skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was clear that you want to destroy Facebook.

What is not clear is how 0.1% of users publishing their Facebook passwords on Twitter or Reddit would bring about the destruction of Facebook. It looks like[1] Facebook grows by a little over 1% every quarter, so I don't understand why Facebook would collapse if a tiny fraction of their userbase started posting spam. In fact I imagine their existing spam-fighting tools would not have much difficulty handling this kind of thing.

Facebook itself estimates that 5% of its monthly active userbase is made up of spam accounts.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
Random factoid - Montana's then Governor had a one-line cameo, though I'm not sure which of the various edits of the film the scene survives
There are literally thousands of pages of positive recommendations for security practices. If you're arguing that most of them don't offer anything "proper", well, you might have a point. Michael Brunton-Spall notes that we still don't do security very well. https://youtu.be/6U41SSz15xw
Clubhouse (the project management app launched in 2016) is changing its name
Bits relating to Alpine security initiatives in July
There was a round of layoffs I went through at a consulting company where we are pretty sure some pure overhead MBAs pulled a report of who was missing "cloud" skills from an internal skills tool and had had anything less than a top box review laat year. Without consulting even the GM dozens of senior/principle people were let go.

This naturally ended up a disaster because A) those people weren't updating their skills in the tool because they were high demand rock stars and B) they had deep customer relationships, to the point where many customers threatened to (and I'm some cases did) cancel their contracts and stop doing business with us. My understanding is somewhere between 1\3 and 1\2 of everyone let go was hired back at higher pay after keeping all their secerence pay, and many of the rest just refused to do so.
Where are you getting 90%? The CDC estimates that 36% of Americans have been infected.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Why hand roll an ORM?
11% of Americans don't have government-issued ID. Not "don't have the ability" to get ID but don't have ID. They can get it with ease. Once we hit 89% vaccination rate then we can worry about that.
But when we say “inherently more dangerous” I assume we’re incorporating the likelihood of that actually happening. A dining room table dropping on a kid’s head would be very bad too, but we don’t generally think about tables as being “inherently dangerous.”
Your depression is situational, so a change in situation helps.

Your partner’s depression sounds clinical, and that's a huge construct, not so easy to grapple, so many variations.

Thus your best bet is to ask your partner what you can do to help.

I get severe depressions. Each episode is days of torture. The word sadness as a description for depression should be banished. Sadness barely charts. All I can do is wait it out. There's nothing anyone can do to help, short of ECT.
Ask HN: Repair and Maintenance App
Hi YC,

I am looking to hire someone to build an app for me for repair and maintenance service. Essentially the core features are:

Consumer facing – give people the ability to request services, select a category, urgency, etc.

Provider facing – serve them jobs that they are qualified to do (based on category), allow them to "claim" jobs, and then get paid upon completion while the Platform takes a scrape.

Would a "no code" solution such as Bubble work?
They might be in the space of restauruncles.
I don't really think lock in is Apple's primary goal. I think they are opposed to Google/FB spying on us, and therefore there has to be an alternative. You don't have to implement Apple SSO, you just cannot use any other SSO without adding it as an alternative.

I like this result as a user.
It's also just plain absurd. Hundreds of pictures of my own children at the beach in their bathing suits? No problem. Hundreds of photos of other peoples' children in bathing suits? Big problem. Of course, the algorithm is powerless to tell the difference.
What about it? To attempt to restate it: due to the emergence of the delta mutation, it is becoming less reliable to rely on the shared benefit of others being vaccinated to protect unvaccinated or immunocompromised individuals. So the risks to all populations is increasing, but not proportionally: the speed of spread to those without the personal benefit of being vaccinated is increasing much faster.

Edit: note, I’ve seen your other link, and do wonder why that was observed for that community. Here I am referring to current CDC estimates for the country and reports of hospital utilization averages overall.
> why would you want a database like this? I don't know

Yea, I hope anyone who takes advantage of this does know, and intentionally uses it to their advantage in a scenario that outweighs the long-term downsides.
Perhaps. It depends on how easy it is to adapt to the metric, how risky, and how much upside there is. It's kinda like antibiotics. Use them too often and the pathogen adapts. It would be an approach that would have to be balanced with others.

For what it's worth I do think it is very silly to announce you are using metrics like this. Ideally you'd not want people to know what tipped you off that they were just cashing checks. You would fire them gradually over several weeks or months, and explain it some way that doesn't easily point back to the filter metrics. This approach of announcing it is like exposing pathogens to a sub-curative dose of medicine.

Anyway, I don't get the sense from the other commenters that the main concern is for the wellbeing of the company -- that they might be at risk of being gamed. I don't think an employee should have an expectation of privacy in at least several of the spaces used in the article as a signal, if any.
It is much more effective than the flu vaccine and you can still transmit with the flu vaccine, as neither are purely sterilizing.
Find nutritional support information at doctoryourself.com -- lots of good info here and it can make a big difference. One example: http://www.doctoryourself.com/depression.html

Also, Linus Pauling (the two time Nobel prize winner) has a book "How to Live Longer and Feel Better". Best of luck to you and your partner.
Mob is hiring backend guys now, brave new world
Wokwi – Online Arduino Simulator
And who, might I ask, will the landlords replace them with?
Yes, you can micromanage roads if you like using the forbidden zone tool. You can also shape the roads by plopping a building into the middle of a path and forcing the citizens to route around it. But, by and large, the roads are generated mostly from activity. It's been one of the selling points of Foundation from the beginning.

And you are correct about houses. But it's still a difference from the usual medieval city builders in which house placement is something players do directly. Part of Foundation's goal of making their villages more organic and less grid. That was the point I was trying to make without getting into the weeds of how the housing mechanic worked in detail.

On a side note, I wish Foundation had the option for direct placement of houses. There were bugs in past versions which prevented house construction without enormous amounts of decorations. The current version is much better, but can still be mysterious as to why houses aren't being built in a desirable area with what seems to be plenty of room and the townspeople are wanting more houses. The reasons for the non-construction are not often clear. One thing I hope the game improves over time.
The formal proof doesn’t exist yet but the language was designed from the ground up with memory safety as a key principle.

I should note, Rust is not the only safe language. Python is safe, as are most modern languages with garbage collection. Most code can afford a garbage collector and should probably use one. My day job is real-time network + web services with Elixir/Erlang, and it works great. Rust gets brought up in contrast to Zig because it brings the benefits of those higher-level languages down to the metal.
Luckily, macOS was at its best ~8 years ago, so it's okay if they're behind.
> "He was coding PC games as a teen, wrote the code for zip2, was the cto at x.com, and taught himself rocket science from textbooks (as confirmed by other rocket scientists). If that’s a “pseudo nerd”, who qualifies as a “real nerd”?"

If you don't code for 30 years, people might not call you a coder anymore.

Hotz on the other-hand still regular live-streams himself programming and hacking.
This story has an Irvine Welsh flavor
I never said radiology didn't produce biased results, just that we don't know the race of our patients most of the time.

There are lots of ways bias can still occur, like in who gets referred for scans, when they get referred, what the referrer writes on the request form, how the technologist takes the images (I could tell you some horribly racist stories about a few ultrasonographers I've worked with), and so on.

And all of this is based on previous work that AI produces bias (when trained on these datasets). If it was useful differences that drove AI learning about race, the models would not produce disparities. We went looking for how it is interacting with race because we already knew it was producing unacceptable outcomes. The big news here is that it is so easy to learn race that this effect is almost certainly not isolated to the systems tested so far.
The policy excludes children under 12 given they are not eligible.
The core of MacOS is Darwin which is open source. Based on the MACH/XNU kernel and *BSD. So any MacOS clone would start with using Darwin code.
Would Starbase or Starship even exist as a concept or program of SpaceX, if it hadn't been for Musk? Would Shotwell have created the Starship program at SpaceX? Would Shotwell even have pushed for the reusable booster program at SpaceX or would she have went with expendable first stages? No one is taking anything away from Shotwell, but fact is, it is Musk who is making reusability, full reusability, on-orbit refueling, and super-heavy lift a priority of R&D at SpaceX.

And this has nothing to do with gender. Steve Jobs got all of the accolades for everything amazing that Apple did. He stole credit from Steve Wozniak, and from all of the other brilliant designers and engineers at Apple, but people mostly gave him a pass. But to deny Steve as the driving force for many of decisions, even if Steve had nothing to do with Apple's amazing supply chain management, or semiconductor team, is also distorting history. No Steve Jobs, no iPhone, no Mac. No Musk, no Starship. It's just that simple, Musk isn't an executive to set out to make a rocket company to make money launching satellites, he set out to make humans multiplanetary, and everything flows from that vision. His obsession with that dream is the core driver behind everything else.

Musk creates the 'urgency' at SpaceX. Blue Origin isn't doing jack because they are careful with money, Blue Origin is wasting money. They've spent $1 billion a year! They're not doing anything because they're running a traditional waterfall model of development and they have no urgency, becausefor Bezos this is a hobby. They're OldSpace dressed up in NewSpace clothing.

What you're doing is trying to remove the person who controls the purse springs, who is pushing his company to engage in risky, unsafe, but potentially revolutionary vision, from the story. Put a traditional CEO in Musk's chair and you'll get a guy managing a 5% YoY improvement in their existing Falcon 9 business lines every year. They'll rest on their butt milking the Falcon 9 with tweaks, and they'll be stuck in the innovators dilemma for fear of killing the golden goose, or risking the company.

And it's for that reason, since the 1960s, the basic formula for aerospace companies hasn't changed.

Also to be clear, I'm a big fan of Shotwell. But you can be a fan of both Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, of the visionary risk taker with the obsessive personality, and the person responsible for executing it. With the ADHD and the OCD founders. You need both kinds of people.
Facebook prototype projects your eyes onto a VR headset
> Medical freedom should be absolute.

Do I have the right to knowingly go about my business in public spaces with untreated-and-infectious Ebola after "weighing my risks"?
Totally agreed for sendai.
The NCMEC database that Apple is likely using to match hashes, contains countless non-CSAM pictures that are entirely legal not only in the U.S. but globally.

This should be reason enough for you to not support the idea.

From day 1, it's matching legal images and phoning home about them. Increasing the scope of scanning is barely a slippery slope, they're already beyond the stated scope of the database.
Career management enters the chat. Play blame game nothing gets done.
Obvious push poll. Username checks out.
>It might be moot from a public health standpoint, but it's not necessarily moot from a public policy or governmental standpoint.

100%.

We need to continue to be vigilant and to keep public trust. That's currently at stake.

Also agree on everything else you bring up. Especially:

> now we all agree the issue is moot, right?

This is exactly what I was trying to say initially. If the attitude is: what's done is done and therefore we don't do this going forward; then that's a major loss for society. That can't be the outcome.
This is absolutely correct. These policies are being driven by unelected bureaucrats in Oregon Health Authority working with the Oregon Department of Education. And there are fines for failure to comply. https://www.oregon.gov/ode/students-and-family/healthsafety/...
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Writing additional code to check things that you'd reasonably expect the DB to handle is a slippery slope. It can work well if you are going into it with an application geared towards that mindset and behavior, it works pretty bad introducing it into an existing codebase that historically works a more strict way.
That's the stated purpose, but keep in mind that these databases (NCMEC's in particular, which is used by FB and very likely Apple) contain legal images that are NOT child porn.
I am willing to balance the risk of never having a normal life again with an overall risk of illness and death that is on par with every other year I have been alive.

It’s not about you. It’s never about you. There are plenty of people who cannot legitimately get vaccinated. Since these people have no choice to get the vaccine, then your rights to choose for yourself are rightly curtailed.

I’m always curious about these arguments. Why do you think your rights are superior to the rights of others?
Could you say more about these legal photos? That's a pretty big difference from what I thought was contained in the DB.
> And this is not just about this project: from what I see, the industry seems to have rejected fully integrated blade systems. Dell's M1000e is dying, and I don't think I've seen HPE bladecenters in years.

No offense but this is just wrong. HPe is all in with their synergy platform (the replacement to bladecenter that has been out for several years now). Cisco just released their next gen UCS blade platform as well. Dell has never been a dominant player in blades.

https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/at-a-47-cagr-data-...
I'm a little bit confused here and hope maybe some of you can clear this up.

My parents took lots of photos of me as a baby/small child. Say lying naked on a blanket or a naked 2yr old me in a kiddie pool in the summer in our backyard. Those are private photos and because it was the 1970s those were just taken with a normal non-digital camera. They were OBVIOUSLY never shared with others, especially outside immediate family.

Transform that into the 2020s and today these type of pictures would be taken with your iPhone. Would they now be classified as child pornography even though they weren't meant to be shared with anyone nor were they ever shared with anyone? Just your typical proud parent photo of your toddler.

Sounds a bit like a slippery slope, but maybe I am misunderstanding the gravity here. I'm specifically highlighting private "consumption" (parent taking picture of their child who happens to be naked as 1yr olds tend to be sometimes) vs "distribution" (parent or even a nefarious actor taking picture of a child and sharing it with third parties). I 100% want to eliminate child pornography. No discussion. But how do we prevent "false positives" with this?
Not sure how great of a source this is - but black people at all education levels seem to be about ~8% less likely than the general population to get vaccinated [1].

However, black people at most education levels are poorer than the average population (unfortunately) - and according to this chart - poor people are also much more likely to not be vaccinated [2].

You can't really make any conclusions from the two charts - but I would guess a lot of this is because black people are disproportionately poorer than average.

[1] https://www.shadac.org/news/HPSVax-06.21#:~:text=47.0%25)%20....

[2] https://www.axios.com/covid-vaccines-low-income-poor-workers...
> there is no data because we didn't look for it.

Bigfoot is out there, and UFOs. Sorry, I shouldn't mock you. But seriously, epidemiologists, you know--Scientists--without political agendas study this problem very carefully...and do not see any widespread effects from the vaccine after a year. It's not like they forgot to look for it. If you seriously believe they are just being willfully blind to it then you're going to be off a long chain of other rationalizations that are just more hallmarks of the fact that you didn't reason yourself to where you are. But I already suspected that so I am not trying to convince you as much as tag your misinformation for passers by.

> I don't really see what it buys me

This is really the crux of matter. You only think about yourself. One, you are are far higher risk of Bad Things (tm) straight-up getting COVID, especially with Delta and Lambda coming. Again, the data is absolutely clear on that. Two, other people exist. Data shows you are more likely to be infected and more likely to infect others if you are unvaccinated. You help keep this thing festering by offering yourself up as a host. And no, vaccinated people are not doing the same. They are actually taking precautions that protect themselves and others. You're just being selfish and obstinate, and it isn't even principled, you are just worried about vague side-effects that only affect you. Worse, you put vaccinated people at risk too. If you are infected, and also being in contact with vaccinated people, you are just offering evolution more dice rolls to create a more infectious variant that can evade vaccine-induced immunity and infect the people around you. In fact, you tempt evolution to do so, because it's then a selective pressure. It's like giving your crazy neighbor who steals people's bullets and shoots them into the air randomly free ammunition by putting it on the porch with a bow on it instead of locking your shit up in your house. It's infuriatingly irresponsible.

> I thought nobody is actually believed zero COVID is possible?

I said herd immunity, not zero COVID.

herd im·mu·ni·ty, noun:
resistance to the spread of an infectious disease within a population that is based on pre-existing immunity of a high proportion of individuals as a result of previous infection or vaccination. "the level of vaccination needed to achieve herd immunity varies by disease but ranges from 83 to 94 percent"

Zero COVID was a possibility when infections were low. But back then, people were saying it only affected a few people and didn't even want to wear masks. Irresponsible people brought this upon us and keep it going with continued irresponsibility.

I think you're irresponsible and I'm saying it you explicitly.
Supplementary source code:

https://github.com/Apress/Ray-Tracing-Gems-II
I totally agree. You can still transmit COVID with the vaccine. People who want to be protected from dying of COVID get the vaccine (90% less likely to die), and those who don’t will not get the vaccine. Seems simple to me.
Struggling first steps as a new senior
Why do deliveries need flying drones? A truckload of wheeled delivery vehicles that could be released each time the truck stops might be more practical in suburban environments (and flying drones don't make as much sense in a skyscraper environment either).
So to me your post is at best a red herring (what does this have to do with the topic of the blog post?), but more likely an ad hominem to discredit Mozilla.

Nothing of what you write actually refutes the argument in the blog post.
I was under the impression that one of the reasons why these tools aren’t available for public download is because the hashes and system can be used to design defeat mechanisms? Doesn’t this mean that someone who has an image and a jail broken device can just watch the system, identify how the photo is detected, and modify it so that it doesn’t trip the filter?

PhotoDNA and systems like it are really interesting, but it seems like clientside scanning is a dangerous decision, not just from the privacy perspective. It seems like giving a CSAM detector and hashes to people is a really risky idea, even if it’s perfect and it does what it says it does without violating privacy.
I have direct knowledge of examples of where individuals were arrested and convicted of sharing CP online and they were identified because a previous employer I worked for used PhotoDNA analysis on all user uploaded images. So yeah, this type of thing can catch bad people. I’m still not convinced Apple doing this is a good thing, especially on private media content without a warrant, even though the technology can help catch criminals.
But that's my point. It shouldn't be a red flag on the candidate, and shouldn't need to be explained.
Did he ever blow up at Woz?
Can you give more information about this? What kind of legal images might it match?
Speaking of sheer skills, take a look at geohotz twitch streams. Just the breadth of topics is fun to watch: making your own crypto, hacking the neural chip, low size encryption.
> vaccines have not been approved for those younger than 12

And I suggest that this should be changed. Chill and try to be less toxic please.

You don't know if I have taken or not the vaccine so please don't assume.
What is the difference between this and GNUSTEP http://www.gnustep.org/ and Darling http://darlinghq.org
Why would there be legal images in the db? do you have a source for that?
Too bad Apple and the rest of big money already have our legislators in their pockets.
Sorry you're you're totally right it is AGPL I don't know how that slipped my mind. I'll update that, cheers! :)
>People under 12 with healthy immune systems are at extremely low risks from covid.

I'm sure that's a great comfort to the parents of the ~2000 children that have died COVID related deaths[0] in the US during the pandemic.

And to the parents of the children who will die before we get this scourge under control.

Perhaps you should volunteer to speak at the funerals of such children so you can assure everyone there that it's no big deal?

[0] https://www.aappublications.org/news/2020/12/29/covid-2milli...