skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the big news here unless one is strictly going by ideological fixation. A political organization can have both grassroots elements and be funded by wealthy patrons. There are MANY democrat, progressive organizations in the U.S and elsewhere that regularly receive funding and support from billionaires of similar political persuasion, which is perfectly fine and good. But oh the horror! If it happens to be a conservative group and some billionaire funded part of it, then its a deep dark conspiracy all of a sudden. Talk about constructing politically tainted narrative.

Are conservative-type groups somehow less morally clean for receiving support from wealthy patrons than progressive groups for receiving support from wealthy patrons of their own?

Does being a billionaire who feels an affinity for conservative or free market causes make that person nefarious because they decide to financially support them? Why except for reasons of purely political emotional dislike does it not apply equally when any number of billionaire pro-democrat types regularly fund projects and groups that share their affinities?
FWIW, pg_auto_failover was released post-acquisition and is most certainly not unsupported; it's actively developed and new feature releases have been solid. It would be nice for this functionality to be built into Postgres, though.
Two possibilities (among many):

1. Denis Villeneuve's Dune comes out this fall, and from the trailers looks to be amazingly well done.

2. Dune is a touchstone book in science fiction. Many of the works in later generations contain passing references to it, and it has remained important and relevant since its release.
Maybe a better fix would to make admitting and fixing mistakes was cheap and relatively cheerful?
If a dingo counts as similar enough to a coyote, then I would make it 2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Azaria_Chamberlain
I often hear that as individuals we can't really be held responsible for climate change and that instead we should look to our government to impose laws that restrict carbon output.

This made me curious: what is the "fair" amount of carbon dioxide that the average individual can emit? According to this article[1][2] published in Nature it looks like the answer is 1.61 metric tons of CO2/year.

That strikes me as close-to-impossible for industrialized nations to achieve. A round-trip flight from NYC to SF emits 1.5 metric tons per passenger. In order to reach 1.61 metric tons an individual would not be able to own a gas-powered car, could not regularly consume meat, could not live in remote areas only visitable by plane etc. Many things people don't even consider "luxuries" (like visiting family overseas) would be a non-starter.

In France they implemented a modest fuel tax and they got the Yellow Vest Protests[3] in response. I can't see the average individual ever voting for a party that wouldn't let them visit family and nearly eliminate meat consumption.

As China, India and Indonesia have industrialized their per-capita emissions have shot up well above these levels as well. I imagine the same thing will happen with African nations over the next 25-50 years.

I don't really see any way out of this other than some miraculous technological breakthroughs like solar powered planes which I understand to be near-impossible with today's technology.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0021-4

[2] https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-01...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests
I've been maintaining a spare phone running lineage os exactly in case something like this happened - I love the apple watch and apple ecosystem, but this is such a flagrant abuse of their position as Maintainers Of The Device that I have no choice but to switch.

Fortunately, my email is on a paid provider (fastmail), and my photos are on a NAS, I've worked hard to get all of my friends on Signal. While I still use google maps, I've been trialing out OSM alternatives for a minute.

The things they've described are in general, reasonable and probably good in the moral sense. However, I'm not sure that I support what they are implementing for child accounts (as a queer kid, I was terrified of my parents finding out). On the surface, it seems good - but I am concerned about other snooping features that this portents.

However, with icloud photos csam, it is also a horrifying precedent that the device I put my life into is scanning my photos and reporting on bad behavior (even if the initial dataset is the most reprehensible behavior).

I'm saddened by Apple's decision, and I hope they recant, because it's the only way I will continue to use their platform.
Interestingly enough, homo sapiens was also really slow to adopt to change for a very very long time. Basic toolkit was unchanged for something like 1M years.

Then cam the Tonga event, homo sapiens population is reduced to less than a thousand individuals (perhaps much less), and suddenly we got creative.

Innovation wasn't a thing before that. It has been everything since.
Many people don't realize it's straightforward to fill out a 1040 form and assume they need to buy specialty software or go to a tax preparation place like H&R Block. Naturally they're not going to tell them otherwise.
> The actual, intended purpose, in a functioning society, is to {serve fair punishments and rehabilitate, enhance quality of health, etc}.

I'm not sure which history books you've been reading, but modern police were invented in the 17th and 18th centuries as brutal forms of population control. In America, the "actual, intended purpose" was to be a genocidal force that clears the land of Amerindians, to patrol the slaves, to terrorize the workers, and so on. In the South, you can trace the history of police departments directly to Confederate troops, who, immediately after losing the war, rounded up people and threw them in prison on fabricated charges. To a lot of people, it was as if the war never happened. The fact that there was no reign of terror in the south tells you everything you need to know. And the slavery continues to this day. So I have no idea what you mean when you talk about this fantastical "intended purpose".
Yes, and Turkey moved to nullify this by creating a system in which if you are otherwise a valid Turkish citizen that has to give up because of a requirement from a foreign country like this, you can get on a special status in which you cannot vote, but have all the other privileges of Turkish citizenship. That status is not citizenship in theory, but practically you have everything as usual, and can participate in the Turkish social security, retirement, health system and all else. It’s called the blue card.
>and I have no idea what console fees are like

According to Apple's Powerpoint in Epic v Fortnite [1] 30% is more or less standard, for consoles as well as on PC. Microsoft was supposedly also going to 88/12 though that seems like it might have been dropped.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22417725/apple-vs-epic-ful... (slide 15)
> These efforts will evolve and expand over time.

Hard to make any absolute claims about how it works when they admit it will be changing.
Another thing RAD was useful for, namely there is a reason you rebooted more often an Amiga that you'd reboot your modern laptop: due to lack of memory protection / virtual memory (due to the lack of a HW MMU) when an application crashed it brought down the whole OS (the (in)famous guru meditation failures). After rebooting the content of the RAD was still there (unless overwritten by a buggy program)
IMO it's similar to why Hinton works for Google - this gives him huge resources (data, compute, money to pay researchers) to do research with, unlike anything to be found in academia. Perhaps this is a naive view, but this is a guy who spent decades pushing for a direction in AI that was not popular but which he really believed in, so it seems natural he would want to accept resources to further research in that direction. Of course, he's also been public about thinking Facebook does more good than bad for the world, in his view.

Also, TBH I doubt he has much to do with the AI used for engagement optimization, his specialty is in other topics and he seems to be focused on the work of Facebook AI Research (which openly engages with academia and so on). And to be fair he is also still a professor at NYU and has students there.
PostgreSQL however is not: https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/
No, Oculus Quest uses Unity's Android player and doesn't require a specialized console player.
The cybersecurity EO and 'critical software': What you need to know
Ten Years of Kotlin
"Barcelona and Washington D.C."

I don't think that's correct - a quick check on Google maps suggests that Barcelona is much further north - about Cape Cod or so.
Isn't this basically what caused the last ice age? The gulf stream is effectively the only thing keeping places like Ireland and England relatively mild given their latitude.
Anything which

- directly prevents actual abuse of children in the physical world (obviously)

- fights the sale of images created through abuse (as this incentivizes abuse).

Those are the main underlying reasons to fight CSAM, besides the obvious horrificness of the stuff in itself.

Please also consider the second-order effects of an increasingly totalitarian society on the wellbeing of children.
My CSS stylesheet is now less than 1kb and it makes me happy
Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One
Apple has been scanning iCloud for child abuse since (at least) Jan 2020 [1] [2]

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/01/08/apple-scan...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200110193302/https://www.apple...
> (Note: this post is all pseudo code - it’s not real SAML. Here’s a real example if you’re interested.)

*clicks link knowing full well the travesty about to be witnessed*

So many businesses want me to support SAML. I always say no.
I'm sure I'll be revealing my ignorance here, but what does revoking certs have to do with Apple needing to know who's running youtube-dl or tor or anything else? Was the revocation of something somehow contingent on the specific application being run, or vice versa?
I agree there can be many confounding factors.

To clarify your point: this leads you to the conclusion that the asymptomatic proportion is likely under-estimated? And conversely, the symptomatic proportion is likely over-estimated?
I find it incredibly depressing that you hold this viewpoint
Read the article but it did not mention anything about the software licences. Have these old versions been released for free in the meantime?

Copyright expires 7O years after the death of the author. Not really suitable for software lifecycles. Nothing from the 1990s has any commercial value any more.
Are you sure it was a plastic wrapper and not e.g. cellophane?
Thank you for clarifying, much appreciated. <3
Do we know the true origin of the quote? The source you link links to another source and makes it sound like that was the origin, but the source it links to doesn't use the full quote and already is using it as a quote, so it makes me think the actual quote predates that usage. It may be the first time it was misattributed to Hitler, but is it actually the origin of the quote?
There are no good intentions; they're just lying.
Pfizer and Moderna increase price of coronavirus vaccines in Europe
Nobody thinks that, not even you.
Why does Microsoft seem to default to SAML for organisations using Azure AD?

All our enterprise customers on the Microsoft stack indicate SAML as the only viable option, whereas those on Google Workspace or on more custom IdAM setups in my experience don’t care if you as a vendor prefer SAML or OpenID Connect.
My latest information on the impact of long covid in children says that 1 in 25 are affected with serious health problems for more than 3 months after infection. This is from a Swiss study of school children.

It thought that narcolepsy much as fatigue is something that is easily missed when showing weakly. Tired kid?
Not all of them and even if you are eligible to vote, some states make it nearly impossible to request a ballot. I’ve been removed from the registry multiple times and had to fill out an emergency ballot which didn’t even get counted in the 2016 election.
> That strikes me as close-to-impossible for industrialized nations to achieve. A round-trip flight from NYC to SF emits 1.5 metric tons per passenger. In order to reach 1.61 metric tons an individual would not be able to own a gas-powered car, could not regularly consume meat, could not live in remote areas only visitable by plane etc.

So?

> Many things people don't even consider "luxuries" (like visiting family overseas) would be a non-starter.

That is a luxury, whether you consider it one or not is irrelevant. When you emigrate there are certain consequences.
Please, can we just be allowed to control what happens on the hardware we buy? Is that so great a demand?
Where can people who have no home, friends, family or income shelter?
It's funny because we all did this the first time we actually needed <<
I have some advice based on experience with severe depression. Do what you can to get them out of the house, exercise and the outdoors can be wonderful shocks to a depressed system on the right day. Know that sometimes you will have to help them get through an episode by waiting. Some episodes just have to pass. Help them not feel guilty for them, treat it matter of fact. Remind them that you love them and you are there for them.

Pay attention to small signals of their mood, try to be aware of might be in the future. Sex also helps, although that one might be hard in the moment!
Could we restart the Gulf Stream with some kind of technology? In theory?
I took that to mean further protections for children, not expanding the overall scanning. Also isn't it you not caring about their property rights? Should Apple be forced to host CSAM on their servers? Should all businesses be required to?
Based on the press release, I don't think you're right. It doesn't appear to be all photos, just ones uploaded to iCloud.

It looks like it only triggers when you go to upload a photo to iCloud. In that case, it (maybe?) scans only that photo on your device and then decides if it's CSAM.

I guess Apple really really doesn't want CSAM on their servers? I don't know why they wouldn't just perform the scanning on their own server otherwise.
> I was hoping that their bowing to China with iCloud wasn't a sign of what's to come, but apparently it was.

It's likely that this tech originated from Apples capitulation to China and has been in place. So it's probably been in place for quite some time.
One of the things I wish we had done in earnest was focus on tunneling more for the last century - specifically for power infra-distribution.

If we had put the effort into trenching/tunneling for power dist - we would have saved quite a lot on fires and problems caused by downed powerlines. Fires, etc...

Further, power lines are FN Ugly.

We could have had specialized machines that dig a trench, lay/build conduit/tunnel hosings and then them up at the same time.

Also, if you look at how well Singapore has done in building 'down' -- they have massive underground causeways, malls etc - and its a shame that we are too shortsighted in our cities to give up such a HUGE % of the wonderful surface of the earth for things like cars and power distribution.

Every single building built should have underground parking and access. Cars, in dense urban environments should be relegated to subterranean transit only.
Tunnels full of low-occupancy cars as a commuter alternative? I don't see much of anything in here about accidents/safety/emergency response. All of those things seem much harder in a "bunch of Model 3s in a tunnel doing point-to-point travel" world than in a Subway world, while also more likely to be needed, because you've got so many more vehicles sharing the space. Seems like a very important not-considered expense.

"The cost of loop stations is so cheap that you can place them next to any number of desirable locations."

This also feels wildly handwavey. You need a LOT of them if you want this to be a viable point to point network vs just a higher-risk way to build a subway. With individual vehicles going to individual stations at user request, too, we seem to have brought in "full autonomous driving" as a prereq.
bool is_the_canary_dead = is_the_feature_released;
Yeah, to be clear I think the Zanzibar authorization model is great! Super helpful to think about authorization logic in terms of relationships.

To give a simple example of an attribute-based control that is tough with the service model: if you want to express "anybody can read a document if it's public", then you need to push that "public" field into the service. Every attribute that you want to use for authorization becomes something that you need to either move or synchronise into the service. Or you leave that logic in the application.
> At some point paying for office space rent is just throwing good money after bad.

To many companies, real estate is money parking or even speculation.
> Is there a secure, easy way to host things from your own home server or do you have to colocate somewhere in the cloud?

You just need a computer to be that "server".

> Is the lack of viability a problem being imposed on us based on speed limitations from ISPs?

The largest stumbling block is that most "residential" ISP connections are also dynamic IP addresses. You have to have some way to update the IP address values associated with any domain names when your dynamic IP changes. Which usually means using one of the services that provide this "dynamic IP domain name" service.
I think your advice to relax and focus on slow, steady improvement is on point, but imo you are really overstating the bit about low expectations for new grads. no reasonable company will make a new grad solely responsible for some critical part of their product, but most will be disappointed if your main accomplishment in your first year on the job was "got onboarded". the expectation is that you may need some hand-holding, but ultimately you will get stuff done. at my company, the people that assumed the expectation for their productivity was "approximately zero" were quite surprised to see the difference in second-year raises between them and their new grad peers.
UE4 has been able to export to switch for a long time (Snake Pass notably released on switch, before any other console, 4 years ago)
For Godot, there are companies that do the porting (presumably they developed their own interfacing layer), these services seem to be not very expensive, and one of the Godot founders runs one of these companies IIRC.
The poor souls that do the work of entering the images into the database select identification blocks, not showing the victim (a lamp, wall paper, etc), that reviewers on the “client” side check against
Nuclear container ships are such a good idea. It is maddening we haven't done this and only turn war ships into nuclear power.
such behaviour? Sounds more like a desperate loser. So what, I imagine many people do that. Exaggerating someones words without the complete context and tone is manipulation as well.

I think a grown-up woman could've just asked at that time, "sir, do you really mean this? - yes/no ... ". Is this really the dirt you can come up with after 40 years?

The garbage my GF looks at on MTV and whatever american stations there are, shows far worse stuff which everybody thinks is okay. All those people are not canceled and do a lot less for the world in general.
(1) If "natural" immunity is the wrong term, I mean to say "acquired", i.e. had the disease.

(2) Yes, you're right that vaccinations also lower the amount of "dry wood" available. I try to add those into my estimates but it made too long a description so I left it out. But until 3 months ago it was only a small factor.

(3) More evidence that it's a hit job: the actual breakdown of current COVID cases is not red states vs. blue. It is urban vs. rural...as you'd expect on the upswing of a new conflagration. But the high-rates map is hugely correlated with urbanization, whereas "Trump country" is barely affected yet. That would be the real story, if there was one, which there is not. Have you seen stories on the crises in NYC and Long Island? Maybe I've missed them.
No, that is heavily sensationalized. But a new 'small ice age' as a result of the gulfstream shutting down is a serious possibility, even if it changed direction that would already cause serious problems for very large parts of Europe.
Unless you marry a citizen or get citizenship by option , you have to surrender previous one.
Why Is Starship Important?
Yeah, man. I'm often wondering where did this "own the libs" thing even began. It provides republicans with such a strong connection to their base, that if something gets even remotely attached to that idea, there is no budging
It says you get access to it for 48 hours.

So, same thing as renting anything else?
It sure sounds a lot like AI to me. Saying its just hashes seems misleading to me.

From the PDF:

"The system generates NeuralHash in two steps. First, an image is passed into a convolutional neural
network to generate an N-dimensional, floating-point descriptor. Second, the descriptor is passed through a hashing scheme to convert the N floating-point numbers to M bits. Here, M is much smaller than the number of bits needed to represent the N floating-point numbers. NeuralHash achieves this level of compression and preserves sufficient information about the image so that matches and lookups on image sets are still successful, and the compression meets the storage and transmission requirements.

The neural network that generates the descriptor is trained through a self-supervised training scheme. Images are perturbed with transformations that keep them perceptually identical to the original, creating an original/perturbed pair. The neural network is taught to generate descriptors that are close to one another for the original/perturbed pair. Similarly, the network is also taught to generate descriptors that are farther away from one another for an original/distractor pair. A distractor is any image that is not considered identical to the original. "
That's a non-proliferation issue more than anything else.
I was very excited by arcosanti as a kid in the 70s — just as I was excited by the studies of space settlements.

Ultimately of course I learnt that the reality of life is messy amd with competing interests. Yet these utopian visions still provide a lot of formative insight.
But we used paper straws, isn’t that enough?

In al seriousness, the next generation isn’t going to be all that different than the last 10000 generations of mankind.
“No taxation without representation” does not imply “no representation without taxation”.
I have another idea to protect kids, let's say a kid is moving on a highway and it's speed according to a phone gps is 66mph in 60mph zone, wouldn't be it wise to notify the police about his parents braking a law and endangering a child? There are so many kids dying every year on our roads.[/s]
CSAM existed before computers too. Photographs can produced without computers even involved!
Multics was also at 545 tech square, from 1967 to 1988.

ITS version 1 is counted from 1967 as well (first mentions of PDP-6 ITS), simply because Project MAC couldn't deliver computing resources needed by other groups, not to mention AI Lab tended to modify the hw all the time (a fate AFAIK common to all ITS systems).

The anecdote about secretaries extending Emacs came from RMS, describing a group that used the shared "utility" computing resources provided by Project MAC (later turned into LCS) and who used a manual that didn't mention the word programming, compiled by who-knows-who, which showed how to modify Multics Emacs (which was the second Lisp-based Emacs) to user's liking.