skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To use your car less is OFTEN an available choice.

Only to wealthy privileged people who can discuss their first-world problems on forums like this. As folks get poorer on the scale the more a car becomes an unavoidable necessity for many.

I applaud to your personal choices and sacrifices, but please don't make it sound like everybody can and should make the same/similar ones.

Most of us here have/want kids. I say something very opposite to what you say - folks here, please have kids! Not many, but take your time and raise them properly. It basically means sacrificing large portion of your life to them, without a guarantee they will even appreciate it. Which is fine, that shouldn't be the motivation for it anyway.

You who are reading this, are a part of smart elite in this world, whenever you are, and can raise next generation of elite with disproportionally large amount of decisive powers in their hands.

Why, you may ask? Raise them well so they are balanced happy individual with clear drive to help make this world a better place, and they may very well become next leaders, business captains, politicians, or just good citizens helping those around them, environment, mankind.

Now imagine what kind of world would that kind of attitude bring. Don't just minimize your 'bad' footprint on this existence, try creating more of the positive one.
Poultry and fish are often injected with water in the processing chain. You notice it when you want to fry your fish and it quickly turns into cooking/steaming instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumping
For chocolate, I’m fairly certain the consumer basket specifies a specific chocolate content. It’s the one product where that’s a widely known attribute. Well, maybe juices, as well.
How would you like the report formatted?
If you are talking about parents giving their children a device to use as a weapon against them, you are implying some really bad parenting and really bad general human behavior by some other parents.

Not that there aren't some really lousy parents out there.

I suspect/hope the exclusion parenting style (you don't get a phone because I don't trust you with it or the rest of the world with you) and the guidance parenting style (you get a phone but I'm going to make sure to talk to you about responsibility and about lousy people in the world, and I want to know if something happens so we can keep talking) both far outweigh this sort of proposed 'entrapment' parenting style.
I feel they are being short sighted about this. Sure, protect the broadcasters who have spent lots of money on their rights to the coverage, and certainly crack down on unauthorised broadcasts of entire events.

But … banning athletes showing their winning performances at a time where people will be checking their social media, when the public are at their most interested in sport and the athletes, is against the spirit of the Games, and a missed opportunity.
But this will be triggered only while uploading to iCloud, so if you are not using iCloud for photos the algorithm will never run? Or that’s why I understood.
This is definitely one of those topics where going public can have immediate negative consequences for someone even if it turns out to have been a false positive.
I might be mistaken but how it's not the same thing?

- You don't like storage provider - you don't use it

- You don't like ecosystem/smartphone provider - you don't use it

On top of that you can opt out even now by disabling updates it just means that you won't have access to the newest iOS and take risk that at some point software developers will stop supporting OS you decided to stick to.
Vaccine passports would create a hideously divided two-tier society
Asking the user seems the most obvious way of deciding this. There are plenty of ways to make it discrete with a default option selected that the user could deselect if desired.
It's not ridiculous. One is a measurement of linear time, the other is a series of context-sensitive human labels tied to planetary movements. Conceptually they are not the same thing, even though we try very hard to make them the same.
Some of worst offenders have since changed lib names, you should be OK if you ever decide to jump back in.
Can’t the blockchain help with misidentifying individuals?

As for the photo scanning isn’t it already happening?
Yeah this is what really irks me, cloud providers always struck me as "optional", this is adding a feature which can trivially be tweaked to simply scan your entire phone for wrongthink and send the results to the CCP.

If Google decides to implement this, which doesn't seem very unlikely because of the optics of NOT implementing this, people who aren't tech savvy won't really have a realistic way to opt out.

I just don't think there is very much evidence that in practice false positives are a big issue and the article is very much pushing that argument.
Thanks for this @albinowax_ - super interesting!

Just a quick question about the H2.CL case study. Did Netflix have a separate vulnerability where their server wrongly trusted Host headers with netflix.com suffix and returned a 302 response which can redirected users to an arbitrary host? I'm just trying to see whether I interpret the case study correctly.
You can capture more of the room without the fish eye distortion.
how does apple protect againat hash collisions?
I don't think it's "too much work" if you really need it or are really interested in doing so and the approach results in incremental benefit vs. one big blob of benefit at the end. It would be quite a bit of work and not super automatic, probably. You have to implement all the files named 'wrap_*' in the Love codebase, kind of. It's definitely possible to start working on a game project to test with and do it incrementally, which is probably strategically the best path and also fun, which can make it worth it. Something like:

- Get direct Love C++ project working without Lua

- Make some level of test cases with it to get a sense of C++ API usage

- Embed squirrel interpreter into test

- Start binding API to squirrel and testing more and more of API incrementally from squirrel

- Port more and more test cases till it's all covered (or prioritize based on need of game(s))

The nature of the thing you are increasingly covering in Squirrel could be a particular game or a set of demos (maybe both).
> I doubt there's anyone who reconditions 1960s slrs to like-new anymore.

I can think of two people online who CLA Pentax and Nikon SLRs and there is a shop in Tokyo that specializes in fixing old gear. From time to time Nikon will service old gear too.

Old normal lenses are still great for taking pictures of people. New huge normal lenses have edge to edge sharpness, can shoot in strong backlighting, and can shoot in daylight wide open without exposing every little optical flaw and in the lens design.

Some of the flaws can look good in a photo: spherical aberration can give highlights a pleasant glow.

So yeah as a studio lens or for picture of people vintage lenses 35mm-135mm can deliver the goods even now.
Absolutely. Here are a couple examples of software libraries that I wrote nearly 15 years ago that are still in use by lots of people and haven't needed any form of maintenance since then:

https://www.fairtutor.com/fairlylocal/

https://www.fairtutor.com/fairlycertain/

Step one is to recognize when it's feature complete and bug free, and then stop messing with it. But the most important thing in keeping something finished is to not let anybody else unfinish it. As in, ruthlessly weed out any dependencies that make breaking changes.

Sadly, most breaking changes come from developers who like to monkey with things for no reason, because they have a project and can't help themselves from working on it after it serves its initial purpose. Find these early and either rewrite them or make sure they don't have security issues then stop updating them.

The one thing you can't control is if you have to depend on a big 3rd party service. For my 2 main rent paying products, the only changes I've had to make in the nearly 10 years that they've both been "done" has been to bump versions of things for AWS, Twilio, Stripe, etc. when they changed the API for something that worked perfectly fine previously. Sometimes these rewrites are pretty invasive and time consuming. Reduce these dependencies as much as you can.

The best way of doing that is to run your own stuff on your own servers. AWS can and will (and often do) force you redeploy your shipped .NET Core 1.0 lambdas as .Net Core 1.1, 6 months after that version becomes available. Then they'll force you to redeploy as 2.0 a year later. Then 2.1 the next. On the other hand, your server can still be running 1.0 today if it makes sense to do so (such as for something like a Lambda function that's not exposed to the outside world). The sooner you put in the work to spot that you're on that train and get yourself off it, the better.

It's all doable.
I wonder how Apple will fish out “child porn” from tons of innocuous pictures of babies, often mostly in the nude (children like to wear no clothes). Is their algo clever enough to understand context?

I somehow doubt it.
The sudden appearance of unspeakable photos on the phones of completely innocent dissidents will never, ever occur.
No, I’m an indie hacker that also does some contracting. I am a one-man shop, so I don’t need to worry about hiring or working with others. I code in Haskell primarily because I enjoy it, the safety guarantees let me sleep at night, and I find it aesthetically pleasing.

There are plenty of Haskell developers, though not as many as more popular languages. Hiring for Haskell is more competitive, but easier to attract developer attention.
Ran it a bit longer for you - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/OAG7LUkRVNHunrsiGD...
There's a Wikipedia page on it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire_...
i wish I could downvote this a million times. if someone has to seize physical control of your phone to see sexts thats one thing. this informs the abuser whenever the sext is sent/received. this feature will lead to violent beatings of victims who share a residence with their abuser. Consider the scenario of sally sexting jim while tom sits in another room of the same home waiting for the text to set him off. in other circumstances, sally would be able to delete her texts, now violent tom will know immediately. Apple has just removed the protection of deleting texts from victims of same residence abusers.

Apple should be ashamed. I see this as Apple paying the tax of doing business in many of the worlds most lucrative markets. Apple has developed this feature to gain access to markets that require this level of surveillance if their citizens.
I use tide-mode for TS. It's great together with LSP!
> The only thing unique about Apples implemention is that it's client-side.

This is just another case of, 'your phone' is not yours. People stores their lives and thoughts in a device that they have no control of.

I am not against those use per se. I am worried about what it means legally. The minimum that we need is a more clear legal framework. This is a private company accessing personal data without consent and without any formal requirement from law enforcement.
Only if you use iCloud photos, so you do have a choice.

In practice any major cloud provider is going to or is already doing this. We need a better regulatory approach, it isn’t practical to put the responsibility on providers.
I don't know about you, but I just decided to switch from an iPhone back to a Nokia feature phone (where is mobile Linux when you need it?) and start backing out of Apple's ecosystem. I'm quite positive I can live without apps, just as I used to before Y2K. And, in case you're wondering, no: I have nothing to do with illegal adult imagery. [Edit #1] This article gets (at least) one thing right: when it comes to certain kinds of crime, an accusation is ALL it takes to destroy your life. [Edit #2] I used to laugh at all the "we have your password, send Bitcoin or..." spam. The first "you have a picture of a gray cat on your phone, send Bitcoin or..." message would give me a friggin' heart attack.
Me not uploading my picture doesnt lead to children being abused
It has not so much to do with prediction, nobody can predict everything.

The science is following trends, using models and projections. There are real measures that show more instabilities, signs of weakening and the models explain why with confidence. From that we can anticipate, knowing the accumulated effects from trends may "lag" by 30-50 years. For anticipation, this means events will worsen over that span even if we stop emissions.

That greenhouse gases in a closed vessel causes warming when light shines is settled science past 100 years. We see cooling stratosphete and warming troposphere, all in line with the models.

It's kind of like discovering your house is on fire, then arguing warmth is good for cooking.
That was not 100% a troll comment. Barely 0%. I really think apple is doing a good thing
"Τhe facility could be 50 feet away or it could be a 5 mile walk"

Realtor associations at least in the Netherlands have guidelines (e.g. on what distances amounts to 'walkable') that prevent this sort of thing, I see no reaons our country would be unique; that said, do you have any specific examples of ads like this? It's not that I'm that fond of realtors, but some of the over the top claims in this thread are really exaggerations. Will you find examples of exaggerated claims? Of course. The question is, is it 'common'? I'd say no.
I love conservation amd vote in favor of parks and such at every opportunity.

The difference seems to be whether the appeal is to the intellect, or the appeal is to fear.
It is my understanding that what really happens is far more impressive.

1. When the sound is coming from, say, the back left, the difference between the ears is far less than the width of the head.

2. It is not that the brain hears on one side "later", it is that the brain is constantly hearing two different things, what is registered on the right and what is on the left, simultaneously. Since there are often sounds coming from both directions at once, there is no easy way to match the sounds up.

Instead the subconscious has to hold each of the incoming sounds for some fractions of a second, and then combine the different sounds (with smell, etc) while matching up the different parts, using the differences to account for direction.

Since this per-force takes time, the subconscious meanwhile sends a "image" to the consciousness with the assumed incoming data based on whatever had happened before [not on what is happening now], while processing the current data to predict what image will be sent to the consciousness during the next incoming round.

This means we perceive a world created by the subconscious's guess of what should be happening now, based on past input. And the current input is held for processing. And STILL, the mouse is able to avoid the owl!
... and you passed it, but then they tell you that you missed the job criteria, because you don't have 10 years kubernetes experience, which is a hard requirement
Luvit also has okay docs and a ton of examples but they are spread between luvit.io and github.

https://luvit.io/docs.html
Minority report style police based on AI embedded in iPhones? That's a killer feature! They could call it iSWAT or something.

Let's see if fear of AI is greater than brand loyalty and convenience. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object.

Apparently Apple has a team working as AI police. These people decide who gets reported.

> While noting the 1-in-1 trillion probability of a false positive, Apple said it "manually reviews all reports made to NCMEC to ensure reporting accuracy." (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-explains-h...)

Don't even get me started with the 1 in a trillion probability, we know adversarial images could be created that will trick the system even when you don't have access to the model.
Knowing Homo Sapiens, I don't expect any different.
There was almost certainly some negotiation- it’s a voluntary agreement. But if they can’t or won’t hold themselves to it the FTC and the courts can and will enforce it and that 5B could easily become far bigger.
A lot of people fail to distinguish between "can" (legally permitted to) and "should" (ethically correct to do).

Legally they don't have any responsibility to these researchers. They can ban anyone. The argument is that they shouldn't ban these people. That's why they're getting a polite letter rather than any kind of legal action.
A lot of us hate and loathe javascript. I'm not 'the best' at lua, but compared to javascript it makes me feel like I'm not taking crazy pills.
No, there is a plan to also do on device scanning.
>You don't like ecosystem/smartphone provider - you don't use it

This just doesn't work like this in our day and age. We are one ecosystem (android) away from complete domination of this scanning technology. You could argue that I could use a librem or something but at that point all librem users automatically become suspicious because "all major manufacturers have this, he probably has something to hide".
Awesome - I gotta check out that tool. 1E3 than for the info!
If you compromised bitcoin, wouldn't you want it to stay high in value? You could still wreck shop but a more realistic example is needed.
I got into Lex Fridman's podcast [1] maybe a year ago and was instantly a fan of his depth-first search style. It's often frustrating in other interview style podcasts when something interesting is mentioned but not explored. Lex will often say something like "oh that's interesting, let's talk about that" then that becomes the subject of discussion for 20-30 minutes, but he's good at backing up to the original point after that branch is exhausted. Incidentally he's a computer scientist!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/lexfridman
It’s not just you. It’s fucking enraging at this point. I feel like I woke up one day and gleaned a fat look at Finder or various iCloud/background service junk and just realized it is to me what fucking bloatware ware of 2010 PC’s (and presumably today) was/is.

I just want general purpose computation equipment @ reasonably modern specifications - albeit largely devoid of rootUser-privileged advertisement stacks (included libraries etc).

I mean what the fuck, is that so fucking hard? This is hellworld, given the obviously plausible counter factual where we just… don’t… do this
Thank you for the compliment on sumi.news.

Haskell has a mature library for JSON, Aeson. I often use it to interface with APIs. You write your type, then functions to serialize/deserialize. Records using simple types (Text, Int, Maybe, etc.) can automatically derive the serialize/deserialize functions using generics.

Funny you mention PDF, because I’m doing that right now in Haskell for a resume builder project. There’s a few libraries for working with PDFs. HPDF (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/HPDF) supports all the basic functionality you’d expect to create PDFs.
Parent police the phones of 16 and 17 years old? That's some horrifying over parenting, Britney spears conservatorship level madness. Those kids have no hope in the real world
In theory they are simply matching against a known database of existing images, and as such your baby/family images will not be a match - they are personal images that have not been catalogued elsewhere. There is also meant to be human verification of any flagged images.

In practice ?

(Edit: This is for the iCloud scanning. The (i)Message warning around sexting is a whole other issue)
For now, the next step is to do on device scanning with fuzzy hashes whatever that means.
That is because the motivation is different. Google and Facebook allow you to profile your users and get their real identity. Apple only has upsides for users, not developers.
i guess i would not have thought someone would have referred to such a service as 'free' -- at least, among the HN crowd.

but yeah, that makes sense.

p.s. i used HN Replies to see this comment. https://www.hnreplies.com/
Radon is an alpha emitter which gets into your lungs, so that comparison to an arm x-ray isn't entirely fair. Otherwise I agree, it shouldn't be a concern unless you live in the first floor on granite.
Makes me remember POV Ray times. I must be old.
Im really starting to develop a visceral hatred for Apple.

They are talking sanctimoniously about privacy out of one end of their mouth, put on a family friendly face by banning anything offending prude sensibilities, while having no qualms about doing as much business as they possibly can in China. Now this.

They are the ultimative dystopian corporation, I find them even worse than Facebook in that regard, at least Facebook has some interest in free speech and does not operate in China.

I guess the reason I am so angry is that I like the devices and engineering marvels they can produce. But I cannot be a customer of this.
Which model did you choose?

I'm looking at doing the same and I noticed Nokia has published the source code for the 8110 (I believe kaios runs ontop of Linux)
this sounds almost like parody. Most immigrants I know had remarkably good experiences in more rural and less cosmopolitan places. Yes, the sort of 'redneck racism' for a lack of a better term exists, but on the other hand people are actually generally curious, kind and if you manage to work your way into a community you'll actually not only accepted but have people to rely on.

I suspect the take comes from a very white collar background. If you're a highly educated immigrant you'll do well in America's coastal states, if you're a blue collar immigrant good luck entering the service class.

And this is actually backed by data. Contrary to self-image major US metropolitan areas are highly segregated, more so than the south, and interestingly enough the mountain west and plains states have the lowest levels of segregation

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism
> The lens I have was dropped at least once because it has a dent on it. I know the old lenses can also take some rough handling.. do you know if there is a digital way to tell whether or not it is still focusing and adjusting the aperture properly short of shooting a bunch of test charts on a tripod?

Take some picture of something flat like a brick wall and if one side is in focus and the other isn’t then you have a misaligned element. It’s really easy to spot.

To check the aperture turn the aperture ring and check that the blades aren’t sticking or obviously f*ked up. . If your photos are exposing properly according to the Sunny 16 rule then it’s good enough. Old lenses have a lot of sample variation so it might be a special lens.
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Out of curiosity: How, specifically, would you like to solve this with blockchain tech?
I can kind of sympathize with their sudden hyperpoliticization given what happened to them.

I sincerely hope they dont start talking about america. What would be the point?
Another "I love Affinity" reply-- in my case, I dumped Gimp, which made me cry everytime I used it (due to its poor UI/UX)
The Surprising Benefits of Talking to Strangers
> us

Please don't conflate us (you, me and most people in general) with those who actually do this. I certainly wouldn't do this and the idea that it's "us" really is kind of insulting.

We might be one humanity, but we're not equally responsible for all the shit, lies and hypocrisy that happens.

Thank you.