skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, very good point. Important to take into consideration though that we are operating in Mexico and aiming for the LatAm market where this looks different than in the U.S. or Europe where most food waste indeed happens at the consumer level. Contrary in Latin America, 72% of food waste occurs prior to the consumption stage and specifically talking about fruits and veggies 54% are wasted due to supply chain inefficiencies and imperfections. And that already considers the fact that some imperfect produce ends up with food factories etc.

Let me shed some more light on the situation in Mexico (and most of LatAm):

Certainly, imperfect produce is allocated to some extent to food manufacturers, restaurants, etc. - but not enough - the scale of the problem is just too big.
Surprisingly, we found that even certain restaurants that wanted to source from us because they don't care about imperfect produce, ended up asking for standards around size or colour.

Another example is what my co-founder's father still lives daily - his limes or mandarines are wasted because of being too small, too big, miscoloured.

In Mexico, we have not seen any supermarket stocking up imperfect produce, not even the very forward-thinking ones, but agree that luckily this is happening in the U.S., Europe and other places, hopefully soon also here.

When it comes to donations, unfortunately less than 5% of food waste ends up with food banks. There is still much to be done on that front too.

We also talked to several farmers who tell us they have imperfect produce on their farm which they do not even pick because they know it will be hard for them to sell and so it's not worth for them to pay someone to pick it.

What is true though is that to leave an important mark we need to get scale.
Health insurers (better called managed care organizations) are politically locked in.

Politicians get to use them as scapegoats, and there is no way voters in the US accept taxpayer funded healthcare. Someone has to be the bad guy and allocate the limited amount of healthcare resources available, and I see no reason why the existing relationship of government makes the rules allocating the care, but MCO implements them and takes the heat would change.

Traders also seem to think the same given the gains in MCO market caps. Also, all the MCOs have profit margins of 5% or less, so this game of punting responsibility costs relatively little in the grand scheme of things.

At the root of it all is a demand for healthcare that far outstrips supply, and so these obfuscations are useful in making sure certain socioeconomic classes are able to attain a greater share of it than others.
> will initially roll out only in the US.

Ok so they’re planning to eventually roll out this spyware worldwide. I do not know how Americans can think China is bad in this while allowing this to happen.
As much as it's nice to provide a solution along with evidence that something's broken, it isn't a requirement. Knowing something is broken is a different skill than fixing it. It's the reason we have mechanics, doctors, and QA to name a few. I'm willing to bet there are much more socio-political creative types that can imagine systems much better than I can. After all, I'm just a layperson in that domain. Challenging lay people is exactly as absurd as challenging them to come up with a fix for their join pain before consulting a doctor.
Is it weird that I feel like I've never heard of this app? I mean, I was around late 80s/90s but I dunno....what platform/years are the core of this?

Here's some other retrospective from recent:

The creative legacy of Kid Pix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563615
> Although I really really doubt anyone here would be arrested for having a doze on the pavement.

It seems to be declining, but according to the BBC, as of a few years ago there were more than a thousand people arrested for just that.
A wholly speculative article which could be summarized as 'what if Delta but even worse'. Yes, this is a real possibility. No, the authors have no estimate of the probability - similar to 'a giant asteroid could be coming that we haven't detected yet.' It's true, but not actionable. Newsweek often does quite good reporting but then delivers it in a horribly sensationalist wrapper.

One of the ways to spot sensationalism is redundancy: 'a doomsday variant worse than Delta and Lambda'. It's like saying 'a bad thing that is also bad' may happen in future.
> I wonder what's comments would be after Apple start to scan phones for anti-censorship or anti-CCP materials in China.

I'm cynical enough to wonder whether this isn't their actual commercial reason for developing this, with CSAM being a PR fig leaf. Apple is substantially more dependent on China than its major competitors.
Deciphering Uber rating using Racket
This is painful to read with the arrogant undertone while you don't actually know how CSAM scanning works.

It's fuzzy hash, not ""AI"", based. Cloudflare uses it too, and last time i checked the web is still functional.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36004610611...

How about we turn the tables and have the complainers suggest a solution. Because every single time an approach to targeted child porn takedowns has been suggested, such as datacenter raids which would not affect as many people, someone is screaming about their privacy.

Child abusers evolve and are very happy if law enforcement doesn't.
Why does data for speech recognition need to be prefect. That's certainly not the case for other machine learning applications. Can you train the less clean data and fine-tune on a clean subset?
It goes from the wallet of people issuing transactions to no one. So it was actual value that people could spend, and that value is removed from circulation, reducing inflation
Whoops, my apologies. I use MLO on Windows and Android; I saw the icon on their site and assumed they had a port. If I were on MacOS, I would probably use Omnifocus ( https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/ ).
Sure - for me (and likely >99.9% of people), from what I have read, it is clearly not ready. I’m a heavy phone user in most respects. For me it would have to start as a hobby project.
Common Challenges of 'Shift Left' Security
A proper CO2 tax wouldn't be disruptive to bitcoin, bitcoin only cares that everyone pays the same price for electricity. If the absolute cost of electricity goes up, nothing changes.
To me the Amiga felt less transitional and more like a branch cut short. These days everything is better, but also nothing is.
Ask HN: What are some of your favorite research papers?
Things that would reduce child sexual abuse more than scanning everyone's phones on a daily basis:

- Encourage marriage and remove benefits penalties for two-parent households, as children are substantially more likely to be abused when their biological father is not in the household

- Fund undercover police work and informants, which is how most large busts already happen now. Ideally highly independent from existing courts and law enforcement to deal with Epstein- or Dutroux-type situations. The worst offenders are not swapping child porn on Facebook or Dropbox (or now iMessage and Apple Photos)

- Enforce obscenity laws against incest and other extreme forms of pornography

- Institute the death penalty for child sexual abuse and make sure it is performed swiftly and publicly

Since these aren't under consideration, we can tell this isn't about reducing child abuse. It's about setting up a permanent and ever-expanding digital system for political control.
Same as always, a solution with no real problems to solve. Crypto is a big, useless, bubble.
If Ethereum can hard fork like this, it stands to reason as well that the 21 Million Bitcoin limit is a lot more changeable than Bitcoin proponents would say.

Or the opposite is true - and Ethereum is under heavily centralized control.
Probably just the location? London has a huge gravitational pull in the UK. If you’re outside London you’re basically limited to people who can’t or won’t move to London, which excludes most (though obviously not all) of the most ambitious and talented candidates.
> “When goods don’t cross borders, armies will.”

Why must that be true? Why can't we be content to stay where we are and leave each other alone?
Update their running software.
Not a tax accountant, but while just failing to file is a misdemeanor, if you actually owed money and it can be shown that you willfully attempted to evade paying taxes owed, that's a felony (I.R.C. § 7201).

Now, chances are they don't find out, or if they do you can play innocent and pay a fine. Personally, if I were in this situation I would either file, renounce, or never set foot on US soil.
Upgrading their nodes
Picked pretty-much at random, but typical of what I mean: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.01137.pdf

The use of the filled club ♣ makes the whole thing look like it's been sneezed on by someone who's just come off a shift in a coal-mine.

There are 1087 published research papers here if you'd like to browse ... https://shelah.logic.at/paper-list/
More discussion going on over here from a later submit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073383
Are you sure it's not fair use? I believe most legal experts agree that language models such as GPT-3 are not violating copyright due to fair use.
The constitution constrains what the Federal government can do, not what private companies can do.
Yeah, that’s the most common situation but she tested negative. We had been away and the cat sitter changed the food and litter so we reverted those, but it’s been a couple of weeks and she’s still suffering from something. We just can’t figure out what it is.

At least the good news is it’s deliberate. The plumbing is otherwise operating properly
>we are apt to rest satisfied that all is safe, because nothing improper will be likely TO BE DONE, but we forget how much good may be prevented, and how much ill may be produced, by the power of hindering the doing what may be necessary, and of keeping affairs in the same unfavorable posture

Wow, he nailed it. I was just reflecting on this peculiarity with friends. China, for an easy-to-grab example, is able to "move fast and break things" but the US, we need the two houses of Congress and the executive to line up, and if not all three are walking the same direction, we have grid-lock, which at some times seems by-design and at other times, seems only to our detriment with "how much good may be prevented."
I’m not a long-time emacs user, but as a new one, my enthusiasm is really growing.

Like everyone, I’m finding that I’m in an increasingly disparate set of tools with diverging interface design choices to get my jobs done. The cognitive dissonance that all these different interfaces presents me with feels like it’s getting out of hand, and is growing non-linearly.

Emacs is a arcane tool, and is dated in so many ways, but I don’t know that I can find another solution that allows me to counter the ever-growing complexity of software productivity solutions that I presented with both in my personal and professional life. I know I’m not alone.

As someone who’s not a developer nor a full-time product person, (actually a doctor that wandered into tech), I often wonder why I can’t choose my own front end, and why am forced to use interfaces that don’t work very well for me. Emacs helps me escape some of that (at the cost of a huge relative learning curve, granted)
> The term "toxic masculinity" does not imply "masculinity = toxic".

It totally does, this is why those two words are used in that expression. The plan is to skew the meaning of masculinity by making the colloquation widely used enough, until it's automatically associated with toxicity even when that word is not present.
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It's funny how the IRS publishes a "shame list" of people who renounced.
Feral cats are domesticated cats that have escaped and are no longer considered domesticated. The point is that if it weren't for humans we wouldn't have so many feral cats.

Also, feral cats tend to congregate close to human populations.

I'm not sure what your point is about equilibriums. Of course equilibria are reached naturally, but with the human factor these equilibria have been distorted beyond any natural capacity. In short, any human-impacted equilibria tends toward the rapid decrease in species populations, often to the point of species extinction.
The US is not a Hollywood movie, sure, but neither is it anything like how foreigners on HN portray it. And for a supposedly 'extremely cruel' place, the US has by far the highest rate of charity in the world.
I’ve been meaning to start a home cloud for pictures on top of Raspberry Pi. Looks like that will get done sooner than I planned
Can this be used to classify molecules, which also have near infinite chemical spaces?
Says the inventor of the pizza menu. You have a thing about food!
> For speaking out, Spriestersbach was deemed “problematic” and given antipsychotic medications, including Haldol, which made him despondent and catatonic.

> The doctor concluded the amount of psychiatric medications he was on was “well beyond therapeutic levels, which is why he was acting catatonic and his expressions vacant,” Dumas-Griffith said in a sworn statement to the court.

> Spriestersbach was prescribed powerful drugs, the doctor added, in “an effort to make him ‘competent’ when in reality he had always been competent.”

This may be a bit of a tangent, but the willingness of many medical professionals to prescribe mentally altering drugs is extremely alarming to me and it only seems to be getting worse. Even outside the prison system it seems trivial to convince a doctor you have a mental disorder - especially if you're convinced of it yourself. I know several people who went through hell because they were misdiagnosed with a mental disorder or prescribed far more than what was appropriate. Pills are such a convenient solution for everyone involved; it's easy to see why they're abused. Of course I recognize that many people actually do suffer from such disorders and I want them to receive whatever treatment they need, but it's important to remember mentally altering drugs are very dangerous and their use should not be taken lightly.
>how could the US government stop this from happening.

Lots of simple solutions if we look at other countries that restrict emigration. USSR and North Korea had models that worked pretty well. High boarder security, labor camps, family punishment, and asset seizure.

These could all keep people working and generating tax revenue in the US when they want to leave.

On a practical level, I think the idea of coercing people to stay in the USA would be unpopular, especially when contrasted with the current wealth tax on exit.
The conventional wisdom for people integrating PhotoDNA is that false positives are vanishingly rare. If you run it against your data and you get a hit then you should call the FBI.
> As for TFA: 640 pages in 15 months ain't bad.

It took me 15 months to edit and typeset the print and ebook editions. The actual writing and illustrating part took me another ~4 years before that.
> they don't even live in the same problem space despite both having "SQL" in their names.

That's true in theory, but I do find that they end up competing in practice when you're looking for something in between the two extremes.

I often seem to find myself in a position where I need a database, but it's only for one day's data, which is not huge but not tiny (say 100's of MB). It may be helpful to have a couple of processes accessing it, but probably only one will be a writer, and it's very likely (but not certain) that those processes will be on the same computer. It useful to have that data in a single file for archiving. Those are situations where you currently face a geniune choice between PostgreSQL and SQLite - more because both of them are a bit wrong, rather than because they're both perfect for it.

I wish there was something in the middle: a separate program you could spin up, so it's a client-server database like PostgreSQL, but it's just a single binary that doesn't need installing. And then it operates on a single file that it creates on the fly (or can open an existing one of course), a lot like SQLite. Hmm, as I think about it, it actually wouldn't be hard to make program that does that by making a thin wrapper around SQLite with e.g. gRPC.
un-predatable? I've seen plenty of predators in Africa happily munching away on giraffe carcasses. There are even a few lion prides who specialize in hunting elephants, but giraffes are commonly prey.
The metaphysics of that are going to be interesting. "Do what I mean" programming meets all the stories about why one shouldn't accept bargains with fairies or djinn.

"I can't let you use `strcpy()` there, Dave" is the least of it.
Devil's advocate for a moment... the definition of a broker is "a person who buys and sells goods or assets for others," or it can mean to "arrange or negotiate" a deal or plan.

How is a miner not a broker then? They accept transactions and then place them on a blockchain by performing some kind of work. Sure, at the moment few if any cryptos are definitely securities, but what is going to happen when a company creates (for example) a wrapped SP500 token? A "traditional" broker can't just trust anyone to record a transaction, there is a lot of regulation.

Will there be a class of tokens that can only be mined by people who can do KYC on them? Why is a miner exempt from caring about what transactions they accept?
Parts of the documentation are very good.

For example https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/wal-configuration.html is done properly: it describes what that part of the program actually does, with the settings that affect it introduced at the appropriate point, separately from the reference documentation which lists the same settings in alphabetical order.

But not all aspects of Postgres get this quality of documentation. It would be good to see a similar treatment of the checks the planner or executor performs to decide whether to permit access to a particular table and column and row, rather than having to deduce it from the separate descriptions of the security features.

(For example, the basic fact that a VIEW accesses a table using the privileges of the view's owner, not those of the user executing the query, is very hard to find in the documentation.)
It doesn’t make sense to expect or hope any company will protect us from the state.

A big, rich company like Apple will have some leverage, but if the state is determined that won’t matter.

Our controls on the state will need to be outside of private companies.
Just a continuation of Australia's slow decline into authoritarianism and irrelevance. I wonder if they'll read these comments of mine and revoke my citizenship for sedition
It's a gain based on your invested capital, isn't it? It's textbook capital gains. PoS, PoW, whatever.
> and sells it

If that was true that would be a profoundly bad purchase for NVidia since the data is already freely licensed and available for anyone to use at no cost.

This is like saying that Epic "bought" Blender when they gave it a development grant, or that Google contributing patches to upstream Linux means they own it now. Mozilla didn't give NVidia any kind of special license, when NVidia contributes data to Common Voice they're doing so under Common Voice's license, not their own.

We want to encourage more companies to treat software and training data as a public commons that is collectively maintained, this is a good thing.
I remember being in Kenya before the election that followed post-election violence previously (scores dead). Ambassador said point blank, "You need to take care of yourselves. We only have a handful of marines and they'll be spending their time protecting or destroying classified documents."
ohhh, was it mainly a Mac thing? PC-focus over here. Still think I would have heard of it
The Guardian article appears to be reporting on this open access article in Nature Communications [0].

The original publication is a meta-analysis of 860 meta-analyses. I thought this sounded a bit extreme, so I checked what John P.A. Ioannidis thought about meta-analyses because he often raises good points about trends in research and research ethics. Sure enough, his view is that meta-analyses are mass produced, redundant, misleading, and conflicted [1]!

One criticism of meta-analyses there, using anti-depressants as a case study: "the results of several meta‐analytic evaluations that addressed the effectiveness of and/or tolerability for diverse antidepressants showed that their ranking of antidepressants was markedly different. These studies had been conducted by some of the best meta‐analysts in the world, all of them researchers with major contributions in the methods of meta‐analysis and extremely experienced in its conduct. However, among 12 considered drugs, paroxetine ranked anywhere from first to tenth best and sertraline ranked anywhere from second to tenth best."

I would be reluctant to trust an observational study that examined the links between alcohol and cancer without examining the data further (many things can affect cancer, many "significant" results have small effect sizes, etc.). But to find that meta-analyses on the same topic don't reach the same conclusion? That's troubling. Is going even deeper into a meta-analysis of meta-analyses a good idea?

Edit: To justify my link is the correct original research, since another commenter claims otherwise, the Guardian article states "The Imperial study looked at data from 860 reviews of published studies, which explored the association between food and nutrient intake and the risk of either developing or dying from 11 different cancers." These same numbers of 11 cancers and 860 reviews is in [0].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24861-8
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27620683/
It would also be interesting to see if the mating strategies and behaviors of the males change too.

Let's hope they are thoroughly monitored and studied.
It’s difficult to renounce and you never know if being in the US may become necessary.

People who renounce their American citizenship do so with the funds to overcome this or because they’re committed to living somewhere else.
Sounds true. Only place where I like to use complex language intentionally is comedic / sarcastic purposes.
3x != 2x, and I suspect 3x is still too low; also comparing median salaries is not enough.
Thanks. The article confirms the title, this is not about content uploaded to the cloud:

Apple’s system is less invasive in that the screening is done on the phone, and “only if there is a match is notification sent back to those searching”, said Alan Woodward, a computer security professor at the University of Surrey. “This decentralised approach is about the best approach you could adopt if you do go down this route.”
thats a good way to gum up the system so nothing ever gets done.
Along with this: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-facebook-tech-g...

Just like the Patriot Act and the no fly list, it's only a very short matter of time until this is expanded to Android and more importantly, non-CP content. The only difference is its the other party doing it this time, in both cases its "to catch bad guys" and "for your own good".
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