skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among others, Japan and South Korea will get nuclear weapons. Taiwan had a nuclear weapons program in the past, and in the '95-'96 Taiwan Straits crisis, its president made a declaration hinting at restarting the program [1], only to backpedal a few days later, presumably due to international pressure (mainly from the US). Taiwan currently has nuclear power plants, so, if it wants to procure Plutonium for weapons, it can. For the time being, it appears Taiwan is not trying at this point to acquire nukes, mainly because it still thinks the US security umbrella is sufficient.

South Korea and especially Japan are much closer to being able to build nukes, if they so desire. I personally heard the former US defense secretary, Robert Gates, stating that he thinks Japan can get nukes in a matter of weeks.

So, if China takes over Taiwan, there won't be anything in the world to stop Japan from getting nukes, and South Korea may join the party too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Republic_of_Ch...
..unless one of the dozen competing AWS clients claims that namespace first?

I think (verified) domains are the way to go, with some small whitelist of 'identity providers', so you could use say com.github.ojford, verifying it by logging in with GitHub OAuth rather than DNS record.
Pssht
I hope this is just trolling, but in case it’s not, just ask yourself why your landlord or your HOA doesn’t have the „freedom“ to search your flat/house for that kind of stuff.
But I'm not comparing Switzerland to China!

I'm just pointing out that this kid had a really naive attitude of where our rights currently stand in the West. And I think the story is the proof - the kid got canned.
Or, again, you ask the company about it because if they have business units in said country then that's probably a bridge they've already crossed ten dozen times.
Also in Australia are the Brewarrina Fish Traps, possibly one of the oldest human constructions on earth:

https://youtu.be/8cfhFwGDIqk?t=2315

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewarrina_Aboriginal_Fish_Tra...
Anecdotally, a friend of mine ended up in the ER after his 2nd dose
I can't even begin to explain how sad that is for you.
Starlink seems perfect for this island.
Huh? Natural justice? No such thing.

Yes, you should explain why something is bad, or else we are just doing things based off of how we feel… does that sound better to you?

The correct answer should be that the most well reasoned argument should be supported. And we should not expect anyone to intuit the best answer - repeating it as much as needed.
The graphs at https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps should give you some idea of the typical behavior of excess mortality in many countries in Europe and adjacent regions (including Israel), by age group, by week. At least from a cursory look, there doesn't seem to be anything nefarious going on in Israel.
That’s exactly what I worked out a long time ago when looking at password managers and policy for my company.

We had 8char, special, number, rolling 90 days, etc. Awful. I had looked at 3 random words as advice and same conclusion, even at 10,000 most common words, it was beyond trivial for offline cracking.

10,000 most common words ^ 3 and 100,000,000 guesses / sec is a few hours to crack.

That’s the same complexity as 6x random keyboard characters. Not even sort of good. Our last pen test was rife with offline cracking.

I ended by teaching passphrases and recommending at least 4 words or whatever tricks they like and will remember. In four years since, not a single forgotten password request.
I agree that this certainly feels like it's a step back in terms of freedom for all users. Introducing these kind of measures and expecting them to be only used to punish morally wrong behavior is a form of exceptionalism. I don't think any institution can, in the long term, consistently have such moral insight and correctness.

Historically, I think those measures almost always ended up being abused at some point. Measuring whether they've been used to do more harm than good is where the question gets a lot more complicated.

However, I'd like to better understand why you believe that freedom is the main force of progress. Although I do feel like our society generally progresses towards more freedom, it isn't always the same kind of freedom that was present in the past.

For example, freedom surrounding gun rights, freedom from taxing or freedom from government interventionism in the economy (or what is perceived as such) have all, arguably, caused a lot of harm in the US. Do you feel these are all justified simply because they are "positive rights"?
Indeed; registration fees are about $100k, and infrastructure costs a similar amount.
Bitcoin mining is so ASIC dominated that all the supercomputers on earth combined doesn't stand a chance.
Right; I think its important to recognize that, obviously, Apple's products are not subject to rights against unlawful search and seizure. But: There is absolutely a reason why that is a right the government & law enforcement is forced to uphold.

In other words, especially in this age of trillion-dollar megacorps, when private companies enact policies and procedures which skirt the constitutional rights US Citizens have, its tantamount to these private companies looking at centuries of judicial, legislative, and even human rights research and development, and saying "we know better". Apple is an angry toddler; not a responsible adult.

Apple does not, generally, equivocate on changes like this. But the chorus against them, on this issue, is seriously big (I guess having Kelso from That '70s Show on your side helps, though). They need to step back on this and engage with the broader legal and ethical community. They are absolutely in the wrong here; that doesn't mean that the right course of action, for the iPhone, is to do nothing and E2EE everything. It just means that these actions are not the right ones. They locked themselves in a room, wrote up a slick algorithm, then said "sweet, this is a great solution which balances protecting our children from predators with the human right to privacy"; its Hubris. Its not that easy, and they can't do it alone.
Not saying you’re wrong but in Tokyo most of the streets I mentioned have no sidewalk but just by the nature of being tiny they don’t need one - cars will pass at very slow speeds anyway. Agreed that it only matters if you can achieve high density, but part of achieving high density is designing for it, including not optimizing car traffic.
A big difference is the ISS uses 24/7 solar where McMurdo can’t. Unfortunately powering a moon base is quite difficult do to the month long day night cycle, so it’s going to need nuclear or a lot of batteries.

That said, the ISS doesn’t do long distance missions dropping off equipment etc the way McMurdo and presumably any Moon Base would. So, the ISS isn’t that great of a model.
On one hand I agree with the sentiment that involving telcos is a terrible idea, on the other hand I really dislike iMessage and the way it shuts people out if they aren’t on an iPhone so I‘d be pretty happy if this would „kill“ iMessage (disclaimer: I’m an iPhone user)
People get warm feelings when they think they are being clever.

Also GP’s reducing does is make it harder for humans to remember and easier for machines to crack.
The trick with captcha is to not care if you get it wrong. I found that I could get past the captcha of it just click on the first tiles that pop into my head until Google is sufficiently convinced I'm not a robot. At most it takes me three attempts and even then, I'm not using too much cognitive load.
From the Wikipedia article posted in one of the comments:

Although archaeologists believe that Polynesians were living on Pitcairn as late as the 15th century, the islands were uninhabited when they were rediscovered by Europeans.

In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, eleven women, and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty.

So that's likely why you've heard of them, though I don't think I've ever read Mutiny on the Bounty nor seen it retold in film or similar.

I currently have an image of Midway on my laptop and I've been thinking about how remote islands end up with life. They typically emerge from the ocean as a barren outcropping of rock. Birds stop and rest there, leaving behind poo and sometimes seeds in the poo sprout.

Coconuts can float in salt water for long periods and are typically the first trees found on remote islands. Sometimes insects get carried there on the winds of powerful storms and then diversify into a separate species because they can't fly far enough to leave again on their own steam.

I wonder what we might learn from small islands that might help humans resolve their problems and survive climate change.
> Surely this is the norm, and screaming is the outlier?

Screaming was seen as a "negotiating tactic" for quite a lot of the 1970's and 1980's in American "business". I suspect there was more screaming when you worked for one company for life because you had to defend your company position more jealously. Now, you leave and get a raise.

I would also argue that it is more of a tactic outside of tech. Businesses that like to pride themselves on being "high-stress environments" probably have more of it.

In addition, different parts of the world have different ideas as to what conflict in the "superior/subordinate" relationship looks like. Some expect extreme deference; others expect you to squawk.
One of his best...still laughing all these years later

https://youtu.be/KplFYfs_t4Y?t=441
This reminds me of https://wanderersunion.club/
which I had meant to attend but never did.
A tl;dr of this is: cheating to win a game is a form of trolling, which is enjoyable to some in itself.
Yes, things have improved. The island is very much moving on from the events of the past. Pitcairn is quite possibly the most surveilled place in the world at the moment with the ratio of islanders to government officials whose remit is to report on anything they perceive as suspicious. It's frustrating to us that every time that Pitcairn is mentioned the "You may remember Pitcairn as the island where sex abuse trials happened" comes up. Part of this is due to the media interest in covering events in a remote island - you don't hear with every mention of other places in the world where bad things have happened because that doesn't have the allure of a remote mysterious island.

Yes, the police are often New Zealand police. The Doctor, Teacher and Police positions are advertised in NZ and UK.
How does it shift the Overton window if, for >99% of people, it is an entirely opaque distinction? For most people, the features provided by cloud accounts are seen as features of their physical device. Whether private data is interrogated locally or remotely is—for them—mere technical minutia.
I'm much more enthusiastic. (see other comment)

More over, picking new categories is a great application of "big data".

Real example:

Imagine catalog for fashion retailer. Time to add color picker & filter. No agreement on color names, how many shades of gray, etc.

So one of our big data gurus figures it out. Gather dozens of palettes. Social cognition style guessing game. Slice & dice our product catalog 100s of ways to get best fit.

Result was a thing of beauty. Truly novel. The analysis worthy of a PhD.
Rather than the speed of light, call it the fastest speed any thing can travel. Light travels at that speed.
On the video view, the "Background" button with the headphones icon plays the audio only. You can also hold the button to add the clip to your queue.
I read somewhere that a hacker called support, and when they asked the security questions, he said: "I remember just putting any gibberish in there."

And voila, support person opens the door for you.
If Apple built houses, it would secretly install CCTV cameras while the owners were away. There would ToS that allows these "home updates". If those cameras spot furniture of unknown brand, Apple would send a crew to remove it. If the cameras notice a visitor who matches a database of untrusted persons, Apple would report the owners to police. Edit: the houses would have really nice (and patented) rounded corners.
It might be good to temporarily add a link on the main site for the documentation at https://github.com/calculist/calculist/wiki
>"crystal lizard rekindle" became "crystal LIZARD r3k1ndl3" etc.

But you realize any serious offline cracking is going to get both of those right?

Common word in lowercase - no problem

Common word in uppercase - no problem

Common word with 1337 replacement - no problem.

All you had to do to make this significantly more secure… was add a fourth word and not do the things that humans think are clever and machines don’t really care about.

Although I concede that the stupid requirements that websites have make simple passphrases more difficult than needed.
Interesting, but surely the last thing you want is complex mechanical systems involved that will quickly wear out due to lunar regolith, or having to transport large mirrors to the moon?

Sure you get losses from wireless transmission, but you can always just add more solar panels, as they're cheap, lightweight and compact.

You only need a small amount of power to keep things going during the 14 days of darkness, so you can avoid transfer losses by doing the intensive stuff during the 14 days in the sun.
Do you understand that they make fentanyl patches for absorbing it through your skin? What probably happened is someone scraped the fentanyl off a bunch of those. In the video, the cop mentions a white powder. If stuck your finger in a bag of scraped fentanyl residue, I'm sure that it could cause a person to collapse.

It turns out that scraping the fentanyl off patches is actually something people do. The patches are designed to release the payload over time. The flow of fent is limited by a membrane, and you can get a potent fentanyl substance if you remove that.

I'm detecting an extreme bias against the police here. Every liberal expert with a PhD that they quote in this article seems to have 500 reasons why fentanyl is actually not even capable of hurting someone. The article also suggests that fentanyl is really just an excuse to persecute minorities. But the reality is that these communities have an underlying problem that the police themselves did not create.

Remember when they found out George Floyd had fentanyl in his system when he died? They got some politically motivated doctor to testify that there's no way fentanyl could have played a role in his death. I think that is where this "scientific fentanyl apologism" argument originates from.
I see your point, but the opposite is just as bad or worse. The idea that studding for years has no merit and that the opinion of a professional with 10 or 20 years in a field (20.000 hours - 40.000 hours) has the same value of the opinion of some dude on the internet that thinks he is really smart and googles shit for a couple hours, even if it's hundreds of hours, is just ridiculous.
If the carriers are pushing it, it's probably backdoored to hell and back. E2E doesn't mean anything if the carriers have access to the keys.
Indeed. Starlink (with laser links when they get them) plus solar plus batteries (and backup generator), and you're set. Anyone who does remote-only work with a US typical income and is able to live relatively simply would be able to move there.
Reminds me a little of [Numi](https://numi.app/). It doesn't exactly like plain text, but will happily eat it, but loves the math part. Seems this is the opposite of that, loves the text, but will happily digest math.
> Being 100% computer illiterate

I wonder how much of that was due to the impairment itself, and how much was due to people underestimating her or not being willing to work with her to get her online.

> I could not reasonably answer that question

I can appreciate that it would have been challenging to come up with an explanation on the spot, while trying to talk her through joining the meeting. Having spent several minutes thinking about this from the safe distance of an asynchronous discussion after the fact, the best I can come up with is this:

When you join a Zoom meeting, your tablet makes a call to Zoom over the Internet. But Zoom doesn't know for sure that the call is coming from an actual person trying to join the meeting. Have you ever gotten a phone call from a stranger, only to find out that the call is actually from a computer playing a recording, trying to sell you something? But if you assumed all calls from strangers were like that, you might also miss important calls from real people. It's kind of like that for Zoom as well. There are all sorts of nasty programs out there on the Internet, trying to make calls to Zoom. They might be trying to snoop on people's meetings, bombard people with advertisements, or just overload Zoom. Zoom needs to keep those programs out, so it can focus on serving people like you that are actually attending meetings. Now, when you get a call from a computer, you can tell pretty easily that it's a computer, because so far, computers aren't very good at having a conversation with a person. But Zoom is a computer program, and it's not smart enough to tell whether you're a real person without asking you to do something annoying like clicking all of the tiles with traffic lights.

> I came close to saying "dear Kristine, throw this tablet in the garbage, none of this is going to make you happier"

What actually happened? Did she make it into the meeting? Do you know if she continued to use the tablet for other things? I hope so. I know the Internet can be frustrating, but I think it would have been a mistake to conclude that it wouldn't make her any happier. After all, it has helped us stay connected through the pandemic, right? I hope she got to participate in that.
I knew nothing of Pitcairn but when I searched I ran into this in the Wikipedia article, its fallout is as recent as 2016. Surprised no one is talking about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands#Sexual_miscon...
officials whose remit is to report on anything they perceive as suspicious.

Oof. That would be crazy making.

If you are actively looking for such, you will find it -- even if you have to read in a lot that isn't really there. Add in cross cultural misunderstanding and this has to be a pretty negative experience for locals.
Yes you own the device but it comes with Apple's software and services which you don't own. As long as you are updating the software on the device you will have to live with how it interacts with Apple's online services.

You can install your own software on Apple's hardware if that is possible and then use the hardware as you feel fit. Or you can take Apple to court and get a judgement to stop them from scanning your data.
RemindMe! 20 years:

I'll bet you 100 MoonBaseCoins that China beats Musk to a manned moon landing.
Other people have to agree on what you put in there. There are rules. It's not an append-only buffer of arbitrary bytes that everyone is forced to replicate for no reason.
Fish weirs! They found some over 100 years ago in Boston when they were building the subway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boylston_Street_Fishweir
This doesn’t seem to factor in the rates of covid over time. In Israel there was a huge run up of cases just before vaccination began [1], which then really plateaued. This is a much more plausible explanation for the shape of the excess mortality curve in the younger age group.

This is the second somewhat ‘contrarian’ analysis I have seen which wilfully ignores the rates of covid19. The other one was showing that Sweden’s strategy did not result in excess deaths, but conveniently stopped the analysis just before the spike in cases (and deaths) showed up.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/
Its a nuanced conversation, but there two fundamental points that Apple totally missed.:

1) Don't build a system for reporting what images people make, store, or send privately. That is just begging for someone to force you to abuse it for things that aren't CSAM. You shouldn't expect Apple to be able to resist pressure to abuse such a system. 1)they already caved to China by basically handing iCloud + iMessage key infra to a local company. 2) The entire reason you have encrypted systems(and make no mistake, this entire scheme only makes sense to scan encrypted content) is precisely for the day when the social and repetitional guarantees of "trust us" fail.

2) We need alternative ways to stop grooming and effectively get the major players who produce CSAM. And that's not going to come from scanning for CSAM NCMEC already knows about. Yes, resharing images harms the victim, but if you have a finite amount of resources, you go after the original image production and the people literally raping kids. And indeed, thats apparently what the FBI does and why they mostly ignore reports flagged by these systems.
Rust forces you to think about memory access carefully, but mostly it handles the allocation/deallocation for you. Is that what you meant?
Same in Japan and legally enforced.
How long until this surveillance attitude leads them to add permanent monitoring into all Apple products, like Notes, iMovie, Messages, etc? That’s one thing this move points to.
There are Tahitian legends about Pitcairn Island, referred to as Hitiaurevareva, showing that there was travel to and from the island in the past. There are Mangarevan legends also. In the Tahitian legend of Rata, which would be familiar to NZ Māori and other Polynesian people, he goes from Tahiti to Pitcairn to rescue his mother. Tupaia who guided Captain Cook around the pacific, and who acted as translator, drew a map of the Islands he knew and visited and this included Pitcairn. Tupaia was a contempory of the Tahitian women who went on the Bounty to Pitcairn so he had been there in recent history before the Bounty arrived. One of the Tahitian men on the Bounty knew of the island and helped guide Fletcher there. I often wonder why no Polynesians went back after the Bounty settled.
This.

Journals are gatekeepers to funding, prestige, academic disciplines, careers, advancement, etc., etc.
> Because it's a pretense for further surveillance.

Alternatively, it could be a way of deflating future demands for increased surveillance. CSAM is one of the few emotional strings Governments have to insist upon surveillance. If we can mark CSAM as "solved" using basic fingerprinting then it's harder to push for real surveillance.

We're currently seeing the widespread adoption of end-to-end encryption. If we don't have an answer to CSAM, then it will be used as a bludgeon to demand real back doors which can be exploited without manufacturer knowledge.
Absolutely! The cost might be prohibitive for the Pitcairners salary though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens#Social_comment...

I think English 19th century social critics would disagree regarding the material comfort of the subject classes. As I mentioned, my impression is that British subject classes have internalized the narrative of the inherent superiority of the ruling classes. How this was achieved fascinates me and remains an intriguing question. It is a unique phenomena afaik.

A degree of psychological "comfort" appears to be necessary for a minority to maintain stable generational power over the majority. In China's case, this psychological component is pride in national resurgence after the 'century of shame', for which achievement the Communist Party of China can reasonably, and most certainly does, claim credit.
I'm also a victim, and I say you're an extremely gullible, naive, low IQ, weak minded imbecile for supporting this.