skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could do calculus, in high school and college, but I wasn't very happy about it. Until I took a physics class in college which happened to be intended for the physics majors. Did the professor ever just present an equation and ask us to learn it? No! Every Single Physics Equation was explained from first principles, using calculus - a lot of integrals. Finally we were seeing a practical application, where calculus was just a tool to get you where you needed to be.
Interesting infos:

> This is an area we’ve been looking at for some time, including current state of the art techniques which mostly involves scanning through entire contents of users libraries on cloud services that — as you point out — isn’t something that we’ve ever done; to look through user’s iCloud Photos.

There were some reports that Apple has been scanning iCloud Photos server-side already; apparently that hasn't been the case ever.

Also, on client-side scanning still running if the user has turned off iCloud Photos:

> If users are not using iCloud Photos, NeuralHash will not run and will not generate any vouchers. CSAM detection is a neural hash being compared against a database of the known CSAM hashes that are part of the operating system image. None of that piece, nor any of the additional parts including the creation of the safety vouchers or the uploading of vouchers to iCloud Photos is functioning if you’re not using iCloud Photos.

Seems pretty clear now.
Annoying political opponent? Pay some israeli cyberwarfare corporation to compromise their phone and plant CSAM. Problem solved.
In SFO-SPE (345 Spear St), REWS took away the walls and merged the little offices into one giant open-plan acoustic hellscape. Concrete walkways ensure that every person with wooden-soled shoes will disturb 50 engineers every time they walk to a meeting/cafe/microkitchen/restroom (clop-clop-clop-clop-clop).

REWS made themselves a quiet walled office for themselves on the top floor.

Google is a dysfunctional organization. The day I joined Google was the best day of my life. A few years later, the day I left Google was the new best day of my life. I have photos from both days, with big smiles.

Google's dysfunction is Larry & Sergey's fault. They control the board. They refuse to put in a CEO who will fix the incentive structure to make Googlers focus on users.
For cloud workloads, I prefer alpine on Amazon Linux 2 hosts. For desktop, I prefer Elementary. It's great to see an update on the best (imho) desktop distro.
> Maybe I'm just exposing the dysfunction of my hybrid academic/industry working place, at this point

Sadly this is all too common. It's the case in my large publicly traded company. Was the same when I was in 5-20 person startups. Our society needs people to have jobs so they can keep propping up the illusion of growth by buying more junk. This means there are many people (and entire organisations) which contribute nothing but consume time.
>I have a bottle of it sitting on my desk right this moment.

What does it smell like? Is there anything that it reminds you of?
Chrome actually does have that feature, but maybe it differs a bit from how Firefox implements it. It gives you a "switch to this tab" option in the omnibox if your input matches the title or URL of an open tab.
Thanks, I was wondering the exact same thing!
I believe what they mean is the majority of violent crimes committed by youth in the United States is committed by kids in historically redlined, segregated neighborhoods where the school system is non-existent, public services and infrastructure is falling apart if there at all, all the fathers have been arrested, the police and citizenry are openly antagonist to each other, so drug trade and criminal gangs are the best shot they have at participating in any kind of a community at all.

Solving that will go a lot further than worrying about the comparatively tiny number of suburban white kids shooting up their schools.

Note that "systemic racism" here doesn't need to mean any individual involved in this is still racist. It can just mean the lasting after-effects of institutional racism from decades ago that we never bothered trying to actively undo and just hoped everything would get better when we told the institutions they could no longer legally be racist.
Depending which team you're on, just work west coast hours from Waterloo. No one will notice.
We're not talking about apartment towers, we're talking about single family homes.
See, this is exactly the fallacy I'm talking about. Black Americans are poorer on average so naturally it's because of systemic racism. It's the only explanation.

When we look at Nigerian Americans we see they earn more than whites and they are more educated than whites. We see the same with other ethnic minorities. If class was determined by the color of someone's skin this would be impossible. Clearly there are other factors at play.

Political discourse in the US would be a lot more healthy if the focus was on class instead of race.
PolyNetwork Suffers Record-Breaking $600.3M Hack
"The example I gave involved information persistence, lawyers and and government national security apparatus i.e. way above my pay grade."

My reply still stands. "Hey soandso, we need to change our persistence strategy for this information due to regulatory compliance" "Uh, okay. What are the specifics?" "I'm not entirely sure; I've already reached out to soandso in legal/whatever to let them know we're working on this, reach out to them" "Got it"

You haven't been blindsided, nor have you been told what to do by fiat; you've been informed about a new stakeholder and been empowered to collect requirements from them.
> The ultimate litmus test for any GUI is to ask a relative with average computer skills to perform basic tasks in your program.

I strongly disagree! People with "average computer skills" expect that "to perform basic tasks" things must be done EXACTLY the way they are used to. It doesn't matter if the different way is better, faster, more efficient, more intuitive... if it is different they will likely complain.
They not going to go through Apple if they planted CP on your device, they going to take you to custody saying they got an anonymous tip or something along this line or just tip off the police to do the job for them because it worked in the past, requires less effort and maybe I'm wrong on this but there is no additional gain from going though all the hops when you can do it with an anonymous call.

Also, if you have full access to somebody's phone, it does not matter if Apple is scanning for CP or not, you can do much more sophisticated things.

Also 0-day non click exploits are not something random scriptkiddies running around with dropping CP on random phones as they are way too valuable.
Gnome 40 can do the same.
> How often does one even migrate DB’s?

We (an insurance company in Europe) have around 200 DBs and half of them have been running for over 15 years. We need to migrate at least these to modern systems in the next 5 years. These new systems all come with their own ORM and RDBMS.

Most of the longer existing institutions have the same challenges. But even new companies are in a similar situation. The main problem with ORMs always arises when the business itself changes and/or new requirements (e.g. GDPR) come in.
My dream car is a dumb electric car. Minimal internal computers to function. Battery management. And then no computers, no updates, no screens.
Just learn the shortcuts. It's ctrl+shift+t. I've been using it for 16+ years and have no idea how it's called now, or how it was called before.

ctrl+shift+n to reopen the last window.
Big discussion, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127240
Which is handy for us geeks who stereotypically would have a higher chance of running a computer 24/7 and so backing up locally can be "just as painless as iCloud" for us. However it doesn't really help the other 99.9% of iOS users.

Even if they did, you then have the chance of the user forgetting the password they used to encrypt the data, simply because you only need the password when you a) want to change the password b) use a local backup.

Side note - doesn't really have nothing to do with backups :-P: When I took my phone in for a battery swap (Apple did it for free so I didn't botrher replacing it myself) they asked if I had backed up my phone as there was a small tiny chance they would have to wipe the phone. I said I had. When they were booking it into the system the person booking it in questioned me on the backup because his software wasn't showing a backup. The person booking it in was looking for iCloud backups.
+1 for Wallabag, which cut my open-tab problem in half. I found it a persnickety installation and eventually went with the Docker image, which was fast and painless.
Sure, but first you have to "sell" the person on the idea, otherwise it's just more "we enhanced the killer's IP address and downloaded their RAM using coding and algorithms"
I like how Wikipedia put it:

"Where on this continuum English-influenced Scots becomes Scots-influenced English is difficult to determine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language#Decline_in_stat...
>pre kerfuffle version

What does that mean? I am using Total Suspender
As someone thinking of raising kids in Vancouver I was really disappointed by the honours stream being removed from VSB curriculum. If the school board truly wanted equality for their students they should be looking at external factors of why kids are not performing: do they have a place at home to complete homework? Do their parents value education? Do they believe in themselves?

I do believe that there is a natural difference in intelligence, but not enough to make the difference of a student getting into the honours stream or not. A lot of the kids say “I don’t get math” or “I’m just dumb” or they don’t have a stable household or family role models of success — all of which hold them back. Naturally these external problems are much harder for school boards to tackle so they would rather chop the legs off of honours students than address the students who come from a disadvantaged background.
That’s discounting the difficulty of manufacturing these new vaccines, which only a few companies know how to do, and also required many subcontractors.

If it were easy, it wouldn’t have taken so long to scale up manufacturing, even by the largest pharmaceutical companies.
I think The Missing README goes quite well with Will Larson's "Staff Engineer" and Camille Fournier's "The Manager's Path". These three book will take you from entry-level engineer, through a staff/technical lead, all the way to management at the SVP of Engineering level.
alignment requirements for loading/storing wider registers makes this not worth the effort.
simd instruction sets also generally dont have anything like dot or cross products.

shading languages do of course have first class vector types but all modern GPUs implement them with plain scalar code.
> cf Easter, Christmas

There is no evidence of roman paganism being the origin of either holiday. Easter and Christmas were celebrated before the romanization of Christianity. The only thing that was added were pagan symbology to the existing feast days, which is typical, as the church is happy to incorporate pagan traditions. The issue here is that in America we see a myopic view of Christianity from Europe. We note that during Easter, many European pagan symbols are incorporated, and mistakenly apply that to all Easter celebrations.

In reality, Christianity is not a european religion. In other centers of christianity, like Ethiopia, the Middle East, and India, European pagan symbology for easter was not adopted until recently. For most of history, there would either have been local rituals incorporated, or none at all.

This does not contradict the fundamental idea of Easter or Christmas though, because the Church explicitly desires that local rituals be incorporated. Catholic missionaries are happy to include anything non-contradictory with the Christian religion into Catholic practice. For example, it is the official policy of the church, after much deliberation, and much back and forth, that Chinese Catholics who desire to do their ancestor veneration rites are allowed to do so, with certain changes made to ensure that the rites fit the Catholic understanding of prayers to ancestors. But for the most part, Catholic Chinese are allowed to partake in these confucian rituals, and can even do so in the context of Catholicism. There is no contradiction.

To support my claims, here is an article on a traditional Syro-Malabar (Indian) Catholic celebration of easter. The Syro-Malabar Church has existed for 2000 years since the times of Thomas. If easter was a European pagan incorporation, we'd expect to see lots of European pagan symbology, like Easter bunnies, eggs, etc. Except we don't. The traditional syro-malabarese feast is a celebration of passover, but with Indian food instead of the middle eastern stuff.

https://homegrown.co.in/article/802431/a-traditional-easter-...

That is not to say that European traditions haven't been incorporated (american cultural hegemony is an unstoppable force), but the rituals that are traditional are nothing close to them.

I can speak to this myself, as an Indian Catholic. I didn't know what the Easter bunny did (apparently he brings candy to little American boys and girls? -- I was clearly short-changed and am still somewhat bitter haha) until middle school. Although my family mentioned the Easter bunny in passing, it was not part of our celebrations at all. Although we dyed eggs with other people in our church because that's what they did, we didn't really do it at home. It was just a social thing.
> How often does one even migrate DB’s?

Never happened with me. Only used something different (or even a newer major version) when writing a new tool or doing a whole rewrite of a current tool. Which kind of counts as a new one, right?
> There are few jobs that can become life goals, most are boring.

That's because the big tech megacorps raised the bar in order to attract the best workers available so they could grow to have the "eliteness" that you see today. The problem is, there are only so many Apples or Netflixes with this kind of strategy so everything else looks boring in comparison.
Facebook is at a ridiculous scale though, since they're reporting to have 2.85 billion active users. That's what, like a third of the world population and a bit?
Lucky! I've done a few.
believe it or not, this is a WHOLE WORLD problem.

A "western country" can not "conveniently" cut their carbon emissions, and still buy shit manufactured overseas, and pretend everything is hunkey-dorey.
> $9,000 a year to keep each disengaged worker and between $25,000 and $100,000 to replace them.

Given how job tenure has plummeted over the years, I have a hard time believing this is accurate. Does anyone know a place where retention efforts come anywhere close to hiring efforts?
That quote sounds so formulaic I can almost hear the cash registers ringing up the fees for the consultants hired to implement them. Surely this new corporate initiative, which we sent senior management to workshop about at a golf resort in Hawaii (the same week the team was doing 18-hour days to ship the product for the customer deadline), will bring happiness and good things to our essential human resources.
previous discussion:

2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22229666

4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15197503
That number would probably also change over time especially as people grew up in that gravity, putting more stress on their bones which should cause them to grow thicker (see ancient skeletons of longbowmen for a small example and imagine that the extra forces are there all the time).
Too bad email is broken as well...
I wonder how much it has to do with vacations. Rationally I know I need a vacation, but I don't know what I'd do - and so I've taken long weekends here and there but never two weeks disconnected.
> See VW and Wireguard

You probably meant Wirecard.
This is a harmful distraction from the massive issues with Apple's proposal. If you wanted to frame someone for possession of CSAM, similar stunts can be pulled with Google, Facebook, Instagram, and Microsoft today. Yes, the scope here is broader and some people don't use any of those, but ....It's silly, and it makes the tech community look like a fringe minority of screeching conspiracy theorists.

And this is a problem because Apple's proposal is really really awful. Apple is normalizing scanning your private phone for files and reporting them. They built the technical capability to do it for any photo, and they will be under enormous pressure to expand it both in the US and abroad. And the fact that they did it will be used to pressure other companies into doing the same and to legitimize laws that require scanning for any content the government can justify.

Apple built a surveillance mechanism that is incredibly powerful. One no government could ever force a company to design and build. But once it's built, the only thing stoping it from being abused is Apple's pinky promise they won't let it happen. If you believe that legal norms, big tech companies and some quasi governmental nonprofit like NCMEC will stop such an abuse if it happens .... where have you been living the past few years? Because it sure isn't the US, the UK, Turkey, or China.
Yep, you can make any document public & readonly. We plan to add more options for public pages too.
Mid and low tail risk applications, certainly.

Some applications have regulatory requirements associated with them, especially retention, or otherwise serve critical needs areas.
I loved the Martian and Project: Hail Mary but Artemis was a disappointment.
Misleading students into thinking their parents can't be their bio-parents seems like a really important reason not to use fake examples of Mendelian traits.
That sounds wonderful! As a product of Indian education (that prioritizes rote learning), I wish I had been subjected to such a school, maybe then I (and majority of other kids) wouldn't have fallen out of learning math like we did.
Should also make it easier to defeat some paywalls by clearing cookies just for that site.
Working an office job when you're 67 isn't too bad. But most people who've spent their whole lives doing manual labor are worn out and broken by that age.
Maggi fan here. If it's similar, it's good
Unless I misunderstood your point, that is a strange take that isn't close to being true. There is a large overlap of Scottish language enthusiasts who are advocates of both Scots as a distinct language and Gaelic, the demographic of the recent surge of popularity of Gaelic on duolingo are clear.

The overlap between political commentators who both insist that Scots is "just a dialect" and that Gaelic is a dying language that we should discourage is also very apparent.

The subtext is pro indy people are generally pro Scots and Gaelic, and unionists are against both of course.
The encouraging comments on these threads are reminiscent of old Launch HN at its best. Great idea, dang.
Unfortunately each has its own drawbacks and, in typical Linux Desktop fashion, it's 3 fragmented solutions to roughly the same problem with none of them being standard or enjoying a particularly de-facto status.

The end result being that you can't get everything in any one of them, and often can't get a particular application in any of them.
In the readme you say:

>This contrasts against traditional ("stateful") ORMs which use query builders (rather than raw SQL) to return database-aware (rather than pure) objects.

>The name pureORM reflects both that it is pure ORM (there is no query builder dimension) as well as the purity of the mapped Objects.

I don't know what you mean by "pure" or "purity" here, and i think an explantion would help.

Also, in the code:

db.one(query)

"one" does not strike me as a particularly expressive method name.
It is not regular SMS, it is PKI based with a custom SIM application that uses SMS (Flash). Intercepting these SMS would not help you (unless you have hacked their app). Also note that SIM app runs independently from the mobile OS.
Yep, but the binary running in the enclave has access to both the attestation document (including PCRs) directly from Nitro as well as a mechanism to fetch IAM policies and verify that they are from the genuine IAM server (verify the TLS CA).

Making sure the IAM policy hasn't been tampered is just a case of adding logic to the enclave app to make sure that the IAM policy is configured correctly for that particular enclave (compare PCRs, make sure there's no wildcards, etc.)
I've never heard of Elementrary before. Is the goal to have the look and feel of macOS?
For much of the world there is no difference between $20, $1000, and $100,000.

This vaccine should be free. Covid is the biggest threat to the future of humanity that has existed since the development of nuclear weapons and we're holding back the solution over $20.

It's pathetic.
This is really going to show my age, but I remember back when mass surveillance was a "conspiracy theory".
Discontinued does not mean abandoned. I have a Fujitsu iX500 that has current drivers and (most importantly OCR) software for Apple and Windows. The iX500 is available on ebay for much less than new models. These machines are beasts. First maintenance is at 200,000 pages. I've had mine for years and am not quite to 100,000 pages. If I were to buy a new model, I'd look at Epson. In fact, I have looked at Epson but can't bring myself to pull the trigger when my iX500 remains Mary Poppins-ish "practically perfect"
As someone who watched people from afar try to scale the mRNA vaccine process, the limiting factor was not manufacture of the RNA (BioNTech), but incorporation into lipid nanoparticles. That is not BioNTech's business (they are a subsidiary manufacturer for Pfizer)... it also is not Moderna's business since they outsource, but at least they are a direct source of funding rather than a cost center.

Money was not an object to scaling the manufacture of the vaccines. It was people, knowledge, and equipment that had to be designed, built and tested. That all happened in parallel with statistical evaluation and approval processes.

Nine people can't make a baby in 1 month no matter how much you pay them.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
So does "enhanced cookie clearing" become "pure biscuit clearin'"?
More Than $600M Stolen in Ethereum and Other Cryptocurrencies
Is that an extension? It doesn't seem to be built in to FF. It would be great if there was tab grouping by tags and tags showing up on tab hover over!
Apple is a trillion dollar business and will find novel ways of either burying the feature or whitewashing it as something we all need. I imagine if they do e2e encryption of your photos they can spin this as being a necessary feature "to keep you and your family safe".

I doubt they have any worries about tech news being critical of their policy. People will generally trade privacy for safety, I've seen this as a constant theme since 9/11. There is a lot of apathy around who has your data these days. I talk about it with friends and more often than not the attitude is "well, google/facebook already know everything about me, doesn't matter anymore".