skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know if suddenly my entertainment was taken away I would flip my shit if it was my government that was responsible.

How would you even know, when all your news is telling you it's the fault of those nasty foreigners?

It's been clear in recent years that even an ostensibly 'free' media results in some people with very strange ideas of reality. It must be so much worse when all the messages are curated.
I feel this should have a very basic statement:

"Apple does/does not store or provide access to encryption keys or plaintext of content uploaded to iCloud services"

This "support" page says nothing at all about what is actually encrypted vs. faux-encrypted.
It's not encountering it that inspires false confidence. It's knowing that the car has it inspires false confidence. People think that it keeps you from hitting things, so they worry less about hitting things, so they focus less on not hitting things.
Progress does not mean "Commercial success". Your bet is like hearing "my kid seems to be making lots of progress on their bike", and responding with "I bet he'll never cycle around the world in 18 years".
Tech companies tend to have software designs go through a lot of review and scrutiny, with the bigger ones requiring presentations detailing costs, tradeoffs, risks, etc. It's definitely a double-edged sword, and helps to have thick skin.
I guess they’d need Wikipedia and the early Internet culture to know about the Streisand effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
It's been covered previously on HN, extensively, for a long time.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=icloud+china
This shows up even in basic websites! My partner, who is an artist, ended up with some of her portfolio broken seemingly at random in different browsers---and for some of it, "up" wasn't visually obvious and she'd rotated some of the images in apps in addition (preview, adobe things, etc.), so there wasn't a good way to just change everything. ended up having to do a ton of work to strip exif data on an image by image basis.

Basically entirely because of this ridiculous issue where chrome refuses to respect exif tags.[1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42401203/chrome-image-ex...
Americans are flat out doing less. We move stuff around, tell people what to do in other countries, and write software and that’s kind of it.
HN clearly values simplicity over being a full fledge company. That’s worked perfectly fine for a decade.
WRT. "the community of scientists", I was just parroting the expression the comment I replied to used. I primarily meant medical reporting and its public policy implications.
That ship has sailed, if you don't want people running arbitrary code on your device, you should disable JavaScript
Just from memory, I can sort of see how they could have mistaken those priorities. Windowing systems (with which X11 was synonymous on unixy systems) were a big deal at the time, while TCP/IP, even networking in general, was still emerging in what probably was Coherent's target market.

Coherent did have UUCP, didn't it? In a lot of cases, that got you much further in small to mid scale environments than TCP/IP. I wouldn't even be surprised if Novell Netware would have been considered more important.
Agreed. Spotify's UI looks nice. That's pretty much the only nice thing I can say about it.

This thread I think highlights the absolute dumpster fire that is the insane design choices they've made:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/adding-an-alb...
Can you explain why you think that complying with hard legal requirements that are a hard pre-requisite to doing business in an authoritarian country is worse than eroding freedom of speech in a non-authoritarian country?

Apple can chose to operate in China and backdoor iCloud there or they can chose not to operate in China at all. It's hard for me to see how either choice will substantially affect people's liberties in China, it's not like apple products are in any way vital to the surveillance state.

On the other hand more and more companies retaliating (out of a desire to curry economic favor with China) against people who exercise their freedom of speech in non-authoritarian countries would seem to affect people's liberties to me.
so...

- whale oil made nighttime lighting possible

- the steam engine/tractor/etc and other labor saving devices eliminated slavery

- mining coal saved the world from deforestation

- drilling for oil reduced environmental damage and loss of life from coal mining

- natural gas has reduced oil consumption

- lithium batteries have replaced consumables as portable energyn

...are things getting better or not?
> This is very much not true. For one, there's rampant consumer capitalism, very little social net, no tens of millions starving to death, and something like 10-100x more personal income.

Is this a list of four different differences? Under Mao, when tens of millions of people starved to death, how much of a social net was there?
With a flashpoint like this, it makes it easy to see where on the map MNCs stand. This seems to be the beginning of the new cold war with China.
According to the google

> Passion noun: 1. strong and barely controllable emotion.

Passion isn't enthusiasm or reliability when people demand passion they aren't demanding a state that can realistically be delivered for 30-40 years, they're insisting that people operate at a level that will quickly burn them out and force other healthy components of their work out.

An employee and employer should have a mutually beneficial relationship where each party adds value to the other. The employer is using labour to produce wealth and the employee is gaining a reliable wage for their labour. The relationship (generally) ends at 5 when the employees go home, demanding more from employees is counterproductive, off-putting and sometimes abusive[1].

1. As a former game developer I can tell you that overtime has effects well beyond that day, these stories are more extreme than mine but here ya go: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/how-crunch-affects-game...
Because they're not adding features to this site all the time. It's a simple forum. Maybe they don't have the money or resources. You are using a free service and there are no ads. Just email the dang mods. lol
Global "passion economy" sounds like the devaluation of creative work. Look no further than fiverr
Strangely enough, I was slightly worried about Backblaze adding features that I knew would cost BackBlaze more until I saw the pricing. The last thing I wanted was for you guys not to be sustainable without venture capital. VC funding rarely leads to a good outcome for customers.
I agree with you in terms of overall violence. It’s improved mightily and generally I’d say corruption levels are not expected to be high.

I might disagree in terms of usage of heavy equipment, body armor, and prevalence of swat team raids (as a percentage) over older incidents. Beat cops often look like they’re ready for battle. I understand why but it’s not necessarily neighborhood policing, shaking hands, etc.
Of course I'm aware that freedom of speech is in the US constitution. It is in the Chinese Constitution as well. My point is that just as you hold genuine doubts about the level of sincerity behind this second fact I gave, most Chinese harbor just as genuine doubts about the level of sincerity behind the first fact you gave.

There are rarely any self-consciously unjust wars. Throughout history, all wars have been justified on moral grounds (including the Nazi invasion of Poland). Doing bad things in the name of morality is extremely common. Why is the Chinese not allowed to wonder whether this description fits current US behavior? (By many American's own admission, it fits American behavior towards the Japanese during the 70s and 80s)
They're incredibly helpful and nice in my experience. It's really not an issue.
Even with in the exact same product but different sizes I seem them use different units to make to hard to figure out which size provides the best value
How does anyone know what temperature rise is or isn't compatible with civilization as we know it, within the range of predicted temperature rises? One of the problems is that civilization is dynamic. New technologies come along, people change their habits, etc.
Yes, for years...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO–Linux_disputes
Well, given their record, they might just sell your ID photo to the Chinese.
Assuming the FAA had valid safety reasons to do so, those economic losses were worth it.
No, for instance you can perfectly describe the rules of Conway's Game of Life, and if you were an artificial intelligence living in the Game of Life you could presumably figure out the rules quite easily through experimentation. You wouldn't be able to prove those are the rules though, you'd have to make some assumptions that the rules didn't change in space and time, and that they weren't a manifestation of some more complex rules.
You’re right - that said thinking about both of these aspects and their contributions is interesting. I appreciate you bringing up the distinction.
If not for the typeface, I'd think it was from the 60s, inspired by the Bond films' SPECTRE, and with a motto reminiscent of American peak postwar supremacy ("Nothing is Beyond Our Reach"). I had honestly forgotten it was actually a "relic" just a few years old. And how it was hilariously tweeted out by the Director of National Intelligence just months after the Snowden reveal: https://twitter.com/ODNIgov/status/408712553179533312
> One solution involved reading the EXIF data with JS and rotating with canvas and .toBlob()

At my previous job I did the same thing, although I never noticed a significant slowdown. I also made the file size smaller since we wanted to have predictable upload times and mitigate excessive usage of storage space.

The other reason was that the EXIF data was wierd on some devices and the back end library didn't rotate them correctly.
You mean they have GPLv2 code in iOS?
Are there maybe some published historical stats of players online in different games or something like that? I was wondering how this terrible PR is impacting them. Given how attention economy works it's not immediately obvious to me how this will impact their sales short and long term.
I don't understand why this isn't a bigger story here on HN - have I simply missed the big discussion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21197104 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21197322 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199742 (no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21200363 (no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201922 (no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21203937 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21203978 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21204630 (no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21206624 (no comments)

Hah! Here it is !!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21196833 (220 comments)
Indeed. The linked Apple Support page marked the page as published on Oct 1, 2019 so I assumed it's new.
Assuming the image size is a multiple of the block size (8x8, 16x8, or 16x16 depending on the chroma subsampling), lossless rotation of JPEGs is possible, e.g. with jpegtran:

http://jpegclub.org/jpegtran/
What a beautiful playground. I like it!
Pretty sure the evidence is quite clear.

The first black president was elected promising change.

Now we have Trump who had no political background implying people want change

Choosing the least painful way to get screwed isn't consent.
What's the "uranium fuel equivalent", 1 ton of still mostly good fuel that could be reprocessed but that's more expensive than getting fresh fuel?
> With 0.2% of the jobs available in Norway mentioning Elm, and even if some of the companies using Elm might not state it in the job listing, I would say it is a fringe language here.

You say 'here', so I'm going to assume you mean that literally, and that you are indeed in Norway. Forgive me for assuming the worst, but you seem to have an axe to grind against either Elm, Vy, Bekk, or something else based on your several posts on the story—is that correct?

The article, and others have pointed out, it appears to be a good business decision, as far as hiring is concerned. They haven't had issues with newcomers learning the language. The OP them self said that Elm was a selling point for working there.

As someone who recently lived in Norway, and who has used Elm professionally there, we've also found it to be a good business decision.

A lot of companies hire for 'polyglots' these days anyway. For the most part, I wouldn't want to hire someone who wouldn't be capable of picking up Elm to a decent level, relatively quickly. When mentioning that we used Elm, it usually elicited excitement.
Hype... except when their BS is transparent and poorly researched. But hey, at least there are a few interesting discussions spurred on by this non-article.
Out of curiosity, why did they do this? Was hashing super computationally expensive when NTLM first appeared (NT 3.51 I think?)
Good for Prague. We need more European countries/cities standing up to China.
I'm in the process of replacing an Erlang service. Erlang is incredibly well suited for the task, and it's a terrible choice for us.

Initial development was done, system worked and ran for years. Team left, turned over and then 5 years later no erlang developers were left on staff.

The service is business critical, and you don't need 1 developer, you need a team. 3 would provide some basic backup, but you need 5 to fill out the 24/7 on-call rotation. (yes people need vacations, weekends off, etc)

Sadly it's not the entire stack, far from it, it's one mission critical service that's part of a very large system. So the excitement they get from growing, enhancing and scaling the system is already a bit restricted. Problem is, trying to hire is SF is already hard, and now we just selected the pool of engineers to be a small subset of those.

So now the cost of 3-5 engineers, the work to hire them, manager and deal with turn over. Wow.

Sadly (not sadly) we replaced the service with an AWS offering for $1000/mo. World changed in the 9 years since the Erlang product was first written.

It's turned me off niche languages.
Related: what's the name for this tactic in debate? Where a dissenter insistently demand citations so that the conversation has to pause and then the dissenter nitpicks the citation instead of the argument, effectively derailing the conversation.

It's hard to see this account (jbang5) as anything but an internet troll who, if not literally on the payroll from the Chinese government, is still a useful idiot for their cause.
And she was going to start a war with Russia. Admittedly, it'd be nice to have a president that tows the line more in the middle of the two, but another war is not what we need.
We should call it... dark energy
EXIF info is often missing or wrong. Photos that have been passed around, going through various services, apps, scanners, screenshots, etc. along the way, frequently have their EXIF info stripped (e.g., for privacy when exported or uploaded), written incorrectly originally (e.g., you scan an old B&W print, put it in sideways to fit in the scanner, and the scanner invisibly includes EXIF data assuming it was correctly oriented), or rewritten incorrectly (e.g., stripped EXIF is replaced with default orientation).
> Nukes [1940's], antibiotics [1920's], supersonic jets [1940's], space flight [1960's], the invention of computers [what are we calling this, 1950's?].

Supersonic jets do not belong on that list. I get that you like them; the world would be pretty similar if no one had ever invented them.

Personal computers ('70s-'80s) definitely belong on that list, and I'd argue that smartphones (~2007) do too but you apparently disagree. Maybe the Web too ('90s), though I imagine you definitely disagree there.

So, now that we have a list that's more evenly distributed across decades for the last 90 years, what? We just argue about what's on the list? Who cares? Is it just what I see as humanity-changing vs. you? This is exactly the kind of useless argument I don't want to have, because it tells me nothing except what Scott thinks is important.

Your military-usefulness definition is interesting, but I think limited, and ignores how competition between societies has changed in non-military ways. So, good at pointing out why some inventions are more important than others? Yeah, for some subset of inventions, but conveniently not recent ones. So I don't really think it strengthens your argument.

Further:

> Your point about us not developing super-weapons is not obviously true.

I made no such point. I said that the incentives for people to work on breakthrough inventions has shifted, and thus as a result that progress would look different post-bomb.

The US rewards invention differently than Russia, so it's not surprising that Americans aren't building superweapons, that military funding no longer produces amazing breakthroughs at the rate it did, and that the Russian military is still working on new ways to annihilate everyone.

> Re productivity; if you remove chip improvements from economic measures of productivity; things look super grim. That's what I said in the original article!

But this is wrong? Productivity stalled in the '70s, just as chip improvements really started to skyrocket!
Can you elaborate on how to do this? Thanks.
China is either the world’s 1st or 2nd largest economy, depending on how you measure it:

https://www.thebalance.com/world-s-largest-economy-3306044

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-worlds-largest-expor...

I think people are slow to realize their new position in the world.

When US and Europe shipped all that manufacturing to China, it created this problem.
I still remember reading an article about Doug Lenat and Cyc a long time ago in some pop sci publication and thinking, surely you can't be serious...

I don't understand how people ever thought such things could become equivalent to human minds, but I don't think that's my insight, but that others' thinking was blinkered for some reason.
I feel like the only way you get "less aggressively monetized" than OW is to have zero microtransactions from the start.
While possible, it seems unlikely that this is the case. I'd contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer to resolve the issue.
What's your threat model?

If your worry is Google, as an organization, is actively trying to steal your stuff, that's one thing. If your worry is a rogue google employee is doing some unsanctioned thing, that's another. This (imo) mostly helps with the second, unless you also assume that Google as an organization is fairly inept and so can't log things reliably.
> I would argue that Typescript and React or Vue would have been a better solution for the customer. Yes, Elm might be better in some aspects, but I could name quite a few benefits for Typescript as well.

Go on then. ;)
For the problem of global warming itself, given positive EROI, it's better to have those turbines and emit that less carbon. But for the problem of not running out of resources, it may be worse.

In a way, under existing economic regime you can pretty much consider renewables as non-renewable energy sources. A wind turbine doesn't burn non-renewable fuel, but it does "burn" non-renewable construction materials. Of course, climate change is the more pressing problem now, but I'm not 100% sure how much more pressing, given the exponents involved in all of this.

Most of all, just thinking about how even renewable energy is entirely embedded in our process of transforming raw resources into waste (with a little bit of economic value extracted in the middle) just breaks my heart.
ok fine then enthusiasm or reliability comes from passion.

well it is off putting, feel abusive, surely you will quickly burn out if you don't have passion for it.
It is in the literal sense spoofing caller ID and using the same tech you earlier claimed was clearly illegal.
Being able to discover and follow your passion requires a stability of life that most people stuck in grindy jobs are deprived of. Yes there are virtually unlimited things and I wish more people had the confidence and financial independence to pursue them - but being stuck in the grind makes it hard to see a way out... hence the abundance of depression in the modern world, most people are the cogs being crushed under the brutal machine, rather than those privileged to work in high margin industries that let them invest in themselves.
lithium is common but to get it's hard to extract, highest concentration is 0.14%(https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/battery-m...) which means in 1 cubic feet of brine there are 0.0014 cubic feet of lithium. Imagine how much power it takes to dig it out (definitely monster construction machinery ran on fossil fuels etc) and then add extraction process to that. I would be interested to see if there are any sources digging deeper into it.
Interestingly, your brain actually isn't orientation agnostic: http://nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/video/what-you-can-learn-stu...
Normally I'd agree with you, but when we find out that companies like Moviepass were locking active customer's accounts to save money, I'm not ready to give Blizzard the benefit of the doubt.
This isn't uncommon though -- even 30 years ago MLB would kick people out for any kind of signage they found off-brand, not even political in nature.

Unless is extremely typical of what you normally see at a game, you're not going to be allowed to show it.
Breaking a cryptosystem is not a good metric for whether quantum computers have become useful. Calculating energy levels of molecules, for example, is a much easier problem in the near term, and is of benefit to humanity. Breaking a cryptosystem takes vastly more and higher-quality qubits, and the end result is just that everyone upgrades to different math.

As a computational chemist, I assign 50% probability to the idea that quantum computers will be able to do useful molecular calculations cheaper than classical computers (for large batches) within 18 years. For small batches, classical computers will remain cheapest much longer because of overhead.
Xi doesn't care, just like Putin doesn't care.
> That document says very clearly the technology is not feasible.

Yes, that's true. In the declassified document from 2008, they explicitly said it was unfeasible.

In the patent from ten years later, they explain how they did it.

Here is a cut and paste from the Navy's patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/):

"The JASON report considers relatively low EM energy fluxes, when compared with those generated by the physical mechanisms described in the inventor's aforementioned published paper (on the order of 1033 W/m2, and beyond). This exceptionally high EM power intensity induces spontaneous particle pair production (avalanche) out of the vacuum of free space, thereby, ensuring complete polarization of the local Vacuum energy state, thus resulting in modification of the local spacetime energy density. It is because of this fact, that the JASON report's conclusions must be revisited, are incorrect, and are directly in conflict with the current invention."

In my Reddit post, I get into more detail, in regards to the relationship between JASON and the US Navy. (JASON was a program started by DARPA, who created the Internet.)
Essential’s new smartphone has the aspect ratio of a TV remote