skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Films like that, showing immediate and extreme change over a couple of hours instead of the gradual over-decades change that is more likely to happen, are part of the problem.

People remember the film, and see nothing similar happening, and claim nothing is actually happening. All this while the change is going steady.
I have their laptop and do not recommend them. Honestly, I sort of regret the purchase.

- They lie about specifications like battery life (and other things). I get about 1 hour on my ~5 hour battery life when web browsing.

- My laptop had a race condition at boot that would prevent boot 50% of the time. There was a workaround.

- Wifi had a range of maybe ten feet (not joking).

I am sure there new laptop is better however I do not really trust them after my interactions. Especially for something more novel like a linux phone.

On the other hand, Pine64 is very focused on their hardware stack. All their products are running a very similar hardware unlike Purism. They are moving way more product then Purism and are better liked. Hence they have a stronger community. They are also much cheaper phone-wise for a similar feature set. And you can actually buy and receive the phone.

In terms of alternatives I think System76 is pretty good desktop wise right now. Laptop are alright. Waiting for their upcoming in-house laptop.
Ask HN: Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?
After latest apple content scanning privacy debarcle, I will likely migrate away from apple. They have destroyed my trust such that I can’t tolerate the uncertainty they may change their minds later or introduce a hash inspection function secretly.

Which leaves the question: where to go? What is the best alternative to apple products?My current working suggestions, but would greatly appreciate others weighing in.

Phone: Pixel with graphene OS
Laptop: System 76 laptop or X1 carbon
Watch: Garmin variety of some description
Cloud storage: probably nextcloud self hosted
this will lead to black mailing of future presidents in the U.S.

No normal citizen will be allowed to run for president anymore. I think it's time for a true movement.
> a) They scan photos for nudity using a NN if the participants are children and in a family (the account grouping), giving children warnings and information if they send or receive such material. A+++ thumbs up.

Leave my kids alone.

If they want to share photos of themselves naked, it's none of anyone's business except them and maybe me (maybe), certainly not a huge American corporation.

Neither me or my kids have iPhones, but as others have observed, I have no illusions that Google will follow suit. Our options are becoming pretty limited at this point.
> Unfortunately, the new development and progress is gradually breaking more and more extensions, making it less useful to me as time goes on.

I have very strong suspicions about the engineering quality of their work (but can't confirm).

With the recent version, v78, they did broke extensions again, however, something very smell is the policy that they've adopted - the new replacement APIs are incomplete and experimental (see https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/updating/tb78):

> While the Thunderbird team plans to add more APIs with upcoming releases, the current set of APIs will not be sufficient to port most add-ons. To work around this limitation, add-ons can introduce their own, additional APIs as so-called Experiments.

> As Experiments usually run in the main process and have unrestricted access to any aspect of Thunderbird, they are expected to require updates for each new version of Thunderbird. To reduce the maintenance burden in the future, it is in your own interest to use Experiment APIs only to the extent necessary for the add-on.

Essentially, they've broken compatibility by introducing a half-baked framework, and guaranteed that compatibility will be broken again and again.

I don't have the technical insight to know if this is really necessary (I know that in the past, breaking compatibility was a necessity in some cases), but on the outside, this looks like terrible, careless, engineering.
Thank you for the references criticaltinker.
The proliferation of CSAM is extremely harmful to the victims in the photos and more people seeing them might encourage more CSAM production in general.
Seems true they are flagged -

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=translate.google.com

This ones pretty interesting and flagged for instance, Western media didn't pick up the story so that's a loss to the community if they liked it -

Google project loon balloon fall in Brazil -

https://g1.globo.com/to/tocantins/noticia/2021/03/02/balao-c...

Quite disconcerting many commentators here seem to not be able to use Google Translate or know of it's existence.
https://twitter.com/topherolson/status/745294977064828929
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You mean Nix as a base image?
What's behind the name Arengu?
You wrote: Thanks to IRS regulations, 90% of investment firms will just reject me outright rather than deal with the paperwork.

Sorry for your troubles. Do you know about https://www.interactivebrokers.com? They are an ultra-low cost international brokerage. It seems they specialise in handling complex regulations! They can open brokerage accounts for local residents in an incredible number of countries -- all legally. Even India, which very difficult! Normally, they have a tiny office in each location to handle local financial regulatory requires (KYC, AML). FYI: The head office is in the United States, which is great for strong securities regulations. I strongly recommend it. And they aren't some start-up. They have been around for a long time. Their product range is similar to a large investment bank. You can trade everything under the sun that is listed on an exchange.

Save the best for last: They recently scrapped their minimum monthly fees for low balance accounts.

(Re-reading this post, sorry if I sound like a 'shill'. Everything I wrote above can be independently verified with some Google searching!)
By that logic, can we send in someone into your house every day to look through every corner for child porn in digital or print form?

In fact there are a lot of heinous crimes out there some much worse than child porn IMHO. Singling out child porn as the reason seems like it's meant only to elicit an emotional response.
>a great source of natural gas

It is, but fracking allows a large volume of methane to escape into the atmosphere as waste[1], which is itself a potent greenhouse gas[2].

[1] https://www.epa.gov/uog#air

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/methane.htm...
So I was happy my house isn’t in the path of hurricanes, at risk of flooding or forest fires. An extreme summer heatwave doesn’t kill many it just means maybe 30C so I swim a bit more. But if the Gulf Stream stops it’s still almost uninhabitable.
Life is absurd, and we may all be in a simulation anyways. Also, we're all going to die and be forgotten, no matter how famous or rich, along with everything in our solar system. Just keep that perspective and try to be grateful that we have this moment of consciousness or whatever the hell reality is.
> it’s government services already received, for example a strong military

but you no longer benefit from the military and other services abroad?

> It’s an option, you don’t need to be tried by your peers

but you are obligated to jury duty, to the extent you have to pay to leave?

> Look at all the countries that have been invaded

all all the ones that haven't? Doesn't seem like a draft is needed.
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They’re both easy. For someone who’s never touched Terminal.app, I figured something packaged like a standard Mac app would be easier to work with.
The research is about warning signs[0] of a collapse of the current that keeps European winters warmer than Canadian ones, it’s not saying “it has already collapsed”.

[0] and the warnings are without a specific timeline: "Observations and recently suggested fingerprints of AMOC variability indicate a gradual weakening during the last decades, but estimates of the critical transition point remain uncertain."
Don't defend Apple. We have as much privacy as we're willing to stand up and defend.

Even if Apple continues down this path, perhaps the backlash will make techies abandon them. That would have a notable effect on their ecosystem.
A higher wage can also break bad cycles like always choosing the cheapest produce etc. I assume the general message is that it's possible for people to get a better life by other means than just ruthless, unsustainable, growth.
> So if an offender turns off iCloud then this move will absolutely be useless??

No on-device photo scanning unless iCloud Photos is enabled. Isn't funny when you get the most important aspect wrong?

> How would that help catch them if they can simply flip the switch?

They never claimed that this would help "catch them" if they are not using iCloud Photos.
How do you package these things up? I found Haskell's build system having some shortcomings (like for example I could not compile a package on rpi4 because it was running out of memory). I also had hard time with cross compilation, MacOS vs Linux.
My take is that by simply announcing this sort of thing the Rubicon has been crossed. If you see one ant, there's 100 ants somewhere.

The point in bitching to Apple isn't to make them change, but to bring attention to privacy issues to the hoi polloi. Cleaning up your own privacy act is the main lesson.

Maybe the only logical place to end up is a dedicated Chromebook in guest mode for financial transactions, air-gapped workstation to do artistic or other useful things, rarely-used dumbphone, get out more among physical people.
Writing a lot of code, including a lot of bad code. Gaining intuition about what works and what doesn't through experience.

Favoring pragmatism over dogmatism.
Dealing weed or hallucinogens or even ecstasy certainly aren’t that morally wrong. I’d say not at all, but they are a far cry from actually harmful serious drugs and the addictions they can cause.
Arengu means development in estonian language. The funny part is we're spanish and we're based in Spain :P
No, Nix installed in your system.
To be fair, Engineers engineer and wouldn't mind spending twenty years engineering and discovering new paradigms and interesting things to get 1.2% gains. Deadlines force the issue to put the wandering mind of the engineer in a straight-ish path. Not perfect, but the alternative would take a lifetime.
Running kube is the most trivial part, especially with some of these tools like k3s/k0s.

Hard part is deployments. Managing Kube's raw yaml files is tedious. What tools are y'all using there? I am having a tough time with Helm, but I feel like that is the standard answer these days.

Back in ~2016 at FarmLogs we built and operated our own (Clojure!) deployment system that was backed by a Github repository. Developers worked with a DSL that was really just a slimmed down version of Kube yaml. This eliminated lots of boilerplate thanks to our company-wide conventions for building microservices. The master branch reflected the intended state of the cluster. It was easy to reason about.

I have not found a modern/open-source tool that is similar, but I have to imagine it exists.
"just don't use f16", when that is an option, tends to mean throwing away half of what your hardware is capable of. I'm not sure how wise that is.
Carriers will NOT provide a bootloader unlock, they have no access to that, only the OEM does.

Carriers might provide a network unlock -- these are 2 VERY different things.
I've used banking apps and Google pay on my rooted unlocked phone for several years now. True, I'm still on Android 9, so perhaps it will be worse when I upgrade.

Using Magisk and Magisk Hide.
Though oddly enough, none of my banking/credit card apps make an issue of being rooted, so they're not even in the Magisk Hide list.
This does not work at scale. My company does pay the premium and a lot more.
Look where the rich Spanish Twitch streamers are migrating: Andorra.
Lex, if you read this, I think improving the questions you ask is the biggest thing that would contribute to improving your interviews.

"The meaning of life" is an ok question, but asking every interviewee about aliens and sci-fi technology, regardless of background, is getting repetitive. It doesn't seem to really give you, or the audience much to work with, and basically encourages the interviewee to spout off random stuff.

Now, the Jim Keller interview, that was good stuff because Jim Keller is an interesting person and a good people manager.
The difference is likely negligible compared to changing one habit like caffeine consumption or numbers of hours using computers or tvs.
This looks like an awful thing to say in this comment thread
You meant I___a?
Hey, could be some problem with how font size is changing with screen size, I'll look into it.
Can you give a link to the best setup?
I set up a recurring monthly contribution of $10. I've used Thunderbird for years, its my go-to client. Unfortunately these days, day job forces windows 10 and lookout. But I use it everywhere else.

FWIW, lookout is itself dangerous software to install/use. There are many hacks of it, including new and exciting zero-days where you don't even need to interact with the mail in any way, to have a compromise occur. It is simply not worth the risk, on any platform.

I've used (and paid for) both Owl and ExQuilla for office365 integration when needed. Owl was iffy ... had lots of problems. ExQuilla just worked.
I have found Gaianism (http://gaianism.org/) to help a lot, by providing structure and rituals to cope with the situation.
This opens the door to doing so. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28081863
And what happened since then, I wonder?
The article states:

>"The (unauditable) database of processed CSAM images will be distributed in the operating system (OS), the processed images transformed so that users cannot see what the image is, and matching done on those transformed images using private set intersection where the device will not know whether a match has been found"

Am I reading this correctly in that Apple will essentially be pushing out contraband images to user's phones? Couldn't the existence of these images on a user's phone potentially have consequences and potentially be used against an unwitting iPhone user?
Would Raylib fit your ideal?

https://www.raylib.com
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So if those things are equal you’re going to switch to an iPhone then?
The intention to prevent child sexual abuse material is indeed laudable. But the "solution" is not. For those wondering what's wrong with this, two hard-earned rights in a democracy go for a toss here:

1. The law presumes we are all innocent until proven guilty.
2. We have the right against self-incrimination.

Pervasive surveillance like this starts with the presumption that we are all guilty of something ("if you are innocent, why are you scared of such surveillance?"). The right against self-incrimination is linked to the first doctrine because compelling an accused to testify transfers the burden of proving innocence to the accused, instead of requiring the government to prove his guilt.
Right now, I only heat my house to 69°F/20.5°C in the winter (because of the cost). If a government program pays for the insulation, wall repairs, paint, and HVAC replacement to make my house more efficient, I might choose to heat my house to 74 or 75°F/24°C if energy is still cheap. That’s not fraud; that’s consumers making entirely rational trade-offs about how much each additional degree of comfort is worth to them in monetary terms.

“We should tax billionaires and raise taxes on carbon energy” is effective overwhelmingly because of the second part. You could nearly equally well say “we should chew more bubble gum and raise taxes on carbon energy”.

(It’s fine to have a separate debate on billionaire tax policy, but it seems tenuous at best to link it to energy policy.)
I always tell my PM:

You can pick a feature set or a launch date. You can't pick both.
This sounds similar to the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card. Can any Indian nationals comment?
Possibly, but the article wasn't clear. Haloperidol, while it is effective against schizophrenic symptoms, is basically a tranquilizer. I don't know what that could do to someone not experiencing psychotic symptoms, but it seems unlikely to make you so out of it you aren't fit to stand trial
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> I'm working on an application that has been over a year in the making. Its functionality is something that I could have popped out in a month, but making sure of the Quality of the app has necessitated that I spend a great deal more time, "polishing the fenders."

What happens if you release it and it turns out that nobody likes it? I'd have preferred to spend a month releasing a lower-quality app, and then spent 11 months improving it (while people use it and I learn more about what they want) rather than take a year releasing a high-quality app nobody wants to use.

This assumes you aren't just building it for fun, though, in which case building it is the point, and you don't even need to release it afterwards.
Agile is fine with fixed due dates. Fixed features on the other hand...
All concurrent maps f.ex.

It's like you're argumenting in a void, have you ever made anything?

Please show some code you have written or stop replying to my comments.
The mystery of writing about fashion is why it matters. Bierce's "a despot whom the wise ridicule and obey," covers it. When you look at it as how people signal their alignment to what they percieve as power, it makes more sense.

The article was essentially about who leads and who follows, and how they could tell, where when russians wore copies of western suits, the writing was on the wall, even if it would be decades before the wall came down.

There is another piece to fashion, where it is a way to assess real desire. There are opinion polls and things people lie about, and then there are what they actually do. Envy for american fashions could have (and ultimately did) contribute to erosion of the soviet edifice. I remember hearing stories about how in the 80's, the vintage shops we all liked in the punk scene had made money by getting used jeans here to ship to Germany so they could be smuggled into Eastern Germany.

Turns out the stories weren't apocryphal either, a transcript: https://www.businessinsider.com/brought-to-you-by-podcast-bt...

Such interesting times.
Are electric cars ‘green’? The answer is yes, but it’s complicated
> A picture of child abuse /is not/ child abuse.

Yes, exactly.

It may even help prevent child abuse, because it may help pedophiles overcome their urges and not act upon it.

I'm not aware of any data regarding this issue exactly, but there are studies that show that general pornography use and sexual abuse are inversely correlated.
Directly from the link:

> ...the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices.

>... The device creates a cryptographic safety voucher that encodes the match result along with additional encrypted data about the image. This voucher is uploaded to iCloud Photos along with the image.
I agree that "apps" and deploying to the cluster is the hard part. Helm is definitely the most popular choice, but there are others.

kpt: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kpt

kapp: https://carvel.dev/kapp/

cnab: https://cnab.io

There are many (many) more. But these are somewhat popular recently.
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> The only way to realistically opt out of this new system is to not use an iOS device.

You can just not share the photos to iCloud, the exact same way you'd opt out of it happening on iCloud, no?
That's a subtle throwback to visual basic, I think, but not in a negative way.
Not too far from reality [1].

PhD student at Swiss University posts something critical on Twitter. Chinese intervene at his professor.

Promotion gone with mildly interesting reasoning.

Link to Swiss newspaper in German language.

[1]: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-...
As far as I understand it there really isn't, at least you could defend yourself that way, but it wouldn't matter for the outcome because the only requirement for being convicted is if you actually leaked the documents, which is hard to dispute. I'm not a lawyer so would love to be refuted on this.

>Although Snowden’s revelations exposed a disturbing expansion of surveillance powers by the National Security Agency, the Espionage Act does not allow the public interest in the information disclosed to be considered as a defense or in mitigation of penalty, and does not require proof of harm or intent to harm. U.S. law is significantly out of step with other democracies concerning penalties (see Penalties for Unauthorized Disclosure of National Security Related Secrets [PDF]) and available defenses (see study of 20 European countries [PDF]).

https://www.justiceinitiative.org/voices/europeans-urge-us-a...

>Procedurally, prosecution under the Espionage Act is problematic due to the nature of evidence related to national security matters and the elements required to prove unlawful disclosure of classified information. Relevant evidence may be considered classified, and thus concealed from the defendant, making a fair trial inaccessible. As applied to the disclosure of classified information, the Act is problematic because it disregards intent, a typical element required for conviction of many criminal offenses. As such, it does not protect whistleblowers who provide journalists with information in order to expose illegal government actions, rather than to aid foreign countries in injuring the United States. Because national security is at issue, the standard is low.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/crsj-fe...
They were probably strong-armed into this. Perhaps the CCP and the FBI talked, and Apple was told they'd be cut off from their suppliers if they didn't introduce this.

It doesn't matter. This is the wrong choice, and everyone should rebuke and abandon Apple for this.
Depends on the company. If it’s a Chinese company like TikTok, data is stored in China and therefore property of the state. Things are about to get worse and they crack down on private companies in China.

And it’s not just Americans who worry about this. When word got out that Line was storing user data in China servers, it blew up in the news in Japan and Taiwan and went into immediate investigation. Line ended up moving Japanese user data to South Korea. Chinese aggression and Xi’s obsession with power is not just something Americans spout off in Reddit and YouTube comments. They’re a legit threat to Taiwan, Japan, Australia and India.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Line-cuts-off-ac...
It reads like the textbook description of a scam. All one is left wondering is how they ever thought they'd get away with it, and maybe how people will claim this is the SEC "just not getting" technology and/or trying suppress competition to USD.