skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find a location that should still be able to sustain life in a few decades, learn self sufficiency and crop growing in harsh climates, emigrate (if necessary) as soon as possible before further refugee crises make this impossible, transition your career to one working to stop this or ameliorate its effects (climate.careers, etc.), decide whether or not to have a kid.

Edit: Also, consider running for office, if your government hasn't suffered complete regulatory capture, and if you have money to invest maybe look at things like Engine No. 1's ETF (VOTE)
Even if you could donate to Firefox specifically, that's still no guarantee because Mozilla could decide to just channel less money from other sources of funding towards Firefox and you'd end up where you started.
You would think any western nation would make a counter draft for freedom. But just look at these cowards...

The US has its own problems, but who should take something like the EU seriously? For what stands this union of countries? For absolutely nothing. Extremely weak, especially considering the union was advertised as standing for common values.
It's just an analogy no need to get nasty.
Without detailed specs for the systems and the internet bandwidth capabilities it is hard to offer any solid ideas. Since there are lots of generic hosting providers, it is probably not sufficiently lucrative area to enter. Are there opportunities with businesses in a similar area to your ex-client? Perhaps their competitors?

If I were in your position, I would be looking at applying AI techniques to a niche domain. For example, text mining for legal documents, i.e. eDiscovery-like. The difficulty is that without application domain specific skills it is hard to create sufficient value-add to present a compelling business case.
This is great! Would probably also work really well for selecting „into“ hierarchies of groups/frames in design apps
> Consider the scenario of sally sexting jim while tom sits in another room

Consider Sally sending a picture of a bee that Apple’s algo determines with 100% confidence is a breast while Tom sits in another room. One could iterate ad infinitum.
The first mover advantage is an illusion. Google didn’t invent search or online Email. Microsoft didn’t pioneer personal computing, spreadsheets, or word processing. Facebook wasn’t the first social network. Apple made most of it’s money from markets it entered late iPod, iPhone, and then iPad where the Newton failed. Intel wasn’t the first to build a microprocessor. IBM didn’t invent the computer.
The standard for communicating time between humans lacks this feature for times more than a year in the future. That computers (which interface with humans) implement this standard faithfully is a feature, not a bug.
I've long since deleted the email updates. It was in regards to them removing semicolons as separators for lists of email addresses. You can only use commas now.
Ever read this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
As a country, we collectively have vastly more resources than we need to mitigate all these risks.

The problem is that a huge proportion of those resources is being hoarded by the super-rich.

As a society, we have collectively decided that allowing massive, unprecedented concentration of wealth is more important than addressing any of the critical issues facing us today.

Personally, I disagree with that decision, and believe we should require those who can part with billions of dollars without it affecting their lifestyle in any way to do so for the benefit of all.
"Oh no, I have to update my software!"

Are you serious?
Bad.Bad.Bad. According to this timeline Linux started before BSD/Free/NetBSD split. Not only this but is not even drawn as Minix clone. Minix itself isn't even related on this timeline to UNICS (or AT&T UNIX) whatsoever. UNICS isn't even close somewhere on this timeline to Multics(which is much lower).
The post already recommends renting a VPS for this. I also recommend that you take care that your mailing list is not in any way connected to your personal mail (don't share the domain in From:, don't share DKIM keys, don't use the same IP as for your personal mail, etc.).

Many people don't fish up the unsubscribe link from the bottom of the mail when they don't want to receive your blog posts anymore. They just click that nice prominent "spam" button in gmail/outlook/their mail client.

It's a super convenient solution for them, but if you have a low-volume mail server and a few people do this to your mailing list it's very easy for your entire domain or the server IP to end up blackholed at Google or Microsoft services. That's ok if it happens to your blog, but if all your personal mail ends up undeliverable it can be a pretty big problem.
Indeed. Thanks for pointing this out. Scanning on device is a different story.
Another nice db GUI is https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/
Yes they already seem to scan iCloud:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-...

But I seriously doubt they will make iCloud end-to-end encrypted. If they wanted to do that they would have done so already. And why not announce it at the same time, which might give them an overall PR win? But we shall see I guess!
Isn’t this just wrong?

“ Apple's proposed technology works by continuously monitoring all photos stored or shared on a user's iPhone, iPad or Mac, and notifying the authorities if a certain number of objectionable photos is detected.”

From: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...

“ Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos, an on-device matching process is performed for that image against the unreadable set of known CSAM hashes. “

I think it only does this before iCloud upload.
Thinking it's the cable length is a decent hypothesis, but it's almost completely due to the different times it takes for the sound waves to travel from the speaker cone to your ears.

But maybe you meant that the cable lengths helped place the speakers symmetrically.
Intentionally deceiving people is probably not a good strategy for building their trust.
It is important to note that these micro-models are only supposed to be used in the annotation process. During annotation there is a separate process for QA where there will be some form of human supervision. Micro-models are NOT supposed to be used for production environments.

100% agree on the healthcare front, which actually perfectly underlies the point here. These models are overfit to one specific modality but often used for generic purposes. One reason why it is important to define micro-models is to point them out when they are deployed in a live production environment, which I agree is very dangerous. Many healthcare models are truly not ready for live diagnostic settings. On the other hand, these same models often do perform well on assisting the actual annotation of new data when applied to the right domain and with appropriate human supervision. This is a perfect encapsulation of the distinction we are trying to make.
Hm ok, seems quite a coincidence, but fair enough!

Wiktionary lists 'lime disease', which I think is excellent.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lime_disease
Refusing to acknowledge egregious top-down decisions which threaten or violate either one's well-being or some perceived fundamental right has a much worse effect on public trust.

"Why didn't you tell me this was going on?"
"You're simply too stupid to handle the idea that your betters might occasionally be untrustworthy"
iCloud photos are not end-to-end encrypted, Apple has full access to them. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
I've been aware of it but the fact that there's proprietary parts makes it a non-starter for me. Why leave one closed-source ecosystem to go join another? I'll get a phone I can flash with postmarketOS/Plasma Mobile/Ubuntu Touch instead.
Well shit now I’m depressed.
If I might ask - how are you not in a position to join a company? Is getting a job not a normal thing to do when you're in a rough spot financially?

Climate.careers might be worth a look (I'm not affiliated, just keeping an eye on it myself)
Go on with Your life what happens happens
Don’t be afraid of writing the wrong code. Just sit down and write it.
Been a Postgres.app user for years, it's been great. There are other more "sophisticated" setups that have advantages (and disadvantages!) but nothing beats the convenience, in my eyes, of Postgres.app.
Why not do it all the time to increase their profit margins?
I have all the information but would be unable to charge their cards, as that information is stored in Stripe and I do not store credit card information.
Of course, if you poke the bear enough times, it eventually costs you.
Lots of responses here focusing on planes and air travel. Just wanted to call out what a small part (1.9%) of the problem that actually is: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
Why are they telling everyone and not just doing it?
Seems like aiding and abetting, if you've already dismissed the privacy aspect...
>Ah yes, the countryside. Not quite sure how we're going to be housing 7+billion in the countryside.

A short-term solution may be viable for the individual while not doing anything for society at large.

Mind you, the short-term solution still seems crap to me anyway since "lolz just move your life" is bollocks.
Yes how do they not allow govt to ask them to scan for their set of restricted hashes?
I've had the exact opposite experience with Homebrew vs GUI installers. Postgres.app has never had any issues, while Homebrew postgres breaks every time I run `brew update`, because of the way homebrew handles icu4 library dependencies.
Also don’t be afraid to throw it away.

Sunk cost fallacy be damned, you often write the first one to figure how to correctly right the second one.
That scenario isn't so far-fetched, sadly. WW3 is a real possibility if we can't solve this problem another way.
I don’t see where in the first quotation it says that the scanning takes place after iCloud upload. It just says monitoring.
While I applaud the goal, this is likely not to achieve it on its own. Those that should be affected are probably not using Messanger to begin with and if they are they can easilly switch to other communication apps.

It is also not quite clear if Apple is taking a moral or legal stand here. If it is legal then this could in the future open doors to:

- Scanning for other types of illegal content

- Scanning for copyrighted content (music, images, books, ...)

- Scanning your iCloud files and documents

- Scanning emails to make sure you are not doing anyting illegal

If it is morally driven and Apple wants to really take a stand against any CSAM material on its devices, they would really have to do it at a system level, monitoring all data being transferred (including all communications, all browsing etc) so this could just be the first step.

A moral-based agenda would be much easier for broader public to accept, while a legal-based agenda could lead to other kinds of privacy-intruding consequences. And even a moral-based agenda would still be a precedent as ultimately we do not know what are Apple's "moral values" and what would it be ready to intrude user's privacy over in the future?

Seems like a slippery slope for a company to take, any way you turn it, specially if privacy is one of your main selling points.

Another thought: if we as a society agree that CSAM is unacceptable, why not globally prevent it at an internet router level? edit: jetlagged... we can't because data is encrypted. It has to be at client level, pre-encyption.
This topic is really fascinating to me, how we deal with images of bad things. Clearly, murder and assault is fine to reproduce at 100% realism - but even plain consensual sex is forbidden in the US for a wider audience.

This reminds me of a classic Swedish movie I watched, I forget its name, it's made in the 70s and contains upskirt panty shots of an actress who is playing a 14-year-old, along with her exploring sexuality with a same-age male peer. I think the actual actress was around 14 years old too. It made me feel real uneasy, maybe because my parents in law were around, but also because I thought "wait, this must be illegal to watch". In the end, the movie was really just a coming-of-age story from a time when we were more relaxed about these things.
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I don't want to be arrested by the FBI and my life ruined because my daughter, who is 6 and doesn't know any better, takes a selfie with my phone while she happens to be undressed/changing clothes and the photo automatically syncs to the cloud.
I'd echo this. Sadly. I've been doing research into hydroponic farms and how to build them. Grow my own food in basements. How to build a disaster shelter. All the things the doomsday preppers do. My internet ads are now on par with QAnon conspiracies and how to survive the apocalypse. It's depressing. It's demoralizing. It's real.
There are plenty of peer-reviewed papers from reliable sources showing correlation between CO2, VOC, *particulate* and health issues.
That's why I said sensible.
Anyone who engaged in such a discussion with a non-technical person is going to defacto seem like an advocate for child pornography, similar to how advocating for encryption can easily be twisted to being pro-crime.

Having said that, there is an enormous amount of misinformation and fear-mongering about a pretty tame change. This seems like so much ado about very close to nothing.

a) They optionally scan messaged photos for nudity using a NN if the participants are children and in a family (the account grouping), and the group adult(s) have opted in, giving children warnings and information if they send or receive such material. A+++ thumbs up.

b) They scan photos that you've uploaded to iCloud (available at photos.icloud.com, unencrypted -- in the E2E sense, effectively "plaintext" from Apple's perspective -- etc) for known CP hashes. Bizarrely Apple decided to scan these on device as well, causing 99% of the outrage and confusion, yet every major cloud photo service in the world does such checks for the same reason, whether you have the photo set to private or not, and presumably Apple decided to do it on device simply as free distributed computing, taking advantage of hundreds of millions of high performance chips, but most importantly as a PR move demonstrating that "Apple Silicon helps with Child Safety", etc.

That's it. Various "this is a harbinger of doom and tomorrow they're going to..." arguments are unconvincing. This does absolutely nothing to break or subvert E2E encryption or on device privacy.

EDIT: The moderation of this comment has been fascinating, going to double digits, down to negatives, back up again, etc.
Heck yes! I needed this 2 days ago and still need it now. Definitely taking this for a spin.
I usually do the same thing, but most of my route is on a local shared use path. Getting out there before most of the joggers is just so much more relaxing.
I guess more the reason to use vintage computing for personal then? You can even disconnect them from Internet whenever not needed.

Then you use the modern computer your company provides strictly for business purposes.
> The US Postal service does not open every single letter to check if it contains illegal material.

You'd be surprised about the amount of packages that gets x-rayed in order to find drugs. But yes, you're 100% right that it's not all of them.
I think the best way to stop child porn is to install government provided monitoring software + require an always online chip to be present on any video capture system and any media player must submit screen hashes + geolocation and owner ID to a government service. If the device fails to submit hashes for more than 24 it should block further operation. Failing this we will never be safe from child porn in the digital world.

Not doing anything opens the door to further abuse.
It has been admitted in the past and now in the open. Apple Inc. is not your friend. [0]

The author of this Tweet has a point and made it clear all along for a long time.

[0] https://twitter.com/aral/status/1182186665625960448
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Thunderbird is significant tool in my daily workflows. I created multiple profiles for RSS, email, calendar, contacts and usually have multiple instances opened at once. Everything operates smoothly. I would gladly setup monthly fee but also want to have the possiblity to cancel it at any time by the end of the month. This worries me:

> https://give.thunderbird.net/en-US/help/

How long it takes to process cancellation of recurring contribution?
Nearly every compromised or bricked workstation I’ve seen in the last 20 years was a developer’s (or QA) machine with local root/admin.

Standard users don’t get local root/admin in a corporate environment since the Win2k days, and seem to have few issues in comparison.

Many devs seem perfectly willing to pull any random executable off the internet and run it without inspection or concern. Because they “know what they are doing”, right?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocal...

There's way more to it than appears at first blush. This is much more than a kiddie porn thing, it's a fundamental shift in the Overton window.
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Interesting - glancing through the 330-and-counting comments here, I see an enormous amount of harsh language about Apple, feelings of betrayal by Apple, promises to never buy another Apple product, etc.

But virtually zero mentions of the U.S. Congress, President, judges, political parties, etc. The folks who are presumably behind this new Apple feature. (Does anyone see a "Add Evil Feature...Profit" story here, that does not require massive government arm-twisting?)

IANAH (...Not A Historian), but I'll guess that if the well-educated citizens of a country do not believe that it is a real democracy - or feel that being politically active on issues that they care about is an unacceptable burden - then (at best) it very soon won't be.
Theory of Vaccines is simple.

They want you to outsource all your immunity to big pharma. Just like when they took away your guns, and made you outsource your self defence to government. Just like when they outsourced your critical thinking to fact checkers.

You are no good on your own. Submit to us and pay us, and we will make you good.
The first mover advantage is an illusion.

I wouldn't go that far. All the cases you cite are of products that definitely classify as substantially better than what they replaced.

Before Gmail took over the market from Hotmail there had been several other companies that failed due to only being slightly better.

Yes you can beat the "first mover", but doing so is hard and requires an almost revolutionizing better product.
Supporting half-precision floats is annoying
Love the format of the talk converted to the text
>Coke has played around with various "slim" or smaller 7.5oz or 8oz cans/aluminum bottles that are a higher cost per oz, though they don't seem to have caught on too much.

Probably because in my area the slim/mini cans tend to be more expensive than the regularly sized cans.
Example: any drug can have some side effects with some probability.

So basically an unknown set of people will have the side effect.

But there is no way for me to objectively test whether I will have the side effect.

The description of some drugs even contain: we have no idea how this works, it just does (for some people, also with unknown “parameters”).
Persistence.

I develop apps for a living and work solo (coding, design everything) and have taken up very large projects. One of the apps I built a few years ago was a full blown YouTube client app with a lot more features. The app is now no defunct because of YouTube not allowing background playback and several API restrictions but that app took me over a year to put together.

Another app was a sudoku app I built which took several iterations to design and built and improve. One of my most recent apps is a Hacker News client which I built the iOS version for about 3 years ago and am just now finishing the Android version of the app. The iOS one took a good 6 months of work to build and the android one has taken me just over 3 months.

I have been able to take over such large projects and crossed the finish line by being persistent. I work solo and from home and basically work every day of the week. Some days it's a lot of hours - 12-16 hours, other days it's maybe just half an hour of fiddling around. As long as I put in at least a few minutes everyday and able to fix a bug or add a small feature or make a small UI design fix, it's a good day. It doesn't have to always be major improvements. It can be as little as adding a new theme color.

I learnt this from my past experience in weight lifting. Being persistent everyday makes you achieve major goals over time. This can be applied in other areas of life too - like reading books, weight loss etc.

There was a recent post on "The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27833064

https://typesense.org/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of...
Its not nearly as lethal as the vaccine in Germany:

https://www.lenr-forum.com/attachment/18081-suspected-cardio...

Page 4 states that 873 fatal outcomes from the vaccine up to May 31st in Germany.
I'm not defending any specific point of view. I'm merely pointing out a problem of map-territory conflation.
Well, now we're getting quite off-topic.

Obviously my remarks should be seen as a stereotype, I'm not going to vouch for 100% of dutch people. The point I was trying to make is that dutch people speak directly in general, so what they say is close to what they think. The lack of an additional agenda.

I would hope that you agree that as it comes to politicians, the above is the least likely to be true. Dutch politicians operate in a massively complex consensus culture where it's inevitable that they have quite a lot of hidden agendas.

In this case, it was a cover up. Few would care, but I can give some background as to what happened. The Netherlands has a relatively generous welfare system, which invites abuse. There have been incidents, such as immigrants claiming all kinds of benefits without even living in the country.

The response was a more firm approach in checking eligibility. Yet this new firm approach got out of hand and incorrectly flagged a group of people as fraudulent, whilst they were not, at huge individual cost. Many got into huge debts, lost their house, and so on.

Shit happens. It's an error, or plain incompetence. The true scandal is the response. Instead of admitting the error and compensating the victims, most effort went into denial and covering it up.

So, you have a point. But we're comparing apples to oranges. The typical dutch person in the streets is not the same thing as a sleazy politician.
It's kind of bizarre that "prepping" (I prefer "preparedness" and fortunately like gardening anyway) is associated with the right when we have sober-minded scientists literally saying civilization stands a very good chance of collapsing. I think a lot of people "believe" in climate change, but relatively few people _believe_ in it, if that makes sense. It's coming.
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