skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In this second edition of ISL, we have greatly expanded the set of topics covered. In particular, the second edition includes new chapters on deep learning (Chapter 10), survival analysis (Chapter 11), and multiple testing (Chapter 13). We have also substantially expanded some chapters that were part of the first edition: among other updates, we now include treatments of naive Bayes and generalized linear models in Chapter 4, Bayesian additive regression trees in Chapter 8, and matrix completion in Chapter 12. Furthermore, we have updated the R code throughout the labs to ensure that the results that they produce agree with recent R releases."
My kids are older teenagers now, but I wish Apple would have had some of this 5-8 years ago. Good on Apple for investing in helping real world problems and issues instead of investing in silencing opinions they disagree with in the name of "misinformation."
Yeah, image files.

The scanner that can be fooled by embedding the images into some document is going to get useless fast. Therefore, PDFs and office formats have to be checked, too. Well, and archives, without doubt, should be unpacked on-the-fly. What if someone embeds the base64-encoded image into HTML? And so on, and so on.

You can't just look at media files, you naturally need to scan everything, and the working thing is likely to be antivirus-like, with many file format filters, heuristics, and extended description language.

Do you have the Collateral Murder video? Abracadabra, and now you don't have it.
Conspiracy theories should be considered, just don't endure consequences as a result of blind belief in them.
>YouTube and most other video sites also are very slow in Firefox

Is Google still using that non-standard virtual DOM API that only works on Chrome, and gets polyfilled on every other browser engine?

Some decisions they've made are just blatantly anti-competitive.
Also the used market should help bring down the new ones prices for being comparatively in better condition than combustion ones with the same age.

It's probably too early to build any significant statistics, but electric engines should last a lot more than combustion ones, therefore a well treated used electric car would probably just need a new set of batteries and tires even after hundreds thousands of Km.
As many, many people have pointed out, building a mechanism to scan things client-side is something which could easily be extended to encrypted content, and perhaps, is intended to be extended at a moment's notice to encrypted content, if they see an opportunity to do so.

It's like having hundreds of nukes ready for launch, as opposed to having the first launch being a year away.

If they wanted to "do it as all major companies do", then they could have done it on the server-side, and there wouldn't have been a debate about it at all, although it is still extremely questionable, as far as privacy is concerned.
> What makes you think a NGO would do a better job?

Maybe they wouldn't do better, but they wouldn't have a trillion dollar incentive and ideally there'd be competing metrics.

> Are you missing a part of your argument here? You just say that a few categories make up 60% of the CPI, then immediately conclude that "it makes no sense that inflation has been flat".

In the US, over the last 10 years housing, education and health care have grown by a lot while official inflation has been historically very flat (0 - 2%).

Health care: On a per capita basis, health spending has increased over 31-fold in the last four decades, from $353 per person in 1970 to $11,582 in 2019. [0]

Housing: Median home price was around ~210k in today's dollars ten years ago and is now ~314k [1]

Education: The cost of college increased by more than 25% in the last 10 years [2]

> The problem is that you need to do various subjective adjustments

Sure, but again, I don't trust the officials to do this given the trillion dollar incentive to fudge the numbers.

[0] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe....

[1] https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/13/cost-of-college-increased-by...
Kotlin now seems to be the language of Android.
"...listed as $MIA..."

Potentially an apt acronym if it fails to perform
I'm not sure what's the point; in this day and age, I'm pretty sure that if your 14 years old wants to send a nude picture, if they really have already reached to that decision, they will do it.

The only practical barrier here is that their parents have educated them and their mental model arrives by its own at "no, this is a very bad idea" instead of "yes, I want to send this pic". Anything else, including petty prohibitions from their parents, will not be a decision factor in most cases. Have we forgotten how it was to be a teenager?

(I mean people, both underage and criminals, will just learn to avoid apple and use other channels)
I go between thoughts like that and extreme worry about losing my skills.

One problem is that the work is expected to be done.. even though everyone knows there is no time to do it since we're in meetings all day.
I feel passionately enough about this issue to get involved. But I have not found that climate change groups are doing anything I can be involved in.

I signed up for 350.org and I got put on a mailing list. I signed up with Sunrise and there are events to support DC statehood and hand out blankets for the homeless. How do I find people working on GHGs? What now?
Right, someone I know closely had no success with depression meds, but finally a doctor had her go on anti-psychotics. And it has made a world a difference. Please seek help from a professional.
https://www.montana.edu/diseaseecologylab/covid19blog/posts/...

I admit that I forgot about the 2nd wave in 1919. But my understanding is that in 1920 or so, the virus mutated again into a less-virulent form, allowing the pandemic to end.
>Unfortunately that's just how OCSP is

Uh, sure, fine. But Apple decided they needed to see the hashes of the things people ran on their computers, to possibly block execution if they decide that's necessary, and they don't have to. I'm kinda shocked that you're framing this as if it's innocent, and therefore a bad example of Apple's increasingly paternalistic control. I don't particularly care what sort of RFC they're following or which alternative implementation sucks or which fig-leaf covers their true intent; Apple chose to have the ability to see what people are running in real time. If you're a regular of this forum, and can't immediately imagine how this sort of information might be used to harm users, rather than help them, now or in the future, I don't know what to tell you.

I also don't quite understand how this even helps with the stated goal of virus-corralling. Does the hypothetical virus that they're trying to guard us against change an executable? If so, then the hash is immediately different, but presumably no longer matches its signed checksum, and so could be rejected at the OS level without needing the whole 'real-time seeing what people run' aspect. Does the hypothetical virus run independently? How could it, given the prohibition against non-signed code? I guess the idea is 'prevent a once-legit app from pushing a malicious update and turning several nations worth of Macs into a botnet', style of thing?
I really disagree with this. I've spent time optimizing web apps (both client and server side), and I've never used bit-twiddling to do it. Your application will be very fast and have none of that.

The performance problems you run into on the server side are generally related to bad data access patterns with an external database or caching layer. They are solved by writing better queries, or organizing the data more efficiently. As an end user of those systems, you do not interact with the raw bytes yourself. Of course if you're actually writing a database engine or a cache, then you would.

On the front-end, it's a bit more complex. Often what makes apps slow is actually the way their assets are loaded. For example, using web fonts can incur a major performance hit if you're not very careful. Many shops have moved away from using web fonts for this reason. Similarly, loading javascript at the wrong time can cause things to be slow, because the browser has to wait for the JS to be loaded. Beyond that, slowness is often about inefficiently rendering data, or again loading more data than you need. To make a fast app, you mostly need to be aware of how browsers load and render JS, CSS and HTML. Bit twiddling is not really relevant.

But really what this comes down to is that no one wants to pay for performance. An app that's kind of slow still pays the bills, and engineers are not in the driver's seat to prioritize performance. Instead, the focus is on finding ways to get people to pay you more money. It's much easier to sell features than performance, so that's where the focus is.
> Pixels that come from Verizon

> Verizon

again.

> Verizon

Google didn't sell you that device. Verizon did.
> the main loss from US citizenship loss is voting and potentially travel to the US

There's a heavy to push to make this available to anyone regardless of citizenship, claiming that providing proof of identity will be burdensome. This is the same group that touted election fraud, russian interference and other false narratives for 4 years after the prior candidate lost.
This would not be the first time Big Pharma attempted to manipulate the public and government through extremely shady means, all for a big profit [1].

[1] Justice Department Announces Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in Its History - Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...
First it’s just CSAM

Next it’s Covid misinformation

Then eventually they’re coming for your Bernie memes
Reading several of the comments, there’s a narrative about rich people “voting with their feet” in an attempt to starve the Federal government into behaving better. And some are jealous that this is only accessible to the elite.

And in other threads, I think people are expecting wealth to become hypermobile. Maybe even to the point that theft is so hard to reverse that digital money is only valuable given the protections of being a citizen of a certain kind of state.

People here have negative opinions about know-your-customer obstructions to personal banking, even though we are all hurt by money laundering.
I think the number is more like 50 odd percent of the population? I think the 90% number is of some limited subset like "adults who have received at least shot"?
You’re not. Kotlin’s vision to be a high-level, developer friendly language across all platforms seems unfocused to me.
The CSAM scanning is still troubling because it implies your own device is running software against your own self-interest. If Apple wanted to get out of legal trouble by not hosting illegal content but still make sure iOS is working in the best legal interest of the phone's user, they'd prevent the upload of the tagged pictures and notify that they refuse to host these particular files. Right now, it seems like the phone will actively be snitching on its owner. I somehow don't have the same problem with them running the scan on their servers since it's machines they own but having the owner's own property work against them sets a bad precedent.
Goodbye Apple! I have trusted you for 12 years. All I wanted was you to trust me.
Test Like You Fly – Timing Is (Almost) Everything
That’s not what this does. Articles aren’t communicating the details well. There’s a set of known photos of kids going around. They are looking for those specific photos. It’s hash based checks
> Pro-fossil fuel Facebook ads were viewed 431 million times — in one year

This was in the US alone. Let's say that roughly 2/3 of the US population, or ~220 million people, are on Facebook. So on average, each of those people saw a "pro-fossil fuel" ad about twice per year. CNN's interpretation:

> Big Oil is strategically using Facebook to blitz Americans with a steady stream of messages

Two messages per year is a "steady stream", and a "blitz"? Fuck off, CNN. This is a non-problem. Just another outrage-stoking article from the mass media. I can't remember seeing a single "pro-fossil fuel" ad on FB, whereas I see dozens of ads for EVs, solar panels, etc.
No, I am under the impression that in this thread we are using the term "slippery slope" to mean something else that the one you provided in the link.

Also your characterization of "things change and some of the those end up being bad" is not the nature nor specificity of the evidence in this case.

Lastly, perhaps you should remain consistent and not utilize the "appeal to authority" fallacy.
Why should those living within 35° of the equator have to subsidise those living in the naturally uninhabitable reaches beyond?
me too. I have a set of git history analysis scripts that I often use when I'm joining a new team.

they're here:

https://github.com/gilesbowkett/rewind

but they're a bit stale at the moment. one major weakness they have is that they work on a per-repo basis. no problem at all for monorepos, but for a company with a lot of repos, it'd make sense to use the GitHub GraphQL API to find out which repos see the most activity.
>> They kill anything that moves and is edible

I guess my cat considers me inedible.
If this project goes live, I would drop Apple in a heart beat.
> But why should it be? If you trust your product, that's a no-brainer to cover the consumer for damages. If you don't...

This assumes a lot of things about the US legal system that aren't really true. A company can get sued for anything. And the cost of litigation is nontrivial. In the US, by default, each party is liable for their own litigation costs. This means that if 20000 people decide to sue Pfizer (you know, 1% of 1% of the vaccinated in the US), Pfizer now has to deal with the litigation costs of tens of thousands of lawsuits. Even if they win every single one, they're paying for hundreds, or even thousands, of lawyer-years in billables.

And while many of those might just be people hoping for a quick buck, or people with legitimate concerns who are ultimately mistaken, some will be agenda-driven people with funding to make the cases last, and whose goal is to make Pfizer look bad, because those people think vaccines are dangerous and the people who make them should be punished.

And Pfizer is on the hook for all of that even if there are no damages. Zero, zilch.
The issue isn't that the signature is based on a computed value—the input would always be computed at some point. The issue is that the signature checking code interprets the document one way and the code using the document interprets it another way. This is less likely to occur (though not quite impossible) when the input to the signature check is defined to be a simple byte array rather than a complex XML document where only certain parts are covered by the signature.

One way to avoid this would be to require the input to be in some non-malleable normalized form: If normalization changes the document in any way then it fails the signature check. The advantages of this approach are that it doesn't require Base64-encoding the signed content and that it has no problem with embedded signature blocks.
Mostly fuel energy density vs battery energy density.

You can use some biofuels (limonene) as a near-direct substitute for jet fuel though. I think maybe you need to change a few o-rings but the vapor pressure, combustion point, etc are all there and it's been demonstrated in Australia.
Can you show me a country the size of Australia with <1000 COVID deaths?
just think of how many years of effort many of those dots represent. and how OS development is such a small fraction of overall software development. and how much of that software just evaporated from the world because it was no longer useful.

feels sort of like monkeys at typewriters sometimes
GamerGaters inundated her with death threats. Now some are apologizing
Never buying another Apple product.
1. We have SSO, therefore everyone should be able to memorize their password.
2. Oops, we actually have 20+ passwords for everybody, and require several of them to be changed every month or two.
3. Many passwords aren't used every day.
4. Writing passwords down is forbidden.
5. The usual stupid restrictions are in place on what kind of password can be used.
6. Resetting passwords is a cumbersome process that requires human intervention via a ticketing system and not just clicking on "forgot password".
7. A subset of passwords are set up by the help desk, do not expire, and do not have an obvious way to change them, so it seems certain 99% of users don't.

But this all is typical of a large organization that's making an effort, and something such as, say, a small nonprofit with no in-house IT, is much worse in my experience.
Wipe and reinstall your macOS system in 20 minutes
More and more Government interference that harms company sales.

Why buy an Apple? Get some other one instead.

Nobody will want even the slightest chance of a false-positive ruining their reputation.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Expanded Protections for Children - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078115 - Aug 2021 (291 comments)

Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075021 - Aug 2021 (349 comments)

Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068741 - Aug 2021 (680 comments)
Ars Magica the RPG was set in a low-fantasy version of Europe, you had three different characters you could play during a story - a magus of the Order of Hermes, a companion of the mage's covenant (knights, scholars, churchmen and other important people), and one of the "grogs" who lived and worked at or around the covenant - peasants, maids, men at arms and thieves. It certainly wasn't an accurate depiction of the Middle Ages, but it came a lot closer in trying to make the setting more historical, and on top of that make it so that being more historical was an integral part of the game.
Interesting. I guess I've been lucky.
Oh, this is interesting. I didn't know they had introduced this feature. I was imagining people watching the LCD screen to see if the crosshatches were lining up or not.

The lens I have was dropped at least once because it has a dent on it. I know the old lenses can also take some rough handling.. do you know if there is a digital way to tell whether or not it is still focusing and adjusting the aperture properly short of shooting a bunch of test charts on a tripod?
A couple of months ago I was in a Walmart...I think it was on a holiday, perhaps July 4...and I was having trouble getting help for something that was in a locked cabinet. I walked allll around the store looking for anybody to help me, and...I couldn't! So I went up to the self-checkout, where there are always at least two employees, and asked them if I could get some help. They went off for a minute and came back to tell me someone would meet me over there. Fine.

When I got my item I told the employee, "you know, there's only like 5 people working here today, everybody in this store could just up and walk out with whatever they wanted. The 73 year old guy marking ppls receipts ain't gonna tackle anybody, and I wouldn't be surprised if the company tells you not to try to stop shoplifters anyway."

She was not impressed by my powers of observation and ideas of economic self-interest.
> one of the most efficient carbon sinks

I thought forests tended to be pretty much neutral once they get old enough for trees to start dying and decomposing.
> as a queer kid, I was terrified of my parents finding out

I think many queer people have a completely different idea of the concept of "why do you want to hide if you're not doing anything wrong" and the desire to stay private. Especially since anything sexual and related to queerness is way more aggressively policed than hetero-normative counterparts.

Anything "think of children" always has a second order affect of damaging queer people because lots of people still think of queerness as dangerous to children.

It is beyond likely that lots of this monitoring will catch legal/safe queer content - especially the parental-controls focused monitoring (as opposed to the gov'ment db of illegal content)
You must show proof of vaccination, but proof of vaccination is not required to be presented via the Excelsior Pass. It would be nice if we had tri-state cooperation there though.
Yes, I'd agree with you. My wording was poor. I should have said something like "will be helpful, but far more complex to build and use, as they will have to rely on abstract transformations, rather than the natural shape of the code".

I could still be wrong, and really need to get those experiments going again! Thanks for pushing back on that and causing me to think harder.

P.S. I also think runtime analysis is an even more complex problem, and applaud you for attacking it!
Oh absolutely. Stick with Markdown and export to HTML as needed (I use emacs and org-mode's built in converter for that) but pandoc can export from Markdown to LaTeX and then Lyx can import it no problem.
I know the feeling. I've seen giraffes one time up close at a zoo. We were up on a raised platform about level with the giraffe's shoulders, it lowered its head down to look at us, I swear its eye wasn't much smaller than my head. I never expected them to be so big. They're gigantic. Like the size I used to picture things like brontosaurus and stuff. It gave me a whole new appreciation for that scale where they show a giraffe next to a brontosaurus. It made me realize I have no concept of how big they really must have been.
Charlatans will forever depend on hacks and falsehoods in their attempts to supplant The Creator.

Matthew 24:36 -- "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
Calling the world's superpower and one of the wealthiest nations in the world a "failed state" is a bit ridiculous, is it not? Do words not have meaning anymore?
Haha, I designed a shed using Designer and used the measurements there to actually build it.
Beyond the Web
> "The most surprising thing for me is that it has taken until 2021 to recognize that giraffes have a complex social system. We have known for decades about other species of socially complex mammal, such as elephants, primates and cetaceans, but it is baffling to me how such a charismatic and well-known species as the giraffe could have been so understudied until recently,"

If giraffes have been understudied until recently, this casts discredit on what has been the prevailing "wisdom":

> Once perceived as humble creatures that focused solely on feeding their majestic bodies, one book from 1991 described the giraffe as "socially aloof, forming no lasting bonds with its fellows and associating in the most casual way."

i.e. the old "wisdom" wasn't wisdom at all because it wasn't derived from data. It was a cognitive default bias of the human species.

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

― Anaïs Nin
Have you tried profiling? It's working fine with me on both Windows (without WSL) and Linux.
Do you not see any scenerio where the CIA/OGA inserts a hash into the database to specially target one person or a group of people?
The Honor System hasn't broken down. The problem is poorly applied technology that allows a small number of security breakdowns to be amplified. The occasional bad apple has always existed, but current technology allows a miscreant to reign havoc on a global population.

In a previous age, human activity was siloed out of necessity. The affects of a security breakdown were thus localized to a small population.

Technology allows business and government to save a few pennies by aggregating all the little silos into a few gigantic pools. One break in, and millions pay the price.
The amount of bootlicking on HN can be staggering. Class solidarity seems awful far off when so many temporarily embarrassed billionaires are awaiting their time to shine.