skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happen to mostly agree with you, but to play devil's advocate, consider the practical reality that government (as currently expressed) is expensive. New Hampshire is a great example of your model working well: nearly half of its tax revenue is consumption-derived (compared to ~10% of New York's). Except New York collects more than double the tax per head versus NH.

Let's assume that we can't easily shrink the size of government. Middle class incomes are just too lucrative of a piggy bank, which is why tax policy is so reliant on it. How do you make up for the $3.3 trillion in income and payroll tax revenues without taking people's property? The US only imported $2.5 trillion in 2019, so you'd need an import tariff rate of 130%! If you used a federal sales tax instead, you'd likely need a rate of > 24% to replace the income tax (extrapolating from New Jersey as a reasonable lower bound).
First of all I’m vaxed. Second of all it is in fact the same people. I live in an EU country and it’s the EU political establishment and their allies that are doing this.

The fact you had to call out my grammar shows how weak your argument is. You are a literal grammar nazi. With language like “parasite” you really are showing your facist side aren’t you.
Hello! I wrote this tmux plugin and wanted to tell all other tmux users about it, and if you aren't a tmux user maybe this will convince you :) often I run a command only to realize it will take some time before it completes. It could fail, and I might need to rerun it or adjust it. I don't want to be glued to my terminal for the next 10 minutes - so I wrote this little tmux plugin that lets me do `prefix+T`, and that's basically all. Tmux shows a QR code you scan with your phone - and then your terminal is on your mobile. No need to SSH etc - it really takes a moment. You can also use it to share your session with someone. Behind the scenes Muxile is using WebSocket to communicate with your phone, and all data is deleted the moment your computer disconnects from the session. I've also included the backend code in case you want to run your own. Enjoy!
Really? Apple and Google have been able to scan content on your phone as long as they have sold phones. They control the OS, therefore they have access to the content. The ability has always been there. The only difference is that Apple has now openly announced what they are going to do and how. If governments wanted to pressure Apple (or Google) to scan content they could have done that anytime in the last few years. If Apple and Google resisted that before, why is now different?
So child molestors will disable iCloud upload and innocent people will have their privacy violated?
It is easy to feel powerless because "everyone else" is making it so much worse than me, why bother, but I prefer the adage "Don't curse the darkness, light a candle".

There are obvious reasons why massive economies won't just replace factories etc. with cleaner tech so instead, those of us who really care should be developing the tech that drives this. Invent an amazing wind turbine or clean battery and let the Chinese and whoever else buy it up to clean up their country!

This isn't just for pollution though. If you think that you can do policing/government/privacy/transport/whatever better then do it and let all the other countries copy you :-)
A bit of a tangent, but I liked the Rdio model where you could configure how "close" did you want music suggestions to be. Sometimes when I play a band I want to only listen to their music and some very similar music, othertimes I want to discover something different.

Another great functionality is what Last.fm had way back in the 2003-2004 where you could input 2 or 3 different artists and it will generate a "radio" playlist of music similar to them. The closest thing I've found so far is https://www.gnoosic.com/, alas, they don't generate a playlist.
By that logic, Google is every bit as vulnerable to being ordered to scan all files on Android devices.
Huh? You can choose not to use any cloud service if you want. If you buy an iPhone, you can't... Choose not to use the iPhone you just bought.

This isn't a step towards privacy and it sounds (to me at least) like quite the logical contortion to argue that it is.
There are different ways to reach different sections of the electorate, and we should use all of them. I'm in total agreement with you that those are the talking points to use with people on the conservative side of the political spectrum.

> Doing this instead of continuing to make a partisan issue

Unfortunately, making it (doesn't matter what "it" is) a partisan issue has been shown to work, over and over and over. It's depressingly predictable at this point. People go into all sorts of mental contortions and doublethink to explain why the stance "their" side has taken is the "right" one.

People and industries who have more to lose from a greener economy have no hesitation in employing these tactics to stall or block change, and influence people.
Yeah, I was wondering about the Arch updates too. I had a machine that wasn't updated for a long time and had to go through the process of updating small bits at a time with archived packages: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive
not at all involved here, but i'd think managment of the full system from source (as might be needed for low level support e.g. kernel/libc patches) would be easier on arch than debian.

Too bad for most linuces we still cant build the base system in a single step like we have been able to do since the dawn of time in traditional unices.
Another comparison: the ballsiest Airsoft limit I know is set by Poland to 17 Joules, with something like Frances 2J at the other end of the spectrum.
Hasn’t the ship sailed already. What is TikTok but everyone’s little kid dancing around. We are here for a reason I think, we let rampant exhibitionism go so far via social media that teenagers and preteens are mimicking the compulsive sharing of the adults who first seeded these platforms.

Now they literally need to check everyone’s phone for illegal content.

Man, have I become my parents or what.
This is really cool. I wonder if you could use it to generate images instead of this SSH message:

> The authenticity of host 'mint.phcomp.co.uk (78.32.209.33)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 6a:de:e0:af:56:f8:0c:04:11:5b:ef:4d:49:ad:09:23.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? no

That way you could check the fingerprint for the server visually. Of course you'd first have to have a way to deterministically generate a description of an image from a sequence of random bytes.
>But this doesn’t seem to be a slippery slope, either. Any photos you’re worried about can trivially circumvent the hashing system: adjust their brightness. Boom, done.

I've been briefed about it. Apple says explicitly that this is not the case. They mention that cropping, transforming, or even desaturating an image won't result in a hash that's so different from the matching one. The similarity will be high enough to detect the photo anyway. They don't seem eager to explain in detail how that actually works, though.
Given that it’s already scanned server side, you could literally do this to someone now. Both cases (client or server side checking) simply require getting a user to download it to a location that auto syncs to iCloud.

If this was as big an issue as people think, we’d have seen more of it.
EU covid pass and medical discrimination now in Europe but also world wide.
So you're really trusting Cloudflare and not Mozilla but no one using the MUA is really told that.

Why bother encrypting anything at this point of the connections are going to be terminated somewhere in the network anyway?
I understand that the author was just using WW1 western front strategy & tactics for illustrative purposes, but I feel that far too many people think that the leadership of the armies involved were simply idiots, stuck in the mud, etc. The reality is quite different.

Most military strategists understood before the war broke out how important recent tech developments (e.g. machine guns, improved artillery, etc) were in the defense. Prior to the outbreak of hostilities, most military thinkers felt that it was best to bypass defensive fortifications. They understood that charging trenches and machine guns would lead to horrendous casualties. They wanted to fight a war of maneuver to counter strong static defenses. This was essentially a no-brainer.

What they did not foresee was 1) how rapidly ad-hoc fortifications (i.e. trench lines) could be extended; and 2) the massive amount of ammunition expenditure by artillery. That part is critical... because it means that advances had to slow down to account for the logistics train. Which meant that fortifications couldn't be as easily bypassed... which meant trenches could be extended further...

And thus, quite rapidly, the entire western front was covered in trenches/fortifications. At that point, it all becomes political. The governments want a win. At any cost. And orders are orders. When you can't go around, there's not much you can do but charge forward (after an huge artillery barrage, of course... which leads to more logistical headaches)

In short, the military leadership in ww1 wasn't any more "stupid" than usual. They were simply stuck between a rock and hard place.
A dedicated tool created to cut through cardboard boxes, roughly $20-30. When you have gigantic boxes to break down, using a straightedge or knife isn't going to "cut" it. Saves a LOT of time for me as it's significantly faster to use.

Using cooking vinegar in place of liquid softener in the clothes washer to remove moldy / gym sock smell from the drum and clothes. Only need to apply once every few washes and is less than $1 worth of vinegar to do the trick. I just fill the softener compartment with it. I've spent a lot of money on products that claim to remove the smell, but vinegar has consistently done the trick.

If your car's AC also smells moldy / gym socky, you can buy a foam spray that's designed to remove it that you put into your AC vents for around $35 that will clear it up immediately. I've watched youtube videos suggesting lysol but it did not work out for me on two cars. This did.
Before floss people used sticks. Some people still use sticks for dental health while hiking.
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that in the States, sending naked pictures of teens is illegal, even if it's a picture of yourself. If you send naked selfies to someone, you could be charged with distribution of child pornography if you are a teenager.

I'm also fairly sure I heard that even possessing naked selfies is considered illegal, at least in some states, e.g. this article about a teenager facing 10 years in prison for having pictures of himself naked at 16 years old on his phone:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/teenager-p...
How is this worse? Any Apple device you thought you owned and controlled was never under your control. You were wrong.

Perhaps your understanding of the situation has changed so that you better understand how bad it is. But the situation isn't worse.
if i put in $50k, gained 10%, then payed rent with $2k. Is that $2k taxed as the profit? as someone not very knowledgable in the investment world, this seems pretty complicated, and also weird that i'd be taxed for every "faux checking" use if my portfolio is in the green
Frankly, this is a good move for both the users who don't care and the users who do.

If you just want to own a Steam Deck for the Steam interface, you can do that. The fact that it's just an x86 Ryzen chip at the end of the day guarantees you at least 10 more years of kernel upgrades, and the current state of Proton makes me confident that it can "just work".

For the people who do care about digging in, we can ascertain that they own $400+ enthusiast hardware, they want to tinker to their hearts content. Arch is just "better" at providing custom Proton builds, hunting down esoteric 32-bit libraries, and maintaining "gaming" software like Feral Gamemode, Lutris, Retroarch and Mangohud. No, it won't be stable, but gaming on Windows is not getting any better, nor will it get any better with Windows 11 cutting support for 80% of the world's active computers.
The US has decreased emissions while undergoing massive growth in the last decade.
It's a Good Thing I Don't Care What You Think
I'm trying to think of another situation where a company has a default starting position that their customers are breaking the law during normal use of their product.

If car manufacturers installed a breathalyzer ignition interlock device on every car (new or currently owned) that would save some lives, but I'm pretty sure very few people would tolerate it.
This has been posted several times already: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bluxte.net
Why does everyone keep talking about carbon? If I remember correctly, there's plenty of science to validate that water movements have more bearing on accurately gauging climate change (rainfall, sea levels, water temp, cloud formation, etc).
Perhaps some vintage manual wound watch? For example Seiko 6300-8009. There are models from other brands, too. Just look for a steel case.
A good point to keep in mind, there is no "scanning".
There is a hashing, then a check of the hashes - not the pictures - and if a hash matches the on-device NCMEC hashes list a "security voucher" is generated. Said voucher will be uploaded to iCloud photos along with the picture it refers to, without anyone in the chain being able to know that it happened.
From [1]: This [Debian Sid] distribution will never get released; instead, packages from it will propagate into testing and then into a real release.

sid is not a release, it is a staging area for packages to roll into a release.

[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/sid/
This is the thin end of a wedge even if it isn't intended to be. Rights need to be strictly defined for a reason.

I personally believe that we had an attempted fascist coup in the USA in January of this year. I know a lot of people disagree. If you disagree imagine that the defeated POTUS had been someone to the left of Bernie Sanders and a bunch of militia members wearing "Lenin was Right" shirts and carrying nooses and zip ties had stormed the capitol to stop the vote from being counted. What would you call that? (I'd call it the same thing.)

The next attempted coup will not be so incompetent. That totalitarian regime will inherit everything we are building today.

If you're on the other side of the aisle, imagine that the next attempted coup is indeed a radical leftist. That's by no means impossible. If the economic divide continues to worsen in this country it may not matter if they are "right" or "left" as long as they are passing out torches and pitchforks. I could see a large fraction of the MAGA crowd turning red in the more classic commie sense if they were promised jobs, affordable housing, and... well... someone to make America great again.
Given that the weights for the NeuralHash algorithm are being shipped to every iOS device and neural network adversarial attacks are pretty well studied in literature, it should be trivial to make a website or Android camera app that tweaks a few pixels of an image to make it have a hash collision with apple's CSAM database. If anyone seriously wants to kill this initiative, widely distributing a few memes with hash collisions could go a long way.
I think he’s talking about anti vaxers. Which I’m not. Have the J&J one and doing quite well. Just believe it’s a choice. They also quite often use it to invoke being from a working class background. Which I am actually.
Quite literally: https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57
> It seems much easier for the attackers to supply themselves (even in a foreign land)

That's a modern-transportation perspective. Unless the siege happens to be on a waterway and you supply that way.

Land-based logistics for pre-modern armies was _hard_. The standard solution was to keep the army on the move and forage as you went, so you kept stealing food from new peasants, but that's not an option for an army laying a siege. On the other hand, if the castle/town knew a siege was coming they would move things like livestock from the surrounding countryside inside the walls, and the grain stores were likely _already_ inside the walls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Nuremberg explicitly mentions supply as a problem for the besieging army in that case, and that's an early-modern army, not premodern. http://hundredyearswar.com/Books/History/Sieges.htm also says "the siege was often lifted because the besieging commander ran out of food to feed or money to pay his troops".

In practice, what this meant is that you would not even start a siege unless you had some idea that you could ensure supply, which was the common situation.
Perhaps another way to think about it - tailwind. Aircraft can derive energy from the wind even when they're going faster than the wind-speed.

The propeller arrangement is a glider that is being pushed by the wind. The glider is tethered to a cart whose wheels in-turn drives the propeller to become a "powered" glider. Without a tether, the relative speed of the glider with respect to the wind would be zero. With the tether powering the propeller, the relative speed of the glider is greater than zero, which makes the cart go faster than the wind.

Thinking about the "glider" and the tether as two separate systems makes more intuitive sense, imo.
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This should be required reading for all first time managers. Great post!
It's an unfortunate choice because my understanding is that it's possible to match encrypted files on the cloud with CSAM, assuming that Apple has the public key, and this has done before in a court case as evidence leading to a conviction. Maybe it's computationally prohibitive?
This is a great, we need more of such financial instruments than traditional checking account. But I'm wondering,

[1] How do you handle capital gains tax, when the user withdraws the amount from their account?

[2] How is this different from marcus/ally and thousand others, that provide money market fund accounts and money there is insured by FDIC.
im opposed because as a parent of young kids i feel the risks to them from covid are much lower than the risks to their mental health growing up in this dystopian mask world. children need to see other human faces as part of their normal development, mandatory masks in schools seems cruel to me. it makes me really sad when i see parents making their kids wear masks at the beach and other pointless displays, or even worse the parent with no mask but forcing their kids to wear them. how are these kids going to turn out in 20 years?
> we could imagine a future version of C++ where this [constexpr annotation] isn’t required: if we’re calling a function at compile-time, the compiler tries to execute it at compile-time. If it works, good, otherwise, it issues a diagnostic.

This is how D's CTFE (Compile Time Function Execution) works. You can execute at compile time any function, and it will work as long as the source code is available to the compiler, and it doesn't access globals or do pointer monkey business.

You can indeed build a program that runs completely at compiler time. Here's a compile time ray tracer in D circa 2006:

http://h3.gd/posts/ctrace/
sounds fascinating, and fraught with peril. I'd be worried that either I'd make myself a target for these hackers/scammers, or law enforcement. Granted most of the hackers/scammers probably aren't very skilled, but if you crossed one that really knew what they were doing... yikes!
I'd also be worried the FBI would eventually come knocking. I'm not so sure the FBI would distinguish between someone "liberating" a botnet and turning it against the original hacker, and the hackers/scammers themselves.
I don't know about your parents but mine signed me up for Facebook when I was a preteen (thankfully I never used it and stuck to forums/IRC/wikis that all used psuedonyms.)
One is a proprietary third-party, optional service acting against you, the other is your own device acting against you. That's the difference and it should be pretty easy to understand.
Yep, there's always tension between team & industry. Much like you, I would also be highly unlikely to consider jobs in certain industries even if the team I joined was full of rockstars.
They can already do this now for every iCloud photo and the protocol described is elaborately protecting a small number of hashes. It seems unlikely that the PR brushfire from this is better than simply pointing that classifier on all of the photos already on Apple’s servers.
If beef doesn't sell the landowner will grow something else that does sell. They own the land, they don't want it to sit idle.
The only number that matters to the environment is the total.

Every single western city could drop to 0 emissions, but those 23 Chinese cities along with Moscow and Tokyo already account for the majority of urban greenhouse gas emissions.
Pederson's blog is excellent:

https://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/
> the US ones are mostly just simple recordings of the bands performing live

"The band has to do a concert, let's record the live album and the music video at the same time. Three birds with the same stone!" -- Producer, probably
> they don't play for our team

I'm no apple apologist but apple must follow the laws of the countries they operate in. They can't advocate for us because we are not the ones setting the rules.
> The English writer H. G. Wells developed his own codified rules for playing with toy soldiers, which he published in a book titled Little Wars (1913). This is widely remembered as the first rulebook for miniature wargaming. Little Wars had very simple rules to make it fun and accessible to anyone.

> The world's first recreational wargaming club was the University Kriegspiel [sic] Club, founded in 1873 at Oxford University in England.
This is because the west has outsourced our manufacturing and therefore our emissions to China. We're all responsible for it, so don't just blame "the other". The world needs to reduce its emissions. A big part of this is putting pressure on China to act, and if they don't we need to think about moving manufacturing out of China to countries more willing to make green concessions.
Emoji Version Variations Help Identify Fabricated Evidence
McDonald's employees probably agree to a large number of clauses in their employment contract with the restaurant and so are likely covered by some sort of NDA. Just like a random employee at a SaaS company doesn't have an NDA with Amazon personally, but AWS are covered under their NDA with the company, and the employees' contract with the company.
I feel like if you have to hide your face behind the mask - there's no need to be present in the office at all. Video call would actually be better.
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they already scan all the images on your phone. that's how i can search for "dog" or "flowers" and find results in my photo library.
The encrypted content should be served (and burned server-side) only to a POST request. No sane service can expect a POST request to be idempotent and therefore shouldn’t fire it (twice).
How can we trust that study given that it was produced in China and in affiliation with a Chinese provincial government? /s
You're describing exactly the Arch Philosophy though, not constantly broken mind you, but as vanilla (close to upstream) as possible. It's not supposed to be an "out of the box" distro at all, as in everything works out of the box.

When you sign up to Arch, yeah I think you sign up for a lot of tweaking that would be done for you already. Luckily there is the excellent Arch Wiki to hold your hand through much of it.
It looks more like 34,000x to me.
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/liechtenstein?country...