skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only is this not news there's a lot of FUD about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904857

Reposting my comment:

Apple has already publicly said in court filings, and under threat of perjury, that they don't make any exceptions for China.
From Apple's filing [1]:

>Finally, the government attempts to disclaim the obvious international implications of its demand, asserting that any pressure to hand over the same software to foreign agents “flows from [Apple’s] decision to do business in foreign countries . . . .” Opp. 26. Contrary to the government’s misleading statistics (Opp. 26), which had to do with lawful process and did not compel the creation of software that undermines the security of its users, Apple has never built a back door of any kind into iOS, or otherwise made data stored on the iPhone or in iCloud more technically accessible to any country’s government. See Dkt. 16-28 [Apple Inc., Privacy, Gov’t Info. Requests]; Federighi Decl. ¶¶ 6–7. The government is wrong in asserting that Apple made “special accommodations” for China (Opp. 26), as Apple uses the same security protocols everywhere in the world and follows the same standards for responding to law enforcement requests. See Federighi Decl. ¶ 5.

and a declaration from Craig Federighi personally [2]:

>Apple uses the same security protocols everywhere in the world.

>Apple has never made user data, whether stored on the iPhone or in iCloud, more technologically accessible to any country's government. We believe any such access is too dangerous to allow. Apple has also not provided any government with its proprietary iOS source code. While governmental agencies in various countries, including the United States, perform regulatory reviews of new iPhone releases, all that Apple provides in those circumstances is an unmodified iPhone device.

>It is my understanding that Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a "backdoor" in any of our products and services.

>I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct.

When China wants something from iCloud they do it the same way that law enforcement does it everywhere in the world, which is through Apple.

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2762131/C-D-Cal-1...

[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2762118-Federighi-De...
Isn't it better to train the model that way though? In fact it might be good to load every image in different orientations to add to the training data.
Assuming it does say something about a persons real life preferences (and I'm not sure that it does) I'd much rather they spend their time in front of a computer watching cartoons than out in the world causing harm. I figure it's best to give anyone cursed with desires they can't morally satisfy any outlet we can give them for those feelings.
Apple maintains a separate document on how individual content is encrypted [1].

Note that it is not apparent whether some of data listed under "end-to-end encrypted" is also included with iCloud Backups.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
> And the only price you pay is to install another launcher that costs you nothing

Yeah, no. I'm not going to install another launcher that wastes RAM, bandwidth etc. and begs for my attention. Having games spread across multiple launchers is horrible UX too.

The Steam monopoly is a good thing for customers. What's bad is that it's private property and run for profit rather than to be useful.
It hasn’t; it comes up every time Apple and privacy is discussed.
I did the same thing at my school but it was a brand new SMT magnet school so we showed the net admins and helped to prevent it... Zipslack (first 100mb linux distro) with l0phtcrack was part of my EDC. I believe the first time it was shown to the adults was after someone locked the school network admin out of everything so we helped him recover. We even set up a security lab for the admin team. The next year anything that looked like hacking was grounds for expulsion which lead to a lot more problems with it if you ask me. The school with a wing full of hackers wasn't gonna quit looking at new tools. The school just decided it was like teen sex or smoking. Banned! Lol.
That's not true though?

Edit: I'm not familiar with this beyond previous discussion on hn, so could be wrong.
6,000 words can be condensed to: Open source software is immoral because authors are
uncompensated and because bad actors (his example was ICE) use it. The
solution then must "come from a place of respect of other people." He concludes he
has "no idea" what a people-centric collaborative model would look like.

> There's still a lot to be said...

No, I think you've said quite enough, none of it particularly insightful. Verbosity is an existential threat.
OTOH, if you're like me, and want to update to get a new version of one package (and its dependency tree), it's a very common experience to find out that some completely unrelated option has changed in some backwards compatibility breaking way such that I never had to deal with when I ran Arch Linux.

You can use nix-env -i of course, but then you have a duplicate package (that can be out of sync and easy to forget about) and this doesn't work for anything with a systemd service.

I like that I can't really fuck up my NixOS installation, but I actively dread updating (although it's got a lot better in the last year). I'd love a NixOS alternative that took backwards compatibility a lot more seriously.
Man, I know what you mean!
I'd say definitely better. You can probably throw them into the garbage power plants, and if not it's still a much more manageable problem. More tangible too, which is one of the big tragedies of carbon emissions.
I sympathize with the idea, but how does one define hate speech? Couldn't The CCP claim that any speech in support of Hong Kong is speech in hate of The CCP? Limiting speech in anyway gets very slippery.
> If their economic ministry is doing its job then they will have detailed contingency plans to address the loss of any of their major foreign benefactors, and if required those jobs can be replaced with state handouT-shirt

Why not already do it instead of taking the risk allowing Western companies undermining their state ideology? Does Apple transfer technology to them and they needed that?

I don’t see them easily recovering, in the PR sense after kicking Apple out. They are already in the defensive posture with HK protests, which they saw get out of hand. Concentration camps for Muslim minorities is a terrible PR disaster. If anything Apple is in a good position to squeeze more concessions and handouts out of them at this point. Even, say make a publicity stunt about opening a factory in Vietnam or moving it back to US.
This is great. I looked at it previously but leaned towards LibreOffice for my case. I will try it.
Almost no companies have direct elections because CEOs rightfully hate them, shareholders get scared and can make uninformed decisions, and the board is better informed to decide on the behalf of shareholders. In the cases they do exist, stock is issued with different voting rights to prevent activist shareholders turning over a company without the board's approval. Also in this case, even if there was a direct election structure at Epic, there is no other 11% for Tencent to convince. Sweeney himself owns more than 50% of the stock.
That’s what my first numeric mentor taught me. You have to look at raw data. The first q he’d ask any programmer was “did you look at the data, the actual data?”. He was a PhD in Physics and his approach really sticked with me.

But it’s not always straightforward to “look at data”
Can we get one of the alien logos next?
in terms of exif data I'd agree, but I don't think most people have to worry about someone figuring out where they are from eyeball reflections. This guy was lucky enough to get a clear reflection, but luckier still that what was captured was meaningful enough to give him a specific location.
I guess you could vote with your wallet by buying from a leading competitor instead. It won't hurt them directly, but market position matters to them. They will probably notice it about as much as one lost sale :(
Some quick (and uninformed) mental maths makes this ~22 random alphanumeric characters:

26 (a-z) + 26 (A-Z) + 10 (0-9) = 62 characters
This which can be represented with (just under) 6 bits of information. (2^6 = 64).
And 128/6 < 132/6 = 22.

I'd guess quite a few people who use password managers use password this length...
I am sorry I was not clear with the language. I was trying to put current market players(opensource or not) and compare them with an open source initiative i.e. LibreOffice Online.
In my opinion it doesn't make sense to pay taxes on a fork until you sell it and realize the gains. Otherwise do you pay taxes a second time when you do sell it?
I've been hearing good things about the super-asymmetry research from CalTech that was confirmed by Fermilab.
Antarctica warming breaking records
Unless the rules were unique and hidden for each user!

User1: 1,3,7,10,12,15
User2: 2,3,5,8,10,13

I think we’re on to something big.
Are you gonna fire Troy?
"An existential threat" is a bit much, but I definitely thank you for the conciseness of your summary.
What should the classifier identify on https://www.illusionsindex.org/i/duck-rabbit?

[edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/aydqig/is_... tried it out]
There is a correspondence between proofs and programs (curry-howard) so I guess if there are non computable functions, there are non computable proofs?
From what I've heard about work for the next IPCC report, the issue is much more pressing than thought before.

I'm not sure how far they are through quality control etc, but when a bunch of different group gets to similar results independently, you can probably assume no huge errors.
Thats when you say sure well start a basic research lab that will be $100 mil per year
Interesting. So like you have rational numbers and irrational numbers, you have trisectable angles and non-trisectable ones.
Some people seem to have been able to delete their accounts without sending in an ID. Some haven't. I have two accounts and I can't delete either of them. One even has zero purchases associated with it, so it isn't related to that.

The main thing that comes to mind is that there might be some kind of global deletion throttle to help catch abuse and it's been heavily tripped due to the recent activity. It kinda lines up with the error message.
I think what's at play is definitions of Syncing, Archiving, and Storage (I wrote this up a while ago, but could use a refresh - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/sync-vs-backup-vs-storage/). It's important to know what your services do. In your case it sounds like you want more of an archival storage solution - which you can do with our B2 service. On the computer backup side, we try to be pretty explicit about the 30 day version history (now 1 year and forever is available) - so that customers aren't caught unaware - and if we don't see an external drive or your computer for a while, we'll send a notification alert to try and make sure you know what's going on. We know we'll likely not be the right service for everyone, but we try to good enough for most!
Rather than reposting the same comment, the better thing to do here is flag the story.
As we speak I need a file upload widget that will reject some images based on exif. What’s your recommendation for client side js exif extraction?
We can manufacture elsewhere, and many companies already are. China needs us a hell of a lot more than we need China.
California, at least its CAISO grid [1], is more like "renewables supplemented by combined cycle gas plants." The change is fairly recent.

Annual real power [2] generated by gas plants in CAISO reached its all time high in 2014 at 11707 MW. In 2014 generation from renewables was only 5418 MW. Renewables have increased and gas has declined every year since. The crossover first happened in 2017 when gas power dipped to 7396 MW and renewables rose to 9671 MW. For 2019, gas is down to 6835 MW (to date) and renewables are up to 10507 MW (also to date).

Sorry that I don't have a quick citation for these numbers, but the raw data is here:

http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/

I've downloaded all the daily *.txt files and cobbled together big CSVs from them to track these sorts of statistics.

[1] http://www.caiso.com/about/Pages/default.aspx

[2] Annual real power meaning number of megawatt hours generated in the year divided by number of hours in the year; this implicitly accounts for differing capacity factors.
Airplane Park in San Francisco used to be a literal airplane. It was a F-8 Crusader jet with its guts scooped out.

https://sfrecpark.org/project/larsen-park-jet-playground/
A Deeper Look into the Life of an Impressionist [video]
Women didn't work as many hours back then. A lot of career options weren't possibilities then, either. Women's earning increases are largely attributable to cultural changes.
If you born poor/ugly/whatever doesn't mean you just give up, whatever state you are in you have to keep searching for it.

Sure its can be hard, but there is nothing better you can do other than just keep trying.
Not sure about accommodations, but the tickets are definitely not refundable.

> Tickets to BlizzCon, once purchased, cannot be refunded by the purchaser or exchanged;

https://blizzcon.com/en-us/event-info/attendees/ticket-agree...
> The people who pay set the rules.

Good, then let them exist only in China.

Somehow, if Blizzard has to choose, I think it will dump China first. Just a hunch.
Wish we could do something similar with solar cells. Seems to me, that some sections could be used to make streamlined coffins -- so you can slip into the afterlife a little faster. Maybe a blade tip could be placed on a turret of a ship, so as to generate a little extra push, in much the same way sails did a century ago. I suppose that such material would make excellent berm material when constructing levees. The list goes on...
I agree, I'd strongly lean toward a technical reason rather than conspiracy here - especially since, if a dude is deleting their account, you lost them already... if they can't delete it in a reasonable time frame they'll just walk away.

And it's not like they'd be the size they are and not have metrics on people trying to delete.
mind blown meme levels of wtf.

They sleep at night with the sad belief that because they hand it over to the Chinese and don't do it themselves it's all fine...
Special pleading aside, elections are how we gauge consent. What would be coercive would be if we deputized firms like Gallup and made their polls binding.

But putting principles to the side: your argument doesn't even hold up empirically. Americans have a very low opinion of Congress, but generally approve of their own representatives.
A simple forum can allow for account deletion, literally every open source forum I'm aware of does, and it doesn't require "being a full fledged company," either. This site is written in a Lisp dialect, so it should be possible to implement a new feature in a single line in a REPL over a cup of coffee, anyway, right? ;)

Anywhere else, having to contact a moderator to ask permission to have one's account deleted would be considered a user hostile dark pattern, nefarious motives assumed by default. But when Hacker News does it, well obviously it's just another sign of the elegance behind its design.
> In an imaginary perfect criminal justice system, charges/penalties are based on damage done.

Hell no. Otherwise you could just set up one gigantic crime by comitting a bunch of small "no damage done" crimes along the way-say, stealing a string of credentials one at a time, but not actually using them until you have all of them together and then you commit your major heist/crime.
Back in the day (early 1991) just before Linux appeared I convinced my company to pay for a copy of Coherent and they agreed. It was $99 and I learned a decent amount of Unixy basics on my el-cheapo clone 386 PC. In summary it was a pretty decent learning tool. I managed to get it to connect to my ISP and get some basic text based internet kinda things done.

I eventually filched a copy of SCO Unix from a customer (which is what I had to support way back then - along with SCO Xenix) with a license key and ran that for a bit and once Linux became a bit more stable (for me it was Slackware circa 1994/1995) I started running that instead.

I kinda wonder what would have happened if MWC had open sourced Coherent back then (provided they owned all their own code, or the third party code was compatible with GPL/MIT/et-al)?
Elm is simple, they can teach new developers. Note that they started out by having interns do the first dry run.
GDPR requires opt-out as easy as opt-in, so yes
I don't know how good they are with PII - but asking for a photo ID means you own that data-breach now... if that ID information is leaked it's all on Blizzard.
As someone who has worked in the arts for over a decade, I see no path forward besides worker ownership of these platforms. Every other arrangement leads to race-to-the-bottom for the labor on these platforms.

Maybe the ongoing collapse of American cities as places that are unaffordable for anyone other that the ultra-wealthy will push software engineers in this direction. The housing crisis in San Francisco alone should demonstrate that class interests of white collar employees are more aligned with those of the workers on the platforms they create then those of their current owners.
I didn't say it wasn't censorship, I said it's not a free speech issue and I stand by that. Blizzard is free to associate with who they want. They want to associate with China.

What if instead of china he started talking about how white people need to start driving the lesser races out? Should blizzard still be required to associate with him? Is anything less than business as normal too much of an impingement on his rights?

What happened to him is just business. If you don't like it (I don't), then blame capitalism (I do).
Early Viruses
You use drugs everyday when you smoke, drink alcohol or coffee. It's not really about the substance itself (which you may choose to take small to moderate amounts if you don't want to sustain a habit) but the personalities of people you meet there and the bonding over shared sensations. In other words, it's easier to befriend the kind of people who trip and rave than the kind of people 'values' and 'responsibilities' forbid them from doing so.
I use Sandstorm.io with Etherpad, EtherCalc, and Wekan. It doesn't get a lot of active development right now but it's security model is pretty solid.
> One of the big challenges of devising a grand-unifying theory of everything is that, if it doesn't make different predictions than existing theories do in any context, it's experimentally unverifiable.

Yea, but then it isn't a unifying theory it's basically just a giant case statement of "if relativistic motion, use relativistic motion equation". That isn't a unifying theory, that's more like a programming library that does everything.

A unifying theory would have to allow one to unify all of the existing equations we have as well as synthesize new ones; not just the ones we already have. It probably doesn't exist. It smacks too much of an NP-hard compression problem, where if we have enough output of the function we can find the minimal representation of it, but applied to everything in the universe.
You'd think Winnie the Poo would know this by now.
Your pun is well appreciated.
Investigation opened against Lucerne imam
Do you have any videos of the actual robots or just the simulation?
If anyone by the name of Crown Sterling takes your bet, don't trust 'em. They've got unified merrygorithms and kwuantum top hats.
> I’m donating my million coins to charity ...and will be deducting the value of the donation ...unless of course the IRS says it’s not a real asset...
What's the end-goal?

Tibet cannot be a separate country (or in that respect, Hong Kong) very much like Quebec cannot be a separate country from Canada.

You can say that China becomes arrogant, but what exactly West expect other than a total war that rewrite much of the world nation borders?

---

Although way passed the point to convince anyone, my comment above and below conditioned on "after WW2 (breaking up any large geographical country is unlikely)".
A lot of them will use an algorithm similar to this one https://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html
Yes, of course.

Actually, I don't understand your comment.
> In fact, members of the academy were so tired of being inundated with quackery that in 1775 they passed a resolution not to accept solutions to the problems of circle squaring, angle trisection, or cube doubling.

This is hilarious.
Why does China care about municipal politics of a foreign city?

On the other hand, I can't sympathise with the Tibet supporters either. The issue is not as straightforward as many Westerners believe[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/feb/10/tibet-...
I think this is very well said. Even as a Chinese-American born and raised in the US I feel unease with many aspects of the western narrative. It is very easy for me to see how things could be interpreted as xenophobia and/or arrogance, from the Chinese perspective.

I also want to add that 2019 is probably the worst possible time to extoll the virtues of free speech and democracy. The western world is facing difficult questions with the interplay between freedom of speech and internet technologies. Politically it's been an era of chaos and a resurgence in populism across the entire west. The Chinese aren't blind; they look at the aftermath of the Arab spring and see failure after failure. The US is hardly a persuasive role model right now.
This is where a very carefully worded description of the problem may be required.

Cryptographic backdoors are possible (See Clipper and LEAF for previous examples). Cryptographic backdoors that will only ever be used "legitimately" aren't, and legitimacy isn't a mathematical concept.
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)...

This is really just the second law of thermodynamics making its presence felt (not to imply that we're anywhere near close to some kind of entropic limit in the construction of wind turbines, but as a rule of thumb: in the process of doing useful work, things degrade).
somehow, the Allegory of the Cave comes to mind... ;)
try

open -n /System/Applications/Calculator.app

works for me
Hilariously the fact that they ask for a photo ID suddenly raises the amount of PII tied to your account by like 1000% - Blizzard knows very little of who I am, but if I gave them my photo ID then they're suddenly quite knowledgeable.
It's useful that people keep seeing it because I've seen plenty of bad faith comments about this over the years.
They had to apologize to SOMEBODY, and they chose Chinese censors. The bad publicity is incredible so far, there are 5 top stories on reddit at the moment
It’s easy to print out the dimensions of the image when it’s loaded. I always log the size (pixels, rows, etc) of any data I load.
Yes, total piece of crap. Many kourics.
I’m not sure what scenario you’re thinking of where a reservoir, thermoelectric chip, and radiative cooler is easier than a (much smaller) battery and photovoltaic cell. Care to explain?
If you don't trust that the access transparency log is genuine then why on earth would your files be in G Suite in the first place?
As someone with a fusion startup, and a recently issued fusion patent I read the actual patent to see what I could learn.

In my opinion, the patent does not describe anything useful. There are no descriptions of the shape of the magnetic field this device is intended to produce, and is about as useful as saying "Aim a bunch of magnets toward the center. It'll work, trust me."