skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that may be true in most cases, but I think it's possible with much less experience.

This is anecdotal, but I graduated college a couple of months ago and I've been freelancing for the past year and a half in my free time by building things for crypto startups. It's a (little bit) niche, but it's worked out well for me and I'm on track to pay off my student loans from my freelance work while also working full time. I think you just need to go for it. I don't really have much formal experience (3 SWE internships in college), and I've been able to make good hourly rates at $50-100 an hour for my time.
Why are the various 'manager' names carefully avoided in this sort of reporting? Many other names, including the whistleblowers, are prominently offered. What rule is the Intercept complying with that has them bleep out (thus we known these names are known) the name of a manager in the audio and assiduously omit any manager names in the writing?

Names would reveal relationships. Doubtless these managers are former or prospective Dow employees, or related or have some other pedigree of corruption. That's how all of this works. Failure to name names contributes to the problem.
You could do the same thing you do when you want services which you cannot perform yourself: pay for the service.

You could create a fund with like-minded people for the code to be reviewed. The benefit would be that for each subsequent release the cost would be much lower than for the initial one.
Surely they'd be using some kind of timestamp standard not a UUID?
If the issue is the unwillingness to enforce any part of existing law then no law that you could possibly write will stop people from continuing to willfully ignore the law.
> This is essential to science.

>> Okay, fine. Are you claiming that people who are calling to ban encryption are doing so on a scientific basis?

No. Did I say something to that effect?

> Come on, be serious here. People call to ban encryption because it scares them, not because they have a model of the world based on real data or real science that they're using to reinforce that belief.

You say this as if you are arguing against something I have said. Why?

> If they did, we could argue with them. But we can't, because they don't.

We can still argue with them, just not with science.

> Can you find a place where this contradicts something I’ve said?

> Yes, see below:

You’ll need to explain what the contradiction is. You have said you don’t understand it, but you not understanding doesn’t make it a contradiction.

>> such that when calls to weaken encryption or insert back doors are made as they always will be, we don’t have to

> I'm open to some kind of clarification that makes this comment make sense.

It makes sense to have solutions that don’t weaken privacy. Wouldn’t you agree?

> How are your "solutions" going to make people less afraid?

They won’t.

> On what basis are you going to argue with these people that your solution is better than banning encryption?

Which people? The parents, the nefarious actors, apple’s customers?

> Pretend that I'm a concerned parent right now. I want to ban encryption. What can you tell me now to convince me that any other solution will be better?

Of course not because you are going to play the role of an irrational parent who cannot be convinced.

Neither of us disagree that such people exist. Indeed we both believe that they do.

Why does changing such a person’s mind matter?
> My point is that we don't call Netflix "Netflix for white people"

Well, no, because Netflix is the example that defines the segment; that dominant incumbents tend to be focussed on the preferences of the dominant socioeconomic cultural segment, which is predominantly White in the United States, is...not a novel observation.

For many people, IOW, the “for White people” is implied.

> My initial comment that stared this sub-thread is that I see a social utility to having content "for women" since it's motivated by biology

Content “for women” is often not “motivated by biology”, but, more to the point...

> but I don't see a social utility to having content "for black people"

Who cares? It’s not seeking government subsidy, or proposing the existence of a social (externalized) good, its proposing meeting an unmet private need.
Over the last few years I have moved my entire digital life to local disks and GNU/Linux machines. Best decision of my life. I sleep well knowing that I own my data because I own the disks it resides on, and I own the computers they store it, and the entire stack from top to bottom, including software, is tailored to my and only my needs. The machine serves me.
I'm not sure what point you're making.
I'm interested in reading more of your writing. I worked with TANF recipients, many of whom were homeless (although few of them were unsheltered) and would like to hear more of your perspective because I have some exposure personally, and also because there is a serious problem with providing services to a large number of homeless people in my local area.
According to ‘Making Kodak Film’ by Robert Shanebrook, the blue emulsion layers were on top, the red layers on the bottom (the acetate side), and the green in the middle. There was a yellow filter layer under the blue emulsion. All of the various layers of chemistry were applied to the acetate backing in one pass.
Thanks for clarifying - perhaps another reader will find that link for in-db conversion useful. And thanks for the interesting information and link to the Apollo Computer; I have some fodder for bedtime reading now!
I think that’s in essence what the author is arguing, at least the outcomes are the same. The only difference is maybe none of the 3-letter agencies had to come out and explicitly say it, when Apple is perfectly competent at spotting a bone to toss.

In other words, the author thinks with Apple’s back to a wall, they only needed to make the announcement of this feature for the government to see there are advantages to apple having tight control as well. Now they’ll be able to make that very same argument in court in a public sense, but there’s always a behind the scenes sense with 3-letter agencies as well.

Granted all of that is speculation and who knows what is really driving any of this. The author does have a point that if this first step causes bad guys to move on from these services then that will be future justification to move the scanning further and further upstream to the point where it’s baked into the API’s or something. At that level, Apple would really need a “monopoly” to accomplish such a feat.

It’s certainly an interesting and creative perspective.
You can generate any size number in a distributed fashion. The only difference is that 128-bits gives you enough scale that it's practically impossible to have collisions when randomly generating.

Unless you need to be completely disconnected, a little coordination can drastically improve things. In past companies, I used a simple counter with 64-bit integers and each distributed process would increment a billion-number range to use for IDs. Fast, efficient, compatible with everything, naturally ordered, and guaranteed to never have a collision.
I see, you imagine the current ICE-Vs with batteries. But US consumers want large vehicles and ICE-comparable range.

Very large EV batteries are expensive. Your conjecture may hold if the cost of Tesla-sized batteries becomes much cheaper (approximately half the current 2021 cost).

EVs are likely to remain a small market in the US. Hybrids make more sense for cost and range. In Europe, the EV market is growing rapidly. Although some people can afford the Tesla, small EVs are popular in Europe. And the small EVs are not especially heavy vehicles, as the data show.
> That is going to be very hard to adapt to.

If that comes to pass I hope I won't be alive to see it, but I think 'hard to adapt to' is putting it very mildly. You're talking about war and famine on a scale that the world has not seen before.
That's not really the point though is it? It's more like 'I do like it.. is it sensible to use it?' At least, that's how I read it, and how I feel about such things.

I'd very much like my next phone to run Linux (i.e. be a Pinephone) though.
Yep, it's just lovely living in an apartment complex that sprays poison everywhere on the property every month.
They want to avoid false powitives, so you would test for that by running it over innocuous photos, anyway.
> I am sure that we will see strong opinions come from both the tesla and non-tesla EV camps in discussing this post, so hopefully my dual perspective will be of some value.

If it doesn't plug into a supercharger it's pretty much defective on arrival.

https://youtu.be/hA_B7qPyUDA?t=1136
Totally think it's good to have lots of options. PostgreSQL using JSONB however is a way to hurt your head. Using SQL to manipulate JSON is pretty painful.
Why would MongoDB Community not be an ok choice? Unless you're planning on offering MongoDB as a cloud service, what would the concern be?

What's the bad reputation of MongoDB that you're concerned about?

Also, you seem to have a really strong bias against it - can you explain?
Congratulations on the launch! This looks really awesome, and I plan to try it out for a project I am working on.

A feature request: I would absolutely love to have something like Arengu that also handles the rest of the boilerplate SaaS stack. Key is a branded user portal with a billing area (I should just give it my Stripe keys and let it generate the screens); user/team management, etc.

To give an example: if you click your avatar in the top right of a Github page, I would like to outsource all of those pages. (How would that work? I would provide APIs and then have some kind of page builder in Arengu that would display the data & handle user input. So for example if I were Github, I would have an endpoint that would return JSON for the repositories for a user, and Arengu would display github.com/$USER?tab=repositories. There could also be API contracts where my API essentially returns the HTML for part of the page.) Basically -- use your front-end builder to reduce the front-end code I need to write & manage.
Same. I actually switched from VSCode, and I like it much better :)
Apparently I cost my company lots of money
I think you should stay completely offline, it seems to cause you too much anguish.
That’s not what they said. They’re just pointing out that statements do not always hold true over time and history tells us that a Facebook division might not be the best at holding promises.

They also did not mention iMessage. There are several other popular messaging applications out there to choose from.
My semi uninformed understanding is that Velvia’s color is biased for the rather overcast conditions often occurring in Japan.

Color is always opinionated. But so is black and white.
Apple will release this in their desktop pcs. The major consequence of this is that, a year down the line, microsoft will also be compelled/forced to join this "coalition of the good". After all, they already scan all your files for viruses, it would be a shame if they didn't scan for anything that is deemed incriminating and also call the cops on you. Of course, the children are being used as a trojan horse again. We don't even mention the giant logical leap from finding someone possessing CP to automatically considering them a child molester, yet someone posessing ~~an action~~ a murder video is not considered a murderer.

I m just imagining the situation where these companies took the initiative to scan all their users data in a situation like the attach in US capitol this year. Creating new affordances for spying always leads to their abuse in the first chance when an extreme circumstance occurs. So there is no excuse for creating those affordances just "because they can"
Didn't she possibly have previous partners?
I don't know what's more impressive, the fact someone managed to come up with something so ridiculous, or the fact some people actually believe this level of technology exists.
The way virus origins are typically investigated involves a lot of sampling and sequencing. Is the New York Times well positioned to retain thousands of biological samples and sequence all of them in a reasonable time? Why would anyone expect the New York Times to be well positioned to investigate viral origins?
Not sure why nobody was is here's comment is greyed, but yep I'm in the same boat - LineageOS works fine and am using Spotify and Audible without any issues. There are some apps that haven't worked, buy I'm fine with that.
Compared to what we've done in the last 50 years they were rank amateurs.
The problem domain has become quite complex. Many people are complaining that developers are "complicating" front-end development but it's the other way around.

HTML has become complex to account for new features that users want. So did CSS (which makes you rely on SASS) and so did JavaScript (and now you complex apps require a strong-typed language like TypeScript).

A few years ago, HTTPS was used by prominent websites only. Now, it's required for even the simplest website. Implementing HTTPS can be simple (if you use Cloudflare) or a bit complex. (if you are running Nginx). But the complexity level did definitively increase.
Are there any other repercussions one should consider before giving this a try? Would software that uses DRM such as Netflix be affected?
Exactly. I want it for my Facebook-infested Samsung Galaxy A20 but I guess I'm out of luck.
I had nearly the exact same experience.
> microG replaces some functions of Google Play Services while maintaining much more anonymity and privacy.

I've said it before and saying it again on here for those that don't know: microG breaks the security model on android and adds in package signature spoofing. It's the only way to add a fake Google Play Services without needing to pull Google blobs. This is why projects like LineageOS are against using this method, it weakens overall package security.

However, it is still possible for the tinfoil hat crew to not use Google play services with OS like LineageOS. This will of course break some functionality (apps will have to poll instead of relying on push) but it will not break the security model.

I'd like a different, better set of options to choose from but we don't have it at this time. Most users should probably choose a minimal Google Play distribution if they value things like battery life and working apps while still maintaining protections against spoofed apps.
Then apple will lose market share and correct their ways.

Conversely, what I've seen does put this top of list as a parent. Will notify me if my child is sending nudes. Will notify me if someone is sending porn to my child. Will notify police if known child porn is on the device.

When folks talk about competition - part of this MUST include the USERS preferences (not as currently done the focus of what I see as largely predatory billers and businesses who I don't care about as a user).

I don't want child porn on my systems. Be very happy if apple helps keep it off them.

Are these hash databases available more broadly for scanning (ie, could I scan all work machines / storage using a tool of some sort)?
Twitter's Bluesky Finds New Lead, Square Building the Bitcoin Wallet Team
while writing this over lunch I was thinking... wait how hard is it to write this? Turns out it's hard, and I'd have to re-read all the madea scripts to understand how the interactions work, plus I don't feel like I have a perfect handle on throwing Madea into the abyss and seeing what happens. In short, it would be fan-fic rather than genuine.

What I want is Tyler Perry & Co to write this movie.

Tyler, I don't want any money, I don't want anything more than having this film made! (you could give me a little cameo though, I'll be a busboy or something)
Yet that thought process wouldn't allow for the Unix epoch in the first place.
Genji-Python-6B, a GPT-J 6B model for generating Python code
> Doesn't Lets Encrypt allow IP adddresses for the CN.

No:

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-on-a-ip-instead-of-d...
It doesn't do any of that stuff, it is just for starting screen without having to type some options:

https://gist.github.com/jamesgraves/c5a09ba209729a491600372f...

I have a couple different machines I use on a regular basis.

The main thing is that I don't care if an existing GNU screen session named 'database' exists or not. If I was doing database work, that's the session name I will use. So I want to connect to that if it exists. Or if the machine has been rebooted, create a new session.

I really like having the terminal windows also reflect what I'm working on in a particular session.
Posting on Twitter is a red flag indicating the author has a weak grasp of the material and nothing significant to contribute.
> Even if I consider Google enemy #1 right now, I also don't really see them as privacy unfriendly. They have a shitton of data, but what have they exactly done with it that warrants the moniker? Microsoft seems to me to be much more privacy unfriendly (e.g., LinkedIn)

Collecting and having that data to begin with is awful & dangerous. The behavior of collecting it is creepy and gross. The existence of the collected data is threatening.
Starship on the Orbital Launch Pad
The Safari "bug" is a new setting that's turned on by default: "Prevent cross-site tracking". It treats all cookies as SameSite=Lax, even cookies with SameSite=None.

Source: Currently dealing with fallout from "Single Log Out" being "broken" on Safari because it depends on SameSite=None cookies being sent along with GET request for <img> tags. (Note: I warned them years ago this would happen eventually and that this was a bad way to manage session revocation across domains.)
Observability: Let Your IDE Debug for You
Clojure meet-up: Event streaming in action with Clojure
Its cryptic announcement:

https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1423331151205179404
I live in LA and met them through work and friends.

I posted your link in one of our group chats. If any of them reach out to you it means they're interested. However, I wouldn't get my hopes up, critiques from the chat thread so far:

-"so it's quibi for black people"

-trying to be BET "for indies" but without backing it up with the funding, marketing, audience, mentorship opportunities, or industry connections

-based on out NY, but the hearts of the black TV industry are Atlanta and LA (BET is hq'd in NY, so I think this one was about where the talent/crew are located rather than the execs)

-featured shows on front page: "First Dates" has promise if marketed properly. "Trifecta" tested poorly with all the women in the chat ("hell no"). Nobody could figure out what "The Retreat" was about and based on the trailer they weren't interested in finding out.

- the website is amateurish, the copy is basic and doesn't inspire interest, and "looks like a fly-by-night operation"

- "they need to hire a marketing team ASAP"

- "it's all stuff BET rejected" (this was from someone who works at BET)
Well there you go ladies and gentlemen, we are prepared to debate anything on HN, even whether we should allow non-english articles.

Bro, most of us can’t read other languages.

But for fun, given how no one really reads the articles, if the submitter translates it and summarized the gist, I think HN would oblige with a discussion. It wouldn’t be so bad so long as the these articles bring an entirely different experience from some place else in the world.

But I don’t need to read the same trite stuff in another language, there’s plenty in English.
I concur, the only series I can think of that really nailed that transitional era in a way that still holds up are the PlayStation Final Fantasy games and their use of prerendered backgrounds that clip 3D character models.

I really wish Sierra had taken the same path, hand painted backgrounds with 3D models for Kings Quest would have looked something like Bravely Default does today.

https://images.nintendolife.com/8c22804858abd/bravely-defaul...
Given all the zero day exploits on iOS I wonder if it's now going to be viable to hack someone's phone and upload child porn to their account. Apple with happily flag the photos and then, likely, get those people arrested. Now they have to, in practice, prove they were hacked which might be impossible. Will either ruin their reputation or put them in jail for a long time. Given past witch hunts it could be decades before people get exonerated.
iMessage isn't spying on you. There are two aspects to the scanning. One is if you use iCloud. The other is if you send photos to a minor via iMessage.

If you get flagged by the iCloud scanning, you could be reported to the authorities. But you can opt out of iCloud scanning by not using iCloud.

If you get flagged by the iMessage system, you are not reported to the authorities. The parents of that person may receive a notification. But if you are sending photos to a kid on a device set up by their parents, you should pretty well expect that photos you send may be seen by their parents.

I understand the privacy concerns raised by Apple's about-face here. But we should be clear about what is and isn't happening.

WhatsApp comes off looking like a defender of privacy by saying "we won't do what Apple has done" but in reality the most objectionable thing Apple is doing relates to cloud-based photo storage, not messaging. The messaging piece is a new type of parental controls and does not involve the authorities in any event.
This is some guy’s theory, and they can’t even spell “anti-trust” (in the headline, no less). It’s not quite enough to lose all trust in society over.
I truly believe they're only doing that because they want to get into the ads business themselves, not out of the goodness of their hearts.

It'll be at most 2-3 years before we get a big flashy announcement for "privacy respecting" ads from Apple. I'll eat my hat if that doesn't happen.
I actually don't think there is any specific reference I have ever encountered. It was something that just popped into my head one day when I was trying to figure out a way to write small batches of key-value data into a log.

Once you put 2+2 together on it, its like a lot of concepts seem to snap into place all at once. You also get incredible locality of access - each batch can sometimes fit within a single I/O block depending on system loading and data patterns, so traversing the tree to any node modified in the previous flush to disk would involve a single I/O.

Edit: If you search "splay tree append only log" on google, you will find one of my previous HN comments on the first page of results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010167 This tells me there isnt much precedent for this idea.
From the sounds of it, the Pixel phones have the widest support across the different options here, so the Pixel 6 might end up being my first Android phone purchase in a while.

This thread has encouraged me to give this a go!
putting buttons where your fingers rest doesn't seem like a novel idea to me.
That's very true, but I think it's possible to a) have a fact-based approach without being superficial, and b) communicate cultural context without having to plumb the depths of the human condition.

Were it necessary to cover the subtle nuances of Eastern and Western culture, it would be hard to get anywhere with prose. I think it's sufficient to convey enough information to demonstrate that the value systems and lived experiences are fundamentally different.

The goal is not to "level the playing field" in terms of where people are coming from, but to foster more meaningful discussions by explicitly taking context into account.
Presumably most of the pesticides get removed when the plants are harvested.

Some probably are still around, but if spraying less worked, the farmers would because it would be cheaper.

Not saying that pesticides aren't a problem, just saying that we're probably not just flooding our fields with more and more pesticides.
Humans could recolonize Earth after mass extinctions with ectogenesis