skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hold on a second. We can't be so quick to dismiss this juicy tidbit of potential Chinese nefariousness. We must think creatively about how we can utilize this story to further the fake narrative of Chinese evil. This is patriotic and essential, so rather than thinking critically (you counterrevolutionary you) just Thank Gawd, for any solid evidence we have to fortify the China Bogeyman Fake Narrative--that's just great. We can finally establish a casus belli, a fake pretext to hate China on. Hooray! Western democracies FTW! :p ;) xx

edit: Numquam ego cogito ergo sum adversus suffragator
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It’s actually 1/(2^128).

If the attacker does not know how the image will be perturbed prior to hashing then he cannot generate an image which matches with known CSAM.
At some point, the new hardware has been changed for good reason — exploits have been discovered!

Upgrading to a new-to-you few-hundred dollars Pixel every 2-4 few years isn't anywhere close to the expense of a new $600-$900 phone every 1-3yrs, the way people used to (and the way iPhone users still seem to).
After living in Europe for a while Toronto is "ok" but still very car dependent.

I would point to Scandinavia (Finland, Denmark, etc) and parts of France and Germany as places that have cars but maintain walkable, bikeable cities.
Larry Page: Google co-founder granted New Zealand residency
I can see all the arguments and concerns people have and the strong opposition from the tech community. What I’m not seeing enough of is a focus on the actual problem Apple is purporting to address (whatever your views may be on their implementation).

If anything I’m seeing some very worrying minimisation and dismissals of the problem of CP, child trafficking and abuse and other privacy and ethics related issues such as counter-terrorism.

What’s the privacy and ethically aware solution to these problems?
The climate models aren't really improving and to the extent they have the IPCC is getting less and less concerned. There is still quite a big spread between the predictions from no problem at all to world is ending.

You don't have to choose between my forecasting or the climate models you just have to understand how models work to realize that you aren't being as critically thinking as you might think you are.
I posted multiple quotes from the very article being discussed as a reply to another misinformation comment from you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28097088 If this very one-sided article says it was racist, it was, or they would have used it as ammunition instead of being as vague as possible.

At this point it is very clear you’re deliberately pushing bs in bad faith. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Both sides of the political spectrum think the other side is stupid, and evil. The gap between the two sides is getting bigger. Politicians and people (especially on the right, but to some extent on the left) are increasingly willing to cheat to remain in power.

If you want some concrete examples:

- Trump's attempted coup, the range of support it received, the lack of condemnation it received.

- Law's allowing things like running over protestors

- Law's with the transparent goal of suppressing voters

- Widespread support (not unjustified IMO) for stacking the supreme court

- Police refusing to enforce certain laws as a political stance (not because they legitimately think they're unlawful, just that they don't like them)

- (Justified) lack of trust in the police quickly trending higher

- (Justified?) lack of trust in the military to responsibly use tools you give it, and support for a functional military

- (Justified?) lack of faith in the border guards and the ability to pass reasonable immigration laws, to the point where many people are instead advocating for just not controlling the southern border.

Generally these (and more) all speak towards the institutions that make the US a functional country failing. The institutions that make the rules for the country are losing credibility, the forces that enforce the rules are losing credibility. Neither of those are things that a country can survive forever.
‘Massive melting event’ sinks billions of tons of Greenland ice amid heat wave
Sounds like they need education on several of those points. Code review, and automated tests should be table stakes, not gold plating. Linting doesn't even seem to belong in that list because why would it add to development time?

Refactoring is a bit different in my mind. I often discover better ways to write a piece of functionality while I am writing it. Sometimes it's worth essentially starting over, and sometimes it's not. That decision IMO should be heavily influenced by business deadlines. There are times to push back the deadline because of a major refactor, but they damn well better be a rare exception, and you (and your manager) damn well better be able to explain the business reasoning behind it.

Lumping poorly judged refractors, last minute pet features, and optimizations (actual gold plating) in with critical technical practices like testing and review is probably part of the problem in your organization..
Close-in marin, so Sausalito, Marin city, Larkspur, Corte Madera, San Rafael, and the 'Sir Francis Drake corridor' (San Anselmo, Kentfield, etc) are very walkable. I don't really understand the consternation about bart, the bus service is reliable, and both the marin transit and golden gate transit are the gold standard in american public bus service IMO. Clean, WIFI, nice seats...

My wife and I frequently took public buses into San Francisco for date nights, and would come back late (last bus arrives past midnight, IIRC).

> Marin county famously blocked BART from expanding north in order to keep out the “riff-raff”.

Really good idea. Marin is a lovely place, and BART is famously terrible. Until the other cities in the bay area manage to enforce some semblance of law, I don't blame Marin for wanting nothing to do with them.

> Zooming in near the walkable areas of San Rafael, Google Maps instantly highlights many car oriented businesses like at 2nd street and D street where we see a Chevron gas station, an Arco gas station, and an O’Reilly Auto Parts store all on one corner.

Living in a walkable area does not imply removing every reminder of a car LOL.

> They famously drew a circle around the city and said development can’t go outside of that area which forced a certain density and allowed transit to be planned well in advance.

This is not why Portland developed this way. There are many places within the metro area that have not. Portland developed this way because it started as many small towns that merged, similar to Marin. The difference between PDX and Marin is that PDX is today much denser, but the basic layout is the same.

I'll also note that you're getting really bogged down with the fact Marin has no public rapid train transit, as if thats necessary for walkability. Marin is walkable because there are so many downtowns, if you live nearby, you just go to your downtown, and the downtowns it does have are spectacular. Downtown San Anselmo, Fairfax, etc are IMO the definition of an American downtown. They are so charming it's painful.
i think the remote execution with a remote hash database is the key part thay you need to focus. Checking for faces is something that doesn't need much information outside your phone itself.

What Apple is proposing is basically adding a feature to scan any user's phone for a collection of hashes. Even if they say they will only use this for CSAM this sends a strong message to all government agencies around the world that the capability is over there. Maybe for US citizens this doesn't sound dangerous but if I was a minority or a critic of the government on a more authoritarian country I would jump ship from Apple products right away.
Big Tech squashing our rights

How exactly has big tech squashed your rights?
Japan is great but as the population density is 347 per Km2 it is maybe not 100% comparable except for the north.
Except they're not calling Elon Musk either, because Wall Street is sitting right next to them telling them what to type in order to protect their vested interests.
>How often do you come into contact with the OS when developing for a phone, let alone use a phone

That's exactly the point,

Maybe you don't know what Plan9 is, but see it like that:

The Phone is just a Terminal. If i want todo business i connect my terminal to my Workplace-servers, every application, datas and settings are there, the calculation heavy stuff and backup is made on the server. If finished i connect to my private plan9-cluster, the Phone is just a bit more than a intelligent Terminal.

The difference is with a plan9 phone you would ~never have anything todo with software ON the phone, let alone having to worry to "sync" to the cloud to make backups, update Apps or need to encrypt the datas in case of loss.

It's a bit like Cloud-gaming or Virtual Desktops with thin-clients, but much much more integrated.
Not sure a group of people whose lifestyle is about as different as could be from the typical office worker is the right control group to use to claim the benefits of squatting
Not OP, I think it's a pedantic point being made. WW1 and WW2 were both after medieval times.
RPCS3 is now the first emulator to support AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution
You found an incredibly ripe cherry to pluck with this one! Literally anyone with a beef can attempt to derail a hiring decision nowadays. People are getting unhired because someone dug up old Instagram videos where they say the N word while singing rap lyrics as a teenager. It’s absolutely insane, and you cherry picked one example that is not even remotely representative of this phenomenon as a whole.
The issue is that people are forced to hold cash, and this disproportionately impacts the low class that are not financially educated and do not own or understand stocks, bonds, real estate. Inflationary currency is a class warfare attack on the poor. Stocks, bonds, real estate are not a potential replacement to fix this malicious situation because they are not suitable for transactions. It also allows creep into many metrics such as minimum wage which are not fairly adjusted.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
It does not trigger for a single match. You would need more than 1 hash collision
Weed being legal is cool (and a huge deal and way overdue) but, until I moved to SF, I still bought from a dealer. It was cheaper and I got really high quality stuff, got to give feedback to the guy on the strains, chocolates, etc. Plus my guy would smoke me up for free a good amount of the time and we'd just chill and chat for a bit.

Legal weed is wayyyy more expensive in my experience and I dislike the experience. I went to an SF dispensary and it was so odd - had to give them an ID, sit there and fiddle with some ipad, etc. Presumably there's a lot of overhead with taxes, employees, property, etc.

And apparently artificially keeping prices high...

Also a somewhat damning case of "we have no idea how to value this"

I don't really smoke anymore, no time, but it was enough of a difference that the novelty of cutesy edibles wore off fairly quickly.
I've been very happy with this fork of newpipe that has sponsorblock built-in (it's been kept up to date with upstream so far):
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

It started with this rejected PR:
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/3205
Given corporate personhood, destroying the companies could be considered corporate murder. (I admit it's a very stretched reading.)
For anyone suffering from Type A or Type C, I urge you to check if you have LSTV (Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae). It is estimated to effect 12% of the population.

This diagnosis (only 6 months ago) got me out of a spiral of pain. Knowing it was not a disc or other soft tissue gave me the confidence to stretch and exercise appropriately and I’m now mostly pain free. I expect in another 6 months I won’t notice it at all.

If you see a chiro then ask for imaging (X-rays are typically covered by insurance after 6 visits with your doctor). This diagnosis literally changed my life, and I wish I’d had it sooner.
> I'll just make whatever I want in PowerPoint

If you use PowerPoint, you might try TeXmacs (WYSIWYG, structured and programmable).

> they are absolutely delighted by the bump in design quality

I expect them to be even more delighted :-)
> In reality if you compile without optimization and with flags that avoid this stupid decisions it's not a problem.

Worse programs. Written by people who believe "C is not a difficult language" and who sacrificed all benefits of using a high performance language because they couldn't understand what they were doing.

So long as you don't have any competitors who use a better language or skilled programmers you can coast along like this, putting out a sub-par product and just pretending it's the best possible. But you can get a very sudden and rude awakening if anybody decide to offer what's possible here.
Calculator User Interface Benchmark
License Round Up
> I know roughly how long it will take

You've formed your own arbitrary deadline right there, because what I was trying to say with my admittedly brief and snarky comment is that a feature being "done" is subjective.

You may have terrific business sense, and more importantly, one that is aligned with your stakeholders. That doesn't mean any other developer does. Agreeing on a deadline in many cases of a healthy team practice.
Nobody is proposing that though...

It's a fact that NCMEC referrals have identified teachers who were secretly pedophiles, who were subsequently banned from teaching. Most people see this as a good thing. If you want to do away with this, you have to bring a compelling argument.

I support everybody's right to argue for the type of society they want to see, but there's an arrogance/conspiratorial flavor to a lot of the comments here that suggest they don't really understand what they are up against. There are actual benefits.
Maple syrup too!
https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2018-03-08/quebecs-legal-maple-...
Lets ask Casio, since 1989 that they sell the F-91W [0].

When will they also start ratting on their costumers?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrorism
Same with New Jersey + train into Manhattan
That's a tactical, not moral, distinction.
A billion grams. A million kilograms. A thousand tonnes.

…one kilotonne?
Because of the opportunity cost associated with building a sign-up flow. That means I can't spend my time working on a feature that's core to my service / application.
Yeah, functions returning types based on computations in Zig can look a lot like Idris if you squint
This is an interesting point. I think you might be right.
Some comments might be off the mark, but the article itself is completly honest about the fact that they cannot prove that any chinese officials were even involved in this mess.

The underlying criticism is more that the professor (and if you want to extrapolate swiss institutions as a whole) engaged in some "working towards the fuhrer" behaviour. She took very drastic steps (ruining this students career) on the basis of what would be in the interest of the CCP.

And I would argue that this behaviour is very much incentivized by the CCP. Take a look at how censorhip within the country works: The laws are often quite vague, but enforcement is draconian. This leads people and institutions to guess what the government would want and act (self-censor) accordingly.

One of the original journalists published another article two days later that voices this criticism more clearly:
https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/china-und-die-hsg-wo-die-angst-re...
It was meant to be in jest, I'm sorry.
I never used One Drive. And I don't use Windows outside VM's that I only use for software development (with local user accounts).

Apple don't allow me to test my software for MacOS in a VM hosted by Linux. So when I switch off my Mac Pro for good, later today, I can no longer test my code for Mac.

But my motivation is to 'Just Say No!'. It's enough now.
I completely agree, I have managed to influence parts of my family and a few friends to shift to better products (like Signal) but I simply don't like having all of my communications scanned by anyone, whether it be by disinterested (in me particularly) humans or computers. The often unspoken (ha) part of free speech is the bit about it being my choice to whom and when I share my thoughts. That means a lot to me. Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook will go on without me but they will only find out about me second hand, and that's fine by me.
E-mail is an old technology which had privacy bolted on top of it as an afterthought.

Everybody knows that e-mail is not the best medium if privacy is of utmost importance.
Nature must have changed it. Worked fine when posted.

I'm curious as to why this primary source post was flagged/dropped as a dupe, yet several secondary news articles remained posted. I usually scan or search HN before posting, didn't see any of those.

In any event, it's clearly a story of real interest to this community.
Please give earth some fucking privacy!
To you have small hands ? Almost every mouse I've seen is too small for my hands, I have this 'claw' style motion because its awkward to have the 0th joint rest against the top of the mouse.
> they have published information which is embarrassing to the US

Any examples that doesn't directly attack fossil fuel competitors?
In a six hundred year period, like 590 of them would be better in the Mediterranean. One generation may have had it slightly better, but I'm pretty sure the Justinian plague still hit northern Europe.
Oulu Finland... Created equal numbers of separate human and car roads. Very possible in newer cities.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/01/22/meet-the-bike-loving-fin...
It doesn't trigger for a single match, I guess that's the first line of defence.
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This is my website for my technology. I specialize in type 4 technology. If anyone is interested find my YouTube channel I'll add it to this thread.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCgb2evVZJJYMmPb2Sm71xtQ
Do you have a copy of the cartoon? The article intimated that it had possibly exaggerated Asiatic features. It did not indicate that the cartoon’s actual intent was to lampoon an entire race, which is what would traditionally qualify as racism (although I know the goalposts have been moved quite a bit).
>Would either the full conversion of the heretic, or their elimination, make any actual difference in your life?

First, no one is discussing "eliminating" anyone.

Second, their beliefs are dangerous to public health, they don't exist in some philosophical vacuum free of external consequence. These people refuse to take effective precautions against viruses and infectious diseases because they don't believe such things exist, and they actively spread both disease and misinformation.

This isn't a matter of disagreement over politics or religion, but science. Yes, people have a right to be wrong, but that right doesn't imply society must allow them to remain wrong at its own expense. People who shoot up synagogues have a right to hate Jews and immigrants, but their bullets don't count as free expression.
We’ve noticed that before and that’s a situation, unfortunately, a bit out of our control. Sometimes we try to request those blacklist sites to remove sdk.arengu.com but without much success.

Allowing developers to host the asset would be a workaround, but that can end up with unexpected issues when we update it. We already had in mind the DNS approach but still analyzing potential security issues before moving forward.

Thank you very much for the feedback and if you want to give Arengu a try, feel free to ping me :)
It's odd that a "private" organization, the "National Center for Missing and Exploited Children" gets access to your photos first, before law enforcement.

Why would we trust law enforcement to a posse of private citizens (albeit with a congressional charter)?
Lies, Damned Lies, and Vaccine Statistics
Building N units of dense housing also ends up simultaneously increasing the number of people allowed to live in a walkable neighborhood by N.
I'm pretty sure they use perceptual hashes for matching CSAM. A lot of cloud services do this sort of thing.
At the time of my comments people weren’t discussing the fuzziness of perceptual hashing - they weren’t discussing implementation details at all.

I don’t know enough about the specific implementation or perceptual hashing details and probably pushed back too hard as a result of the other comments at the time (which were comments out of ignorance).

The level of downvotes I received is disproportionate to what I wrote anyway - this is clearly a political issue on HN. The irony is I’d probably align more with the risks being too high position, but it needs to be considered after actually understanding what the true risks are first.
I agree - but the answer may lie in extensive bike "Roads" for walkers and bikers.
Two things:

(1) I know this shocks most people used to cookie cutter American suburbs and cities, but you can put an apartment building in a small satellite business district surrounded by single family homes.

(2) Sure. We drive to costco as well. We also shop our local downtown. For example, every Sunday, the local bakery sells off their wares (very nice breads, pies, and cakes) for pennies on the dollar. We also often end up at our local grocery store for sundry items we've run out of or forgotten. Why is preventing people from ever going to costco any concern? I would never suggest to never drive... that's just silly moral policing. I just suggest walking most places because it's way nicer and less stressful.

Here's an example. I bike to my gym every morning. It takes 10 minutes. It'd actually take longer to drive given the stop lights. However, if I lived in the burb I was born in, I'd have to drive, because the nearest gym would be miles away. Or, I'd have to purchase my own gym equipment. Instead, in my city, I have a 24 hour gym within biking distance, and I only need to take neighborhood streets to get there. It's lovely.

There are many services people need regularly that aren't bulk grocery shopping and we don't need to drive to, things like gyms, haircuts, restaurants, specialty hardware, small groceries, etc.
I was told recently that there is already change happening. Medical students are being told that they need to work with the patient, not on them.

Nobody knows their symptoms and illness better than the patient themselves. A doctor looks at them for 5 minutes, the patient lives with them so not including the patient in the diagnostic process is like working with a blindfold on.
There needs to be SOME kind of market. Not everybody has the time, space, inclination, or knowhow to do a good job of cultivation, and not everybody has friends who grow.

You could make exactly the same arguments about alcohol. I'm an enthusiastic homebrewer, but I wouldn't say that everybody should brew their own.
It kind of means that, yes. It means a lot more. I mean practice Brahmachariya until marriage. Also there is still purusha dharma and sri dharma to follow once married which continues aspects of Brahmachariya into marriage like not lusting after others, even in dreams
In the end, which companies remain off your list?
If the Covid lockdowns and remote-work bonanza didn't change the trajectory, there doesn't seem to be much that will.
Hm, i'll have to disagree. My first language, decades before i became a programmer, was Commodore Basic. When i started learning programming in earnest, my first languages were Java, C and Python. The first language that spoiled me was ReasonML, compiling and reloading a JavaScript frontend in milliseconds. The first real job using Typescript was like watching paint dry. Around 30 seconds of waiting for compiler, linter and the rest of tooling on each push? My colleagues disabled the linter to get work done.