skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the note:

> many thousands of sexually exploited victimized children will be rescued

This does not aid rescue.
The two really standout things for me are, 1) they did this on an outdoor track/around campus, not in the lab and 2) they did the entire 5K on a single battery charge. It looks like a guy was controlling the direction using an RC unit, so there's no optical guidance etc, but still, traversing Real World terrain (even if it's paved walkways), and doing it in an energy-efficient manner is pretty impressive.
Just a heads up, referring to a people as "blacks" can ne seen as a bit rude. Also, I don't even want to get started on the term "African American"...
Families of 9/11 victims tell Biden not to attend memorial events
ok first off that slippery slope referred to here is the domino theory - which is a faulty idea of the causality of events - we can say a slippery slope regarding events is likely faulty because unless the causal chain between any two events is very tightly linked our understanding of causality is not sufficient to understand it. That is to say we have a very tight link between a domino falling, hitting another domino and toppling it, but we do not have a very tight link between a country going communist and then another one later. Hence, every causal claim requires a separate argument.

The slippery slopes being discussed here are not about events and the causes that link them, but about the applications of technology and to a certain extent about laws being used beyond their original mandate. This kind of slippery slope is a logical one.

Thus the technology being used for this mean that it can be used for other things - what kinds of things can it be used for? Are there things that people would like to make illegal or that are illegal now that this technology can be used catch people infringing on these hypothetical laws. Thus - if we allow this technology in our devices now are we opening ourselves up for other potential uses for the technology in the future that will hurt us.

If this argument seems the same to you as the domino theory and that we must take every hypothetical problem when it actually occurs I wonder how you are ever able to plan for any eventuality?
The stimulus checks aren't a test of UBI in part because we were told they were one time relief for an emergency, not an entitlement you can count on forever. People spend money differently if they are told "it's a one-time gift" versus "you can expect this for the rest of your life."

Historically, when you inject money into a system without increasing availability of goods and services, the result is inflation. If you start giving people UBI as a regular thing, the value of those checks will promptly go down due to inflation.

All welfare programs have a long history of failing to keep up with inflation. Even food stamps tend to last only about three weeks out of the month. I see no reason to believe UBI would somehow magically escape this pattern.

Making college loans readily available didn't fix things. It didn't mean that everyone had equal access to a college degree and now ordinary people could readily pursue the career of their dreams. Instead, it resulted in tuition skyrocketing and students having trouble getting a professional job with which to pay off their student loans, so people are waiting tables, putting off marriage, putting off homeownership, putting of having kids, putting off their lives to try to pay their loans.

I see no reason to think UBI would somehow go differently. I read that they tried something somewhere and the result was the landlords just raised rent and it didn't provide real relief for poor people. It just enriched the landlords.

Two-thirds of lottery winners are bankrupt within five years and they are at dramatically increased risk of being murdered, among myriad other terrible fates. The money doesn't solve their problems. They trade poor people problems for rich people problems and they don't have rich people coping skills. It often has very ugly results.

If, instead, you give people access to food and medical care and you make smaller homes in walkable neighborhoods where it's possible to live cheaply, then people can manage their problems and make their choices and find a path forward. People aren't likely to eat ten times what they need just because you are willing to pay for it. People aren't likely to get ten times as many x-rays and surgeries as they need just because you won't bill them for it.

Covering basic needs and guaranteeing you can eat and see a doctor is fundamentally different from cutting a check and telling people to spend it any way they want. It's an important form of social safety net that helps when things go wrong and isn't as readily abusable as cash is whether through innocent mistake, ignorance or even willful irresponsibility.

If you go nuts and spend like crazy and can still eat, well you might survive long enough to learn better. If you piss away all your UBI and then people say "Nope. No food stamps. We ended that program to fund UBI. Go starve." you've got a serious problem and so does society.
You probably are a danger to others on the road, yourself and your family. More than 8 hours behind the wheel in a single day is irresponsible.
>TFA strongly implies it’s a tweet on March 21 inciting a response on March 28, but buries the lede about the racist cartoon posted at an unknown time that the professor claims to have received an email about.

I continue to be amazed with how creative propaganda can be. It is a simple misdirection (but oh how effect, just read the comments here). There is a paper trail showing what tweet the pushback had been about but the article still takes the liberty to draw up a strawman, and concludes -- Criticising the CCP is supposed to be «Neo-Nazi» like? Hawww.....

One thing I have realized over time is that it is one thing to recognize deficiencies in an argument you are against, and a completely different thing to recognize the same in arguments for a cause that you do believe in.
WeChat’s youth mode is illegal, says lawsuit as China steps up attack on Tencent
Most phone manufacturers can force update certain components. So even if you would uninstall all additional "phone home" packages, the system could still install more
https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/how-to...
this is great, def the right idea.

been wanting to create a single-use website for this exact-type of data/understanding.

but i also want cumulative per capita data.

so, i'd expect it to look something like:

US 1,000,000,000,000,000
AU 1,000,000,000
UA 1,000,000
SA 100,000
CN 10,000
Only if the post praises BLM and criticizes MAGA... Lots of people have lost their jobs (and even dropped from public funded colleges) because of this. Not sure if you are really not aware of this, or if your comment is not in good faith.
Nice idea...actually it will help many companies to transform their business process.
Does this mean you believe we should throw away all conspiracy[1] laws?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)
That is a known bug. Actually I haven’t even come around to fixing such issues yet.

Another thing you should probably (not!) try: Click Play on a paper and click on Next/Prev :) The only way you can recover from that is by refreshing the page. Sorry about these rough edges as of now.
The content of this article clearly shows how hurt the concept of free speach is nowadays.

You tweet some stuff and you're life is destroyed. Simple. No warning or whatsoever, you just destroy your life because you angered China.
or Bromite.
Are new ICE cars affordable? EV don't cost 4x more than ICEs, do they?
Ok, that's what it is seeming like. Since a crypto hash by definition has to generate a huge hamming distance for a small change, everything i've read about perceptual hashes is just the opposite: they should be tolerant enough of a certain amount of difference.
A good way to think about any potential law like this is to imagine your worst enemy or most hated politician was given power to abuse said law, and then think about all the ways they could use it to make your life miserable

always think about the worst case scenario when it comes to privacy, because that will be the end result
Kawasaki has a population of 1.5 Million people. Hardly just a "suburb"
So download whatever latex distro you prefer for windows, open your document, click the button. It will automatically download missing packages in the background. Done.
Regenerative braking means that your regular brakes are used much less.
> CA's research was violating privacy laws because it was gathering personal data from Facebook's users without their consent.

It actually gathered data from fb users with explicit consent (a login with FB dialog along with a permissions dialog box). The app then scraped the public information of that user's friend's list.

If you replace "friends list" with "ads list", it seems to have pretty strong similarities to what's happening here.
I think that summary misses out how much Popper argues should be tolerated. e.g. in the quote in the article, Popper writes:

> In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.
This is especially important given that NSO Group's Pegasus' works through sending multimedia iMessages/WhatsApps with exploits. The former auto-uploads to iCloud, and the latter can be configured to auto-upload all received media to iCloud.

It almost sounds like a feature Apple is building to explicitly support the imprisonment of dissents through tje false planting of child pornography.

What the actual f--k?
Phone software should be considered under constant surveillance by design , given their relatively blackbox design, and i think this is not a surprise to most of their users. It's more concerning that this is now coming to the desktop. How can we make sure that windows updates or virus definitions are what they say they are ?
I'm not going to bother continuing when you respond to what I wish I said rather than what I actually said.

For the last time, the whole controlled burns is your obsession, and was not something that I said. And your continuing to go back to it marks you as out of touch with reality or logic.

With that, I'm done with your brand of idiocy.
Again though, what is the guarantee this is only going to be used to scan data uploaded to the cloud? If Apple has the ability to exfiltrate data from a phone at whim, they lose any deniability or leverage they still have with authoritarian regimes that want all the data on a phone. It's not just a terrible precedent, it's a dangerous piece of malware.
When I say "Black", I mean "Black". If I want to single out Americans, I say "Black Americans."

I'm all for dropping the term African American, unless it's referring to a recent immigrant. It's a misnomer from the past, that for some reason people consider PC.
That would be very unnatural. States make war for their interests.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offensive_realism
I don't see why this is surprising at all. Apple has never cared about the privacy of their Chinese users.
Privacy was never a principle for them, merely a marketing feature for technically illiterate westerners.
I was surprised to read this entire article without seeing the word "emergent". If you found this article interesting, there's a great book on this topic that compares ants, slime molds, brains and cities: how simple organisms create seemingly intelligent behavior. It's like G.E.B. in how it ties together disparate domains, but not as brutal.

Emergence The Connected Lives Of Ants Brains Cities & Software by Steven Johnson

https://www.powells.com/book/emergence-the-connected-lives-o...
Predates is understating it - it was kind of a major dispute at one time. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
This is far from the wackiest (successful) flying machine.

There is one with just a half-wing, and a motor-and-prop mounted on one end, pointed crosswise. It flies by spinning the whole vehicle, sort of like a maple leaf. It is totally controllable, like any old quad, but is more efficient because it has just the one motor, and only half a wing. It is more nimble because it has no "front".

You could have video with a single vertical line of pixels, relying on rotation to scan the sensor across the scene, and "point" it just by choosing which part of the spin to sample, or have a real-time panorama all the time.
No what I’m saying is it’s annoying me because they’ve both earned the reputation and also marketed the hell out of it. Apple seems to want it both ways then they go and do this.
I'm pulling the quote out to highlight that he's willing to believe the answer could be yes, which is absurd.
Ask HN: Have emotional illnesses impacted your career positively or negatively?
I’ve been building myself a custom running dashboard to track my stats over time. It’s a lot more fun than paying someone else and means I can build up whatever visualisations I like. The current version is at https://running.callumm.dev

Overall the project consists of:

- An iOS shortcut that converts the day’s data to a CSV using HealthExport [1] and submits it to my API

- A tiny Phoenix API [2] that uploads the data to graphjson.com which I use for the visualisations and to avoid maintaining a database of my own for this

- A dashboard written in NextJS that shows my visualisations, hosted at that running.callumm.dev URL

I built it on a whim over the last month when I decided to start trying to run every day, so it does fun things like compare to last month. I’m sure I’ll keep tweaking things over time but this stack feels pretty good to hack on so far!

My favourite visualisation is one that shows the proportion of time spent in each heart rate zone per run over time. It’s something I’ve been working to get under control (I used to run at a consistently very high heart rate) and it’s awesome to be able to visualise that progress.

[1] https://healthexport.app/ - not mine or affiliated, but it’s a couple of dollars one time buy and makes my iOS shortcut work!

[2] GitHub repo for the data import API: https://github.com/mcintyre94/callum_runs

[3] GitHub repo for the dashboard: https://github.com/mcintyre94/callum_runs_dashboard
It scales amazingly well with the number of cores you throw at it. Definitely the 3950x would work great.
Yes, they are. The point is that this change make this hypothetical too close to being true so the change should be abandoned. It skews the power balance too much into the hands of a small number of unknown people so the rest are protesting.
I don’t think I was suggesting that.
So stop the circulating. This is like trying to stop people from using drugs by searching EVERYONE’S homes and reporting suspicious looking substances.
Work from home causes fewer emissions, hybrid working may be worse
Not using your brakes isn't actually that good for the brake discs, since they can rust with the lack of use.
hmm... The report claimed that Sep - Oct, 2019 the Baidu search showed that searching from "Covid-19" increased correspondingly with the hospitalization. Wonder how ordinary Wuhan citizens knew that the virus _will_ be named "Covid-19" (FYI, WHO named the virus in 2/11/2020)
The university system developed inside the cultural western tradition, it didn't fall from the sky. It most definitely has to self-preserve. But i m curious what you think the purpose of a university is
But I can see a similar "it-must-stay-the-same-itis" in their proclamations that the country must never deindustrialize.

There's some of that. There's an official push in China towards self-sufficiency, and eliminating reliance on imports. The US used to have such a policy during the Cold War.

The coal and steel fixation created the European Union, which was originally "the European Coal and Steel Community". Britain grew to be a world power through coal and steel. As those declined in importance, they were taken over by the Government, under what was derisively called "lemon socialism". There was British Steel, British Coal, British Rail... All the old labor-intensive plants.

China has problems with inefficient state-owned businesses, which tend to be jobs programs. They're mostly owned by provincial and municipal governments, not the national government. Lots of steel mills and coal mines, inevitably. But since they make steel for export, they can't be too inefficient.
Dinner at an average restaurant doesnt cost that much. You can have a nice meal (for two) in a place with good ambience for 20 USD.
Nationalism isn't simply speaking up for onesself. In any case, what instances are you refering to? You assure us that this happened but didn't bother linking to anything. That's not an efficient way to convince people of something.
Publishing the code and making the builds reproducible doesn't prove anything on its own. This can be used for evil just by manipulating the set of hashes that it matches against, even with all of the code doing exactly what they said it will do.
Companies don't have to be ethical, they just have to be legal.
So someone just needs to file 100,000 patent claims against me, and since I can't respond to all of them, they win by default?
Astronomy facts approved by the communist party.
Comcast is awful. We have comcast in the bay area, but we get constant outages throughout the day making the internet service extremely unreliable. AT&T DSL isn't a real contender to Comcast cable, so Comcast is the only realistic option.

If I could switch off Comcast (to another cable internet provider or fiber), I would do so in a heartbeat. Comcast has been a consistent, horrible monopoly.
I also thought about just disabling iCloud, but if they start scanning your local files it maybe won't even matter if you use iCloud or not in the future.
Were the users actually aware of that permissions dialog box?
Or you angered america, or the US political parties Or women or trans people or nonbinary people. It's like , if you don't draw a hard line, the virus keeps expanding
In the first photo of this tweet, you can see the black, hexagon-tiled heat shield:
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/14236592614527098...
Perhaps you're the one who's wrong though? Your response makes no sense other than to grandstand how hasty and unreasonable the OP is being. You could have just omitted it and we'd be no worse off.

Does Facebook scan local files?
Depends on the court: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intell...
Pdf is great. There's a reason why it hasn't been replaced as the go to format for digital forms and universal printing. It works well.
Cultivating an Engineering Dialect (George Wilson, YOW Lambda Jam 2021)
Could this be related to Epic's case? Opening up iOS can be argued will allow to circumvent things just like this one.
Not kinda. It sucks.
It's jdbc only, with the main usage being in-memory.

Redis is considered an in memory store as well, even though it can persist it's data on disk too.
And the capability isn't what makes it in-memory either, as you can store a SQLite db only in-memory too, and nobody would consider it to be an in-memory database. You could technically do the same for PostgreSQL, though that's not officially supported and needs a little effort on the users part.

I guess my phrasing was poor if you misunderstood me there, but I do stand by what I said: while H2 is a great project in Java-Land, it's very different to what I understood the parents goal to be.
APL, forth and prolog are routinely rediscovered over and over again. They are like a cat standing in the path of a door : refusing the mainstream and refusing obscurity.

Maybe lisp was in that club too but clojure made it mainstream again, by my horribly inaccurate, unscientific and probably wrong reckoning.
Unless you’re using open source software that’s been audited there’s really no way to prevent this from eventually happening.

New legislation in a given country could be passed forcing a Apple to do this. Someone who cares about such things would self store their own data IMO
No, that conclusion does not follow from parent.
Very interesting. Would you also share how does one discover such opportunities? I presume there's no marketplace for these things. Do you have to be in the industry and rely mainly on network connections or are there other means?
A warning sign isn't actionable perse though. All of our developers know that we're heading for a disaster, be it in a decade or 2 years. But given that we're busy a 100% of the time implementing new features for existing customers or setting up our software for new ones. There's no time for us to start fixing this mess, and even if we did: that doesn't pay the bills.
> Accessing unencrypted files on a device is not a backdoor

In what weird universe is this even remotely true?
Its like saying Western Digital will get in trouble cause they make hard drives and they can be used to store questionable images.
> which Facebook already uses

A company looking at content uploaded to servers they own is quite different from a company spying on the contents of a device they don’t own.
Test of FB moderation using 200 fake accounts posting pro/anti vaccine messages
Original title: [OC] I created 200 fake Facebook accounts, half to post Pro Vaccine comments, half Anti Vax comments. Each group used similar language and structure. All were top level comments, not replies to other comments. This shows how many were reported and removed by Facebook

The original title doesn't fit HN's length restrictions, and no reasonable edit is clear. I've tried to be clear, succint, and unbiased.

Redditor's longer explanation is here: https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/oyoved/oc_...
The super strong libel immunity only kicks in for public figures. These random managers probably aren't. So negligence is the bar for liability, not the Actual Malice of NYT v. Sullivan.
JSONCrush – Compress JSON into URL friendly strings
It’s less a specific domain thing and more an overly opinionated exploration framework for me. Not that it’s really important, but the language is a modal dependent type theory with a compositional (even though most people would call it concatenative) syntax that compiles to C, C++, and JavaScript. So I can always just reuse the underlying platform http and the rest of the stdlib.
How do horses travel to international competitions?
An alternative perspective is that you don't have to give up C to use Zig - they are extraordinarily easy to mix together in one project. So you can incrementally move an existing project to Zig without rewriting the world.
If Apple wanted to do all that they can, they don’t really need a special feature for that and tell te world.
sometimes being critical of totalitarian government is a sign of bravery. Especially for those with the skin in the game.
> At first, I thought they were pieces of beer cans, but then I pulled some out and realized that they were wine capsules, the official name for those pieces of foil which go over the cork of a bottle of wine. It turns out that up into the 1980s, these wine capsules were actually made of lead, not the lightweight foil we get these days. Someone had put them inside the mouse, presumably to add a bit more heft–which I do find quite pleasant.

Delightful mouse-related trivia aside, making wine caps out of lead up till 1980s is quite a civilisational own-goal — can’t even avoid touching it.

Even Romans knew lead was toxic. Maybe the lead-induced violence hypothesis is correct after all.
If Apple substitutes keys, then that is a detectable event (by jailbroken devices) and that would make news.

This is Apple explicitly announcing they are actively backdooring all iOS and Mac devices, and using your CPU cycles to determine whether you should be reported to the government.
So you do everything perfectly huh?