skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand, I applaud this - CASM is a massive issue, and the internet community has never taken it as seriously as it should have.

As many others have noted - the potential for misuse is rife. Also, realize that Apple has a single set of infrastructure for their phones and macs, especially now that M1 exists. I've read accounts in the person where disaffected people "planted" porn on other peoples system, then called the police.

Imagine a web server with a page and a hash map matching image, with a frame-size of 1px. It's now in your cache.

Also, it's almost inevitable that this is a slippery slope. Today is may be pre-hashed images. Tommorow it may be AI detection. The day after it may be vaccine falsehoods. The day after it may be other bad government speach.

This is needed. This is a major major problem. But I hope someone is thinking of how to mitigate the potential for abuse.
The article talks about the ultra wealthy, but they have the power, money and means to easily deal with the citizenship taxation bs. I don't care about them.

The problem is that those rules are punishing regular people.

I know one person who wasn't allowed to open bank accounts because of her citizenship. Another who yearly gets stressad out because filing US taxes is such a grueling process compared to the local process where you're done within ten minutes. Another wants to renounce citizenship because he doesn't want to deal with the bureaucracy, but he cannot afford it.

They all live in Sweden, which I doubt anyone sane would consider a tax haven.

If Eritrea is the only other country in the world that implements similar draconian tax laws, maybe there's something wrong with those laws?
> They aren't being actively "designed" in any sense

The point made by GP is that the current mRNA vaccines are actively designed to illicit a highly targeted immune response targeted towards the spike protein [1].

> That's why anything that would make real progress has to happen quickly and broadly, without large left-out pockets

Assuming you mean 100% vaccine coverage, this is the opposite conclusion that the authors of this paper came to [1].

Citing [1]:

- "The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape"

- "Strategies for viral elimination should therefore be diversified across molecular targets and therapeutic modalities"

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/
Yikes! Newish here (as a poster) and missed that in the guidelines. I will change the titles (assuming I can). Thanks for the heads up!
I agree. Alternatively a glossary at the bottom with links would be nice to help readers without the jargon knowledge.
Yes you can have both in the same database. We actually use TimescaleDB exactly that way, well at least for now. We'll in the process of separating certain tables out, so make it possible to select a pg database based on async or sync replication.

In terms of creating a Hypertable (TimescaleDB table) you create the normal table first and then transform it into a Hypertable.
Actual study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mam.12268
> Is it because socialized medicine can't cope with a surge in illness (Canada was another example) exposing the poor state of socialized healthcare after spending 10's of billions a year in tax payer funds. Somehow the USA with it's private system was able to scale and accommodate massive amounts of patients without collapse while these other countries were invoking the worlds longest lock downs and basically shutting down everything to try and save a healthcare system that barely functions under normal conditions (Canada as an example, visit any Toronto Hospital).

I don't think the data supports the idea that the US healthcare system handled the pandemic better than socialized healthcare systems.
> Knowing something is broken is a different skill than fixing it.

This is a fair point. But I think many people saying "the system is broken" implicitly or explicitly advocate a fix by throwing out the entire system.

Those people often don't seem to realize that "no system" is a system too, and you need to compare that system's emergent behavior to the current system before you can make a wise choice.
2017 stats: https://www.bls.gov/regions/new-york-new-jersey/news-release...

For context, Nassau and Suffolk are the highest paid area in New York at ~100k mean salary. That's below the median household income in Nassau ($115k) and Suffolk ($101k) [0], which are among the richest in the US. NYC and the US are both at ~$63k median income.

For comparison, NYC is ~$80k mean salary, which will include both new hires and tenured teachers. If you read the salary schedule[10] for NYC, you have to have 6-8 years of experience to make $80k (depends on your education level [11]). To reach $120k, they must have 20 years of tenure in the NYC school district.

I made $90k in salary alone as a new CS grad, and $120k in total comp (excl. benefits). This doesn't seem like a huge overpayment to me. It makes sense to me that wealthier areas pay teachers more, and I don't think that teachers getting well paid in one county should demand wage cuts in other counties.

[0] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US,NY,suffolkco...

[10] https://www.uft.org/your-rights/salary/doe-and-city-salary-s...

[11] https://www.nctq.org/dmsView/NYC
> The top tax rate in the US, decades ago, was 90%.

Which pretty much no one paid because there were so many exceptions to it. Starting with the fact that the top long-term capital gains tax rate was 25%, not 90%.

A lot of those exceptions got eliminated as part of the process of reducing the top marginal rate to the levels we observe now. The current "top" Federal rate is 39.35% on earned income, 40.8% on interest, non-qualified dividends, and short-term capital gains, and 23.8% on qualified dividends and long-term capital gains. That assumes a large enough income that we're not worrying about Social Security in any way, or phaseouts of various sorts or whatnot, but _are_ hitting the extra medicare tax and net investment tax provisions of the ACA. It also assumes that the employer side of the 1.45% Medicare tax is not incident on the employee, which of course it is, but we're comparing "headline" rates.

So specifically for Jeff Bezos, most of whose "income" is presumably long-term capital gains due to AMZN price appreciation, the difference between the "decades ago" utopia you describe and now is the difference between a 25% and 23.8% marginal rate on that long-term capital gain income.

All that said, are you paying a 28% _marginal_ rate, or a 28% _effective_ rate? And are you specifically talking about "wealthy" people or "high-income" people? I ask because last I checked the top 1% of incomes paid something on the order of 25% _average_ Federal tax rate for the last several years (i.e. after the tax cuts a few years ago), and the top 0.1% of incomes paid closer to 27-28%. That's just counting income and payroll taxes, not the incidence of corporate income taxes or whatnot. And again, just Federal; state taxes are a separate story.
So you assert viruses cannot evolve to be deadlier but at the same time insist they always evolve to become less deadly.

But the only evolutionary imperative is more virus particles. If becoming less deadly is the best path, the virus becomes less deadly. But if increased fatality comes along with making more virus particles, it will get deadlier. But don't take it from me:

"But there’s no obvious evolutionary advantage for SARS-CoV-2 to reduce its virulence, because it pays little price for occasionally killing people: It spreads readily from infected people who are not yet feeling sick, and even from those who may never show symptoms of illness." - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-viruses-ev...

>COVID does not seem to be bouncing between animal hosts

Um.... No...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wild-us-d...
> Most applications gain nothing from having, say, yet another mediocre bitmap graphics format. You just made your system more complicated without any improvements whatsoever.

WebP is much newer than most Amiga applications. Since someone wrote a WebP datatype, an Amiga word processor written in 1994 can embed one in a document. An Amiga graphics app released in 1997 can open one and edit it. Literally every Amiga app that can use the datatypes API now supports it, without a single recompile or changed line of code, because someone wrote that loader. That’s pretty powerful.
Humans decide the technical future of every project. The difference is which specific humans, how many, how they are selected, how they are incentivized etc.
Payment facilitators and processor would normally fall under some sort of KYC regime, I think (let's say when onboarding a merchant). Arguably, there isn't really a one-to-one correspondence with a miner, but to completely exempt miners here is an interesting twist.
I am just praying this means I can finally afford an RTX 3070.
1. There is nothing efficient about wasting that much electricity on securing a ledger that can handle single-digit transactions per second.

2. The needs of central banks don't start wars, the needs of politicians, warhawk nationalists, and the needs of modern industrial economies do. [1] Unless BTC somehow magically gets rid of politicians, nationalism, or of our addiction to oil, that's not going to change.

[1] The US didn't invade Grenada because of the Fed. The USSR didn't invade Afghanistan on behalf of Gosbank. China didn't invade Tibet to fix the balance sheet of the PBC. Vietnam didn't fight a war with its occupiers, and then a civil war, and then a war with Cambodia, and then a war with China, because it was unhappy with the Dong to USD exchange rate. The US participated in that civil war because of domino theory, not because of its departure from the gold standard. The list goes on and on. [2]

[2] Wars aren't fought over currencies, wars are fought over territory, pan-ethnic nationalism, to increase the internal popularity of a warhawk, to maintain a hegemony, to impose one's religion on another, to expel unwanted people from a territory, etc, etc, etc. Bitcoin solves none of these problems.
> I'd say America is worse than other countries at getting citizens out of bad situations

I last saw data through the UNDP about ten years ago. It's very possible that the situation has degraded. And no country has 100% coverage, far from it. At the time, however, the U.S. government was exceedingly good at exfiltrating citizens from disaster zones. Granted, it has had more experience doing this because, well, empire.

The situation was starker for low-level assistance, in which many diplomatic missions will not get involved.
Related to this, I love Canva.com but then I noticed they were scanning my designs. Some warning popped up.

This idea of perpetually renting services than monitoring the use is something that should be criticized.
I hate how the Olympics score focuses too much on Gold Medals so I made my own
There's also ultrasonic delay lines. That's how they did reverb back in the analog only days.
Not so familiar with this guy or Comma at all? Is that odd? Niche AI/ML self driving stuff that no one outside of the specific area knows about?
The biggest issues were less with the tax part and more with requirements around KYC, data gathering, and reporting.
And they aren't going to act on a single hash collision. People who have these images likely aren't going to have one or two.

People can argue against this approach for privacy reasons, but I think the false positive argument is a relatively weak one.
> Except there is a widely accepted standard for binary application distribution: AppImage (https://appimage.org/)

Oh, if only AppImage was widely accepted. Very few developers distribute via AppImage and basically no DEs understand what they are. Not that AppImages need them to, but it'd be nice.

> AppImage was created for precisely this scenario: When you want to distribute a proprietary application without worrying about packaging it for different Linux distributions.

Yes, and it does about as well as could be expected. Which is to say, it kinda mostly works for most distributions that have some level of sanity.

> And for the driver issues: This is being brought up now and then, but comparing the amount of issues I've had with my AMD graphics card on Linux (essentially none) [1] with the amount of anecdotes of Windows driver issues I regularly see in certain forums, I'd say driver issues are a myth by now [...]

Consider that there are an order of magnitude more Windows Desktop users than Linux Desktop users. And I know plenty of people experiencing frequent driver regressions who'd disagree with you.

> On Windows I'd have to look for whatever piece of ad-laden "graphics management suite" I need and then install it as well as regularly update it.

Incorrect. Windows quite often has a driver available via Windows Update, sans overengineered bullshit control panel. It is usually a bit behind the latest-greatest though.
Ask HN: Those who work at Facebook, Amazon, Palantir, etc. Do you feel guilt?
If so, how do you deal with it?
>if your phone has any photos that match an entry in the db

I believe it's not "an entry in the db" but a neural classifier. The article calls it "neuralMatch". So it's much more general than a limited number of known images.
They are going for the zero COVID strategy. Not that I condone it, but the whole idea is to keep their numbers as they are in your link.

> Somehow the USA with it's private system was able to scale and accommodate massive amounts of patients without collapse while these other countries were invoking the worlds longest lock downs and basically shutting down everything to try and save a healthcare system that barely functions under normal conditions (Canada as an example, visit any Toronto Hospital).

I am not aware of any collapse faced by the public healthcare system in my country (Austria).
Yes you can, and yes you make the decision table by table. 'CREATE TABLE` is the same in either case, then `create_hypertable` to make it a timeseries table https://docs.timescale.com/api/latest/hypertable/create_hype...
The headline is misleading. The rumored change only impacts photos your device is uploading to iCloud, and it seems like Apple servers are a necessary part of the protocol.
Here's a picture of the head-unit, maybe?[0]

or an earlier one? [1]

[0]: https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads...

[1]: https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10...
Odd that you call it textbook capital gains, what textbook are you working from?

It seems pretty clearly like income to me.
Hands On: DEF Con 29 Badge Embraces the New Normal
>"Can we pull back into some sort of objective reality, or are we now doomed ...?

>I’d like to be proven wrong on this, but I sort of think we’ve entered a game over scenario for consensus reality ... If I’m being honest, probably consensus reality was always really broken, as anyone with a minority, immigrant, or other atypical personal status can tell you."

This is the core of the issue for me. The mainstream consensus is a subjective set of norms, which has always evolved. "Objective reality" was never within our reach.

What we had was a collective set of values, shared tribal identities that allowed us to operate upon shared assumptions. Deriding dissenters as conspiracists is often no better than base tribalism.

Yes, there are gullible, foolish people out there. There are also imaginative ones who are only along for the lulz. But inventing a fringe archaeological theory doesn't prove that all who disagree or dissent are operating in the same sphere as the marks for your invented theory.

Even on this esteemed message board, people have take to disparaging those who disagree as "flat earthers". It is too easy to dismiss everyone who is outside of one's own bubble with fringe or even establishment pejoratives.
Or lobbyists are investing in crypto.
check out https://levels.fyi instead
Why would I stop using it, it merely describes the group of islands. Geographic ignorance or a chip on your shoulder aren't great motivators for me to stop. Sums up the state of affairs when a perma-offended post like this is the top comment of a really interesting post.
Last year EmacsConf was amazing. Looking forward to another great edition.
> 1 or 2 mutations isn't enough.

Enough for what exactly?

> It would need an order of magnitude more. It's very unlikely for that to happen.

Please cite your sources on these points. Otherwise it's just another opinion.

I am not trolling, just genuinely interested in the topic and sick of people spreading misinformation with no citations.

Unless you think trolling is sharing relevant peer-reviewed research that contradicts your unsupported claims.
Anything is technically possible. In reality no one wants this to change the limit on the 21 million number and any proposal to modify this particular aspect of Bitcoin will get shot down immediately.

Lying would mean they know what they're saying isn't true. Practically speaking it's completely true.
I meant to point out that if a region has kept COVID conflagrations from happening, via social distancing efforts, they will have accumulated less natural immunity, thus they are riper for conflagrations in the future. The way I predict "who's next" in the U.S. is to look at which states are at the bottom in terms of infections per capita. Those are the ripest. The technique has worked very well for me thus far.
https://www.fbi.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/internati...

The FBI may get involved for citizens outside the US. The international situation is complex but being or not being a US citizen can very much change FBI involvement.

PS: My question is still unanswered: why would anyone in US even think about their law enforcement invoicing the victims? It’s a concern if your considering renouncing citizenship and moving to a country where it’s a concern just as free speech should be a concern if your moving to a country without it.
> Venmo's core value right now is that it's ubiquitous

Is it? I just did a straw poll of people in my office, located in Canada. People from 28-50 no one has venmo. 3 of 15 knew about it.

Now my sample may not match the rest of the world as these are some pretty highly educated and high networth individuals so venmo isn't something that would really benefit us, but it does really weaken the ubiquitous claim

Where is Venmo ubiquitous?
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This is terrifying. I'd be pissed if I owned any Apple hardware. Encrypt your systems and run your own private cloud.

Privacy is about the only thing keeping innocent people free in today's world.
What about the benefits? You get social security wherever you live. Most countries don't pay social security to their citizens living abroad.
10 years of one year's experience, probably.
We never seem to have this problem for any field other than law enforcement or military. In other professions, if you mess up aggressively, there are repercussions professionally.
I haven't used Affinity Photo since the last boot and it took 15 seconds just now on a M1 MacBook Air with 16 GB RAM and nothing except two Safari tabs running. Subsequent runs are much faster, around 3 seconds, but I believe that's mainly thanks to macOS' caching.
I believe that's mostly true, but, on the other hand, some drugs (notably antibiotics of the tetracyclines family) become quite dangerous as they degrade...
This is surprising, because elephants have huge brains and giraffes have tiny brains. Size isn't everything apparently. I still think there's no question that elephants are more intelligent.
To further illustrate that point: I'm a barista.
Per NPR (a solidly left-leaning source) they were US Marshals and they used unmarked vehicles to avoid the violent protesters who were allegedly targeting police. They didn't arrest anyone, but transported them to a safe location for questioning and immediately released them. Certainly not a good look but obviously this is nothing like SS troopers kidnapping people for death camps, torture, imprisonment, etc.

I am a vocal critic of Trump, but I don't understand the impulse to invoke absurd comparisons between the US and Nazi Germany. Trump gives us plenty of legitimate stuff to criticize on a regular basis, why discredit yourself like this?
Same as everyone else, happy to see EmacsConf is here. Hoping to get a talk together this time around.
Probably not, as all redwoods aside from the Dawn(small thing from China) are from California, perhaps you misheard California as Canada.
Who is your target audience? I have never worked in a large company, but I wouldn't be surprised if a flow chart generator is something large companies would use.
Presumably they're using different syringes for different people in any one sitting, right? If there were a plan to inject some people with something different, the people administering the vaccine could hypothetically decide which syringe to use based on some tiny, subtle marking or alteration that the public wouldn't notice.

If you could see that every syringe used was filled from the same "output port" (don't know the actual term) on the same storage device, then it'd be a lot harder to accuse them of anything.
TLA is about a local government mandating that businesses check for vaccination status. That's infringing on rights of the businesses, "private property and all."
I have a hard time believing that this algorithm will be able to resist simple image manipulations while still being sensitive enough to avoid false positives.
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