skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know why you say that — the ITS machines were used by everybody in 545 tech square, researchers, admins and “secretaries” alike (both AI and LCS), from when I was there until they were gradually retired. The one TOPS-20 machine, Oz, didn’t arrive until times had changed and a lot of alternatives were already in use.

As for time sharing: ITS stands for “Incompatible Timesharing System” (a joke on CTSS), with memory protection, etc used by multiple users on terminals and over the net starting around/before the Multics project (all of which preceded Emacs of course)
Traditional police work that respects the principle behind the 4th amendment, no searches of private information, algorithmic or otherwise, directly by the government or otherwise, where you do not have probable cause.
ah shoot I swear I looked before posting. Obviously not hard enough
"The Florida Hospital Association on Monday reported 10,389 Covid-19 hospitalizations, the most statewide during any point in the pandemic. "

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/08/02/flo...

> I just don't understand the point of constantly misrepresenting this metric. It muddies the waters of actual concerns about the spread of the virus by making it seem like those are are concerned are dishonest.

> Stop it.

That must be this "projection" I keep hearing about.
If he has an attorney interested he might be able to pursue malpractice claims, particularly considering that they medicated him against his will.
Two species from California (Sequoiadendron giganteum & Sequoia sempervirens), one from China (Metasequoia glyptostroboides).
But how do you install on the actual hardware without an official dev kit? If you're just previewing on PC then nothing has changed.
That wouldn't be surprising, as you encounter iterators everywhere in Rust, but don't encounter bitwise operation unless you're working in a specific domain. What is surprising is to suddenly need the 42 first bits of a number.
AI Text to Image Generation VQGAN + CLIP huggingface Gradio Demo
"Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else, just because of where you were born."

It is not about where you are born, it is about where you have citizenship (and possibly also residency).

As long as you maintain your US citizenship you are morally obligated to contribute to the well being of the country, the biggest and easiest to understand of course is national defense.

Likewise, if you own a property in another state that you only use a portion of the year you are not off the hook for paying taxes that contribute to, for example, road maintenance and local schools.

Where I do have sympathy is that they make it extremely difficult for expats to file as well as maintain investment accounts.
The first item (on-device nudity detection in conversations) is good and deserves some applause. It's also easy to implement, they could just take an off-the-shelf API and optimize the parameters to their needs, and has minimal privacy concerns because nothing is being reported to Apple. I'm honestly surprised this isn't common already.

It's the part about scanning people's photo libraries that folks are (rightly) concerned about.
Well I'm glad I listened to what he had to say before I came to the comments here to get discouraged. I've been using firefox since 2005, and hope to continue using firefox, but I have serious concerns about the way things are heading and this guy did a good job of articulating what I feel about it. Firefox is hemorrhaging users and if they don't change course, I fear I might become part of that trend.
> It is clear that general autonomy can remain a valued principle with specific exceptions.

Sure. It is the ever increasing number of "specific exceptions" that people should be worried about.
Honestly, yes, thanks for saying this. I literally had to move, I lost roommates that are now close friends but it's not the same. My monthly expenses are up even considering I don't commute, and I'm cooking/blending so it's not that, just the rent and stuff I had to buy. I held up for a year but when I saw it was going to be another year I had to pull the trigger and move to a bigger place.

I'm chill and think I respect the "WFH forever" crowd a lot. I just would love to be able to have my home office be for my hobbies again and it was hard to even mention this at work without someone aggressively jumping on me because I'm a shill for the big tech executive caste that wants us all "trapped" in the office again. I changed employers recently because of this to a company that has more of an office culture.
Bitcoin is the single least efficient system ever conceived of or reduced to practice by mankind.
Because not everyone is productive? Also, I want statistically significant proof of the correlation between working from home and company profits. I doubt there here is such research because it is nearly impossible to prove due to many other factors. For example, my company profits also increased but not because of home office but because of ppl doing more stuff online. Why? Because 2 out of 3 colleagues complained being unproductive and demotivated at home.
I'm not discounting the other issues, but FYI #4 is incorrect.
I’d say Trump was definitely toeing the line. Taking all his actions as a whole
1) sending federal police to Portland and randomly kidnapping people
2) literally spewing lies every other word to the point you don’t know what’s real
3) wanting a military parade with tanks saluting him
4) inciting a mob to storm a democratically elected legislative assembly
5) expecting Supreme Court picks to be loyal to him specifically
6) undermining the integrity of an election which his own government and party often admitted was secure
…
No, the move away from proof of work is another fork scheduled for a few months from now.
Well it’s changing your temperature or opening window at most, not driving off a cliff
All-in-all, the United States is a great place. But it's an awful look for a country to make it hard to leave. I think shutting the borders to people coming in is bad, but shutting them to people going out is so much worse.
Almost every collective bargaining agreement precludes any employee being rewarded beyond its terms.
Right, but this assumes that nobody was suffering under the pre-pandemic work culture. For many people I talk to, their lives have significantly improved under this dynamic. Yes, with kids.

There are also a lot of places to make social connections that aren’t work.
I used to work with someone who was part of a "local grassroots" chapter of a political party. Every few weeks they would all be loaded onto a bus and sent to wherever they were told to go protest whatever issue the national news was obsessing over that moment. This was during weekdays and they were being paid for taking unpaid time off work.

I have always been curious what nefarious billionaire was funding it.
After they discontinued the Google home security system I was beginning to wonder if they were abandoning all Nest products. Good to see something new.

I’m not a fan of having to take the entire camera down and bring it inside to charge, then try to re-mount it and re-aim it. Swappable batteries are really nice for these situations.
I feel like the absolute positions are they easy ones to take. But be honest with me, would you not celebrate an outcome where a system like this eliminates the potential use of iOS for CSAM and in turn causing significant decreases in the abuse of children?
It's absolutely a noble cause, but if Apple is able to scan your iCloud content to figure this stuff out, then your iCloud content isn't secure.
A lot of governments would be very interested in this feature.
The law doesn't have an exception for independent research.
Can you cite a source on that? The studies I've seen have shown that happiness increases more slowly after a certain income but the slope never goes negative.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom...
Have you considered moving closer to work?
In case of human rights, what would more advanced mean other than one that is more fair to all humans of a particular society or country?

More advanced human rights just simply means more fair human rights, it has nothing to do with chronology or recency. There are plenty of examples of countries that had more advanced human rights in the past and regressed and made things worse over time.

Easy example: Russia had much better human rights for LGBT community not so long ago, however, it has regressed and gotten much worse over last 10-15 years.
I assume you are referring to pgAdmin, which isn't even a part of PostgreSQL. I work usually with a well configured psql cli tool, or IntelliJ IDEAs database console. They even turned it into its own product. But conflating a database UI/console with the database is big misunderstanding. Nobody pays for Oracle DB because of SQL Developer. The strength of PostgreSQL is in the flexibility and maturity of the features of the database core and its extensibility. At least those are the reason, why I have recommended PostgreSQL in the past.
I’m self employed, and had a green card, I paid the accountant 700€ to file the US tax form and paid a couple thousands dollars in taxes because I hit the minimum tax rate.
We always tell the truth and we also never generalize!
Biden to sign executive order setting goal of 50% EV by 2030
On Linux you don't actually need to install Postgres. For Windows there is this: https://garethflowers.dev/postgresql-portable/

I agree it could be better packaged, but it's actually not impossible to ship a Postgres with your program.
This is my biggest irrational fear. That one day I'll get locked up and everything I say and do will only convince them more that they're right. Jon Ronson meets Kafka.
So "because not everyone is productive", everyone should be mandated to go back into the office?
Still, it beats paying by the minute to actually hire someone.
Random aside: I find it confusing that Alpha is the first variant, rather than the original SARS2 strain.

Most 'Greek letter' conversations I've had just ignore this and say "Alpha" when they mean the original.

For what it's worth, there is some evidence that Delta is less deadly than the original strain, although by how much is difficult to say, especially with vaccination as a confounding measure.
Amazing to see that the UK has >90% positive vaccine sentiment, and close to 90% with at least one dose of vaccines now. Am I reading that right? How did they manage to avoid the politicization of the issue that is keeping people from getting the shot in other Western countries?
Who has access to update what are considered bad images and when to alert the authorities? This could very easily be made into an anti-wikileaks feature.
From time to time Apple picks a small idea and aggressively markets it. It usually goes well and hijacks that common concept with marketing. The last time it failed was "COURAGE", but "PRIVACY" is a though thing to sell too.
Maintaining productivity in the typical office comes at huge personal and professional costs for others, and I'm kinda frustrated that this situation hasn't resulted in more empathy from fans of the office (because, you would think that having been forced into a suboptimal work situation, they'd understand more how much that sucks).
The article states that they already had to prove they were exempt. However as I have not personally gone through this I am not in a position to comment on the accuracy of this statement. But from what I know of Australian bureaucracy, likely it was an ad-hoc decision made by a representative in the airport checking whatever documentation was provided. But now, you need to apply to the federal Home Affairs ministry for an official exemption, which comes with as much delay and red tape as you can imagine. So what I'm saying is; whilst one is ostensibly still "allowed" to leave if one meets the requirements, in practice it may now be more difficult if not impossible. But the fact still remains that this is frankly an obscene policy. I'm disappointed, and angry, but not surprised. Let's also not forget that the previous Home Affairs minister himself went abroad last year, contracted covid, came back and had meetings with others.
Yes, training your cells to mass produce a new protein we're not familiar with is absolutely safer than your trained immune system possibly encountering a mild viral load, with the proteins attached to the shells as normal.

Anyone who doubts the safety of this new immune system programming is obviously either a science denier or a paid [insert foreign country] shill.
I've read that Neanderthals were actually more intelligent, but that they were less social than Sapiens. Sapiens ganged up on the more solitary Neanderthals and overwhelmed them through violence or breeding.
Thanks for this comment and link, I think this area is one of the most interesting frontiers in computer science today. We're starting to see products like here in TimescaleDB and elsewhere in Materialize that build on these ideas, but in five or ten year's time the developer story here is going to be absolutely incredible. There is so much potential in being able to write declarative specifications for very complex stateful dataflows, that are then just maintained quickly and automagically, especially if we can do it without arbitrary windows and watermarks. Very exciting!
People dying as a result of bad policy is one thing - people can hold the politician accountable at the ballot box (either next election or recall if bad enough). You can't always know a policy is bad before enacting it... that's just life.

Covering it up though, makes that process impossible.

Even when Cuomo realized this was a bad policy and was resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths - he didn't reverse course... instead he doubled down, wrote a book, and won an Emmy - all while literally knowingly sending people to their deaths.

The very fact that the conversation surrounding Cuomo nearly always is focused on sexual harassment means the cover-up worked, and he got away with it.

Even now, as his own party (and the President himself) have turned their back to Cuomo, the conversation leaves out the cover-up.

Cuomo got away with it, sold a ton of books, won an Emmy, and will have learned nothing other than to not get caught groping women again. Wow...
Yes but not with the Firefox branding.
No, this change just makes fees less volatile. The environmental fix is expected to come sometime next year- https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/
This gets more EVs into the market, builds demand, and once these are cars go on the used market, ensures more, cheaper EVs for people who can’t afford a new car.
You are being superlative, but I absolutely believe that the reason we have a bigger military than the next ~10 countries combined is that we want to be the dominant superpower. And part of the desire for that dominance is maintaining the USD as the world reserve currency.

Whenever a country tries to move commodity trades away from the dollar (iraq oil, iran oil, libya gold, venezuela oil) coincidentally pretexts for military operations against them start being manufactured.
Tesla ‘big battery’ fire fuels concerns over lithium risks
Yes you can. Just copy the files into the Packages directory and edit at will.
Why can’t algorithms do the police work for some crimes?
I just had to go and fix my mum's PC after Windows updates broke printing and photo imports. Between Microsoft and Dell they managed to install a ton of garbage that needed removing.

I'd put Linux on it but she is set in her ways and struggles with any changes.
Child pornography is the boogyman used to compromise privacy.

There is significantly more illegal material of greater concern such as communication to plot terrorists attacks or companies ignoring safety regulations and leading to the deaths of many in doing so, and all that isn't scanned for either on the theory that it might exist, not that there is due cause for a search warrant or some similar mechanism and burden.

But child pornography is the one thing Anglo-Saxon culture is notoriously emotional about, and willing to surrender all it's freedom and privacy for. For a while terrorism counted among this too, but that seems to have fallen off.
> Would you fly with a pilot who never learned the basics of lift and drag? Or hire a builder who didn't understand loads and support? But we call people professionals who build software with no understanding of computing fundamentals?

Try going to a construction site and ask the people working here about the properties of the materials they use, you're in for a surprise.
lol, as Gen Z I've more-or-less accepted that my Social Security is just setting my money on fire and dancing in a circle.
You should reread the first section of TFA, titled "Communication safety in Messages." This goes beyond the scope of CSAM: they're scanning all Messages photos sent to or from a minor's account for any possible nudity, not just CSAM hash-matching.
Job Title: Inefficient protobuf copier
Sometimes there is a trouble maker that only make petty crimes. Never anything serious enough for jail time, just someone very annoying. And when he/she get sent away for something they did not do, noone will complain. Not saying he was that guy, but it happens frequently.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

The gradual but steadily accelerating rise of authoritarianism scares me far more than terrorists, drugs, child abuse, and the pandemic.

Unless we push back mightily, it will be a question of when, not if, owning a general-purpose computer that's not controlled by the government or a company becomes discouraged, suspicious, and eventually illegal.
This is a very slippery slope. Users of iOS devices have already ceded general-purpose computing in favor of Apple being their sysadmin. Now Apple is using that control and access to act against the interests of some users.

The fact that it's only targeting users doing something almost universally considered heinous is irrelevant. If Apple can scan your encrypted photos to make sure they don't contain child abuse, why not scan your encrypted chats to make sure they don't contain a conspiracy to commit murder, or an arrangement to buy drugs, or a plan to reveal something embarrassing to the ruling party?
The first line of the article is "The number of Covid patients in Florida hospitals has risen to a new high, breaking records set during previous waves before vaccines were available."

Then, there's a quote to that effect from a doctor, specific to their hospital.
> The device creates a cryptographic safety voucher that encodes the match result along with additional encrypted data about the image.

"additional encrypted data" makes it sound like it's encrypted to keep your information safe, when it actually means "encrypted so you can't see what's being sent" and that "only Apple (and people/governments Apple shares decryption keys with) can decrypt it." And what does "additional encrypted data" even mean? I'm guessing it includes a thumbnail. It could include a list of people you shared the image with and their home addresses. The point is, you don't (and can't) know.
First, you can yell fire in a crowded theatre. What if there really is a fire?

Alcohol kills plenty of people each year, and often it’s not the drinker. Should we ban alcohol? (I hear you, but employers can ban drinking at work!) Sure, but the equivalent would be forcing someone to not drink outside of work. After all, can you turn the vaccine off when you leave the office?

I’m fine with an employer mandating masks, they can be removed after your shift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
I don't know how folks can be aware of how the exchange went down and say that it was a "successful" "grievance strategy". LeCunn wasn't necessarily in the right here, and it wasn't only Gebru's twitter followers going on the offensive.
I can absolutely empathize why graduating into this could be a really bad experience for people. Was just talking with someone about this earlier in the week. I admittedly started work in a very different time with very different and more limited tools but it's hard for me to imagine.
That's funny, I keep hearing from largely feminists that "alpha's don't exist in nature, it's a myth"
Yes, but ideally that thing is "society".

As opposed to "a bunch of dodgy rich people"
Have you considered a hybrid? It should give you the long range but generate much less CO2 and particulates than a diesel.
One very interesting thing that was mentioned in the interview is how much Facebook relies on deep learning right now; specifically, how hate speech detection went from 75% manual to something like 2.5% manual, and how manual false negatives detection allowed this improvement.

What I'm wondering is about false positive detection, which wasn't mentioned, and how much of this incredible decrease in false negatives came at the expense of an increase in false positives.
Coyotes snatch a toddler every once in a while, don't they?
Remember when the previous administration was ridiculed for suggesting the massive forest fires were largely caused by forest mismanagement and that artificially preventing burns would only make it worse? [0]

Oddly enough, everyone laughed too when the same administration suggested the lab leak hypothesis...

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/14/trum...
OP's argument is that PoS is a problem because the supply of tokens is finite, and that PoW doesn't have the same problem because it relies on physical capital instead.

But physical capital is also finite.
"But I can do it in one line."

Congratulations, you are the best coder.
That's pretty easily dealt with through residency thresholds. We do this in the UK, counting people resident for tax purposes if they spend more than so many days in the UK in a given year. I would be very surprised if the US doesn't already do this to determine non-citizens tax status.
Kinda off-topic, but am I the only one who's experience brain rot from not being able to go poke a colleague on the shoulder and head off to a separate room and have a loose semi-relevant conversation about some work topic (with umpteen digressions) for half an hour?

Seriously, I think 90% of every good idea I've ever had has come to me in situations like the above. I don't wanna force people to come back to the office with me, but I'm just surprised that more people aren't feeling like they've lost something important without it. Yes, I can informally start off a chat with a colleague over Slack, but it just doesn't work for me. People think too much before they write something. All the good ideas die if people weigh their words too much :-(
Done with Apple now. I will never own a device that is a revolving door for law enforcement to look into my doings.

This constant yo-yo of privacy marketing and bad privacy decisions is too time consuming and mentally stressful.

I was waiting to update my 2017 MBP to a M1 16" when they come out and when my iphone 11 is coming up 2 years. These products will no longer be apple products and idgaf if I have to deal with linux desktop and jailbreaking an android to get it done.
You're right in one sense. In another, isn't this exactly what people said about intelligence agencies ("they could but they don't") and then... Snowden.
Considering that Chinese iPhone users already do not enjoy the same privacy features as non-Chinese iPhone users, I would not be at all surprised if Chinese iPhones are going to have a lot more "child porn" hashes to check against.
“Advanced”. “Fairer”. (In massive air quotes) lol. Like the advanced and fair culture that is responsible for all the permafrost melt this year? I dunno man, I think it’s the inverse of that. I think all those that adopted Capitalism are at the bottom of those subjective lists you just mentioned.
Who will be accountable for the creeps at apple? Or their overlords in the government?
Sure it does, they link to the developer preview: https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases