skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything has changed in iOS 14, but Jailbreak is eternal [pdf]
Google cancelled its DoD drone program because of employee protests. https://www.fedscoop.com/google-project-maven-canary-coal-mi...
They likely have insurance for that sort of thing. I produce content for Youtube and even I have a media liability policy.
But all uploads to iCloud are [edit: will be] encrypted. This system includes another, separate mechanism to upload a file unencrypted, not to iCloud, but to some other system where humans can review it. So it's not using the same functionality as a normal upload. The file doesn't have to have been uploaded to iCloud yet, or ever, to be copied off the phone using some other method. The whole point is that they don't want unencrypted copies being uploaded to iCloud, so they can't review what was uploaded via the iCloud route. Therefore they want some other method of checking your files locally - which means they need a backdoor to copy them without your permission.
I preordered one based on this. I would like to emulate the older consoles and games I already own and retire them from under the TV. I was initially skeptical but this is convincing.
Honestly this stuff is part of what makes me want to move to Shanghai, or another city in east Asia at some point in my life. The public transport there was just incredible - super efficient, super clean, extremely accessible. I'm in tech though, so probably stuck to the bay area :/
Current U.K. price is $1.60 a litre or $5.60 per us gallon. That’s significantly more than current US gas prices and people still buy petrol cars. I don’t see a 90c/gallon charge impacting much.
Yes, there is no concrete intervention that the CCP did. Still, a supervisor broke off their contact with a promising student based on either the fear of retribution or personal feelings of nationalism. That culture is the product of CCP censorship and many people don't want it in the western world.
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> and more than a few are worried about the implications
I am afraid this is just an effect of the deeper problem - bestial behaviour emerged as norm. A fall towards low quality ethics, including intellectual thresholds, including thresholds of elaboration (meditated vs rushed).

(The latter seems to also be very relevant to the student.)

In anecdotal form bestial behaviours ("I was forced to fire you having received pressure from a priest because you are kind to that boy of a different cult" - real example, probably not rare, of an episode of 50 years ago in Europe) have probably always been common, but today they seem to be less of individuals and more of groups ("that nobody in a costume in tinytown" vs "the assumedly respectable entity"), less exceptions and more norm ("it happened" vs "it happens").
Scylla's Approach to Improve Performance for CPU-Bound Workloads (2017)
Some time ago I wanted to mass produce new inventions so I generated list of random phrases in form of adjective-adjective-noun and start reading. Most of it was nonsense, occasionally there was something viable, in rare occasion some interesting new idea. Then I stumbled upon this gem:

"Creepy wet uncle"

and I giggled. I kept reading and once in a while there was something funny. After a while I realized that 3 random words can make me laugh, but no 3 random words made me cry.

Before I thought that laughter and crying are equal but opposite emotions, but they are not. Crying is much deeper and requires more emotional attachment. To make someone laugh all you need is 3 random words.
Honestly I'm glad to see a non-insignificant amount of people in tech take this seriously, especially when the goal Apple announces appears to be for the greater good. It can be hard to stand on the side that doesn't immediately appear to be correct. We have already lost so many freedoms for 'national security' and other such blanket terminology.

Just be warned, there will be those that unfairly try to cast this as helping the distribution of CP. Expect a headline tomorrow: "Edward Snowden et al Supports Child Porn" - or some other hot take.

A few other things:

1. Vote with your feet - Put your money in the pockets of the people aligned to your values.

2. Actively support projects you align with - If you use some open source hardware/software, try to help out (financially or time).

3. Make others aware - Reach out to those around you and inform them, only then they can make an informed choice themselves.
Wait why is it illegal to build dense walkable neighbourhoods? Which laws?
To solve the Fortnite problem, Google considered buying Epic
Out of curiosity, is Austin an exception?
Marrying in same gotra is not one of the reason for honour killing. There are no evidences for it. There are reports for such incidents for marriage between two castes and religions. It appears the author has preconceived notions against certain aspect of indian society. A little factual evidence being provided,or diligent research before putting personal perspectives would have been better.
Ah yes. The old, "I can't be racist. I have black friends" defense.
The Confucius Institutes should be closed and the mission of representing Chinese culture transferred to Singapore or Taiwan.
Don't support Apple! *You must sign up for a Microsoft GitHub account to sign our petition.

While I like the sentiment of protest, I don't understand this logic of putting it on a closed platform of one of Apple's biggest competitors who also doesn't respect your privacy.
I think this is rather hyperbolic. Vast majority of people at Apple have nothing to do with this. And even people involved in this, I’m not sure how much I can blame them. Soldiers vs generals kind of argument. Also, they likely see the pedo-fighting side of things and think are in the right.
> Hash matches are to be human reviewed.

This comment suggests this phrase might be cleverly worded, to make it seem like the images are human reviewed, while that actually not being the case:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28096059
How Drawings Realistified into 3D?
Or how big companies expect that they can protect their monopolies with money ...
Most of the time as long as Disney, Warner, 20th Century, Universal, Sony, et al. are not involved, everyone are chill about copyrights.
It’s also about the only thing holding up electronics retail. Half of Best Buy now is smarthome gadgets.
Thanks!

Daily RSS feed sounds like a good idea. RSS used to have the concept of media enclosures or something. Perhaps if I can embed the audio into that, people can listen right there? On the other hand, that will have fewer people visiting the website :D Heh.

2. My somewhat long term product idea is to let the paper submitters volunteer to read out their abstracts, if they choose. But some amount of automated TTS will always remain, given the sheer volume of content.
It was the domain name that did it for me.
As a man who lives below the poverty line I am extremely insecure about dating just because I worry about my partner trading up for someone with more money than me.

The consumerist culture doesn't help my confidence with women either. That Bruno Mars song "That's What I like" is literally just 3.5 minutes of him explaining how he seduces women by buying them lots of very expensive things. I couldn't even compete with a walmart middle manager at that game.
Yeah, it seems you are right. I haven't been actively tracking the custom ROM market, but it seems Google is trying really hard to achieve widespread hardware attestation. Or they could just be waiting until all the old devices are off the market, so all of the "Hardware attestation: Unsupported" response cases can be marked as UnlockedBootloader with great confidence.
Reviewing potential matches sounds like an awful job. Retention might be even lower than in those FB abuse centers.
I think calling for the professors dismissal in this instance is completely unwarranted. Not only do we have only one side of the story here, we don't even know what those tweets were, or if there's anything else at play here, nor is the relationship very clear here (the supposed student was actually studying in china for 3 years? What exactly was the relationship with the Swiss professor then?) Additionally, it's just not acceptable to demand others suffer the consequences for fights you picked, no matter the justification.

I mean, there is clearly an argument that the funding, influence and prestige the Confucius institute grants also allows them influence, and that that influence is perhaps unwanted. But if that's the conclusion, we should demand a counter-pressure by parties that are better able to withstand chinese pressure, e.g. perhaps some coalition of European countries that reject the institute whole cloth. Unfortunately, I doubt the EU can do much here because it's already been infiltrated by governments that clearly appear to be under Chinese influence, such as Hungary, and it needs unanimity for most action; and of course Switzerland isn't even in the EU.

To put it another way: I have doubts a country like Switzerland would dare to pick this fight with China alone - but if so, how absurdly unreasonable is it to expect an individual professor to, without any kind of policy. The whole issue puts the wisdom of Switzerland's idea of independence at risk.

Also, I no matter how you reject China's actions, I think it's morally pretty questionable to put your partner's family at risk, even if you think you're in the right, even if you are.
The swiss university had advised the student to be enrolled only China in order to make it easier for him to complete his PhD at the swiss university afterwards. The swiss university is now evading their moral responsibility by hiding behind the convenient legal situation.

The professor explicitly cut ties with the student because she was afraid to lose her ability to get a visa for China. It's unclear how she came to this conclusion, but I don't see how she can conclude this just from a message she got from a student in Canada. Chinese authorities must have made it clear at some point that they are ready to punish either this or any slightest misstep like this. And it's really an insignificant incident: someone who is not officially her student, has basically no followers because he just created his account, tweets a little and deletes everything as soon as the professor finds a problem with it.
CVE-2021-33909: size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux's filesystem layer
Chuck Schumer: “You take on the intelligence community? They have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you”

There must be tremendous amounts of dirt on most powerful people but it rarely sees the light of day and how it is obtained is never revealed?
"Excuse" roughly means "good reason to do something bad". All of that is pretty subjective. So now you mostly know a little more about how the authors feels.
Visual derivative is a preprocessed picture itself, and it's part of the "safety voucher".

It may be grayscale and resized/normalized in other ways. Only apple knows exactly what it is.

It's only a matter of time until internet trolls find a way to abuse this. The database is stored on user's devices, so someone downloading it and permuting innocuous images enough until they match the database, and then spreading them for funzies via some underhanded method (wallpaper download sites?)... is not too far fetched.
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That it is. I'm bit fancied of the ignorance of the people, until it is Apple who is doing it. And Apple is minority compared to other platforms.

I haven't heard much of complains about Windows sending all your file hashes and most of the files into their servers, what they have been doing a very long time with Windows Defender.
It is literally the same what Apple is doing now, but without restrictions.

Google and other cloud service providers have scanned your photos for very long time, by using PhotoDNA. On top of images, Google scans also your emails. People forget and move on.
> but they did infact break they law

But they in fact did not break the law.

It’s not illegal to pick locks and/or to go inside buildings. It might sometimes be illegal to do so without permission, but in this case it was really clear that they in fact had permission.
It's not required on A-series devices (A1, A2, A2-Lite, A3). But the latest device in that line is the Mi A3 from mid-2019, and there's no official news of further releases so far.
That’s such an idealistic stance. 99% of people don’t have the means to engage in militant activism.
It does not pass the smell test. This is not an error one would make. Imagine one gets an email from Z, X-Y <xyz...@ucanuckistan.ac.ca>, then why would one describe this as "emails (ed: plural!) from China"?

My theory that fits the evidence given is that the professor is withholding the real "angry emails from China" because she thinks if those are published, then she definitely won't get a travel visum anymore and thus negatively impact her career.
The process of writing Emacs-Lisp: open the scratch buffer, write a function and eval. The process of understanding what any part of the editor is doing: C-h f <function name>, read the documentation and link to the source is again right there. You can go to the source, set up a breakpoint, step through the code, understand it and even modify in place if you feel like it.

There is no other environment I know of, apart from smalltalk, that makes the process of extending and customizing the environment that frictional-less.

I have tried to understand the process of extending vs code, but it seems to require a lot of ceremony.

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/get-started/your-first-ext...

For instance, everything needs to belong in an extension, and you run the extension in different instance of vscode rather than the one in which you are editing the extension, which you have to reload/restart everytime you change the extension's definition.

The difference in experience is similar to the difference in experience in REPL-driven development in an interpreted language v/s developing in a compiled language with the whole edit/compile/run cycle.
I would clarify that it is common in the US. Every state has an association but they are ‘lightly’ regulated at best. [Edit: except in the area of racial discrimination — the Federal government is keen to prevent realtors from racial profiling, and with good cause.]

My father worked as a realtor for some years so he taught me how to parse listings (and photographs) for the reality behind them.
(One word more) relevant XKCD [1].

Also, a generator for the above [2].

[1] https://xkcd.com/936/
[2] https://www.correcthorsebatterystaple.net/
It's a rebuttal to "is building to explicitly support the imprisonment of dissents" when this is already possible without this new feature.
They said FOSS, not OSS. F means free as in freedom. As in you’re free to modify the software running on your phone at will and to your liking and Apple or some government can’t get in your way.. not even for the kids.
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Google. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/forests-around...
You're forgetting the initial layout -- that's a car starting at $70000. Who the hell pays that for a car, when half that gets you a car just as nice but running on gasoline?

I haven't bought a new car in ages, but my limit was, and remains, €30k. As long as electric cars cost double what comparable fossil fuel cars cost, with half the range, I don't see any electric revolution happening.
I am advocating for state-sanctioned punishment for extremely deleterious behaviour.

Look up the punishments for being a traitor. In most countries, treason is punishable with the death penalty. I see rich people avoiding taxes as a low-level treason. They extract wealth, while damaging society across all strata -- in a way, they are betraying the fundamental underpinnings of society. That should be treated as a sort of treason, and suffer the same punishments.
Apple is fundamentally about making Nice Phones, and are among the least morally complicated organizations in the US. If we followed your way, we'd be banning over half the country from occupation.

Just look at the moral complexity of the US armed forces, which is entangled in stories of collateral damage from drone strikes, burning of opium fields in Afghanistan, or hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq.
I’m not sure what to think of the backlash here. I’m sure that people aren’t trying to minimize the evil of child pornography and exploitation. But anything that has the potential to stop or slow it should be fairly considered. People complaining that Apple is scanning your photos, they are already doing that. Where was this backlash when they released the memories feature? Why is scanning your photos for good pictures of your dog different that scanning your pictures for exploitive pictures of children? Is the problem that they could then share that information with the authorities?

But of course this feature could be abused. But Apple already has all the power it needs to be abusive. They can push whatever software they want to your devices. They can remotely lock and wipe all your data. They already have the power to do all of these things. This statement is simply an announcement that they will be using some of this power to try to stop one of the worst evils in our world. Until they prove that they will abuse this power, I suggest that we let them try.
Meta comment: this story is the future of geopolitics. A confusing mess of different narratives, each backed up with a cornucopia of digital “evidence.” It is still unclear to me exactly what happened here. All I can be certain of is that all participants are incentivized to spin a story in their own favor.
Refactoring UI was a great resource that was recommended on that Ask HN. The authors have a book and some videos. Very actionable and systematic advice. That formed the basis of my understanding.

For more specific techniques, the Learning Web Design 5th Edition (by Jenna Something) is very good.

I skimmed Don’t Make Me Think, which validated some of my own thoughts and helps you avoid silly oversights. I also read Design of Everyday Things but found it very lengthy and somewhat pompous. Not sure that I got much out of it.

On that page someone has linked to a bunch of MIT material. I didn’t check that out in detail. Might be good... I don’t know.

Thanks for the bug report on the modal. Would have never noticed as I navigate to my site directly and never click the Back button there.
Distinctly from this case however he is correct. Trump did go out of his way to install cronies into these departments to hobble the EPA, FCC, FTC etc. Pretending that because some of it existed prior to that somehow changes the immense damage he did is also incredibly dishonest.

What he couldn't directly deregulate with executive orders he indirectly deregulated through budget cuts and installation of abhorrent management. Sadly that is exactly what his supporters expected and undoubtedly paid him for.
This looks really interesting. I use csvkit all the time. Curious how they compare. Will ply around with it.
People keep trading away privacy for convenience. We won't have any privacy left if we continue to go down that road. People need to start looking at these tech giants with extreme scepticism. Like we do if companies are from China. We need to think about our American companies the exact same way, and stop trusting them to care about our privacy.
Also following what I wrote nearby:

curiously, you mention "ISIS", and a practice like "If you have ties with people we dislike there will be consequences for you" is one of the few correctly attributed instances for the concept of terrorism.
The Tesla Powerwall is 400V so you still need to step the voltage down for LED lighting.
Processor microcode is closed source (Intel/AMD), including most of the BIOS code. You are having hard time to build your devices. Maybe we can see change in the future.
Related but slightly off-topic: am I the only one that thinks more technology is not the answer to catching crooks?
Can’t the police do good old fashioned police work to catch people doing these things?
Why does EVERYONE need to be surveilled for the 0.01% (or less?) who don’t behave properly.
To further this point: why do we need cameras on every street, facial recognition systems and 3-letter orgs storing huge data silos and maintaining lists etc etc…
One thought: is it because over 10, 20, 30+ years the police have been de-funded everywhere and become useless for difficult cases and/or militarised to deal with peaceful protesters instead?
Genuine questions.. I just don’t think this surveillance nightmare is the answer, and police could still catch crooks before the internet so what’s the problem.
Wealthy countries are struggling with the impact of teen moms, single mothers & alcoholic/druggie parents.

In countries like India with 1/10th to 1/25th the percapita income such social restrictions are a necessity.
> Back in the days when Geek Squad had to report any suspicious images [...] which turned out to be his own grand children

Do you have a link to sources for this case? I've had a look and can't see anything that matches right now.
Having ditched Apple laptops this year (after 18 years of Mac computers) for Linux (on System76 hw), I've been wondering what it would take to pry the iPhone out of my hands. I think I've found it.
The Big Tech is already here, it’s hungry for control and data. Not just for its own good, but to also serve the governments around the world. It’s going to happen eventually, and most people won’t care.
First of all , these are rich people whose removal would be largely inconsequential to their livelihood. Under them you 'll find a sea of people who are self-censoring because their positions are much more precarious, and they see the whims of the mob.

> haven’t been forcibly removed from office

Second i find this insinuation that a mob should be able to remove elected people from office problematic
> The only way I’ve ever used Force click intentionally is to look up a word. I remember to do this about, uhh, twice a year.

Surprising, I must use it twice an hour at least…
Do you think it’s bad that I set my password to correcthorsebatterystaple for all my accounts?
I installed a Nest so I could add a remote temperature sensor in my bedroom. I configured the nest to heat based on the bedroom temperature at night and the living room (where the thermostat was) during the day.

Before the Nest, the bedroom would get way too hot at night because it was better insulated than the living room, making it difficult to sleep. Afterwards this was no longer a problem. Saved a bunch of energy too.

Other "smart" tech: remote controlled outlets, later swapped for hue bulbs, let me flip all four of my living room lamps on from the entry way OR the hallway. Before, there was no switch at the entry way leaving me fumbling through the dark for the wall switch at the other side of the room to turn the ceiling light on. Then I'd have to turn the floor/table lamps on/off individually.
I think the message is a different one.

More along the lines, 'Even in Switzerland the political pressure of China affects the freedom of speech'.

The part that you leave out is that the university actually recommended to the student that he should terminate/suspend his enrollment in the first place. To me it looks like the university is using the fact that he wasn't enrolled anymore as some kind of damage control to distance itself from the events.

You are right, the actual facts are not very strong (in terms of legal action), but I think it is a good 'I have nothing to hide...' example.
> I had a quick search and i only found one case

Cases (as in court cases) are just the easily visible tip of the iceberg. We do not see the aggrieved who did not make their story public for whatever reason.