skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a Chinese-only thing.

I had a coworker from Spain, he was very "balanced" and reasonable on all things. One day, during the 2017 Catalan independence protests and referendum, we (non-Spanish people) tried to understand the different arguments and the current situation, and someone mentioned that IF (we didn't say it was the case, we said IF) one day the overwhelming majority of Catalonia wants to leave Spain for whatever reason, an option for "amicable" split would be preferable over a revolution.

He completely snapped, said all kinds of very mean things about Catalonia, that I don't want to repeat here, but my point is that it's very difficult to view these things from a different perspective and do not get emotional if all your life you heard only one perspective.

I noticed similar tendencies from people from every country that are in the news and are somewhat controversial (Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, US, Poland, Ireland just to name a few).
If any Hello devs are here, I just want to point out that I was interested in using their interface, until I noticed that the window titles are not centered based on the window but on the space between the window buttons and the window (this is on the website). That put me off the whole website (which is fast judgement on my part, but hey I've got stuff to do).
Does anyone else here agree?
200m high object you can't hear or see loses power....
I think they plan to use the PFBR (Stage II) to produce U-Th MOX and fuel the AHWR with it. However both reactors are far from complete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three-stage_nuclear_...
This isn't exclusive to Apple - Microsoft recently decided that starting from August Windows Defender will have the option for blocking PUAs enabled by default for those users who doesn't have other third-party security software [1]. This also I belive falls under "we know what's best" and "the customer is not to be trusted" or "is too stupid to run things by on its own".

This does looks good on paper - caring for customers and their security, peace of mind but tomorrow it might be a total vendor-lock with no ways of installing any other software than one approved by the corporate entities.

[1] - https://www.ghacks.net/2021/08/03/windows-10-blocks-potentia...
How to Use Change Data Capture with Web APIs
>Not one election fraud case was rejected on merit and claims

That's not true and you obviously have not read through the cases if you think that. Quite a few of the cases were rejected because the judge found the merits so lacking that it didn't even warrant a trial. That's a HUGE indicator that your cases have ZERO merit. Especially when we are talking about sympathetic judges. They didn't just reject the cases for lack of merit, the excoriated many of the attornies that were pushing such garbage into the court system.

In addition, many of the lawyers who brought those cases forward are seeing disbarment and serious sanctions for such frivolous cases. You don't get disbarred or sanctioned for filing a meritorious case with the wrong court. You get them for serious malpractice and bad faith.
This is an embedded/industrial PC; SODIMM is a convenient connector form factor when you need a really large number of pins. Old Pi Compute modules also used SODIMM: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-1/

PC104 is another common form factor: https://www.steatite-embedded.co.uk/product_categories/mothe...

A unique part of the product offer is the longevity commitment - they agree to provide identical replacements for years. These things end up in tills and machine control systems all over the place.
Is there any scraper that can scrape data from multiple websites?
And your so-called-quality of life comes with the price of extinguishing any future above ground for our grandchildren, mass extinctions, and a whole lot of low quality of life for the vast majority of humanity.

We MUST prioritize R&D for precisely the things you mention, but the onus is on industry to adapt, not stymie necessary conversations and necessary change.

Get on board
Apple promoting scam slime apps
If what kills my enemies also kills my friends, then I don't want it.
Can you recommend one?
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That article focuses not on the mechanics of action (increase of sodium intake -> higher blood pressure), and doesn't question the fact that reducing salt intake lowers blood pressure somewhat (albeit not by a significant amount), but that at a global level reducing salt intake in populations does not reduce overall mortality from heart-related conditions.

There might be many confounding factors at play. As the authors say, every study about negative effects of salt can be offset by an opposing one, so it is definitely something to be studied in more depth.
Case in point being the Black Chamber run by the Thurn und Taxis post in Brussels in the 16th Century.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230298125_11

Signals intelligence intercept and analysis centres have been called Black Chambers for a long time, including the first such group in the US, predecessor to the NSA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Chamber
Yes but where did I say anything to the contrary? If you don't have COVID, there is a 0% chance of you transmitting the disease. Regardless of if you've had it before or not, once you get the vaccine you now have a > 0% chance of transmitting the disease, and it is a statistically significant chance. All you're doing is posting articles that boast the proficiency and efficiency of the vaccine, which I never discounted. The focus here is that once you get the vaccine, you become a transmitter, doesn't matter that you have lower chance than someone who is unvaccinated. W.r.t someone who does not have COVID, they should take the same precautions against those who are vaccinated as they do for people who are not, and my post is pointing out the hypocrisy of the OP who seems to believe that since they are vaccinated, they are somehow safer to be around than someone who is unvaccinated, while to an unvaccinated person who does not have COVID, these two groups of people should be treated the exact same way.
> No genitals are in shot

That you even have to consider sexual interpretations of your BABY'S GENITALS is an affront to me. I have pictures of my baby completely naked, because it is, and I stress this, A BABY. They play naked all the time, it's completely normal.
> I find it super bizarre you say "complicate things" when they do 100% the opposite.

They're way, way overengineered for the very limited use cases they're designed for.

If you're going to ditch the browser API's and re-write the world in Javascript, why not take into consideration all of the history of GUI development and do it right? I.e., make a real layout engine, proper widget hierarchies, real encapsulation, etc.

Instead there's some sort of frankenstein in-between state where you've ditched all the benefits of native browser API's but haven't arrived anywhere that's a true paradigm shift.

TL;DR - yeah, they make some things easier to reason about, but for any sort of non-standard webapp you'll still need to write an equivalent mountain of hacks and framework adaptors.
The terrifying part about this is potential abuse. We have seen people arrested for having child porn in their web cache just from clicking on a bad link. I could inject your cache with any image I want using JS.

Presumably the same could apply to your phone. Most messengers save images automatically. I presume the images are immediately scanned against hashes once saved. And the report is immediately made if it passes the reported threshold. There’s no defence against this. Your phone number is basically public information and probably in a database somewhere. You have no protection here from abuse, if you’re a normal citizen. I bet most people don’t even turn the auto save setting off on WhatsApp.
You don't have to trust anyone fully. In fact it's imperative to try to apply critical thinking to information that you encounter. (Both to counteract one's own and the other party's biases.)

That said, one group has a history of shady (and overt) shit (from internment of Japanese Americans during WWII to MK Ultra to all the horrible things that have been unearthed during the years via FOIA, whistleblowers, investigative journalism, the culture of respecting the protection of journalists' sources) and the other group is currently operating concentration camps, is actively hostile toward investigative journalists, actively subverts any independent power structure (see the brutal suppression of Hong Kong politics).

Of course it's important to put things into perspective. Both Room 641A and the Great Firewall are bad things. Both countries (and the groups that run these regions) have a lot of things to improve on. But the simple both sides whataboutism does not help here at all.
Why should Westerners care about a "sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles" when our own governments have been lying to us and spewing propaganda about almost everything of importance for DECADES? See my comment about GCHQ's JTRIG unit elsewhere on this page.

Western propaganda campaigns are often a prelude to war. And they usually deploy several orders of magnitude more assets than "350 fake social media profiles." Remember WMDs in Iraq, Libya and Gaddafi, babies in incubators? I have no interest in unquestioningly accepting the BBC's version of what's important. If we let our psycho warmongers start another war based on lies, millions will die on both sides.

See Thucydides Trap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap
I am not vegan because I do not like meat, I am vegan because I think that it bad for the environment and causes unnecessary suffering to animals.

The fact that I could enjoy meat without any of those downsides is appealing to me :)
Microservices visualizer – an Open source project
128 bit hashes are “expect your first collision when each human buys 2305 iPhones, all with one terabyte storage, and then fills them up with photos that are an average of 1MB in file size”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E64%20%2F%20%288e9%2...
Did you really have to sidetrack and bait a technical conversation by mentioning vegan bacon?

Enjoy the off topic comment chain.
Getting Started with Deep Learning for Medical Imaging
EASTL is great, but we call it UBSTL for a reason :D
Does the phrase: the public interest, mean anything to you?

One profiteers externality is all of humanities shared future.

There is no planet B, and if we can’t take reasonable care of our home planet, we can’t be trusted with others.

I blame capitalism for incentivizing bad behavior and calling collective damage an externality
As ridiculous as your comment is, there has been less than 100000 people to move to the US from Denmark since our advertising laws were passed, around 70000 of them have either returned, changed citizenship or are dead.

No one surveyed by Gallup has left because of political reasons and between 70-80% of them would prefer to return home if their work allowed it.

https://m.statbank.dk/TableInfo/VAN2KVT
If that upsets you then you should in no circumstances watch Seinfeld's The Soup Nazi, which is a pity, one of the best episodes in my view.
Work in an Age of Automation
Honestly, it's probably about time to switch to GrapheneOS or LineageOS
>The point is everyone can say whatever that person wants

This works fine if everybody's voice has equal weights but some have louder megaphones than others. Their voices matter disproportionately more.
Yup, very good summary. I'll add: advantage of this design, is that you only need a SODIMM connector on your breakout board, which is very easy to source. Also, you can have a breakout board tailored to your needs, relatively cheap (e.g less PCB layers), with less care for radio design (most of it is done on the module), etc.

It's mostly advantageous for low-quantity, high margin embedded systems, with modules supported for years.
Not sure about GNUstep, but Darling is akin to Wine, in that it is a re-implementation of the Mac APIs within a Linux environment, allowing you to run MacOS apps on Linux without recompilation. Whereas Airyx is a full FreeBSD OS (distribution?) that tries to mimic MacOS as a whole.
Is Mercury in Retrograde or Do You Have Your Head Stuck in Uranus? – Astrology
It’s anger turned inward. That anger should be directed at the mentality and behavior killing planet earth.

To the degree that you impede solutions to climate change, you deserve some of that anger
Unfortunately rent regulations in the UK are designed to protect landlords from tenants, contracts are renewed yearly and you are always at risk of eviction. So maintenance is almost non-existent and if you protest, you will likely end up evicted. After god knows how many years or decades of this state of affairs, the housing stock in London is of a ridiculously low quality, and a local would consider normal to have a mouse in a flat and to have to deal with it (rather than the landlord paying for pest control).

To get what in the continent would be a normal flat, you need to aim at what the locals may call “luxury apartments”. And still, if it wasn’t built after 2010, you’d still have to deal with rotten sash windows, no escalator and other crazy stuff I’ve never seen before.
Big = expensive. We are talking about two EPR 1600 MWe gen3 reactors here. The parent is talking about SMRs, small modular reactors.

"The plant, which has a projected lifetime of 60 years, has an estimated construction cost of between £19.6 billion and £20.3 billion"

"Financing of the project is still to be finalised, but the construction costs will be paid for by the mainly state-owned EDF of France and Chinese state-owned China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN)"

"In September 2019, further costs were identified that bring the estimated total to £22.9 billion, and may further delay operations. The involvement of state-owned CGN was also questioned after it was sanctioned by the United States government for espionage."

"The European Commission has previously estimated £24.5 billion, including financing costs during construction"

So, an additional £2.6bn (~13%) cost overrun and geopolitics involving China. The EU estimation is +£4.2 bn. There were also competions ahead of schedule despite the pandemic, so it's not all that bad [1].

UK offshore wind also has a capacity factor of <40% [2]. Wind will also be sold cheaper, because when wind blows all over Europe, everyone wants to sell their wind generated electricity. For these reasons comparing the wholesale rates is kind of short sighted. I'm not picking one over of the other, but stressing that a balanced energy mix needs both. The UK's geographic position also enables the usage of offshore tidal plants. They just launched one of the biggest tidal plants recently, the Orbital O2 [3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_station
2. https://energynumbers.info/uk-offshore-wind-capacity-factors
3. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-57991351
NYC – A Tale of Five Boroughs
For about 2 years my mother got my Mario Paint creations as gifts for her birthday and Mother's Day. She loved them each time (while a little subjective). Still mentions them to this day.

So much creative fun inside one game.

There was also the Super Gameboy adapter which had some creative parts to it, probably inspired by Mario Paint. Especially the custom border creation one: https://youtu.be/6ArYj4-Ajs4?t=1186. All while having the GameBoy game in the background! The other borders were also awesome. The one with the day&night cycle was very relaxing. The one in the cinema was funny (zZzZz) while the one with the crayons was quite captivating.
You demo this tech working with child porn, it maybe shows it's worth with some Isis training videos but before long China will be demanding access on their terms as a condition of accessing their markets.

And at that point the well meaning privacy advocate who worked hard to get some nice policies to protect users is booted off the project because you can hardly tell the shareholders and investors who own the company that you're going to ignore $billions in revenue or let your rival get ahead because of some irrelevant political movement on the other side of the world.

It's happened plenty of times before and it'll happen again.
It looks like the APIs are being reverse engineered, thus even if this happens, Apple likely has little legal ground to stand on, if at all (IANAL). See also ReactOS[0].

[0] https://reactos.org/
> you are definining "nothing to do with" based on the assumed end result,

I have no clue how you've reached that conclusion. I'm saying this article is just about the extradition appeal, a decision that is being made regardless of what the charges are.

If the appeal is successful, the retraction will be important in the resumed extradition hearing. Articles about that possible hearing should definitely mention the retraction.
The tweets talk about perceptual hashes, not cryptographic hashes.
This is horrifying. Does this only affect iMessage, or the photos library? Is it remote? Does it require physical access?

As I understand it: it's a tool (that sends a command of some sort) that compels an iphone to perform the hashing match operation, and output results. Is that correct? Does it notify the user?

If I had to build it within apple's privacy framework, that'd probably be my approach: remote command causes sepos unlock of photos library (even running the job on sepos?) to do photo scanning. sepos returns hashes that match
No need to serialize first?

(edit) And deserialize again on read.

(edit) Storing project config in Postgres, even though i like it very much, sounds like overkill, excuse the strong words.
AFAIK PC104 is meant specifically for this. Re-using SO-DIMM (a connector meant for something entirely different) being a conventional practice seems slightly unusual however. Like if somebody was using NEMA 5-15 connectors for something like USB.
> in a few years the offline Notes app will be phoning home if you write speech criticising the government in China.

A totalitarian autocracy like China does not need this technology to search for wrongspeech, sadly. You are of course aware that all Chinese iCloud users get their data stored in a special set of datacenters that Apple actually doesn't control.
You are correct, however vincnetas made the comparison between distributing CSAM and buying drugs, it is not aemreunal's fault, you are replying to the wrong person. A comparison that would make better sense would be to compare these in possession of CSAM and these that buy drugs.
Isn't this how it works though...?
Company 'X' abuses the trust it's given to self regulate it's dominant position and forces 'Y' application on all it's 'Z' platform users.

X, Y, Z could be Apple, AppleID, and iPhone or Microsoft, Internet Explorer, and Windows.

Microsoft received a $611 fine in the EU for abusing it's
Monopoly of control with Windows back in 2004 but it took many years to get there.
Are there any god GPS trackers for cats that people would advice?

The article mentions nothing about the setup or tech, and I'd love to find out what my cats are up to before they come home with another rabbit or bird (probably sleeping).
It cannot be a cryptographically secure hash, simply because avoiding detection would then be trivial: change one channel in one pixel by one. Imperceptible change, different cryptographic hash.
I love everything about SQLite except its lack of strictness about types; it reminds me of when Excel is trying to be helpful/"intelligent". The Numeric type leads to three types of different behaviour for the same row of data, so any downstream processing will need to cover all these cases.

[And read the rest of this thread for some examples of how people got hurt by unexpected behavior resulting from it (e.g. the case of HN user koyote who got the wrong result for "where x > 10").]

Therefore, I'm firmly in the 'strict typing'/protect me from myself camp...
You're just moving forward the limit a bit by the proposed experiment - if it works (like is generally assumed I think), the sceptics will just say that the breakdown limit is higher than the mass of the glass-beads.. :)
Columns are like lists in Python - they can contain values of any type. The type is associated with the individual value.
Hazardous 11foot8 bridge raised, truck crashes keep happening
Facebook wants to analyze encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads
If it seems like this scanning is working as advertised, this will be a great marketing stunt for Apple. Actual predators will stop using Apple products out of fear of getting caught and they will be forced to use Android.

Now any person who owns an Android is a potential predator. Also, if you are trying to jailbreak your iPhone, you are a potential predator.
Again, the point that you as a developer are missing is that your behavior is atleast as, if not more abusive towards your end user than Apple are being. Why should your user have to use an anti-privacy 3rd party like Facebook to use your app or service? Where is the users choice other than to not use your product?

I have to be honest here and say that I amazed, but sadly not surprised by the level of entitlement on display from a very small but extremely vocal set of developers.
I am impressed - are you working your way through a list of Turing tarpits?
If the details of the "hashing" scheme used is publicized, I imagine it will be near trivial. It's a long-standing problem in computer vision, to find a digital description of an image such that two similar images compare equal or at least similar.

State-of-the-art for this field is deep learning, and a /huge/ problem with the DL approach is that you can generate adversarial examples. So for example, a picture of a teacup that is identified by /most/ networks as a dog. It's particularly damning, because it seems like you don't have to do this for particular deep networks, they get tricked the same way, so to speak.
What's the alternative?

Stock market returns may be muted and uncertain but cash pays nothing for sure.

The property market in the UK is at record highs in terms of price:income ratios, but it can still make sense to buy rather than rent due to record low interest rates (Gross rental yields being 4-6% and interest rates 1.5-4%), and the certainty it gives you (Investing your 20-25% deposit won't do you much good if house prices and rents outstrip the stock market in the 20-30 years before you retire)
I don't think they factor in compression here. It's likely the 1.7MB they're talking about is raw data. Google's location history for example can be compressed down to very manageable single digit percentages even with fast compression.

Edit. I'm talking about Grab, the "transportation, e-commerce, payments, and financial services" company in the article, which sounds like it collects little if any multimedia from users. Also thinking more of data the company generates from the user (usage history, metadata and collection), not what the user generates and uploads.

The 1.7MB figure can't really be extrapolated for a Facebook-like data set (or worse, YouTube). Social networks have a lot of mostly multimedia content created and uploaded by the user, and lower volume of company generated content like location tracking and lists of interactions.
> perhaps cities should start treating delivery as another municipal utility

This used to be called a postal service.

I look forward to the jurisdiction fights over city-run package delivery; I expect Fedex to make substantial donations to state legislatures to have it banned, as happened for city-level broadband.