skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a consequence of that, what you're describing is a consequence of poor justification algorithms + no manual justification. For books, generally want block justified text without rivers, that's why you need a good tweakable algorithm, which is what GP is complaining about. Lack of that makes it problematic for use in professional publishing work

Even with very good justification tools (InDesign's being the obvious example, as it's a direct competitor) a professional end result still requires a lot of manual work -- adjusting tracking and kerning, actually editing the text. But without that solid basis it's entirely slow manual work.
I also learned this graphically as the roots are symmetric intersections of a parabola with the x-axis equidistant from their average.
If it's millions then maybe. Say a major city wiped off the face of the earth or something like that. But chances are that two news cycles later people would just update their maps and talk about how great it was that they went holidaying in 'X' before it was wiped out.
Russians currently have:

- 1 active nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruiser. 1 under refit. 2 retired.

- 1 nuclear-powered cargo ship (Sevmorput).

- 5 nuclear-powered icebreakers. Russians have over 400 reactor-years of operating experience with icebreakers. Starting with Lenin 1957.

- Not to mention submarines.

The reason why Russian carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is not nuclear-powered has nothing to do with ability. The carrier design was not good to begin with and then Soviet Union collapsed.
"The vaccines provide nearly perfect protection against serious outcomes."

I am vaccinated, however, my young child is not. If I get a breakthrough case, I don't want to spread it to my kid. I know this is anecdotal, but... my wife's office just closed because of a breakthrough case, and another friend was recently exposed to someone with a breakthrough case.
Material that is deemed illegal in jurisdiction A but not in B. Material for which someone was once convicted but if found on someone else's device would not be illegal. Material isn't added to these databases after sober legal deliberation. Police agencies can add basically anything they see fit.
It most certainly is not just in-memory; it can do in-memory, but also has file and server options: https://h2database.com/html/features.html#connection_modes

Exact same story for its HyperSQL and Derby friends: http://hsqldb.org/doc/2.0/guide/running-chapt.html#rgc_hsqld... https://db.apache.org/derby/#What+is+Apache+Derby%3F
False, and this shows that you didn't read the entire article. You should go and do that.
We gave up on the space program after Challenger. We gave up on nuclear power after Chernobyl. We decided that we couldn't solve big problems as a society. Instead, we put that effort into generating wealth for a privileged few, prioritizing the economy above everything else, because we have nothing else.
Oh and I thought OpenWindows was cool
As always with TUG, the program promises lots of people doing cool things and people can view the talks for free.
Is anyone even using Apple if they care about privacy and security?
Yes, it is, and you need to read the entire article.
If I am a US citizen with negligible assets and a plan to move abroad and renounce my US citizenship, and I plan to found a software startup, how should I go about it to minimize the taxes I eventually pay to my soon to be former government, whose unjust practices I'm trying to stop funding?

I could potentially wait until my US citizenship is a thing of the past before I even build anything, let alone create a new legal entity. But ideally I would find a way to start this now.
1. was new to me.

TIL - (2014) PhotoDNA Lets Google, FB and Others Hunt Down Child Pornography Without Looking at Your Photos

https://petapixel.com/2014/08/08/photodna-lets-google-facebo...
Interesting! There's a market for this kind of audio data entry? What was the total cost for that many hours? The English data was entirely volunteer driven, correct? Maybe it's worth funding the English corpus for the additional hours needed to reach the sweet spot?
Yeah, but it's also useful for getting my friends on board. I think it's likely that I eventually start hosting matrix or some alternative, but my goal is to be practical here, yet still have a privacy protecting posture.
I'm being dense. Isn't this just anonymous functions with some syntax sugar? What am I missing?
Luckily I only use phone to make phone calls, offline GPS and to control some gizmos like drones. Do not even have data plan. Not an Apple customer either so I guess my exposure to things mentioned is more limited.
I'm not an expert in how this works, but I am skeptical that Apple would do this if they had a way of scanning iCloud photos and videos on their servers.

They also confirmed it is only when the photos upload to iCloud: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/05/apple-csam-detection-di...
I managed to get one for about $600 on ebay, a few years back. I always wanted one in my youth. It took almost 30 years to fulfill my dream.
Answered incorrectly. You need to read the rest of the article.
Custodial control is an oxymoron.

They are facilitating a transaction. They can choose to accept or reject a transaction. In this capacity, they are most similar to a broker-dealer.
I used to be excited by Kotlin.

After using it, and now having newer Java versions, I find it doesn't offer enough anymore. I'm thankful it might have helped Java get better though.

I'm highly waiting for project loom to be ready, and maybe someday to be able to define functions with no class in Java (pipe dream?).

I also feel like the hype has pretty much died off.

Am I the only one feeling this way?
You're conflating the CSAM detection of photos uploaded to iCloud with the explicit detection for child devices. The latter is loosely described here: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/.

> Messages uses on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments and determine if a photo is sexually explicit. The feature is designed so that Apple does not get access to the messages.
> In a species with 50/50 split between male and female, the number of males is almost irrelevant to population growth.

The split between male and female isn't relevant to this. Unless the males are needed to raise the children, the number of males is irrelevant to population growth.

But the average benefit of having a son remains equal to the average benefit of having a daughter; that's why the ratio stays at 50/50.
It's mostly the trees that we cut down. They were already there. Part of the problem here is that biomass was declared to be 'carbon neutral', which caused a lot of people to interpret that as a license to cut down the forests and burn them. But carbon fixation is a slow process and growing trees to the point where they have a substantial gas exchange gowing takes a long time.
That's because there is no "we". The most popular way to deal with coordinating important collective efforts is to give up all power to a small elite group and hope their members are magically not self-interested. The effect is predictable and manifested with the Covid pandemic: elites were informed in time, prepared their own affairs adequately [1], and let the rest fend for themselves.

Figure out some actual governance and coordination schemes and "we" may have a chance at beating the Prisoner's Dilemma.

[1]: I have personal anecdotes, but publicly available data speaks for itself: https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pand...
If you mean better, why not just say better? Using the word advanced implies that "progress" is monotonic, but you just gave an example of how it isn't. Some regressions may have seemed like advances at the time. We should probably just refer to "changes."
I use maps on my phone on a regular basis - I would vastly prefer to have something less featured and stable versus hacking the crap out of my phone. But that's good to know.
I feel like this argument really doesn't add much to the discussion.

It runs only on a subset of situations, as previously noted - and I would be _shocked_ if this used more battery than half the crap running on devices today.

Do you complain that Apple runs code to find moments in photos to present to you periodically...?
How so? That's literally what it is.
This looks interesting, hadn't heard of it before - thanks!

Also in the Bay Area, I was able to feed a giraffe at the San Francisco Zoo, which was super exciting! Their tongues are really impressive, would recommend feeding a giraffe at some point.

It was a few years ago, but at least back then they had specific times listed online when you could watch the giraffes get fed. The key was to show up at a low traffic time to get a chance to interact.
>They won’t see actual images but hashes

Oh great, even better. /s

How many billions of images does apple deal with? There's bound to be a heck of a lot of collisions in there.
HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections
I don't know whether to blame the Type 4, something about our desks, or something in the water... but our entire development team were getting RSI problems, like I haven't heard of before or since.

(Fortunately, there was chatter on the Internet about this problem at the time, and I learned the very simple workstation adjustments that worked for me. Ever since, I've been able to type like crazy, with no discomfort. To this day, I give everyone The Talk about typing RSI injuries, the set of usual culprits I know about, so you can adjust and see what works for you, and the absolute necessity of not working through typing pain. And if someone is noticing typing-related pain, they need to get a referral to a specialist(s), they need to keep on the specialist so they don't fall through the cracks, and they need to do what the specialist says.)
This is inaccurate. Multi tenant apps can simply be signed into via OIDC and they're added to your tenant, if you allow it. All Microsoft apps use OIDC and are not allowed to use SAML, but SaaS app developers are not quite as far ahead.

But yes, we don't support dynamic registration of apps for eg OIDC/oauth
A lot of US mass transit systems have developed existential problems due to decades of poor maintenance and under-investment. As a result they’ll take years and billions to get into a state of good repair. Bus lanes are a great way to expand capacity while that happens.
Yeah it's only 5% on revenues above a million on a title by title basis. Very generous terms and incredibly indie friendly. Probably more expensive for large successes, but imo much more preferable.
If you haven’t already heard of it, cryptomator might be just what you’re after.
The point of encrypted data is not to be “reached.”
Personally I find it interesting as tools like these have been helping me to understand the team's and delivery dynamics when I'm joining new dev-teams.

This particular is great, as it reminds me of a book that I had read a while back; Your Code as a Crime Scene [1] by Adam Tornhill.

Adam is trying to explain something similar, but takes the whole concept onto the next level by explaining how tech debt and hidden coupling can be discovered using the git history and similar file structure visualisations.

[1] https://pragprog.com/titles/atcrime/your-code-as-a-crime-sce...
Remote work doesn't mean you have to literally work from home. Before the pandemic, I worked remotely, but rarely from my actual home.
Cars give you point to point, personal space, and climate control. Even in cities with lots of trains like Beijing or Tokyo, the commute is not a fun experience - I got tired of it within just a handful of business trips.

Walking can give you point to point, with more personal space than the frequent crush of a train or bus, but I don't think it's realistic to expect people to want to live in cities small enough that "always have a walkable commute" is a realistic goal.

Electric bikes/scooters/skateboards/etc seem like the best option in coastal California, but are a harder sell in places that get extreme weather. And have some issues compared to a car for the less able or more fragile.

Self-driving cars make congestion and usage probably worse, in my expectation, because you've eliminated one of the big downsides of cars, so I expect more demand for them compared to buses and trains.

Environmentally, the more realistic win - short of strict laws that basically just force people to not go with their first choice - honestly seems like just figuring out remote work. Reduce how often people have to travel across town at all. (That, and I'm not convinced that moving away for "perpetual growth forever" is such a bad thing.)
Apple requires signing of code that's going to run on MacOS. You can disable this, but it is a nice little security feature that allows Apple to quickly react if a virus starts spreading on their devices. They revoke that certificate and OCSP (which is a standard way of checking for revocation) blocks that software from running.

Apple's design was fail closed, so if OCSP is down, assume the application has had its key revoked.

Unfortunately that's just how OCSP is, your browser (if you're using Firefox) does this with CAs. The unfortunate thing is, due to the nature of desktop applications, OCSP stapling doesn't really work when you're not the one serving content.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that making it harder to abuse children is a bad thing. It’s what is required to do so that is the bad thing. It’d be like if someone installed microphones all over every house to report on when you admit that you’re guilty to bullying. No one wants bullying, but I doubt you want a microphone recording everything and looking for certain trigger words. Unless you have an Alexa or something, then I guess you probably wouldn’t mind that example.
what are you talking? you can create openid connect applications in azure. and you need to sign up with azure one way or the other, saml 2.0 and openid connect applications actually need to have an app registration in azure which can only be created once your signed up?!

basically the app registration process for openid connect and saml is basically the same one?!
And how about they make this service opt-in. I was born in the US but I have had nothing to do with the place for 95% of my life and I don't want their help. Why must I fill out their paperwork every year or pay them money to opt-out (which I can't even do anymore because of the current backlog).
It's a tragic shame that people didn't have the concept of invasive species back then.
Two book recommendations for their retrospective analyses over the last 37 years:

Nick Bryant’s When America Stopped Being Great (BBC reporter who spent formative years in USA, beyond being on assignment there).

George Packer’s Last Best Hope (Packer has a bunch of other fantastic material)
Unfortunately with SafetyNet, I feel like an investment into Android is also a losing proposition...I can only anticipate being slowly cut off from the Android app ecosystem as more apps onboard with attestation.

We've collectively handed control of our personal computing devices over to Apple and Google. I fear the long-term consequences of that will not be positive...
The U2 album was a marketing tactic gone horribly wrong. But the same basic tactic was used to automatically upgrade people's movies to 4K versions. It's just assigning a right to an asset by a given account. It was not an invasion of privacy or some new technical advance that gave Apple some advanced privacy invading features.

Apple said "Hey everyone owns this U2 album now". And if your phone had automatic downloads turned on it downloaded the album.

The idea that even belongs on the slope is … you're not a serious person and you're not making a serious argument.
This is an abuse my property rights. The device is my property and this activity will be using my CPU, battery time and my network bandwidth. That's the abuse right there.

They should just use their own computers to do this stuff.
True. But, first, it also means anyone, anywhere, as long as they use iOS, is vulnerable to what the US considers to be proper. Which, I will agree, likely won’t be an issue in the case of child pornography. But there’s no way to predict how that will evolve (see Facebook’s ever expanding imposing of American cultural norms and puritanism).

Next, it also means they can do it. And if it can be done for child pornography, why not terrorism? And if it can be done for the US’ definition of terrorism, why not China's, Russia's or Saudi Arabia's? And if terrorism and child pornography, why not drugs consumption? Tax evasion? Social security fraud? Unknowingly talking with the wrong person?

Third, there apparently is transparency on it today. But who is to say it's possible expansion won't be forcibly silenced in the same way Prism's requests were?

Fourth, but that's only because I slightly am a maniac, how can anyone unilaterally decide to waste the computing power, battery life and data plan of a device I paid for without my say so? (probably one of my main gripes with ads)

All in all, it means I am incorporating into my everyday life a device that can and will actively snoop on me and potentially snitch on me. Now, while I am not worried today, it definitely paves the way for many other things. And I don't see why I should trust anyone involved to stop here or let me know when they don’t.
You misunderstood what I was saying. I'm not talking about 1918. Covid vaccines are being pushed to tamp down breakthrough variants. There is also as much risk of a deadly breakthrough variant of the flu right now. My point of bringing up 1918 is to show that deadly flu breakthrough variants are possible. Considering that this is still the case in 2021, should we mandate flu vaccines as well, right now? If not, the argument for mandating covid vaccines is inconsistent.
> Who audits these databases? Where is the oversight to guarantee only appropriate content is included? They are famously opaque because the very viewing of the content is illegal. So how can we know that they contain what they are purported to contain?

I wholeheartedly agree: there is an audit question here too. The contents of the database are by far the most dangerous part of this equation, malicious or not, targeted or not. I don't like the privacy implications about this, nor the potential for abuse. I would love to see some kind of way to audit the database, or ensure that it's only used "for good." I just don't know what that system is, and I know that PhotoDNA is already in use on other cloud providers.

Matthew Green's ongoing analysis [0] is really worth keeping an eye on. For example, there's a good question: can you just scan against a different database for different people? These are the right questions given what we have right now.

[0]: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14233782854682091...
I meant implemented as written the program for. I fully believe they have implemented the feature, just not enabled it yet.
Does it exist for other db technologies (mysql, etc) available through RDS, or it is a pure Postgres-on-AWS thing?
I'm using since many years HERE Maps https://wego.here.com/
unless you have special wealth status?
John Deere buys autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics
>I see it everywhere and it literally seems like some kind of one-way entropic process. I can't think of anything that would reverse it. It would be like turning an omelet into an egg.

Thomas Jefferson had some arboriculture advice that seems relevant to this kind of thing.
> these notifications give the sense that Apple is watching over the user’s shoulder—and in the case of under-13s, that’s essentially what Apple has given parents the ability to do.

Well, yes? Parents are already legally responsible for their young children and under their supervision. The alternative would be to not even give such young children these kind of devices to begin with - which might actually be preferable.

> this system will give parents who do not have the best interests of their children in mind one more way to monitor and control them

True. But the ability to send or receive explicit images would most likely not be the biggest issue they would be facing.

I understand the slippery slope argument the EFF is making, but they should keep to the government angle. Having the ability for governments to deploy specific machine learning classifiers is not a good thing.
That's very well possible.
What is the Tonga event?
Oh and I forgot my personal favorite. Filling my harddrive with TB of log messages saying the telemetry failed to phone home due to no internet when left alive overnight.
Nearly the same as MagicEarth...I use it all the time.
The vulnerabilities happened, we're aware of them now, and the major libraries (which you should be using anyway) will be sure to fix them. This isn't a compelling case to throw away SAML, just to be mindful not to make certain implementation errors.
You link to an article that says ... "Overall, the evidence suggests that CCTV c an reduce crime.". And then continues mention that specific context matters: Vehicle crime ... oh well, I wonder if we could combat that without surveilance, like better locks, remote disable of the engine ... There as here with the phones, society has to evaluate the price of the loss of privacy and abuse by totalitarien systems, which will happen - we just can't say when. This is why some - like me - resist backdoors at all if for the price of "more crime".
I really like Here WeGo, and it allows you to download maps for specific countries too to have available offline.
A classic example:

“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”

This is just typical gatekeeping, not "truth".
There is a lot of hand wringing, worrying,
blaming about evil, short sighted,
negligent, irresponsible humans doing
serious damage to the environment and the
planet and causing disastrous, dangerous,
destructive world wide climate change,
global warming, rising sea levels, etc.

There is no end of what we can worry
about, e.g., Yellowstone erupting, another
Krakatoa, having the atmosphere of the
earth blown off by the blast from a
supernova, etc.

But just now the claim that human sources
of CO2 are having significant effects on
the climate, temperature, sea level, etc.
are the source of a lot of angst and
anxiety.

So, we need to filter, separate possible
disasters for which we have good evidence
and can do something about from the
endless number of disasters for which we
have no credible evidence.

For human sources of CO2: So far there is
no, none, nichts, nada, nil, zip, zilch,
zero credible evidence that human sources
of CO2 have had, are having, or will have
a significant effect on the climate,
temperature, sea level, etc. No evidence
that is credible.

All the credibility was lost, blown,
thrown away, destroyed by the many
predictions of significant temperature
increases that didn't happen, as in the
well known

http://www.energyadvocate.com/gc1.jpg

As a result, the alarm, angst, anxiety,
hand wringing about human sources of CO2
is irrational, foolish, irresponsible, and
supporting an industry of hysteria that is
just a flim-flam, fraud, scam on the backs
and in the pockets of billions of people
and making a few people rich.

While we know very well how to measure
temperature and how to average it, we
don't even have meaningful measures of
climate.

For the science that might be relevant,
essentially all of it fails to be science
because it has long shown to have no
predictive value.

In response, until there is credible
evidence that human activities can do good
things for the climate, we should just
junk the alarmists and forget about human
sources of CO2.