skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have no information to make a decision there. It could be (as you say) because they want to implement E2E cloud, but it could just as well be because they want to start scanning offline content for folks that opted out of iCloud storage (and even if that is not their immediate intent, you can't argue implementing this system doesn't take them 95% of the way to making that possible)
A different "taniwha" I'm afraid - I've been using this handle on-line since the mid 80s ....
Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication
This is melodramatic high school Hamlet-ism. It’s also silly - there has obviously been a case where the first speech was censured. It happened before civilizations. Are we all still damaged and bondaged by that?

Look, speech is important. So is protecting the public good. But if one believes in absolutes, rather than takeoffs, they are IMO getting too high on their own supply.

Let’s talk about the trade offs that we have already made.
I'm surprised the article didn't mention the atlatl which would have been the true historic answer to "how far did cavemen throw spears?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
Is there a program that replaced MSDN?

I’m waxing nostalgic over the binders of CDs from the subscription over the years.
Maybe your manager is mean, but maybe customers, coworkers, or partner businesses are happy. I don't mean it's all roses, but usually someone somewhere is happy even for fairly simple tasks.

But not necessarily for, say, a starving actor. Nobody really appreciates that you delivered a one-line part as an extra in a B movie. Anyone you work with is likely to either be jealous that you got a line, or feels you owe them for the priviledge of allowing you to say the line. And the viewers don't notice or care.
I mean you can hardly buy a car now without it including shrink wrap terms of service for google or apple software. Or 3rd parties that share data with them.
Understandable, but it's beside the point. The point is that legally mandated (and enforced!) employment agreements should exist regardless of the amount of people vying for jobs.
Our institutions have failed, decades of lies to cover up their failures in the face of their unsustainable embedded growth obligations have caught up with them.

This made us ripe for any sufficiently skilled demigod to sweep into office on a pack of lies, as history has shown.

Nothing has been done to correct the situation, as the "greatest generation" won't dare risk the deal they've cut themselves by letting go of power.

It's all professional wrestling at this point.

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I really loved the guest programming as well.
Chisel https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
I've experienced this but with Google Maps.

A highly rated pizza chain in my city (4.8 stars out of 6000+ reviews) is giving out free desserts if you rate them 5 stars. I've called them out on it years ago, but it seems that they are still doing it today: https://goo.gl/maps/1L8zdhWgwDK8b8Cy6.
What makes you quite certain about your 1-1000 number? It’s really easy to mistake our experience for something generalizable.
Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather
That's a pretty brutal selection mechanism. How fast and far can you go while slowly starving with your tribe in tow...
He really didn't handle the explanation of the joke properly...
One downside of voice interfaces is they are bad for privacy. How do you enter your password, credit card details, or social security number?

Voice is also much more distracting than tapping thumbs, as anyone who works in an open floor plan office can attest.
One could plausibly claim it over the course of a few years, but look at 20-30 year average already makes it entirely implausible. Just because of compounding, that would mean 30-year old prices being 5x mistaken, and 60-year old prices 25x mistaken.

Only reason why some people think CPI is wrong is because people psychologically tend to ignore prices on things that are going down, only mentioning those that are going up. Prices on almost all food, all clothes and most energy (surprise!) are down vs 1921 CPI-adjusted price, and prices on housing are up per unit but down per square foot.
> 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. The paper won't help NCMEC, ICACs, or related law enforcement. It won't help victims.

Making it public would allow the public to scrutinize it, attack it, if you will, so that we can get to the bottom of how bad this technology is. Ultimately my sincere guess is that we’d end up with better technology to do this not some crap system that essentially matches on blurry images. Our government is supposed to be open source, there’s really no reason we can’t as a society figure this out better than some anti CP cabal with outdated crufty image tech.
> someone usually mocks "it's always about the kids, think about the kids."

Yes, let's think about the kids, please.

I certainly don't want my children to grow up in an authoritarian surveillance state...
I started dabbling in CL last month, and I both of those points are valid, if for different reasons today.

Most languages have a single standard way of doing basic things, and provide libraries for advanced operations that are not faced by everyone everyday, but more than once per average person.

First criticism of Common Lisp being it has too large standard lib, and it collides with first half of above paragraph, because newcomers like me get confused at 4 different ways to set variable, all named ever so slightly differently.

Second criticism being lack of libraries. This comes in effect with second half of first paragraph. For eg. I wanted to build a simple webapp to parse PDF into separate pages and convert them to speech. I could write one in Java in a weekend, but there is nothing comparable in Common Lisp, especially in terms of proper documentation and examples. I couldn't lift off after initial interface. I had to scour through library source to even understand basic usage.

It is possible I missed something obvious, but as it is, Common Lisp is not a good language to start greenfield projects.
I had a seller hassle me on my personal email after me telling them to stop asking for removal of an honest review in exchange for a replacement of a poorly made product.

Literally could not find a way to tell Amazon, so I left a review on their seller page.

Amazon deleted that review because "product was fulfilled by Amazon"

Amazon is a dumpster fire these days.
> There's nothing special about having software where anyone can contribute freely, that makes it attractive to customers.

That may be true for some customers, but certainly not all. Being able to fix a bug or add a feature yourself instead of having to wait for a vendor to do it for you can be very attractive. Especially if you need a feature that would never be accepted upstream, and you have the ability to use your own fork/patchset. That is something my company has done many times, and is a factor when choosing software.
tl;dr -- Fox News is to blame for all of America's problem.
Javelin is one of the sports that is limited by venues. That is area limited inside 400m running track. Where inside we simply do not want them throw too far.

We could easily design javelin that travels much further, but choose not to, due to safety concerns and limitations venues...
Back in the 1980s, in the days of MS-DOS, a client had a CRT monitor set up near some massive 3 phase power feeds inside a power plant, and the rotating magnetic fields made the display rotate rapidly in a circle about 1/2 inch in diameter.

To fix it, I wrote a program that put the computer in 640x480 bitmapped text mode, which slowed the display of text down a bit, but altered the refresh rate to exactly match the power frequency, and the problem was solved. 8)
Apple doesn’t have access to the original CSAM images — only the hashes generated by the agency that produced them, so there could be hashes that don’t match anything illegal that trigger a false positive.
"Sarcasm" is literally flesh-cutting. If it isn't meant to wound, it's not sarcasm.

It's true that "irony" is hard to pin down. But the excursions into explaining coincidence, parody and satire I found rather tedious - those terms don't need a whole podcast. They're straightforward words.
That option is worth exprloring if it's deemed that killing is essential for human surfvival, which I don't think is the consensus these days.
Then you don’t have to worry about it uploading anything.
I can't really see AR Glasses replacing Smartphones even if the tech is there.

Sure it's nice to have a display you can always see while keeping your hands free, but even when it perfectly recognizes what you say voice input is still slower and clunkier than using your hands. Gaze tracking is similarly clunky compared to multitouch.

Not to mention the privacy aspect (would you want everyone around you to know exactly what you're typing/searching for/interacting with?)

You could have some kind of physical input device you keep in your pocket - but at that point you're carrying around more stuff than if you just had a smart phone. (Edit: sensors on your fingers so you can type on an imaginary keyboard?)

Basically it just doesn't seem to make any sense to me, but hey maybe I'm missing something. Useful tech for certain use cases sure, but I don't think those use cases really overlap enough with what we use smartphones for to replace them.
There are a significant number of ways to do it correctly. I personally would like one, but not centralised, but some form of completely anonymous time-limited digitally signed vaccination YES/NO/DAYS SINCE COMPLETED/TYPE and nothing else. Constantly morphing QR, only valid for a few minutes, prevent transferring via screenshot or passing a phone since it's invalidated after scan, whatever else.

I would be glad to show something like that to every store and restaurant - I explicitly do not want to give ANY store my phone number or any other information at all. I explicitly WISH TO tell the store that I am vaccinated with Moderna as of 2 weeks or more ago.

There are ways to do it reasonably correctly, but local bureaucratic bullshit will happen and what will appear is some kind of online-only spyware app that contains PII/PCI data encoded into your QR code.
It's a pretty dumb methodology, but it's kind of OK as a basic meter of how 30 big companies are doing and as a proxy for big companies in general. As long as you're mostly comparing between time periods and adjusting for splits and what not.
It is what the original Android browser pre-chrome did. Pinch to zoom, then double tap to reflow.
Ask HN: What Was the iPhone Release Like?
There's no question the iPhone changed computing, but as someone who was too young/not plugged into tech enough at the time to remember, I'm curious what the release was like.

How far in advance (if at all) were touch smartphones viewed as a revolutionary piece of technology? Was there similar hype to tech hailed today as a "revolution" that hasn't yet made large impact, for example AR/VR, self driving, etc or was it a surprise? What did you personally think?
Entering a legally sound contract is a far cry from rape, don't you think?
No actually I kind of like it. It boils down the essence of the problem to it's core point-- trust.
It’s like an optimization algorithm running amok with no intelligent human input. 1. Show X is watched more than any other. 2. Increase scheduling of Show X! 3. Show X is being watched more. Great! 4. Increase scheduling of Show X even more! 5. GOTO 3.
Time to double your medication.
I suspect it was more the economics of maintaining 5 apps: web, mac, windows, iphone, android. It basically forces you to a toolkit that makes nobody happy...
I don’t require input devices to with the world around me (generally). Why should AR be that different?
I think it shows a shift in priorities from users to metrics like engagement and profit. Then the prioritized parties are Spotify or investors. It stinks, but it opens the door for competitors that can compete on things like user experience even though there are powerful competitors already in the space.
Decoupling Microservices: Things We Have Learned Along the Way at Xendit
> American Flu

Funny how Wikipedia mentions that it was used early on in France but in order to avoid antagonizing an ally journalists were advised (source is a bit short on that) to call it the Spanish flu[1]. So there was also active suppression going on to keep the source out of the news, just back then it was at least partially war time censorship.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Geopolitical
This is pretty sad, I actually have been trying to find animator around some countries in south east asia but I found it really hard to find one. It seems like it is not a very popular subject for anyone anymore.

I have very few friends who took animation, and they switched to programming after 1 year of failing to find a job as well. I feel like animation is a very important entertainment area and there should be more of them. Not sure if there are any other big companies other than pixar or disney around the world that attract students to pursue that as a career though.
I don’t know what you consider a high unemployment rate, but Japan doesn’t have one.

It does have a rather larger number of temporary workers than was historically the case.
Sea-thru: a physics-based color reconstruction algorithm for underwater images
The powder is a cheese-like seasoning. It is not cheese. First ingredient of the seasoning: whey. Whey is not cheese; it’s the leftover product you get while making cheese.
Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing
As one of the EmacsConf organizers, I'm particularly fond of talks that explore how people use Emacs outside the standard software dev stuff, although I'm also keen on talks that demonstrate a well-configured workflow for code or other things. =) Both EmacsConf 2019 and 2020 had lots of talks for general audiences and lots of talks focused on development, so you'll probably find something that interests you.

Actually, can I convince you to share your experience and submit a talk proposal? User stories were a well-received part of EmacsConf last year, and lots of people liked Pierce Wang's talk on learning Emacs as a high school student who's passionate about music. I think people would love to hear about how you wandered in, how you climbed up that learning curve, and how you've been tweaking things to fit you. =)
> From a business standpoint I find it fascinating. It's about as perfect as an example it gets of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

Presumably Spotify makes more money if you listen to artist A instead of artist B, and these changes are all part of the gradual change from an interface designed to let you browse and discover music you like to an interface designed to make you do whatever makes Spotify the most money that day.
My experience was with a BMW 330e. I guess I should clarify, I mean true plug in hybrids. Is a gen 4 Prius a PHEV?
No exception for a lab? Our network engineering team has a lab (it’s an office) where they keep a bunch hardware and this and that. It’s pretty much one persons office.
There was a great sky talk at Defcon this week about groups that literally have catalogues of stuff people choose from, order, then get PayPal refund for the 5 star reviews (multiple merchant sites not just Amazon). Some of it is pretty expensive stuff (3D printers, batteries and more). I don’t have an answer for a fix but I definitely just ignore reviews now.
In plenty countries, repeatedly trying to contact someone after the person said "don't contact me" would be grounds for suing the contacting party. And given Amazon clearly doesn't give a fuck about sellers hounding customers, that would be my first bet.

So, people in this situation might be interested in actually replying one of those messages, with the following: "I will not remove the review. Please stop contacting me. Further contact will be understood as [harassment|disturbance of peace|etc.], acc. to [insert law in your country], and passive to litigation."

Also, unless the goods in question are expensive, resist the temptation to accept a refund, in exchange for removing the review. When you're dealing with dishonest sellers, it's well worth to get a small burden (no refund) to give them a bigger one (bad rep).
This is not a machine translation issue. The deep fried versions in Chinese make about as little sense as it does in English. Again, this is caused by word-by-word theasurus-running most likely in English.
Yes and it's 7AM. Hackernews is interesting
That would apply to any kind of metaphor, and to most figures of speech.
Why strive for that, when we can just claim the title? (And then rationalize that we earn it by applying whatever passes for ‘rigor’ in our trade)
Which will have its own rate of false positives. Manual review is not a panacea, especially if the original net is cast widely.
okay, so according to this [1], icloud photos are not e2e encrypted. point still stands, this is a system that is designed to flag the images without looking at them server side. assuming that it is successful, it paves the way for when they could turn on e2e encryption for icloud photos.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Square Root of Any Number Mentally and Instantly [video]
> The law does not say that naked photos of (your or anyone else's) kids are inherently illegal, they have to actually be sexual in nature.

But that depends on who looks at it.

People have been arrested and (at least temporary) lost custody over their children because someone called the police over perfectly normal family photos. I remember one case a few years ago where someone had gotten into trouble because one photo included a toddler wearing nothing (even facing away from the camera if my memory serves me correctly) playing at the beach. When police realized this wasn't an offense, instead of apologizing they got hung up on another photo were kids were playing with an empty beer can.

Recently this was also linked https://jonathanturley.org/2009/09/18/arizona-couple-sues-wa...

which further links to a couple of previous cases.

I'd say we get police or health care to talk to people who think perfectly normal images are sexual in nature, but until we get laws changed at least then keep us safe.

> I mean let's be clear here, do you believe the law considers to much stuff to be CSAM, and if so why? How would you prefer we redefine it?

Another thing that comes up is that a lot of things that are legal might be in that database because criminal might have a somewhat varied history.

Personally I am a practicing conservative Christian so this doesn't bother me personally at the moment since for obvious reasons I don't collect these kinds of images.

The reason I care is because every such capability will be abused, and below I present in two easy steps how it will go from todays well intended system to a powerful tool for oppression:

1. today it is pictures but if getting around it is as simple as putting it in a pdf then obviously pdfs must be screened too. Same with zip files. Because otherwise this so simple to circumvent that is worthless.

2. once you have such a system in place it would be a shame not to use it for every other evil thing. Dependending on where you live this might be anything: Muslim scriptures, Atheist books or videos, Christian scriptures, Winnie the Pooh drawings - you name it and someone wants to censor it.
>our biological systems may be complicated beyond intuition.

right, that's why the natural way provides the best immunity
Agree. I hate every electron app I use, but even my longtime macOS favorites are beginning to feel only marginally better. They keep spicing up the UI, removing things that used to be reliable constants across applications and hiding more and more things behind ... menus like I'm on a mobile device, revealing or moving UI elements on mouse hover.

Little details like the title bar of of every window behaving the same were great like ten years ago. You always knew if a dot was in the red close button it meant your work wasn't saved. You could drag and drop the tiny icon just like it was an icon in Finder. It was almost always consistent.

Preview used to be a simple app for viewing documents. I welcomed the addition of annotation tools like adding a signature, but why did they axe the standard titlebar behavior? Now you have to hover over the filename of the document and wait almost a second before the title slides to the right and reveals the little icon. How is that possibly an improvement over just leaving it alone? Did they think saving 16px to show a longer filename without ellipses was more valuable?

Notes is kind of a new app in my mind so it hit the scene when macOS was already starting to feel more like an iPhone, but it's still worth talking about. They keep making it more powerful, like adding checklists and tables and such, but they hide the most basic functionality, text formatting, under a flyout menu. I really like the iOS feature to scan documents. The cropping and contrast adjustments are so good that I can usually quickly scan several pages of handwritten homework within a couple minutes. However, exporting a scanned PDF out of a document on macOS is a mess. Right click on the scan and it take seconds for a context menu to appear. At first I thought it must be my computer got hung, but it's like this consistently. How did they ship a product that make something as basic as a context menu hang for several seconds?

I could gripe with more examples, but the overarching feel I get is that macOS is being pushed more and more towards feeling like iOS, the emphasis on programs editing files is disappearing, and one day everything will be sandboxed and I'll have to click through "share" menus to transfer data from one app to another, provided those apps are kind enough to let me import or export.
> Our institutions have failed, decades of lies to cover up their failures in the face of their unsustainable embedded growth obligations have caught up with them.

What specifically has failed?

This kind of blind unthinking cynicism is a big factor in the problem described by the article.