skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Directly said in the article:

“Users’ photos, converted into a string of numbers through a process known as “hashing”, will be compared with those on a database of known images of child sexual abuse.”
> Do nothing?

Yes. If the currently available options intended to fix a particular problem don't actually fix the problem while at the same time make the offending business more powerful while making the little guy less powerful...then yes, doing nothing is clearly a better option in the short term.
I do also wonder about that. I think so far maybe they have enough revenue from the different apps they have created (Publisher/iPad apps). So far.. I have bought all haha.

But even then it's not that much.

Before I thought they might still be coasting on their old products, but afaik they discontinued those.
Let's dissect this:
>I think it's notable that there is substantial resistance to vaccines even among health care workers.

So here, the poster asserts that they find it notable, as in worthy of remark, that within the domain of healthcare people are opting out. The poster does not make any conjecture or assertions aside from that, the poster does not lean on any position nor support one from the authority of the "healthcare worker" mosaic. Instead, the poster very simply states that it is remarkable that that cohort chooses to remain unvaccinated without any further context.

The proceeding post moves to make assertions and stratify the cohort into classes, and implicitly posits the superior decisionmaking of the educated, arguing at what is in actuality a phantasm, as the parent did not postulate anything whatever. I suspect he projected some archetype onto the parent, hazarded induction, and argued with an appeal to authority in an attempt to make a point that needn't be asserted in the context.
Been a big fan of PG since the late 90s. I always joke that the only time I’ve lost data with PG is when it was my own damn fault!
Just lobby Congress to make it illegal to switch to Android. Problem solved.
But why is opposing basic election security a virtue?
Perfect Forward Secrecy is pretty standard in TLS handshakes these days, so the persistence of messages should not be an issue.

This pattern of burying TLS inside of application payloads is popping up all over the place. People realize that securing the transport isn't the same as securing the application, which often hops over multiple transports.
Nice to see an Indonesian startup. It's like Jastip but for groceries. Interesting.
What benefits does one have when living in a foreign country as a US citizen? There is no legal representation. There is no access to US government services. What exactly would an overseas US citizen be paying for?
Just wait until Copilot is widely used.
There will be a whole group of cargo cult programmers.
That's silly. You're in public. Your photo (and your kids') are being taken all the time.
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But the core principle of Proof of Work is wasting energy. If it takes from green sources, that just means those green sources won't be available to push out polluting ones. Combine this with buildup of polluting sources as backups for intermittent ones...
Does the fact that republicans say the sun is in the sky during the day color for your views on that as well?

This is about what's true not about who said it. Read it and think for yourself not blindly using politics to discredit.
Not a miner but I’m curious. What should miners be doing differently?
Open Question: How Can We Fix Files?
The UK had a full vaccination rate of approximately 0.0% when B.1.1.7 was detected, and a first dose rate of 1.5%.
This is on your device, not hosted by a third party (and therefore not a third party liability). Kind of like if your microwave was checking that there wasn't any illegal activity happening in your home and phoning home if it has a suspicion.

As others mentioned, privacy erosion only goes one way. This is a frontier being breached, i.e. searching your physical device without a warrant, and as usual in the name of CP (the alternative typical pretext being terrorism). It won't take very long before this gets extended to any illegal activity. Gay dating was an illegal activity until not so long ago. This sort of chinese-style monitoring is not desirable in any way, and I find it appalling that Apple seems to want to be the sponsor.
The article says Apple will have your phone generate safety vouchers for images you upload into iCloud, and when enough of those vouchers are for photos that match a government-supplied blacklist, they will access the photos you’ve given them. How is this worse than what Google Photos and Facebook already do?
IMO the ethical thing to do is a re-distributive carbon tax. All the tax revenue should go directly back to the population as income/subsidy.
If the photo of your kid running around the house ends up in a CP database, you messed up before Apple did.
They were found to inhibit infection via PCR testing and comparison with a control group. There may be a waning effect, especially with delta. I don't believe they're perfect by any means, but they certainly aren't worthless.
There's plenty of PPOS systems that aren't as resource intensive. ETH2 doesn't require POW. Algorand is PPOS and built a contract into the leger to offset carbon emissions for the electric costs, making it carbon neutral or negative.
Maybe these will help

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
Miners typically get their funds as income, not necessarily cap gains.
I also generally understood permissionless to mean sybil attack resistant without closed membership which is the unique property of pow and pos systems.
Apple cares about #1 when they feel the requests are not legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute

Apple has to comply with the law, however.
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It'll probably happen because we can't get enough people vaccinated and we can't shutdown borders effectively. Variants may evolve independently anyway.

This will require a combo approach where we can rapidly produce new mRNA vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and effective anti-virals. We would need aggressive quarantines as well but that might only work if we have rapid surveillance programs. To do that you need a big investment in RT-PCR and sequencing.
> People should understand how the libraries they use work. Not necessarily in detail, but they shouldn't be a magic box they're helpless to understand if it isn't working right.

What I'm saying is that 'should' is unfairly prescriptive. There are things I don't understand that would be massively beneficial such as being able to understand drivers and driver code, C (we didn't learn it to any meaningful capacity in my program), and many other skills.

Fortunately, I've managed to take what I do know about computing, software, and programming, and find places I can apply that knowledge in a software engineering discipline that utilizes the knowledge I do have most effectively. Would I be able to write a driver if I was being paid to do it? Probably; there would be some learning required, maybe not even that much, but someone would be paying me to learn things outside of my general experience. I'd welcome it as well, but it just hasn't happened.

Similarly, there are people whose knowledge encompasses a subset of what I know (but possibly excluding binary and bitwise operations in totality) who are also very effective software engineers.

If you can think about browser state, reactivity, CSS specificity, the DOM, and git, you can be a very effective front-end engineer, and you never have to know much about how computers work. There are absolute wizards with 'front-of-front-end' who will be much more effective at animations, effects, device breakpoints, and visually pleasing layouts than I will ever be, who will never think about binary. And it will never be remotely relevant to them.
> I want to use it as a daily driver

What I have encountered is the requirements for it being a daily driver are user specific. I have seen a fair amount of users say "I need $FOO app to work", where $FOO is some an app only developed for Android/iOS (a common one is a banking app, there is almost no way that company will support a Linux phone). So I guess I would ask what your requirements are before I can say if it is daily driver ready or not.

My threshold for it being a "daily driver" is if I can fully replace the "phone" features of my Android phone, which for me, is: Calling, SMS, MMS, Voicemails. MMS is not yet UI functional, but will be sooner than later.

The good news is I am seeing the Linux Phone movement be a positive feedback loop: the more features add, the more users, and the more folks helping to add features.
What happens if someone spams CP via iMessage to their enemies?

Additionally, this isn't just a hash of the file but a perceptual hash on the image content. So e.g. changing a single bit in the image would create a different cryptographic hash, but generally not a different perceptual hash.
If you're talking about CDC's data tracker, which does report that 35mm figure (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100k...), then this is misleading.

35mm cases have been confirmed using tests. Considering the vast majority of those who become infected with covid fail to display any symptoms whatsoever and are thus unlikely to be tested, this is very much a lower bound.

Luckily, CDC has some estimates about how many people have actually been infected at this point: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

They estimate ~120mm Americans have been infected with coronavirus at this point.

Considering we know that those with prior infection have durable, robust immunity (https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...), that means roughly 1/3rd of Americans, regardless of vaccination status, are immune to covid.

Of course, there's plenty of overlap between those vaccinated and those with natural immunity, so you can't just sum the numbers, but with ~70% vaccinated, we have to be approaching some kind of herd immunity level at this point.
Just because you don't like the message it's not FUD. Do you not wear a seatbelt in the car too? If you die, you die. Why bother wearing a bike helmet? If you die, you die. Unprotected sex with strangers? Sure, why not. If you die, you die. Why bother mitigating any risk that you can? I mean if you die, you die. Live your life free am I right? No need for silly restrictions like seatbelts, helmets or condoms.
How is it unfair to have fallback option? Is it unfair to California when someone decides to move Texas for lower taxes?
That webcam is the very reason why I wrote that first version of live streaming video on the web :)

It was the first camera that came with a computer and it had a pretty easy interface from C so that + a small embedded HTTP server and we were off to the races.

The funniest bit to me is still that people simply would not believe they were looking at a live image from the other side of the world. More than once I had to go in front of the cam and wave at people or show them some tekst :)

Eventually I automated that by putting a remote controlled fan + light (and a mobile of paper cranes) in front of it, but then people would claim that I was faking it. Tough crowd :)
Ah yes, major world languages with 10s or 100s of millions of speakers (Bengali, Korean, Malayalam) are ignored or are perpetually stuck "in progress" while hobby languages like Esperanto are supported.
You're both correct. What is being missed is that, partly because of less social-distancing, FL and the MO/AR/LA region are getting hit first, so you can point to the problems there this week. The media dishonesty is that they won't come back next week or in two weeks and give attention to the equivalent problems in VA, OR, WA, etc. The passive headline-reader, who throughout 2020 and 2021 has seen sob story after sob story about South Dakota, Texas, and Florida, must really scratch their heads when looking at the cumulative death rates and wonder how they ended up being so far from the top, when practically 100% of the reported problems were always in those states.
The big question in my mind is: What now?

Close the Wuhan institute because they have proven themselves incompetent at handing dangerous substances? Convince the Chinese to improve their disaster handling procedures, in particular about releasing information quickly and clearly in the event of an accident like this instead of attempting to cover it up?

These are contradictory goals since one of the biggest things necessary to prevent cover ups is to switch to a culture of improvement vs. a culture of punishment. You want the sort of culture like the FAA and NTSB when dealing with airplane crashes: find the causes and figure out how to prevent it from happening again. Punishment of perpetrators is not done unless they were acting with malice. It's a very difficult thing to achieve because it goes against human nature.
Building Google Zanzibar from Scratch
I don't believe those were US Marshalls, iirc they were volunteers from a collection of federal agencies that were the most loyal to Trump.

However, they way they acted, in refusing to identify themselves, the agency for which they worked, where they were taking their abductees, etc makes me inclined to liken them more to a notorious fascist unit than a legitimate law enforcement agency.
It's unphishable because the keys used for each domain are different.
It's not the case when you're inside Costco. I'd also argue that it's not open to the public because you're required to have a membership to go in.
Trump did not call COVID itself a hoax: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-ap-f...
> Accordingly, it couldn't evolve due to either selective pressure driven by vaccines

You seem to be missing the critical fact that - regardless of whether the mutation evolved by pure random chance or via a vaccinated individual - the selective pressure induced through mass vaccination using a highly targeted vaccine can drive further evolution of the virus. To support my statement, see the reasoning in this paper from very well respected researchers at top institutions across the country [1]. Or take a look at the historical examples of vaccine induced immune escape, for example in chickens [2], or other human viruses [3].

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[2] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...

[3] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...
Love their software but Designer still (with 1.10) takes almost 30 seconds to launch on my maxed out MacBook Pro 16”.
Yes, those are all digital assets. It's a much broader class of assets than just virtual currencies (ie, cryptocurrencies) that includes photos, electronic records, and pretty much everything that's electronically stored and can be owned by a person.

It's also not really a legally defined term, so there are bound to be different definitions and interpretations. I got my definition from https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/b...

See also the wiki, which provides a similar definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_asset
Common Voice is a great project that I’m glad Mozilla kept alive.

One problem is that data for speech recognition needs to be extremely accurate (i.e. the speech matches the transcript perfectly) and the human review process is infallible and there are quite a number of bad clips that made it past the review process (to be fair, Mozilla provides no official guidance to reviewers or recorders).

Plus in the early days, they were recording the same small sentence pool over and over again, so the first 700 hours or so are duplicates.

I hope there will be efforts in the future to clean up the existing dataset to improve its quality.
And be immediately labelled by society as a CP holder
No it’s not. Read the article: the proposed mechanism is implemented as part of photo upload to iCloud.
Updates to the API are immediately reflected in subsequent access requests, so new users who sign up in your system would immediately have the appropriate access rules
Also, given the exit tax, he'll have to pay taxes on them as if he had sold the properties, despite the properties not having been sold.
I can beat that :) We were bandwidth hogging the transcontinental backbone to the point that I got a testy email from the maintainers that they were going to block port 2047 in a couple of days so if I wanted to act it had better be quick. That's how we ended up with an office in Canada (300 meters from Front 151 with a nice fat fiber).
They don’t charge money to investigate crimes.
Worth noting that this story gets run every year around this time (because that's when the annual #s are released) and is always about last year.
Just tried rating some of the English voices and I am conflicted.

Most of them were definitely speaking English, but in an Indian intonation that I was barely able to understand coming from an English as a First Language country.

Some of them were reading words syllable by syllable, which is definitely English, but I would hate to have to listen to an ebook or webpage read aloud to me in that manner.

By clicking yes am I training the system to speak English with an Indian intonation?

Should I click no, not English?

Should/does english even have a "proper" intonation?
I second that. Recently I had to use Adobe Indesign for a bit and I was honestly shocked.
SQLite is literally on billions of devices and most people (even tech folk) are none the wiser.
Bump it up to 10x, and then 100x. Of course, money is just a means to an end, so if the amount of money being offered is not going to achieve one’s goal, then it is useless. If that goal is increasing one’s quality of life by either earning so much that you can quit, or by hiring more people so that you do not get burned out, either way the answer is money.

However, the bedrock of our society has been a growing working age population that is OK with meager wages and quality of life at work, allowing us to lives more luxurious than otherwise could be. This dynamic should change once the working age population decreases relative to the old age population who need the services.
To be honest, that document is a prime example of what a manifesto shouldn't look like. I can't understand what you're trying to say from the beginning sentence:

> No other re-ligion (lit. “back-binding” [one etymological analysis of the word /religion/] to some ideas to rely on for humans) is necessary for a society, but only reasoned about principles: reflection, symmetry, cooperative construction (by too many CAs -> 1CA).

I'm never explained as to how the etymology of re-ligion relates to the whole thesis, much less what the etymology actually means. That first sentence will already make 90% of the people in the humanities to close their tabs. Please explain concepts like these in full sentences, than rather jot out abbreviations and notes that only you could decipher. I'm actually intrigued about this etymology, but I can't understand! What is "CA"? What do you mean by morality relating to symmetry?

> Evolved religions like Christianity also abide to following principles. Their followers do:

1. think/reflect about the world (our thinking: one instance of reflection)

2. they are in search of beauty, of beautiful/good actions/deeds (symmetry (1))

3. they try to establish one text, one book, as core of their religion.

Now you're making very, very huge sweeping generalizations about the nature of religion right away at the second sentence, which would now make the remaining 10% of the humanities people to run away. The particular qualm I have (disclaimer: though as a non-humanities person) is the third part: religion is not operated only by what is explicitly written in the texts, but are also implicitly defined by the cultural norms of that society (which is why some religious people often try to "find" things in the text in support/opposition to current cultural norms (such as women's rights in the Bible or the Quran), rather than interpreting the text and then create a top-down cultural norm based on that!) And the "singular text" thing might just be a byproduct of you thinking Christianity is the only religion in the world... (more specifically, a product of Protestanism) Also you really need to be careful when using the term evolved: I'm not saying you shouldn't use it, but you're now adding a evolutionary view of "progress" in religion that you have never explained!

Ah, I don't have the energy to read the rest of this, people deserve a more legible manifesto than that.
According to the article, Apple is responding to government and law enforcement pressure to implement the scanning. The state is just laundering its desires through private corporations; there must be a word for this type of system.
I'm always amazed at the amazing reviews SQLite gets, particularly in a thread about PostgreSQL. I get the angle of SQLite competing with fopen(). If what you need is a file format you can do a lot worse than SQLite. But I've worked on multiple desktop apps where the only reason SQLite gets used for the internal database is that PostgreSQL doesn't have a mode where you can ship it as part of the app easily and asking the user to setup a database is a non-starter. If not for that the performance benefits of the swap would be very significant. I suspect if PostgreSQL shipped such a mode a very large percentage of SQLite uses would switch over.
> So why are ransomware hackers never prosecuted?

Because they're typically based in Russia, and Russia has a policy that it will not prosecute its citizens for computer crimes unless they perpetrated them against Russians or Russian organizations. My understanding is most ransomware has code to detect Russian computers (e.g. by checking localization settings), and will refuse to run if it finds itself on one for that reason.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...
The Sun is wasting energy. Did you know that only like 0.0001% of the energy radiated by the Sun makes it to the Earth?

Proof of Work doesn't waste energy. It uses energy to secure a distributed ledger.
Thanks. Yes we do intent to provide interim payroll financing to companies who have delays in paying wages. However this is based on us running a risk assessment of the companies who we provide this service.

We are working on a B2B2C model so we gather information from the employer. Further we run a title fetch on the account number provided by the employer to make sure that the account number pertains to the employee whose data has been provided by their employer. Leveraging the existing financial infrastructure in Pakistan allows us to reduce the amount of data gathering and verifications on the customers we service.
But Murkowski illustrates that in fact you don't need the party apparatus if you have the people. It's a lot of work, but if you have that popular support it's really possible.

I'd say she actually underscores that write-ins prevent some types of democratic backsliding in the US, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the unhealthy instincts of the core Republicans who tend to decide primaries in deeply Red states result in at least one more Murkowski in 2022.
Amazon delays office return until January as Covid-19 cases surge
Yes, I came to write this. If anyone from Affinity is reading this, I really hope they take notice of the demand for the Affinity suite on Linux. It’s really the missing bit on Linux.

I own the suite on Mac and Windows and I’ll gladly buy it a third time for Linux. Otherwise, at least better Wine support will be very welcome. I’d even take part in a Kickstarter fund raise for this.