skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We know that the days to come will be filled with the screeching voices of the minority

When they go high, we dig lower
> It concluded that less than 1/2 of one percent of Americans were poor by standards in India.

I have no trouble believing that.

Same thing with the software industry really.

Source control has been mainstream since the 90's, build pipeline, automation and so on. But there are still shops around where they'll look at you funny for suggesting using git, that swear copy-pasting executables in a GUI is an ok way to upgrade and where the versions of languages used are at least old enough to have a legal drink. Not a lot, but they still exist. You won't find any overlap with what's going on in SV over there.
You have to try to understand that building software is not like baking a cake in a custom shape. Which if you have seen those shows it requires a certain amount of ingenuity to create a cake shaped like a fountain. Or whatever.

But fundamentally software development has 1000 to 1000000 more moving pieces than a cake, generally a research project, like building a new type of aircraft engine. Except, imagine it was a really new type of engine that was being built based on an alien landing. But they could not get into the engine to see how it worked because it was an unknown alloy. So they were trying to invent a new type of anti-gravity drive based on a few clues.

I mean we are not trying to defy gravity, but there a shitton of unknown unsolved problems. You can't promise or create marketing for a feature unless we already know it's possible. For starters.

But the issue is worse than that. What generally happens is once one part of the new engine is barely working, they demand another new invention that has to be completes in the same deadline before the other one has corner cases examined even.
Notice that most of this guy's problems come from rent. Getting decent housing is expensive, having a long commute is a byproduct of high rent, etc. That's caused by rampant NIMBYism preventing the construction of new housing, and not anything related to American minimum wage. If you increased the minimum wage 200% rent would also increase 200% because housing is inelastic. This exact trend has played out in the SFBA, Seattle, and many other west coast cities over the last decade. You can't legislate your way out of supply and demand.
India hosts 400% of humans of its healthy capacity; 150 people per sq km.

What the world sees is the tip of the iceberg. Someone alien to India might have to spend decades to get all the idiosyncrasies that run here.

For starters, good portion of sexual harassments/rapes are not reported. Even unnatural deaths go unnoticed or ignored.
Can I ask, why has APL suddenly become the flavour of the month? This isn't a downer on the language, I'm just genuinely curious.
There are unprecedented wild fires in siberia. What are you talking about!
This video has a lot of examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk

Part of the idea is to do as much as possible in-camera, by rendering the virtual surroundings at a high enough quality to directly film them as the actors' backdrop. It's sort of like a wildly more advanced version of using matte painting backdrops.

It also seems far better for actor immersion than green screen, as the people on camera get a live wraparound view of the virtual 'set'.
Yeah I bet lol. I'm vaccinated but company telling me to buy more of their product is as transparent as glass.
> the US has threatened sanctions against the ICC if they attempt a prosecution

It's worse than that, they have sanctioned ICC prosecutors and there's a law allowing the US to invade The Hague if a war criminal of theirs is under detention or trial there.

It's not even vague, it's blatant hypocrisy and refusal to adhere to international treaties and war crimes definitions ( which the US itself helped shape, but has never applied to itself).
Funny that you’re using “tin foil hat crew” the day after Apple announced snooping on everyone’s pictures
Windows has been doing this for years. Not with this new tech, but with older methods.
When you have two options it's pretty easy to have faith in the one that tries to drum up it's privacy first stance.
2*256 is 512. you should probably type 2^256.

lol picky I know
* drop your phone

* don't store images on your phone

* use a rom like Graphene, don't install a cloud storage or Google Play Services

Those aren't great solutions, but they're options.
In offering only two choices, when the reality is far more complex than that, GP sets the tone for the rest of the discussion. There are more options, and a far deeper lake of information to use for drawing conclusions, so the simplification is also insulting, on top of being depressing.
I plan to get a high end Android phone and load an open OS onto it. TBH, I thought Apple would be a good steward for iOS. Oh well…
> There was a lot more grey area than you make it out to be. There were certainly plenty of kings/czars/emirs/sultans/khagans/emperors etc that ruled exclusively from the comforts of their estates.

But how many of those people built a kingdom, rather than inheriting it?
https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/

The sidebar links out to other things by me:

Write Pay, Pocket Puter,
The Genevieve Files,
What Helps The Homeless,
San Diego Homeless Survival Guide, r/GigWorks

I also run r/CitizenPlanners and I'm the author or Eclogiselle.com and Project: SRO and The Butterfly Economy

http://www.eclogiselle.com/

http://projectsro.blogspot.com

http://butterflyeconomy.blogspot.com/

Things don't get updated as frequently as I would like in part because I don't have traction, so I don't get the kind of feedback I need to help me figure out what to talk about and because I don't get enough from tips and Patreon to focus on these projects instead of on trying to come up with enough money to survive, but I have done a lot of writing over the years.

That list is not comprehensive. It's just stuff that has more than a few posts and most of that stuff is still being actively developed, just slowly.
Perhaps it's being evaluated for other purposes by the company that developed it and/or the local police department. They should really make that clear if so.
I remember the terms of service change and I almost left the platform because of it. But you are also greatly mischaracterizing the change. It actually only allows those things in some pretty specific circumstances which are under the user's control (although that's still not ideal, of course).

I am only trying to convince WhatsApp that the stance they are taking here is the right one. Unless we give credit where it's actually due, what will be the incentive for any bigcorp to take any privacy-protecting actions?
Purism's Librem runs GNU/Linux, not Android; microG is a free replacement for Google bits in Android (Google "services", including location services from other sources); LineageOS is a non-privacy focussed, somewhat de-Googled Android; /e/ is a privacy and free software focussed derivative of LineageOS with a larger set of supported hardware; GrapheneOS is a security-focussed (not privacy-focussed) version of Android with rather limited hardware support. It's not clear to me what the fundamental difference is between CalyxOS and /e/ other than hardware support and what's built-in.
Is there at least a lint tool for checking compliance with the Core Guidelines?
They already do this for photodna-matched iCloud Photos (and Google Photos, Flickr, Imgur, etc), perceptual hashes do not change that.
It seems to make no sense the way they do it and he is pointing that out.

I am an Airbnb host and once rented to a black couple for a month.

After that I had a lot of "black" content (people) suggested on my youtube.

It's a difficult(AI), but especially solved problem that only big companies have and they are obviously doing (approaching - as a small startup) it wrong...

... which is kind of a surprise, because YC is such a renowned VC/incubator.

Looking at the other startups they support lately it is sad to see what they have become: Supporting minoritie's interests for the sake of it (statistics).
> I wouldn't say I have a "deep belief" in Apple, but I trust Apple more than the other available options

That, for me too. From my perspective they basically don't have competition. The only viable alternative to Apple is "do everything yourself with open software, and just accept everything being buggier, jankier, and less helpful, while eating way more of your time". Obviously I'm not in love with that option, but what else? MS? Google? Ha.

If Apple stops being Apple it'll be the elimination of a whole category of products and services, essentially. Just won't exist anymore.

This is all less a product of Apple being wonderful than of user-facing computing everywhere else being an embarrassing shit-show.
I don't think it's unwillingness to enforce, so much as laws that happen to be really hard to enforce in this particular case.

I think the reason for that is the complete lack of transparency and accountability.
But if you steal a tin of catfood your name will be in the newspapers for the whole world to read and google three decades later.
Yes, many more people die of cold than of heat. Global warming will likely save a couple hundred thousand lives per year in this regard. [1]

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-change-natural-disaster...

edit: added "in this regard". Did not mean to suggest that we know how all of the implications of global warming pan out.
I don’t understand what’s in it for the people pushing for these approvals. Are they getting kickbacks?
Yes. That's exactly right. I think even the people who worry about climate change don't fully appreciate how grim the situation is, and how fast things are going to get really, really bad, a small number of decades tops. If you haven't already, look up "blue ocean event."
> Since they claim they're only scanning iCloud content, why not scan in the cloud?

Because (I suspect) this is a precursor to E2EE encrypted iCloud Photos. Apple cannot plausibly claim it does not store malicious E2EE content on its servers without some kind of filter upon upload. This is that filter. Other services, including the current implementation of iCloud Photos, skate by because they do not allow E2EE photos.
Kanye West’s Donda Listening Party Was Brilliant, Provocative Performance Art
Is it that or is it just a narcissistic display of ego?

I feel like Kanye is a creative genius, and he also knows how to get publicity, but I can’t tell if he is using his talents for good or not. I at least believe he sincerely thinks he is using them for good, and in that I hope he succeeds, yet I worry for him if he does.
Also google has never ever used users' data to turn a buck or anything.
Sneaky Thieves (Birds) Steal Hair from Foxes, Raccoons, Dogs, Even You
No-one... not me, nor the post author, said all men are responsible for sexism. No-one is arguing that. You've simply imagined it.

The post author just said all men should be pissed off about its continuing prevalence.

You don't have to be pissed off. Just like you don't have to be pissed off about the continuing prevalence of racism.
Long-term studies of Covid vaccines hurt by placebo recipients getting immunized
You can try lineage with MicroG[0][1], it replaces Google services. If you want stores there is the F-Droid store for FOSS app or Aurora Store if you want casual apps.

YouTube can be replaced by NewPipe and these days I'm trying Organic Maps (a layer for OSM with nav and offline maps) to replace Google Maps.

[0] : https://microg.org/
[1] : https://lineage.microg.org/
That's not quite accurate; you both would end up having a "semblance of a normal life" without getting vaccinated, you just would've had to wait a bit longer.
> Even then, FORTRAN 77 is a major change over FORTRAN (1957 and even the later FORTRAN 66).

That's because FORTRAN is one of the oldest languages, and you'd expect lots of changes as the whole field develops. If you use that as a metric, most languages will appear stagnant. Python hasn't changed much in the last 20 years, for example.
Facebook’s WhatsApp Takes Aim at Apple over Child Safety Software Plan
I've said this in another comment, but I'll duplicate here:

The microG creator goes into more detail about signature spoofing at https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/1467#issuecomment-8...
The concerns usually raised against that are due to the "default" patch included in their repository, which has a specific purpose.

We don't use that, https://calyxos.org/about/tech/microg/ are the precautions we take to try and prevent "weakening overall package security"

In addition, microG is optional and can be disabled on first install, see https://calyxos.org/features/microg/#1-microg-disabled
> This progress is also why new films look so badly lit.

I'm pretty sure it's the exact opposite.

Watch old films and the nighttime scenes are... almost cartoonishly lit. Like there are hidden floodlights everywhere, or just filmed in straight-out daytime but underexposed.

Whereas modern film and TV looks far closer to reality. I don't know what you mean at all that the "state of the art is still stuck with habits and techniques". If you've been on the set of a modern film or TV production, the state of the art is, well, state of the art. The lighting would be unrecognizable to someone from 30 years ago.

Can you give an example of a scene in a new movie you consider to be badly lit because of old "habits and techniques"?

Green-screen is a totally different situation, because it didn't exist before. But even there I think you're making a mistake with comparison to Star Wars. Have you watched The Mandalorian? Because that's current state of the art, and it's stunning. The environmental lighting is real, and the technology they use to achieve it is utterly amazing.
Yeah, sorry, I mixed it up. It's been a while since I've actually done this. You scrape off yellow first (leaving blue), then magenta (leaving cyan), and finally cyan.
I depends on what you want.

For the "full desktop experience" I sit in front of a 42in 4K TV, which isn't too portable.

At other times, I am content with something small and handy (1.25kg). The keyboard on my Acer Chromebook R11 is decent for its size. I really like the standardized keyboard functions for brightness, volume, etc., and use them a lot more than on a regular laptop. After installing Linux, and having ssh-agent loaded with keys, I'm ready to remote into my systems. Long battery life, due to its puny Intel Celeron processor.
Yeah more like a "baseball cap crew" these days.. lol i dont trust corporations.
It happens like once a year, it's not that sudden. That said, Learning APL looks like an outstanding resource when other introductions to Dyalog are outdated, incomplete, or just low-quality, so I think it deserves to be highlighted even if everyone's otherwise tired of hearing about APL.
Does Seed Vault backup the whole device? Last time I used it, I found out that apps can opt-out of being backed up, along with their settings. In other words, every app i installed didnt get backed up :(
We’re in a middle of a false privacy marketing schoolyard battle. This is pathetic
I've spent far too much time with build errors for environment issues that I do prefer docker or other environment management tools. I just have an alias for mounting relevant folders and value of docker is not isolation for my code, but isolation for system libraries.

A good example is recent mac update to big sur broke pip/python installs for a lot of people. Spending a while reading github issues to make something as basic as python and pip install numpy work is why I like docker for dev environments. There are IDEs that support docker extensions well.

I also do run most of my workloads on clusters so having things dockerized makes it much easier to reproduce a failure locally. Our CI that currently isn't dockerized occasionally has environment issues that are quite annoying to debug as I lack a good way to explore it's environment and see the mismatch.
Jobs, google "Regulatory capture"
I think we differ in our perception of "small" and "mid-size" car.

But even so, 195 kg is the weight of a driver and passenger. If we consider this to be a decisive factor in pollution, we had better also consider the obesity epidemic as a factor in tire wear. ^_^
> you can opt out of iCloud scanning by not using iCloud.

You can opt out of any privacy concerns by not using the concerning product. That's a complete non sequitur in a conversation about the concern.
Probably trying to avoid libel since nothing has been proven in court.
I'd never heard of the precautionary principle before, but the way you explain it is just circular reasoning used to straw man it as nefarious. Arguing for validation is not arguing to ban innovation - we just need some actual accountability (and ideally transparency) included in the process. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, whereas the article points out we are straight-up falsifying documents in order to push sales for chemical corporations.

What's the harm in actually knowing scientific data about the chemicals we're buying?
At the cost of horrific hurricanes in the tropical and subtropical regions. Locally there may be effects seen as beneficial, but globally it's looking to be a downhill slide.
What happened to vetting sources? Beonex is Ben Bucksch, a Mozilla true believer who's been around since before Firefox even existed. The chances that it will suddenly turn into malware is about as likely a distro's coreutils package maintainer going rogue—and far less likely than the revolving door at Mozilla Corp leading to the Firefox product team deciding to do something untoward themselves.
What would be the good way to do it?
Just note that there's a tonne of apps on F-Droid that haven't had updates in years
I was actually surprised that the author didn't try to solve this by preloading Firefox on start up.
Apple memo describes the pushback as “the screeching voices of the minority”
> Do you really want a false positive to result in your intimate moments getting shared around some outsourced boiler room for laughs?

these people also have no incentive to find you innocent for innocent photos. If they err on the side of false-negative, they might find themselves at the wrong end of a criminal search ("why didn't you catch this"), but if they false-positive they at worse ruin a random person's life.
Same thing applies for dumping ammonia and cyanide in say Lake Michigan, you or I would get charged with water supply terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_terrorism, but do it as part of the steel process and it's a magical loop hole
This is very interesting. Do you have a link to the post or discussion?
You defined a sunk cost properly, but that's not the same as the "sunk cost fallacy".

To abuse my original example some more, when you are hungry, the steak is still a sunk cost, but it's obviously not a "fallacy" to eat it then.

EDIT: Just realized what you are responding to. I'll edit my post. Thank you!
They already scan for bombs and hazardous materials, so yes the line is drawn somewhere between ‘let anything get sent’ and ‘track everything’
Is it possible people are buying less by volume, even if amounts spent level off? For example smaller homes, less healthcare, getting less educational value per (adjusted) dollar spent?
I think you hit on a good point re: status, and in that way Clubhouse is very reminiscent of TED (remember when that was an obsession?) - people gathering to hear pre-eminent experts and learn.

Which of course is an admirable thing to do! Listening to well-crafted presentations by learned experts and expanding your knowledge is fantastic!

But of course we know how that went - participation in TED quickly became a status marker (not helped by the exorbitant cost of tickets), and the organization capitalized by spinning off TEDx talks all over the world that ended up being filled with more charlatans and hucksters than genuine experts... which seems to have been the direction Clubhouse has also gone.

It's a bit sad - I think Clubhouse could have been something great - though arguably the "listen to experts talk" thing is better fulfilled by podcasts than a live format. Maybe what the world needs isn't a live streaming platform but an authoring tool that makes it really easy to get people together to talk, record a podcast, and distribute it. The bar to podcasting has been lowered a lot in recent years, but it's still substantial to produce a quality product.

I think there's also something to be said here for FOMO and what I've taken to calling "the unknowability of ideas" - I think genuinely investors have no idea why some ideas succeed (see: Facebook), but are terrified of missing out on the next big thing. The combination of this is that many SV VCs seem to regard the quality of ideas as unknowable - you can never pooh-pooh anything, because the last thing you thought was shite turned out to be a multi-billion dollar company, and therefore ideas are literally unjudgeable. The FOMO seems to induce a lot of hype over some companies/products even though the people doing the hyping themselves don't seem to understand why.
> finding someone possessing CP to automatically considering them a child molester, yet someone posessing an action movie is not considered a murderer

Sure sounds like you're trying to justify child pornography here.
Lets not forget that the thawing of the permafrost in the arctic has significant environmental impact on greenhouse gases such as methane.
I'm guessing you don't remember all the errors in the initial launch of Apple Maps.
If signature spoofing is confined to apps that I designate as spoofed (such as microg), then I'm okay with it. No security problem as far as I'm concerned.

I'd like to see people make their own apps that don't rely on Google services (or faked Google services) of course, like the Linux ecosystem.
This is great... I really want to use FreeBSD on an XPS 13 but the lack of a driver for the Killer WiFi 6 has been holding me back.
> Maybe(?) the intension [sic] is good behind this [sic] kind of services

This is the "#1 reason why we will never get rid of racism?!" Not, say, racists? Or race supremacists?

Is there something racist about this platform or its creators? I didn't see where they said they think one race is superior to another.
They could prove it by publishing the code and making the builds reproducible so they have the same checksum as the binaries in the app store.

I consider whatever they say lip service until proven otherwise. How anyone can call their app privacy oriented without at least showing the code is insane. Use Signal, etc., etc.
In practice, there really are several dozen gotras (at least among the Brahmins), if not hundreds.

The traditional practice was for Brahmins to declare their exact line of descent alongside the gotra, by naming five noteworthy ancestors (pravara rishis), starting from the top level saptarishi ancestor gotra(one of seven). Some of the saptarishis famously didn't get along, and their descendants are considered incompatible matches for marriage. When considering a marriage alliance from a family with the same top level saptarishi gotra, it was considered acceptable if at least three of the five pravara rishis were different, ie, a distant branch of the family. As families lost their traditions, people identified their nodal pravara rishi as the gotra, which is how most people today know them. In addition, in ancient times the custom was for non-brahmins to state the gotra & lineage of their family priest when performing religious rituals, and ended up adopting them.
It is asking a lot, but this would be nice: if the developer organizations behind CalyxOS and GrapheneOS could sell new phones with software installed, sort of like System 76 for Linux laptops.
I agree. However, I've found the topics of his episodes less and less interesting lately.