skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the individuals were coerced to take action. Note that what many intend when referring to individual action is not that the individual _chose_ to take action, but that the individual _does_ take action. When claiming that individual action won't make a difference they're claiming that changing how we live as collective individuals won't make a difference; it doesn't matter what motivated that change for their thesis to be considered.

IMHO, Governments ought to _heavily_ tax commercial office space to coerce companies to support WFH. Make it so that the opportunities to commute start to disappear.
Who Are the Ghosts of Kreischer Mansion?
Are you saying that these things must be mutually exclusive? It is entirely possible to have completely private and convenient conversations between two parties.
But the US is worse when it comes to CO2 emmited per capita. That means that US should also be taxed.
The government has already done plenty of things without our knowledge, PRISM and the Snowden revelations. No matter who you elect the government will keep doing these things and will only expand the scope, and 99% of people won’t care, and the rest are labelled “the screeching voices of the minorities”.

Apple made privacy their selling point (Privacy. That’s iPhone), and that set the expectations of privacy people have with their products.

“Tech bro movement” what?
Show HN: A new tool to benchmark AWS SageMaker performance
Get a jab, then it’s over for you. People have had plenty of time to get one. Everyone at Obama’s party agrees.
> you don't accumulate susceptibility to disease by avoiding it

But you do accumulate protection against pathogens by being exposed to them.

> as long as we continue social distancing and masking

The source I cited mentions that one of the primary risks is overwhelming medical facilities with huge waves of people who are all sick at the same time with endemic illnesses like the flu, RSV, etc.

> this is a better argument for continuing the mitigations and slowly removing them over time

An idea worth exploring for sure, but I think it will be difficult to achieve practically. At some point in that process there is going to be a majority of people out living their lives and not adhering to the mitigations, which is when the aforementioned consequences of these NPI's will become relevant.
Good! If people are too stupid to realize a scam like this or pay for something illegal then they deserve to get bilked for a few hundred bucks.
My observation is that big orgs are full of waste due to bureaucracy and smaller orgs waste because they chase too many marketing gimmicks instead of solving real problems. Both types of orgs suffer each of these to a degree, it's just the mix changes with size.
> if they do not protect against variants or breakthrough infections?

The vaccines do not provide absolute immunity but they very clearly and obviously provide protection against variants (dramatically reducing the hospitalization and death rate), and against breakthrough infections (dramatically reducing the likelihood of transmission). Your comment is just ignorant misinformation.

The fact that vaccines are not completely bulletproof is known to children and any adult who is interested in a good faith discussion about this: those who have had a flu vaccine are familiar with the very mild form of the flu you can still get. The symptoms are far milder than an unvaccinated flu infection, but vaccines boost your immune system. They do not make you superhumanly immune to disease, and it's preposterous to hold the COVID vaccine to an impossibly high standard.
There are mods that make the game much harder, including by cutting your inventory and limits on weight, but in my experience people are drawn to increasing the horizon rather than restricting how far you can reach.

So e.g. rather than forcing you to move more slowly (e.g. realistic walking pace, limited sprint, burden by weight) let's add moon rockets so you can go further. In fact, why stop at the moon (albeit that is where the Rats went because it's made of cheese -- in some continuities, I should really go beat that part of the pack one day)? Add space stations, ferry rockets, and eventually an interstellar drive so you can visit other solar systems.

If I put an aerial with unlimited range upgrade on the outside of a Compact Machine on the moon, and then I run the network inside that Compact Machine over a wireless link to another Compact Machine on Mars, then I can use machines on the surface of Mars, wirelessly, while stood on the (notional) far side of the Moon. Unlike the real world, Minecraft doesn't know that the latency ought to be incredibly annoying when I do that :D

"There's no wrong way to enjoy yourself". But on the whole the instinct to make it harder hasn't been as popular.
About: https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/regional-information/about

Summary of the report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

Full report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
I made a WebGL mechanical clock simulation if anyone wants to look at it in motion: https://clock.leshenko.net/
I think it's just a simple matter of the relative exclusivity of those accomplishments.

If I asked you who Woodrow Wilson was, what would you respond with?
So in short:

Apple respected its Users' privacy and therefore only reported a low number CSAM cases since it didn't monitor and scan anything.

Facebook, because it doesn't respect its Users' privacy, wants to monitor and scan everything so it has to report large numbers of CSAM cases (in the millions).

It seems to me that the "number of CSAM cases" is a nice (perverse?) corollary to how much a particular service respects its Users privacy.
It's determined by what you do next - start making a competing product, or start making a complementary product.
Is there any fiction worth reading placed in D&D? What would you recommend?
Hate Apple's philosophy personally but I recommend my mom a Mac every single time.

Not everyone needs freedom, she's not downloading fitgirl repacks.
It's interesting how everyone used to be all in favor of Apple's strategy of doing all photo analysis on the device instead of on some remote server, and now it's reversed. Suddenly Google's approach is better?
But only Apple can, at least for now, scan content or your phone. Google cannot. Yet. Small, bit crucial difference.
your argument makes a distinction between animals and humans. why?
If Apple really cared about privacy, they'd instead have spent some money to lobby against those bills.
I think it's a kind of fine distinction... for now. My primary concern with Apple's proposed implementation of CSAM detection hinges almost entirely on the fact that it is performed on device. I use iCloud photos right now knowing fully well that it is subject to these scans.

I think ideally things would truly be E2E encrypted, in which case Apple or any other cloud provider doesn't have to trouble themselves about what's on their servers, since no one but the user could ever look at the contents of it. In this case a big blob of data up to the storage limits of the person's plan is the only thing they'd have to worry about.

That is also the other issue with Apple's proposed implementation. It completely circumvents E2EE and makes it entirely pointless. It doesn't preserve privacy in any respect whatsoever.

And to what end? You might capture a few people that are syncing their child porn on iCloud without encrypting it themselves first, but does this really make children any safer? It certainly endangers anyone using an iPhone given the technology doesn't discriminate against what kind of hashes it provides and increases the scope of surveillance on everyone. These sorts of things are extremely hard to undo.
If you have been following this site for a while then you know that it is a truth universally acknowledged (well - on HN), that the EU wants to "ban encryption".

I keep having the same question as you, and will refrain from joining the pitchfork party until I see actual proof.
Thank you, I was just about to jump in and point out the obvious. Tech has blinded us to all solutions...except more tech.
First, my apologies for being unnecessarily mean in my critiques of your startup. My abrasiveness filter is set for Hollywood standards, not SV standards, and come off as unnecessarily harsh outside to those not in the entertainment industry.

But I stand by the substance of my comments about your startup, and please be aware that a number of them are simply me echoing the sanitized versions of comments I got from my Black friends in Hollywood after I sent them a link to your website. There comments were significantly harsher than what I passed along.

If you would like to talk to one of my friends in the Black Hollywood community, I can try to connect you with them. But please be advised that they will hold nothing back.
Getting people to fight climate change by making their lifestyles worse is going to be a tough sell.
Scanning for arbitrary subjects is wildly impractical. There are, what, trillions of photographs of guns in the world?
Fundamentals of Incident Management
I've not used this feature of Insomnia, but it may be of use to others.

https://insomnia.rest/blog/introducing-grpc-support
It is with your consent. If you don't use iCloud Photos, your files don't get scanned.
Where do I fit if I wear a mask when I'm indoors because I feel compelled to try to prevent my children, who are ineligible for the vaccine, from catching COVID-19 due to any failure on my part?
https://www.pdfdrive.com/20-golden-rules-in-software-develop...

wasn't one of HN you "lurking here about three years ago " ?
I would hope they aren’t incentivized to incriminate innocent people.
Can anyone recommend good interface to OpenStreeMaps? I installed OsmAnd on my Android Radio (9" 720p) and find menu options/icons are too tiny (and too many) to operate while driving.
Just the bottom of that basket is gorgeous. I want to see everything else.
> This is (rightly) causing enormous damage to Apple's brand

Is it, really? I think they feel this will blow over.
What is the business case for this? I don’t understand how TomTom has an advantage by improving openstreetmaps.
Apple's brand won't be sullied until they give-in to a government order to flag other types of illegal images (gay porn in Saudi Arabia, say, or pictures of the Tank Man in China) and are caught doing it.

Apple's rejoinder is that they will simply refuse to do that. And that's great, until you consider that all the iPhones are made in China and China is more than willing to apply immense pressure including but not limited to shutting down Foxconn if they feel strongly about it.
> Nothing short of Florida disappearing under the sea is going to make any difference

You think that would be enough? Don't underestimate how many people would be willing to shrug off mass death and destruction of others if their tribe asked them to ignore it.
Yeah, it's a hack.

If you're doing it a lot you can abstract it into a function to clean it up:

fn count(comptime n: usize) [n]u0 {
return [1]u0{0} ** n;
}

for (count(10)) |_, i| {
std.debug.print("{d}", .{i});
}

or, if you don't need to capture the index:

for (count(9)) |_| {
//I can do it 9 times
}

Personally I've found I rarely need this kind of loop, so I just use the 'while' formulation because it is more obvious.
There are 7 billion people on the planet. Couldn't we just... have everyone plant a few trees? Trees weigh something like a quarter of a ton+ when fully grown, and pull directly from the atmosphere. Even if we remove the 50% of people who live in cities without yards, if every rural human planted 5 trees a year we'd end up sequestering a lot of that carbon, right? I know it's not permanent but if you just keep planting trees you can easily buy yourself 20 years with the open space we have.
>I found the arguments against this surprisingly uncompelling

I think it just goes to show that people don't actually care about privacy and civil liberties. You can't argue against "think of the children" without being labeled heartless or a pedophile so no one with true influence will argue against it since nobody wants to die on the child porn hill. This is what happens when your thought leaders are all cynical and value money and power above all else.

While I'm a privacy advocate I could see that the arguments were fruitless. The popular conception of the constitution today is that it is a joke. People mock liberties like freedom of speech so you just know privacy is something people do not care about.
> Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.

Is a long way of saying "thinking you know something that you actually don't." It's about hidden assumptions, and if there's any psychology to it would be hubris.
>So I think what we'll get instead is some complex system of first taxing everything and then subsidizing some forms of consumption (again, food and transportation),

or just tax everything, then giving it back to everyone via a flat dividend?
This podcast seems pretty focused on Appendix N (from AD&D, after Arneson's direct involvement ended) instead of the origins of D&D as a whole. Google 'Secrets of Blackmoor' to get a better view of Arneson's influences.
nor chromium rn
As someone who has had to do some "deep archeology debugging" of legacy code, I'd much rather see that git blame full of WIP commits from junior developers than squash/rebase commits from the same. Questions like "was this an intentional regression or bad test behavior from an in progress commit or an accidental regression from a bad merge?" are much easier to answer when you've got "more parts of how the sausage was made" to work with. When I'm not doing "deep archeology" I have tools like git praise --first-parent to focus on the high level (completed PR merge commits).
> Of all things to be upset about, why is this the hill so many people are determined to die on?

Wearing a helmet when riding in a car is likely safer, with appropriate seat belts, but we don't wear helmets and 5-point harnesses in passenger cars.

To turn around your question: Why do so many people insist on turning masks into a hill?

Masks are just one of many ways humanity can be marginally safer in an incredibly annoying fashion. Like wearing helmets in every passenger car.
Frankly, it's more of a problem for my data to be flagged after Google has it than it would be for it to never leave my device at all.

People have certainly run afoul of the law when the data Google has about them is misused.

>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for murder and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...

We are only talking about what happens when you try to send the data to the cloud, after all. Not about all the data on the device.
Child protective services will have a field day with this. Take away all the children!
Imagine now a young child being sexually abused in front of a camera for all its years of existence, and that there's no knock on the door.
And I call that one deprioritizing your people over petty office expenses. Might be just me, but I feel like the higher you go up the corp chain the more this line of thinking gets more and more common.
The real problem is that McDonalds corporate forces franchisees to buy a crappy version of the machine that generates huge income for Taylor, and (most likely) for McD corporate via kickbacks, from weekly service calls. Taylor makes almost-identical machines for other joints that work fine, but franchisees are contractually obligated to buy the crappy one, and to have it "fixed" all the damn time by Taylor techs. It is a racket.

I don't know what would happen if a franchisee bought one of each and put the crappy one in a closet. Probably corporate would notice the lack of kickback revenue and force the issue somehow.

Really, attorneys general should be investigating McD corporate for anti-competitive behavior, and getting restraining orders against corporate taking the kickbacks. (Maybe even prosecute it?) Somehow, enforcement of anti-trust law has been neutered so that it takes extraordinary measures to get even the most basic sort of action against abuse. Racketeering law might be more effective.

Without the kickbacks, corporate will have no incentive to force franchisees to spend thousands of dollars every week on unnecessary "service" work. But corporate should be forced to pay all the franchisees' accumulated service costs that exceed the norm for similar machines. With interest.

Of course, without the machines failing all the time, Kytch won't have a market. So, they actually want McD to keep getting the kickbacks for repairs on the crappy machines, and continue forcing franchisees to depend on them, and just leave Kytch to collect their own piece of the action. None of Taylor's, Kytch's, or corporates' hands are especially clean, but Kytch is making things uncomfortable for entrenched racketeers, so we like to cheer them on.
>You could only do this until you run out of tax dollars being paid by poor people.

Or you could start paying them more and more money to trickle up, i.e. progressive negative taxes.
Not really, actually.

They only do the scanning if you use iCloud Photos backup. If you use, say, local storage instead of iCloud, you don't get scanned (which would be a more apt comparison to a physical photo book). Also, they aren't scanning for new illegal activity, but images that you somehow obtained of past illegal activity that the government already knows about.
"it's only +0.65% clicks but zero is outside the confidence interval! let's ship it! ten more like these and we've reached our quarterly target!!"
Actually, Alex Stamos, despite his apparent crusade against sexual abuse of children, has not installed video surveillance in his home.

It’s unfathomable that he would not know that the majority of sexual abuse against children happens IN THE HOME!?!

Why would he focus on this marginal problem of distribution, instead of stopping the actual assaults on children? It’s actually trivial to install video cameras in your children’s bedroom!

If you won’t, what cruel child abuse are you trying to hide?

Alex Stamos is clearly not telling the whole truth here?

How do we know that he doesn’t abuse children without surveillance in his home? We obviously don’t, so naturally he should be reported to the police for refusing to cooperate in the investigation of child abuse.

Why is he refusing? What is Alex Stamos hiding about his personal experience with child sexual abuse?
> It's usually pointless to argue with religious people though. They have their opinions and there is little you can achieve with logic.

Why? Every religion or non-religion is based on belief. Even if you are not religious, you have some fundamental beliefs that require some sort of assumption. Logic and religion are not incompatible.
The thing I liked about Aztec C was that they gave you the source code for their libc. You could easily write and integrate your own I/O drivers for stdin and stdout. It really made embedded C development easy.
"Don't worry this malware is only triggered if you double click it. -- signed the author"
Sustainable Web Design, an Excerpt
Good code tells a story. You should be able to read the code like English, starting with your inputs, and see how your inputs are transformed/processed into your outputs.

Good code is just simple enough. You can, through refactoring make code overly simple (think dozens of 1 line functions, where 3 5-12 line functions do the trick). A function is a scene though - no more, no less. Don't try to stuff a chapter or a novel into one function as that isn't simple at all.

Good code is commented with comments that explain and add meaning to the code, rather than repeating what is obvious from the code itself.
Perhaps Apple should add “at home iCloud server” support to Macs so you can selfhost your personal iCloud, and keep all your data on your own property with easy UX.
A few months ago, everywhere you looked people were promoting apple as the privacy company. It was an amazing amount of viral goodwill and trust
Back in 1989, I slept on Tom Rokicki's couch while I attended that year's TUG meeting at Stanford and I got to play with the NeXT that Tom was given to develop TeX for NeXT.¹ It was an amazing machine, especially given the era. The optical disk was slow by modern standards but seemed quite responsive back then and the system was just mind-blowing.

1. I'm not sure if this was pre- or post-release of NeXTTeX
Higher Self Healing Meditations
The consumer can't stop an application from automatically running without crippling an unrelated process? That doesn't sound right.

Apple already can run this server-side, on their own devices, and not by installing a backdoor on a device someone purchased.
The advantage of doing analysis on your device was supposed to be that your data never left your device. Now you get the worst of both worlds, with your device doing the analysis but your data leaving anyway.
Overall, we are actually very terrible at understanding global consequences. Earth as a dynamic system is just too big and interdependent. Yet Earth's biosphere has recovered from cataclysm after cataclysm. Usually at the expense of 90%+ extinction. A big reason the carboniferous period happened is because fungi had not yet developed the capacity to digest cellulose. We're in a different regime now, and there is no telling what will happen. But one thing I think is pretty clear: we aren't going to tech our way out of this and make up some magic carbon sink. So the Earth is probably headed for a really hot period with lots of carbon in the cycle, until it stumbles on a new way to sink it. Either that, or it will head towards a semi-permanent desert planet.
I felt this exact sentiment for awhile but I've changed my stance. The reason is because for a lot of them they feel secure because everyone is doing it, so this is a real social fear that they have, rather than from the virus itself. People act on groupthink very easily and if masks does not work or work minimally and people stop wearing them, more and more people will stop wearing them as well when they see that it's not a big deal.

I do not wear them outside but I do wear them indoors at grocery stores or small spaces that are poorly ventilated.
There is a big jump from reporting criminal activity if you happen to see it, to actively searching it out. It is the jump from police arresting you if they see you smoking a joint to police searching your rooms to make sure you don’t have any cannabis in there.
Classic meme in the Clojure world is "hammock driven development" popularized by Rich Hickey himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

Love this!
I searched github for "counterfeit consciousness" and stumbled into quite the rabbit hole https://github.com/search?q=counterfeit+consciousness