonary edema.
N'uh-uh, we have Spotify, SAP and ASML. In your face US big-tech! /s
I'd honestly give 11 a valid shot, probably with 11 Pro. It's by far my favorite version of the OS over the years, and I've been a user since 3.11 days. These days, Windows 10 feels old to me.

It does take a bit of customization on first start (I like to align left, disable search, tasks button, copilot, etc), but it's been by far the most stable and consistent Windows I've used since probably 7.
Thank you so much for the kind words about TextSniper! I'm really glad to hear you find it useful and use it frequently. It's always rewarding to know the app is helping people in their day-to-day work.
So now is not downloading pics, but downloading AI models that can generate it. Are there people fine tuning models with these illegal images? Or is it just a jail broken model. In the former case the fine tuner needs to be traced, the latter case is new law territory
I like how they use the loophole of "oh she's a 200 year old vampire in a child's body, so it's not actually a child".
Have you used Telegram before making this comment? It is moderated. You really think this is about the company, the platform, not about politics? Well you should think again.
There are a variety of services like Tor2Web that make accessing .onion sites on the plain internet trivial. For MOST .onion sites you may well not want to do this, but when all you want to do is hide the identity of the publisher, rather than worry about the privacy of the visitor, it's not really an impediment.

There is the matter of bandwidth -- this is where being pulled into other repositories and copied would be helpful. The code is small, but tor is notoriously slow.
I treated my family’s copy of a copy of Spaceballs the same way. But Ghostbusters could easily have been my babysitter of choice if we’d owned it.

Narrowing the question to more recent times: The Death of Stalin because it made me laugh in the way Spaceballs used to.
I can, will, and do create whatever imagery I want, no matter how I create it, and no matter what anyone else's opinion about that is. I will look at or think about that potentially depraved shit as often, hard, and long as I want, I will feel about that however I want, and no one in this big world of control freaks can or will do anything about any of that.
>You can charge for an emulator as a service for building and packaging it on the App Store (assuming you have permission somehow) or as long as you can definitively prove that you built it via some "clean room design" - that will protect you from legal issues should anyone decide to litigate you for stealing copyrighted code.

Yea, I get it....emulating is essentially mimicking but if you mimic whole bunch of specific features, APIs or whatever, it is still tricky legally. Because if you mimic the whole thing, then you somewhat copied the complete architectural design of hardware/software system that you are emulating.

For example I hear often about Nintendo emulators but if emulator devs decide to sell emulators, couldn't Nintendo sue emulator devs because Nintendo emulators are creating parallel market for Nintendo devices and therefore leaving Nintendo completely out of picture.
Super polished looking product -- any success in getting companies to use it? Work at a dinosaur that would never think of abandoning the microsoft ecosystem; wondering what the target is for something like Loops.

(I did try taking a look through the website and saw integrations posted more prominently than users?)
Important callout beyond the headline: "Last year, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 4,700 reports of generated AI child porn, with some criminals even using generative AI to make deepfakes of real children to extort them."
Working on https://www.crawlspider.com

Better visualizations and improvements for internal link building
I suspect that the opposite may be true: That everyone needs talk therapy and this was traditionally provided by pastors, village wise men, extended family co-habitation, etc. Like many things in life, as our society has become more complicated and specialized, clinical social workers have become the specialists who perform that role for many people in society.
As far as I can tell, every state that has voter id also provides free IDs. They don't have PTO or holidays though.
Does anyone know about a sound and lock free arena algorithm?
Extreme frugality and risk aversion, cash (and revenue) is the only KPI to success, digitalization = just make it a PDF and don't change the process thus any process is still equally slow.
The old "enemy of the people" argument.
LinkedIn users volunteer their information to connected people. There is nothing wrong with that.
On the opposite end of this spectrum, there is interest among digital forensics examiners in some kind of automated capability for detecting child porn. Such a capability would speed up the process and reduce the mental/emotional load on examiners having to deal with this sensitive type of content. Automated processing could also reduce the risks of this material being mishandled as evidence. In a report presented at the 2019 Digital Forensics Research Conference, a survey of forensics examiners showed heightened interest in AI/ML models for this application. They discuss some prior work, recent attempts, and challenges in reaching this goal.

https://dfrws.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019_USA_pres-a...

https://dfrws.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019_USA_paper-...
Here's a user stylesheet to make it slightly more readable:

#root { color: black; }
main { color: var(--text-color); }

Regular reminder to all designers that not everyone uses an Apple 50K Retina Ultra Whatever Display in a professionally lit studio apartment.
Like Microsoft? ;)
Given the arrest of the Telegram CEO in France, I tend to agree. We've grown too complacent about trusting the public internet to host content that the censors will want to do something about. And the more gets done on tor, presumably, the more bandwidth the network will have, given the way it functions.
All the systems have been gamed to death. The only thing left is connections and personality fit (ala gut instincts)
You call this an anti-pattern (and rightfully so, since cluttering application code like this is a nightmare), but then what is the better pattern? In an app with >100 entities and >500 types of business transactions, many of which can fail in unexpected ways, will I be forced to maintain what was changed in Permify and roll back manually?

If yes, then this is quite a burden and might be a valid reason for not using a separate permissions store. But maybe there are better ways...?
"Right now it's only a goal, but I think I can get the money to make it into an intention, and later turn it into an outcome." -- European Woody Allen
There is a lot of evidence that exposure to Covid induces long term permanent damage to tissue and the ability of the immune system to fight off other infections.
Build an Infinite Canvas
> Is it really child abuse if no children were involved? Does that mean that AI-generated imagery of some protected group being harmed causes actual harm to that protected group? Not saying it doesn't, but it may be worth thinking about.

Deepfakes of real children is real children being involved.

Outside of that, my response is, “how would you create a compelling CSAM image with nothing resembling the target in the training data?”
But somehow the money still flows to Amazon Inc in the US? I don’t get it…
IIRC, green card holders had to have their taxes current for a long long time. In earlier time they even needed a stamp from the IRS to show border officials they were paid up.
Most likely illegal under the PROTECT Act. It would have to be ruled obscene under the Miller Test (which most material considered hentai probably would).
Having done this for domain specific engineering paperwork that looks similar to cause analysis, it does work well at param sizes << 70B.

lora does not work though, you need full parameter training if the knowledge isnt already present in pre training set.
How can you allow voting by mail and also requiring id? If you mail in your ballot you can't show an id?

If you don't want voter id then having a national id is not important?
It's so beyond my mind that people are finding reasons and excuses for the authority to justify the arrest. Let it be crystal clear that this is purely politics motivated. There's probably 20 other ways to address the concern of the platform. Let me ask you this, will France do the same if it's a US company or the founder is a US citizen?
This Texas City Is Too Hot, Short on Water–and Booming
That’s true but it really sucks to be in the 20% when all your peers are doing quackery. It’s a problem partially as a result of dilution of quality.
They produced a few fluffy documents in 2022 and then nothing happened.

They repurposed the word milestone to mean agenda. It's just a list of events they're organizing. Because they have no actual milestones or goals.
will look into them, stealing ideas!
I understand. But I'd rather not get into the complexities and new funny failure modes of such a system, so I was hoping for something simpler.
The selective impossibility arguments of the nuclear bros are hilarious.

No one has ever powered a society with nuclear energy either, yet they have no problem suggesting that with a straight face.
Go read the papers on automated RCA. The algorithms are designed to suggest top K candidates for RCA. By definition at least k-1 are going to be wrong.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10638
Usually as part of a plea agreement the criminal is required to let law enforcement search them without a warrant.
> the same usability and design as telegram

From the recent Tucker Carlson interview of Pavel Durov, Telegram has:

- 1 PM (Durov)
- 1 owner (Durov)
- 30 developers
- 0 HR, they hire contest.com winners

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41343845
Thank you! Native apps not released yet but you are welcome to try the web app at my.strengthlevel.com
But very few non phd therapists practice evidence based medicine
> Is it really child abuse if no children were involved?

I think there is an empirical question one step beyond this. Does a pedophile who sees AI child porn get inured to it and then go on to try to act out fantasies with real victims? Or does this give pedophiles a way to satiate their desires indefinitely with only AI-based content, and lead to a lower portion abusing actual kids?

A second order issue is that distributing child porn is claimed to create demand for child porn which leads to more abuse. If there were no criminal penalties for purely AI-generated CSAM and the normal criminal penalties remained for CSAM that in any way derived from images of actual kids, would the cost-benefit difference push most consumers to demand only AI-generated stuff?

I'm not saying this is definitely the case, but I think it's at least plausible that more AI-generated CSAM would reduce actual sexual abuse of children, and from a harm-reduction standpoint, it should be beneficial to have more of it ... and it's also plausible that pedophiles being able to generate more and more extreme material at will would make things worse ... and it's also likely legally and institutionally impossible to do the studies to determine which of these is actually true.
I'm working on a command line billing/invoicing system. I couldn't deal with the ones I've tried (too heavy on UI, too difficult to automate stuff with).

So far I just use it for my company billing, but it's quite delightful for me: My process is to save the services we provided in CSV files (exported from time tracking in org-mode, but you could use any tool that supports exporting), then I run this over it and it creates PDF invoices, and stores all the data (which I query occasionally, e.g. for quarterly VAT payments).

Technologically it's weird, the invoice templates are written in LaTEX, and the code is in Common Lisp.

I don't think about turning it into a business, but I think I'll open source it once it's a bit less messy. For now, I just focus on implementing the features I need (about 1-2 per quarter now).

I kinda doubt it, but if anyone is interested in command line billing tools, I'd be excited to talk about it. Contact info is in my profile.
Their REAL proposition is capturing and corraling users through software and hardware, and so far it's been working too good it's starting to find resistance.

Any practical robot they manage to make will be surely tightly tied to their other hardware, software, and new suscription tiers.
2004scape
Rough terrain with less and less purchase, until it just turns into a pile of dry dust / wet mud (depending on weather). A legged vehicle as heavy as a car would wear away stone, tear roots… I don't think there's any surface that could withstand heavy traffic, except maybe something ridiculous like a fast-growing woody grass.
Happens to me all the time. The company I work for has 1300 employees, and what I do means going cross-team pretty often, talking to people that I might have met once or twice a year ago. I speak to customer teams that pack consultants I might have worked with 10 years ago.

Generally speaking, I'm bad at remembering names. I'd buy a discreet "remind me who this is" device in a heartbeat.
Which creates some juicy margin niches for smart developers to make a killing as independent contractors.
I agree with your sentiment. It's like asking a 3 year old to compose a symphony because they learned to play twinkle twinkle little star on a casio keyboard reasonably well.

I don't see it as a "judgemental piece to anyone that i am alluring to" (I think you mean alluding) but I do think it's an honest assesment of those who are attempting to rely heavily on AI.
As someone with a nearly 40 year career in tech with 30+ in a hiring and management level…I’ll gladly admit that a candidate’s personality and demeanor in an interview factors higher to me than technical ability. Is that a personal bias? Yep, but it’s a bias based on experience as to what works better on technical teams and worth the skill trad off.

So I would gladly higher a friendly and open average skilled SWE than some aloof technical genius who is going to be likely regarded as an asshole to the rest of the team.

If I was forced to higher based on test scores alone, I’d opt to quit that role…because that to me would be a recipe for failure.
I meant moreso the “betterment of the human condition” than the Mars mission specifically. I believe Bezos has said he’s not in favor of an approach to colonize another planet.

My issue is that each of those steps can also be cast as a pathway to more profit. Granted profit and Mars/betterment of the human condition aren’t mutually exclusive, but outside of mere talk I haven’t seen anything convincing that differentiates that one is the primary objective, e.g., a move that undermines profitability but helps the Mars mission
For what it's worth, I have a family member who ran a non-profit mental health clinic. According to them, studies have found that advanced degrees have little impact on outcomes. From what I recall, he argued studies showed that the key elements for a successful therapist where following some sort of framework/plan (e.g. cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, Jungian therapy, etc.) and to be contentious (keep records of each session, come into each session with a plan, etc.).
Marine worms made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites
They try to work with me but I cancel their meeting requests and deal with them through email. We should all be doing this