skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's a really tough problem with no clear answers.

Microplastics and other pollutants with potential long-acting health impacts are very hard to predict far in advance. Strong evidence for or against any adverse health effects would take considerable effort to gather while in the mean time they offers such clear advantages and solve so many problems. Plastics have massively reduced costs in almost every industry and have become almost irreplaceable in some applications such as medical equipment (think packaging for syringes, surgical tools, or anything that requires contamination control).

With lead there were viable cost-effective alternatives, it wasn't in nearly every product we consume, and we already had pretty clear evidence that its highly toxic so the only evidence needed was to show that the low levels being used in gasoline, while not acutely toxic, could be harmful given enough exposure to it over time.

I doubt anyone working on plastics early on anticipated microplastics would end up in nearly all of our food, living spaces, and even build up in our bodies. By the time there would be any alarm bells sounding, it would've been too late, the sheer number and ways it solves problems makes it far too difficult to retreat from when, due to the nature of how its potential effects could arise, wouldn't give any strong evidence that its harmful.

Outside of plastics many air pollutants are similar in that manner. The processes that release them are so convenient and solve so many problems, while any health effects would be long-term and extremely difficult to gather strong evidence for.
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Also, charging by the minute seems wrong .... a Porsche Taycan is going to get a whole lot more range out of each minute than a five-year-old Nissan Leaf, so why should they pay less for the same amount of range? Hmmmm.

Bear in mind that at home with the Level 2 charger in the carport, charging feels close to free.

You are primarily paying rent to take up a charging spot vs. buying electricity. If it took some vehicles 45 minutes to pump 20 gallons of diesel, I guarantee stations would start charging per minute.
The Big Brain Scheme Apple uses for their CSAM stuff.
Summary for the lazy:

- this is going to be out in ios15

- Apple will build and push a database of hashes with every update

- these hashes will be used to verify against the pics before they are uploaded to icloud and generate a "voucher"

- once a certain threshold of vouchers is passed, Apple will be able to decrypt the pictures in questions (all this discussion seems to assume Apple does not have access to icloud pictures - so maybe they are preparing to rollout full encrypted backups???)

- the crypto stuff is interesting

- the scary part is that there is nothing preventing Apple to do the same thing with other thing on your phone (assuming there is a way to generate a good enough matching hash - I can see how this could be easily extended to basically anything that's stored on the phone)
So are people really going to go to prison because of a flag that says they did something illegal? With no opportunity for discovery or to cross examine? No way to audit the software and the chain of events that led to the detection?
Maybe you mean apportable? They used a lot of stuff from GnuStep and implemented a lot of UIKit with JNI Bindings to the android UI toolkit. I spend 2.5 years maintaining a game written with it. My company had a license only for this game. Any code and other things we build on top of it (mostly wrappers for native 3rd party services) went the way of the Dodo. I wrote a Xib/Nib to cocos2d Converter to load nib files and create a cocos2d scene at serialization time. I build this on top of the nib reader provided by apportable.
I think you'd be surprised to see how much of the roadmap at a typical "build for the market" company is driven by specific contracts. In my experience, the proportion is high even in consumer tech, and easily clears 75% for even the most commoditized of enterprise software. The stereotypical contract shop is distinguished more by poor planning and an aversion to shared architecture than any real difference in incentives.
Oh I misunderstood
Housing costs are dragging up the CPI inflation rate while consumer goods are dragging it down. I don't know why people keep voicing this complaint. CPI is what consumers spend their money on, not what your bank spends money on. When people keep taking on longer and longer mortgages their cost per month stays the same but the cost of the house itself is going up. Spending hasn't increased as quickly as the price of the house, leverage has.
Not sure exactly what you mean by “look like this”, but several tools for generating RFCs in the standard text format are here: https://tools.ietf.org/
It does definitely have a mic but it's supposedly only used for sound checks (and audio never leaves the device):

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9250972?hl=en
Don't like this story? Get involved with local and national government to remove qualified immunity for false accusers, and put stiff penalties on companies that erroneously implicate wrong doing and put bonus penalties for the deaths of pets by SWAT.
I've been using /e/os [1] for a while and I am very happy with it. It has microG integrated so any apps that rely on google play services should still work.
[1] https://e.foundation/
Maybe they could call it "For Us By Us"
I'm not sure "Netflix for Black People" clearly denotes anything at all.
> This only finds known pictures of child abuse not new ones

No, it finds images that have similar perceptual hashes, typically using the hamming distance or another metric to calculate differences between hashes.

I've built products that do similar things. False positives are abound with perceptual hashes, especially when you start fuzzy matching them.
I agree. It happened to the Internet. It’s happening with crypto. Is it possible to win against big money? Bitcoin gave us a lot of hope in the beginning, like BBSs and newsgroups.
I'd like to take a moment to appreciate Apple for telegraphing its intentions going forward.

And I'm glad to know that anyone who is concerned is a 'screeching minority'.
One battery for the lifetime of the car is dramatically reducing the car's life (me looking at my 21 year old car).
It's not even remotely AUM either. These markets are all extremely shallow and highly correlated. You couldn't sell even a few billion USD worth of crypto in a short period of time without tanking the entire enterprise.
CISA launches new initiative to combat ransomware – FCW
Season 4 of ‘Cobra Kai’ is going to release on Netflix in December 2021
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> So the user can’t have information about anything, but they can appeal the decision if their account is locked? And locking the account might cause people to do all kinds of stupid things like resetting their device to get the account back or because they panicked. Then the only evidence is some opaque system that claims the user had illegal content. That’s scary.

At that point you have uploaded the pictures to icloud. The evidence is in icloud. You cannot destroy your device to get rid of this.
You're right, the details in this paper are not consistent with PhotoDNA. I wonder if these new hashes and the models to generate them are going to be made available to other anti-abuse organizations.
The Karen thing started in retail ("I'd like to speak to the manager") but a subset of people are trying to equate it with racism exclusively. That's what the one you're responding to is trying to do.
And then Apple reviews the account and sees that what was flagged was not CSAM. And again, the hashes aren’t of arbitrary subject matter, they’re of specific images. Using that to police subject matter would be ludicrous.
New Approach to Information Transfer Reaches Quantum Speed Limit
I think any 'foreign' demographic would be a rather big hit. I know plenty of folks who watch just one or two foreign language stations, because that's all that really cater to or interest them.

There's definitely been more movement in the space, but it's still really lacking. I can't imagine it would cost a ton to license most foreign content for the US, which they currently have 0 percent market share of.
Can you think of a time when that kind of argument has ever worked?

I remind you that people made that argument about Facebook and it didn’t.
UUIDv1 IDs with MAC addresses have been used for tracking people down. There are especially a lot of classic examples from older Word documents where v1 UUIDs were often embedded in many places inside the documents. Groups used (and sometimes still use) the MAC addresses in such Word documents to track down specific authors (for FBI investigations on the more [extra-]legal side and for "doxxing" and such on the far less legal side).

Whether you consider this specific example threat a privacy risk versus a security risk here depends on your personal threat model, of course. But general consensus at this point is to label it a security risk.
I've also seen projects on like 124.0.0 just because they don't care about semver and just release major versions every time.
That would indeed be bad.

What Apple is doing here is also bad. But jail-by-algorithm is not part of what Apple is doing.
I think the idea is that when a human checks to see if two hashes are equal, they usually just check the first few bytes, and maybe the last few bytes. You could attack this by grinding out hashes to find two with the same first few bytes.

Of course, you could do something similar with this visual algorithm, but I guess the idea is you are using more of the human visual system so it's harder.
In short yes.
The tech stack matters far less than the trustworthiness and competence of the operators running it. And the hard part with VPN services is that it is very difficult to prove those things to others.
I think there's a lot of potential for "run an app remotely, draw it locally". A crippled, single-application version of that's an entire, recent, highly-publicized startup, even (the controversial remote-Chrome-as-a-service company that's been posted about quite a bit in the last couple months).

I think it's not widely done because Apple and Microsoft haven't put out good tooling for it. If one of them released that kind of thing as a high-quality, polished feature, I bet it'd be big.

Also, IMO the default set-up and behavior for it on Linux machines isn't very good (shocker, that). Much better would be persistent remote sessions that let you drop your connection on one machine and re-connect on another, and leave them running indefinitely when not connected. You can get that working with some extra software but it's a bit janky and the UX is nerd-only, like most of this stuff.
Organic blobs built in lab may be small step towards synthetic life
to me it seems like if you don't use Apple you're totally protected. Hmm... What is the alternative again? Is there a phone that does straight linux and everything is open source?
The thing which always makes me hesitant about these projects is that they don't receive frequent security audits and not having an expensive brand behind them makes them more at risk to being willing to trash their name at the cost of my privacy and security. I consider these to be a fairly critical part of any project which claims superior privacy and security.

I think about it this way: Should I trust

A. The company which has thousands of developers working on it and wants to avoid their brand being dirtied by failures in security and privacy.

B. The small group of people who have formed an organization which may or may not be another Anom like FBI controlled software.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely want to pick B, but I consider it much more risky since there are a lot more unknowns around that. At least with A I know what I'm getting (basically a free flow of my info to whichever government asks for it, but cross my fingers they don't ask for it or that A doesn't want too broad of a breach of trust).
The Value of Car Ownership and Use in the United States
Assuming that there is only one driver, 750 miles is 12.5hrs and 1000 miles is 16.6hrs at 60mph average. Both of those are above the 11 of 24hrs that a commercial truck driver is permitted to be on the road in the US. Say what you want about regulations, but I take that as an upper limit to how long one can safely operate a motor vehicle. I try to stay under 8hrs per day for long trips with around 7 being my target average.
What I want out of a "smart" switch is that it exposes an API over a network connection for what it can do (turn on, off and maybe dim the lights) along with a Unique Identifier of some kind. CPU and network stack all running on a Harvard Architecture system with no possibility of upgrade.

The "smartness" should come from a device (be it a smartphone, hub-like device like an echo or my router) that maintains the mapping between device addresses, api and friendly names. That can be upgraded, replaced, exposed to the outside internet.
So in your model 1.0 is the point at which you start writing proper release notes?

I'm not keen on that. During my 0.x period I still want interested third parties to try out and use my code, which means I need to give them good release information to help them help me test everything out.
Are Vaccine Mandates Racist?
Xfinity, Silicon Valley:

--8<--

$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=117 time=14.7 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=117 time=15.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=117 time=14.8 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.774/15.162/15.828/0.473 ms

-->8--
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Wow, that's illuminating. I naively thought the overhead of converting between datatypes would not make this worth that much (in favor of saving cache misses). Though does this also have anything to do with the AVX512 instructions?
You are always able to add playstore in. But of course this comes with some cost to privacy.

There's also other app stores like f-Droid. Usually these are populated with the same apps but often there are ones you are going to have a harder time getting.

Does anyone know if there's a way to do a sandboxed playstore? Like you can use it to download the apps and update (assuming this won't be automatic) but that it is contained otherwise?
Average for a new car. A lot of people can't drive at all. A lot of people buy used cars. It is funny because I find it hard to imagine a wealthy person in my own country not being aware of this...in the US, the wealthy seem to live on another planet.

Okay, maybe. But lots of ICE manufacturers have 10-year warranties...they don't break down a lot. I also think that whilst a car is a "fun appliance" for some people, for most people it is how they earn money. They can't live closer to their work because property is too expensive. It is practical, it is how they feed their kids, not fun. Making everyone pay the luxury price because people without your "fun appliance" are morally inferior is...questionable.
It is not just pesticides. We are killing all flowering plants around us that are not crops or garden flowers.

Bees do not care whether it is a weed or crop. But they do care that there is always something flowering. When there is little variety in plants around bee nest they can't pollinate entire season but rather most of the time there is very little to pollinate and then suddenly there is too much and they can't keep up and make good use of it.
Thanks for bringing VOTE to my attention -- I'd followed Engine No. 1's work regarding Exxon, and didn't realize they had rolled out an ETF. While it was probably more their ability to persuade BlackRock et al that carried the day with Exxon, I'm glad to give them just a few dollars' more clout...
I've read it. There has been a huge backlash over that paper, from actual scientists critical of the methodology and conclusions. They make a compelling case that this one particular study should be taken with a grain of salt.
BREAKING.FEATURES.BUGS

I think would be better. And when you look at it that way, BREAKING could be in order to provide new features that necissated breaking changes, or it could be because the old way sucked and nobody liked it, or any other reason, but the version bump communicates that the changes are breaking backwards compatibility in some known way.

As an aside, this is why some people say SemVer is bad, because ideally a dependency should never be breaking you.

An alternative to SemVer is to do:

FEATURES.BUGS and simply never push breaking changes.

So what if you want to make some changes that mandates breaking compatibility?

Well you simply release a new library or framework under a new name.

That way the name of a dependency is a 1:1 correspondence with its exact interface. If the interface changes in breaking ways it's a new dependency.

This also allows you to then depend on both, possibly even letting you transition from one to the other in phases.
There are 2 phones that are pretty interesting.

One is the Librem 5. I think it's $700 maybe?

The other is the Pine phone. I believe it's closer to $250.

Now from what I can tell these are both terrible phones. Really just terrible electronic devices. But they are devices that can connect to modern cell phone infrastructure and are fully open source.

At least the Librem is. Not sure about the hardware on the pinephone. Librem is OSS down to the firmware. Wild.

Not sure if I'm ready to make the jump just yet but a completely hackable phone is super appealing to me.

Circling back to your original question, both companies seem to be shooting for the privacy angle with the phones.

I've actually been seeing a lot of companies popping up lately in the privacy / open source space. It's pretty exciting.
There is an app store called Aurora Store that Calyx comes preinstalled with. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/
This is one of the situations that should be approached with Hanlon's handgun, not Hanlon's razor.

"Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by systemic incentives promoting malice."

C.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691282
Timescale matters. This is often missing from the discussion. Warming up over a period of 10 thousand years is very different from same warming over a 100 years. Evolution in existing species assumes a certain pace of change in the environment, and this assumption is being broken. Sure, other species might survive and thrive. Mammals exploded after the dinosaurs were killed off.
It doesn't really answer this question, but the show #blackAF on Netflix helped me learn a bit more about black people in America. For example, fatherhood is challenging for everyone, but the expectations on black fathers is a bit different. This show portrayed those challenges well.

There most certainly is an ingroup-outgroup dynamic, but I don't think a Black Netflix intensifies it, it merely caters to that audience, just like Netflix is doing with #blackAF or DisneyPlus is doing with blackish.
Once again, the "average" fallacy. In normal circumstances, the average is rarely the statistic you want to quote (and definitely not unless it is accompanied by standard deviation values). Median is the correct way to identify "the typical" [0].

You're in luck though. The median appears to be about $38k, so the difference in this case is not that great.

[0] there's the old joke about (Gates|Bezos|Musk|...) walks into a bar, and the bartender says "hey! thanks, on average we're all millionaires in here now!"
Yup, it's largely similar to the technique used by Prokuin-Gorskii for his photographic survey of Russia around 1900. He was using wet plates for still images rather than film for movies - but same idea. Take three monocrhome images, one of each primary color, and project them back together and you'll have a full-color image.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=color&st=grid&co=prok

Kind of a fun fact is that in a sense we use this same idea today for digital photography - modern camera sensors are almost entirely[0] monochrome, so we put a tiled color filter in front of the sensor, which makes each pixel pick up a different color (like the 3 colors of the film strip), and then we digitally reconstruct full color at all pixels from the individual colored-monochrome pixels. So it's basically just a 3-strip image, but shot on the same image and digitally reconstructed.

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

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

[0] the exception is Foveon sensors which actually do have three sensors at each "pixel", stacked on top of each other. The problem is this generally has lower resolution than an equivalent Bayer filter-based sensor - however somewhat offset by a relative lack of moire due to the higher color resolution. Most (but not all) Bayer sensor cameras use an antialiasing filter (optical low pass filter) over the sensor to combat this - which costs some resolution (eg Sony A7 vs A7r - the base model has the moire filter and the R doesn't, but the R model gets almost twice as much resolution).
> We probably have more resources invested in diversity now than at any point in our history as a company.

That's a weirdly underwhelming quote. There can't be many things that isn't true of in a growing company and it doesn't even imply per-capita growth.
It's the Seventies all over again. Shrinkflation was rampant.
There's places like APK mirror or Aurora which will download .apk's from the play store.

The problem with degoogled phones isn't not accessing the google play store, it's not having the confusingly named google play services.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Services

A lot of apps rely on google play services. It mostly depends on how much of google play services an app requires as to whether it'll work on a degoogled phone or not.
I don't have a landline any more, but I still have a beige rotary dial desk phone that my parents got no later than 70s. It still works, if you can find a place to jack in. It's just a quirky decoration in my living room now.
> They just say it. If we don't know that, we cannot use growing child pornography as an argument to reducing civil liberties.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/child-predators

The FBI says it. People can and do use that argument whether we like it or not.