skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you start punishing players for dropping the ball, the game becomes to not receive the pass.
1. Apple has only stated a commitment to protecting user privacy to the extent it is legal. They make a lot of suspicious operational changes to how they operate in China, for example. Their opposition to the FBI case was because they believed the request placed on them was illegal.

2. This article only provides evidence to say Apple will scan photos you upload into iCloud. Scanning local photos is your speculation.

3. The operation of NCMEC and the blacklist is defined by the Federal government. American (citizens) have some mechanism to oppose this design. Apple could perhaps lobby against it, but their lobbying operations are famously minimal.

4. In principle, Apple could do anything. That doesn’t really inform what they’re likely to do. Just like in principle, anyone could slip a malicious content scanning patch into the Linux kernel (and this already has a POC!).
Because the denied claims are the responsibility of the individual, not the government.
Yeah, might want to consider deleting them. That could turn into a nightmare.
Gas fees becoming more predictable is nice, but the fact they can get so large for small transactions is quite frustrating.

I wanted to swap a bunch of coins worth 8$ into another token and the gas fees were around 28$, which is just insane.
The problem is you have to convince a large crowd for that. Spreading the information about free software and GNU/Linux phones is the same work explaining the people why we need to vote differently.
> to company reports, Zelle processed $35 billion in P2P (person-to-person) payments in Q4 2018 versus $19 billion for Venmo.

The thing that makes this a bit trickier is that Zelle is transparently used under the hood by some banks to move money between accounts owned by the same person. I've moved thousands of dollars between two of my accounts with Zelle but the alternative would have been an ACH transfer or depositing a check to myself, not Venmo.

I know it's just one anecdote, but when splitting a check, my social circle always reaches for Venmo, never for Zelle. And yet I've probably moved more total money via Zelle because I occasionally use it for different, higher-value transactions.

There's some selection bias at play for different transaction types (including many where people might not even realize they're using Zelle) so we should be careful looking at only the headline numbers.
> If the absolute cost of electricity goes up, nothing changes.

The cost of electricity does impact the cost per transaction on the network, does it not?
The next hard fork/upgrade has to happen before December 2021, that's when the difficulty bomb needs to be moved again.

It's unlikely that it'll happen that early, but iirc PoS is now the biggest priority
It’s not an issue in American. Thing is we are talking about renouncing citizenship so the comparison is to other countries.

Looking deeply at the social counteracts of other countries is really interesting because of how many different things we take for granted aren’t universal. Free speech in the US is more limited than I would like, but it gets much worse even in countries that look civilized in other ways.
I agree with all of this - but the conclusion I reach is that proponents of Bitcoin are lying when they say it's unchangeable and certainly deflationary, or digital gold. It's changeable if people want it to change.
You're correct. And the reasoning behind having not stopped lefty authoritarianism is actually very interesting and complex. At least one American general got ousted from his position after suggesting the USSR be subjugated after the Second World War.
Except there is a widely accepted standard for binary application distribution: AppImage (https://appimage.org/). It's a fire-and-forget solution: You download the AppImage and run it. No need to install anything.

AppImage was created for precisely this scenario: When you want to distribute a proprietary application without worrying about packaging it for different Linux distributions.

And for the driver issues: This is being brought up now and then, but comparing the amount of issues I've had with my AMD graphics card on Linux (essentially none) [1] with the amount of anecdotes of Windows driver issues I regularly see in certain forums, I'd say driver issues are a myth by now (to a certain extent of course, please don't bring up how you had to install a firmware package for your Broadcom wireless chipset...).

[1] I'm not saying there aren't ever any driver bugs now and then, but just a food for thought: My graphics card works perfectly out of the box, without any configuration or driver installation at all, on most recent (read: not ancient) Linux versions. On Windows I'd have to look for whatever piece of ad-laden "graphics management suite" I need and then install it as well as regularly update it.
With outdated Linux kernel, non-updatable and closed.
(disclaimer, I work in a Climate&Energy group and have been studying wildfires, though by no means a deep expert in forestry)

The implication of this article is that we should have let the forests burn, and as a corollary we should go back to doing that.

The former seems like a reasonable argument. This article misses a couple of important details, though, notably the effects of invasive species and how climate change affects the regrowth of forests post fire. As a result, the latter is by no means obvious. At this point, it's unlikely that forests will go back to how things were, even if we stop suppression.
Appeal to emotion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion
Noob question: Can you have time-series tables and regular Postgres tables in the same database? Is this distinction something that you decide on when you create a table?
Like having pictures of Tim Cook eating ice cream?
> this crypto tax provision was slid into a huge bipartisan infrastructure deal. It really never should have been included in this legislation in the first place.

Why not? The infrastructure is being paid for in part by this tax. They're fundamentally linked.
There's also KidPix 1.0 for DOS available (and playable online through an emulator) at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/KID_PIX_DOS

They also host downloadable later versions of KidPix but AFAIK those are not playable in the browser.
> it stands to reason

No it doesn't. You're comparing something with no advantage to the people who are invested in Bitcoin to something which is meant to objectively improve Ethereum and a majority can agree upon.
> The IRS publishes a quarterly list of the names of people who have renounced their citizenship or given up their green cards, but it only includes people with global assets over $2 million

This claim is total crap. The list includes all US citizens who renounce their citizenship, regardless of their net worth. [1]

You also cannot renounce your citizenship for tax dodging [2]:

> Persons who wish to renounce U.S. citizenship should be aware of the fact that renunciation of U.S. citizenship may have no effect on their U.S. tax or military service obligations (contact the Internal Revenue Service or U.S. Selective Service for more information).

So plan to become rich after renouncing (and without the IRS noticing).

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/quarterly-publication-of-ind...

[2] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
That is not the only explanation. Involving the device could be considered better because it doesn’t require Apple to build infrastructure to scan all your photos in the cloud, which could be more easily repurposed without user consent.
Yeah, unfortunately the main chain will likely be this bad until all the shards are executing shards. You'll need to go to an L2 until that happens
I thought the $99 annual fee and cut of all transactions were necessary to 'maintain' the App Store. Seems like these scam apps are showing up as Featured, rather than just appearing as search ads.
What kind of burgers do you want to sell?
>But think about it: a _singular_ person in your mixing pool can make the entire pool illegal. One, singular, person using that money for contraband (illegal porn, illegal drugs, illegal tax evasion) will turn the entire pool illegal.

It's very difficult to know, but I'm leaning towards this not holding up in court. At least not upon appeal. If a mixer has tens of millions of known participant addresses and the government tries to argue that merely owning a single address that received anything from the mixer means you aided and abetted some other crime from some other person who used the mixer, I think the defense could point out how that just isn't remotely statistically sufficient to imply any sort of involvement.

>Do you trust everyone else in the pool to be using it for legitimate gains? If you went into court, would you be able to say with a straight face that "Everyone in my mixing pool was in fact, doing legal activities?"

I'm not sure if proving a negative will work. Now, if they can prove you had knowledge at the time that at least one person used it illicitly, then I think it'd depend how the mixer works. If it works so that any "dirty money" is purged out within the next few transactions, then they might have to prove that you sent or received funds close to those distribution windows and had specific knowledge that some specific illegal act was likely occurring at that time.

I see how they could potentially prosecute the owners of the mixers, if the owners are aware of at least one case of criminal use, but prosecuting the users sounds much more difficult.
I just updated and the first start definitely took less than that on my Fusion Drive iMac from 2015. Something’s not right there…
We have a little bit and are watching the development of techniques like computing on Homomorphically Encrypted data, Multi-party Computation and Zero Knowledge Proofs with great interest.

For example, the credentials functionality in Ockam is using BBS+ signatures that enable selective disclosure of attested attributes. This has both privacy and bandwidth benefits when proving possession of a credential.

But we feel end-to-end encrypted communication is a prerequisite to building systems that compute on encrypted data. So we started with a focus on making end-to-end easy.
No, there is no waste. It is a very efficient conversion of energy to security of the ledger.

And with that ledger instead of all the wars and waste generated by manipulatable central bank ledgers it’s a win.
> the Soviet court system under Stalin wasn't at all interested in justice.

And, to play Devil's advocate, most of those in power under Stalin would likely have claimed and honestly believed that it was a justice system and that it was using its might for the greater good.

Outright sociopaths who simply don't care about harm are rare. When systems cause more harm than good, it's usually because well-intentioned participants fall prey to other human flaws:

* Dehumanizing and believing that some groups are simply less worthy of care than others.

* Biased data or beliefs about who is harmed and who is helped.

* Principle-agent problems where the ones making the decisions don't see or own the consequences of them.

* Emergent properties where no individual member of the system wants a result, but the system as a whole ends up producing it because of its structure. Sort of the beauracratic equivalent of crowd crush.

The reason I'm pointing this out is because I think when non-totalitarian systems fail to help, it's usually for the same reasons. It's not because of psychopathic monsters. It's mostly that primate brains were never designed to operate at the organizational and power scale we have created. The fact that it works at all is a miracle.
OP is doing exactly what he claims is the problem. He's picking and choosing links and completely ignoring timelines and facts. Sure, New York EVENTUALLY got 4,400 ventilators AFTER they went public and called out the federal government on the original offer of 400.

Normally I would give him the benefit of the doubt that he just didn't do proper research, but then when I see him making claims like "the lines are blurred between the media and the Democratic party" I just assume he's acting in bad faith and knows full well that the ventilators weren't released until after the negative press.
Having an escape system doesn't mean the rocket's safer. Since these escape systems are rockets in themselves, and so they have the potential of killing the passengers.
SE/30's have become harder to find cheaply, because they now have the reputation as The Best Compact Mac. I've been looking for one here in the San Francisco area for a while now and had no luck; I don't want to get one shipped because I don't trust it to arrive intact.
The irony that what was once a prison colony is now preventing people from leaving. Unbelievable.
As far as I’m aware, the laws which require cloud service operators to scan for CSAM have been on the books for a long time, and none of the usual orgs have raised a constitutional challenge to them. I’m not a legal expert either, though.
I love this attitude. In life, so many people are happy to reference themselves to a very poor standard. For mang Dominicans, it’s OK in the case of Dominican Republic to be the third country in Latin America for so many statistic—automobile accidents, coronavirus deaths, you name it. This is unacceptable to me. Pick the highest bar—and if the highest bar isn’t good enough—set a new standard.

Sure, we will have failures—but we need to push the envelope and do “good” not “better than worse”.
Hell, even if the premise of the conversation was wrong, I still learned something that day :)

DSPs were a thing in the 80s, right? I guess the question is: were they so expensive that it was unlikely to find one in an OEM stereo of a mid-priced car? A sibling comment mentions that this button may have just been a stereo expando kind of thing, rather than localizing the sound stage through signal delays. I'm thinking that may be right, and that I'm misremembering the feature. It would be awesome to find some original owners manuals for the 1985 Impulse that have any mention of this feature. My DDG-fu is failing me right now.

Now, which one of those 13 mechanisms is failing on me when the damn cricket keeps "moving" around the room as I try to follow the chirp?
The 20% capital gains tax bracket is applicable to assets held longer than one year.

Short term gains are taxed at your normal tax rate.
"You give" implies the ability to decide that. The problem is that there's always the threat of people such as slavers, religious fanatics, ethnonationalists etc coming to power. The more that power is centralized, the more they can do with it.

And yes, conversely, when power is decentralized, you don't get "benevolent dictators" who might otherwise do some good. My point is that this argument doesn't really work if applied consistently in all cases - or, at least, not without more digging into the specifics of costs vs benefits. Personally, I'm not convinced that centralization is a net good overall, if only because it makes large standing armies possible.
nope, transactions clear at a rate unrelated to mining(so long as at least 1 person is mining).

The only thing that impacts transaction costs is how many other people are trying to clear their own transactions and bidding up the sat/vbyte rate.
> the screening is done on the phone.

Where is my right to refuse to dedicate my devices cpu, battery time and network bandwidth for this activity?

Did I agree to this already?

(Sorry for asking a question! I'll try to simply trust Apple at all times from now on...)
>That being said, my solution is to continue to follow the process that law enforcement is currently using.

If you knew how they approach this you wouldn't be satisfied either
I’m certain if it gets added to iPhones, it’ll get added to iPads. iPadOS is iOS.
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That is a pretty good and detailed blog post. I wonder, however, if I can use any aggregate call to build out a continuous aggregate. I'm specifically think about things like sketches and hyperloglogs.
Again, you don't appear to know how this works. Look up fuzzy hash, i even mentioned it in the comment.
> How much of the code running on your data do you personally inspect?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28072201
I would suggest that if it is widely used, it isn't an error, regardless of what Professor Brians thinks.
Yup! Happy to help. To further break it down:

sound intensity increase of 10db: 10x increase

sound pressure level increase of 10db: ~3.5x increase

loudness increase of 10db: ~2x increase

It sucks that there’s so many variations that all use decibels as their unit of measurement with different rates of change. I had to research it years ago because I’d always been told 3db = 2x, yet found it odd that 3db didn’t seem 2x louder. Now I understand.
Talking versus Doing
No but I guess I could. What would you use the pdf for, as opposed to say taking a screenshot to get a png? Would you want the canvas layout rendered on a pdf (the one you get when doing View -> Canvas) or something else?
Ok found something

https://anthonycolpo.com/the-junk-science-behind-the-moderna...

It says, among other things..

>Using reasoning that could only make sense to a government bureaucrat or drug company-sponsored researcher, it was decided no Phase 2 trials were necessary for a drug that had just been shown to cause local and systemic side effects in the vast majority of healthy subjects who took it.
I remember the first time I used a Sun Workstation. From a PC background, I was impressed by the fact that the keyboard housed the beeper, the keyboard was a serial device and the bios equivalent had a built-in command line.

It is a shame that such a small set of features jumped from workstations to the PC.
Perhaps you misread the paper? You cherry picked a portion of the abstract and made it seem like that conclusion was made. Here, let me help you:

"Conclusions: Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination, and vaccines can be safely prioritized to those who have not been infected before."

You can prioritize those who have not been infected before BECAUSE those who HAVE been infected are unlikely to see a benefit in vaccinating to begin with.
But you can be jailed for 18 months for not giving it up
I wonder if the market for vector tools is small compared to bitmap/photo tools. Anecdotally I know a lot of people using Photoshop but nobody who uses Illustrator.
> rights and obligations on both sides not ownership

I would say consequences of infringement are much worse for individual citizens than for the government.

If the government confiscates some of your money through "civil forfeiture", you then have to sue the government and prove the money was gained legally.

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

On the other hand, try not filing your taxes. What happened to John McAfee might happen to you.
It was never meant to be fundamentally unchangeable.
>brainwashing was very successful

TBH this is as much your brainwashing as your colleagues. 14th DL was part of CIA Tibetan program. You mentioned serf/feudalism, he was old enough to perpetuate before exile. Current Dalai Lama was literally a killer who tried to undermine PRC sovereignty. This is like when mainstream America suddenly found out Christopher Columbus was kind of a monster, because previously it was simply not taught / common knowledge.

Just like your claim in another comment that China said they would nuke Japan. Some random PRC netizen posted it and got popular, it's not an official CCP foreign policy position as misreported from many western media. Don't get me wrong, Chinese nationalists would LOVE to nuke Japan if they came to the defense of Taiwan, which to PRC = if a previous invader who committed horrible atrocities decides to meddle militarily in the ongoing Chinese civil war. It's completely expected nationalism based on historic grievances. CCP isn't fanning anti-Japanese flames this hard, frequently they have to rein nationalists in, especially when it comes to Japanese drama. BTW you'll find South Korean comments about nuking Japan as well. Except western propaganda doesn't deliberately conflate that with SK foreign policy.

>This person seemed otherwise completely normal.

This gets said so frequently, yet never with any self reflection. Maybe the Chinese colleague (and friend / girlfriend / wife), typically very educated, who likely speaks both languages, has lived in both cultures, and has dual perspectives, is not the one that experienced very successful brainwashing. Growing up in a society with free press doesn't automatically make one more informed. Almost always, it's not the Chinese person with information deficit. They're exposed to both sides of the story.
Miners never have custodial control of the funds in those transactions.

They are much more like auditors or accountants than brokers.
Isn't PayPal already investigating users' purchases to help the ADL put pressure on transactions which they claim to be funding hate speech?
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This isn't a Political debate, this is Public Health. The data is super clear, the only way out of this Public Health disaster is vaccines. The faster that everyone gets their vaccine shots, the faster ALL OF US can get out of this pandemic that is negatively impacting all of our lives. The current vaccines can do that with next to zero impact on a person's health.

Individuals not getting vaccine shots are not endangering just their lives, they are endangering the Public Health. They are putting unnecessary stress on the Health Care system and allowing themselves to be the incubator of the next varent that prolongs this Pandemic.

We're not Scapegoating anyone for this Pandemic because the people who choose not to get vaccinated are driving and causing this Pandemic. They really are to blame for the Pandemic in its current form.

BTW:
Public Health > Individual Freedom
I'm a US expat living in Canada, and a parent of Canadian children. They are eligible for US citizenship, but don't become US citizens unless I go through a procedure to register them as such.
FBI has no jurisdiction outside the US, so you don’t gain anything this way.

Free speech in US is poorer than in most Western countries, as it fails to protect you from anything other than most government institutions. For example in US it’s fine for your employer to fire you because they don’t like what you say in your private time. Other countries provide better protection.

My question is still unanswered: why would anyone in US even think about their law enforcement invoicing the victims?
> Affinity Photo is still not good enough for my use cases: the difference lies mainly in the many tiny details which make the workflow an efficient workflow

Could you please provide an example? I mostly use Affinity Photo for simple photo development stuff and I'm curious where its limits really lie.
But that's the big difference, cloud providers are scanning the data they hold on their device. Your iphone is not Apple's device. Cloud providers have a liability if they knowingly store illegal content, the data is stored on their property, Apple does not, it is your property. It's like if Ford was going to scan what you store in the trunk of your car.