skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't see how this is going to end well, there could be perfectly innocent photos on someone's phone of their own children doing perfectly normal things that kids do. Like a kid running butt naked around the house, or a photo of something like a rash that is sent to a nurse friend for advice on what it is etc.

I'm all for protecting children from being abused, but how are they going to filter what is normal and what is abuse without human intervention? And at that point isn't that a vast invasion of privacy to the perfectly innocent? It's different if it's online because that puts it in the public realm or on devices/servers owned by Apple, etc.
Depends on the state or even the county or city
Yes oversight and influence on the government is responsibility of citizens. It does not mean that citizen is responsible for government's actions (as in I am member of a group of people to blame for their government's actions). These two responsibilities are two very different things.
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Oddly enough my comment about india pushing the same kind of propaganda here on HN got flagged. The trolls are having a field day. Let us not forget the fate of the dalit and call india out on it as much as we do all other non democracies.
Yes they can, we will move low latency to a smaller, different pipeline.
Maybe it would not get down voted so much if it was factual.
Except that the government has a process for "getting out", and that process is totally wedged right now. You don't just publish a notice in a newspaper or on FB ... you have to submit paperwork, pay fees, and have an exit interview. The government controls who gets out, and at what rate.
Forests take thousands upon thousands of years to mature. It can take centuries for the mix of tree species to develop to the point where the "apex" species of tree appears and then dominates the ecosystem. Ecosystems are extraordinarily complex.

In my head, I see reforested areas like the Potato Jesus painting with a bonus "Mission Accomplished" banner.
I like the “jitter based on API key” idea.

It’s somewhat hard in our case, as our direct customers (like the mobile app I mentioned) have API keys with us, but they don’t tell us about which user of theirs is making the request. And often they’ll run an HTTP gateway (in part so that they don’t have to embed their API key for our service in their client app), so we don’t even get to see the originating user IPs for these requests, either. We just get these huge spikes of periodic traffic, all from the same IP, all with the same API key, all about different things, and all delivered over a bunch of independent, concurrent TCP connections.

I’ve been considering a few options:

- Require users that have such a “multiple users behind an API gateway” setup, to tag their proxied requests with per-user API sub-keys, so we can jitter/schedule based on those.

- Since these customers like API gateways so much, we could just build a better API gateway for them to run; one that benefits us. (E.g. by Nagle-ing requests together into fewer, larger batch requests.) Requests that come as a single large batch request, could be scheduled by our backend at an optimal concurrency level, rather than trying to deal with huge concurrency bursts as we are now.

- Force users to rewrite their software to “play nice”, by introducing heavy-handed rate-limiting. Try to tune it so that the only possible way to avoid 429s is to either do gateway-side request queuing, or to introduce per-client schedule offsets (i.e. placing users on a hash ring by their ID, so for a periodic-per-5-minutes request, equal numbers of client apps are set to make the request at T+0, vs. T+2.5.)

- Introduce a middleware / reverse-proxy that holds an unbounded-in-size no-expire request queue, with one queue per API key, where requests are popped fairly from each queue (or prioritized according to the plan the user is paying for). Ensure backends only select(1) requests out from the middleware’s downstream sockets as quickly as they’re able to handle them. Require API requests to have explicit TTLs — a time after which serving the request would no longer be useful. If a backend pops a request and finds that it’s past its TTL, it discards it, answering it with an immediate 504 error.
Quebec premier pulled some shady shit using the Emergency Powers (same that gave us the infamous curfew), and strong-armed union negotiations, basically forcing the terms. Now we're dealing with nurses and other supporting medical personnel retiring / leaving for other jobs.
https://archive.ph/ys5Q5
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It certainly feels like a GC pause, but it could be a lot of things. Regardless of the cause I feel like the fact that people don't think about how memory is managed is indicative of the real problem: people are programming computers without really understanding how they work. And while that is fine, even encouraged, for a lot of use cases I think anyone calling themselves a professional programmer should be held to a higher standard.
"compatibiilty with macOS® on x86-64 sytems"

How does this materialize when MacOS is shifting away from x86-64?

Also, they need to do some basic spell checking.
>Kids dying in the streets...

Uh, wat? Which kids are dying from covid? This level of hyperbole is insane.
Just want to point out it's not quite that easy: If you convert 1.24 (or whatever) bitcoins into zcash/monero/etc and then 1.24 right back into bitcoins, everyone will know those transactions were likely connected.
I find it really nasty.

I visited Los Angeles a couple of years back, one of the first places we went was a McDonalds. Some guy was dozing sat at a table (with a coffee in front of him). A cop came up to him and told him he'd be reprimanded if he caught him napping like that again.

In all my life living in the UK I've honestly never witnessed something like that. It may seem minor, but seeing an armed cop come up to someone and reprimand them for dozing off? I have no idea why a waiter couldn't have dealt with that. It's not like the McDonalds was even full or anything.

On top of this, the advertising boards saying stuff like "No homeless shelter in our community, keep it safe!" was just completely lacking in compassion.

I think a lot of people out there just don't see homeless people as deserving of empathy. At least, that's the impression I get.

I also find it profoundly ironic that America is supposedly the "land of the free", but you can get arrested/in trouble for:

- Drinking in public (even in parks or at the beach)
- Sleeping in public (apparently)
- Jaywalking
- Eating on public transport

I just don't understand all these weird and arbitrary rules they have out there.
I'm not sure how to phrase this. But I'm reminded of the dark knight returns where because all the mobs pooled their money together with their launderer (their mixer) they could all be prosecuted together in a RICO case. Is use of a mixer de facto evidence of laundering...
> Isn't crypto a direct threat to their power?

It is not a threat to their power, imagine the corrupting power of being able to produce wealth anonymously without being traced or taxed and having that sanctioned by the government.
I guess we need a proper CO2 tax to encourage better technology than proof of work
I am probably going to get yelled at about this, but I would say other sports are similar in nature. Darts and golf come to mind.
Proton/Wine support would be a great improvement over not being able to run Affinity software on Linux at all. Definitely worth another purchase if Linux is supported in some way. They could try crowdfunding development if they're not sure about the demand.
Or just fill tranquilizer darts with vaccine and don’t give people the choice
This is great. My dad planted a redwood in plot of land he wanted to use to grow vines. It was too step for vines so he planted hundreds of trees (Chilean Beech) and a single Wellingtonia.
The key item in the article is that if enough content is marked contentious apple will automatically decrypt your phone for you and disable your encryption. So apple's not merely helping law enforcement find contentious content, they are enabling a back door that makes phone encryption essentially swiss cheese.

In 5 years: Apple and Google to scan your phones for politically contentious content and automatically remove it for you/report it to the authorities so you can get the proper help you need to understand what you should believe.

I've loved my apple phones for many years now, but it seems this is the end of my relationship with apple. I will be using an open source phone next.
Why on earth do we tolerate these tedious outgroup-blame posts? If only our problems could be solved by blaming them on scapegoats and pariahs. It's like intelligent and competent people engage in political talk because it's relaxing to not be held to the same standards and rigour of their actual field of expertise, and it's somehow satisfying to have the attention of people who can't tell the difference.
They also had a few thousand years of practice figuring out what works in the local environment.

Human nature is one of the few things that seems to be consistent throughout all of history across all civilizations. The natives probably had just as many idiots as every other civilization.
Again, I'm not arguing that the system isn't broken or defending it in any way, I'm only saying that the original post didn't offer evidence in that direction. The things you're talking about may indeed be evidence, but they're not what I was talking about.
It's also probably why I still enjoy college basketball but the NBA leaves me cold. The pro players are TOO good and most regular season games bore me.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/05/moderna-covid-vaccine-booste... has some details released by Moderna this morning. Important bit:

In a phase two trial, Moderna is testing a 50-microgram dose of three vaccine booster candidates in previously vaccinated individuals. The booster shots produced a promising immune response against three variants, including delta, with antibody levels approaching those seen in previously unvaccinated people who received two 100-microgram doses, the company said.

I'm interested to know if just getting another dose of the original vaccine has any effect. If so, I'd love to get it now.
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Both Pfizer and Moderna have stated that boosters will be needed this Fall. Pfizer says that immunity drops from 96% to 84% at the six month point. The good news is that the vaccine continues to protect against severe disease due to its effects on T-cells and memory B-cells.
I used to enjoy this application as a kid.

These days, I'd be wary of putting "kid pix" into google search to relive my memories.
That 60% tax number is false.

What country ever taxes at 70% overall? The US used to have federal income upper marginal rates in the 90% range, but that doesn't mean that you pay 90% of your income as tax.
Since 99% of tokens out there are specifically created as pump and dump schemes i'm not sure that it's all that over-broad.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068741

This topic already made it to the current frontpage.
> US scores poorly in those due to high sticker prices; the quality available for those who can afford is the best in US; both for specialist rare cases and for mundane cases.

I only doubt you a little, but in order to make this discussion as truthful as possible, you mind adding some sources to your strong claims?
I wasn't arguing that there is ambiguity. Not sure how many times I have to say that in this thread.
all good points
I just confirmed in the app that it’s $99/mo for my 2020 3 LR AWD with the Enhanced Autopilot upgrade.

https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-subscription...
We've seen what happens when restrictions are loosened. Just look at what happened in the Netherlands in the last few months.

It just doesn't work.
Exactly, now Apple has this tech, shady governments know they can mandate Apple to use it for their own databases and Apple will have to do this if they want to keep operating within a territory.
Every year a new flu shot is needed. Would antibiotic resistant infections evolve in the absence of antibiotics?
The original comment was laying blame on the cause of people unable to get a vaccine, not the people themselves. Incidentally that puts them in agreement with you: selfish people in richer nations
nice. !

news from the past about this :

Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15808124

Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19270646
The vaccine elicits a response to many different sites on the virus. It's extremely unlikely that the vaccine ever becomes useless.
Is there a big one? Or is it that there are what, like 10 types of things called nurse now? I'm asking earnestly, not making an accusation.

Ten years ago in a LCOL area, I knew an RN making about that, and they were treated like queens. Was able to work 3 12's, be paid for 40 hrs, and given hotel stay for free, among other things...usually including optional unlimited overtime at double pay.

Then I knew some CNAs or LPN(can't remember which) who made much, much less.
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A pretrained model from the good folks over at huggingface: https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini.
Also provides a free demo.
I was dumbfounded by the "restrictions" myself.

You can't drive over the border, but you can fly? Makes 0 sense.
> Why Is Cuomo still able to keep Office despite being the incarnation of corrupt politician?

If corruption didn't work for politicians, the “corrupt politician” image wouldn't be a thing.

But Cuomo is done, its just a matter of time. Unlike what has happened with the national GOP and Trump, NY Dems are done with Cuomo; his impeachment and removal are essentially certain even with his party hold majorities in both houses of the legislature, and it looks like there is a decent chance of him facing criminal charges as well, with DAs in multiple NY counties conducting investigations.
It's a very high-level architecture to that, yes :) I did some fine-tuning on scraped images of modern art to hopefully result in more visually pleasing images.
Now now, let's not pretend that Uncle Joe Biden doesn't have his own history of creepy behavior towards women[0]. He should apologize!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_2020_presidential_ca...
Why is it inappropriate? She went to an exclusive high school costing over $45K/year.
I mean I know how you feel though. Literally I’ve had friends whose kids couldn’t hug their grandmother for a year, while they were all visibly healthy and outside.

Like people are insane. I’ve had covid, and yet some would still recommend I avoid hanging out indoors with others who have also have covid if none of us have been vaccinated.

The vaccines are super duper effective, but because a possibility exist you could still get sick and the virus could mutate again we should go on living like crazy hermits and not be the social beings we are.

It is insane.
These cities have a policy to not arrest or prosecute homeless for anything short of violent crime. Quite literally.
Come on, you can't seriously respond to "can I see some screenshots" with "just download the ISO and install a VM"...

Requesting screenshots is not entitlement, it's both legitimate AND a useful advice to improve the landing page.
I'm reluctant to leverage such language, but this is an appeal to authority. And there's tons of historical evidence that authorities failed to produce their predicted end without regard to their field, specialty, education, politics, etc... So to acede to this solely on the basis that the "intelligentsia" has is perhaps just as blind a means as a coinflip. And there is of course a plenitude of arguments about how politicized this has all become, vested interests, the bandwagon, what someone might call drinking the Kool-Aid. Not to mention at this point in history we're dealt with so much information that unless your specialization is intersecting with, let's say, molecular biology, you're not particularly well suited to make a judgement call. So all these physicians, whose practice is far removed from the infinitesimal nuances of the field may not be wholly capable of assessing the finer nuances, so they trail the authorities that dictate the policy to people ever further removed. And the whole of the field isn't unanimously pressing for vaccination either, there are fringe elements that are duly skeptical who do lay within your "physicians, medical researchers with PhDs" milieu [1]. Not to mention we need a control group, how will the vaccinated gloat if they've nobody to tell "I told you so..."? And, as an example, recently there was paper published showing indications that antibiotics can cause developmental abnormalities due to alterations within the gut-brain axis which alters gene expression. Penicillin was discovered in 1928, 93 years ago, and we're just now finding out that might carry adverse effects when deployed in the young, a practice long unquestioned [2]. That's just an example to wrap your head around. And there's a litany of legitimate philosophical questions that haven't been asked because we're so well conditioned to being dragged along by technology rather than taking the reigns ourselves, and that's where my predominate concerns lie.

[1] https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/
[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102797
This is highly misleading.

All variants right now are significantly more effective at transmission in unvaccinated individuals.

The reason the mutations are on the spike protein is because it's the part of the virus that matters the most for infectivity. The more effective the spike protein, the more easily other people are affected and the faster the virus is produced.

The Delta variant itself rose in India, which has really low vaccination rates.
This reminds me tangentially of another formerly BSD project trident formerly based on TrueOS that made the jump to being based off void Linux.

Given the differences in hardware support between Linux and FreeBSD, the fact that FreeBSD is slightly more similar under the hood provides next to no benefit when you already need a layer like wine anyway, and especially the necessity to produce an APFS filesystem if this wont end up going the same route ultimately.
EDIT: It appears they are using perceptual hashes, which are likely much more prone to collisions. The following math does NOT apply to the tech Apple is using.

>> I mean, who's to say that my hash is actually what they think it is...

Let's do the math. assume they are using a UUID for the hash. "For example, the number of random version-4 UUIDs which need to be generated in order to have a 50% probability of at least one collision is 2.71 quintillion" [1]

"The odds of This number is equivalent to generating 1 billion UUIDs per second for about 85 years." And that's for just 1 collision between two random photos. Considering that the pool of bad hashes is not going to be 2.7 quintillion but a fraction of that, this is more than adequate.

And of course they could use a longer checksum if that's the concern. (Not to take a stance on the parent issue, just to explain that hash's are probably a higher standard of proof than DNA matches)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...
Good, simple writing often goes unnoticed or looks easy, since it "gets out of the way" and doesn't confuse. It can take a whole lot of writing on one's own to appreciate just how much patience and effort that takes, though.

Someone posted this quote by Edsger Dijkstra yesterday: “Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
Don't be too sure. Very similar things have happened in Australia before, and no doubt will again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Rau
I have no beef or chicken with our wealthy elite. As the old saying goes - Don't hate the player, hate the game.

But I had to qualify why the current or prevailing idea of capitalism really is just regressing to a revamped version of some hybrid socialist-monarch rule, complete with peasant-aristocracy economics and welfare. I don't think we can escape and think our way out of the oldest forms of governance. And the peasants feel some type of way about it.

Its completely fine to jerk off Bezos and make claims of his angelic presence, totally cool. But mans no astronaut. The space administration agencies around the world sent highly trained, highly specialized people into space to find answers for humanity. Some scientific, some philosophical. So it was televised, the public was told, and mankind was taking a step forward even though we still hate each other because of skin colour. Monkeys though we are, one little step.

And you just claimed Bezos is making who's life better? Developers? Consumers? The folks who pay him money? Can I at least reserve the right to complain in that case?
Hopefully they are using phash to match the phone's images to known child abuse image hashes, because if they are using ML, I can only imagine what a false positive will do to someone's life.
How easy it is to not care about things when they don't affect you.
You can't solve obesity with two shots.
I guess that is the worry of any government: money that could fuel the economy gets spirited away into dubious Crypto ventures - e.g. Dogecoin. BTC might be old news but it isn't a deliberate scam.
> There will certainly be an impeachment process

The impeachment process against Cuomo has been underway for a while, and it has shifted into a higher gear with this report.
It's surprisingly expensive to compute, not quite $1 but after stripe fees it's not far off. I'm looking at ways to bring the compute cost down.