skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> anybody who stores this content in iCloud can be identified
Any reason to believe anybody does this before the child reaches the retirement age?

You are describing the reverse cause of targeted search for the individual in which each step has probability that is much less than 100%. The technology discussed is a broad sweep: everything, everywhere, every time.

Oh, well, no need to worry so much, Apple has just added data collection ability which others had in one way or another.
> [Article] A spokeswoman for Oatly said the company would not be appealing the decision.

Oatly clearly agrees, too. The judge declared their brand/trade dress safe.
Not really for OP, but I've found a couple of really great iOS apps that work well with Emacs org-mode, Beorg[1] and FlatHabits[2]. They're actually both good apps in their own right, that use org-mode files as a backend for their features.

[1]: https://beorgapp.com/
[2]: https://flathabits.com/
Who knows. But it seems logical to me that people are incrementally more likely to buy a new truck "early" in their personal cycle when something truly new and different comes along.

And as lots of people have said, this isn't especially firm interest being expressed.
>Apple said "Hey everyone owns this U2 album now". And if your phone had automatic downloads turned on it downloaded the album.

It wasn't that simple. The usual functionality of slide-to-delete didn't work at all, because of iCloud, or something. A week after they foisted it on everybody, they decided to implement a dedicated page to allow frustrated users to delete it, because of how different it was from a mere purchase authorization from the iTunes Store. [0]

"The slope", in this case, as far as I understand the root-level ancestor comment, refers to the idea that Apple is increasingly paternalistic about its powers over the device you ostensibly own:

>>>>"We're going to scan your photos, on your encrypted device, to look for badness. Right now, we're going to claim that's only for the really icky people that nobody is going to defend, but, hey, once the tech is in place, who's to say we can't scan for dank memes and stuff?"[1]

I think bringing up the U2 album is entirely within scope re paternalistic overreach. I assume your arbitrary goalpost movement to "invasion of privacy or some new technical advance" is considered by you to be indicative of your personal and argumentative seriousness?

[0] https://www.eonline.com/news/1071481/remember-when-apple-for...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078435
The first one is embarrassingly stupid. The real solution is a splash screen, which was invented decades ago. Instead, they just lie to you with a non-functional window rather than lying to you by pretending that your system is doing nothing.

Moved back to Chrome today btw. Couldn’t handle YouTube full screen taking 10 seconds to expand and collapse on Firefox. Sure wish Mozilla would hire some competent devs.
> I think consumers are clever enough to differentiate between Oatly or PureOaty.

I wouldn't. It took me a double take to notice the missing l, and that's with your sentence priming me to see a difference. In the store I might ponder on why the pure version existed.

Seeing them both in a store I'd have expected PureOatly was the unflavored version.
I'd be surprised if any 'secret ecosystem projects' don't suffer the same fate as the Biospheres. Namely, catastrophic systemic collapse within a relativity short timescale brought on by an unmitigated pathogen.
Can we actually get knocked back into a feudal existence ?
I was once tasked with writing a crawler for FTP servers and lost about half the hair on my head over this madness. Just when I tuned the robot to work with 10 servers, an 11th would pop up that behaved totally differently. Thankfully, I'm not in that job anymore -- I'll probably never touch FTP again.
> and cooling via breeze

This makes many assumption that do not fit very large parts of the inhabited earth.
> I'm not sure what else you'd expect.

Ahem. I'd expect something that most xmpp clients could do 10+ years ago with OTR: after establishing an encrypted session the user is given a warning that chat identify of a partner is not verified, and is given options on how to perform this verification.

With CA you can make a mild warning that identity is verified by Signal, and give an options to dismiss warning or perform off-the-band verification.

Not too disastrous, no?

> That's not true. When you verify a contact, it adds a checkmark next to their name with the word "verified"

It has zero effect if the user is given no indication that there should be the word verified.

It is not true what you say. This [1] is what a new user sees in Signal - absolutely zero indication. To verify a contact user must go to "Conversation settings* and then "View safety number". I'm not surprised nobody ever established a verified session with me.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ab1bvazg4y895f6/screenshot_2021080...
Who do we attribute the emissions to when Canadian metallurgical coal is used to make steel in China for a wind turbine base being constructed in Germany?

You’ll notice that per-capita emissions are highly correlated with the list of countries that export fossil fuels.

I agree with your point but per capita emissions alone is a gross oversimplification.
My big bet (10% confident it's correct and will be world changing), is that having languages that rely on spatial position of tokens in a 2D or 3D grid will be a big leap forward and make 3D visualizations quite natural.

I think 3-D visualizations of 1-D languages (all our current programming languages are 1-D) will not be so helpful, as you will be looking at transformations, not the actual code as it exists.

If anyone is intrigued and wants to write a function that takes as input a parsed Tree Notation program (https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/) and outputs a a https://www.mecabricks.com/ file, get in touch! I could even fund something like that, if needed. Such a function would then be able to generate a LEGO version of any program written in a Tree Language. From there, I think there could be interesting discoveries to be made related to future version control systems and collaborative editing algos (I think you could beat CRDT/OT/et al).
Do you feel guilt asking this question?
I'll gladly suffer a little bit worse rendering performance and have images resized with good rescaling filters than the blurry pixelated mess that Chrome renders whenever the zoom isn't exactly 100%. It's easy to do well on benchmarks when you sacrifice rendering quality.

And of course there's no way to even ask Chrome to render images with a decent resampling filter...
Thanks, after some fiddling I managed to finally read the full text from the article and it's definitely short on details on the rollout. Let's hope they rethink this.

I'm also fairly concerned about the neural part behind the name, which I hope is just (incredibly poor) marketing around the perceptive hash thing.
The algorithms and data involved are too sensitive to be discussed publicly and the reasoning is acceptable enough to even the most knowledgeable people. They can't even be pressured to prove that the system is effective at it's primary purpose.

This is the perfect way to begin opening the backend doors.
Why take the time to argue a point that's easily disproven?

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/12/jerome-cor...

Fauci isn't an inventor or owner of any COVID vaccine patents.

Even if Fauci was an inventor on them, his patents would be owned by the Federal Government. By Federal Law, inventors of government patents are entitled to a maximum royalty of $150k/year.
I think it's a bug with the way they've embedded the google form, it seems do something weird with the window controls here (firefox, macos)
For a hobby game earning 1800 yearly in profited is a lot.

Not even speaking about you having to put it up upfront and every year (I'm not sure if it's every year you still maintain or sell the game).

I mean typical prices for mini hobby games are 5-10 at most 20, if we go with 10 it means you would need to have already had 180 customers before publishing on a game console which is you only target e.g. the PlayStation is a problem.

And sure that might not sound like much, but we are speaking about small hobby projects of often young people, potentially worried about how to pay their student loans or teen not yet earning money.

And sure they probably will target Steam first.

And sure in the sells aspects this doesn't matter for EA, but it will make more young people use different things for their first games.

It's not about weather it is expensive, it's about it feeling expensive for the next generation.

Furthermore when it doesn't matter from a sells perspective why increase the burden? Why not just reducing the "less expensive" limit from 200k revenue to 80k or so?
I notice a giant trend of new, throwaway, accounts quipping on here and on reddit about inflation. First order botting/targeting, or second order side-effects of shills hit by first order on another site?
No it’s not, it’s the entire OS.
That is for IntelliJ Ultimate if I am not mistaken: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/connecting-to-a-database... Otherwise as you mention DataGrip https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/ seems to be really sleek.
I think a lot of people are missing why apple is doing this now. They're doing this because they have a fairly secure eco system. They have also create a proxy that makes it difficult (impossible according to them) to know the client. More than likely this was implemented so when it does go to congress, they can say look we implemented a system. Otherwise the DOJ will continue to push for no encryption or backdoor encryption. There's no winning here.
Ummm… the fact that changing a single pixel will let the baddies evade detection?
You might be surprised. Rabies has been significantly curtailed or eliminated from large regions of inhabited Canada with aggressive vaccination of wild animals. If the vaccine can be produced in oral form you can literally just rain it down on raccoons and deer from airplanes as little tasty treats. But that's taken decades as an active rabies management program.

It has not eradicated it wholesale, just help reduce it significantly in built-up areas, and the kind of animals likely to interact with humans and livestock. If a bat flies into your bedroom and bites you, you still need a rabies shot. I sometimes find the vaccine "treats" littered around when I go on my hikes. I suppose if I ate one I'd develop some rabies immunity, but I don't think they're approved for use in humans. LOL.

An edible adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccine for animals (or humans) is almost certainly possible, technologically. It's probably nearly hopeless to expect to eradicate it that way, admittedly. But I thought you might find such wild animal vaccination programs interesting if you didn't know of them already. It's done in a variety of places for a few different diseases.
It it literally in the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

“ It is used on Microsoft's own services including Bing and OneDrive,[4] as well as by Google's Gmail, Twitter,[5] Facebook,[6] Adobe Systems,[7] Reddit,[8] Discord[9] and the NCMEC,[10] to whom Microsoft donated the technology.”
Apple's definition of "child" is 13yo or younger. So by the time they're more likely to be complaining about this feature, they will be aged out.

I'd like to get verification but that hopefully means your scenario is unlikely.
Articles said Apple scanned iCloud photos last year. I see some of them were updated to be less specific.
With the way that container ships just break apart in the middle of the ocean from poor maintenance [1], and the way that pirates take over container ships, I'm not sure I can comfortably agree. There would have to be some pretty extreme regulations, security requirements, and definitely higher cost involved. It would most likely be "along the most profitable, long, routes, to wealthy countries".

1. https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Container-Ship-Br...
>That could have been just Trump pandering to his base.

That's pretty weak, you have to admit. Wouldn't Obama send the same men in to save a citizen? I think he would. This is undeniably what our military is for, what those special mission units are for, and what those operators live for. They went in to do God's Work, and luckily this time it worked with no Good Guy casualties. Why would you doubt this?

> How come no SEALs have parachuted to rescue Jeffery yet, huh? Reinforces my theory that it was just election-time pandering by Trump.

Maybe because they don't have actionable intel to find and fix him? Maybe because the Bad Guys weren't so stupid as to use something that would show up on our various SIGINT collection platforms? It's not always a great big Trumpian conspiracy.

> But how did they get out? Who picked them up?

The Omani military, our allies. I suspect more than one person on that flight didn't have an Omani passport.
I'm thinking zoom factor may have played a role.

50-58mm lens with a 35mm film negative is not far from what you see yourself. Lenses that are wide angle (e.g. 28mm) make things look farther away and distorted, and lens that are telephoto compresses things and makes them look closer. A lot of photos taken today are "wide".

It's true about the colors though. Kodachrome and Velvia had very distinct looks.
This is silly. Common Voice is not adding NVidia-specific features; what would that even look like for a database? There is no comparison to be made between donating resources to an openly licensed database and encouraging developers to optimize their games for proprietary APIs.

And the assumption the shutting down Deep Speech was specifically for NVidia's benefit seems like a fairly large leap to me, given that Deep Speech is already mature, still being developed under Coqui.ai, and surrounded by a wide diversity of other deep learning projects that also aren't controlled by NVidia.

Decreasing barriers of entry for those models and providing raw data is probably the right thing for Mozilla to be focusing on right now. Any team can build a language model, only companies like Mozilla can coordinate mass data collection for those models.
Did people start sentences with 'Sad' like this before Trump's presidency? I don't know if it's a (an American) colloquialism I simply hadn't noticed prior to that, or a more personal quirk that caught on?

I don't mean to single out you specifically, I keep noticing it now.
Today it does that. Tomorrow who knows...

It would be easy to extend this to scan for 'wrongthink'.

Next logical steps would be to scan for: confidential government documents, piracy, sensitive items, porn in some countries, LGBT content in countries where it's illegal, etc... (and not just on icloud backed up files, everything)

This could come either via Apple selling this as a product or forced by governments...
How socially complex are elephants?
James Lovelock's last books certainly would agree with this.

Perhaps we may get lucky and some event could throw things the other direction, like a large meteor impact or wide scale nuclear weapons discharge (leading to a lengthy nuclear winter.)
What do you think of the report (rumor? speculation?) that intelligence agencies got a hold of (probably encrypted) cloud storage data artifacts which are associated the Wuhan Institute of Virology? I had not seen it reported elsewhere.
I arrived in 1987 with my Amiga 1000 in tow, quickly discovered the school's Unix workstations (Sun 3/50, 3/60) and started using my Amiga more. They had the same a.out format so you could compile on the Sun systems with the Unix fun stuff, link with a different library, side-load it onto the Amiga and you're good to go.

That A1000 ended up with 4MB, 14MHz 68020, SCSI controller, and 80MB of disk 'borrowed' from a Sun.

Sure the OS was a bit different, but it's basically a cut-rate Sun 3/60. So many earl Amiga devs were Unix nerds sitting in front of Suns all day and wanting something close to that feeling for home. Macintosh (lol), IBM PC (lol DOS).

Pretty much wasn't until Linux that the PC actually became useful at all.
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You can’t “save the children” by building a dystopia for them to grow up in.
NCMEC is an private organization created by the U.S. Government, funded by the U.S. Government, operates with no constitutional scrutiny, operates with no oversight / accountability, could be prodded by the U.S. Government, and they tell you to "trust them".
As a former 13year old, that would be the end of 13 year olds using iMessages... I smell an opportunity.
My thoughts exactly! A lot of the "social" things are OAuth based, not SAML. I know Google has both, but when doing consumerish things via Google, that's also OAuth based (iirc).
Those images are hashed, not transmitted in original format. On top of that, PSI prevents you from learning those hashes, or how many there are. So you can’t tell if the database contains the hash of, say, tank-man.jpg.

I understand why this shielding is necessary for the system to work. My point is the crypto is being used to protect law enforcement, not the user.
A video is worth 29.97 pictures:

https://twitter.com/j1elo/status/1419907944456638489
> Yes, this is legitimately shocking. For anyone who has any experience/ knowledge of China, the image of the country that is relentlessly pushed in many mainstream outlets is totally unrecognizable.

First off, there is no "relentlessly pushed image" in western media about China. That framing alone is a nationalist myth meant to put Chinese people in a siege mentality, against the west and in support of their government. Most reporting is sober analysis around horrifically depressing issues such as XJ. The idea that the government of 1.4b is irredeemably evil is not a good one, and people would largely deny such framing as the consequences are too dire to contemplate. The "bias" you claim towards painting the Chinese government as cartoonishly malevolent doesn't exist, if anything the opposite instinct to downplay the scale and inhumanity of it all is more powerful.

> The reason they can get away with it is that most people in the West know next to nothing about China.

Ironically, the west is allowed to know more about China than Chinese people are. Information about the first days of Covid19 was aggressively suppressed and doctors seeking to speak out harassed, even disappeared. Real discussion about XJ, Tibet, HK in domestic media? Forget it. Are we even sure how many Chinese ages 18-30 know about Tiananmen Square?

The Chinese government harnesses prevalent ethnonationalistic sentiment to deflect blame for their mistakes and crimes. "The west wants to contain you, they want to paint you as immoral." As long as Chinese citizens buy into this framing, their government will be more emboldened and less accountable.

This is what I fear, an authoritarian government with near complete control over their people, driven by grievance and insecurity. That won't make for a peaceful 21st century.
Hmm... US covid deaths per 1M population, 1864.51. Canada covid deaths per 1M population, 707.17. Not a favourable metric for the States. Parts of the US seem to be coping with covid by ignoring it, which fortunately is limited to Alberta so far here.

I've lived in both countries... The health systems work in both of them, although you have to have good insurance in the States to be able to say that.
Under 13 seems like an ok cutoff but I’d be very concerned that they push it to under 18. Pretty much everyone is sharing adult context responsibly at 17.
I agree that the vaccines pose very little risk to a given individual, even though the possibility of long-term effects have yet to be ruled-out in the scientific literature.

But there are selective pressures & second order effects to consider regarding mass vaccination using the current mRNA vaccines which induce an immune response that is highly targeted towards the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein [1][2].

Combined with the evidence that people who have naturally acquired immunity are protected equally as well as vaccinated individuals [3][4], and that combinations of existing medicines have proven effective in reducing hospitalization and death [5] - don't you think that a strategy focused on vaccinating only the most vulnerable populations across the world would be more rational?

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[2] SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427/B.1.429 variant of concern
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/scie...

[3] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[4] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...

[5] Multifaceted highly targeted sequential multidrug treatment of early ambulatory high-risk SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
And we're wondering why planet is dying.
Totally agree, I was thinking more within the context of mobile phones.
Here's a fun challenge: Go to google earth and zoom straight in on the US. Try 10 random spots. How many spots had somewhere that trees could be placed, without tearing up crops?
Why not? Corporations are more powerful than ever. We have a vast technological surveillance and propaganda machine ready to go.

All that’s missing is a weakening of the state and a few private drone armies.
The problem I've always found is the people who want to be the arbiters of trust (managers) are usually do technically incompetent or disinterested that they effectively aren't.

I've held superuser root keys I shouldn't actually have so many times because the little who technically decide if I can use them refuse to learn how to grant and remove that permission.
Do you mean: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28081184 It's a bit worse than that.
A sibling comment speculates that this is related to Pegasus [1] which sounds wild to me but maybe, just maybe, it’s not.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28080539
(Semi-)Obliquely bragging about how much one is paid, AFAICS.
Don’t talk to the police.

And that includes the FBI.
FWIW, Jupyter-book handles Citations and bibliographies with sphinxcontrib-bibtex: https://jupyterbook.org/content/citations.html

Some notes about Zotero and Schema.org RDFa for publishing [CSL with citeproc] citations: references of Linked Data resources in a graph, with URIs all: https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/tools/index#zotero-and-schema-o...

Compared to trying to parse beautifully typeset bibliographies in PDFs built from LaTeX with a Computer Modern font,
search engines can more easily index e.g. https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle linked data as RDFa, Microdata, or JSON-LD.

Scholarly search engines: Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Meta.org,
Have you seen that? Does she have witnesses? An audio or video recording of that happening?
If not. How can I condemn the guy?
Gatekeeping nouns has been a hiding to nothing since language began.

What’s next, telling us we can’t milk chocolate?
Because you think you noticed a trend it means the first abstraction that pops into your head.

Sure, that’s how it works.

I’ve noticed a trend of people good at abstraction believing they know the state of all particles that ever were and ever will be, use emotional language to make routine cognitive moments giant feeling.

Like that’s just how it is for all time, man.