skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the comment came from someone who was confusing "people who work in animation" with "people who are Animators." I have known a great many Technical Directors who wanted to be Animators. I have known only one Animator who wanted to be a Technical Director, and he faced no significant obstacles in transitioning to become one.
On the other hand, just recently [1] was posted to HN, that analyzed the frequency of words such as racist, sexist, etc., in major US media, and found:

> It is noteworthy that prejudice-denoting words are markedly increasing in prevalence alongside long-term decreases in overt expression of prejudice [6]-[9] yet recent increases in the perceived prevalence of such prejudice among the general public.

Looking at this article, I found the following contrast very amusing (though not surprising):

> Interpreting recent polling data is tricky, but my tentative read of the data is that it shows a welcome increase in the number of people who are aware of long-standing racist practices—especially in the criminal justice system—but not an increase in the number of people who think these practices have gotten worse.

> And the American National Election Studies, among other polls, have showed this belief in so-called reverse racism is overwhelmingly driven by white Republicans. This trend starts before 2000, but it’s growing and is an obvious candidate to explain rising white anger—as long as there’s something around to keep it front and center in the minds of white people.

One change in attitude is accepted without question as obviously driven by truth, the other is surrounded by caveats and implications it's misguided.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28109305
There are lots of people at Cloudflare who live nowhere near an office and will remain 100% remote even after the offices reopen.
It will be fine. They will just paint over your eyes so it appears that you are maintaining eye contact. ‘Smoothing over social graces’ may be a critically important job to be done by the AR system.
Natural gas is rapidly obsoleting coal on price, thanks to American frackers. Pollution absolutely can be replaced profitably, and without plunging billions back into poverty
Agreed. The pricing gets crazy fast when you're not really in control of your record / query count, like the typical SaaS dealing with customer data.

It feels tailored to first party use.
I'm extremely bullish on AR/VR, neurotech, and smart wearables over the next decade or two, but this article seems oddly focused on AR glasses replacing phones. We're definitely seeing the phone separate into pieces closer to the body (wireless earbuds and watches), with the phone serving as a hub. The Apple Watch is almost where the original iPhone was in terms of technical capability (and has already passed some of the iPods, minus a headphone jack), but it lacks the large screen, large battery, and large compute power of modern phones. This should sound familiar: this was the main difference between the iphone and laptops at the time. Compute power and battery sizes can maybe reach good enough levels to replace the phone's role as a hub for most people within the next decade, but it's not clear anything can be done about the screen without expanding along or beyond the wrist. This, to me, is the value proposition of an AR HUD (which, maybe, absorbs or emerges from the growing smart earbud/headphone category). When looking at it as a compute element, I don't know if putting the brains on one's head (ironically) will be compelling vs the flexibility of storing it in a pocket or purse or strapped to some other body part with better ability to bear the extra load. I doubt AR glasses will gain brains fast enough to displace phones before something else takes its place. Strictly viewed as a device for viewing/hearing things controlled by some other device the user owns, the biggest challenge for glasses replacing the phone screen will be competition from all the other displays we're putting everywhere we look (living rooms, cars, pockets, etc...) It's possible AR wins by some benefit of economics (fewer screens!), but it's also possible that it loses because of inertia.

I have a lot more to say on this, but half a century from now, I think we'll certainly look back at the phone as a weird transitional device with a lot of odd UX compromises, but as it was (and still is) for laptops, desktops, and mainframes before them, the phone will probably not go away in some niches for decades (if ever). It's still a huge question to me whether over-eye AR will be the leading form factor that replaces them, and I'm unconvinced that the mass market future is AR glasses alone.
Isn’t that an alleged memo from the NCMEC? I would sincerely doubt an official memo from any agency would use the term “shrieking minority”, it sounds like imaginative fiction of what a government agency would actually say.
RAGE was a great way to discover new music - basically a mix of JJJ Unearthed (video edition) along with new US and UK indie videos.
I don't exactly know why you're getting downvoted, but I will point out that while they play in the same sandbox, this is roughly equivalent to suggesting that someone rewrite their app because Solr and ES have absolutely stellar differences of opinion about the API used to access them, the amount of schema one must provide up-front to the document index, and the amount of operational hoops one must jump through to keep the service alive

Sure, there are about 5-6 open source search engines one could pick from in a greenfield project, with amazing differences of features and maturity, but choosing between Open Search and ElasticSearch is likely a "political" decision, since they are (ahem, mostly) API compatible and have very similar operational needs.
Another bias: we cherry picked the country which became the world dominating super power. How would a similar calculation look like for countries like UK or France, which used to be close to the top in early 20th century, but did not achieve global dominance?
Looks very neat.

Had a look at the demo and source code and can appreciate the effort in making the code well organised and easy to read. I’m not a PHP dev but it’s fairly clear what each function is doing.

I like that there is a philosophy behind it to make the store managers job as easy as possible.

Good luck! If I ever get time I’d be up for writing a Docker file and compose file for it (my preference as a Windows user)
So, I understand how it's plagiarism, but I'm still not following why your suggestion, with the goal of helping them get their paper accepted, wouldn't be acceptable to copy/paste. It was to them and only to them, so it's not like it's a piece of substantial work from another team. Seems to be an extreme form of following the letter of the rule, and not the spirit of the rule. But, I'm not an academic so I don't really understand this sort of lack of discretionary allowance..
Oh, it may have been. Wouldn't the first time I hear "woosh".
What seems naive? Adding hashes will only match images, not other files, and even then only if a group is matched, not just one.
Emotionally, I'm with the author, but I need to point out, for balance, that not everything is cancer.

GIT has some weird commands, but even I think it's awesome. (Way better than zip files on a stack of floppies for backup)

I've come to accept UTF8, and UTF32 as worth successors to ASCII

Time travel debugging is going to be awesome, if I ever get to use it.

Portable applications solve a lot of issues, and never need to be installed.

αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε is even better, cross platform done right!

I still love Pascal, and Lazarus (Delphi priced me out) but lots of folks don't have general purpose computers any more, I feel sad for all the folks who have to settle for apps instead of full fledged native desktop programs.
This is something I've thought a lot about, as I got two degrees in environmental studies, but ended up becoming a programmer because it pays more and is fun. I promised myself I'd never 'sell out' and would at least work on something loosely related to climate. So far so good.

So as far as programming jobs, the most interesting would be working for a company that is explicitly focused on climate:

- Carbon markets are growing fast. Here I'll plug the company I co-founded, [Offsetra.com](http://offsetra.com/). It's a competitive space, and a unique one, but I 100% believe in it and I know it will play a significant role in global emissions reductions. Lots of room for web and app development.

- Carbon accounting is also growing. A fantastic space where software and automation can solve problems and lower costs. I helped build a very simple tool, carbon.fyi, which led to a truly astonishing amount of attention, media & impact. I'd like to keep building more tools in this space.

- Hard core engineering. New energy tech, battery tech, materials, or efficiency improvements. Surely room for software, but requires specialization.

- Fun moon-shot startups like the ones you see here from YC. Most tend to be focused on Direct Air Capture. I'm not so excited about that, but some people are.

Not strictly climate-focused, but still super relevant:

- The broad ESG, consulting and green-investment space (includes carbon accounting, but also non-financial reporting, investing, venture capital etc.). Basically 'helping companies go green'. Billions of dollars in this industry, plenty of room to improve process and automate.

- GIS. This is where I ended up for my day job. Geographic Information Systems. Building or using the software that governments, consultants, and researchers use to understand the planet. From hardcore lowlevel programming, to machine learning, web-dev, design and more. Huge and important industry. Caveat: the fossil fuel industry also loves GIS.

- Transit, mobility, urbanism. Love this field. I worked for a wonderful mobility startup and interviewed with many others. Even Google is involved in this space, of course through Google Maps, but also Sidewalk Labs.

Other things I can think of... climate modeling and academic research, social organization/activism and politics.... NGOs definitely hire developers, especially web and frontend. I've interviewed with Vizzuality, Environmental Defense Fund, and some others I forget.

DM me, I'd love to connect.
I bought a cheap $60 or $70 drone on Amazon and eventually gave it a 3-star rating. I was hardly being critical of the product at all, just gave an honest review. The next day I received an email from the company offering me $100 Amazon giftcard to remove the review.
Let's assume they're being completely honest: they'd love to contribute, and think it's a great idea, but genuinely cannot find the time amongst their other responsibilities.

That's bound to be disappointing, for both of you, because if it had worked out, it might have been great.

But ... it didn't.

So it's time to move on. Book a pizza, a drink, a workout --- whatever you do as friends when you need to talk, and fire your friend.

Speak decisively, and personally: "I've decided that I'm going to move ahead with <the project> with another developer. It's great that you were interested, and it'd be great to work together, but it's not working, and I'm going to take a different route".

You can explain that you're disappointed that it didn't work out, but that it's ok, and next time you (or they) have a project you could think about working together again. But be clear: this opportunity is over, and they've contributed nothing and are leaving with nothing.

It'll likely be a relief to you both to put it behind you.

Have this discussion after you've done the first 10 minute "what's going on" catchup thing. It shouldn't take more than 10 or 15 minutes max. And then try really hard to move on to other topics, and make it really clear that you don't hate them, you're still friends, and you can move past this minor thing without issues.

Good luck!
Guess that they will have to use voice input in the next few years.
But what if some brain-machine interface like Neuralink actually gets to general availability?
That doesn't explain why a WR from 10 years after those changes hasn't been even close to beaten recently.
OP was talking about a record set 10 years after that change.

I suggest avoiding terms like "TFA", which can be taken to insult someone's reading comprehension. I'm sure that's not what you intended but it can easily be misinterpreted.
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Too much of technological 'disruption' is just ignoring laws, protections, and just making the experience worse at great cost to society.
The the technical paper Apple put out that is linked to in the post talks about the risk, but isn’t very helpful

“Several solutions to this were considered, but ultimately, this issue is addressed by a mechanism outside of the cryptographic protocol.”
Snapchat already has it, spectacles.com. Better approaches are on the way, kura.tech and the Magic Leap 2.0--and of course the technology in the article.

The real challenge with XR is the vergence-accomodation conflict, it's solved in AR but not VR [0].

AR input software is a commodity, open-source versions exist. They use gesture detection.

[0] https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/9/15/3147
I think it’s not valid to claim that it will be quickly used for that purpose.

However I absolutely agree that it could be used to detect non-CSAM images if Apple colludes with that use case.

My point is that this is immaterial to what is going on in China. China is already an authoritarian surveillance state. Even without this, the state has access to the iCloud photo servers in China, so who knows what they are doing, with or without Apple’s cooperation.
Open source does matter.
A fun fact about Windows is that you can just pluck the system time out of a known memory location (0x7ffe0014). It's unlikely that a tool like this could patch that and I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of the techniques that shareware can use to detect tampering with the system time. I wouldn't be surprised if video games used it to prevent cheating either. What did surprise me is that the Go runtime appears to use it too.
Thank goodness we don't let authoritarians be social planners.
>What gives me the creeps is the notion that we're expected to be constantly tethered to our digital communicators and supposed to synchronously spend energy processing/answering every single inane message thrown our way.

Never a free moment. Honestly sounds like slavery.
Writing code to get things done is something you can learn fairly well by yourself. But writing code that is an actually user friendly and powerful tool, that requires mentoring.
If this is a prelude to E2E encryption for iCloud they are going to be under TREMENDOUS pressure from law enforcement to expand the list of bad material way beyond just CSAM.
Not that I particularly care one way or the other, but doesn’t writing a ‘whitepaper’ (or calling your notes such) indicate an intention to release it?
Yeah this shit has got to stop. I'm sorry that you're competing on a platform that is overly sensitive to the truth, but hound Amazon, not your customers. And if you don't like it, maybe use all that fervor to organize and start competitors that aren't sensitive to that kind of truthtelling from customers: take all of the vendors who are disfavored by the platform and run something that isn't skewed. The tech has been out here for long enough that someone needs to make an amazon competitor.
I don't agree that it improves privacy.

Pre-emptive searches of ones private life should never be ok. Even if it's done by some "blind" algorithm.

And we should stand firmly that our phones and personal electronic devices should fall within the legal boundaries of private life.

We've already accepted some bad legal precedent with 3rd party doctrine and related loopholes, no expectation of privacy justifications, non negotiable ToSs that surrender ownership of data, and sharing of private data obtained under pretenses of it being required for whatever service you're signing up for.

With apple running privacy invading software on the users device, how long until a judge declares that there's no expectation of privacy by plugging information into your phone. After all apple is a 3rd party, and you were aware that they are scanning all files, which create new linked files owned and decrypt-able by apple.

There might be a short-term technical gain, but there's a long term legal and privacy loss.
American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)
Software engineering is the only place where 'its too hard' is used as an excuse to not use superior technologies like rust, haskell, or even c++, which actually offer better discipline than many other commonly used languages.
Why is this a reason for copyright to be 10 years? I mean, that's a valid perspective (though I disagree with it), but this case doesn't provide any new information.

For the record, were did you get the idea that most money is made within the first year? Sure, for the biggest stars this might be true. But lots of "middle-tier" creators depend on royalties from copyright works early in their career to sustain them their whole life.
>Why haven't I made my whitepaper about PhotoDNA public? In my view, who would it help? It would help bad guys avoid detection and it will help malcontents manufacture false-positives.

I would suggest that the people NCMEC are most enthusiastic to catch know better than to post CSAM in places using PhotoDNA, particularly in a manner that may implicate them. Perhaps I overestimate them.
True greatness is fine if you happen upon it, but who wants everyone to know everytime you take your brother on a joyride to space or apply way too much sunscreen?

Try to reframe your happyness around if you have enough, rather than if you have the most or if you have the maximum. If you can do that, you'll be happier.

Of course, if the number of megayachts you need to be happy is ten, you might have a hard time being happy, but not as hard as if you need to have a faster sailboat than Larry.
Just go ahead and add “7. Kill yourself” (no carbon emissions that way)
I've seen a pretty common scam where items are sold for "too good to be true" prices, only to be cancelled a few days later. I assume this is to harvest people's contact info
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/winter-is-coming-tem... this article suggests that natural gas prices may increase
Is nobody going to address the series of elephants in the room here? Even the embedded video in the article didn't say anything about it, and the author's proposed and current solution is more or less a social band-aid. These animators need to unionise, or demand full-time/part-time employment conditions that are outside of their current contractual arrangement if they want to see any progress. At least then they should come under some kind of minimum wage law. Lamenting the issues of the industry as if they are some kind of force of nature that is part-and-parcel with the nature of the work seems intentionally ignorant to me. They only have to suffer these conditions because of the companies they are working for.

It's all well and good for the commenters here to say that dream jobs will often have hard conditions, but that doesn't necessarily have to be so if we have government or union enforced labour conditions that aren't predatory.
> “Do you really truly believe that there’s going to be a magic climate change solution that allows the developed world to continue living the way it has?”

Yes, it’s called nuclear power
Even Isaac Newton had the humility to thank others for their help. "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

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

Academic citations work the same way: saying thank you to the people who helped builds their reputation, and is a positive-feedback cycle of growth and joy. Thank you jfoutz for humbly saying that you also need help and direction; me too.
Amazon also takes down reviews that mention paid reviews

Edit: In Amazon's defense, they've apparently banned one of the companies (Mpow) that makes a product where I've had my review deleted
I remember it all quite clearly as a kid. It was the first time I heard "Brass In Pocket" by the Pretenders which is still such a great hit single and the best of that first two hours. It became the first song that I associated with the video right from the beginning.
I similarly was thinking that this was about imaging an older Cyrus CPU…
Nothing in the article contradicts your statement, IMO. Literally none of the things she mentions are things that are taught in school. She’s more stressing the importance of learning from peers, not some guru from on high.
Microsoft’s Rust intro states “Rust is known to leak memory”
9to5Mac published the full message that NCMEC sent to Apple:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/06/apple-internal-memo-icloud-ph...

It does say "We know that the days to come will be filled with the screeching voices of the minority."
swimming technique and bicycle technically have improved a lot and all of the grading sports (gymnastics, diving) are constantly being changed since they were introduced into the Olympics. That is why so many of those records could be beaten. However it looks like Olympic archery does not allow a compound bow. I guess every sport decides if they want innovation or not.
Anyone have a good forum or other source for tracking AR developments?
It could be that the supply for animators far exceeds the demand. No amount of bandaid is going to fix that.
Because people take and store images of huge numbers of different things? Like the things mentioned upthread, memes, documents? along with screenshots of a huge number of other things.

And the details around matching (and groups, etc) are trivial to change in a later update.
There's a fine line between discouraging questions and making sure new people don't waste the veteran's time with dumb questions. I think a lot of people are scared away from the field because so, so many things in software either work or they dont, and it's pretty straightforward to verify it. When you're new to programming, most of the challenge comes from asking the right question and finding the best answer.

For example, "how do I sort a list of elements in python," which sounds very easy to answer, and it is for trivial cases. The complexity lies in the nuance of the question. For example, what if the list contains strings, numbers, and dates, and they were expecting it to sort by date? What if they need descending sort, not ascending sort? What if they need this for python 3, but they found a result for python 2, and they didn't even know there was a difference?

As you approach solving harder and harder problems in your career, of course you can't just ask google once click the first result, and copy paste the top answer. You need to ask google many questions, click through random forum posts from 12 years ago, read a few books on the topic, write a patch for a legacy package, try a few things, read the documentation, collaborate with other developers, etc.
The reason possession is illegal is to try to prevent further production of it and to eliminate continuing abuse to children. The theory is that allowing even mere possession perpetuates a market of “buyers” that would further stimulate production. This is well covered in the Congressional findings associated with 18 U.S.C. 2251. See e.g. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2251 (click the notes tab).
It’s unclear what the legal limits are, but I’ve seen some sites do a bold print summary of the changes. Certainly if one wants to be sure their TOS change is enforceable they’ll make sure a judge and jury will agree the changes were prominently advertised.
The client app connecting to exchange directly is not “peer-to-peer”. It’s more a point-to-point connectivity. Or depending on your interpretation it might be even point-to-site considering a client to be a point and the exchange is a site.