skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 40% of CP investigations in Germany are started against minors

This in particular seems like such a silly outcome of over-regulation and bureaucracy. Amazing. Research suggests most child sexual abuse does not have much of a long-term effect at all:

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-replicatio...

This (of course!) does not mean it is good or should be done, but it suggests this is not an urgent issue, certainly not one that can justify abolishing privacy, especially when these measures only catch the small fish, not the large trafficking rings who will probably switch to different means of communication once theirs gets compromised.
Many users are not aware of this privacy issue unless they are brought up as the topic. The consumers are happy to use the platform as long as they receive the expected return.
That explains it, I have not seen the "first" ever reported as an amendment and only as part of the infra bill as if it was already in there
Everything sold in China, already has that.

Remember ICloud is operated by Chinese company in china.
Disclaimer: Worth noting that this paper is apparently pre-print [1] and was submitted to the Lancet, who are not particularly reliable in recent times (flaws hydroxychloroquine study [2], stamped out early investigation in COVID lab-leak possibility [3]).

Regarding the blog and paper:

> AI can trivially learn to identify the self-reported racial identity of patients to an absurdly high degree of accuracy

If it is 'trivial' for a model to learn race, then what they are detecting is likely pretty obvious.

In their paper they use 'private and public datasets' [4]. There is probably exactly where the problem occurs. People of the similar race tend to live in groups together, if you collect data in some area, there's a good chance you source data from the same ethnic pool. What it appears they are detecting is the difference between different machines and practices. To test this, they should collect their own medical data on the same machine. They also need to figure out how to remove the bias of the medical staff themselves.

Another assumption is that just because the medical doctors cannot see differences in the anatomy of races, it doesn't mean there isn't one. One of the commentators on this blog indicated that dark skin may affect the absorption of x-rays, for example.

> AI does learn to do this when trained for clinical tasks

Just because AI models can detect race from medical data, doesn't mean they will. They may in the early stages learn such simplistic relationships, but as accuracy increases, it will be forced to look for more complex classifiers/indicators.

Finally, this blog really skirts around the important thing - how does this affect patient care? Is it beneficial to actually have race-based medical plans? We know that some medicines affect different races - for example in pain and pain management [5].

I think the point to be made here isn't 'racism' but the possibility of bias that people training models should be aware of. Some of this bias will have a positive outcome, some will have a negative outcome.

[1] https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/c3e2ede2f835d35c08c54a67095...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lancet-retracts-l...

[3] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wuhan-lab-collaborat...

[4] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10356.pdf

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654683/
Possibly-relatedly, I'm in the process of getting some retrofit work done on my house to improve its insulation and reduce the carbon costs of heating it. I absolutely had not appreciated that a place like this, an 80s brick-built terraced house in southern England, could be responsible for 3.4 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year in heating costs alone.

The necessary retrofit work is expensive, on the order of £50'000 over the next ten years, which makes it pretty much out of reach for the huge majority of people in the UK, but will take that down to 0.2 tonnes/year (narrowly missing net-zero because of the concrete-slab construction of the floor). We really need to be subsidising retrofit work like this, so that ordinary people can afford to have it done, because it makes a huge difference to what must be millions of similar houses in the UK alone.
Okay enough opinions, let's look this up. Wikipedia cites the law saying it's 18 https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderpornografie#Wetgeving_in...

It even includes people that "appear to be under 18" even if they turn out not to be. ("[...] afbeelding – van een seksuele gedraging, waarbij iemand die kennelijk de leeftijd van achttien jaar nog niet heeft bereikt, is betrokken of schijnbaar is betrokken, [...]")

What I also found interesting is:

> Het voorontwerp Wet seksuele misdrijven stelt niet langer strafbaar degene die een visuele weergave van een seksuele gedraging of een gegevensdrager bevattende een visuele weergave van een seksuele gedraging, waarbij hijzelf of een andere persoon die de leeftijd van achttien jaren nog niet heeft bereikt is betrokken, in het kader van een gelijkwaardige situatie tussen leeftijdsgenoten uitsluitend voor privégebruik vervaardigt, in bezit heeft of met die ander deelt.

Short translation: sending or owning pictures of sexual acts involving an <18yo is not illegal if it concerns private use between persons of similar age in an 'equality situation' (I interpret this as meaning/implying 'consensual').
criticism, snark ?!

What are you talking about?! All I am trying to get some numbers, if anyone has them, but it seems amount of unhelpful comments begins to be overwhelming on HN.
It was supposed to make it obvious that your tax proposal is absurd. If you don't plan to make murdering children legal, then what you are de facto proposing is making some people slaves. From X children forward, poor people become slaves, having to do forced labor just to pay the "child tax" that they can no longer avoid.

If you think that there are circumstances that justify slavery (they should've thought about it before having that many children!! It's a reasonable punishment for their deeds!) then, sure, I guess.
I don't know why you're downvoted, because I think this theory on the cause is among the more interesting and nuanced comments. I think you've got an interesting observation there worth considering deeper. Perhaps they disagree with your Marxist conclusion?:

> We’ll have to fundamentally rethink entire economies before we could see large companies (if they would be, at all, allowed to exist) acting ethically.
The wheel friction and gearing allows the vehicle to tie the effective velocity of the sail (actually a propeller) to the velocity of the ground.

Energy can be extracted from the interface between the ground at one velocity and the air moving at another velocity. A sail tied to the ground and extending into this wind will exert a force according to the drag equation:

Force = 1/2 x drag coefficient x density x area x (differential velocity)^2

Typically, when going downwind, sailors ignore the ground (or the water) and just extract some energy from the difference in speed between the vehicle and the wind. Obviously, as the vehicle accelerates, this velocity difference asymptotically goes to zero where there is no more force and no more acceleration.

For a more static example, imagine an enormously long vehicle with a linear bearing running the entire axis from the front to the back. Assume for the sake of argument the vehicle is ultra-light and has very low rolling resistance, some kind of cross between a top-thrill dragster and a train, hypothetically a kilometer long. On the axial bearing, mount a wind turbine with a cable and an anchor that can be fixed to the ground. Start with the wind turbine at the front of the vehicle, then drop anchor to fix the wind turbine in place. There is a velocity differential between the ground-referenced turbine and the air that will impart force on the turbine blades, use this to generate electricity. Use an electric motor to drive the bottom part of the vehicle forwards. When the turbine reaches the back of the vehicle, lift anchor - remember we're in spherical cow territory, so assume it's foldable and super-light so this part takes little energy and can be done arbitrarily fast - and push it back to the front of the vehicle, where you can drop anchor again. In this system, the energy you can extract only depends on the difference between the ground speed and wind speed, not the vehicle speed.

Blackbird is just like this repetitively anchored wind turbine concept in that the point of reference for the wind energy extractor is the ground instead of the vehicle. But instead of dropping an anchor, you're tying to the ground speed through tires, and instead of shuttling the turbine from the back to the front, you're continuously advancing it with the gear mechanism, and instead of driving with an electric motor you're directly using the drag force.
So your conclusion is that it would be unfair to developing countries to not let them destroy the planet?
I agree with Jack here, how is this different from any other point of tension between employer and employee? Should there be a fucknotgettingfreelunch.com too? It feels like this particular issue is about entitlement, I even know people who are upset there is no more office and feel entitled to a business providing office space (which actually makes slightly more sense but still).
Perhaps I can't explain it well either, without pictures.

But it's not all too complicated. With pencil and paper, I could explain to a high school student. If you've done college level mechanics, that's on me, or on the medium.

Perhaps I need to make a video explaining this clearly, since people are running in circles around this and it's just not very hard.
The whole polarization of political issues into right and left is and always will distract from the issues being debated and more so, ends up derailing any debate and discourse about the issues as they get drowned out by the labels.

Very easy to label something right wing or left wing to distract from the issue at debate and it has become very much a political tool in much the same way the "think of the children" card is played.
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To me it feels like a feature to existing trading/investing apps or platforms than a standalone product. Wouldn't it be quite easy for other established apps to do this? I mean, barrier seems to be pretty low for established players. Only way I see them creating barriers would be creating proprietary strategies.

Also, the fact that not many of them have this feature is kind of a red-flag. But then I am not the expert and I might be absolutely wrong.
I had Lattice (later SAS/C) myself. Luckily I had a hard drive (30 megs!), which was a total luxury for the time, 1989-90 or so.
Just. Tax. It.

We have warmed the earth because we love comfort and money. We will never stop loving those things. So instead let's use the same systems to fix this (or at least slow things down).

As an individual my largest carbon impact is air travel. I like to go places, it's one of the main things I work to afford. Every single plane ticket I take should have a tax which is used to offset or capture the carbon emissions of my flight. I will pay it. Anyone not willing to pay it will have to fly less. Any airlines that can't operate under the tax will not operate.

Now do the same thing for corporate polluters, packaging waste, etc. If a country won't do this for domestic goods we can at least impose climate tariffs at borders.

The only other thing that could work is some fantastic new technological solution, but let's not wait for that.
Are you overconfidently wrong in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence a lot in life or just on this?
To be honest, I don't really believe in crypto. All the blockchain stuff is mostly solutions looking for problems. And, after all these years, cryptocurrencies still haven't replaced regular money. I still can't buy a coffee with bitcoin. There were numerous efforts to create such a cryptocurrency, but they've all failed — because governments aren't letting go of the control they have over everything, and they have the necessary physical force to enforce these views. Currently, all I see about cryptocurrencies, is people mostly using them for trading or see them as an investment. Sometimes they buy drugs with them. And that's really it.

Though, yes, if I wanted easy money, I could go work at such a company. Or I could as well go to a FAANG-ish megacorp and earn craploads by working an hour a day.
Isn't Cyclone 68000 already doing the same thing? The core used in Picodrive.
I still don't understand how there are people on HN who think that giving their kids less access to technology is somehow a virtuous position to take. When I was the same age as my kids I could have gotten into all sorts of shit on a BBS or Compuserve forum -- my parents had no idea what was going on, but they'd given me a basic sense of right and wrong, and somebody to talk to if I was concerned. You've got to educate them about the world, but cutting them off from it is not the way to do that.
Wow

That's exactly what carbon tax is.
Some companies will be exempt, others will be issuing "carbox tax loans". Only regular people will suffer with this

Do you understand you're saying give even more money to the people that have been leading the world to its destruction, so they will make it better
> the FCC and equivalents make it almost impossible for there to be open hardware that connects to the phone network

How?
Ahh, the memories. Aztec C on an Apple II with a giant Corvus 5 MB drive (whoosh, whoosh, whoosh goes the drive head). It’s where I learned “:wq”, thanks to Z!
How do models trained with Lightly compare with other approaches wrt adversarial robustness?

Can using Lightly introduce additional bias in the model, since only a select few of inputs are being labeled?
This may be a concern for publicity purposes.

By the way, I thought ETH spinoff requirements were incompatible with YC requirements - nice to see it can be made to work.
This summary of the common disingenuousness of Apple defenders is decent IMO but the associations this post makes to other socially controversial debates is not helpful. The COVID precautions mentioned are designed to protect the entire population of the world and all of our tools in that fight depend on massive social cooperation. The proportion of the population who need an exemption from COVID measures is very small. With CSAM the situation is reversed. The entire population of iPhone users is now subject to a precaution that is needed only for a very small proportion of the population. To my mind, the test if whether someone is debating in good faith on this topic is whether they are willing and able to provide a limiting principle to the new invasive capability. If there is no limit to an invasion of privacy it shouldn't be allowed. From what I've read, Apple's tech seems promising but all such tech will have false hits. There will be human processes required to safeguard against those spiraling out of control in the life of their users. I wish they would disclose more details about those processes.
I wonder how this would apply for "privacy first" email and chat services? And self-hosted ones too?
This is why I wrote mostly. Both iCloud backups and Messages on iCloud either keep plain backups or a decryption key.

But if you don't use iCloud backups your end is still, as far as we know, encrypted.

What happens on the other end is out of your control in all cases.
> If there is anything covid has taught me its that collective action isn't something we can rely on and is a lot more wishful thinking about the state of humanity rather than a sober look at the reality.

If climate change plays out the way the pandemic has, I think we will have collective action, but it'll be uneven and fall short. We'll avoid the most dire outcomes, but blow right past acceptable outcomes. Many, many will die who could have been saved, the cost will be enormous, but we'll successfully avoid the absolute worst cases. I don't know if we call that a successful failure or a failed success.
It can also display images using sixel [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
Since I had to Google it:

AML - Anti Money Laundering

KYC - Know Your Customer (i.e. ID verification)
Same thing as in my country then. It seems to be the norm in most if not all of the EU these days.
Drastically increasing is meaningless if it's still an insignificant chance before and after. This is just not how things work and it's not a "plausible scenario", simply because we wouldn't let that happen.

We are barely able to give up pure leisure and convenience when faced with doomsday scenarios. You're under the impression the first thing that would go in such a scenario would be the life-saving stuff?

Production of eg. healthcare would absolutely be affected but that would just mean it would be more expensive for governments. Good example: your vaccine is free because governments invested collectively trillions of dollars into their production. It's free despite being one of the most expensive things we've done lately.
Why Do I Sleep Better with My Feet Uncovered?
From (B): "expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant"

I would say here that a "propellant" would have to refer to some kind of chemical (even boring pressurised gas) and that it couldn't reasonably be extended to a magnetic field (or series of virtual photons or whatever). I'd like to know if that's likely to be the view the legislature or judiciary would take though.
Good leaders make for good collective action.
Propeller pitch is not fixed on Blackbird, that is one of the few controls it has.
> So why are we so much worse than 25 years ago? The obvious explanation would doping.

Looking at the list of furthest throws[1] this doesn't really seem that obvious at all.

The top two are quite large outliers, with a 4 metre gap to #3, and people in general don't seem to have been throwing much further in the past. Indeed, the difference between #1 and #25 is almost 10 metres, or 10% of the record. That's quite the difference!

Johannes Vetter seems to be in the same league as Jan Železný; Vetter is 28, Železný established his record at the age of 30. It's entirely possible that Vetter will manage to break the record in the future.

So either both Železný and Vetter are exceptionally talented athletes in their field, or they're both doped to the gills without being caught. It's not like there wasn't any attention to this in the past, see e.g. [2] from 1989. There sure is more attention to this now and I suppose it's possible that Železný used doping, but that Vetter exists in the same league as Železný demonstrates that Železný didn't have to be a doping user to be so good at it.

So in short: it's not all that obvious to me looking at the data. It's not like cycling/Tour de France with a long history of doping use (which is partly, I suspect, because what's being asked of riders borders on the inhuman).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_throw#All-time_top_25_...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1989/06/18/in-...
Interestingly, if we add an offset tax to gasoline it'd only be 30 cents a gallon for inefficient capture (a lot, politically, but not harsher than living in your house for a year). With newer capture technologies it could be closer to 4 cents a gallon, which is less than the price difference between gas stations.

The second-order effects are that once you build thousands of these capture stations there's huge financial upside to making them even better.

Tax actually seems very feasible.
They could have done what you describe at any time in history. This doesn't change anything in that regard. Either you trust Apple enough to use their products or you don't.
Yep, that's what we do with https://0bin.net.

Also you must avoid client side 3rd party scrips, so no analytics. Also no cdn. I hope ots will self host their google fonts at some point, since you basically slink all secret URL to you google account (albeit without pwd) if you are logged in.

We also had several demands for an url shortener but couldn't find a sustainable way to do it. 3rs party have rate limits and hosting our own would get us back to step one.

DMCA also gets really interesting when you get a request but they don't include the hash because some of their tooling strip it along the way.

Anyway, even with all that, you still trust us since we could inject a rogue script at any time in the page.

So the process really protects only us as host (see our faq), but if you want real security, use pgp or signal. Or if you like the cmd thingy, magic wormhole is kinda awesome.

Still better than sending a password using plan text of course :)
> like how they increased the number of unskippable YouTube ads from usually 0-1 to minimum 2 often 4 in a row, at every 5-10 minutes

This is the main reason I eventually coughed up the cash for YouTube Premium. I looked at how many videos I watched in a given day/week/month and found out that based on my hourly rate a a dev, I was spending ~$50/month watching YouTube ads.
Real relationship with love doll economics
Oh, nice to see you're on top of things. Looks like the online version does indeed include the decryption key separately in a fragment.
Flaws in John Deere Systems Show Agriculture's Cyber Risk
A rape allegation at Alibaba prompted an outpouring about toxic work culture
How do you make the major polluters pay the tax?
to be honest, most of these are not specific to GCP or cloud
and it changed the balance of supply and demand of labor, increasing the price, causing rulers to try and implement price controls.
I can sympathize with some of the things written here, but not enough to want to go back. I do appreciate that there’s a big gap that needs to be filled for junior software developers.

Looking at the “Lost small pleasures” section, I note that none of these things are related to office work, but to bring stuck at home.
So? Reducing emissions in Germany is still a drop in the bucket.
Ponzi Scheme Longevity Rules:

Encourage “reinvestment” of income. The less income the schemer pays out, the longer the scheme will last.

Moderate the amount stolen each year. If he steals a smaller amount each year, the scheme will last longer and he will likely be able to steal more money overall.

Discourage redemptions. Paying out principal to investors at a high rate will crash the scheme quickly. Therefore institute a large penalty for early redemptions or promise an even higher Rate of Return if the principal is reinvested instead of withdrawn.

The Rate of Return promised should be higher than alternatives but not so high that paying out income will quickly bankrupt the scheme.

Recruit new money. New money is key to maintaining a scheme for an extended period
Vaccine Hunters Canada to pivot operations
The operating pressures here are actually much higher than steam.

Supercritical fluids are extremely interesting because they have some helpful characteristics of liquids, like density, and some helpful characteristics of gasses, like heat expansion. For this reason, supercritical fluids in general are the subject of a lot of heat engine research. I believe supercritical CO2 comes to the table because it becomes supercritical at a low enough temperature and pressure that it won't take major breakthroughs in materials science in order to build a heat engine with it.