skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit of a spin. The "shelter" is a homeless "tent city" that is "state run" - by "state run" they mean there are porta potties and garbage collection. The quarantine facility is entirely separate.

It was also used in NYC in public housing areas, already overly policed, and in a response to some domestic violence incidents, to what end is unsure.

Boston Dynamics:

"It’s basically a camera on a mobile device," he said.

And it costs $75,000 or more.

What a fantastic use of federal relief funds or police budgets.
I feel it's necessary to identify myself as black to provide some context...

The objectification already exists. This won't change that. It will, however, hopefully result in more content existing for a market that's hungry for it.

OP also identifies as black, so I trust that they understand that branding their product as "for blacks only" will only hurt them, even within their market segment.
Curious, does anyone know what's their business model to monetizing the "free" VPN service? How do they make their money back or is it a donation kind of thing?
I'm not picking sides, but the same argument could be made for posting the link through Google Translate so that it appears English on HN. That way dang et al don't have to do it themselves in order to moderate.
You can get the 2022 Nissan Leaf for an 24 month lease at $89/month with $1,449 due at signing [0]. That's effectively like $149/month.

[0] https://carsdirect.com/deals-articles/2022-nissan-leaf-gets-...
We are going to have another 10 boring years with low inflation and low interest rates because people are getting old and inequality going up.

The only people who think that inflation is higher than the official statistics don't know the impact of inflation. Most of the time inflation is reality giving you a punch in the face. If inflation really happened between 2010 and 2020 where is the punch? If anything I feel we spent that time running away from reality and no, the problem isn't whatever the central bank is doing because it is acting as the last line of defense. Most of the time it is responding to political failures, which is why central banks are independent in the first place. If the central bank were democratized it would be unable to perform its function as people will abuse it to refuse reality even more. Just read up on what Erdogan did.
And you don’t think the threshold for a match will be a lot tighter for this use case compared to an image search engine? And you’re ignoring all the other guards I mentioned? Come on. You may not like Apple, but they’re not stupid.
No it's just "introduction to law enforcement by algorithm" which can be more fatal than jail.
I agree, but the 'don't editorialize' policy conflicts with the character limit so sometimes people truncate at a convenient point instead of rephrasing.
IIRC the primary reason there are any chargers with bill by the minute is that in some jurisdictions it is illegal for any entity other than the electric utility to sell power by the kWh.
One of the most popular ways is to use the F-Droid repositories, which if you know a little Linux concepts it's like plugging in another software repository to the same package manager. (see f-droid.org) It can be confusing though because F-Droid is both an app, and the name of the primary software repo which is pure FOSS software (no ads, no trackers).

The F-Droid app supports adding more repositories (think like apt/yum/dnf on Linux) easily, so you can source software from anywhere which runs their own repository. One of the most popular "other" repos is Izzy (apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid), and there is an alternate project called "microG" which can allow you to use Google Play store apps (microg.org/fdroid.html). microG is how you will get your Google Play apps onto the device, usually (there are other solutions besides microG out there however).

The CalyxOS install ROM includes F-Droid (app and repos) and offers to install microG for you on your first boot (as well as some other opt-in stuff). Calyx runs their own F-Droid repo which is pre-added to the app so you get updates from them as well (think the built-in apps most smartphones have).
Apparently buying a Standard Range+ Model 3 for $39k is next to impossible.
Hm. I'm sorry, it wasn't meant to be a flamebait. Also, can you please clarify about tangents? Looked up for a translation of the word 'tangent' and the meaning is still unclear. (English is not my first language)
Yeah that's pretty much what I had in mind.

I'd add further that more than likely once your API became something usable new use-cases and ideas came up. I wouldn't call major version numbers "failures" but "evolutions".

The context of your project changing over the years requiring breaking API changes is good and healthy.
So glad Mozilla laid off all their Servo devs to focus on what's really important: IoT sex doll privacy evaluations.
If you're on linux, `kind` is the way to go
Clubhouse Is a Cargo Cult
Aurora Store is not a piracy site. It's a FOSS app that gives you access to the official Google Play Store directly.
If one is desperate for a "fails/mistakes" kind of verb then "BREAKS" (as in "includes breaking changes") might actually hold sway, but then you'd leave out the "major functionality added" scenario for, well, MAJOR.

In short, I think OP's observation is that of a pessimist's.

If not "MAJOR.MINOR.BUG" (which needs no improvement IMO) I'd go with...

TECTONIC.FEATURE.FIX.
How do you disable networking for apps? I'd love to use Gboard offline. ASK just isn't as good.
And at least the AUP prohibits "weaponization of the robot", so we should all be safe.

Either that, or departments have already asked for that, hence why it is called out.
Typically, it isn't digging. It's the last commit, maybe the one before it, and I have tools for doing this (e.g., magit, fugitive).

I don't notify anyone, nor do I need to. When I encounter a WTF moment, I look at the commit messages. When there's nothing there, I curse the last developer.

I guess it can be fun spelunking through commit messages, though, to see when the comment was added and if it still applies.
In that case we can hash the hash :D + some random number I guess, otherwise it doesn't help much.
Great explanation.
It’s Apple way of decentralized image analysis with very little server cost and this is the most amazing idea I’ve seen for mass surveillance
I will only ever use old.reddit.

If they take that away, I will kill my account. My account is 15 years old on Reddit, with near daily use.
> if you, the user, are using a strong password, whether or not others are required to use strong passwords has no impact on your privacy

That only applies if the site only gives you access to your own data. If your friends grant you access to some of their data, your poor security compromises their privacy.
But that skips all the processing steps whose price can increase before it makes it to my plate.

For example, tracking bulk beef prices won't capture the labor costs of the would-be-butcher COSTCO can't hire.
It doesn't pollute the same amount: https://sustain.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/2018-63%20Lifecyc...

And if you're only doing 5k miles a year, you're not part of the problem.
Biden pushes for EVs to make up half of U.S. auto sales by 2030
Yeah, there's a ferry from Rostock to Helsinki. However I'm trying to reduce my travel-related emissions, and after crunching the numbers have concluded that the best option would be ferry+train via Sweden, with electric car via Sweden a close second (per head, assuming two people or more in the car). Fingers crossed for that tunnel and a direct overnight train connection!
In k3d this is already available. https://k3d.io/usage/commands/k3d_image_import/
I find that on trips, I'm a whole lot less interested in doing long drives than I used to be. I arranged a trip in the Western US for September and one of my decisions was that I'd basically limit the trip to one area of a state rather than zip around to multiple distanced places.
What would the two different systems be then?

I am certainly willing to agree I conflated them if you clarify.
Apple Plans to Have iPhones Detect Child Pornography, Fueling Privacy Debate
DB supports from "None" (SQLite) to "We'll give you some functions to work on text/ints that are supposed to be UUIDs" (MySQL) to "It's an actual native data type" (Postgres) among the 3 most common databases used by Django users, so it's hard to blame Django for going with a lowest common denominator approach.
I've been using MicroG+Lineage for a few years now. No complaints from me, but I don't use a ton of apps. Not sure what the advantage of CalyxOS would be over my current setup (especially considering Lineage has a much better catalog of supported devices)
Building a sign-up/sign-in flows takes like a two hours at most for me with the frameworks i'm fluent with. And i can tweak anything and everything exactly to the product needs. I don't get why would anybody want to be dependent with such elementary thing on some external provider AND pay for it.

But i know people trying to outsource everything whats possible, i see this trend getting stronger and stronger, so perhaps it can get a lot of clients. Good luck anyways.
Cynicism, perhaps?
I'm Russian, I'm aware about context. "Work less and earn more" is sort of idiom. Not exactly, but close to that. Yes, that was a sarcasm, and yes it's pretty harsh.
Got to start somewhere.
>The bigger question for me is why the police spends 75k on this. That's a yearly salary for 1-2 social workers

That $75k number quickly balloons up to quote exorbitant amounts if health of those social workers gets put in danger due to such interactions (whether due to getting infected or due to violence inflicted upon them).

Given that we are trying to reduce infections in the overall population by any means possible, this seems like a rather cheap and non-invasive (aka no restrictions imposed on the population) way of achieving that. Sure, masks help, but if you are surrounded by tons of infected people on a daily basis in a confined environment, you have a rather notable risk (as evident by all the cases coming from doctors who got infected after working with covid patients during the first two waves).

Why should we put lives of 1-2 social workers at risk and deal with them potentially costing way over $75k, instead of spending those $75k on a solution that has none of those risks?
> (these detect movement by the disturbance in a low level high frequency radio signal).

I'd never heard of this before. One of my former managers is really into Home Assistant and has done a lot with his setup, but I think all of his motion detection was IR. How's your 'radar' setup? Do you get a lot of false positives/negatives? How's the distance on its detection?
> Google seems to do a better job than some of the other Big Tech companies when it comes to privacy.

Huh??!
My thinkbook g2 14 are is almost the same speed as m1 macbook and runs linux without any issue. It has "only" 9 hours of battery in my usecase, but that's completely fine by me.
By far my best experience with any sort of smart home device was for my apartment in Boston. My overhead light did not have a switch, and the previous homeowner used a pull cord. I replaced it with a Phillips smart LED that connected wirelessly to a physical switch that I pasted onto the wall. No electrician, and now my light has a switch. $30 well spent.

I never did get around to connecting it to an app or anything like that.

Oh, I also had a WiFi enabled outlet! That was a gift from my sister in law. I used it on an air conditioner -- if I remembered, I could turn on the AC an hour before I got home.

I also have a WiFi enabled AC in my new home and can set each room's temperature individually by app.

These things are useful and convenient but I'm not really going out of my way to set them up.
I am sad to see kids eating genetically modified food sith high fructose corn syrup, products from cows with antibiotics, and so on, getting diabetes and obesity at a young age, and being addicted to screens

And this is correlated to the morbidity from the actual virus

The USA and its factory farmed agriculture industry doesn’t really care about the public health outcomes. They care about cheaper hamburgers and industrial level farming. For-profit industries often have to do it.

The same way that so much ink has been spilled about the exodus of people from big cities during the pandemic, in a “ha ha too much socialism” way, but very little about the decade of slowly emptying small towns across America, from the rust belt to the mining towns. None of these political pundits care to talk about the slow plight of the little guy. The situation before the pandemic saw half of all employed Americans living paycheck to paycheck, very low savings, while the government doubled down on trickle down economics.
Use the Aurora Store app (you can keep this updated via the F-Droid app), it's a client for the Google Play Store so it'll allow you to update those apps through it.
Somebody should come up with a name for this and craft a manifesto on a website :-)

Realver.org? Enterprisever? Corpver?
> pure FOSS software (no ads, no trackers)

Nit: something can be FOSS while having ads and/or tracking (telemetry)
> you're problematically lumping all sorts of people who happen to have dark skin into a single category

United States society has been problematically lumping people together based on skin tone for over 400 years; the GP didn't invent it today on HN. It's already been done and well-ingrained. If your skin is black, many people will treat you differently, to the extent that you may be subject to violence, many won't hire you, loans are more difficult to obtain, you'll experience stereotypes and racism regularly. In the end, rather than deal with danger and abuse every day, you end up living in the same neighborhoods, socializing with the same people, going to the same schools and restaurants, visiting the same websites ... to make your daily life peaceful and safe. As I mentioned in another thread, you can't even watch porn without encountering endless racist stereotypes.

As a result, while you may not think so and there are always exceptions, Americans with black skin share a lot with each other.

> slave-descended culture

What evidence do you have that this defines a cultural group (whatever that is)?

> We should be tolerant of criticism of this culture's ideology and practices.

Few people share your distinctions, so it's impractical. More importantly, it's impossible to distinguish criticism that is racist from that which is not. It's obviously easy, and often done, to say things that are arguably non-racist but critical in order to encourage and spread racism.

Also, criticizing groups seems inherently stereotypical. An at-will club, such as the Libertarian Party or local Linux User Group, is different. But being born in a neighborhood to a culture doesn't make you responsible or at fault for some stereotype which may have nothing to do with you (and usually are false and often racist anyway). Let's look at people as individuals, responsible for their own actions.

Finally, there's a lot of effort to create space for criticizing black people. Why is that important? How about we focus on the overwhelming problem, racism?
This is IMO where the Model 3 shines - it's a great car for longer trips. Comfy seats, and autopilot really reduces the strain of highway driving.
> But just like this entire function can be added with an update, it can also be modified with an update.

That argument is a valid argument that by using an Apple device you are trusting them not to issue an abusive update in the future. It applies regardless of whether they release this feature or not - at any time they could issue spyware to any or all devices.

I actually fully agree that this is a problem.

My position is that Apple isn’t going to solve this problem. If we want it solved, we need to solve it.

The value of using Apple devices today, and even the sense that they are going to protect children who use their devices, far outweighs relatively vague and unproven assertions about future abuses that haven’t yet materialized in most people’s minds even if they turn out to be right in the end.
For lighting? Maybe.

But you won't replace all the 15A/30A lines on your home with 12V lines. it's not viable.
Throw your consumer device in the lake. It’s time to ditch your phone. This turn in corporate policy means there will be no escape from the watchful eye from here on. The automated censorship will only grow deeper, and complex. Expect a global standard of “non-offense”, all states are now forcing their sensibilities on your device. Go deep into foss, and remove as many closed components from your life.
I wish pinephone was actually useful, but I have grave fears that there will never be decent open hardware in the phone space.

2020/2021 the year that never ends and our technology burns away the last traces of privacy.
Only in America things like this can happen.

A whole industry bootstrapping itself into transforming exotic, mission critical hardware into a commodity; SpaceX is making flight hardware a commodity, just like Silicon Valley did with semiconductors!

Meanwhile Europeans are playing catch-up with the Falcon 9 (already 11 years old) and it looks like Ariane 6 won't be competitive with SpaceX anyways [0]. And China is still raining toxic fuel and spent rocket stages on villages. [1]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/europes-challenger-t...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/china-keeps-dropping...
They definitely captured the slow as molasses performance of reddit.
Stage and film lighting even with improvements today is blazingly hot. I can only imagine what a nightmare it must have been to work under equipment of the time with triple the normal lighting.
This is the "hiding hand" principle at play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_hand_principle

I highly recommend anyone interested in "megaprojects" to listen to this EconTalk podcast episode with Bent Flyvbjerg:

https://www.econtalk.org/bent-flyvbjerg-on-megaprojects/

Very insightful conversation.
Table Plus is awesome and native on macOS.
To be fair to Apple, it is not an Apple employee or VP that is calling people concerned a "screeching minority" but NCMEC's executive director of strategic partnerships, Marita Rodriguez.

The whole thing though is a load of crap. There's nothing privacy preserving about installing spyware on people's phones. It doesn't matter that you tell me it's only run if you sync your photos to iCloud. It shouldn't be there, period.
I'd say the very fact that you have to read into the detailed post to understand which "black" is indicated in the title supports my claim that the term is problematically overloaded.
> B. The small group of people who have formed an organization which may or may not be another Anom like FBI controlled software.

Um, this project is 100% open source, unlike Google's flavor of Android. If there are backdoors to the FBI they will be exposed in due time.

https://gitlab.com/CalyxOS

That said I'd love to understand how it compares to LineageOS.
Or a general objection to the concept of a robot controlled remote camera just adding to surveillance. Of course deployed equally across the city - oh, no, wait, in predominantly black neighborhoods and public housing.
Unlike GrapheneOS (which I recommend you use if you can) and CalyxOS, my project https://divestos.org is tested working on 30+ devices.
"You[r feature] Either Die[s] A Hero, Or [it] Live[s] Long Enough To See [it]self Become The Villain" ~Harvey Dent [Sorta]
The problem here is that the police are buying $75k robot dogs. Sure, this one is being used to sniff out COVID. What’s the next version doing? It’s a slippery slope, and given the history of the police in America becoming increasingly militarized, it’s worrisome the direction we are going.
OK, replace "countries" with "communities" - my point stands.
This kind of nerd-sniped me.

We already have good compression algorithms that describe images that the human-brain can see, as well as the "portion" of images that the human brain can't tell the difference very easily.

In particular: JPEG compression. Similar pictures with similar information are compressed into the same image. JPEG deletes huge chunks of the image's information, under the assumption that the human eye / brain doesn't seem to tell the difference between them.

Why not do this in reverse: Turn a 128-bit hash into a 128-bit JPEG image through "some manner". Would that work? Maybe a bit of work needs to be done (ensure that colorblind users see the same result... so fully random JPEG images isn't useful).

Maybe monochrome JPEG images? Surely a 32x32 monochrome image (1024 pixels * 8-bit monocrhome == 8192 bits of data) will be sufficient space for 128-bits or 256-bits to "crawl" around?

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Take a very-low quality JPEG compression, but be inspired from the JPEG matrix for discrete cosine transforms for how many "bits" to spend.

It seems like JPEG is a 16x16 macroblock (256 pixels). 4-macroblocks would make a 32x32 image. If we're working with a huge hash (ex: 512-bit SHA3), that's 128-bits of data we'll need to differentiate per 16x16 macroblock.

That seems usable?? Converting the JPEG into ASCII art though would be the hardest part though! But I feel like that part has been solved already by weird Linux programs (play Doom on a Linux console and whatnot)

EDIT: https://github.com/hzeller/timg Seems like modern consoles can view very crude low-resolution images. Something like a 32x32 picture is probably usable on modern consoles.

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JPEGs have that whole "discrete fourier cosine transform" thing that grossly complicates the algorithm though. PNGs are simpler: largely run-length encoding based off of zlib compression.

The idea of a "white" block being copied for "0 to 15" pixels (4-bits given to the runlength-encoder, 4-bits selected for the "color") might be an easier "artification" step with more obvious differences in display.

512-bits / 8 (4-bit color + 4-bit runlength) == 64 runs. A 32x32 square has 1024 pixels, so your 64-runs of average length 7.5 will average 480-pixels long (well within the 1024-pixels of a 32x32 square == 1024 pixel square).
> Culture matters, but culture isn't race (at least not in a western liberal society).

“Race” is, in origin, a mythology drawn around culture; it is either an actual ethnicity that is an in-group or an imaginary one ascribed on the basis of external appearance as an out-group. And the mere act of creating that distinction by an in-power group can create a shared experience reifying the ascribed ethnicity into a real one over time.

But, no, race is not apart from culture, but a product and aspect of it.
Amen. Although, if you're on version 931.59.12, then maybe something is wrong.
In the idiom, a tangent is a branching divergence from the main conversation; it's related to that conversation, but is taking it in a new direction. Tangents are fine, and often good, but we are careful about them here when they lead into predictable off-topic arguments.
Calyx made an effort to sponsor and integrate the backup tool Seedvault (https://calyxinstitute.org/projects/seedvault-encrypted-back...) into their ROM - and other AOSP distributions benefit from this effort. Handhelds are tethered devices, its essential to have contacts and precious photos stored at a second place (online or offline) and easily restored or used when changing devices. A user friendly full backup solution not requiring root access of some sort was missing to date.
Whoa, criticizing YC is fine but "I hope you fail" is the sort of thing we ban accounts for. How nasty. Please stick to the site guidelines if you want to keep commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html