skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has front-doored your device from Day 1.
Older academic writing was frequently beautiful. See the classic "On Cooling the Mark Out" paper. Every sentence is a joy to read.

https://infofranpro.wdfiles.com/local--files/19520101-on-coo...
> THE RESEARCHERS DO NOT ARGUE THAT THE EMERGENCY VACCINE IS USELESS

We are in agreement on these points, and to be fair I never made such a broad claim, nor did I intend to insinuate such.

You seem to be concerned with defending vaccination which is understandable, but I believe you're interpreting my statements as completely disregarding the utility and benefits of vaccines, which is not a position I support or attempt to argue.

> Do you realize that the extent to which vaccinations stop transmission is on a continuum? It is not "on", or "off" in exact terms.

We are in agreement on this point as well.

> The current COVID-19 vaccines immunize to an extent that the re-transmission rate is negligible.

A citation on this claim would be greatly appreciated - "negligible" is strongly worded there. FWIW I'm aware of the literature showing that vaccination reduces transmission, but I've never seen it dismissed as negligible.

Thanks for the citation you did share, it's indeed very relevant.

> why it in fact poses a greater risk to those who choose to stubbornly remain unvaccinated

We are in agreement that viral immune escape also poses a risk to the unvaccinated population, especially those who have not acquired natural immunity.

> I'm not going to continue on this conversation

> trying to talk to you would be extremely stupid on my part

I'm sorry I've put you off - my position is not set in stone and I do my best to keep an open mind when presented with conflicting evidence.

I get the impression that you think I'm incurably "anti-vax", so to clarify: my opinion is that vaccines are a powerful tool which must be carefully and strategically used.
I would argue it depends upon your choice of substrate.

If you learned programming by programming phones or the web, your foundations change every 36 months so your improvement lags because your knowledge decays with time.

If you learned programming on firmware, Windows classic (think Petzold), or Unix, things haven't changed in decades, so your knowledge fundamentally accumulates.
> Paleoclimatological studies indicate that the last 150 years of California's history have been unusually wet compared to the previous 2000 years. Tree stumps found at the bottom of lakes and rivers in California indicate that many water features dried up during historical dry periods, allowing trees to grow there while the water was absent. These dry periods were associated with warm periods in Earth's history. During the Medieval Warm Period, there were at least two century-long megadroughts with only 60-70% of modern precipitation levels. Paleoclimatologists believe that higher temperatures due to global warming may cause California to enter another dry period, with significantly lower precipitation and snowpack levels than observed over the last 150 years.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_California
In "The Lion and the Unicorn," he advocates for a militaristic socialism with nationalization of all major industries and severe wage and price controls.
I'm honestly shocked that Apple is buying into this because it's one of those well-intentioned ideas that is just incredibly bad. It also goes to show you can justify pretty much anything by saying it fights terrorism or child exploitation.

We went through this 20+ years ago when US companies then couldn't export "strong" encryption (being stronger than 40 bits if you can believe that). Even at the time that was ridiculously low.

We then moved onto cryptographic back doors, which seem like a good idea but aren't for the obvious reason that if a backdoor exists, it will be exploited by someone you didn't intend or used by an authorized party in an unintended way (parallel construction anyone?).

So these photos exist on Apple servers but what they're proposing, if I understand it correctly, is that that data will no longer be protected on their servers. That is, human review will be required in some cases. By definition that means the data can be decrypted. Of course it'll be by (or intended to be by) authorized individuals using a secured, audited system.

But a backdoor now exists.

Also, what controls exist on those who have to review the material? What if it's a nude photo of an adult celebrity? How confident are we that someone can't take a snap of that on their own phone and sell it or distribute it online? It doesn't have to be a celebrity either of course.

Here's another issue: in some jurisdictions it's technically a case of distributing CSAM to have a naked photo of yourself (if you're underage) on your own phone. It's just another overly broad, badly written statute thrown together in the hysteria of "won't anybody think of the children?" but it's still a problem.

Will Apple's system identify such photos and lead to people getting prosecuted for their own photos?

What's next after this? Uploading your browsing history to see if you visit any known CSAM trafficking sites or view any such material?

This needs to be killed.
Sadly, I'm not worried about that particular possibility. I'm fully expecting Google to roll out some similar BS within a year or two. "For the children" of course.
Where did the ZeroNet creator go?
Robespierre The Incorruptible, Robespierre The Daemonic (2014)
Yes I know for sure. Postgres search is essentially an easier to use regex engine. If you have a recall-only use case and/or a small dataset, then that works great. As soon as you need multiple languages, advanced autocomplete, misspelling detection, large documents, large datasets, custom scoring, etc you need Solr or ES.
That’s 100% false.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/irs-has-seized-1point2-billi...
> I equate this to Ring cameras.

But it's just a totally different situation isn't it? I'm not personally opposed to the general concept of security cameras in public spaces. If you choose to install one on your property that doesn't seem unreasonable. If you choose to share that footage with the police that doesn't seem unreasonable.

The problem with Apple's system isn't even the current implementation (which is on device, but iCloud only). It's that the system can be trivially expanded to all on device content, and report the user of the phone for any unacceptable behaviour.

It's more like a camera in your home that reports you to the police if you do anything unacceptable. Would anyone choose to have that?

But the bigger problem is that Apple have been selling products based on "privacy first" marketing. By reporting on their users off-line content they break that trust. And there are really few viable options in smartphones so you can't really just move to another provider.
This is incorrect. A vaccine is not an antibiotic; the presence of one does not cause virulent strains. Vaccinations trigger the body's immune response to the virus; nothing else. They provide for a more effective response faster, but do not otherwise provide any forcing function.

Mutations and variants occur all the time as the virus reproduces. Variants are not a response to any vaccine; they have appeared primarily (entirely? I haven't been following all of them) in regions where the vaccine is not yet widely available because that is where the virus is able to multiply (and thus mutate) the fastest.
Ugh. Maybe I was thinking of Vista? It’s been a while, after all....
Yet, they built and tested something, over years. That direct experience is worth more than any amount of speculation.
Also, why bother with GUIs when you've got a CLI and a decent-sized keyboard?
It originated from Kerbal Space Program!
> Removed 90 (22.5%)

So 90 `localhost` results were actually in the index?
Interesting article, and I bet that Facebook has enabled affairs leading to divorces. But a divorce lawyer won't be seeing people whose Facebook use did not mess up their personal lives.
Okay, now that he’s gone who do we pin the blame on?
Petitioned & got remote work for all
You may underestimate how much popular democratic support there is for stopping child rapists, at the cost of theoretical or even actual but low probabity privacy risks.
Which makes the new version is $11 more expensive per year -- and you no longer have the option to keep using the old version. No thanks.
GSI, LSI are fully supported already.
Backup is fully supported too (but not identical to DynamoDB).
TTL is in final development mode.
So yes, everything is planned to be fully supported
Macri didn't do anything new. He cut back spending on stuff he couldn't see profit from like public education and healthcare, added more public employees, and took inordinate amounts of external debt. It's true that he'd be considered a leftist by US standars, but that's comparing oranges to apples.

It's so hard to pinpoint what you mean by the "policies of modern Peronist ideology" that I can't even begin to discuss it, as they're so varied over the last 30 years.

I hope the failure of Macri's government swings the pendulum all the way to the other side and breaks the cycle of going back to those policies from time to time, as the results are clear as day.
Covid reinfection rates reduced by 2.3x if also vaccinated
California can't control federal land (that's why it's called federal).
I would suggest the crypto industry, specifically DeFi. Reasoning:

* It's (mostly) all open-source.

* It's self-directed. Don't like a team? There are a dozen others waiting scrambling for developers that you can join with no bureaucracy nonsense. Want to work alone? The tools are mostly mature enough that you can release products as a one man team.

* You seem to have disinterest or even aversion towards money, from its role in tricking people into mindless jobs. DeFi is about the roots of what money is, voluntary transfer of value between people, which is something I think everybody can agree is fundamentally good.

* You can have a huge impact.
That was never mentioned by Apple. If that was their intention then I suspect they would have mentioned it alongside this announcement to provide a justification and quell the (justified) outrage.

I also question the value of e2e there’s an arbitrary scanner that can send back the unencrypted files if it finds a match. If apple’s servers controls the db with “hashes” to match then is it all that different from apple’s servers holding the decryption keys?

Sure e2e still prevents routine large scale surveillance but at the end of the day if apple (or someone that forced apple) wants your data, they’ll get it.
In a similar vein, I recommend the 2008 book Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker. He summarizes news reports and other real-time accounts from the years leading up to World War II and the Holocaust. An excerpt, from page 34:

“The New York Times reported, on page one, that the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, a group with sixty thousand members, had issued a statement saying that the reports of atrocities by Nazis against Jews were ‘pure invention.’ It was March 25, 1933.

“Anti-Semitism existed, and it was, the society said, a matter of grave concern, but it was a domestic affair. ‘Let us take an energetic stand against everybody attempting criminally to influence the shaping of Germany’s future through foreign newspapers.’ ”
This was as obvious in 2009 as it is today. And like Agile before it, if you make any negative comment about it you are immediately hit with "you're holding it wrong".
As a side note, although Accolade won this case, the injunction that SEGA won earlier prevented Accolade from selling product for a while and that cash flow problem motivated their primary investor to step in and remove the company's founder and all top executives and bring in their own team which directly led to the end of Accolade as a going concern (my opinion). Of course in this case, Amazon isn't as vulnerable as Accolade was back then.
Let’s see, most of the giant fires, Shasta Trinity, Mendocino, Six Rivers, Lassen, Plumas are all National Forests. Lassen National Park, part of the Dixie fire.

I guess these people think Newsom was/is President or do not understand the difference between county, state and federal jurisdiction.
Is the problem here, as so many commenters complain, that Apple won't resist the corrupt government, or is that that society as whole won't overthrow the corrupt government?
I like a lot of settings but I'm also okay with them being buried a bit. Advanced users tend to not care about going 5 layers deep to get what they want.
I suppose you have heard about the rule of 72 - it's quite useful for roughly figuring out doubling rate from compound interests, and vice versa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72

I guess doubling in 10 years corresponds to annual percentage of 7.2 percent, and 20 years, 3.6 percent. Adjusting for inflation, the rate will be lower.

BTW, you may be referring to Unit-linked insurance schemes. They are neither good as insurance, nor good as investments.
In The Economist case, the app update is making me seriously consider cancelling. UI can be subjective... but what's not is the unresponsiveness and lack of reliability in the audio playback. It's not acceptible for these to degrade with new releases.
also, ban all corporations from asking customers for donations.
Right! I was curious about how they do it and found out that Youtube actually has RSS feeds! At least according to this and a few other pages I've found https://danielmiessler.com/blog/rss-feed-youtube-channel/

Also, I can see that for other services like Twitter, there are indeed third party providers that can create feeds https://rss.app/blog/how-to-create-twitter-rss-feeds

Also Reddit subreddits and users: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss

For podcasts, just don't use Spotify and instead get the RSS feed of the podcast you like

So, yeah I'm now thinking of going to my RSS reader (which I currently only use for news) and adding all sorts of stuff.

Thank you for posting your comment :-)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say if they're losing money with $177 million in revenue it's because they're expanding quickly, made a bunch of acquisitions, etc... No way they're losing money on operations.

Edit - just looked it up, they have free cash flow for the year and a $400 million cash position. Tons of deferred revenue too.
You're getting mixed up. Good and bad isn't the same as misinformation. The intent is important. Bad faith arguments and presenting misleading conclusions to further an agenda is misinformation.
Fun with the LPC55S69
Blood Clots in People with Severe Covid-19 Related to Abnormal Antibody Response
There's a weird meme I the hacker community that law enforcement has no right to use any means to enforce the law, and can only bust people who turn themselves in.
But this article isn't complaining about Mailchimp shutting people down for thinking things in their own mind, it's complaining about Mailchimp shutting people down for publishing and advocating those thoughts.

What is the argument that saying "Ivermectin is being suppressed by Big Pharma, anyone who takes it will get cured of covid" is simply a thought whose publication is worthy of both social and legal protection, but saying "Contoso has a groundbreaking product they're going to reveal next week, anyone who buys the stock now is sure to make a profit" is illegal securities fraud? How do you distinguish those cases?
Unfortunately, we're in a bit of an echo chamber here. The average person is either unaware of these types of issues, doesn't care, or can be easily swayed with "think of the children"-type arguments.

There's going to be absolutely no oversight or transparency into occasions when an image is removed from a device. Nobody will ever know when a non-CSAM image is accidentally pulled back from a device. All the public will ever see are headlines to the tune of "CSAM scanning system catches bad person once again".

This is a really awful path that we're going down, and this is absolutely going to get abused by regimes around the world.
This is still a UI problem though more then any other: Web of Trust stored and it could have displayed the actual verification chains, and set up some decent defaults based on that - i.e. "Government", "Bank", "Personally Verified", "Friend of a Friend" - all of this would be easy to communicate via what keys signed what exactly who you were dealing with.

This even leads to a logical DNS integration: debian.org advertises the core group of keys which should verify people on that address via DNS, and it shows up as "DNS-only" or something.

Good crypto frequently undermines itself by trying to be adversarial to the whole concept of government or big companies (look at TLS - it succeeded because it's the antithesis of this) but those the primary users and coordinators that can drive adoption.

I have this complaint with Signal right now: if Signal wanted a legitimate funding source, they should sell a "verified Signal" service to let companies subscribe to use Signal as an alternative to SMS providers - my father wants to do this for his small business right now, to replace the SMS bulk sender and be able to send larger files to people securely.

Instead we've got whatever cryptocurrency ridiculousness.
Or they could just buy fuel like everyone else. If their biogas is cheaper than fossil fuels they can buy then they’ve stumbled onto something much bigger than whiskey.
Except that she didn't, and this is well documented by Martin Tournoij[1]. Caldera OpenDOS preceded her coinage along with a dozen others.

[1] https://www.arp242.net/open-source.html
Well what you really want is something like TOR and/or anonymous email forwarding, not just DNS, to really decouple from location and get control over who can reach you. This turns out to be hard to do because of both laws and business models.
Poul-Henning Kamp has shown that you can do this with NTP, with source code that actually follows the standard well. PTP makes a great refclock for more typical NTP implementations, but is not a replacement.

I haven’t played around much with chrony and chronyd, so I would be hesitant to recommend it over anything else. I know of some other software I have experience with that I would recommend against, but I don’t want to start any political wars here.
I used to really like Adobe apps. But every year the apps get slower. Every year they change some part of the UI and sometimes don't provide an option to do it the 'legacy' way.
Photoshop has changed keyboard shortcuts and reasoning behind their undo shortcuts; Indesign always centres on the selected object if you zoom out with the keyboard; Acrobat makes saving a step-by-step process... I could probably cite 20 better examples if I could be bothered.

And yet, YET, they flatly refuse to make their apps do proper mac full screen.
Wow, 20% of images being misclassified as CP would be terrifying. I never thought I'd say it but my next phone will definitely not be an iPhone or any device that is uploading my information to another server without my permission for any reason.

Is there even any evidence that arresting people with the wrong bit pattern on the computer helps stop child rape/trafficking? If so, why aren't we also going after people who go to gore websites? There's tons of awful material out there easily accessible of people getting stabbed, shot, murdered, butchered, etc. Do we not want to find people who are keeping collections of this material on their computers? And if so, what about people who really like graphic horror movies like Saw or Hostel? Obviously it's not real violence, but it's definitely close enough, and if you like watching that stuff, maybe you should be on a list? If your neighbor to the left of you has videos of naked children, and your neighbor to the right has videos of people getting stabbed and tortured to death, only one should be arrested and put on a list?

This is all not even taking into account that someone might not even realize they are in possession of CP because someone else put it on their device. I've heard there's tons of services marketing on the dark net where you pay someone $X00 in bitcoin and they remotely upload CP to any target's computer.

It seems like we are going down a very scary and dangerous path.
What is a leaky vaccine?
Regarding that rate, I’m no expert but my guess is that it’s the result of math, not actual testing of 1+ trillion images. This sounds like calling bullshit on “You have one trillion chance to win the lottery.”
You are assuming that having more supply will mean they need to immediately lower their prices. Glenfiddich is a premium brand. Have you once seen Apple lower prices on their MacBooks because they had too many in stock?
My guess is you haven't been in America long or you are interacting in a business setting.

"One thing I noticed as an English person during my time in the US is that IN MY OPINION you have less words."
I work regularly in Go - for an isolated example, that's about as clean as it gets. If you want to make it a little more middleware-y you could do this:

func iferr(err *error, f func()) {
if err != nil { f() }
}

// use
func whatever(...) (err error) {
thing := ...
defer iferr(&err, thing.Method)
}

But that only works with an exact match, so that example can't match e.g. `Close() error`, so you still have to either make a ton of near-clones for different signatures, or use a ton of trivial closures (like with the manual version), to make the type system happy.

Which can be worth it in a large enough project - `func()` and `func() error` will take care of like 90% of the signatures you'd defer anyway. I'd probably do that personally, unless I only needed it once or twice.

There has been a somewhat similar check/handle proposal (close to "try"), but it has consistently fallen into "they're great for trivial cases, but they make it harder to have good error messages / wrap errors with additional context", which is absolutely necessary in Go since errors are so loosely typed and contain only explicitly-added information (no stacks by default, for example). So I'm glad they haven't happened yet.
> If I had a dollar for every divorce caused by infidelity that started on Facebook, I would have… well, just about the same amount of money I have.

I believe he means to imply that nearly all the cases of divorce he is seeing at his practice started
online.

I’m sure there are millions of FB users that aren’t heading to a divorce. In some ways though , there is no way to verify how bad it is (or isn’t ), which is why a top divorce lawyers word for it has value.
How to write slow Rust code – Part 2
I don't think that's true. The flux cross section f(2r)/f(r) = 4 is derived specifically for an isotropic radiation source. You would need to re-derive it for whichever beam shape you want to model.

EIRP is describing that the total flux through a sphere at a given radius is constant regardless of the beam shape, but we are only interested in a specific cross section and are not accounting for the rest of it.
I do wonder

https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/1315500

This looks to be the DMCA request for those 90 links. No doubt it was part of a dragnet, given they're listings of 3gp, aac, flv, mp3, mp4, and webm files, it's probably just some links found in some sort of scam page.
It's a great word. Nice choice!
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