skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freenas, self-signed tightly-scoped CA installed on all of my devices. 1TBx4 in a small case shoved under the stairs.

tbh, i would vastly prefer to use a cloud based service with local encryption - I'm not super paranoid, just overly principled
> they should get medical coverage if they have insurance

Do you think hospitals should refuse the uninsured?

> if they're willing to isolate themselves

On what basis do you think people who refuse masks and vaccination isolate themselves instead of other people?

To what lengths would you advocate for compliance verification with regards to vaccination and masking?
I have been using TimescaleDB with Python, SQLAlchemy for a mixed timeseries and normal relational workload. The only issue I have encountered so far is that pq_restore needs some special, easy, wrapping. TimescaleDB is just an extension to PSQL.
It popped up almost instantly when Obama was elected. Nothing that pops up fully formed that rapidly is grassroots.
No, but you don't need to know them to do the front end work mentioned by OP.
Out of curiosity, what platform are you on? I run Designer on a Mac and on an iPad, and haven't had any crashing issues.

I see bugs in the boolean operations, and some of the vector exports are less-than-ideal. I'm looking forward to getting this update to see if the SVG export is better.
China, the next billion users one
> The craziness with the GOP started more recently (post-1990s).

IIRC, you can date that phase to 1994 and Newt Gingrich.

Though that was maybe more like phase II, with phase I starting in ~1980 with Reagan.
Shows again how different people are :)

I suppose it depends what your muscle memory is coded to?

To me, muscle memory would be coded to "find top right extreme of device, then back off a little". I suppose yours night be "find delete key, go a bit above" or "this far from home row".

(normally home row might be what I'd key too as well, but turning on and fingerprinting device is typically before I settle on home key in my workflow - I. E. I might not even be fully sat down...)
This is indecipherable to me. Who are you taking a shot at? Is this comment pro-snark or anti-snark? Sarcastic or straight? Who knows.
> it _is_ hitting the wealthy parts

Yes, but not the majority all at once.

As long as 51% of the electorate or more hasn't been personally inconvenienced you might as well be Al Gore shouting into the night.
> That’s pretty powerful.

That's literally just spelling. The exact same pictures could have been added to the document in 1994, only the file format changed.

People keep doing this, as others have observed. And they always get stuck in the same place, they can make different raster image formats work, although each time this happens they find there are fewer anybody cares about, and they can do the same trick with PCM audio, although again not many options anybody cares about (MP3 is about as exciting as you get these days) and then they run out of steam.

This is not a rich seam of unexplored possibilities, it's a small hole in the ground that people keep clambering down into - certain they'll find treasure and then disappointed when it is in fact just a small hole in the ground.

It's the Oak Island money pit of technologies.
>So in your scenario, you'd have to save the photo received from the unknown number to get flagged.

Whew! I was worried there for a minute. Maybe for extra safety I could say "SIRI I DISAVOW OF THIS MESSAGE!"??
To be fair here, Canada has applied certain strict and in some senses possibly absurd measures at COVID control but nothing like the half baked police state nonsense that Australia is applying both internally and along its borders.

As for the U.S. Overall, despite how many others here comment based more on kneejerk emotional dislike of the U.S. government than substantive argument, i'd agree with what you mention: the U.S did scale surprisingly well considering its enormous population, numerous autonomous internal jurisdictions (the states) and diverse social dynamics. Of course it has many deaths, but for a country of 330 million people that is to be expected.

In terms of death ratio compared to many other countries, the U.S hasn't been among the very worst, and has managed to avoid disasters of both the economic and clinical saturation kind (whether by luck or administrative aptitude, or a mix of both across different states) decently enough. That it managed to not do worse than almost 3 dozen other countries without resorting to the kind of draconian bullshit that Australia's government is trying to normalize is a point in favor of the United States
If those other services do it on their own computers I'm fine with that. I never expected privacy from them. I don't want my CPU, battery time and network bandwidth to be used for this.
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You are right to worry. Once the tech is employed out in the field you literally cannot go back.
You can get a slight hint as to what it would look like by looking to the pacific northwest, Canada, Alaska. The northern pacific ocean has a "Gulf Stream" called the Kuroshio. However, there is no appreciable meridional overturning in the north pacific. Thus north-west portion of north america is colder than Europe at the same latitude. Roughly.
Who else just raised their foot to their forearm to compare? I can now verify that you are correct.
It's called 'trees'.
It has not always been this way. This is completely new territory for us.

Up until about 1900 nature was in control. Now, humans and domestic livestock are nearly all the land animals that exist. [1] [2]

Climate change is bad--very bad--but its main effect is going to be on other risks. Global thermonuclear war (which is also new in civilization terms) remains the biggest risk (probability x cost). Climate change ratchets up the probability of GTW.

1. https://www.ecowatch.com/biomass-humans-animals-2571413930.h...

2. Graphical representation: https://xkcd.com/1338/
I wish there was a privacytools.io for hardware. I've been an iPhone user since the beginning but now I'm interested in alternatives. Last I checked, PinePhone was still being actively developed. Are there any decent phones that strike a balance between privacy and usability?
Setup WireGuard VPN on Docker
I think the WHO is right on this one; we really need to be thinking more about how to prevent an Omega variant that can break through our existing vaccines.

Unfortunately even complete elimination of Covid in a single country would be useless, as long as it's rampant elsewhere -- we have already shown that we're not willing or able to lock down international travel enough to prevent the spread of Covid.

Maybe this is a "yes and" situation, but I think we're not doing enough to get the rest of the world vaccinated.
Children as defined by Apple differs per legal region, for the US it is set to 13 years or younger. Also, your parents need to have added your account to the iCloud family for the feature to work.
> Only the U.S. and Eritrea tax people based on citizenship rather than residency. For most countries, if you are a citizen but don’t reside there, you aren’t taxed in that country.

Funny thing is if you are living nomad life you are still required to pay tax somewhere, which I'm not sure makes much sense. My country surely not going to pay my medical expenses abroad, so why should I contribute?
Reusable "bamboo" cups are a fun example. I'm not sure if they are considered biodegradable anymore and then the fact that some countries in Europe had them remove from market... Due potentially leaching melamine and formaldehyde...

So I take it will take awhile for us to get these things right...
(2) is important. Apple put effort into making this at least somewhat privacy-respecting, while the other players just scan everything with no limit at all. They also scan everything for any purpose including marketing, political profiling, etc.

Apple remains the most privacy respecting major vendor. The only way to do better is fully open software and open hardware.
In theory you have a valid point, but in practice it just hasn't been an issue. See the previous commenter who pointed out that every engine company, with the exception of Unity, has always released games on their own engine. I have literally never seen any complaints about that.
Im worried about the millions of peolle who dont read hacker news
So this would require martial law to implement. Basically no one in the US would accept those restrictions. Doesn't seem politically feasible without a ww3.
The Man Who Drank Radioactive Water Until His Jaw Fell Off
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8DYv9hWUAksPO8?format=jpg&name=... What am I reading wrong?
The problem is that as governments gain access to new technological capabilities and exploit crises to acquire more emergency powers, increasingly large numbers of peoples’ threat models begin to include government.

The best hopes against a population-wide Chinese-style social credit system being implemented in the US remain constitutional and cultural, but the more architectural help we get from technology the better. “Code is law” is still a valid observation.
And how did the user end up with the hashes? He hashed the original images which he then deleted, your honor!

BTW this is going to be a major target for smearing people that the US doens't like
Agree. There is no part of this that makes me feel anything good. “We are looking over your shoulder and monitoring your photos… for the children.
Is there a video recording to go with this?
Have you tried the new native compilation system? I haven't worked on LaTeX documents specifically, but I did see a noticeable improvement in responsiveness across the board and a massive improvement in Elisp-heavy functionality like org-agenda.

I've used it on both Linux and macOS; for whatever reason, my Emacs has always been snappier on my Linux machine, and that's still true with native compilation, but now the macOS experience is also pretty solid.
Bush 41's immediate predecessor did not have a decent track record. The craziness started well before 1980. Bush 41 was an aberration.
Are all these different ks implicitly in US dollars, UK pounds or euros? I'm very confused.
Apple is part of the power structure of the US. That means that it has a hand in shaping the agenda for the US but with that power comes the responsibility to carry out the agenda.

This also means that it is shielded from attack by the power structure. That is the bargain that the tech industry has struck.

The agenda is always towards increasing power for the power structure. One form of power is information. That means that Apple is inexorably drawn towards increasing surveillance. Also, Apple’s massive customer base both domestic and overseas is a juicy surveillance target.
Working on something else now, but that's a good article.
Sometimes this led to noxious weeds being spread, such as the giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), which was brought to Europe and North America from the Caucasus starting in the early 1800's as an ornamental plant. Turns out it has phototoxic sap, causing blisters and scars if you touch it and then expose that skin to the sun.

This was immortalized by the prog-rock band Genesis in their song "The Return of the Giant Hogweed": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTuJQL8GBqY
Was there any other use for Kid Pix? I thought that was all there was to do back when I was in elementary school.
Your comment is self-contradictory.
Not op, but choosing async vs sync replication is typically done around guarantees. Async (the default mode) is generally preferred in most cases as it adds relatively small overhead. The problem with it, is that if something happens to master, the standby node might be behind (i.e. some data might be lost).

Sync on the other hand won't return from the transaction until the change is replicated.

For time series, generally async is acceptable, and even for regular data most people might also be fine with async (that's why it is the default). Sync is used if you absolutely aren't allowing any data loss. But because it waits for all nodes to confirm they wrote data to the disk writing will always be slower.

The problem is that if you use physical replication it applies to all data in the database (the logical resource not the physical server), so my guess is that some of the non-time series data has higher durability requirements.
This is an excellent example of how far off the rails the EFF has gone. This is completely false:

> "Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system"
To me in a way the big news here is a major news website (cnbc) reporting on this near live.

That's a pretty solid "sht is about to get real" in my books
I've lived there. Let's say I like the European climate a bit better.
Several of the key personnel at Commodore went on to create products that have touched the ears of most people on this planet in a way that Commodore didn't. They went on to found Ensoniq, a digital synthesizer company, who was later acquired by Emu Systems. Both Ensoniq and Emu synths/samplers were used in a wide array of music crossing many genres in the 80's, early 90's. Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Madonna and a ton more on top-100 radio all used them.

> Ensoniq was founded in 1982 by former MOS Technology engineers Robert "Bob" Yannes (designer of the MOS Technology SID chip for the Commodore 64 home computer), Bruce Crockett, and Al Charpentier. Their first product was a software drum machine that ran on a home computer.

> In January 1998, ENSONIQ Corp. was acquired by Creative Technology Ltd. for $77 million, and merged with E-mu Systems to form the E-Mu/Ensoniq division. The fusion with E-mu sealed Ensoniq's fate: after releasing an entry-level E-mu MK6/PK6 and Ensoniq Halo keyboards - essentially keyboard versions of the Proteus 2500 module - in 2002, the E-Mu/Ensoniq division was dissolved and support for legacy products was discontinued soon afterward.

https://www.keyboardkountry.com/blog/the-amazing-ensoniq/
In programming language theory there is a unified notation for operational semantics, but most papers use nonstandard and/or incorrect interpretations of the notation. It’s a glorious minefield when you go to try to implement the papers — you inevitably end up talking to the authors & helping them debug issues, even years later.
Exactly! Speaking from the Sailfish OS perspective but thats essentially also a normal Linux distro. It's just so refreshing that studs behaves in logical and introspective manner - have an issue ? Check journal, there will most likely be some hints! Need to transfer data ? Mount the device via sshfs!

In comparison my Galaxy Tab S6 is just so much more black box and some stuff just does not work with no apparent way to debug! Like, I tried to setup a samba or SSH server on it for easy data transfer, with zero success after trying all the related apps in frdoid and elsewhere. It just does not work at all! Most likely some brain dead "security" option one can't override 2without rooting the device that is impossible to track down in the mess that is Android.
Signal is still a centralised data silo where by default you trust CA to verify your contacts identify.
Novosibirsk, Russia is 1m+ city... with some effort you can live. Russians are obsessed about populating their country all over even in the most inhospitable places vs Canadians who are just fine with living south of 60th parallel.
That's not what this solution is doing, it's checking a hash of the photo against a hash of known offending content.

If someone sends nude pics there is still no way to tell that it's a nude pic.
Congrats BannaT!
I'm not disagreeing or arguing that I don't worry about a similar thing happening. All I'm saying is your original comment is not currently the truth. I'm all for talking about the slippery slope but it's important to be truthful in what we are talking about. You stated "They have created and implemented the technology to scan your personal phone for specific documents from a government database and alert the authorities if matches are found.", that is not true. They only scan photos and only photos that are being uploaded to iCloud. Do I worry they might flip that switch and do more than photos and/or scan them even if you don't upload them? Sure but the truth matters and at this point in time they aren't doing that. Again, in an attempt to ward off some replies, I'm not saying I agree with this move or that I'm happy with it, I just dislike things being stated as facts when that's not the case.
Sure, I mean Eritrea and the US have the same power globally to enforce stuff right?
It's not like one is ~25% of the world's economy.
To be fair China needs Apple less than Apple needs China.

The nation state is still supreme- cyberpunk was wrong on that.
Oh, we can but hope. I was not looking forward to having to put up with the sounds of drones flying around the neighborhood.
> And for a supposedly 'extremely cruel' place, the US has by far the highest rate of charity in the world.

Only if you count religious giving.

And why wouldn't you, you ask?

Well, even churches themselves say that six per cent or less of religious giving goes to 'charity'. The rest goes to church upkeep and events, church childcare, etc.

In fact, an ECCU study (http://web.archive.org/web/20141019033209/https://www.eccu.o...) stated that "local and national benevolence" receives 1 per cent of religious givings (2% going to church adult programs, bible study, etc, and 3% to youth programs and evangelization).

So we should probably pump the brakes on patting ourselves on the back for "highest rates of charity", considering that some of what is characterized as charity is "erecting the world's largest cross two miles down the road from the church which has the current world's largest cross".
I don't experience any performance problems with lsp-mode, it is very snappy and never gets in my way of going from thought->code. In particular, Go's LSP support is excellent and very fast. I've found these days that the LSP perf is up to the LSP implementation, not Emacs.
The whole scenario is far fetched. We're imagining some egalitarian world (won't happen), in which with today's technology we need to make due with tomorrows resources, but without time to adapt and find alternatives.

More realistically, we need to start making at least some steps. If air travel becomes more expensive, we'll do less of it, and at least try to find alternatives, personally. Society might try to find workarounds, like negative emissions, or construct alternatives (like high-speed rail) that are "good enough", at least for many flights. We might have alternative, emissions free fuel, someday.

But the real point is: this is not going to be as extreme as is sketched simply because inequality isn't going away, and secondly - this is necessarily going to happen gradually, so the impact will be reduced as society will have time to adapt. Let's just hope gradually doesn't mean glacially, because then we'll pay the climate price.
For what purpose? A collision doesn't mean that you found the source images. Not even close.
I met guys like you, skillful and hardworking software engineers who deliver results but are unable to build positive relations with management. Without it there is not enough trust for promotion, investment. The fastest way to learn this is to observe and adapt behavior of more successful people in your environment. Books on the topic often ignore the differences in national and organizational culture.
you make that sound like a bad thing, I'd love to live in a world without child abuse spreading rampant on the internet and not having to suffer though what passes for political speech (memes) these days.

maybe once we detect and stop stuff like this from happening before it gets very bad, we can grow as a society and adjust our forms of punishment accordingly too
I think this is called HRTF. The bad news is there are many of them and only a few work for each person.

This often results in being unable to tell front/back apart, frontal sounds perceived as coming from above, etc.
I know the guy personally to this day. He's a super nice guy, he was just very green at the time. If I recall they threw out everything I'd built and started over.
End-to-End Encryption with Rust
What disease if you don't mind me asking?
> Further, we can and the world can fairly easily adapt. A few degrees over a hundred years is easily manageable.

Adapt? Yes. Easily adapt? Not in the slightest.

Higher average temperatures are leading to changes in rainfall patterns. Some regions see more torrential rain while others see aridification.

Increased rainfall means regions that previously saw floods once a century will see them once a decade. Similarly regions facing aridification will see more and longer heat waves and less water availability.

While those situations are survivable they're destructive and thus expensive. Even if no one died during such events they will still cause significant economic impact. People can't just pack up and migrate en mass to avoid flood zones or arid regions.

Changes in rainfall also affect farming. A region with good soil may need increased irrigation to deal with aridification. Irrigation has its own set of problems it introduces even if there's some ready source of water to feed into the irrigation system.

Even small increases in temperature also affect atmospheric and oceanic conveyors. Even single degree increases can change the thermal gradients enough to break them down for portions of the year.

If money was infinite and humans acted without prejudice a lot of coming environmental issues would have some technological mitigation. Neither of those things are true so conditions in some places are going to get very bad.
My main question is whether the system makes it highly impractical to look for 1 to a small number (let's say 5) newly introduced images. We have the secret sharing threshold, how easy is it for the server to change this on the fly? Putting aside the principle for a moment (personally I don't like this because it's a cop in your phone, full stop), if we want to practically prevent government abuse to look for leakers (or whatever category you prefer) then it's helpful if Apple can't reasonably comply with an order to find someone who has just 1-5 specific images.
> If prices rise gradually, people will adapt.

I think this is where you and I disagree. I would contend that the average citizen will resist this. I am basing this off what we saw in France when they introduced a very modest fuel tax.

I think this is an issue that would actually unite both the left and the right. I suspect that if we made air travel, meat and fresh (flown-in) produce only available to the wealthiest 0.X% of our population we would see widespread outrage. It would be seen as just another example of inequality.
The most mind-boggling thing here is that they are the ones that screwed up by opening the account with bad information, but they're making it look like it's your problem to prove to them that they screwed up, and they are surely not going to make it easy to you to clean up their screw-up.