skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a similar story from someone trying to find the Roomba app in the iOS App Store. The top search result is a sponsored ad for a scammy subscription app pretending to be the Roomba app. That Roomba's legitimate app is called simply "iRobot Home" and doesn't include the actual word "Roomba" or mention vacuums doesn't help!

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1422992070722023427
The worst part is it took 2 years and outside lawyers to rectify the situation. It's as if the justice system doesn't even care if it gets it right or wrong, it's just a mindless machine. "I don't care, not my job."
Only Amiga Makes It Possible!
Manufacturing ASICs from scratch requires a lot of capital, but it is fundamentally possible. There is no way to acquire a permanent, unassailable monopoly over ASIC hardware in general.

It is possible to acquire an unassailable monopoly over PoS tokens. You might be able to buy scraps from random traders, but will the >51% whale be willing to sell their core holdings when they can simply live off their staking yield?

>A permissioned blockchain is one in which the ability to add blocks is limited to a certain collection of entities

I agree. Ripple is an example of a chain which explicitly follows that model. PoS regresses to something like this because a 51% majority attacker can control consensus.
> They are using a library of human verified images to compare the hashes

I didn't get that from the article, could you point to a source on this?
This just means child molesters will seek out PinePhones, Purism Librems, etc. And those phones will acquire reputations as "pedophones", and anyone buying or using one will be immediately considered sus. People with nothing to hide won't mind an OS with surveillance features.
It is common for a cat with urinary tract infection (UTI) to pee outside of the litter box, it may be trying to communicate, "it hurts when I pee", and choosing your bed because it thinks that's the best place to communicate with you https://bluecrossvethospital.com/cat-urinary-tract-infection...
When it comes to Apple and privacy, it's important to differentiate two different types of privacy: (1) privacy against snooping by the state, and (2) privacy against snooping by all others. As we had seen with Apple and China, it's only the second type of privacy that Apple cares about. Sharing your information with the state is not out of character for Apple. In fact, had they done the opposite, it would have been out of character.
The story itself even points back to that!
Check out the new Blender if you're looking for a motion graphics solution. The new geometry node tools and improved UI are worth the look.
I'm another long time but occasional Photoshop user who doesn't know all the Photoshop hotkeys very well. I've been quite happy with Affinity as a replacement so far, and haven't looked back.

The controls are a little different, which I imagine would be annoying to a hardcore Photoshop user who has used it every day and developed deeply ingrained muscle memory. For a more casual user such as myself, it's not a big deal. I have to look things up in the (well written, comprehensive) documentation sometimes, I learn the new Affinity equivalent command, and it's fine. The learning curve has overall been much better than I anticipated.
Yup. That's a well organized project right there. Very easy to find the exact code doing whatever it is you want.
And Linux[0] is absolutely the worst "platform" you could ever have to port commercial software to. There is a ludicrous level of fragmentation where even individual distributions break compatibility with themselves every few years, and there is no widely accepted standard for binary application distribution[1]. That's without even getting into things like driver issues that are arguably not Linux's fault. As game developers discovered, Linux will often account for a vastly disproportionate amount of your bug reports for its share of installs.

I sympathise with people who want to be able to use their favorite software on a FOSS OS, I'm right there with you, but that will always be an uphill battle on Linux because the culture is deeply anti-platform.

[0] "Linux" here is taken as shorthand for "The GNU/Linux Desktop". The kernel itself is a fine platform.

[1] unless you lump all the different package repos, formats, and managers together. I shouldn't have to explain why this is a problem here.
NewEgg also has a 1GB DDR2 for under $10. It's just not immediately available like a supermarket checkout stand.
If it goes to nobody, is it really "gone forever"? Did it even exist in the first place?

The confusions arise from thinking cryptocurrency tokens as material things (like gold). Money is just a numeric representation of the social relationship people have with each other, and the rules of the monetary system is just an technical agreement on how we should have relationships with others. This is a change of rules for the relationship between miners and owners: nothing is "lost" or "burned". Whether you agree upon that change of contract is up to yours, but the actual "disappearing" of money isn't an issue in the slightest here.
Some experts from highly regarded institutions across the country would disagree. See this peer-reviewed paper for introduction to their reasoning [1].

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/
I suspect the user will not blame Apple, they'll blame the app. So Apple gets its 30% with no repercussions.

A different problem, I'm sad about all the subscription for apps that shouldn't have one. I get Netflix having a subscription, I'm paying for new movies and bandwidth. But, I wanted a DB meter app. Every one the app store promoted was ~$6 a month or $20 a year. Nothing will change on the app, there's zero reason those apps should be a subscription. AFAIK, the ratings system is gamed as I find it hard to believe 1000s of people would rate a DB meter app, nor give it 5 stars for such a ridiculous subscription. This is also Apple's problem AFAICT, allowing fake reviews (same problem Amazon has)
Not employees but all of their board and all of their investors.
The parent is simply pointing out that all consumption taxes are regressive. A CO2 tax by itself is a tax on the poor, especially the rural poor who have longer commutes and are more dependent on automobile travel.

A CO2 tax is only fair if it's paired with progressive tax breaks in other areas and/or subsidies for transition to renewable energy. An example would be a progressive subsidy for electric vehicle purchases and for upgrades to CO2-heavy (coal) electricity generation infrastructure in poorer areas.
You can, in the US. /s
> Like a kid running butt naked around the house...

Thought it was buck naked — but that works too. :-)
> I wonder how much demonstrable interest it would really take to convince the management at Serif that a real Linux port of Affinity is a worthwhile exercise.

Probably more than is demonstrable. It will never be a money maker. It might still happen for other reasons.
Is the ratio of electors/MP different for expats vs those living in the country?

I can certainly understand the anger of the GP, apparently roughly 25% of the Croatian citizens do not live in the country. As an expat myself, having a say in how my home country is run is nice, but I feel it's a bit "easy", because I mostly do not have to live with the consequence of my choices.
Only because they are monopolies for the corresponding platforms. If customers could choose between smaller stores using different moderation strategies, the forces of competition would have found an optimal solution very fast.
Caring about your society, institutional values, and countrymen.
> but that aside strikes me as high praise for SQLite

It's intended to be and is deserved.
Sweden enters the chat.
> Treating academia as one homogeneous group isn't helpful

I disagree. Academia by and large has a lot of common traits. I've been a programmer for a loooong time, and the majority of academic CS papers are opaque and inaccessible like most other academic papers I've read. I'll grant you that CS papers are generally easier to read (and not just because I'm a programmer), but that doesn't excuse the usual academic lack of clarity.

> Scientific writing is not usually meant to be consumed by readers outside a certain community.

That is a big problem tho, because it means journalists can't understand the papers. It means people can't easily verify information themselves without hours of effort. It means that papers with good information go largely unread and not understood for decades until someone resurrects it.

Clarity in writing is really important, especially when the information is precise and nuanced. Academia as a whole has done a pretty poor job of teaching people how to write papers that convey information well. I don't think its unfair to paint academia that way as a whole. And I think it is helpful for people to bring this up and make people (especially people in academia) realize that this is a bigger problem than they think.
In my experience they are just anxious about getting something they don't understand, doing nothing is super easy/comfortable, and some media scares the last bit of uncertainty out of them.
Haven't they been saying POS will be "ready soon" for years? Seems like maybe vaporware used for hype?

"The Ethereum proof of stake date has been set for December 1, 2020.
While the proof of stake Ethereum date was originally set for January 2020, this deadline was missed."

https://www.exodus.com/blog/ethereum-proof-of-stake-date/
Safe Ways to Hack Someone’s Phone Without Touching It
I did something similar - free to use for image generation but you can get your own artwork on Canvas:

https://neuralblender.com/
Isn't Apple going to start auto scanning the text in your images too for searching/easy copying? How many years until the hash of text in your images is compared to a database of... god knows what. Sensitive information? Dangerous text? I honestly can't think where it's most likely headed but I don't like it.
> This can be a real challenge with mixed teams. Remote workers often complain that their in-office team members have a leg up due to more accessible communication, collaboration, and relationship building.

That's quite unavoidable. This is also the consequence of trying to please everyone by going 'mixed', hybrid', etc.

The best, and perhaps only, way to avoid these issues and have everyone on a equal footing is to enforce the same for everyone in the team: everyone remote or everyone in office, or everyone remote x days a week and on site y days a week.
If this was titled "why GDPR fine will be a game changer" and then speculated that Amazon might do it correctly, it wouldn't feel overwhelmingly like an ad to me.
No, if you're just an owner. If you're a miner though... that's a whole different story.
It's incredible how people are going to blame absolutely everything on ads. We're talking about a company for which ads are only a small part of their revenue doing something following government pressure, and somehow ads are the problem.
Do ANYTHING.

Buy a feature phone or a phone from a vendor who doesn't have this power.

Switch to Linux.

Stop buying from companies that abuse you.

Elect politicians who care about your rights.

You know what's not helpful? Attacking the messenger, regardless of how sanctimonious you think he is.
>I’m less keen on prosecuting the police here

It is the police officer's job and duty to do the investigation. He was negligent at that duty to the point of costing someone dearly. He should be prosecuted. What if a truck driver was negligent in driving, causing someone to spend 2 years in the hospital, wouldn't they be worthy of prosecution?
What are the advantages of a warmer planet? Milder winters seems like one. Lancet says 20x more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat for instance.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
It depends what one means by "shift".

For example my brother-in-law is a firefighter. He spends 3/4 days straight in the firehouse and then comes home for 3/4 days and works something like 12 hours straight when he is on call and gets rest periods when not actually doing firefighter work. This is possible because the firehouse basically has a small dorm in it. When I ask him when he is going to work he says he has a three day shift coming up. Because he doesn't come home, my sister definitely considers it "non-stop".

I can easily imagine health care workers being on-site for a few days at some sites, like a firefighter. Especially in areas where commutes could be prohibitive.
> A little bit like how, at least according to rumor, Python hasn't done anything about its famous global interpreter lock because, when they looked into it, they found that, while it would be a big performance boost in some areas, it would also cause a large performance degradation for the silent majority of people who aren't writing multithreaded Python code.

OCaml is going through something like that. It currently has a GIL, and they are working to remove it and allow multithreaded code. However, they're also constantly benchmarking single core performance because it's still the main use case, and they don't want too much regression.
I've been using Affinity Designer since its beta in 2014, and it has made the gradual decomposition of Illustrator CS6 (the last non-rental version, effectively unusable on modern MacOS) much easier to endure.

For my professional needs, Designer is a perfect fit, as I only use it when I need to design an icon that would be too complex for Sketch. For side projects, I've made it work – for all the effort Serif has put into improving the fundamentals, Designer remains a feature-poor Illustrator replacement for complex illustration.

Serif's long-term aims with its vector package remain a mystery to me. Circa 2015, they had a public roadmap of everything they planned to add to the 1.x branch, including key illustration features such as shape blends and distortion envelopes. That roadmap has long since been deleted, and most of the features added to Designer since then have been subtle workflow enhancements (a contour tool last year was a notable exception).

The obvious explanation for this is that $50 six years ago isn't enough to sustainably develop all the functionality of a full Illustrator replacement, but to that end, I wonder why Serif hasn't made any movement toward a paid upgrade path.
> Apple intends to install software on American iPhones to scan for child abuse imagery

> Apple’s neuralMatch algorithm will continuously scan photos that are stored on a US user’s iPhone and have also been uploaded to its iCloud back-up system

Why is there any need for Apple to install software on the iPhone if they are isolating the algorithm to run only on cloud storage, not local images? Not a programmer, so maybe a simple explanation.

Also, if this is isolated to iCloud, won't criminals just start using a different cloud backup provider?
I would agree with that - the US population that has the means to leave doesn't have the incentive to do so, and those who have the incentive don't have the means. Conversely, the Danes who are too ambitious for the way that Denmark is set up likely have the means to leave.
Highly recommended: Seeing The Visitors at ICA Boston. It's a dozen-ish musicians playing in separate rooms of a big house where they can't see each other and can only hear each other over headphones. It's presented as nine channels of video, each with their own audio.

The effect is pretty wild and magical. The music, I suspect, is intentionally written to not require precise timing, and part of the charm of the piece is the musicians feeling each other out as they play. It definitely plays with your expectations of what constitutes music and how you hear timing in music.

The ICA owns the piece (a copy of the piece?), but it isn't currently on display :-(

https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/ragnar-kjartansson-vis...
You're assuming everyone got a stimulus check. That's not the case.
Will Edrogan use this to remove pictures where he is presented in bad light?
Do we know why did Apple put the effort to create this? Who forced them to do it? Like it is a move that is bad for PR and also does not make them money, I suspect some big government is demanding it but maybe I am to simple in my thinking and this makes sense.
Relive the magic of KP Studio, Studio Deluxe and Deluxe 3 with this Kid Pix Roundup video https://youtu.be/NK6-ZSaBzjc
> Apple’s neuralMatch algorithm will continuously scan photos that are stored on a US user’s iPhone and have also been uploaded to its iCloud back-up system. Users’ photos, converted into a string of numbers through a process known as “hashing”, will be compared with those on a database of known images of child sexual abuse.

This doesn't really make any sense. So it's not a Neural Engine thing but merely hash matching, and it also only applies to iCloud Backup? That is already non-e2e encrypted, so Apple can already access those files whenever it wants.
> Maybe for secure storage of private keys?

That's the first thing I thought of. Separation of long-term lived [private] key material from the OS / filesystem.
And if everyone who dropped the ball on this got a year in prison for it, they'd be even more rare.
Tips & Tricks incoming... I find that if I can't sleep and want something that's kind of useful to do without getting too involved, contributing to common voice is a great way to spend half an hour and relax/forget whatever it is I was churning about. I would recommend it for that, plus it's a great project. Both listening and voicing...
I'm glad emacsconf is still a thing :)
Windows 95 ran like a dog compared to Amiga. PCs couldn't match a 25-MHz Amiga for responsiveness until they were in the hundreds of MHz in the late nineties.
It's not about distributed governance; it's about abusing a dominant role in consensus. PoS is easier to capture, allowing the dominant party to censor and manipulate the settlement chain.

As for governance, with Bitcoin everyone is equally powerless to dictate how things should go. If you appreciate the fixed ruleset, you can choose to participate.

Ethereum is far more nebulous, being piloted by a foundation which hardforks the protocol at will.
I agree, but it's too late for the process to work to be protective of the population from a drug defect. If FDA finds that there is a critical issue, that's good to know, but what do we do now?
> One of the neatest things about it, and I still have to wrap my head around it, is that it can do anything you can do on a desktop. SSH? No problem? Dev environment? "apt install build-essentials". Want to install XFCE? Knock yourself out!

You can do all these things with a $10 raspberry pi-w. It’s not obvious why it helps with having security and privacy.
How to get more customer testimonials to build trust
I know about GB syndrome. I do not consider that to be "long term". When I got my first dose, many people had already been fully vaccinated for more than 6 weeks and I personally knew quite a few of them. There was nothing to worry about. On the other hand, I've actually been told by some people I know that the vaccine is going to kill me in a couple years through some mysterious unspecified long term side effect. There are no examples of a vaccine doing that, no proposed mechanism for that, and the whole argument boils down to "we do not have 10 years of data so we do not know for sure that it is not the case". Well, we do not have 10 years of data on the long term side effects of getting infected by Sars-cov-2 either. I point out the asymmetry as these are the same people saying that covid is not that bad.

> COVID is very contagious if you believe that positive PCR test means you have COVID.

I'm startled. Are you nitpicking over covid (the disease) vs sars-cov-2 (the virus)? Of course if you have a positive PCR test it means that you are infected by the virus. Whether or not you have symptoms is irrelevant when we are talking about long term side effects. Think about HIV or the cancer inducing HPV strains. Again, even if you are asymptomatic you may get lung damage from covid. I am not saying that there are long term consequences to that, but you do not know that, and there are no less reasons to believe that than to believe in any long term side effects of the vaccine.

edit: typos
SQLite is an exceptional piece of software as well…

It’s lightweight, reliable, knows what it’s tasked for, does exactly wat it does, and easy to extend. I personally reach SQLite first in so many cases, including web backends. That the DB is a file that’s literally a cp away to backup is super-useful in development and debugging.

Really the only complaint is that type enforcement is lacking… which I wish I could have said not a big deal, but it turns out it is. I wish I had a embedded DB that’s as reliable and trustful, lightful as SQLite, but with types enforced. :-(
You are misinterpreting a small slice of the data, perhaps deliberately, or perhaps based on your biases based on things you are certain are true, but might not actually be true.

There are a number of possibilities aside from the justice system being biased against these particular left-handed defendants. Note that the lefties still might be biased against within the justice system, but the incarceration statistic alone is not enough to prove that conclusion.

Here's a couple of possibilities:

1) the left-handed people are more likely to be caught, even though both right- and left- handed people are equally effective at committing crimes. It's even possible that right-handed are even MORE effective at committing crimes, but perhaps right-handed people can escape the scene faster than left-handed people.

2) even if enforcement was perfectly equal and without any bias in the justice system at all, left-handed people might come from a location or environment that offers an opportunity to commit crimes more often than the general population.

There are other possibilities, but the data that you have shared, even if it had perfect accuracy and precision, doesn't actually prove causality. It doesn't even come close, except to uncritical journalists who don't really understand data science or researchers who let their own agenda or biases drive their science.
A custom fit ball is so much nicer. It just falls off your hand.
What's with the hysterical anti-media FUD? We know about Cuomo's nursing home shenanigans because the media you complain about were at the forefront of reporting about it, starting as far back as April 2020. (WSJ, Politico, WaPo, NYT, NBC News, Chicago Tribune, ABC, and CBS were just some of the national news organizations reporting on this.)

The public decided it didn't care.
Bitcoin is built on a house of Tether. https://www.coindesk.com/tether-first-reserve-composition-re...
> All variants right now are significantly more effective at transmission in unvaccinated individuals.

This is what's being said, but it's not what the data seem to show. In the recent surge in cases in Provincetown, MA, 69% of people were fully vaccinated but 74% of confirmed positive cases were among that subgroup.

Obviously there are confounding factors here but it seems readily apparent that delta isn't "significantly more effective at transmission in unvaccinated individuals".

CDC study: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm...
Images are submitted by over 1400 organizations[0] like the FBI and NCMEC, although the inner-workings of the database aren’t public and I can’t find a source or confirmation of every image actually being human-verified. The closest is how the "Child Victim Identification Program" helps identify victims in these images.

0: https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/csam#:~:text=Electroni... (ctrl-f "1,400")