skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the key point that is so often missed. Getting angry at Apple et al for following their incentives rationally is silly.

I'd love to see journalists doing a better job of explaining the failures of the tax system rather than peddling pointless outrage, but I suppose that they too are following their incentives rationally; outrage gets more clicks.
The fix can certainly involve appealing to morals and human responsibility. A company is, after all, just a group of people. This should be a very strong tactic considering how liberal Silicon Valley is. The major players preach constantly about progressive ideals, yet fail to do more than the minimum when push comes to shove. My business partner and I purposefully pay normal taxes, avoiding accountants' crazy tax reduction schemes, because we think it's the right thing to do. We're a tiny speck compared to Apple, but the principle still applies. If the big players made it the norm, their investors would suck it up and deal with it.
No, the details were originally that small.
I'd like to see some specific examples of tax avoidance tricks that Apple are using. There are a few mentions of how the "techniques aren't affordable for small business", but what are the techniques?
Facebook already uses facial recognition to suggest tags on photos, so I don't think false positives are that much of an issue:

https://www.facebook.com/help/122175507864081

You other points are true though, and I guess a lot of these type of photos don't always contain faces.
Ireland has the same problem. Attracting large amount of data centres which don't really create all that many jobs. It also then shifts the costs because the electricity demand is so huge and it strains infrastructure.
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Edit: What's above isn't quite right. There was a witchhunt, but unrelated to the leak of those old IM messages. Apologies. My point below, though, stands.

A mea culpa about the messages, and how you've changed personally in the meantime would have been a change.
Perhaps you missed these parts towards the end of this letter:

"But what unsettles me the most is the way in which Apple instructed a law firm to obtain an “official assurance of tax exemption” from the government of a country."

and

"And what understanding of democracy are we supposed to discern from the question you had this law firm ask? The one about whether the country had a “credible opposition party” or “movement that may replace the current government?” Were you trying to ensure that you would be able to retain tax-free status even after elections or a change in government?"
Tax is really just skimming the surface of the advantages that result from being big and powerful. Yes it means that they get subsidized in a way by the public tax payers but their employees pay for it even worse. The inequality between executive pay and ordinary workers is more than ever over the last few decades and those workers are paying for it by living a two hour commute away in crappy property, saving pennies at the grocery store etc. all of these are sacrifices and subsidies for the big company, the tax savings are just half of it.
When an idea comes from an experience like that you are solving the same problem for many people. And you have turned things from idea to reality as well.
I've only read the posted article so I don't know if "revenge porn" is the primary or originating motivation for this initiative (as opposed to child porn victims, etc).

But my perception is that victims of revenge porn -- the ones who feel the need to make a complaint (and risk drawing publicity to themselves) have had (or perceive) their images disseminated so widely to such psychologically devastating effect [0] that the thought of a FB employee seeing them is among the least of their worries. Probably because FB employees have already seen them if the user has submitted an abuse complaint.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/06/experie...
Ah, the 'young kids often say stupid things" argument.

Zuckerburg continues to only do what's in his best interest, even at an older age. i.e. not combating racism, harassment, or abuse on their website because it'd hurt their bottom line. This a business and everybody is willingly giving him products that exploit his user base.
Got to admire their nerve though
>3000 years is to soon for significant changes in human DNA.

Doesn't necessarily has to be DNA. Prevalence of fixed focus work, screens and monitors and reading, has made more people need glasses, in earlier ages, than 100 or 200 years ago for example...
If criminals didn't turn in the cash, then it evaporated, which is just as good. No?
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Wouldn't that increase the number of highly skilled individuals working in Sweden, who pay more tax/increase the jobs available? Which is a good thing?
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This is the reason I usually recommend to pre-hash the password with something like SHA512 or SHA3. Dropbox takes this approach too.

On the other hand, 72 bytes is a lot, especially when you have decent bcrypt settings.
Pity political journalists didn't have the guts to band together when Trump started bullying them during the 2016 campaign...
>Couldn't the idea that ancient people were bad at art

I don't thing there is such an idea -- not a widespread one, and not one held by archeologists at any rate. Even cavemen paintings (e.g. in france) show magnificent skill.
I don't know if it will work in the new version, but you might be able to customize that with CSS:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/959205
>>Why not just send the hash?

Is there an app for that? /s

To be honest, this is a great idea. I think its something that should be built into OS's -- select a file, 'calculate WorldHashValue' / 'publish WorldHashValue' should just be a menu-item ..
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My solution is for people to be careful with their nude photos or if they weren't, then face the consequences. Either accept it (nude photos have power over you only as long as you're vulnerable to shame & guilt over them), or go through the established LE process to get them taken down and the offender actually punished.
Asking is more reliable. There is no reason for a site to believe it should translate stuff for me just because my browser's interface is in another language.

Do use the header, but always be open for the user changing the language too.
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Laws are written by people ( sadly by lawyers paid by these companies in this case ), just change the laws.

And by trying to do this we'll see creatures come out of the woodwork and previously virtue signaling personalities going strangely MIA.
I guess it depends on your definition of "ordinary people", but if you're going abroad for long-term work in any "middle class" industry, you're eventually going to have extremely complicated taxes.

Retirement savings, stock options, real estate, and any sort of investment account makes your U.S. tax return go from "a 1040" to a towering mountain of special forms. A lot of them also lose you the right to e-file, for some reason. And many aren't supported by tax software, or are handled incorrectly.

A lot of "foreign" banks – i.e. your _local_ banks – won't even talk to you. They tell you to make your investments in the U.S. instead, so you get to pay international wire transfer fees and foreign currency exchange fees on every investment. And if you want to move it back, you get to pay them again.

You won't necessarily owe any tax in the U.S., but you sure pay for it in either filing time (10s to 100s of hours) or expat tax accountant fees.
The hash could trivially be done client side and then only the hash uploaded. If they make it an open source browser plugin, everyone would know if it was trustworthy or not.
Do you really want to do window management and terminal tasks in your text editor? I'd rather use my window manager for managing windows, or my terminal for doing terminal tasks.
Not for a very bandwidth-focused business like snap.
Perhaps you didn't delete the account, but just deactivated.
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Well, occasionally a bunch of us decide to be fire ants instead, and bite back. Messy but seems to be inevitable given that "profit motive" has no shame to be called upon.
Home automation suffers from the same problem. I'm hard-pressed to find a home automation hub that doesn't require "the cloud." You mean to tell me turning on the lights 5 feet away requires I go through some North Carolina data centre some 800 miles away? This frustrating trend is over-engineered and insecure.
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On the other hand, malevolent people could modify the image until its hash changes (e.g. by cropping, changing colors, etc.)
how did you get there? I installed treestyle on ff57 and top tabs are still there, in addition to vertical tabs
> Edit: If you disagree, are you saying that shaming them into not doing this solely on some moral compass is the right fix? Does that scale?

Legislation doesn't do anything if actors don't see a moral responsibility to abide by it. Case in point: There are laws against murder but murder still happens.

Does that mean we need better laws in regards to murder?
Imho it rather means that some parts of society still have a "moral debt" in recognizing the value of human life.

Same pretty much applies to paying taxes. For some people it's something they do out of a sense of responsibility to the society they live in, to others it's an unfair burden they need to evade at all costs.

And because the latter behavior isn't even that criminalized, there are large sectors of society where nobody feels a moral responsibility to pay taxes. Heck in many of these circles people actually boast about how much taxes they evaded/how much money they got out of the government. In that regard, there might be quite a cultural angle to this whole issue.
Slightly off topic, but a serious annoyance of mine these days: wherever I encountered a news about this translation, the fact that the translator is a woman was about always more in focus than the translation itself. Can't we be done with this "first woman to..." thing already? Isn't this kind of belittling in that the actor being a woman is newsworthy? Why can't the titles just say "A new translation of Odyssey"? But look at them instead: https://imgur.com/T7AaGkg
Yep. The way I remember it is Google saved email. Email was great until there was money in gaming it, and it went to hell shortly thereafter. Gmail was the first consumer facing service I ever found that just magically made SPAM go away while retaining all the emails you wanted to see. Everything before that was just a blackholing with a list maintained by a hodgepodge of RBL maintainers hanging out on news.admin.net-abuse.email and shaking your impotent fists at that 20 or so daily SPAMS that snuck through anyway. You literally threw away email addresses because they were on too many SPAM lists and became impossible to use any more.

Google has made some missteps, but they've arguably done more to change the world and society than almost any other company in the last 50 years. They made the internet accessible to the masses.
How exactly are they inflicting all that harm, hardship and suffering? In my eyes, they are creating tremendous value every day while following every single law nations impose on them. They would risk everything otherwise.

You're throwing demagogic, populist accusations without a single shred of support. Is emotional discourse an acceptable replacement for the rational one?
I'm not looking forward to this, I realize they've made speed improvements, but the entire reason I'm on FF at all is Tab Groups, which seems to be dead. I know it's not heavily used, but it's going to be painful for me to get used to browsing without it.

I'm aware that there's a proposal to add an API to make it possible under the new system, but last time I checked the ticket, recent activity was someone from the team arguing that they'd already agreed it was a bad idea at a meeting, and it simply should not be added.

Honestly, I'm going to hang on a legacy version for as long as feasible and then just switch back to Chrome.
Apple and the like are just being “smart businessmen” as our current tax evading president once said. I never really minded paying taxes. Sure, I was upset sometimes when I learned how some of it is spent. After Trump said that, I made it my duty to pay as little taxes as possible to the federal gov’t. The US election taught me that a total morally banktrupt asshole can win the presidency of the United States and flaunt his disgraceful behavior, I might as else enjoy what he enjoys.
What if the @mention user decides to change his/her display name, now you need to parse @mention into a unique id and save that in the database with comment body and then translate it back when you serve it to the currently chosen @mention name...
This glass craze is completely nuts to me. Choosing such a brittle material to cover something that is more likely to be dropped than anything is so stupid that you get a feeling that it is intentionally so. Creating artificial demand for replacements/repairs.

Even the aesthetic value is immediately diminished as soon as you get your greasy fingers on it, transforming the pristine surface into an art piece by a deranged forensic analyst.
To not believe in objective morality, I'm assuming because you are not religious or maybe because it is too difficult to "pin down", to me seems to lack intellectual rigour and displays a lack of social empathy. Morality, even aside from the religious back and forth, is a difficult and nuanced subject but that is not to say that it lacks a strong core that most reasonable people believe in (even apart from religious beliefs). Organised social empathy, along with advanced intellect (the ability to conceptualise the subjective and objective aspects of morality), are probably the biggest fundamentals of human nature that separates us from other species on this planet. In my opinion giving those fundamentals short shrift only denigrates yourself.
GDP doesn't tell us much in the case of Ireland, because these huge companies only invest very little in the country, as is typical for a tax haven. If you look at GNP, the gross national product, the actual gains for the people in Ireland are much lower. Have a look at GDP[1] and GNP[0] numbers per inhabitant for Europe: Where for most european countries both numbers are about the same, for Ireland there's a difference of over 30%. Much of Irelands GDP growth didn't result in more income for the people.

[0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
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> If you make more than that, it’s foolish not to use Apple products. Your time is too valuable to cheap out on less productive equipment.

I find that I'm far more productive with Linux, StumpWM, emacs and a modern userland than I am with macOS, Finder, either Cocoa emacs or another Mac editor and an ancient set of BSD tools. I find that I'm more productive running Termux on my Android phone & tablets than … running nothing at all on an iPhone (unless something has changed recently).

Moreover, with open source software I have freedom, and that's worth far more to me than my hourly rate.
There are some relatively easy countermeasures you can put in place to avoid this. Never display identifying information with the images. Never allow analysts to freely lookup images from specific profiles. Make sure the terminals that these analysts work on are blocked from internet access, and have no accessible external drives or USB ports (or run a locked down virtual desktop on a thin client). Maintain a no-camera policy in the workspace, and a policy of always having more than one person on duty in the workspace at the same time.

Considering that we haven't seen any stories of employees abusing backend access to the Facebook servers, it feel reasonably safe to assume that they have countermeasures like these in place.
There are many Poles employed in the UK, so there has to be a way. It may get tricky when these workers do not live in the UK, but on the other hand there are many foreign companies operating in Poland and hiring people here.

As I said the UK setup is mostly used for self-employment, so when you need a team mate they are most likely incorporated as well (either in Poland or the UK), so you just sign a B2B contract.
It used to be that when I don't find something with DDG, I would go into Google and find it. But currently my impression is that any remotely useful page that Google would show is also there in DDG results, the "!g" switch just adds a bunch of spam and unrelated stuff.
If a person is an addict, not giving them the object of their addiction is best for them. I do know this. If you want to call that "infantilization", fine - but you already agree they have little choice - so it is you choosing for them; So which is infantilization?

The basis of "patronizing" is an invalid assumption of incompetence - in this case the assumption that an addict cannot rationally control their addition is perfectly valid. As for " I know what's best for you" - I'm sure the addict know what's best for themselves too - they just can't control the impulse to do not do it.

> There is no clear "rational" (Kantian) or Hippocratic ("Do no harm") choice here

> unless you want to defend defaulting to inaction, make a moral choice to preserve someone's dignity

This appears to be a contradiction - there is no clear choice, but we should default to action?

I don't see why "dignity" (which I don't agree with btw - I feel being drunk/high is just as undignified) is a winner over Hippocratic inaction.

> Maybe you should

You are ignoring the context of what I said. You suggested denying homeless money is not treating them like "people", but I don't give none-homeless strangers money either, so why would you consider refusing to giving a stranger money on demand as inhumane?
So large chunks of a country not paying any taxes is an OK place to be?

Unclear what the right solution is but clearly there was a problem.
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The train usually doesn't arrive exactly on time where I live, but delays aren't so bad that I have to wait 30 minutes on average. And if it's a 4-12 minute walk to the station, as OP says, I'm sure they don't need a huge buffer to get there on time. Personally, I just make sure I have a five-minute leeway and I'm good.

There certainly must be places in the world where trains are so unpredictable that the average delay is 30 minutes, but (not having been there, I should say) Menlo Park and Palo Alto sound like places where trains should be a bit more punctual than that?
Considering it couldnt get its self driving cars to not require human intervention more than ever 2 miles...I think I'll skip thanks.
This is one of the other "better" charting libraries, and it is maintained: http://nvd3.org/
It's based on this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.04150.pdf The approach is different than the Faster R-CNN etc mentioned below as it is not fully supervised, i.e. the position of the objected is not in the training data. I can write a simple tutorial and link in the article and here later today.
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If you have the correct architecture, multiple users shouldn't matter at all-- I have used SQLite to store and query activity data with something like 10k concurrent "users" without difficulty on a single machine.

I am beginning to suspect that MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle, BigTable, and others allow one to get so far with the wrong architecture, that maybe some even very experienced programmers believe that to go faster they have no choice but more threads.
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Not everyone worldwide has a computer. The environmental change I mentioned would need to be something like the change in CO2 levels to impact everyone.
Could it be the prevalence of ophthalmologists instead? I assume it was really hard to get good medical care100 to 200 years ago, not to mention the cost of glasses.
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I have been on Firefox Quantum for the past couple of months.
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What about "clbutt action lawsuit"? :P
This doesn't really make sense. Isn't machine learning already good enough to detect nude photos? If nude photos are not allowed on Facebook, why do they need hashes of your specific photos? They could identify all nude photos with machine learning and remove all of them.

Or have a checkbox in the profile settings: Do you permit other people to upload nude photos of you? [ ] Yes [x] No