skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be very useful for on-chain financial derivatives based off a more accurate inflation gauge. I don't trust the official CPI numbers and don't see them as accurately reflecting my cost of living increases over the years. Couple in the fact that there are literally trillions in pension benefits tied to CPI, so the incentive to manipulate these numbers is huge. It's already very opaque. If you look at the constituents [0], housing, education and health care make up around 60%, so it makes no sense that inflation has been flat for the last ten years.

The prices would ideally come from a large number of sources and some averaging would take place.

[0] https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2021/07/1...
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How many people would take the vaccine if it meant their great grandchildren might see some benefits.
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Except this would require consent of the abused partner when creating the account to set an age <13yo.

You can’t ser this to other accounts on you family remotely.
I invite you to look up "The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse". Child Pornography is but one of the well trodden paths to remove privacy and security.
Well, technically, the way you choose the algorithm and set the hyper-parameters can influence accuracy in a non-uniform way over the distribution of data, introducing additional bias.

Bias can be introduced at every step in the ML pipeline, from data collection to labeling, model selection, training, evaluation, deployment and monitoring. Not to mention the complex effects of feedback when you collect data that has been influenced by biases in a prior iteration of the model.

That said, I am disappointed in Gebru, I read her "Gender Shades" paper where she completely ignored the existence of the Asian race. That's a pretty big limitation for a paper named in such general terms. In another place she labels Asians as "white adjacent" [1]. That doesn't seem to be ethical behavior for an ethics researcher. She also refused to debate with Yann LeCun on the topic of bias, instead sent him to reeducate himself [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitgebru/status/1252752743942328321

[2] https://twitter.com/timnitgebru/status/1275191515380215808
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Those problems might be real but they aren’t really relevant to LeCun - it’s not like his only options are academia and Facebook.
> Think handle every failure mode by panicking the OS, and the hardware fails in the wrong direction for the patient without software control.

Thanks, I am aware of this. It's called a block diagram, and is standard safety design. See page 3: https://pdfserv.maximintegrated.com/en/an/AN4675.pdf
Yeah you should keep doing this. Every! single! time!!!
I’ve been a plain-text fiend for about the past 3 years: there is no other experience which can come near org-mode in emacs. Absolutely none. Markdown feels like a toy compared to org.
No, it's the other way around. Astronomical observation requires TAI, and leap seconds are cited as a navigational hazard.
And remember, a minor who takes pictures of him or herself is an offender.
Including the computation and data on-chain enables other parties to use it trustlessly and verifiably. If you, for example, wanted to make an algorithmic central bank that reacted to inflation numbers you would need on-chain CPI in order to do that. Similarly you may want to index your interest rate to the CPI in some way (like LIBOR). It becomes a lot more useful when on-chain than in a central database
Didn’t apple also announce a feature for iOS 15 where iMessage photos are somehow automatically collected and shown in iCloud? A way to reduced hassle of creating shared albums. So with that, I think all users of iCloud photos are under risk here.
The CPI basically measures the median American's budget. So if wealth inequality is unchanging, then it's a decent measure of economy-wide inflation. Otherwise, it measures inflation x delta wealth inequality.
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Afaik, BlackHat talks/presentations go public after around half a year.
Odd that they did not mention what mortality rate they experienced. With 90% of households affected, it would be a valuable data point to have.
Well, they objectively were.
Honestly. I miss the old days. I worked in intelligence at the tail end of the Cold War. We kept all our shit on paper, in a safe, and planted a couple of nice young Marines with guns in front of it. It worked well as a system - so well in fact that when the OPM got hacked and a bunch or people’s security clearance documents got leaked I was like “Well, thankfully my information couldn’t have gotten leaked, it’s on microfiche in a safe somewhere and I really doubt anyone would be stupid enough to scan all that shit into a computer.” Of course about eight months later I get a letter in the mail, lol. Yep, they put it in a computer after all, ha ha.
Quantum worked! Firefox did get a lot faster. It's just that Chrome and Safari are also getting faster. It's an endless race.
Here is another usability issue that begs attention: when you attempt to type in the search text box of the "new" tab, it jumps focus to the URL bar.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1707701
Off topic but relevant, I wonder how many medium writers watched their readership decline and don't know that it is because medium now requires an account to read articles.
I did this with all my friends who are on Signal, and explained the purpose.

And it does warn about the contact being unverified directly in the chat window, until you go and click "Verify". The problem is that people blindly do that without understanding what it's for.
The problem is what you're describing is literal facism?
To bring down global emissions without first imposing a one-world government, we have to get each country to bring down emissions to its fair share.

The best fair first approximation to this is for each country's share to be proportional to its population. That can then be refined with some sort of emissions trading system so that countries that want to outsource high emission industries to others can provide the emissions budget to allow that work.

Anything other than a per capita first approximation requires deciding that some countries simply are not going to be allowed to develop beyond third world status.
Firefox can’t win really. They do anything and half the users complain and half the users state it made the browser finally usable.

While google does whatever they want and people just nod and move along.
Wait until a corrupt govenment starts forcing Apple or Microsoft to scan for leaked documents exposing them and then automatically notifying them. Just one of the many ways this could go wrong in the future.
This is Apple installing code on their users' devices with the express intent to harm their customers. That's it! This is inarguable! If this system works as intended, Apple is knowingly selling devices that will harm their customers. We can have the argument as to whether the harm is justified, whether the users deserved it. Sure, this only impacts child molesters. That makes it ok?

"But it only impacts iCloud Photos". Valid! So why not run the scanner in iCloud and not on MY PHONE that I paid OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS for? Because of end-to-end encryption. Apple wants to have their cake and eat it too. They can say they have E2EE, but also give users no way to opt-out of code, running on 100% of the "end" devices in that "end-to-end encryption" system, which subverts the E2EE. A beautiful little system they've created. "E2EE" means different things on Apple devices, for sure!

And you're ignoring (or didn't read) the central, valid point of the EFF article: Maybe you can justify this in the US. Most countries are far, far worse than the US when it comes to privacy and human rights. The technology exists. The policy has been drafted and enacted; Apple is now alright with subverting E2EE. We start with hashes of images of child exploitation. What's next? Tank man in China? Photos of naked adult women, in conservative parts of the world? A meme criticizing your country's leader? I want to believe that Apple will, AT LEAST, stop at child exploitation, but Apple has already estroyed the faith I held in them, only yesterday, in their fight for privacy as a right.

This isn't an issue you can hold a middleground position on. Encryption doesn't only kinda-sorta work in a half-ass implementation; it doesn't work at all.
If I were to give you my OPML you'd see several examples of topic-based feeds. Whether that's a category or a tag.
"Inflation is a monetary phenomenon" is a quote from economist Milton Friedman but most economists disagree.
I left Apple behind years ago after using their gear for more than a decade. I recently received a new M1 laptop from work and liked it quite a bit. It's fast, it's quiet, it doesn't get hot. I liked it so much, that I was prepared to go back full Apple for a while. I was briefly reviewing a new iPhone, a M1 mini as a build server, a display, and several accessories to go along with a new M1 laptop for myself. (I don't like to mix work and personal)

Then this news broke. Apple, you just lost several thousand dollars in sales from me. I had items in cart and was pricing everything out when I found this news. I will spend my money elsewhere. This is a horrendous blunder. I will not volunteer myself up to police states by using your gear now or ever again in the future. I've even inquired about returning the work laptop in exchange for a Dell.

Unsafe at any speed. Stallman was right. etc etc etc.
That refers to the icloud scanning, the idea being that if the hash database contains propaganda, people uploading that propaganda to icloud could get reported by their own device.
I distrust any website who prevents me from using the back button to leave their site.

Browsers should prevent pushing to history if I haven’t clicked.
>Even if code wasn’t shared, knowledge could have been.

Legally it would be still an issue to share "knowledge" with someone who has seen the code.
This is neat, because every program that actually uses this library probably has the AudienceRestriction authz vulnerability. It doesn't look like it's checking the Response Destination= field either.
Oh no.

Adding this to your coffee is probably a bad idea. I'm going to start a campaign to rename it Broth of Magnesia to avoid such mishaps.
> to save a missionary

That could have been just Trump pandering to his base.

Moreover, from your link:

> Additionally American aid worker Jeffery Woodke was kidnapped from Abalak in October 2016, and is believed to be held in Mali.

How come no SEALs have parachuted to rescue Jeffery yet, huh? Reinforces my theory that it was just election-time pandering by Trump.

You're telling me that the US will do that for every Tom, Dick and Harry who gets caught by some $EVILDOER anywhere on this planet? Fat chance!

> The last I heard, the Houthis let the Americans go.

But how did they get out? Who picked them up?
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It doesn't mean they can't look at the matches without jailing you (still a violation of privacy).
This made me extremely excited that they had discovered how to reflect gamma particles or something like that.
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> This is not the first time I have read about old lenses making for a more pleasing picture, but I have to question, how true is that really?

Partly myth partly reality.

Older lenses used simpler designs, simpler coatings and simpler glass elements. These simpler designs mean that these lenses have poor optical performances, they're usually (at wide apertures) only sharp in the center, have more vignetting, chromatic aberrations, spherical aberrations, optical vignetting in the out of focus areas, they can flare, have less contrast, &c. all of these elements can give a distinct look to the images created by a lens.

New lenses are designed through computers to correct all these aberrations to offer edge to edge sharpness, no vignetting, &c. but at the same time it makes them look very boring (to some) from an artistic standpoint.

The recording medium also has a big importance, film, be it b&w, color negatives or color positives all produced different looks that we now instinctively associate to certain eras. The color science behind these is pretty complex and very subjective, hence the large number of different film emulsions that existed back when film was mainstream.
Maybe there's something wrong with the Firefox install on your system. On my Linux laptop it keeps getting faster.
The add on breaking issue was solved. Now there is a stable add on api and updates will not break it constantly like they did
There are very few times and places on earth where the sun is directly overhead at noon. For example, solar noon is at a different time depending on where within a time zone you live, as well as the time of year.
I don’t know how true this is. I don’t see any way to block Photos from viewing the files on this device and I see no reason that it can’t read files from my other apps.
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I had it on Mac and that's where the majority of crashes were.

I now have it on Windows where the majority of rendering bugs are.
No. The effect of the gulf stream is overstated.

Wind at these latitudes travels prevailingly westerly.

England and Ireland are downwind of the ocean, which maintains more stable temperature than the land.

British Columbia and Seattle are also downwind of the ocean and also relatively mild.

New England gets cold because it is downwind of the continent. Also because the Rocky Mountains diverts the jet stream, exposing New England to more severe polar weather.

The severe climate shocks of the past few thousand years were the result of massive ice-dammed glacial lakes (like Lake Agassiz) breaking through the dam and releasing incredible quantities of freshwater into the northern oceans all at once.
I think it's easy to say no to any solution, but harder to say "this is bad, but we should do this instead to solve the problem".
In a world with ubiquitous/distributed communication, the ideas that come up would generally avoid direct interception but need some way to identify a malicious transaction.

When saying no to ideas like this, we should at the same time attempt to also share our thoughts on what would be an acceptable alternative solution.
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The other word for "implementation bug" is "footgun". Standards with lots of footguns are bad standards. SAML has a lot of footguns. It is a bad standard.
That’s even worse
This feels like a blockchain rube goldberg machine.
>5K retina display
>A font with a lot of graphemes

You might have fun reading the article linked here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830206

>The synchronous nature of LSP; I still don't get it why LSP can't work asynchronously in Emacs

Oh god, that is actually terrible.

> I never even got as far as to find a bug report template

The official way to file a bug report is M-x report-emacs-bug.

>especially Emacs devs

What's that feeling based on?
This is going to do wonders for Apple's marketshare once the teenagers realize that Apple is going to be turning them in to the police.

Teens are not stupid. They'll eventually clue-in that big brother is watching and won't appreciate it. They'll start by using other messengers instead of imessage and then eventually leaving the ecosystem for Android or whatever else comes down the pike in the future.
Not sure what you mean. Please explain.
The fee could be adjusted based on vehicle weight. I assume this is one of the pricing models that the study will consider.
From your username I take : you're biased. No hope.
this is a reference to a famous Milton Friedman quote "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" — of course this is a tautology, but he didn't mean the trivial version when he said it, but rather he was making an empirical claim.

in this piece it looks like the author is making the tautological version of the claim, by following up and describing it as "a function of money printing" — which is obviously true it is a function of money printing and several other things
Great graph! Another one I like is this one by Eric Levenez: https://www.levenez.com/unix/. It's a little more detailed, as it includes specific releases and non-inheritance relationships, but it's only for Unix systems.
Consider a spectrum ranging from "new hire" to "understands Duff's Device[1] at a glance".

The code needs to default toward the former, with well-socialized exceptions.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device
How long does Firefox have to be closed to reproduce this issue?
Why in the hell would big Pharma pay any media to promote the vaccines? Most of the revenue is already booked from state actors, and they're literally selling the cure to a global pandemic. They don't need to juice demand - such a ploy could only hurt them. Frankly, continuation of the pandemic via poor adoption of the vaccine would increase future business in the form of boosters, etc.
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> sounds like they're moving the scanning from server to client side

That is good, but unless a system like this is fully open source and runs only signed code there really aren't many protections against abuse.
I suspect half the experiences being shared in this thread are of a 10 year old version of FF
I think it's completely fair to say that the death toll from COVID could have been much lower up to this point, and it also could have been much higher. In spite of the political divides, there was a lot of collective action across the globe to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, and I wish people wouldn't dismiss that for the sake of cynicism.
To be fair, cow's milk is also about 90% water. You're right, though, that the ingredient cost using commodity oats and rapeseed oil should only be about 4-5 cents per liter. The price of cow's milk, on the other hand, is a lot closer to the price of the inputs (corn, alfalfa, grazing land, etc.) which are about 16 cents per liter.

I'm hopeful that eventually the price of oat milk will approach the cost of its inputs, but it might take a while.
> Of course, those insulin pumps are running insecure firmware allowing for adjustments to be made remotely by an sbc (Raspberry Pi) where the OpenAPS software lives and takes measurements from a GCM. Without the insecure remote interface on those insulin pumps, OpenAPS might not exist.

This is the issue here, with a cyber to physical attack, which is bound to happen at some point, with some medical device, and this project is a huge target for something like that. This project was specifically mentioned in the book "Click Here to Kill Everybody" by renowned cybersecurity expert Bruce Schriener, too.

OpenAPS was also designed to circumvent government laws, and is not-as-legal as the creators portray it to be. For example, one of the main "advocates" calls OpenAPS an "off-label qualification" for use (in the USA), when in order for that to apply, the specific device intended to be used must be FDA approved. As you know, OpenAPS cannot be FDA approved at this point of time. This individual also illegally markets unapproved medical devices across the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, plus online, with various gatherings for it. If you look at the specific laws of those lands, it is pretty clear cut what is going on is illegal. Plus, the new EU Medical Devices Regulation applies now.

Yes, it is illegal. I am astonished that this individual has not gotten in trouble with the FDA yet.
Sure - that's fine.

But if I'm picking a phone for my kid, and my choice is this (even if imperfect) and the HN freedomFone - it's going to be Apple. We'll see what other parents decide.
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As this isn't a list of things the U.S. finds prudish, but actual images of children involved in being/becoming a victim of abuse, it doesn't look like there are borders, at least according to the official Apple explanation[0].

If the situation OP suggests happens in the form of FBI/other orgs submitting arguably non-CSAM content, then Apple wouldn't be complicit or any wiser to such an occurrence unless it was after-the-fact. If it happens in a way where Apple decides to do this on their own dime without affecting other ESPs, I imagine they wouldn't upset CCP by applying US guidance to Chinese citizens' phones.

0: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
It only is when the money printed is mailed directly to the public.

A decade ago the money printed was to restore bank cash reserves. The inflation had already happened (housing bubble) due to poor lending practices which caused the global financial crisis.
I’m furious. My top app has 250,000 uniques a day.

I’m considering a 24h black out with a protest link to apple’s support email explaining what they’ve done.

I wonder if anyone else would join me?
Yes agreed. Oatly is horrible for you. It's one of the worst Oat milks they sell in my store. (when comparing by nutrition facts).

It is so bizarre this alternative milk that goes around. I am totally onboard with finding an alternative to save cows from inhumane practice, however, very little of the alternative milk that is out there is anywhere near as healthy as normal milk.

Meanwhile anyone can produce any type of alternative milk and people think they are buying health food.
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If Mallory gets a lawful citizen Bob to download a completely innocuous looking but perceptual-CSAM-hash-matching image to his phone, what happens to Bob? I imagine the following options:

- Apple sends Bob’s info to law enforcement; Bob is swatted or his life is destroyed in some other way. Worst, but most likely outcome.

- An Apple employee (or an outsourced contractor) reviews the photo, comparing it to CSAM source image sample used for the hash. Only if the image matches according to human vision, Bob is swatted. This requires there to be some sort of database of CSAM source images, which strikes me as unlikely.

- An Apple employee or a contractor reviews the image for abuse without comparing it to CSAM source, using own subjective judgement. Better, but implies Apple employees could technically SWAT Apple users.
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> I have to go on this dumb rant about how the flavor has been bred out.

Why not just say "no, I don't like tomatoes" and save the effort? Nobody has to justify why they like or dislike the things that they do.
What are the HN thoughts on whether the future apple silicon will be able leverage discrete graphics like this new card, or only work with apple's own first-party GPUs?
These are some good changes. Perceived performance is very important for a program you use many times per day. One of my long time complaints is that with Chrome, when I want to search for something I'll often ctrl-N to open a new window and then type my query. Even if it takes a little bit of time to show the window my query will be right there in the search bar. With Firefox, those keystrokes are lost. I hope this fixes that.