skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emphasis on "wall" here. People who are being careful (and when your potential opponent is as big and powerful as Apple it's best to be careful) don't let the engineers who have seen the secrets talk directly to those who are doing the clean-room reimplementation. The first group documents what they found and how they found it, lawyers check the report for anything iffy, and if the implementers need to talk to the first group they don't do so directly, everything goes through legal.

But better to get legal advice on this than just listen to some random HN person (like me).
> You're probably just expecting stricter definitions of the word "garden" (and "wilderness" for that matter). At one extreme there's a botanical garden, where every single leaf of every plant is carefully inspected and maintained, but at the other end, but still a "garden", is a euphemism for "not as it would be with zero humans around."

Not really. The most common image of a garden is a controlled nature space tended for human enjoyment.

“As it would be with zero humans around” is the definition of a wilderness.

Even if you pushed the definitions to extremes they don’t overlap (a wildlife garden is still a garden).

Either way natives didn’t have that degree of control. Even today, in places where forests are assigned to villages for such caretaking, they don’t have that degree of control, even with all the modern aerial firefighting power it is a struggle, as evidenced by current wildfires in the Mediterranean.
> It's just something that's obvious to me as a regular consumer of major US and European news media, who also happens to know something about China.

As someone with the same exposure, my opinion is the exact opposite. Sure sensationalist reporting exists, but the vast majority (as said) is somber and resigned.

> Western reporting on China is actually quite limited.

Surely you aren't implying that Chinese domestic media is somehow less censored or less purposeful in their narratives than western media? They literally can't talk about anything negative, or if they do it's muted and loaded with xenophobia and nationalists tropes.

> If you want to know what's going on in the country, you pretty much have to learn the language, and relatively few people in the West know Chinese.

I don't know why this talking point comes up over and over. I don't need to speak uyghur to hear their testimonials. I didn't need to be alive during WW2 to know what happened. The idea that if you aren't "there" you cannot know helps propagandists who have only a single goal, obstruction of truth.

> If you ask Chinese people about the events, you'll get a wide range of views.

Can this conversation take place in public? On social media (surely no). Can such conversation be done without threat (implied or actual)? If no, then we aren't talking about real knowledge. Knowledge that is implied but not spoken of isn't a reality, it's a myth.

> "China has 56 ethnic groups" is a constant refrain

I know, and they are actively trying to destroy several of those groups via political reeducation camps. The idea that China can claims to be a bastion of cultural diversity while actively trying to eliminate undesirable, non-Han cultures/languages/traditions is beyond orwellian.

> most of the media is aggressively pushing an extremely narrow, distorted and negative narrative.

Again, maybe on the outrage-centered social media feeds and via Chinese media itself (which promotes such ideas). If you actually read the mainstream coverage, it's methodical, thoughtful, and as said, deeply saddened by the apparent crimes against humanity they cover. No one is joyfully discussing XJ, and if they are they aren't worthy of your attention.
Another protocol that is much easier to understand (v1 is anyway) and was a really great least-bullshit introduction to how centralized auth should work is the Central Authentication Service (CAS) protocol developed at Yale[0]

> The Central Authentication Service (CAS) was developed here at Yale University between 2000-2002. In 2003, a release of the server core code was refactored in collaboration with Rutgers University and in 2004 we collectively placed the code in the public domain under the oversight of Jasig (later Apereo).

v1 of the spec is a relatively short read, and relatively easy to implement correctly. I even wrote an implementation way back when with some homegrown changes (JSON for responses). It doesn't seem to get used much outside of academia but it's very minimal and understandable, and OAuth/SAML work in a roughly similar pattern (but different, CAS is centralized though there are proxies). It's now stewarded by a company called apereo[1].

Agreed with the other commenters though, SAML login is an "enterprise" feature, so it's going to be around for a very long time -- things that warrant upselling tend to stick around.

[0]: https://developers.yale.edu/cas-central-authentication-servi...

[1]: https://apereo.github.io/cas/5.1.x/protocol/CAS-Protocol-Spe...
In OZ, within the emergency volunteer firefighting community, there's dissent about "what to do" with people who have a strongly pragmatic view that there is no more wild landscape, and we need to actively manage it all, even national parks, and people who want nature to run its course and only manage around the fringes.

NSW vs Vic vs Qld. City vs Country. Farmer vs Townie. Farmer and Townie vs Traditional landowners

They get pretty heated, but I stress this is within a community of people who don fire-gear, get in trucks and actually have to deal with the damn things.

There's a generation gap, a gender gap, a culture gap, a politics gap, a you're-not-from-round-here gap...

I walked into the edge of the online flamefest. Wish I hadn't joined in. (yea. flamefest amongst fireies...)
we will be extinct before we are able to take any meaningful number of people into space.
> "The tiniest risk to me is not worth reducing deadly risk to a hundred thousand strangers."

Please elaborate on how an unvaccinated individual poses a deadly risk to a hundred thousand vaccinated strangers.
The paper's actual headline is different than the one on the submitted link. (And I'm not sure it accurately reflects the last line of this paper.)

"Overall, the reliable evidence available does not support the use ivermectin for treatment or prevention of COVID‐19 outside of well‐designed randomized trials."
I worked at one a few years ago where everything was on Slack. We didn't have meetings because we were excited, always chatting about what's going to happen next. Some would wake up at 4 AM just to chat.

It didn't last, though. The people who felt they were the smartest in the room left to other companies, and this continued until it was left with people who wanted to be the smartest in the room.
The same could be said for x509 - so much crud for what boils down to a 3rd party signing a domain name asserting you have control over it. The unneeded complexity causes innumerable interoperability problems.

As for the problems caused by ambiguous representations, the most memorable one for me was the bitcoin malleability problem which boiled down to a thing people based a transaction ID on having multiple representations. Bitcoin used DER format precisely because it isn't supposed to allow multiple representations of the same thing mind you - that bug was created by openssl following John Postel's advice "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept".
Is it possible to narrow in on a hash using gradient descent? You can correlate distance between inputs to distance between hashes somehow?
Honest question/s: What is the danger to someone who is already vaccinated from someone who has avoided it? If there is some great risk then what is so important about everyone getting a seemingly ineffective treatment? Also there is no discussion of natural immunity from prior exposure what about that?
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these days if you are modeling the "sparse, high-dimensional data" of the kind that EAV schema does well, you probably should be reaching for JSON columns instead of EAV schema.
Because they are traded on Bitcoin exchanges?
I know of the hypothesis, but it doesn't address the problem that it's an unfalsifiable explanation.

It's observing an event, formulating an explanation for it that sounds plausible enough, but the explanation is unfalsifiable, and a number of other explanations that are just as plausible and unfalsifiable can be proffered.
A lot of games are that way. It's no longer the way games are made, but the nature of games mean they're complete, with sequels.
> A rainbow table approach is easily defeated by length.

Only somewhat true.

This XKCD is absolutely wrong - https://xkcd.com/936/

10 billion MD5s a second should be easy. So the XKCD pass phrase goes from 550 years -> to one hour, on a normal GPU, for one person. Rainbow tables mean after that one hour on their gaming PC no one else has to do it.

Start adding in other requirements to the pass phrase the hour goes up, and perhaps you have to rent some cloud time, but only one person once has to do it once.

But, if you assume it's likely other sites use seeds, then rainbow tables are out, and length can matter again. And that's reasonable. You need to wreck as many points in the attackers chain as possible. That's the game.
A slippery slope is a logical fallacy. There's not a colloquial version of that term that means something different. It's a style of argument, where you asset that one action will lead to another action without any evidence of a direct casual link between the two.

Second, I'm not appealing to authority. You said a slippery slope isn't a fallacy. I provided a link which makes the case as to why a slippery slope is considered a fallacy.

We are not using "slippery slope" in any way which is different from the examples given.

That one thing has lead to a bad thing in the past is not evidence that this thing will lead to this specific bad thing in the future.

Yes, sometimes, slippery slopes end up being slippery, and sloped.

But that doesn't mean anyone has to take it as a given that any other specific slope will be slippery, nor slippery in some specific way which leads to some specific outcome.
Ha, nooooo. Your deluded worldview has been proven false. Kindly bugger off with it.

Every single developed country practices capitalism. Every one. The Scandinavians practice Democratic Socialism precisely because they have a surplus to spend on social programs (largely due to a combination of oil money and a lack of a semi-permanent underclass), none of which sounds particularly socialist to me.
That is pretty much exactly what I do. I assume you are infectious until you prove otherwise, and I avoid you.

> It isn't prohibited to ask about it.

Unless you live in Florida, where the government is quite authoritarian.
Very cool! I wasn't aware of SSE. This could be very useful for our React SDK as well. Thank you for sharing :)
> Does anyone have recommended PostgresSQL query interfaces?

Nothing beats JetBrains DataGrip for me. I’ve tried a whole bunch of alternatives, but it’s most well connected and useful in terms of functionality.
Org-mode is amazing and has a lovely community. But I'm really not sure it's a good idea to use it for authoring LaTeX documents because that makes it impossible to work with others: however amazing org is, the fact is that it's Emacs and therefore only a small number of people use it. But if these citations are for personal blog posts etc I guess that's great, although personally I think I'd want to use the same tools for all my writing.
Why not nutmeg and cloves? Was it an artificially induced monopoly, or were they difficult to grow outside Maluku?
You're right, adding modifier keywords like "impasto" or "cubist" have a big effect. There are also some powerful community-discovered keywords that have a huge impact on your results, like "Trending on Artstation" and "Unreal Engine".

My best tips for good results - use a phrase describing objects you'd commonly see in pictures and art, like "House on a hill" or "Futuristic city", add some modifiers, then start with the smallest resolution and runtime. Try a few variations of phrase and modifiers, and see what looks promising. Then pick the best one(s) and use the "Evolve" button to run them for longer and increase the resolution.
LastPyMile: Identifying the Discrepancy Between Sources and Packages
This sort of thing has been going on since well before the internet. J. K. Galbraith wrote about how, during McCarthy's red scare, one had to put all sorts of caveats in parenthetical phrases to break up anything that might be quoted out of context (it still would be, but one could at least point out the elided text.) This was hardly new then - see Cardinal Richelieu's well-known epigram "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." It is probably as old as language.

If there is anything new here, the internet and talk radio has shown a lot of people how to do this. Some of them mistake it for wisdom, and others just like to annoy people who hold nuanced views. Don't blame the victims for the fact that it is no longer possible to assume anything reasonable is implicit.
I wish there existed some decentralized device that can do iCloud backups and people can just buy that divide and set it up in their home.
It occurs to me that the 'palm ' technique I described is actually used in candlepin bowling. But, worry not. I'm not self conscious about doing my own thing :)
The feature is opt-in. So, Apple isn't forcing anyone to do anything.
You need to train more doctors first. That’s the issue.
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Show HN: Self-driving car labeling tool
Wow, it is good code. So simple that the author is either very new, or very experienced. (I would guess the latter).
Dude if UE makes me a millie I would happily hand them 5% for it, considering that would be all I owe them, ever. Especially for all the free assets they provide.

But right now, where certainties aren't...
> while vaccines protect the population in general by stopping the spread of Covid.

This is common misconception about the COVID-19 vaccines and about several other vaccines. They don’t necessarily stop infection/transmission, but reduce the symptoms and prevent you from ending up in the ER.

Those who downvoted can find this basic information on CDC, WebMD, JH, BMJ, etc
Only if they have a breakthrough infection - and that is very rare.
From the proposal it seems that this system 1. cannot be opted out of and 2. can run at any time the phone is powered on without user consent.

That puts it clearly in a different category from apps.
Reproducible Builds with Bazel [video]
The FBI doesn't even have the resources to review all the reports they do get (we learned that in 2019), and yet they want to intrude on everyone's rights to get even more to investigate (which they won't).
I bought and use usertrack.

Your landing page is not perfect aesthetically. It makes it feel genuine and that's what convinced me to try your product.

You have a great page and product. I'm jealous of your project. Please continue what you're doing!
He means AGI is not a meaningful term, because 'general' is too ambiguous - ie, even human intelligence is not truly general. So it's a meaningless term according to him. I think he would not oppose a term such as 'superhuman AI'. He goes into this in some depth in lex fridman's interview of him, can check that out if you're curious.
> I'd prefer not to expose them to likely sources of the virus if it can be avoided.

It can be avoided. You remain locked down. Why should others moderate their existence based on your unfounded fears?

Should cars be banned as they pose a nonzero risk to your children as they cross the road?

> After all, your choice does not affect just one other person, it may affect millions.

This is a delusional hypothetical with no basis in reality. See Israel.
"Things are currently bad, therefore give up" isn't satisfactory.

Even if everything is imperfect, some things are more imperfect than others. If each component that makes you vulnerable has a given percent chance of being used against you in practice, you're better off with one than six, even if you're better off with none than one.
Anthropocentrism is the psuedo religious thing. If you take away the layers of BS, it's pretty obvious that animals and plants are important too.
Quite frankly I'm not sure this should be the role of one employee of a justice department, so I'm not sure how to answer this ?

At the end of the day I think that any such effort should be legislated, in any jurisdiction, and not just rely on the good will that a government (or one of its employee) can garner from private orgs.

As to what legislation should look like, this is a complex issue, many countries are making various form of interceptions legal (mostly around terrorism) already.

Should a law clearly mandating that any cloud provider scan their users content through some technology like Microsoft's PhotoDNA be passed by various local governments ? I'd much rather see that, personally.

Again, my opposition to this is centered around the fact that Apple is doing this on device and selling this as, as you put it, walking a fine line with their privacy stance.

While it may have been their original intent, I believe they have opened a door for legislators around the world to ask this technology be extended for other purposes, and given time, they absolutely will.

You didn't ask but what I wish Apple did was what everyone else did : scan on their servers, because they can, and not do it on device to keep the illusion that they can't access your photos.

Edit : Random link about PhotoDNA being used by Google and Facebook, there are probably better sources : https://petapixel.com/2014/08/08/photodna-lets-google-facebo...
How is your experience with re-seeding images to the system going from small resolution to a larger one? When I tried it, results were not as good as starting a high res image from scratch.
SIM swapping is relatively common in the US because it's not difficult to execute via social engineering. I'm not sure what the situation / protections against SIM swapping are in Scandinavia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam
If vaccines are to be compulsory, who gets to decide which vaccines? Once you open the door to compulsory medical practices, there’s no telling where that will end.
We need to get organized first. We need a support platform where we can coordinate these type of actions. It's in my todo list, but if anyone can get this started please do so
The ship's facilities were not meant for COVID patients, it was meant for patients who would go to a hospital if it wasn't full of COVID patients.
An Investigation into Reproducible Builds for Android [pdf]
Ya it's a bit clunky. I never hated it, but I was also not pushing it that hard. Publisher doesn't feel clunky.
If you accept anti fragility as a true theory it still doesn’t fit with forest fires.
So, your argument is that Apple couldn't have implemented a wide-scale backdoor because people would know about it but Apple could use this new technology in a nefarious way at scale and no one would know about it.
Where's that knob tptacek telling us why we're all paranoid simpletons for not using Apple?
Well, shit. I was surprised I made it almost to the bottom of the comments without becoming incredibly fucking annoyed by something ignorant and opinionated, but here we are. Swearing, used effectively (which I noted the article does before I got here), is a damn fine part of speech that’s valuable both for emotional expression and for relatable levity.
Burying the lede...
Unfortunately, at the time of this whitepaper being published - 86 days after Apache was notified of the vulnerability - 2.4.49 not yet come out, so although there's a patch on master, this is effectively a zero-day.
Other studies, with a larger sample of studies, found a moderate certainty of effect even when controlling for a study which later removed.

https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/...

Another study from Queen Mary University also found certainty of effect

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353195913_Bayesian_...

Study in Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine shows certainty of effect.

https://www.apjtm.org/article.asp?issn=1995-7645;year=2021;v...

I could go on. To really understand what is happening in relation to Ivermectin I can highly recommend Ben Goldacres book Bad Pharma..it shows in detail exactly what we are seeing happen with ivermectin.

There is a significant financial interest in having ivermectin perceived as ineffective. Firstly, if it works it makes the emergency use authorisation for the vaccines look quite precarious. Secondly, and probably more likely, there are novel therapies being developed for Covid right now. Nasal sprays. Anti virals.

They are patented. Ivermectin is not - it's post patent and can be manufacured by multiple companies. Merck who manufacture ivermectin themselves have a new anti viral they hope to bring to market.

If ivermectin - a $3 treatment - proves to be effective then the emergency use Authorization for novel Covid therapies goes out the window.

When we are looking at meta analysis that take about 20% of the available studies and conclude 'inconclusive' we should be mindful that there's a massive financial interest for this. Science works. But like everything else, if you influence how science is funded you influence the results it finds.

The cat is out of the bag on ivermectin. Its already being used in india (where I am) and where the second wave was brought under control without vaccines. There was just 5% vaccine penetration at the peak of second wave but ivermectin started to get administered at that time in delhi.

You'll hear more about the mega doses of horse paste. Its in super high concentration since....it's for horses. In the UK it's not even imported in tablet 12mg form. Hence the stupid situation in which people desperately try to get it via vets and the dosage is way out.

At 12mg doses it's very well tolerated. I should know since I use it india the moment I feel I have any symptoms. 18 months and so far so good. I am just one person of course but I know many many others who have been prescribed it when they got sick and they then recovered.

Science works but financial interests influence what does and does not publish.
Another quote from this paper:

"Ivermectin showed no evidence of an effect on increasing or decreasing mortality at 28 days, the most important outcome during this pandemic, neither in inpatients (two studies), outpatients (two studies), or the preventive setting (one study). The certainty for this finding was very low. The same accounts for clinical worsening up to 28 days in an inpatient setting and up to 14 days in an outpatient setting."
I find it funny when I see this kind of balanced statement modded down. It's a guessing game of which side it offended with it's neutrality.
> Letting forest fires burn in California, Oregon and Washington now wound remove the forests entirely.

That's not how it works. Most larger trees survive fires just fine, they just don't look very pretty for a while afterwards.

In Australia, there are trees like the aptly named stringybark that exude flammable oils and peel off thin strips of their own bark to form highly flammable piles of tinder under themselves, which appears to ensure that any forest fire is powerful but passes through quickly (not killing the tree), and conveniently eliminates any nearby competition in the process.
Natively supported means part of the core product.

Dealing with third party solutions means having to worry about incompatibility, enterprise support, ongoing maintenance etc.
I think that you're after the universal morphisms in a computational category. Curien called them "categorical combinators" and gave a listing in https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82017242.pdf
What can I say ? Idiots.

Not that I had any say, I've been out of the country too long to vote now.