skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://blackhat.guru/short/JpgkES

> http://127.0.0.1:22342/2/life%20of%20pi%20audiobook%20CHAPTER%2065%20FULL%5Bfreemp3q.org%5D.flv

oh, it sounds like an audiobook abouth mathematics, interesting
OK, let's try to move the conversation in a more productive direction. What aspects of the music-player problem weren't already solved by 2010 or so?
Getting vaccinated doesn't stop you from spreading the virus to other people. If it did, your point would have far greater validity.
lmao. this.
A set of unverified hashes that you hope only came from NCMEC. Telecoms do this on their own devices - not yours.

Apple just opened the door for constant searches of your digital devices. If you think it will stop at CSAM you have never read a history book - the single biggest user of UKs camera system originally intended for serious crimes are housing councils checking to see who didn't clean up after their dog.
Tech bro complaining his other tech bro friend isn't able to peddle anti-vax misinformation on private "big tech" platform Mailchimp. boohoo. Has anyone taken a look at his friend's twitter feed?
Covid vaccine safety system has gaps that may miss unexpected side effects
I want to draw attention to one point in this

> Will Apple actually flatly refuse any and all such demands? If they do, it’s all good. If they don’t, and these features creep into surveillance for things like political dissent, copyright infringement, LGBT imagery, or adult pornography — anything at all beyond irrefutable CSAM — it’ll prove disastrous to Apple’s reputation for privacy protection. The EFF seems to see such slipping down the slope as inevitable.

What seems to be missing from this discussion is that Apple is already doing these scans on the iCloud photos they store. Therefore, the slippery slope scenario is already a threat today. What’s stopping Apple from acquiescing to a government request to scan for political content right now, or in any of the past years iCloud photos has existed? The answer is they claim not to and their customers believe them. Nothing changes when the scanning moves on device, though, as the blog mentions, I suspect this is a precursor to allowing more private data in iCloud backups that Apple cannot decrypt even when ordered to.
> How would this system by Apple make my life worse? Can you answer that without a slippery slope argument?

“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we're all damaged...."
So now Apple gets to paw through your images without a warrant or consent?
That doesn't magically make it open source
> Thus they will often say things with implicit meanings that are contrary to their literal meanings — aka irony — that go right over American heads.

An interesting counterpoint would be that although Japanese communication is extremely high-context, they don't grasp the concept of sarcasm at all. This leads to situations like this

https://twitter.com/ceallachs_/status/1275296527783653381
Animation is about acting - sometimes comedy, always emotions. Like acting it is hard to specify the desired end state and harder still to identify the decisions and actions required to achieve it. "She needs to look more nurturing" or "that ocean wave needs to look more aggressive (but not malicious)" are legitimate things a Director might say to an animator. Machine Learning can already make an image walk. The trick is making it walk in a way that the audience will connect with emotionally in that moment.
> You’re using their mailservers, and in their mind that’s what gives them the right and the moral authority to monitor the content of your communications to your own audience.

Yes, how strange that somebody would believe they should have a say in how you use their services.
Along those same lines: T.S. Eliot was a banker.
Yes, I think you showed great wisdom there. It must have been hard, since I imagine there were many top research universities trying to get you to enter their PhD programs. And after all, what have people with PhDs ever done for the world?
The Playstation app and Android TV apps randomly desync the UI from the content being played. It seems particularly problematic with Daily Mixes that change from time to time. Selecting a song (or hitting next) basically selects a completely random song to play.
Sure, but the people sharing these images do so in organized groups, often referred to as "rings". I agree it would be very hard to catch a solitary perpetrator abusing children and not sharing the images. However since they would be creating novel images with new hashes, Apple's system wouldn't do much to help catch them would it?
The slippery slope has already been slid down for every iCloud user in China.
There is no way that being a game developer does not sound interesting and complex. I say this as someone that doesn’t even play many games! But it’s something almost everyone has a point of reference for and has (hopefully?) enjoyed at some point in the past.
Every chance to breed is a chance to mutate. This isn't a binary factor its a continuum. 1% of the population is likely insufficient breeding ground and the virus population would collapse exponentially. 70% vaccinated large in contiguous regions may be sufficient to keep the pandemic going continuously if they successive variants emerge that are sufficiently effective at evading existing immunity.

1 person has no meaningful effect but collectively their actions are capable of doing great harm to the rest of us even if we all collectively act in our own best interests by getting vaccinated and participating in other public health measures.

If your freedom to act irrationally allows you to cause my untimely death I don't understand how my inability to go on living wouldn't represent a net decrease in freedom vs forcing you to vaccinate.

If you look at the break down of anti vaxxer sentiment only 9% are dead set against vaccination under any circumstances. These people's perception of their freedom isn't worth hurting everyone.
The situation with Amazon reviews has become unbelievable. I recently purchased a $20 item with around 30,000 reviews, overwhelmingly positive. $20 was a reasonable market price for this item from any retailer.

There was a card inside the box from the seller saying they’d send me a $15 gift card for posting a 5-star review and then forwarding them proof I had posted it to some gmail account. I followed the instructions, and like clockwork got $15 back on Amazon.

When reviews become so critical to item visibility it should be no surprise that they are gamed, but it’s still a shame that it’s come to this.
To be fair to Spotify, Apple Watch development is pure hell, and I wouldn't expect them to ever implement that feature.

On the other hand, the LG TV app for Spotify doesn't support gapless playback, which completely blows my mind.
Not the person you asked, but I've been doing the same for a few years.

The cost of a PO box seems to vary based on the location (and even the location within the Post Office if it's large). I pay ~$110 per year for the PO box.

My mail redirect is $165 a year.

Edit: didn't mention it, but I'm also in AU.
I agree on this interpretation.

The article referenced by GP cites the same paper mentioned in a different comment, see that thread for some additional discussion and citations that provide counter evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28108039.

In summary, there is currently no scientific consensus that vaccines provide 'better' immunity compared to natural infection. There is evidence that they induce similar but subtly different immune responses.
Which is behind a CAPTCHA.

Is there a non-paywall & non-CAPTCHA solution?
> I wonder if you misunderstood? [...] I meant the cake cutting for only the very first move.

No, I got that.

> I fail to see how this would be the case. I think it may even increase opening variety.

At a high level players will be relatively comfortable with playing at least one opening from any (sensible) opening move, so swapping would offer very little disadvantage in terms of not being prepared. So the decision on whether or not to swap is almost entirely based on how good that opening move is.

Now, white has a significant advantage on just about every opening move that's currently played with any regularity. Therefore black will almost always swap, and gain that same advantage. So it's in white's interest to not play those moves, and instead pick whichever moves are as close to 50/50 as possible, so that their opponent cannot get an advantage.

The crucial thing to note is that most possible moves white can make are either good (preserve a meaningful advantage for white) or bad (immediately gives advantage to black). There are not many first moves that result in a 50/50 game. Therefore the number of viable first moves is decreased.

They're certainly different first moves, and we'd see a lot of variety for a year or two, maybe even up to a decade as people play and learn entirely new lines. But in the long run the number of opening moves that don't immediately give up an advantage would be reduced.
Reminds me of pfSense vs OPNsense saga
I don’t think people know how to count carbon footprint the same way we know how to count calories. We’d need a database for every food, social activity, economic activity, etc.

Buying this device = 100 calories (you get the idea).

Then once we can measure that, we all have to go on a serious diet.

AR can’t come fast enough, as I’d really love just see this data by looking at something.
Does this kind of scientific fraud actually matter? I would think it gets published only in journals so lousy that they influence nobody who matters.
It doesn't just sound boring, it is boring.
Programming is especially well suited for remote work. Avoiding a commute in your car is likely the most impactful contribution you can make in relation to your software skills.
For the most part, you're right. Monoculture tree farms with straight rows of fast growing pine trees as far as the eye can see are now the norm, for better or worse.
I just came to this thread and searched for Evernote specifically to upvote or add this. Evernote evolved from a perfect extension of my private memory available rapidly and anywhere I needed it into a bloated collaboration suite. I would be surprised if any customer asked for it. I canceled the service but will gladly pay twice as much for an Evernote Classic that gets back to basics and does those well.
„The second objective is the development of sustainable vaccine production and supply solutions on the African continent. BioNTech is exploring possibilities to set up state-of-the-art mRNA manufacturing facilities, either with partners or on its own. The facilities are expected to manufacture various mRNA-based vaccines upon approval to ensure sustainable supply operations.“, from the announcement

They are planning to produce them there. From what I understand, mRNA vaccine production capabilities seem to be versatile. Swap out the mRNA payload and your facility can produce a whole different vaccine in no time. That would put the continent in a much better position if there is ever the need again to have a new vaccine rapidly produced.
> Usability is so much more important than using extra 300MB of memory being electron.

I don't know if it's more important, but certainly, Electron apps' poor usability is another reason to avoid them.

While there are exceptions, they tend to lack usable right-click menus, use odd font sizes (everything's too big), have UI elements that behave differently from the platform standard, and, of course, lag, all of which make usability suffer.
Reading carefully through the paper, an important part of their calculation for the "one in a trillion" claim seems to rest on the cryptographic threshold approach they are using. In particular, it seems likely to me that the number matches required for your account to be flagged is relatively high (perhaps a dozen). If that is the case, their hash collision likelihood could be "only" 1 in a million, but it would still be vanishingly unlikely for a typical iCloud user to get a dozen false positives. 1e-6 is _much_ more testable than 1e-12 for the perceptual hashing, and the cryptographic parts of the secret sharing are easy to analyze mathematically.

As a disclaimer, I haven't done the actual math here. This also implies that the risk of your account getting flagged falsely is tightly related to how many images you upload.
This is underrated. It should absolutely be a right to leave the walled garden and take your data with you.
I don't think you're responding the kind of activity I was defending. I'm not referring to product placement or submissions or comments that actively advocate their OF page. I'm referring to submitting rabbit pictures to /r/rabbits with the same profile as you OF identity.

I agree with you about the product placement stuff, and I despise the submarine shills. But that's the thing: that's rejecting the submission -- and banning the user -- on their content having failed to meet the forums standards, not simply the fact of their profile linking their OF, as the OP was referring to. That's a whole different league from "hey, here are some cool rabbits" and oh, if you look at their profile, you can find their OF page. (The OF friend in question was immediately banned for having a reddit account whose profile links OF even despite the mod accepting that it's otherwise a valid submission.)

I'm make the same challenge to you that the other respondent ignored: how should people ethically self-promote, if not that?
high cost itself is a likely outcome of corruption, but insufficient evidence to demonstrate corruption.

The high cost of health care in the US is due to a large number of factors, one of which is lack of transparent pricing, anti-competitive practises in insurance companies, and lack of public-purchasing power for health care. Very little is due to "corruption".
Why rising Covid infections won't lead to tougher restrictions in Denmark
SysAdmins fit this bill, but I know them as having a pretty terrible social position — no one cares about you until something goes wrong, and then they’re pissed at you. Fix it, and go back to your dungeon.
> Can you answer that without a slippery slope argument?

So far any defense of this whole fiasco can be boiled down to what you are trying to imply in part. When you say "The possibility of abusing this system is a slippery slope argument", as if identifying a (possible) slippery slope element in an argument would somehow automatically make it invalid?

The other way around if all that can be said in defense is that the dangers are part of slippery slope thinking, then you are effectively saying that the only defense is "trust them, let's wait and see, they might not do something bad with it" or "it sure doesn't affect me" (sounds pretty similar to "I've got nothing to hide"). This might work for other areas, not so much when it comes to backdooring your device/backups for arbitrary database checks.

And since "oh the children" or "but the terrorists" has become the vanilla excuse for many many things I'm unsure why we are supposed to believe in a truly noble intent down the road here. "No no this time it's REALLY about the kids, the people at work here mean it" just doesn't cut it anymore.
So no, I'm not convinced the people at Apple working on this actually do it because they care.

When "but the children" becomes a favourite excuse to push whatever, the problem are very much the people abusing this very excuse to this level, not the ones becoming wary of it.

> some of the tech community has begun to think we should do absolutely nothing about this problem

I don't believe that people think that, I believe that people rather think that the ones in power simply aren't actually mainly interested in this problem. The trust is (rightfully) heavily damaged.
Except you have no idea when if you look at the database manually.
There are net emissions from all the equipment and processing involved. But of course, if buying carbon offsets is a valid way to offset burning coal, it is also a valid way to offset all the truck, tractors, etc associated with liquor production. So you are correct.
The power of blocking content should give to state government, because they are supervised by the people. Big tech are not, and they probably use this power as a bargaining chip deal with politicians under table.
Maybe that says a lot about the real value of digital social networks as we know them now.

Perhaps we should just have dumb pipes, and let people network over them without a MITM running psychology and behavioral economics experiments on people who merely want to connect with friends and family
Are you aware that Lucene, the technology that powers ElasticSearch runs on top of SQL?
> Why wouldn't the federal government just mandate a vaccine?

Because it would never hold up in court? Even in countries outside the US their mandates are bordering on illegal. If the federal government mandated vaccines, who is going to enforce it anyhow? You can't. Local law enforcement is not under federal jurisdiction. Even if the Federal government had some sort of strong law enforcement arm, it wouldn't work. A lawsuit would immediately be filed, and at best it would go straight to SCOTUS and (rightfully) shot down or it would sit at trial for months/years.

The easiest and best way is through employer mandates because 99% of people are not going to lose their job over a shot and they have total legal authority. Monetary incentives are vastly more legal and moral.

To the contrary on your point, a federal mandate on all citizens is weak/awful leadership considering it would never work and would immediately be revoked by the courts. That decision would likely also be bipartisan. The same is probably going to happen with the eviction moratorium; Biden's extension is on incredibly shaky legal grounds and is probably going to be overturned.
> "All of society’s privacy is more important than your single child, sorry." "which might include audio of you making love to your wife."

You and your wife bumping uglies just isn't that special, your embarassment about it is way out of proportion to the amount necessary. The fact that you would rather people die in house fires than a small chance that a stranger hears you breathing heavily and talking dirty should cause you a lot more concern than it seems to be causing you.
Let me respond to the "novel images with new hashes" part.
Apple's system doesn't use only cryptographic hashes, it seems designed to catch novel images too.

There is concern that it will be inaccurate and have a much higher rate of false positive than the 1 in a trillion reported by Apple (as described in the, very thorough, article).
I agree with you, but what I meant by both doing different transformations is that:

If the client sends 2021-08-08T07:00:00+03 to the server, in either case the offset of +03 is going to be lost. As you know, timestamp will keep the clock time and timestampz will keep the "moment in time" (under the hood by converting to UTC.) I'd argue those are just two different rules for "dropping the offset".
I'm assuming any lisp will include a runtime. Not strictly the same as a vm. But really close.
My B, I see now that was in a section where you were quoting hackerfactor. I guess I should direct that question to him.
> Those are obscure.

Obscure, but also completely to do with how the pieces on the board can actually move, which I bet most people would have suspected that we worked out a few centuries ago.

The decision of who goes first doesn't really matter, it's a purely aesthetic choice. Similarly there's a lot of regulatory changes to this day around things better described as "playing conditions". But banning 0-0-0-0-0-0 is fundamentally the same category of change as saying "oh and also the queen can move like a knight now", which seems like an absolutely ridiculous thing to have still been refining in the 1970s.
Tech Reporters, You’re Being Played by Using “Oversubscribed” to Describe Succe
No, what they’re saying is that most people already presume guilt, even if it’s just an accusation. Further, most would be willing to engage in mob justice. I feel like you’re doing a lot of work to miss that point.
Why? It's ancient, and hasn't been subject to open scrutiny from academics and researchers like open-source systems.
I'll certainly be watching this debacle play out with a hot fresh bag of Banged Grains!
This is definitaly going to blow up in their face.

I know at least a dozen people who learned open source elastic search in a research environment and then moved jobs to doing it in a for profit company.If the paid vs open source products are not going to be the same then your losing training that companies want.

I also have ran into the scenario that others have described where we use the open source version for proof of concept b/4 moving to the paid version when needed.

At the least, this muddies the waters and creates extra research time for engineers just to understand the licensing and cost implications of the product.
On the average game of chess white scores 0.55 points and black 0.45. In the age of computers it should be pretty trivial to award black 1.2 points for a win (or some such appropriate number) and vastly improve balance.
> matrix multiply

probably one of the easy cases? I suppose the compiler must be able to somehow prove to itself that the code does not do anything else.

What if, for example, within the loop you "printf(column)" or something like that? In this case re-arranging the loop would produce a different result, wouldn't it? So the compiler probably will not optimize it in that case, would it?
OK, sure it's not open source then. Most people don't care.
Do you ever run into issues with the reCAPTCHA saying you’re not allowed to use the audio version? I’m not blind but for the handful of websites I will engage with a reCAPTCHA for I use the audio version. A third of the time I go do it I’m shown a “we’ve decided you’re a bot anyway, please try again later” message and am not allowed to complete an audio challenge. It’s infuriating! I can’t understand why it’s acceptable to just turn off accessibility on a whim. I can complete the image one if I absolutely must but that’s obviously not the case for a significant amount of people.
It’s probably best to ignore reviews and just shop based on critical reviews or recommendations from friends. And even then it is better to purchase directly from manufacturers rather than risk getting counterfeits. I’m not sure what value middlemen like Amazon add other than fast delivery, which most people can live without.
I agree in theory it could be correct. But there's a decent chance that if you submitted a batch of urls including invalid ones, your apple.com submission is bogus.
If you choose to save it, then you no longer a “victim”. But someone else can’t force a save to iCloud on your device.
> I’m in medical anus room

Can you elaborate?
I think it's too soon to say yet if the vaccines encourage mutation. But my understanding is quite a few of the significant variants come from places where there was significant vaccine testing:
- Brazil (Gamma)
- South Africa (Beta)
- India (Delta)
- Alpha (UK)
Reading this list, it almost seems like these were created by looking up each individual word in a thesaurus, which of course destroys much of the meaning.

E.g.,

Signal -> flag
To -> to
Noise -> clamor

…and…

Data -> information
Warehouse -> stockroom

This would be a lot easier than running through multiple translation steps (as proposed elsewhere here).
You're not disagreeing with them then. You are disagreeing with the point of the quote.
Electronics and firmware. I'd be better off financially if database stuff didn't make my eyes bleed.
Even if you only copied a typical one-sentence dictionary definition verbatim without attribution, that would still clearly be a clear-cut case of plagiarism...