skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been employed to reduce the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), yet these measures are already having similar effects on other directly transmitted, endemic diseases.

> we consider the implications of SARS-CoV-2 NPIs for two endemic infections circulating in the United States of America: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and seasonal influenza

> Using laboratory surveillance data from 2020, we estimate that RSV transmission declined by at least 20% in the United States at the start of the NPI period.

> We simulate future trajectories of both RSV and influenza, using an epidemic model. As susceptibility increases over the NPI period, we find that substantial outbreaks of RSV may occur in future years, with peak outbreaks likely occurring in the winter of 2021–2022.

> Longer NPIs, in general, lead to larger future outbreaks although they may display complex interactions with baseline seasonality

I've been discussing this with friends and family since early 2020 - the lockdowns, masking, extreme sanitization - these actions have complex second & third order consequences that may actually end up weakening our immune systems.

I've been predicting that this winter or next will be very bad in terms of influenza - not because I can see the future, but because these patterns are everywhere in modern society. From preventing naturally occurring forest fires, to people sitting in chairs all day - sometimes what is comfortable now will result in even more discomfort later.

Perhaps the most important takeaway from this paper - it will be critical to prepare for this phenomenon to prevent the over-utilization of healthcare facilities across the globe. I don't see how anyone could argue for longer and more intense NPIs if we begin to see this play out.
There is a Google Maps website that works on mobile. No need for the app.
“Defective” could have been more precise, and would match the reporting (though I kept the title close to the source material’s to meet HN guidelines, truncating the start to meet the character limit).
100% agreed. The translation from source code to 3D visualization was ultimately based on choices we made, not on the inherent structure that already was put in place by the developer. The output was still valuable, but when the developer has a say in the output, that's when so much more power would be unlocked!
Where do you think these cartels get their power? Does the clinic post their prices online? Do they provide estimates on what care will cost before it happens? If insurance is costly and troublesome can you compete on a cost basis?
> Lecun got into more heat when he posted a long set of tweets to Gebru which to many seemed like he was lecturing her on her subject of expertise aka 'mansplaining'.

And yet seems he was right.
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My point is the same as in the article:

> Take a scientist in any field. The scientist gets older and says, “Oh, yes, some of the things that I’ve been doing have a really great payoff and other things, I’m not using anymore. I’m not going to have my students waste time on the stuff that doesn’t make giant steps. I’m not going to talk about low-level stuff at all. These theoretical concepts are really so powerful—that’s the whole story. Forget about how I got to this point.”

It's easy to forget what was important and what wasn't once you've learned something. This is why experts don't necessarily make good teachers.
I don't understand how after nearly one and a half years into this pandemic, people still keep parroting "but what about the children!". There is close to 0 (zero, nada, zilch) risk to children from COVID-19. You're much better off worrying about the other more dangerous things that can kill children.
13 days later, the illusion shattered, as a German U-boat’s torpedo sank the Lusitania and brought America into the war.

Not quite correct. There was such a thing as 'The Zimmerman Telegram'.

There were two years (half the length of WW1) between the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 and the US declaration of war in 1917.
It's even funnier when you consider that surveys show 26% of the U.S. population qualifies as highly right-wing authoritarian.

https://morningconsult.com/2021/06/28/global-right-wing-auth...
A slight reword would get a better gut reaction from me.

Additionally, Chainlink has offered an additional $100k grant in LINK tokens if the best dashboard uses their crypto oracle technology.
Fusion power generators? Absolutely - we should be throwing vast sums of money at R&D for this tech.

Fission? Not so much - we don't have time, appetite, budget, or (politically) the governance/control needed.
I do agree with your points, but I think it's obvious to see that this feature is trying to allow authorities to catch the creators.
Describes my previous AWS manager perfectly.
> How do we know Apple or the FBI don’t do this?

Because it requires Apple and law enforcement, two separate organizations, to collude against you.

The false positive would have to be affirmed to a court and entered into evidence. If the false positive we’re found to not match the true image by the court, any warrant etc. would be found invalid and the fruit of any search etc would be invalid as well.

Apple is a private company. By agreeing to use iCloud photos you agree to their terms, this no 14th amendment violation.
If by "a few months ago" you mean prior to November 2019, then sure.

Since then the PoW is RandomX which heavily favors CPUs. I'm 99% sure there is no GPU in existence that can profitably mine Monero since then, assuming your electricity isn't free.
I keep looking at 'Lobsters'. However it's a bit more 'tech' than HN.
Why Facebook’s efforts to compete with Apple Watch and Fitbit are doomed
I was doing research for something else and found this great anecdote about Kid Pix that I've saved.

"Other product teams do not have the time or resources to work with children as often. In the case of Kid Pix, when it was first released back in 1989, Borderbund sponsored their first Kid's Day. It was a weekend testing day for 20 children to try out Kid Pix. Developers offered their testers cookies for a break and a crafts table with paper, glue, glitter, etc.--just in case the testers got bored. According to Broderbund employees, few cookies were eaten and almost none of the crafts were used. It was determined that Kid Pix would be a hit (Druin and Solomon 1996)."
Keep this in mind when dealing with the medical field: They won't learn from anyone.

The culture of medical education in the west places doctors in a bubble where 48 hours exhaustion marathons are glorified and considered a rite of passage. Other fields have found ways to do handovers with minimal to no impact on the continuity of operations.
the size of Glebe Farms does not matter, if their oaty trademark is "valuable" wrt Oatly, then a large Oatly competitor could buy it.
Think Different™

Apple has a really long history of doing stuff like that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12924051
https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl there are less than in Java-land but there might be more than you think. And there are options for the rest.
In the US, I prefer Chobani having tried many other brands. Also a decent company.
"CSAM" is an easy target because people can't see it - it would be wrong for you to audit the db because then you'd need the illicit content. So its invisible to the average law-abiders.
I have a question, does this mean that Apple will have a way to decrypt photos in iCloud?

It seems this can then be a security risk, since Apple could be breached and they'd have the means to server side decrypt things.

If it was simply that client side end to end encryption can be turned on/off based on if the account is a child account or not (or as a configuration for parental control) that be different.

As just a config, then I mean the slippery slope always existed, Apple could always just be forced into changing the settings of what gets end to end encrypted and when.

But if this means that all photos are sent unencrypted to Apple at some point, or sent to Apple in a way they can decrypt, then it does open the door to your photos not being securely stored and attackers being able to steal them. That seems a bit of an issue.
I had the idea of increasing the font size as a lad at university. It was the worst. Everything was so easy to read, I practically didn't have to blink any more. Even when my vision went blurry after 12 hours of hacking, I could still persist, since I could make out the characters. Never had my eyes been so tired!

I put an end to the experiment and instead switched to a smaller font---a font that is only legible when the eyes are relaxed and moist, requiring you to blink, and to take breaks. Smaller text crams more symbols into the foveal region of your vision. Your eyes need execute fewer saccades to scan it.

I, too, do the night mode thing, and have had blue filtering glasses for a few years.
I don't remember the details but, I believe to remember that:

> > The current video bios’s have x86 assembly in them making them not compatible.

Is somewhat right.

But it's only needed for certain modes and initialization and:

1. Potentially can be sidestepped (depending on GPU bios)

2. The respective code can be interpreted, transpilled or otherwise "made to execute on non-x86 computers".

Sadly I wasn't able to find the details on the fly, and I'm not sure if it's something which was done by your OS or BIOS/UEFI.
Is Apple under some legal pressure to do this? Is there some kind of secret deal here: "put in spyware and we back off on antitrust?"
Histrionics? Did I even use any adjectives?

> it looks like the thin end of a wedge, it sucks and I'm not happy about it.

But you just said that you can disable it. So, you can be upset about a possible future but I'm the one being melodramatic? That's a good one! You chose to run the OS. So by your logic that gives you no right to complain either.

I do understand that I can disable iCloud for my photos and I will do that. We'll see how long that lasts until they decide to tie the next feature and the next one and the next one to something that I don't like. Because that's how this works. Every time they do something that they know people won't like, they simply make it so that you lose access to something else if you decide to stand up for your principles.
> “Yes, well, I’m not positive on this, but one of the employees might have had too many devices and brought in a wireless hub from home, which wasn’t secured. The range of the hub reached across the street.”

> “Why didn’t anyone remove that device?!”

The correct answer is - "why didn't anyone fix this issue for the employee?"

It's also not, a wireless toaster is not required, because complex as computers are, humans are worse, it's you that's wrong if you want to second guess every employee. Cost it up and give the $ figure to the manager if it's too hard to help them within current policy.

This part of the breach was the IT departments fault if you want to assign blame. But just like people reuse emails and passwords because life is already too hard, IT departments also have hard jobs to do.

I wouldn't call it a 'Honor System' as such.
Now that we know iPhones have the ability to perform frame-level, on-device PhotoDNA hashing of videos and photos, could the same infrastructure be used to identify media files which are attempting to exploit the long list of buffer overflows that Apple has patched in their image libraries, as recently as 14.7.1?

This would be super useful for iPhone security, e.g. incoming files could be scanned for attempting to use (closed) exploits, when the user can easily associate a malicious media file with the message sender or origin app/site.

On jailbroken devices (e.g. iPhone 7 and earlier with unpatchable boot ROMs), is there a Metasploit equivalent for iOS, which aggregates PoCs for public exploits?

A related question: will PhotoDNA hashing take place continuously or in batch, e.g. overnight? How will associated Battery/Power usage be accounted, e.g. attributed to generic "System" components or itemized separately? If the former, does that create class-action legal exposure for a post-sale change in device "fitness for purpose"?
I know what we're talking about and I will say (again) that using the words "failed state" for USA is objectively a bad, ignorant take based on numerous nationwide metrics and the standard of living of the rest of the world. How said person feels and their personal situation doesn't really change that. You can find people in every single nation who strongly believe their nation failed them. And even when that's true, that doesn't make a nation overall a "failed state".

Again, do words even have meaning anymore? Just because someone feels like America is a "failed state" doesn't make it so.

And finally, "failed state" is using the past tense. I can acknowledge that something is on stilts without claiming that it already fell down.
It's just not true though.

In the UK the only reasonable way that it might be conceived that Oatly would lose their many trade marks is acquiescence - they have to give way to a registered trade mark for a period of five years for that to occur. Degeneration (aka genericisation) is laughable far from a possibility in this case. I think https://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-challenge-decision-results/o32919.p... discusses most of the pertinent precedents.

In USA, for example in Abraham v. Alpha Chi Omega the trademark holders (AXO) had failed to sue for 50 years, they still came away with a result that Abraham could only use licensed decals on his paddles henceforth.

Register, pay your fees, ask people to acknowledge your mark, ... no need to be a sue-happy jerk. Of course nearly all the advice you find is from IP law firms saying you need to sue everyone who even looks at your trade marks sideways. Any caselaw refs that show I'm wrong gratefully received.

This represents my personal opinion, unrelated to my employment and is not legal advice.
Took a look at my own codebase, which is 99% Rust. All gray, I'm guessing Rust isn't currently a recognized file type? Either way, very nice! I currently use the "dirtree" tool (https://github.com/emad-elsaid/dirtree) to generate diagrams like this of my codebase for documentation: https://github.com/WhiteBeamSec/WhiteBeam/wiki/Code-layout

The "eralchemy" tool (https://github.com/Alexis-benoist/eralchemy) is also excellent at visualizing SQL databases: https://github.com/WhiteBeamSec/WhiteBeam/wiki/SQL-schema
the history of photographic lens design starts with simple single element meniscus and bi-convex lenses. Those early lenses were awful at accurately focusing what was in front of it, and over the next 170 years or so, there were hundreds or even thousands of lens designs many of which were trying reduce or eliminate all the different types of aberrations. By the time the 70's hit and software was starting to replace manual ray tracing for lens design, we started getting very accurate lenses, but manufacturing was a limiting factor. Today that is much less of a limitation and you'll find lenses with 20 elements, aspherical elements, and tons of stuff lens designers from the 70's could only dream of.

By eliminating aberrations to the extent that they have, some people will call the new lenses "characterless". In some cases that may be an issue, but with modern digital cameras and photoshop, its probably better to start with an accurate lens, and tweak your look in software, something you'd have much less flexibility to do if you started you capture with, for instance, a petzval lens.

But there are some of those old designs where their imperfections, are to many people, beautiful. And for me, I shoot only film, and lately only large format film, so I need to capture the image the way I want to see it. Yes, in a darkroom I can burn and dodge, and use other tricks to change how the final print looks, but there is a lot of stuff I can't add back in, so for me, capturing images with those imperfections allows me to create interesting scenes and looks.

NOTE: I actually know very little on the technical side about optics and optical design, consider the above more of a historical thumbnail with opinion mixed in. I would love to find an "optical design for dummies" book, because its something I'd love to learn.
Your description sounds like Kodachrome. Nothing in nature looks as great as the saturated colors of Kodachrome slides.
but Python doesn't resemble Lisp at all: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/pythonvslisp/ (overview of the workflows and ecosystems)
LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences
Here is my main takeaway from this:

FB has an ENTIRE FUCKING DEPARTMENT dedicated to scanning and monitoring and ostensibly reporting all sorts of abhorrant and depraved activities posted to FB...

Have you heard of ONE major sting/arrest round up or ANYTHING coming from them?

NOPE.

FFS - I used to commute to FB with one of the guys on that team and he wasn't supposed to talk about it - but he mentioned some of the HORRIFIC things they had to deal with.

Still -- Not a SINGLE major "crackdown" or "cleanup" or "roundup" from anything that FB has done and according to them they have half the fucking planet as a user-base.

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Either these companies are harboring abusers and pedos - or they are are complicit or profiting from them.

I am so cynical about this - because I dont trust ANY tech company to tell me they have a tech solution for "child abuse" -- when they dopn't have a single success story in anti-ANYTHING-for the good-of-all.

Where are the dictators, abusers, molesters, murderers, etc etc etc that have been taken down by any of these measures?

You think APPLE is going to be able to prevent child abuse?

They cant even get rid of hyper-planned-obsolescence from their product lines which massively impacts the environment.

Apple is just continuing the douchebag line of "look at the good we are doing" Here put more suicide nets up in the slave factories where children make our products - we will be the frontman for "anti-child-abuse"

Have you seen undercover video from their and other tech factories in china?
Yes, you're right, as you point out, I mentioned them.

You're, of course, right that work isn't the only place to meet people, but that's trivially true in a way that feels insulting - my intent was to point out the other side of the coin is being trivialized, and it's on me that I wasn't clear on the that. And earnestly, is there really a ton of places to make social connections available right now?
> But I also think there should be a law that all these huge stores must staff every checkout line that they build, every hour they are open for business. That would be a job-creation bill.

It would also mean higher prices, because the store would have to pay for the extra payroll.

You can already choose to use a higher priced store that is better staffed if you want. If such stores don't exist, that's because people are voting with their wallets, and you are in the minority in preferring a higher price for that benefit.

More likely, those people are actually just ordering online and paying for delivery.

This is the free market economy in action. Your proposal would turn that on its head, while denying the poor the opportunity to get more for their money in return for their time.
> And we're talking about a billion dollar company racking billions in profits fighting in court against... sick people robbed of their health's. A balanced fight indeed.

No, in this hypothetical, we're presuming that the vaccine has no side effects. So these people aren't sick people robbed of their health, but either mistaken or agenda driven.

> They can recover those costs if the lawsuit is frivolous.

This is a high bar and isn't always even possible, depending on the jurisdiction. Often it requires things like the person filing the suit to know the suit is frivolous.
I don't see a metaverse being a real possibility without a better brain-computer interface. A stepping stone to that is probably a better and cheaper Google Glass, but definitely not some bulky face hugger VR headset
For everyday users, I think they're OK. We were using Ardupilot and had very specific problems with the state estimation algos (kalman filters) for guidance, navigation, and control.

As part of our landing r&d, we tried RTK GNSS, which was generally OK in rural environments but a complete nightmare in built up urban environments. When the RTK GNSS receiver would lose fix, the system would fall back to standard GPS, thus causing a step change in position/state estimate of the drone, causing it to misbehave in flight. Fighting the "features" of the wrong tech is a slog, but I was not CTO... ce la vie.

Ultimately, we wound up licensing some tech for vision based landing.
It's worth noting this is written by an Australian utilitarian moral philosopher, Peter Singer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer
But the nature of FOSS software is such that if an undesirable feature is added it can be taken out by the user or the project can be forked.
If they are only doing it on iCloud what's wrong with continuing that? What was their incentive for having it on Phone?
What the science says:

> Human-caused climate change is occurring too rapidly for species to be able to adapt. Plants and animals are currently dying off at a rate that is 100 to 1000 times faster than the average rate of extinction over geological timescales. Because of this, there is mounting evidence that we are heading towards a mass extinction event.

https://skepticalscience.com/Can-animals-and-plants-adapt-to...
"I can’t recall when I last heard someone demanding the freedom to drive without wearing a seat belt."

Come on up to New Hampshire here in the States and suggest a seat belt law. You'll get all the "freedom demanding" you can handle.
Everyone in Your Organization Needs to Understand AI Ethics
I've always wondered of it was possible to move to the UK by starting a business that required a UK presence and using that as a reason for an indefinate residence permit?
Are child porn viewers actually going to use iCloud backup? That seems like even the stupidest person would know not to do that.

So I'll propose an alternative theory: Apple is doing this not to actually catch any child pornographers, but to ensure that any CP won't actually reach their servers. Less public good, more self-serving.
> can be turned off by turning off iCloud back-ups

Until they push a small change to the codebase...

@@ -7637,3 +7637,3 @@
-if (photo.isCloudSynced && scanForIllegalContent(photo)) {
+if (scanForIllegalContent(photo)) {
reportUserToPolice();
}
> How do we know Apple or the FBI don’t do this?
You can almost certainly know that they will do this. Or just text the target a bad photo.
Did he say he doesn't believe in the concept of AGI? What does that mean? He doesn't believe machine intelligence will ever surpass human intelligence? That's surprising.
R/Robotics Showcase – July 31st and August First
The secret threshold is a parameter in that protocol. It runs after the secret hash algorithm.
PGAdmin is really fine for a GUI. Sure it's not beautiful but it's good enough.
Qapla'!
How about no? We don't force all kind of vaccinations on people, except for small children and those are usually reasonable and well known.