skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> WhatsApp chat groups are being used to spread illegal child pornography, cloaked by the app’s end-to-end encryption. Without the necessary number of human moderators, the disturbing content is slipping by WhatsApp’s automated systems.

Wait what? Moderators for end-to-end encrypted communication?

Something doesn't add up!
If the most vocal people shouting about the problem of climate change were advocating for the mass adoption of nuclear power, huge money into fusion power research, and investment in the R&D of removing CO2 from the air instead of advocating for reduced power usage, transportation restrictions (mass transit), and human population decline as the solutions to "climate change", US society would be a lot more likely to get behind doing something about it.

Using climate change as a club to push ideological policies did not work and now has us in a real pickle. The other side did not fight back by advocating for better solutions to the CO2 pollution problem but instead just decided to ignore reality as an easier short-term tactic.
I use this service weekly and have had next to no issues for several months now. The quality is as good as my local grocer, although I still prefer to visit there for fresh meat or bakery items; the stuff you get online in terms of "fresh" isn't bad but it is much more expensive, I've found.

I've never been to a physical Whole Foods so I can't say if their quality has gone down as a result of this. My local grocer has a delivery service but I am too entrenched in Amazon to try it out.
For background, this is done by NHS digital: https://digital.nhs.uk

They are a cultural descendant of GDS, who make GOV.UK amongst other things: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/about/

All of GOV.UK is open source in a similar way: https://github.com/alphagov

(Source: I worked for GDS.)
Yes, hence: YMMV. (Which, in case you don't know, is an acronym that stands for "Your Mileage May Vary", which in turn is an idiomatic expression meaning: a reasonable person could disagree.)
I wouldn't argue that is the case here but I do remember a small non-descript room inside an AT&T building that the NSA had access to...
Unlike in the United States, an injunction is the standard remedy in a patent infringement action in Germany. The idea is that Apple (the enjoined party) could subsequently negotiate a royalty with Qualcomm if it wished to have the injunction lifted.

The United States has moved away from this approach on public interest grounds (i.e., that it would not make sense to prevent the public from buying certain Apple products if those sales aren't preventing Qualcomm from selling its own competing products).
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Same this week but on amazon.fr
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-chinese-hackers-associate...

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-276B
I don't think Qualcomm will ultimately win in Germany, but in China? Most definitely. What better way for China to flex on the US than to stick it to one of the top 5 US companies? Think of it as a tit-for-tat when it comes to Huawei.
Sales have already tapered off and Apple stock fell off a cliff when they announced their most recent production numbers.
Can you share the library or packages you used in django projects
You just need to Know why you are rejects from the HR and works on that area for the next interiew...I hope it helps...
lol ok buddy. Have a good christmas. Maybe someone'll buy you a coursera on reading comprehension!
I think the more interesting part is that Apple applied for a stay pending appeal and were denied. I'm probably going to need to read the reasons directly to figure out how Qualcomm managed to get that done.
That sounds a lot like ActivityPub / Mastodon.
Groceries are a tough business. Kroger is already at the top of their game.
I'm guessing since these are publicly accessible groups via apps as the article suggests, moderators could in theory search out and shut down such groups. Not sure how much data they are able to provide to the authorities though, I guess prosecuting the people is the difficult part.
So dongle mania and crap keyboards aren't an issue for you?
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Only one of whom was governor when he was arrested, though.
> Police officer Anthony Fiorini said Mr Jackson's posture in the car was consistent with someone hiding drugs in his rectum.

What does that even mean? This should be the biggest red flag.

Our justice system is such a joke.

EDIT TO ADD:

That such a bullshit statement like the police officer made as justifiable reason to go through with violating his constitutional rights, and that now the victim needs to go through a lengthy (expensive) legal process for justice is my reasoning for saying our justice system is a joke.

Meanwhile there is another HN thread about package thieves and the amount of comments about how the police are TOO busy to solve those crimes.

Maybe stop with the dubious drug searches (Cocaine residue, really?) and take care of the real criminals.
As someone else said, it's mostly a figleaf because in practice the government does everything an ID requires, just in roundabout ways. For tax stuff everyone has a National Insurance number (I think assigned at birth?) so in a sense everyone already does have a unique identifier but you can't use a National Insurance card as ID because it doesn't have a photo. Instead you just have to present a random selection of documents like a driving licence, utility bill, letter from the council etc whenever you want to open an account somewhere.

I personally don't have any problem with national ID for the reasons you state.
> Getting a voice assistant was life-changing for me

Can you expand on that? In what way?
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I remember that there are guidelines for development of government websites, also on Github—concerning accessibility stuff and, I think, readymade client-side resources. Only I'm not sure if that was the UK government.

That was published pretty long ago, like a year or two.
I ended up clicking the links to Cinnamon, Xfce and so on.
> A British government spokeswoman declined to comment on the identities of companies affected by the Cloudhopper campaign or the impact of those breaches.

> “A number of MSPs have been affected, and naming them would have potential commercial consequences for them, putting them at an unfair disadvantage to their competitors,” she said.

Wait, what? These companies got repeatedly hacked, were apparently not able to re-secure the network, allowed themselves to be used as a springboard for further attacks to their customers, and then covered it up. And letting this be known would be an "unfair disadvantage"?
Hey this is great! I still can't believe how hard this stuff is to do these days (lack of good 'newbie' tooling and tutorials with the exceptions)
Is it good?

I’m excited for the day when it is!
Not exactly what you're after, but one from philosophy came to mind: Santayana's book Winds of Doctrine (1913), has a chapter brutally critiquing Bertrand Russell's views in many areas, including his ethics, at the time acquired from Moore. After reading it, Russell radically changed his ethical views.
Curious what your setup is like to cash out Bitcoin for living expenses? Is there a specific ATM card you recommend?
Out of the loop. What is this?

Front end template for allowing people or doctors or someone to use NHS backend?
https://community.keyboard.io/t/swapping-out-keyswitch-mecha...
The UK has the "Government Digital Service", who have been going around all the branches of the government consulting on best practises for web UX, accessibility, coding, style, etc. They're doing a brilliant job of updating the government's Web presence and unifying everything under a more coherent "brand".

Interesting fact I heard from one of their UX people - they write their html using a "screenreader first" paradigm. Eg they make the html work for screenreaders and the style it to work on mobile devices, and then desktop computers. It's a great approach for accessibility.
Corel... Now that's a name I've not heard in a long, long time.
They can, but whatever existing links or organic rankings they had are now gone.
They keep all recordings because they train their voice recognition off them. GOOG-411 kept all recordings too, for the same reason, as do hundreds of other services, but I don't recall anyone caring about them.

Google gives you a UI to view and delete your recordings and suddenly they're monsters.
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> Imagine the author is writing an internal web tool for a corporate enterprise environment.

Let’s not, since this is not relevant to my experience on the web the slightest. I couldn’t care less what you did on your internal network, as long as it doesn’t affect me. If you use the same standard for your external websites, though, then we have a problem.
Come and join me folks! I am an open wiki, and I'm happy to connect with you.

https://philosopher.life/
How are cryptocurrency prices calculated?
It has. Everyone uses computers now for less technical tasks, and some pretty much only use their phone or tablet.
Have a look at https://www.openjarvis.com/ . For an english tutorial see https://www.tutonaut.de/howt-to-build-an-amazon-echo-like-de...
Have you tried Google assistant? I find it to be much more useful than Siri.
Point of order: the last 3 transitions have been layering versus actual shifts.

Text-based computing -> GUIs was a shift. Broadly speaking, there is no market today for consumer-facing computers where text is the only input capability.

The most profitable company in the PC era also has the most profitable PC unit today. The Internet runs on top of the GUI layer. The smartphone is (in much of the world) an "also" not an "instead."

(One could argue that the original MSFT goal of being on every desktop was centered on work. By that metric, most smartphone usage falls into a separate category of consumer computing that largely is distinct from business computing, where desktops & laptops still rule.)

A grandparent(-ish) post compares the iPhone to the Google Home. Much like the iPhone did not replace my laptop (which did not replace the server in the datacenter), voice-driven devices will not replace mobile phones. All Excel (ahem) at different use cases.
Loved this post! Wished there were more posts like this written by by domain experts: short, succinct (no jokes, unnecessary examples), leads to many interesting thoughts on the subject and has clear references.

The fact that smell works so differently than our color perception is very interesting to me. Color perception is mathematically so neat to analyze: there are 3 or more (in some animals) basis functions corresponding to receptors and you build on that. I wonder why smell didn't evolve like that but developed so many different types of sensors. Probably the fact that it evolved much earlier is a factor (the more elegant solution was not hit upon by Nature) or maybe there is some other reason (important smells also evolved but all colors were available for training from day 1).

The phrase "the latest research seems to suggest that humans can smell up to 1 trillion different scents" is interesting since it treats smells as discrete entities, while you can't do the same with colors since they gradually change from one to another with no boundaries.
just start putting off the shyness and put on the courage to approach others.... It all starts with one steps..
A: dont trust a word that comes from

BBC UK

ABC AU

Vice

Verge

Vox

Young Turks

B: We wouldn't need to look into other platforms if the LEFT wasn't censoring people globally when ANYONE disagrees with SOCIALISM or PROGRESSIVES

C: Platforms that DONT censor speech

* Minds + mewe	(FB alt)

* Gabai	(Twitter alt)

* Bitchute	(Youtube alt)

* Tutanota + Protonmail(email alt)

* Wire	(skype alt)

* Librepay	(Donation alt)(Warning they use STRIPE+Paypal)

* subscribestar (Donation alt)(Warning they use STRIPE+Paypal)
* Startengine (Kickstarter alt)

* peertube (DIY self host youtube stream style server)
* stream.me (steaming alt)

* Voat	(Reddit alt)

* Movim	(Tumblr alt)

* @GetTogether (meetup.com alt)

Also look into:-

* searX.me or Duckduckgo (search alt)

* OpenStreetmap - instead of Google maps

* imgtc or tineye - free image upload site

* Linux - Win/MacOSX replacement

* f-droid.org - Google Play Store ALT

* Mumble - Discord ALT

* spreadshirt - shirt alt

Regards
Charliebrownau
Why? What are governments doing?
we could pass laws making companies liable for their security (or at the minimum, remove current laws that shield companies from being sued for damages when they leak personally identifying information)

But its easier to blame China, so let's do that.
I don't understand how it's even possible to bill the person for this procedure and not the police.
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> we admit students based on a skills assessment evaluation that aspires to be blind to those criteria

I think that is a good approach. Thanks for the response.
How does this device grab the current weather and buy things offline?
Why is this redirecting to some fake Wal-Mart gift card scam? (This seems to only happen on iOS)
Maybe after they've recovered the huge costs of developing their software.
> No group has claimed responsibility. Climate protesters including Extinction Rebellion, which have been engaged in direct action to highlight climate change, denied involvement.

the perfect monkeywrench of the future. I'd expect much more of this as the world falls apart. "lucky" there are already anti-terror laws in place so the nanny states can strike down with full force also against those pesky eco-terrorists /s
In reference to fact 2, ‘Simon Tatham Has No Sense Of Smell’ FAQ¹ always struck me as interesting. Even just for the obvious things like being wary of gas appliances, somehow such a thing had never occurred to me.

[There are plenty of other cool things on his site beyond just the puzzle collection and putty.]

1. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/smell.html
>NHS.UK frontend contains the code you need to start building user interfaces for NHS websites and services.
Still worth it for me. And if they actually recorded all that and used it against me it would be like living in a real dystopian science-fiction movie, which would be an awesome experience in itself. Similar like how you want to experience a zombie apocalypse. Yes, I think it's that unlikely.
Right, Facebook themselves took roughly 10 years to build it, and they used a lot of psychological tricks to do it (first mover advantage, early FB was "exotic" and "invite only", late FB was an avalanche of FOMO and network effects, etc).

Similarly, the history of the White Pages and the Yellow Pages is a fascinating read and took decades for those books to be accepted. (Nowhere near as fast as they declined in the internet age.)
This is only tangentially related, but I'd just like to thank the NHS for their excellent news site [1] which soberly reviews health related news, and is outsourced to part of the Economist Group.

They could certainly do with improving its accessibility, though. I wish there was some way to subscribe to it. I have to use a third party service to create an RSS feed from it.

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/news/
20% of Google searches are made by voice. https://searchengineland.com/google-reveals-20-percent-queri...

That number is probably a little outdated now. But it’s definitely not targeting a niche audience.
the others companies have been hacked too... they say that because we don't know about it yet.... LOL... computer networks are still impossible to secure
History repeats itself. As Fortnite currently getting sued for infringing upon dance moves The Carleton, The Floss, etc.
The US has a really similar program that’s also doing great work! https://www.usds.gov/
Genius here: was there anyone suggesting that it could be?
It's not a N (ン), it's a NO (ノ); so, yes, this is from noir, cut weirdly.
I think his point was that different people prefer different things.

Like maybe person A wants really nice looking stuff, but eats it infrequently so isn't bothered by getting items that aren't quite ripe yet, whereas person B may not be as "picky" but it has to be peak ripeness.
I think it goes like this....

2. DEA suggests asks officer if they think stolen items might be in Alice's basement.

3. Officer investigates Alice looking for a connection to the stolen items that is strong enough to warrant a search of Alice' basement.
FBI domain takeovers is abuse of power, pure and simple.
Or a shared calendar
In my corner of the woods they advertised for an entry-level chemical technician, something that requires a BS in the subject, salary 30 kUSD. How you can pay on that for groceries, the rent, student loans and save for retirement is beyond me.
It can get data from the internet, I think the point is that it "lives" on-device and hence can be interacted with offline, unlike Siri/Alexa/Cortana which live entirely on the company's servers.
Fun to watch the venerable "tin foil hat" lose it's luster.
Been using snips in 3 different rooms in my home for about a year now, hooked into home assistant, with many custom actions that I specifically made for my apartment. I LOVE being able to control my apartment without the need for the internet.

Too bad local control seems to be a luxury these days, rather than the standard.
How long is a cucumber?
What would the cost of regulatory compliance and licenses have been? $900k was probably cheaper and/or less hassle!
My comment was making an implied link between many different things, illegal immigration being one of them. As it has an impact on the complexity os the US healthcare system and is one of the reasons why you can't just have a Scandinavian model.

There is a world of difference between a small homogenous group of countries where everyone pays more or less the same taxes their whole life and where immigration is fairly limited and then a country like the US where people arrive often later in life after they grew up other places and before they start paying taxes to the system.

Healthcare budgets are built up over decades not just year over year. It's based on people when they are young and don't cost too much for the system pays to the system so that when they grow older they are offset by younger generations again.

11 million people who live partly outside the system even when they pay taxes is a big number and since they live concentrated in around 20 metropolitan areas almost half of them in 3 states that make them an actual issue on top of the other things as they are not just distributed across the entire country.

In what universe it's racist to point out that illegal immigrants adds to the complexity of why the US can't have the scandinavian model is beyond me. You are the only one making illegal immigration a matter of race for some absurd reason.
Both Qualcomm and Apple are US companies, so I don't get your point.
That still seems like a reach to me. IANAE, but it's hard to imagine someone calling a neon green polyester suit "trade dress".
It's a Brazilian idiom, somewhat equivalent to saying "royally" or "spectacularly". Green and yellow are indeed a reference to the Brazilian flag. The idea being that someone wearing these colors would probably be some official person in a very visible position, like a player of the national football team.
I like Mayavi, but I wouldn’t say it was a ‘great’ Python application; it’s a pain in the install for e.g. Something like NumPy or AstroPy are clearer successful scientific Python projects to my mind.
> He refused to pay, and the matter was ultimately dropped.

A description of the ultimate disposition is what's missing from most of these "huge bill" stories. I'm glad to see it was stated here that he straight up refused to pay, as he should have. And really this should be standard advice repeated in all of these healthcare-cost articles, perhaps along side references to form letters people can send to repudiate fraudulent charges. Barring an actual contract to render services, a hospital's position is the same as a busker playing an instrument at a subway stop!

But what really needs to start happening is for these hospitals to start being prosecuted for (attempted) fraud. You shouldn't be able to send fake bills to people in bad faith, and when you're called out just back off and have everything be fine.
You prefer blaming the victim instead of the perpetrator of the crime?
I agree with the sibling comment, but just had to respond to this:

> The average person has nothing of interest to offer except more information about them in order to better perceive trends and distribute ads to them so that maybe they buy something.

This is a remarkably dehumanizing way of looking at people. You’re basically saying that people have nothing useful to offer except things we can use to sell them more stuff.
I can't wait for dataless computing
How was he innocent when they found cocaine in his car?
Edit: I guess it wasn’t a bag.

“Officers found a bag of marijuana and cocaine residue in Mr Jackson's vehicle, reports the Post-Standard.”
Caribou Coffee POS hacked, names, card info taken [pdf]
It's hard to mandate competence practically speaking.
Mostly off-topic, but since the comments have < 10 posts, I will do my part to engage discussion until the superior comments arrive.

I want to have the Year of the Linux desktop on my primary machine. I haven't yet. I will admit to severe analysis paralysis that is keeping me on Windows 7.

After Windows 7 goes out of support, I have to leave Windows on my primary desktop behind. Windows 10 has made it clear that it wants me bent over a barrel and to submit to its will for ads, telemetry, etc. On top of that, MS force-feeds me beta updates for the businesses so I can be cannon fodder to any new plagues before it affects the businesses. I am not Microsoft's animal. I refuse to become it after my chosen (and still beloved next to Win2k) OS is out of date and no longer secure.

But! I don't know if I can go with Debian KDE (+ non-free), KDE NeonOS, Mint + Cinnamon, Mint + Xfce, Debian Xfce, Debian Lxde

I know I want 'I-cant-believe-its-not-Win2k-DE' and that some Linux distros have old versions of desktop environments like Kubuntu or old kernels, but I don't know which OS to pick and stick with (not wanting to get on the grand tour of Linux distros), so here I sit.

Eventually I will just have to pick one, but if I can minimize the combination of [losing MS OneNote 2010, SysInternals, RCT2, Visio, and NoteWiki (to name a few long-used rando Windows apps with few drop-dead obvious Linux equivalents)] and [removing the 3-month worn in shoe of A distribution for B distribution] I will be gratified.

/rant?
I never understood why "climate change" advocates don't see past this glaringly obvious fact: almost every time there is some action advocated to "stop climate change", the source comes back to some progressive group. They are always advocating some pet progressive agenda like mass transit, human population reduction, or the reduction of living standards by forcing energy use reductions. Hello??? It's so frustrating.

We need to find ways to reduce CO2 emissions that will improve the lives of people instead of making them worse. How about massive R&D into nuclear power to make it safer, education about radiation so that people are not so irrationally afraid of it, fusion power research, a carbon tax and research into how to remove CO2 from the atmosphere so that, if we can get cheaper power, we can use it to fix the problem. The Tesla Roadster and the Model S is how you get people to switch to electric cars, not at huge gas tax (they tried that in Europe, btw).
I take it then that there are legitimate sites that do offer this service but properly verify owners first?
So the plan is to hide and not to disclose the problematic companies, and then blame everything on China... Absurd.