skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t agree that internet platforms deserve to be in their own special category which is uniquely required to police bad content. The only reason it happens is because it’s not politically or technically feasible to do it when the message comes through another medium.

I think it’s wrong on social media for the exact same reason it’s wrong to arrest power companies if a guy staples printed CSAM to a utility pole. Same thing for monitoring private phone calls. We know that AI can detect people talking about terrorism on the phone and cameras can monitor paper ads and newsletters in public spaces, but nobody would advocate for making this a legal requirement because it’s insane. The fact that nobody cares is proof that the public does value privacy and free speech. Why are so many of them tricked into thinking the internet is an exception?

I want people to commit to their beliefs and either admit they want surveillance wherever it’s technically feasible or give up and recognize that internet surveillance is also wrong. No more of this “surveillance is good but legacy platforms are exempt” waffling. Very frustrating and only serves the interests of people who already have power
The 1984 Olympics there were expected to be a traffic disaster. Turned out that everyone stayed away because it was expected to be a traffic disaster. I had a 65 mile commute into Los Angeles at that time and it was a doddle.
I enjoy. Will try to follow somehow to get notified of new chapters
Why not? Apple's SOCs are in the 200-300w range that desktop systems occupy, it's only fair to compare it with it's contemporaries. Nvidia is said to be developing desktop SOCs too so we'll soon have systems for comparison, but I don't see how laptop dGPUs are an unfair comparison against desktop SOCs in any case. It's basically the same hardware with similar thermal constraints.

Plus; say we did include all of the dGPUs that Apple officially supports. Not even the W6800X gets more performance-per-watt than an Nvidia laptop chip. It only highlights the fact that Apple goes out of their way to prevent Nvidia from providing GPU support on Mac.
You're somewhat mistaken. In the U.S., you aren't owed a warning that the cops are looking for you, especially if you're a flight risk. That was never part of it.
Having annoying banners that cost a lot of money to make doesn't solve anything. If the EU would really care, they would outlaw these practices altogether.

It is also very ironic that you have to record the consents in your database by generating a unique id for the visitors.

Having technology illiterate people making laws about tech also doesn't help.

Brave did way more for my privacy than the EU ever could.
Basically this picture says it all

https://preview.redd.it/evolution-of-the-raptor-engine-by-v0...
Why do these "car free" utopias always include Taxis? Shouldn't they be first to go... As they are easily replaced by busses.
Copyright is about implementations, not architectural designs. That would be the domain of patents, and these have much stronger limits than copyright.

Most notably, you need to actively apply for them, and they expire much sooner than copyright. Besides that, software is not patentable in all jurisdictions.
Yes but the arrest as absolutely zero to do with both claims listed. Comes off as misdirection.
I suspect this is a feature of the modern world.

I have heard of a few philosophers of their day years back being considered "the most learned man in Europe". Not the smartest, but the most learned. Learned implies agency, smart implies something innate.

With the advent of IQ tests and the computer you get the brain as computer metaphor gone much too far.

Terence Tao has a 64 core threadripper, so if you are just using a 4 core i5 don't even bother.

Then of course if you believe an i5 is basically worthless it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy even though for most tasks both would be plenty fast enough.
LS-120 drives were floptical drives that were backwards-compatible with 3.5" 1.44MB disks. IIRC you needed special media to use the 120MB capacity, but the same slot could accept the common 1.44MB disks and give you much better performance than normal floppy drives. The successor LS-240 drives also had the ability to write 32MB to a standard floppy disk using shingled magnetic recording.

If Zip disks, CD-R and USB flash drives hadn't showed up, these drives would have been pretty widely recognized as the next generation of floppies.
Why can't you provide any information, then?
intellisense is fine, but high speed chopping off of your limbs is not. the two are not comparable.
There are claims all the time made, you just don’t rove over the parts of the internet where they would be posted.
In the US if I get caught selling you a gram of pure cocaine I get the same punishment as I would if I sold you a gram that’s only 20% pure. If I sold you a gram of some random powder and told you it is cocaine I am likely to be prosecuted all the same whether I knew it was fake or not.

That aside, the “fully synthetic CSAM with no children involved at all” idea relies very, very heavily on taking the word of the guy who you just busted with a hard drive full of CSAM.

His defense would essentially have to be “Your honor I pinky swear that I used the txt2img tab of automatic1111 instead of the img2img tab” or “I did start with real CSAM but the img2img tab acts as an algorithmic magic wand imbued with the power to retroactively erase the previous harm caused by the source material”

There is no coherent defense to this activity that boils down to anything other than the idea that the existence of image generators should — and does — constitute an acceptable means of laundering CSAM and/or providing plausible deniability for anyone caught with it.

The idea that there would be any pushback to arresting or investigating people for distributing this stuff boggles the mind. Inventing a new type of armor to specifically protect child abusers from scrutiny is a choice, not some sort of emergent moral ground truth caused by the popularization of diffusion models.
I remember listening to a podcast where a psychiatrist was talking about something similar to what you are describing.

Take something a person could desire like wanting to learn how to play the piano, for example. Often times, what people desire is not the learning part but the end result. People are fantasizing about drilling scales and chords for days on end. People are more likely to fantasize about creating music, playing music for the enjoyment of others, the praise, etc.. So, people tend to fizzle out when the reality does not meet the expectation.

The brain tends to fantasize about all the good that something can bring, but the brain also tends to vastly underestimate the work required to achieve said goal.
One could list OSS libraries (if any) that Telegram uses today, then diff against OSS libraries used by other E2EE messengers.
Fascist lol.
Act I: Exploring emergent behavior from multi-AI, multi-human interaction
You should certainly have a formal process to respond to those countries’ requests, and you might consider technical architectures that don’t leave you in direct custody and control of that content in the first place.
I’d say it’s not only determinism, but also the social contract that’s missing.

When I’m calling ‘getFirstChar’ from a library, me and the author have a good understanding of what the function does based on a shared context of common solutions in the domain we’re working in.

When you ask ChatGPT to write a function that does the same, your social contract is between you and untold billions of documents that you hope the algorithm weights correctly according to your prompt (we should probably avoid programming by hope).

You could probably get around this by training on your codebase as the corpus, but until we answer all the questions about what that entails it remains, well, questionable.
I'm guessing so they can keep data of EU customers stored within the EU.
This is great, I'm currently studying for Security+ and will be using this. Where are the practice questions from?

Thank you!
Start making phonecalls and it will get better

possibly, though the reality is that i grew up before the internet and i was making phonecalls just fine then. somehow it got worse. either bad experiences, or something changed when i discovered the ability to communicate with written short messages instead. i have no idea.

but look around on hackernews. i am not the only one who dislikes phone calls. one potential reason i explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41345469

i like to take the time to think before i answer, and that just doesn't work on the phone.

but the real point here is that you tell me i should be able to switch away from a method to communicate that i don't like but use another one that i like even less. that doesn't make any sense. why would i do that? (and i haven't even touched on the fact how much i hate giving people my phonenumber, on most messengers at least i can ignore people if they bother me)
I've been working on Weavus (https://weavus.app/, see my top-level comment in this post) as an alternative to facebook mostly for events, but you can also create private groups where you can chat, share photos and todo lists, split expenses, and more to come. It's just a mobile app for now, and definitely not facebook-grade as a product, but we find it useful already!
Yes, every time I see some impressive demo I realize that it is mostly the artwork.
Anecdotes are data.
It has already been a form of one for at least 10 years, just happening too gradually for the average person to realize it.
> Do prosecutors now need to find and identify depicted victims to prove a CSAM charge?

Surely that would be a good thing if it incentivizes prosecutors to
track down the purveyors and distributors instead of just stopping
with easily targeted consumers. With nothing to establish beyond mere
possession, by some metrics their performance is optimized to the
contrary, much like the war on drugs.

> Does believing material was AI generated serve as a defense?

Believing that stolen property was legitimately acquired is a defense
against a charge of possession of stolen property, as is plausibly
claiming to have been set up. The alternative enables anyone with
physical access to cause anyone else to be guilty of a crime, surely
a net negative for society.

> We already have severe limitations on fictional depictions of this type of content so prosecuting AI depictions isn't anything particularly new.

Are you advocating its expansion to a general principle? Maybe Agatha Christie should
have faced charges for the crimes committed by her characters.
Per this study, the number of sick days.
I just did. The specifics are of course confidential personal information from minors, you want me to publish them here?
I put a generic “out of office” block on my calendar if I have personal business and it’s rare enough that I don’t get why it needs a solution. Maybe other people are scheduling things during work hours a lot more often than me?
interesting, in germany model of the car, the expirience (age) of the driver and the years of not having your insurance cover something [1] play heavily into the amount of premiums you are paying. also who is "covered"[2] by that insurance and the km you drive in a year are considered.

[1] trivia: because of this sometimes people cover damages, even realtivly high ones, out of pocket because it saves them money in the long run.
[2] you say who (only you or more people) is driving the car and in practice the relevant fact is if one of the drivers using the car is under 25 and/or is still in "Probezeit" (?trial period?)
> I suspect that America's lack of work life balance, lack of social safety net, repressive moral culture, high gun violence

Are Americans in therapy directly affected by those issues, or - how can I put this - merely worried about those issues in general terms?

The Economist wrote recently about how political views appear to affect mental health in the USA. The title feels unnecessarily inflammatory, for which I apologise, the article's content feels much more balanced.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/04/04/are-ameri...
( https://archive.is/iWAaP )
360 KB/side was indeed the default for the Atari ST, but there were numerous tools (I think Fastcopy III was the one I usually used) to format with more sectors per track, and 10 sectors/track (so 400 KB/side) was the standard recommendation if you just wanted more data per disk and no hassle. More than 80 tracks was also an option, and 81 or 82 tracks was apparently also reliable. That never sat right with me though, so I didn't do it.

(18 sectors per track with 256 byte sectors is also possible with the 1770 series. This was one of the disk format options on the BBC Micro. Definitely not written a track at a time! There just wasn't the memory for that.)
Open Telekom Cloud has at least a great part of the functionality you expect when talking about a cloud provider: VMs (even GPU ones), VPCs, managed databases, block storage, Logging, IAM, API Gateway, Container Engine etc. https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/
I don't think they'll achieve it and I think that's okay. LA has some of the infrastructure but momentum is the big part. If the Olympics are the catalyst to get the ball moving on this, then I don't care if they only achieve 20-30% of the goal, because I think if you get some momentum and some success it can be used to drive more. It's something everyone wants in LA, but so many things are "sticky". I hope this can help get them unstuck.
Such is life of the mobile developer though, or really any other developer. You have to accomodate multiple view port sizes or just write your code in a way that scales correctly. For example it used to be common for mobile apps to use the off the shelf ui tooling from the os vendor and use stuff like html for their pages within the app of whatever else. That stuff has always scaled perfectly. Its the new sexy stuff that has trouble but its not necessary to write code like that.
I can find and open pro-Ukrainian channels from inside Russia no problem (Zelenski's official channel, UNIAN etc.) Not sure what you're talking about?
You’re absolutely right although I do think there is a subtle but fundamental difference between old school phone calls (especially if done on a landline) and modern voice chats.

Now it’s a lot easier to do a voice call and also do something else since you’re probably sitting in front of your computer. And you can stay there for hours chatting about literally nothing.

Phone calls, had to be a lot more intentional. Firstly because of the cost but also because it was harder to do something else while on the phone.

And I kinda miss that.
Those are the EU plate letters for each fwiw
“Data” is anecdotes obfuscated and p-hacked to fit the narrative the reviewers mandate. Anyone who has published in journals knows this.
Some might even have a different number of letters in their acronyms, to fly below our radars. :-)
If you are a multi-national with a legal presence in that country you likely have the resources to engage local counsel in answering that question and to assist in understanding the legal risks of various business decisions.
From what I've read the arrest wasn't related to lack of proactive moderation, but the lack of, or refusal to do, reactive moderation i.e. law enforcement say "there's CSAM being distributed on your platform here" and the owner shrugs

> for the exact same reason it’s wrong to arrest power companies if a guy staples printed CSAM to a utility pole

That seems like a bad analogy. A closer one would be that I rent the pole space to people who I am told by law enforcement are committing serious crime in the open, using the pole I am renting to them. Additionally, I am uniquely capable of a) removing the printouts b) passing on whatever information I have about those involved (maybe zero, but at least I say that). The issue is refusing both. I don't feel they are egregious requests.

(this is not a tacit approval of digital surveillance)
The verification on retail transactions and on ballots have nothing in common. Signatures on ballots are validated by humans, usually with multiple observers who can object to any specific signature.
Yes, "I don't recall" is the oft-heard phrase in the witness stand. I don't remember the specifics of that case and why the guy decided to martyr himself.
By this logic the hardware manufacturers or even almighty God can be found responsible. God should have stopped them.
They're trying to be as eco as the Paris olympics that had athletes complaining about the heat (A/C is not eco), food (i suppose decent food wasn't eco) and the uncomfortable cardboard beds (wood isn't eco now?)?
I think they’re a nice half step where it keeps me from driving and taking up parking space at the destination. Bus routes help but don’t service original/destination as specifically as a taxi.

Accordingly, the taxi costs significantly more than a bus.

I’ll happily take a bus or rail for commuting where I know what to expect for service reliability and connection times.

If I’m doing a one off trip it’ll be a hired car.
is is a quick fix. and for smaller websites i recommend it. However it has its limits and it can frustrate when you are developing. But in general yeah good free service.
Apple knows iPhone users commit crimes.
I wanted to get short term therapy for a mental health related thing this year, and made the mistake of switching from my PPO to Kaiser thinking that Kaiser would cover therapy sessions since they appeared to have thousands of therapists under their network.

It turns out that Kaiser will only cover you if you have a diagnosed mental condition (eg bi-polar / ADHD). If you don't, then you're completely out of luck. Instead, they refer you to use an app where you can get counseling via text message, and it's only for 90 days.

https://organizations.headspace.com/kp/faq
"Overly optimistic" is an overly optimistic statement. As an LA native I laughed out loud when I read that.

LA is the kind of place a small town of under 25k blocks a critical freeway extension for over 40 years until the state gives up. There is no way it's happening.
> a repetitive task that’d put someone to sleep.

If it requires so little thought to do, that it causes human error ... then it is probably nonsensical to NOT automate it.
No "military-like tribunals" there. Just regular criminal courts.
Taxis and other ride shares are easier to electrify than literally every car on the planet.

Everyone using a taxi cuts on traffic more than everyone driving a car.

Fewer places need to be space wasted with ugly, hot pavement.

Taxis service a need that are not realistically handled by large mode transportation loops.

People who say we need to go car free also acknowledge reality and don’t absolutely need to take things to the extreme to make slippery slope argumentative muddy water.

Why “car free” and not something more in tune with the actual idea? Why “serverless”? Why “lock free data structures”? PATRIOT act? “Truth” social? I mean. The list of obviously ridiculous names that are not true their reality goes on and on and on and on.
Lawyers: where's the class action lawsuit on behalf of therapists alleging a pattern of denial of payment?
The worst thing is that almost every non-techie who uses Telegram thinks Telegram in general is e2ee.
Virtue-signaling at its finest.
The costs for the ID themselves isn't the only difficulty.

For example, someone who is homeless, either newly or chronically. The event that leads to homelessness often coincides with losing most of their possessions. It isn't uncommon for people to lose identifying documents, such as birth certificates, social security cards, etc.

If they made it into homelessness without losing those items, they're still a stone's throw away from losing them. Theft, vandalism, or even encampment cleanouts can leave someone with nothing.

So now instead of it being the cost for the id, it's the cost for the ID, for the copy of the birth certificate, social security card, etc. To get these things often requires a maze of bureaucracy, and very often a stable address.

Now there are services that will provide an address and assist, but one wrong move can throw that out the window. At the end of the day, there's many moving parts and you need to get them all to align at once to be issued an ID.

The ID requirement can easily be considered an anti-voter policy.
Can you be more specific how the split-key encryption would prevent the Telegram CEO from reading all chats and users' info?
You must have a grandfathered plan because the ACA mandated access and equal reimbursement for mental health vs medical.
Oh, that guy is still at it and has made progress. There's pneumatic logic now and the new model can reverse direction.
Deutsche Telekom hosted Microsoft Office 365 for some years in Germany as a German cloud offering.

I think this was the press release:
https://www.telekom.com/de/medien/medieninformationen/detail...

This was a Microsoft 365 cloud hosted and operated by Deutsche Telekom in Germany. It was more expensive than the global version and had less features. It often took some years till new features were introduced.

They stopped this offering some years ago, I think they did not get as many customers as they expected, most of the German customers used the global version.
Building Mujo, a minimalist musicians' practice journal for iOS. It integrates time tracking, note taking, and task management into a familiar metronome UI/UX. I dearly love it (1400+ hours logged!) and it's slowly building traction. https://mujo.app
Check out this cool thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41162505

Show HN: Visual A pathfinding and maze generation in Python *

ME: (Vine Robots and Maze Algos):

This would be neat to see applied to Vine Robots: https://youtu.be/eLVAMG_3fLg?t=153

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Talk about the use of the pneumatic vine robots to nav rubble and caves etc - but if the vine robot could evaluate the terrain and use appropriate routing algo based on the nature of the terrain it was doing. they arent using vision necessarily in the vine robots - but if they could use terrain sensors that informed the best routing algo to use/accomplish goal that would be neat.

Another interesting thing about this would be to apply it to where vine-style micro-trenchers could know the patter of the lattice that will best be needed to accomplish whatever the stated newton bracing requirement were - then you could plop relative light foot pads onto a celestial body - then have these vine into the surface in such a way where you can begin to attach larger objects and very easily build foundations to large space structures - plus, as it maps out - you have an exact map of what your mycelium -like base foundation look like.

EDIT:

And you could grow the foundation as need - however, imagine a series of tubes maybe by these vining robots - that are later filled in (the robots) with structural hardening material -- you vine your robots into the mountain in sequences - first do a large outer lattice - and structurally brace it with whatever material - then in the center space - vine into the core and fill those with explosives and tunnel. -- then you can snake through your exploded rubble - see whats up - and deliver cables and hoses through the vine to a forward location...

A vine robot that tunnels - but its outer layer is a permeable filter and it has capillary features - but basically it unfurls into being a well and the outer material is expanded do to corrugations in the design allowing debris filters water to create a layer around the new pipe - and then capillaried up - or a pump in the core at the head of the water-wyrm.

(I need to figure out how to make some of these -- I love them.)
A SAR or CTR gets filed with FinCEN