skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think that. Then I started wearing a continuous glucose monitor (levels) for longevity reasons. Holy crap, a latte with Oatly spikes my blood glucose like crazy compared to whole milk. There’s way more sugar in there vs fat and it really causes a strong insulin response. That isn’t the kind of thing you want to be consuming long term.
What I'd really like to see is a multi-dimensional inflation vector that would also be future-proof.

People really need diverse items: they need food, but also real estate, the prices of which are going through the roof currently, and that's a form of inflation. Also, there are many profiles of consumption. People have different needs.

I'd say that it could be a 100 floating point vector; with the first 40 values arranged by increasing importance on Maslow's pyramid of human needs; 20 for consumption pattern diversity; and 40 for future consumption needs, initially set to 0, to be added at the rate of 1 every 5 years.
There were a few things that strike me (I'm British) as being quite relevant.

The first is that from very early on the PM was flanked by medical professionals who appeared to be apolitical and were considered by all 'sides' on the vaccine debate to be honest (even if their opinions were sometimes contentious). That credibility meant they were listened to.

The second is that the NHS is almost a religion over here - this contributes to the medical profession being extremely well trusted.

In many places in the world the frontline medical staff are trusted but the system isn't. We're lucky here in that largely both aspects retain their respect. Note that I'm not commenting on other nations health systems or their population's opinion of it. We (the UK) are not unique in having reasonable healthcare; this is more about our high perception of the system providing it.

Finally, as a society we are very compliant, and also with the not-for-profit AZ vaccine there was a certain feeling of a national champion who was also helping to save the world.
well, the beauty of paying with crypto token is you pay with the token you yourself minted out of nothing, so initially it costs nothing to use it to pay people and then if enough people make enough submissions to this dashboard and you design token to be useful in some kind of defi like thing, it will go to the moon for the same reason they all do.
> That's not how it works, unless you control your partner's Apple ID and you lie about their DOB when you create their account.

Rather than reassuring me, this sounds like an achievable set of steps for an abuser to carry out.
Looks like LSP mode is async [1], but I haven't set it up myself. I mostly use Emacs as an org-mode app.

[1] https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/
People can pay you to explain it. People can pay you to extend it. People can pay you to do something different because you showed how smart you are.
OK well I think you should have elaborated more. I see a post that says we've lost RSS and I'm just like come on, give me a break, not another one of those!!!!
>If enough of the right people believe that inflation is going to happen, it will. As such, when inflation is happening, there is often a push to censor discussion of inflation itself, under the grounds that discussing the problem actually causes it in the first place.

The flip side to this notion is that if someone stands to profit from inflation, they're incentivized to promote discussion of inflation with the hope of increasing it. Would anyone in the blockchain space stand to profit from the US dollar's demise?
Right. The headline is about hospital census; the article does not support that point, and instead is about a different (and much less important, from a public health perspective) metric - admissions which are coincident with a positive test for a specific pathogen.
But, are they? The Swiss federal police weren't too happy about the reports they received from the Cyber Tip.
Ohh okay. I see it now.

This is like how two D6 dice roll differently than a D12?
A third option might be some kind software transparency scheme, where every change is publicly available and audited, with bug bounties.

This could be done to keep the professionals on their toes without resorting to relying on random unvetted software.

They could even take pull requests, as long as the company takes responsibility for them.
If it has a good enough UI, people will pay, just like anything else. Not everybody wants to build their own scripts around the data, even if its free.

Obviously this is not a billion dollar idea, but it sure could bring in some $ to pay for a full-time developer or two and still make a little profit.
This becomes especially important if these oracles become used in smart contracts. As we learned from LIBOR, even the traditional finance industry can't resist the urge to nudge a benchmark in their preferred direction. At least in that case, the parties were not anonymous.
Since inflation can cause the value of debts to decrease, it's more expensive to borrow money.

All monetary distortion (including inflation) translates into economic distortion (suboptimal allocation and waste).
Thanks! We'll work on that
> You’re obliged to report that image to the police.

Is this a legal obligation for all countries that iPhones operate in? I wasn't able to find a law via a quick google search for the US.

For US law, are there protections for people that report the contraband? I'm not sure if good samaritan or whistle blower laws protect you.
What a lie - I'm really noticing an overlap between folks fighting this type of stuff (which as a parent I want) and folks just lying horribly.

"if a child attempts to send an explicit photo, they’ll be warned before the photo is sent. Parents can also receive a message if the child chooses to send the photo anyway." - https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/05/new-apple-technology-will-...

So this gives kids a heads up that they shouldn't send it, and that if they do, their parent will be notified. So that's me in case you are not reading this clearly.

Now yes, if someone is SENDING my child porn from a non-child account, I as the parent will be notified. Great.

If this is terrifying - that's a bit scary! HN is going a bit off the rails these days.

Allow me to make a prediction - users are going to like this - it will INCREASE their trust in apple in terms of a company trying to keep them and their family safe.

I just looked it up - Apple is literally the #1 brand globally supposedly in 2021. So they are doing the right thing in customers minds so far.
Patients Were Implanted with Heart Pumps That the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous
I was once asked to use machine learning to make a record linkage system for some crappy dataset. I got no requirements, of course, so I set it up to have a reasonable balance of precision and recall. After all, the point of asking for an ML system must be to allow fuzzy matches that a simple exact matching system would miss, right?

But my boss apparently got complaints about bad matches, so he changed it to allow exact matches only.

The machine learning system ended up being a Rube Goldberg machine for linking people based on exact name match.
Duh; society is built on an honor system.

We look away to “live our life” and tacitly believe others are behaving honorably.

And they all do.

Economists teach us inflation is good because if we increase worker buying power they might own more than the current landlords.

Hedge funds short stocks 200% to crater companies and make a profit.

Social media manipulates our biochemistry (arguably wasteful consumerism is built around this altogether.)

We’re undermining the security of our habitat for future people through all of this.

Everyone is acting honorably given our detailed history of being honorable people.
USA does have DTAA with maybe 60 countries. Those mutual agreements are based on income from personal services. I think a lot of the comments in this thread are drawing conclusions about specific sources of income:

- there’s an exit tax, might be millions $ for the top-tier. You might give your money to family members or a trust before planning to pay it.

- there’s capital gains tax. This means your income is not from personal services and instead from just being wealthy. Looks to me like a lot of the comments here are defending the rights of people with that lifestyle. Those people do not need DTAA.

- reported income from personal services (labor) is what you’re talking about. The bad experiences in this thread are real, but DTAA is meant to make life easier for professors and touring musicians, etc.

- unreported income is indistinguishable from money laundering. The underworld is a very libertarian place, a sore spot for some in this thread.
Even the smallest change to an image changes a cryptographic hash.
They do, but similar results are being seen in the other nations of the UK.
The Cult Of The Apple hawks its slimy surveillance Snake Oil to a gluttonous throng of thralls.

So where's the news?
I’m very concerned that a bunch of false positives will send people’s nudes to Apple for manual review. I don’t trust apple’s on device ML for something this sensitive. I also can’t imagine that Apple will now not be forced to implement government forced filtering and reporting on iMessage. And this will likely affect others like WhatsApp because now governments know that there is a way to do this on E2E.

What are some other fully encrypted photo options out there?
Uh yes, I’m an example of one. I’ve understood all of the operators at one point or another. I get the basic ideas. I’ve just barely used them so I would have to look them up before using them. I also don’t find the concept of bit-shifting to be that intuitive. Boolean logic is easy and a very necessary fundamental concept for all programming — I’m completely comfortable with that…

For what it’s worth, I think most people consider me a competent software engineer. I have a degree in computational mathematics from a good school.
A good rule of thumb is low fat = high sugar and vice versa.
If you open an application when it's already open, Windows creates a whole new instance of the application instead of just switching to the already-open application.
So what like 7k people? 2 Million is not even a big figure. Sounds like the site is making a mountain out a pin prick.

Also if you notice the number spiked in 2016, meaning that it was more to do with Trump than anything else.
It's phototoxic. If you touch it, getting the sap on you, and then expose that skin to sunlight, it causes blisters and scarring. That's caused by a chemical in the plant called furanocoumarin. (If you touch it, wash that area with soap and cold water, and avoid exposing it to sunlight for at least 48 hours.)

That's even mentioned in the lyrics to the Genesis song: "Strike by night! / They are defenceless / They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom"
Yet Apple gave access to all the chinese user iCloud data to the Chinese government, including messages, emails, pictures, etc.

NYT Daily had an episode where they talked about how the CCP is getting Apple to bend it's commitment to privacy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/podcasts/the-daily/apple-...
yes I used to pay for unity but if I were an aspiring dev today, I'd jump right into the unreal ecosystem as their freemium model makes much more sense to start in.
Who knew after decades of administering flu vaccines that all it took to eradicate the flu was half-assedly wearing cotton face masks?
Whenever someone tries to spread their miserable worldview and I present them with this thought experiment they respond in one of two ways: total silence or a novel. It's telling.
For your possible inspiration: Emacs in iterm2/tmux with 24-bit color, and a bunch of fancy icon sets mapped into the private use area running LSP mode looking a large Python code base[0].

[0]: https://muppetlabs.com/~mikeh/ttyemacs.png
Its the kind of "bad" Nvidia purchase like when they pay game publishers for incorporation of physx/cuda/hairworks/gameworks resulting in

https://techreport.com/news/14707/ubisoft-comments-on-assass...

https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-to...

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/amd-says-nvidias-game...

Here it appears they purchased this https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/12/mozilla-winds-down-deepsp...
Definitely, assuming there is no legitimate underlying inability to be vaccinated.
Author here if you have any questions. The main reason to write this document is people used to APL wondering why BQN leaves out certain primitives (answer: I don't think they're really primitives), but probably more HNers would wonder why it has so many that ASCII isn't even fit to keep them all (the full list is at https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/primitive.html). Just as well; hopefully I've addressed both concerns!
> So this means it is checking if you are sharing known CP images?

No. NeuralMatch was “trained” using 200,000 CP images. “Neural“ is likely a reference to the perceptual matching that it uses. It is not a bit for bit match.

Perceptual matching is a technique used for categorizing images based on characteristics and content.

The algorithm will scan your library containing new information and compare it to what it understands as CP.
The point he was making, and I agree, is that you can't expect people in China to make sacrifices unless you do first. Lets get our own personal emissions down first, then point the finger at China.
That was my question too. I fell asleep earlier, and I'm like did I wake up in some twilight zone without RSS???
They are putting their own users under surveillance. Didn’t expect that from Apple.
Interesting. I'm using Rust on a fairly large project. I guess that takes a hefty chunk of processor time to work with, which causes Emacs to lock up and NeoVim not to..
It does seem low compared to the rise in developer salaries of late. I guess that's why they need help tracking inflation.
New Apple technology will warn parents and children about explicit photos
> the Photos app will hash images and compare to the list in the database. If it matches then presumably they do something about that. The database is only a list of KNOWN child abuse images circulating.

This seems fine as it's (a) being done on iCloud-uploaded photos and (b) replacing a server-side function with a client-side one. If Apple were doing this to locally-stored photos on iCloud-disconnected devices, it would be nuts. Once the tool is built, expanding the database to include any number of other hashes is a much shorter leap than compelling Apple to build the tool.

> it seems easy enough to clear that one up

Would it be? One would be starting from the point of a documented suspicion of possession of child pornography.
Per capita emissions are extremely relevant because it indicates which countries need to implement drastic changes.

The US, Canada and Australia together make up roughly 20% of global emissions with approximately 5% of the global population. Regardless of how you slice it these countries need to take serious action.
> I said, 'by default'. I know that it is possible to do a manual verification, but I am yet to have a chat with a person who would do that.

I'm not sure what else you'd expect. The alternative would be for Signal not to handle key exchange at all, and only to permit communication after the user manually provides a security key that was obtained out-of-band. That would be an absolutely disastrous user experience.

> Also, the Signal does not give any warnings or indication that chat partner identify is manually verified

That's not true. When you verify a contact, it adds a checkmark next to their name with the word "verified" underneath it. If you use the QR code to verify, this happens automatically. Otherwise, if you've verified it manually (visual inspection) you can manually mark the contact as verified and it adds the checkmark.
I had a Sparc 5 at home when I was in my early 20's, probably 1996 or 97. That was my main desktop for about 4 or 5 years. Great machines.
You confused the 2 new features. The child pornography detector compares perceptual hashes. The iMessage filter tries to classify sexually explicit images.
Forbes is an ad tracker with a CMS inside it
For about the same reason that you should use blockchain for inventory management.
wow. in the middle of reading that, i realized that this is a watershed moment. why would apple go back on their painstakingly crafted image and reputation of being staunchly pro privacy? its not for the sake of the children (lol). no, something happened that has changed the equation for apple. some kind of decisive shift has occurred. maybe apple has finally caved in to the chinese market, like everyone else in the US, and is now making their devices compatible with chinese surveillance. or maybe the US government has finally managed to force apple to crack open its shell of encryption in the name of a western flavored surveillance. but either way, i think it is a watershed moment because securing privacy will from this moment onward be a fringe occupation in the west. unless a competitor rises up -- but thats impossible because there arent enough people who care about privacy to sustain a privacy company. thats the real reason why privacy has died today.

if you really want to save the children, why not build the scanning into safari? scan the whole phone! just scan it all. its really no different than what they are doing. its not like they would have to cross the rubicon to do it, not anymore anyway.

and also i think its interesting how kids will adjust to this. i think a lot of kids wont hear about this and will find themselves caught up in a child porn case.

im so proud of the responses that people seem to generally have. it makes me feel confident in the future of the world.

isnt there some device to encrypt and decrypt messages with a separate device that couples to your phone? like a device fit into a case and that has a keyboard interface built into a screen protector with indium oxide electrodes.
Sending soldiers to die trying to take a fortress isn't a proper winning strategy.

Maybe they will just state they intentions, ask for a peaceful surrender, if there's a negative, probably detonate a low yield nuclear device close to the island, then threat Taiwan about a proper aerial detonation after 24 hs. (to send the whole island to the stone age with the PEM). No need to lose/destroy the entire country infrastructure, just disabled it temporarily. And just after that, you could starting seeing a rain missiles over the protected beaches.

The strong of the chinese fleet and the infantery will remain fully available and still untouched, after maybe 72 hs. after the initial detonation. Just ready for any external - foreseeable - interference arrival, by the way.

If it's confirmed that nobody will actually try risk a WWIII detonation incident, the actual invasion will follow. How they would play their cards after having the territory would be another story.

¿Who would fight an entire fleet+army for Taiwan, with the risk of losing Japan and/or South Korea if the cards are badly played? Not even invaded, just leveled with shells + cruise missiles.

If somebody tries to intervene, it will fight an entire fresh fleet + army. Of course, any power could attack Mainland, but that risk retaliation against their own coasts, forces, not some half-world away country.

I think China hasn't attacked yet because it provides not enought return for what it would cost them, or could cost them if the hostilities get extended to third countries, or worst, if the damage touches the Mainland.

Taiwan indeed achieved a succesful deterrent strategy here, because the extensive conventional military power of theirs almost guarantees that the only reasonable way to invade them would be using nuclear weapons, and the stakes of using nukes are ashtoningly high:

you (as in China), could win a thousand years remembered battle or suddenly sunk in a sea of unintended consequences.
Thanks for the further background information. I have to say it doesn't really make it better for me. The "angry people" are of course correct that you can also create bias in other ways than data sets. But are they implying that people generally deliberately introduce such biases to uphold discrimination? That seems like a very serious and offensive claim to make, and not very helpful either.

The whole way to think about issues is backwards in my opinion. I would think usually when you train some algorithm, you tune and experiment until it roughly does what it wants you to do. I don't think anybody starts out by saying "let's use the L2 loss function so that everybody starts white". They'll start with some loss function, and if the results are not as good as they hope, they'll try another one. In fact the usual approach will lead back to issues with the data set, because that is what people will test and tweak their algorithms with. If the dataset doesn't contain "problematic" cases, they won't be detected.

But overall, such misclassifications are simply "bugs" that should get a ticket and be fixed, not trigger huge debates. I think it is toxic to try to frame everything as an issue of race.
Why is it always "think of the children"? It gets people emotional? What about terrorism, murder, or a litany of other heinous violent crimes?
Agree. Follow the money. Is anyone really shocked at this point? I've heard that Dr. Fauci is a partial owner on some patents, and that somehow this isn't a conflict of interest. And CNN has already demonstrated that it's woefully compromised. (They need to fire Chris Cuomo, like three months ago..)
I think drone delivery is the future for certain narrow use cases.

I don't think it's the future for common delivery in towns/cities, at least unless someone can figure out how to make them quiet enough so that people don't get mad. No matter what the FAA says about it, cities and towns have the authority to disallow them, and if the townsfolk are mad enough, they will.
Guess what? Substack supports RSS. Every substack has a feed.
>Also, there are many profiles of consumption. People have different needs.

How do you get people to agree on which profile? I have a feeling it'll end up like the various unemployment statistics U-1 through U-6, ie. "you're a fool if you believe unemployment is at x% (U-3), the real unemployment rate is y% (your choice of U1/2/4/5/6, depending on the picture you want to paint)"
Yes! When attempting to close the last two tabs in the vertical tab list, one after another, the "Tab Closed ↩" popup of whichever tab you close first will arise at the bottom of the list and obstruct the close button ('X') of the remaining tab, for it's full 3 second duration. Hence, to close the last n tabs, you must close the second-to-last tab n - 1 times, and then wait those 3 seconds to close the last tab.
> what happens when Google inevitably copies this in six months? There really is no competing platform that comes close.

Then you have to make a decision about what matters more. Convenience and features, or privacy and security.

I've made that decision myself. I'll spend a bit more time working with less-than-perfect OSS software and hardware to maintain my privacy and security.
Yeah I'd have to set some actual evidence of censorship, rather then just asserting it. Unless by censorship they really mean people arguing against them. There seems to be a thing now in some circles where any disagreement is considered censorship.
Well, it’d be kind of dumb to make the mistake of building a system to stop child pornography only to have it become the biggest distributor of CP photos in history
So yours is the position that one never has standing to argue that one should not do something, whether one did it, or one did not?
> Inflation is a monetary phenomenon, a function of money printing

Is it, though? Are hotels and used cars more expensive this year because of money printing?