skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People naturally have a survivorship bias.

Thomas Ligotti has this great quote about why people, most people, are Optimistic (specifically with existence), that this is all okay, and nothing will go wrong, and that when things do go wrong, it'll be okay in the end

“The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who
can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For
optimists, this fact plays no part in their existential
computations. For pessimists, however, it is axiomatic.
Whether a pessimist urges us to live “heroically” with a
knife in our gut or denounces life as not worth living is
immaterial. What matters is that he makes no bones about
hurt being the Great Problem it is incumbent on philosophy
to observe. But this problem can be solved only by
establishing an imbalance between hurt and happiness that
would enable us in principle to say which is more
desirable—existence or nonexistence. While no airtight
case has ever been made regarding the undesirability of
human life, pessimists still run themselves ragged trying
to make one. Optimists have no comparable mission. When
they do argue for the desirability of human life it is
only in reaction to pessimists arguing the opposite, even
though no airtight case has ever been made regarding that
desirability. Optimism has always been an undeclared
policy of human culture—one that grew out of our animal
instincts to survive and reproduce—rather than an
articulated body of thought. It is the default condition
of our blood and cannot be effectively questioned by our
minds or put in grave doubt by our pains. This would
explain why at any given time there are more cannibals
than philosophical pessimists.”
Apple's battle is against Surveillance Capitalism, not against state-level surveillance. In fact, there is no publicly traded company that is against state-level surveillance. It's important not to confuse the two.

Think of it this way: If you want to hide from companies, choose Apple. If you want to hide from the US Government, choose open source.

But if your threat model really does include the US government or some other similarly capable adversary, you are well and truly fucked already. The state-level apparatus for spying on folks through metadata and traffic interception is now mode than a decade old.
It has not always been that way. Who were the anti-vax superstars of 1918? And what were the ad-targeting capabilities of newspapers back then?
If history books continue to be written.
I keep thinking, It's like they are trying to be the most ironic company in history...

But then I have to remind myself, the old Apple is long gone, the new Apple is a completely different beast, with a very different concept of what it is marketing.
I don't know about all that's written in the article, but I personally have been going 7 days a week for 18 hours per day since the pandemic started. If I don't keep paddling, I'll die, I don't have a choice. I work for myself, but I think if I worked for someone else, I'd have major burnout.
where does it default to saml? btw. we use azure ad and only rely on openid connect.
Unless the entire stack you’re using is audited and open source this sort of thing is inevitable.

As far as this is concerned, seems like if you don’t use iMessage or iCloud you’re safe for now.
Why not? I could just as well say that someone making $50k in Arkansas shouldn't have to subsidize consular services for someone making a quarter million a year abroad. They're not really paying "full price" either given the large exemption.
Too much estrogen in the water the males are drinking. They have become soy boys.

They have become afflicted with the ills of the Western world.

Serious
Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
* GitHub does render .org files just like Markdown!

* I've heard people of people being really happy with Orgzly on Android.
I personally run Emacs on my Android phone through Termux. It works really well for me.
Other solutions include using a SSH client to connect to a server running Emacs, or simply using GitHub directly on mobile web or their app if your notes are on GitHub.

* I've made the switch from Vim to Emacs (+ evil-mode) because of org-mode and have been extremely happy with it. It truly changed my life.
“This means that when the features are rolled out, a version of the NCMEC CSAM database will be uploaded onto every single iPhone.”

So every iPhone will now host the explicit images from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children database.
They're already selling tickets for the in person event, as well as making some of it available online for free.
Always amused me how every financial service the world over asks if you're a US citizen and denies you if you answer YES. Nobody wants to deal with the IRS.
It is okay to use the back door when we want to find people:

being terrorists

exploiting children

who are not vaccinated

use the wrong politically correct language

anything else we don't like
The IRS requires you to report all bank accounts you have in foreign countries when you file taxes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

> FATCA also requires such persons to report their non-U.S. financial assets annually to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on form 8938, which is in addition to the older and further redundant requirement to report them annually to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on form 114 (also known as 'FBAR')

What's ridiculous is that it also "requires" foreign banks to report details of accounts by US holders - even if the bank has no relation to the US.
A Concrete-Security Analysis of the Apple Psi Protocol (Mihir Bellare) [pdf]
It isn't voluntary when its the only game in town. My personal experience tells me the nature of work in the US is exploitative. Of course, experiences will vary, but I've never felt alone in this; on the contrary, in the Midwest "Living the Dream" is essentially shorthand for "I hate my job and everything about it". We're all living the dream, and boy does it suck.
Windows 95 and other such operating systems.

Also software running on old toys like Pokedexes and other non-updateable electronics, like MP3 players, cd players, DVRs, microwave ovens, computer monitors, non-smart TVs, non-smart digital watches, and digital cameras.
It seems unlikely that Italy doesn’t have any legal protections for government secrets. I don’t think it’s so clear that the “dual criminality” requirement would only be satisfied if Italy had laws against publishing documents classified by the US government. You could try to argue that, but it seems a rather pedantic semantic argument.

I also wouldn’t necessarily assume that Italian law only covers Italian government documents. For example, the Official Secrets Act in the UK can apply to intelligence information more broadly in some cases.

Anyway, extradition cases like this tend to raise quite complex legal issues, and the way the law works isn’t always very intuitive or in line with what you might think is fair and just.
I agree with you but I don't think it is generational. We have always been a greedy species. We just finally built the technology to amplify our greed x2 each generation. It is harder to destroy the world when each person spends all their waking hours just trying to stay alive and fed.
Not to disagree, but a couple of FYIs:

* LeCun did not really quit Twitter, he's still active on there and has been for a while - but I guess he did temporarily when all this happened.

* many researchers agreed with Gebru's opposition to LeCun's original point - see tweets by Charles Isbel, yoavgo, Dirk Hovy embedded here https://thegradient.pub/pulse-lessons/ under 'On the Source of Bias in Machine Learning Systems' (warning - it takes a while to load). There was a civil back-and-forth between him and these other researchers as you can see in that post, so it was a point worth discussing. Gebru mostly did not participate in this beyond her initial tweets as far as I remember.

* Lecun got into more heat when he posted a long set of tweets to Gebru which to many seemed like he was lecturing her on her subject of expertise aka 'mansplaining'. I am sure many would see that as nonsense, but afaik many people making that point was the cause of quitting twitter.
Although the benefit would be increased reflection of sunlight due to more icy (reflective) surface which would alleviate (or reverse?) the current weather warming trend.
That is, I believe, true in most states, if not all. The response is to appeal to the governor for a pardon.
Yeah, it'd much appreciated if the author explained that a bit more in the "why is saml insecure?" section
Probably no one because that's not the culture, in software everyone is a engineering because that's what we call people. In France we sometimes call cleaners "technicien de surface", which roughly translate to "surface technician". That's obviously not the kind of technician we usually think about, but in that context it's clear.
Good questions. Anyone who visits twitter.com gets this same string of characters ("token"). Open Developer Tools or the equivalent in a popular browser and see for yourself. If you have visited twitter.com recently, then you have received this token.

These are the same requests a graphical, Javascript-enabled browser sends, except I prefer not to use a graphical browser nor Javascript. I prefer text-only and using the shell. Easier for me to read.
I'm sure they'd argue until they're blue in the face about how it's not spyware, but... yes.
Decades of orchestrated efforts to turn political discourse into a culture war. Ever wonder why there are so many political “think tanks”? That’s what they’ve been working on.
Because you're competing with the businesses who decide your fate as an engine. If you're Valve, you want games to be on Steam - and you'll push for that when games use your engine, even if it isn't explicitly stated or even intentional. This doesn't make Sony and Microsoft happy, obviously. You might argue that the platforms are different, but that continues to become more and more irrelevant as it becomes easier to release the same game on many platforms and crossplay becomes more commonplace.

As a result, these marketplaces will try and favor some other engine, such as Unity.

I think it's tough for the average techie on here to really grasp the nuances of business (mostly due to lack of direct XP), so I'm not going to belabor the point.
You can be sure it will be used in countries where being LGBT is illegal today, as well.
Well okay, fair enough but it doesn't actually solve the problem. Modern terminals can render basically all colors your DE / display supports so I am not sure why there isn't a check for that and utilize the feature if it's there.
Oh, they were there. And during the black plague years too (the rat lickers). The difference is they didn't have a social media megaphone to induce a large number of susceptible people with their seductive tunes. "Listen to us and you can continue to live like you always did". It's a variation on that theme with the man not being able to understand a thing if his salary depends on it.
So, how long before the same technology is used to fight "misinformation" and "domestic terrorism" (e.g. memes that disagree with official point of view)? How long until it's used to ban "hateful speech", or any speech unapproved by the gov^H^H^HReal Government - the Almighty Apple?
You don't seem to include a transcript here. Seems like a serious flaw (I personally prefer transcripts to audio but it's actually an accessibility issue for some people).
I hesitate to answer because I sense an editor war incoming, but I'm going to assume your question was in earnest and not evangelical or judgemental.

Also to be clear, because I know people can be touchy about editor preferences: I say this only as an analogy for the feeling I get, not as an analogy for users who use emacs or other tools.

For whatever reason emacs just feels like I'm using left-handed scissors, and I'm not left handed.

It doesn't mean I don't think people should use emacs, it just doesn't feel right in my hands.
Your original post said postmarketOS. That is weird that you changed it to lineage (and misspelled that).
Google has been doing this with their cloud services since at least 2014 (from a quick google search) and Facebook at least 2011. From talking with a founder of a popular image service, this was a requirement a decade ago, for liability reasons.
That plus ...

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01557-z

... actually implies that we do not need widespread vaccination campaigns.

But guess what stocks the members of your government have in their depot and you bet they make sure you get your jab and the booster and the update and another booster ...

This is biggest scam in the history of the earth.
Teaching in Public with GitHub
Sensationalized? Sure. Hollywood. But incorrect? It's hard to know.
That's easy: Build a 1970s Italian supercar-style chassis -- heck, get some consulting help from Lamborghini, if you need -- but then, in stead of a V12 or even a V8, put one of your trusty Bavarian straight-sixes in the middle of it.

What, you mean someone else is trying to usurp the venerated "M1" moniker?!? Infidels!

.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...

It's a circulation in the Atlantic that pulls warm water from the equator up towards Europe and the arctic.
"For speaking out, Spriestersbach was deemed “problematic” and given antipsychotic medications, including Haldol, which made him despondent and catatonic."

My best friend's father was a guard at Folsom prison. When I was a kid he would always remind us that the worse prisoners were the truly innocent ones. All the old timer guards knew which prisoners were innocent just based on their mannerisms.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23559004
The issue is that companies are mandating return, so its not employees choice.

What % chance of being sick for 1-2 weeks are you OK with?

What % chance of permanent lung capacity loss are you OK with?

What % chance of death are you OK with?

Are you OK with your employer making that decision on your behalf?
> that prison populations are used as forced labor

I was recently reminded of this due to a strange story having to do with covid and a shortage of license plates in Washington state, due to "social distancing" in the DOC. So that state contracted with another state whose prisoners were still incarcerated and still hard at work making license plates.

> The DOC has experienced issues since last summer, when compliance with social-distancing requirements slowed production, according to spokesperson Rachel Ericson. To address the issue, the agency has increased staffing and started outsourcing some production on July 31.

> License plates first began to be manufactured by individuals incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla in 1923. It’s now one of 43 prison factories around the country that produce plates for 40 states and the federal government.

Original: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-state-g...

Outline (no paywall): https://outline.com/YnDVG6
> On top of this, I have inside knowledge that some extremely common libraries that implement SAML were built not by reading and understanding the spec, but simply by looking at sample XML documents in the wild and writing code that handled it.

Yup, and its complexity leads to something of a shortage of libraries in the first place so there's not much choice.

There's still no good modern maintained OSS .NET 5 library for doing SAML. There are some commercial offerings (ComponentSpace have a neat product and they weren't affected by VU#475445 either) but my worry is that folks will end up using whatever free libraries they can find without thinking too much about the consequences.
> How they get turned into machine code, how that machine code gets fetched and executed, how registers work, memory accesses, RAM vs. ROM, what various caches are doing, how I/O devices work including disk, how interrupts work, how syscalls work, how memory allocation is done, what the stack is, typical segments of address space: code, data, stack, heap

Yeah, I've learned all of this stuff ~10 years ago (in compsci also) and forgotten a lot of it due to never using it. Should I learn it again? To be honest, I'd like to, but I haven't taken the time either. I contemplated doing a deep dive the one time I've had to interview recently, but then didn't end up needing it. I'm sure if I wanted to move to a FAANG I'd need to brush up, but in the mean time I'm bombarded with plenty of things I need to learn on a regular basis to keep up with the actual technologies I work with

> but this is still kind of basic second-year compsci, right?

To be honest, I find I have a very hard time really integrating knowledge of something until I've had ample opportunity to apply it in different ways over some extended period of time. I think this was why the knowledge never stuck when I learned it in CS. There were so many things I'd cram before the test and then never need to think about again.

If I don't have the opportunity to apply these concepts, trying to really 'learn' them is a Sisyphean task for me. With enough effort and repetition I'm sure I could, but I don't agree that I should. I think your attitude really overlooks the variance in learning styles and capabilities. Not everyone can remember things they don't apply for 10 years.
What I remember being taught in school is that Neanderthals were more intelligent than Cro-Magnons in many ways, but were ultimately less successful (evolutionarily speaking) because they were less social.
All cephalopods lack myelination in their neural toolkit. What this means is that signal propagation between neurons is between 10-100x slower than, say, a mammal, and it makes signal integration over distance a hard problem.

That evolution has found a way to achieve high relative intelligence against such a strong constraint is endlessly fascinating!
Well, there's some discussion further down that I think is more on target, to the effect that if the player has picked a bad spec, they should be able to respec. Restarting the game shouldn't be a requirement. I have no issue with that message.

It makes the Mass Effect design look even worse, though, since I assume you're able to change your weapon pretty freely.
Mailerlite; the Features, Pros and Cons
What's wrong with openwindows? Always like it.
I had a Verizon identity theft issue a year ago, where someone on the other side of the country opened a wireless account at a rural Walmart store.

The number of hoops VZW made me jump through was stupefying. Multiple notarized documents, utility bills, property tax records, as well as the police report.

And then they said "Our initial review says that the account stands as-is, that we are satisfied that it was in fact you that opened the accounts, based on the documentation you provided, and the documentation that was provided on account opening".

Great (not really), I say, in that case, "I want to see the documentation 'I' used to open the account."

"We can't do that, for customer privacy reasons."

"You just told me that you determined -I- am the customer. Are you telling me it's a breach of my privacy to supply documents you've stated on the record -I- supplied you, to me?!?"

"Well, you may not have opened the account..."

Apparently, Schrodinger's cell phone account. Mine when they need the bill paid or sent to collections, and "possibly not mine" when it comes to them revealing what crap they accepted in order to open the account in the first place.

It finally got sorted out, but took a lot more back and forth.
wow this is mind blowing I own several of these and I had no idea.
I don't think that changes the point trying to be made. Cape Cod and D.C. have essentially the same weather
3 12 hour shifts is often a full work week in places where that’s normal
Lots of older companies got Oracle and aren't changing that. I seem to recall that SQL server works really well with .net, in a way that most others don't.

I think that explains the jobs. Then you have the people who make suboptimal choices, such as buying Oracle today, because nobody got fired for doing that.
Yeah, sorry, I mixed them up in my head. I'm currently running Lineage on a PH-1, not Postmarket. I would not consider what I have set up to be "production ready", but I'm going to spend some time this weekend looking into what modern hardware can run Lineage or other open mobile OSes
The world is going to need a combination of a bunch of policies. It's not just emissions reduction; it's also carbon sinks, and adaptation to the non-avoided impacts.

Also, none of this needs to happen overnight, and every step along the way is helpful. Even if we fail to achieve the optimistic target of 1.5C, that doesn't mean it's all pointless and we might as well emit whatever.

And that means that those targets aren't all that important. We need emissions reductions, the more the merrier, whether or not we hit some kind of arbitrary goal or not. Whether we reach those exact benchmarks you propose or not kind of doesn't matter.

I'd just like to additionally point out that however unfair perhaps, the premise of that nature article is some kind of super-unrealistic sci-fi, because there's no question of everybody on the planet having the resources for "high life satisfaction", including perhaps your proposed annual plane trips. In fact, it's likely that the annual median number of plane trips even by Americans is... zero - at least most years: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1579/Airlines.aspx - and even the average is just 2 or so; this is clearly a luxury.

Additionally, carbon-negative processes will be necessary. How expensive that turns out to be, and how much carbon planes need to emit will hopefully play a role in pricing plane trips in the future.

For now, we could start by at least taxing jet fuel appropriately.
The database contains perceptual hashes, not images.
Each nuclear facility has a small army onsite, plus full-scale armies that can be summoned within a few minutes by panic button. In the middle of an Iowa cornfield.

Compare that to the threat environment at sea, plus the logistical difficulties of carrying around that much security. I doubt the Navy can spare a battle group to escort each container ship.
No, they will host the hashes computed from those images.
Hmm ... I hear what you're saying. At the same time, I recognize some of the new-kid-on-the-block problems you describe here.

I was a new grad in the analog world. The same kind of uncertainty existed for me. Sometimes a coworker who was supposed to help me just didn't talk to me. Many managers were just as poor then as they are now, in person or online, at setting and communicating expectations.

And there were additional problems in person that don't exist in the same way online. Particularly for women ... bullying and inappropriate attention from the men; envy and criticism from the women.

Also, early on in this pandemic, people and companies were scrambling in general. So, the chaos of onboarding may not have been a problem with onboarding per se, or even with companies not handling it "well" but just a shared difficulty.
Isn't this the usual practice with any nontrivial XML handling? You get some WSDL and XSDs of a coarse-grained service (as in having 300 optional input elements with no idea what can be combined or not) so you throw real-world examples on your implementation until it works.
>don’t use iMessage

1. Send someone you hate a message with cartoon making fun of tyrant-president.

2. That person is now on a list.

Its swatting-as-a-service.