skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They have handed over iCloud keys and data to the state in China already.

Have they not regularly done so in the U.S. too? I thought the recent-ish drama with them refusing to unlock phones was that they were being asked to break into their own secure enclave system, taking an unreasonable amount of effort and permanently making their own product less secure?

They're a big company but they're still a company. They have to abide by the laws of whatever countries they're operating in.
I agree with capabilities; though might not need it most of the time. I appreciate the creation of these tools.
Surely adding art to the walls and some nice flooring wouldn't negatively affect the fire rating.
The phones look good (at least from the parts pictured). I wonder if they can bring a higher price than Chinese competitors with a design advantage.
> Psychologically, people aren’t going to trust it very much because they have no idea about its capabilities.

What makes you believe this? Just because you won’t trust it until it happens doesn’t mean that the average driver won’t. It’s advertised as a feature of the car for s reason.
I'm not sure those are actually opposing positions. I believe that a stronger split is how important it is to stop the behavior. Imprisoning somebody will immediately stop their behavior and will provide safety for their victims, but we don't want to use an extreme tool like prison to solve a minor infraction (like, say, shoplifting). It seems to me that the debate is often about what is appropriate, where what you describe as "Approach 1" people prefer to err in too strong a measure that makes sure the behavior is stopped, while others prefer to err on the other side, i.e. is it more important to allow a bully to go to school (or live in freedom within society for larger issues), or is it more important to protect other students from them, and how much bad behavior do we accept, how many chances do they get to alter their behavior etc?
Japan, unless it was not implied by your "etc" :)
Vice - the mouth piece of cancel culture.
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Isn’t the placebo effect strong here? It’s hard to have any kind of sham Mediterranean diet for the control participants. The dieters know they are dieters, doesn’t that knowledge- “I’m doing something for my health” influence the depression as much as nutrition?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
I'm lucky enough to enjoy the feeling of a place not being designed for common pedestrian use[0] but it certainly would be welcome to at least have some thoughtful art in there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography
because then you don't know when you jump in the middle of a stream and see a 11xxxxx whether it's the beginning of a valid multibyte character and you have to keep it or part of a multibyte you have to discard it

same with the second encoding, if so happens that one 1xxxxxxx takes the value of 11010101 how would you know it's a multibyte start or a continuation?

basically in the current solution if you read the head of a multibyte character you know it's a valid head, if you read the head of a multibyte in the proposed encoding you can't know if it's valid.
Yes, the ultra-compact encoding will not be self-sequencing. But the bit-6-continuation variant yields more bits per byte, which would give better compression in many languages. Regarding efficiency, you still have to read every character, with the difference being one check every 1, 2, 3, or 4 characters in a more complex algorithm vs a check on every character in a simpler algorithm (I haven't checked to see which beats the other in performance, but they look pretty similar).

This feels a lot like mixing transport layer metadata into the data format, potentially giving a small processing performance benefit at the cost of huge data wastage when certain languages are encoded.
>Most Python libraries for working with image data like numpy, scipy, TensorFlow, Keras, etc, think of themselves as scientific tools for serious people who work with generic arrays of data. They don’t concern themselves with consumer-level problems like automatic image rotation — even though basically every image in the world captured with a modern camera needs it.

What a snotty attitude. The tools are already complex enough to take on responsibilities of parsing the plethora of ways a JPEG can be "rotated". This thread is a testament to the non-triviality of the issue and I certainly don't want a matrix manipulation or machine learning library to bloat up and have opinions on how to load JPEGs just so someone careless out there can save a couple lines.
This is the straw that would have me rioting in this streets.
Did you experience a week-month long increased depression after cutting sugar? That's quite common and one of the reasons why people can't do it at will. Sugar does some nice things to neurotransmitters.
Been experimenting with this and related concepts (intermittent fasting) lately and noticed a pretty swift improvement in mental fog, joint pains and reduced need for sleep, faster recovery from exercise.

Can't speculate as to where the benefit is coming from (IF or maybe I was previously eating something I'm sensitive to?) but clearly something is working.
I think the point was that obesity is a symptom, not a cause. And then there's the implication that "try harder to be thin" isn't an effective remedy, at least not so far.
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> For decades, the strongest predictor for a country having high social mobility is a strong welfare program including child care and health care, financed by progressive taxation of income and wealth.

I guess that does not apply at all to developing countries like China.

EDIT: looking at your link:

> An elasticity of zero would mean there is no relationship, and thus complete intergenerational mobility,

No, an elasticity of zero would rather mean that people are overly taxed and therefore there is no transfer of wealth between generations, which is probably not what you want (what is already taxed belongs to you and whoever you decide to give it to).

Of course, elasticity of zero would mean that there is no whatsoever transfer of skills or intelligence between generations, which is genetically patently false.
Something I don't quite understand about quantum mechanics and the MWI... At the point the atom passes through the diffraction grating, it has a quantum superposition. According to MWI, reality has "branched", right?

Then the two realities interfere with each other to form the probabilistic pattern at the detector. So, according to MWI, reality has "merged" again?

If we accept the mulitiverse idea of MWI, doesn't that mean at some point particles aren't able to marge with their branched-reality versions?
Apps used by terrorist to target victims and plan attacks should absolutely be removed from the App Store.

People fail to see these folks as terrorists but they're literally trained, paid and lead by the same US politician who oversaw the Contra programs.

If you're a legitimate user of this site, please read: these attacks are coordinated with the media which repeatedly calls them "clashes", "anger boiling over", "confrontations" and "suppression (by the government)".

It's even easier to co-ordinate such messages online. Not a day goes by without stories and comments about China on this site. There's little doubt the same media coordination goes on in social media, including here. It's a weakness--perhaps deliberate--in the Internet and how we build communities.

We are all worried about privacy, etc. But when has there ever been concern over Western astro-turfing and manufacturing consent online? I've yet to see it. Repeatedly we see stories of US/NATO intelligence infiltrating and abusing power within social networks to manipulate perceptions.

Where is the platform the protests against this?
I don't really care how transparent they are if they still try to stalk me everywhere I go both online (with Google Analytics, ads, ReCaptcha, etc) and offline (buying card transaction data from MasterCard).
This different is pointlessly fetishized. Once layers are cached on a node they are cached on the node and it makes little functional difference to startup times.

There's also the small matter of: nobody will help you with Alpine bugs or CVEs. You are on your own. For something like Windows, you can pay Microsoft for any level of care you feel makes business sense. Same for Ubuntu or Red Hat.
That seems little different from the opposite end of the spectrum where anorexics form "support groups" to encourage each other to be anorexic. I don't know if there is a right way to deal with it. Maybe you could ban those groups from online platforms, but that won't stop them from doing it "in real life." These people probably need mental healthcare, but there's no humane system in place to force treatment on them (and forced treatment probably wouldn't be effective anyway.)
Sugar + fat combo is known to be a killer, multiplying effects of each other wrt obesity.
I have not read the paper, am not an expert, and can't judge with 100% reliability - but my understanding is no, I don't think an experiment of this type will necessarily provide the insight into a quantum nature of gravity.

The effects described here are purely Newtonian - in particular, the earth's rotation and gravity are the same "kind" of impact, just an F=ma force which deflects the beam of molecules in the same manner that gravity deflects a stream of water out of a garden hose or the earth's rotation deflects a Foucault pendulum. In general I think I quantum gravitation experiments would require very low-mass particles in a very high-mass gravitational well: high-mass particles on Earth will be dominated by Newtonian gravity and quantum effects will be extremely difficult to detect.

The relation this does give insight on is between Newtonian and quantum physics - the fuzzy boundary between determism and randomness - which is itself interesting, but also better understood. Perhaps a more precise measurement may reveal that the gravitational deflection is significantly more/less than expected from classical gravitation in a way that can only be explained with a new quantum theory, but that is quite speculative and almost certainly not supported by the evidence in this particular experiment.
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Not really, "appealed the ruling, but then dropped the case on April 22 after it was given the correct passcode".

> Under what circumstances do you think it is acceptable for a company to require it's employees to incriminate themselves?

Human rights violations should be more than enough.
> In addition to that there aren't any services out there as well integrated as apples ecosystem is. (device to device)

Yes, there are compromises to be made between convenience and freedom. You are arguing that you prefer convenience than freedom; congrats.
There's that and then there's being minimally consistent in one's efforts.

Kind of like someone who would make a fuss about not using plastic straws but systematically takes their car for <500 meters trips and washes their pants 5 times a week.

It's not a bad idea to remind people that if they make the effort of not using online services which compromise for China, they also should make the similar effort of reducing their physical Made in China goods consumption.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_a...

The U.S. is dealing with the after effects of major social ills. Children in intact families are still very likely to have economic mobility.
> Getting super smart about taxes, especially by using loopholes and tax havens, can be counter-productive. Unexpected tax demands are not fun.

Sure. However, getting slightly smart about it, and not -- for example -- paying tax in a country you are demonstrably not living in, is probably a good idea.
Replicant [1, 2] supports 13 (older) devices. As to whether they are 100% working depends on what you intend to use the device for given that some functions (e.g. GPS) are not supported. If you're genuinely interested in this subject a search for blob-free android will give more results, also pointing out alternatives like PostmarketOS and Librem which are not Android-based but (in the case of PostmarketOS) can run on Android hardware [3].

[1] https://www.replicant.us/

[2] https://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php

[3] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
I believe the original paper from OECD:

https://www.oecd.org/els/41650997.pdf

>>
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and
analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We
supply new evidence on such rationales taking into account equity issues as well as efficiency
considerations, which are organized around the following categories of market failures:
productive inefficiencies, lack of information or rationality and health insurance externalities.
We argue that there is support for intervention targeted towards the young on equity grounds.
While the evidence that the allocation of resources is (or will be) significantly distorted by the
rise in obesity is less clear-cut, there are signs that this is the case due to time inconsistent
preferences and because of the resilience of product and labour market imperfections, especially
in some European countries.
Imagine the fertility impacts if this were happening in a low birth rate developed country!
I hate these types of questions. It's never clear what position the person who asks the question is taking.

In favor of punishment: Victims and relatives want compensation and since it is impossible to restore every situation, especially if the perpetrator has no money, destroyed something irreplaceable or killed someone, we want them to pay with their time instead. The primary goal is making the victims happy and preventing crime can take a back seat to that.

In favor of counseling: Law enforcement lags behind the actual rule violation. Someone is a criminal only after they have committed a crime. Therefore if your policy only targets criminals then it is already too late. It can't undo any damage and it cannot prevent any future damage after the criminal has been released. When they are released the reason they committed a crime didn't disappear. The perpetrator himself obviously didn't benefit from the punishment (in other words: he doesn't need punishment). Therefore the deterrence effect completely disappears and increasingly tough punishments do not influence the recidivism rate. Now imagine instead of targeting criminals after they have committed a crime we instead try the opposite. Suddenly we gain the ability to prevent a crime which is something the punishment only route doesn't allow us to do. So yes people definitively need help so they don't have to resort to committing crimes.
Can she not see that very overweight people are literally just not able to get around daily life as easily as physically fit people? She must be able to see that other people do things easily that would make her very out of breath? And can she not see that more physically fit people are more comfortable without the extra weight? I would have thought you could see all these things plainly even if you disbelieved all the things doctors told you.
Something like the "browser choice" that the EU forced Microsoft to implement for a while would do the trick. During initial iOS setup you'd have to choose which app store to use (from the currently most popular choices).

The law suit that resulted in "browser choice" started in 1993 and "browser choice" was started 2010, so this may happen "soon".
Also, on the topic of depression - today is world mental health day! Good timing there
Haha, this sounds familiar :)
Congratulations to the whole matrix/new vector team!

Next stop, conquer the world!
The point is that the division pre-dates the racist impact it has now. Racism and classism go hand in hand in this case the same way they do in many others.

I don't think the multi-tiered system would be salvageable even if there was no racism involved. Whether you doom children to economic failure based on their ethnicity (or lack of fluency in German, which is often abused as a shorthand for "low intelligence") or because of their social status (manifesting in various ways that ultimately lead to "poor performance") doesn't make this system any fairer.
That would be the purely financial angle (provided that it's accurate), it doesn't take into account who deserves the help more (which is a moral judgement and is hard to agree on) and how much more. If somebody attacks somebody else and hurts themselves in the process and they both end up needing a new kidney and only one transplant is available, who gets it?

Instead of punishing robbers, why don't we just give them enough money to live luxurious lives so they aren't tempted to rob any more people?
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If I start renting Porsches for $10/day I'm going to have massive demand. When I finally build out the rest of my infrastructure, get tired of burning cash, and decide to start charging a price that reflects the true costs, the initial measure of demand is totally irrelevant.
Ironically, it sounds like the internet was cut because of rioting in the streets.
Big, big fat disclaimer — not a doctor, not a nutritionist, but I am actively enrolled in the school of hard knocks.

Soda specifically is going to give you a nice big dose of sugars which your brain is just going to love. But what you’re also doing is kinda training your brain — well when I had that massive pure sugar dose I felt great, now I’m eating chicken and veggies, and wtf where’s the feel-good rush?

There’s nothing really wrong with that either if you’re at peace and doing as you’re doing, eating a holistically healthy diet. But I do wonder in audience with clinical depression — if those people might be gravitating towards foods that offer quick pick-me-ups that make them feel like themselves finally, but overall make their depression worse especially when the effect is quickly wears off
Protections for freedom of expression as an employee are much higher in the UK. Freedom only applies in the USA if you can afford to exercise it and not get let go via at will employment
IRS Issues New Crypto Tax Guidance After 5 Years – Experts Weigh In
There is also microsoft authenticator which supports the same things as Google Authenticator. They just added a backup to onedrive feature too.
The devil is in the details of the implementation, though. If we discard age for a system of "achievement unlocked" style phases, who will be in charge of evaluating and approving these phase decrees? Subjecting an entire population to a potentially capricious bureaucracy to deal with a handful of edge cases seems like swatting flies with a 2x4.
Interesting case of life mimicking art. This is basically the backdrop of Atlas Shrugged.
> by citing that even "fit" people are victims of heart diseases etc.

Yes, but with waaay lower incidence as thousands of studies (0 issues on reproducibility here) show.

> by talking about how we should focus on complete health like mind + body.

Sure, as long as she realizes that the two are interconnected and that at some point you'll have to do something, for real, for the body too.

Also in this case, there is an astronomical amount of research that shows the benefits of being in the "fit zone" irt body composition and of living an active lifestyle.

And for you, my sincere compliments for having turned around your life and changed your lifestyle, you rock.
This shutdown seems to be the consequence of rioting.
I don't doubt the benefits of a good diet, I've seen it myself, but having been depressed enough to where I couldn't even eat, there was no way munching on some whole grains or kale was going to bring me out of it. Only a more put-together person can start thinking about improving their diet. Which I eventually did, but that was long after I escaped the worst of my depression.
that's a huge assumption you're making.

Narcissists and Sociopaths make up 1% of the population each. To characterise most young bullies as narcissists/sociopaths when A - Their brains are still developing, and B - They're at an impressionable age where their sociability is highly moulded by their environment (e.g. parents) is disingenuous.
> Who'd ever admit to being 60

Someone who want pension

> redefine "old"

Sorry, pensions again. So you propose that we up pension age to 87 because laws were written when percentile of 60-years old was where is is for 87-years is today?
Some parts of the UK still have middle schools (it's done on a Local Education Authority level), although they're gradually disappearing.
What's the impact in Iraq for businesses (big and small) relying on the Internet?
> It's even easier to co-ordinate such messages online. Not a day goes by without stories and comments about China on this site.

What shows up often is just as important as what's never seen, because it's been censored.

China knows a thing or two about manufacturing consent and astroturfing, too.
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> Warrantless border searches are literally older than the fourth amendment

That's not an argument for warrantless searches, though. A thing that's regulated is obviously older than the regulation. Killings are older than “thou shalt not kill.”
Yes, the second one is not self-synchronizing, so it's out. However, I don't see much utility in getting first-character detection from the data format itself. You're very unlikely to miss the beginning of a stream of characters in any modern system, and in the event that your medium has no error detection, it would be trivial to add a zero synchronization byte to the beginning of the field.

My point is that embedding transport level metadata into the data format seems like a poor tradeoff because of the sheer inflation potential of the data encoding (potentially 10%), when a single guard byte per field would solve the problem of first character truncation detection.
Thanks for your kind word, very much appreciated.
I agree, this is well worth watching.
Apple has not handed over the iCloud keys and has testified in the US under penalty of perjury that they have not done this and not made an exception for China. Repeating this is dangerous because it’ll cause people to take different (probably less safe and private) actions based on incorrect information.
> but that won't stop them from doing it "in real life."

Ban them on online platforms, ostracize them in real life.

It may sound harsh, but it's not, considering all the people you'll save from them.
Looks like a vicious circle
>If you're a white male, there's perhaps less of a chance that a bad employee will feel they can take advantage of you, but there's still the chance.

You have no basis for this claim at all. You should have stopped at your first point.
They've allowed the regular democratic demonstration to escalate from thousands to millions. That wasn't necessary, it was clumsy. They cleared the umbrella protests long before they escalated to huge, and well over half the population.

Flexing muscle now will risk destroying the advantages of Hong Kong in the process. It will almost certainly have to come with some international reaction.

Given the sheer numbers, and visibility, if they react similarly to Tiananmen, the international reaction will be far larger than then. Whether it will be sustained...
2019-10-09

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/iraq-protests-latest-...

>At least 110 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded in Baghdad and in the south, since security forces started cracking down on demonstrators.

And the whole world is "outraged" about HK. Here on this thread the other posters are making jokes.

If they killed every single person in the country no one would give a shit. Same way no one gives a shit about Yemen.