skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that makes me take the study with a grain of salt. Probability problems are prone to different answers based on subtleties of phrasing and assumptions, like the famous Monty Hall problem.

This question was, of course, pretty straightforward. But I suspect that with some further questioning, you'd find that they thought they were asking a different question than the one they were actually asked -- in very specific mathematical terms. Not being familiar with the way mathematicians pose questions is not the same as failing to grasp how probability affects your life.

People are famously bad at judging risks, which are more important than the abstractions of flipping coins. And also much harder than flipping coins, since they depend so much on your assumptions and on the question you think your answering, as well as the difference between appetite for risk and your actual feelings about getting caught short.

All of which is to say... a lot of people read this and said, "Aha, X is bad at math and therefore not to be trusted". Whereas I read those and say, "Aha, you are bad at understanding how questions work and how people think."
If homo sapiens weren't around, then Neanderthals perhaps would have been first to civilization. They would have spread south and started trading and socializing more, as trade was one of the biggest boost to sapiens because one didn't have to find all the "good stuff" on the same land anymore. Those with extra top-notch stones but short food could trade. "Comparative advantage" long before Adam Smith's time. The instinct to war with competitors would be diminished as those good at trade could prosper without risking war dead.
> We found that an increase in tax progressivity actually increases income inequality.

It seems odd that they are making a general and unbounded statement, when it is provably nonsensical.

Consider what would happen if the government tomorrow reduced taxes on the middle class and increased taxes on the wealthy to compensate. The middle class would see a rise in their disposable income. According to this paper, because taxes are now slightly more progressive, income inequality would rise. Which means that the wealthy must see an even larger rise in their disposable income. Meanwhile, government revenues remain neutral. Literally everyone wins.

We have now found a perpetual motion engine for creating wealth. We can now repeat the above process over and over again, until middle class taxes hit 0%. And literally everyone would keep getting richer in the process, without any impact on government revenues.

Clearly the above is nonsensical. There must be significant constraints on the statement that "an increase in tax progressivity actually increases income inequality"
McDonald's: jobs returning faster in states that end extra unemployment benefits
>This and you can (and should) build roller coasters.

Last time I really played minecraft years ago, me an my old roommate would compete to see who could make the most epic ridiculous minecart rollercoaster track.

It was pretty fun, we'd turn entire mountains into a giant roller coaster or build floating islands or have it go down to the center of a lava cave or something.
This is shaping up to be a monumental mistake for Apple, which by now should result in scrapping all client-side scanning.

If not, it will be an interesting test of how many users Apple will lose over this.

Those Apple devices i might upgrade will now be put on hold, it is simply unacceptable what Apple is doing.
Apple, I really don't care about your "design", I don't want you to scan my pictures or my kids pictures to compare or report them to anybody. It's like a rapist telling his victim it will feel good, fuck off.

This ahole move presuming all parents are incapable of what their kids are exposed to and wants to be their big brother is ridiculous. This would have be a welcome feature had it been part of screen time and parents had option to turn it on.
... an innocuous hash-collision one FTW
Late reply. Sorry.

Have you considered integrating meta data?

I'm always switching back to imdb.com while watching shows. Keeping that inquisitive traffic on your own site might help with engagement, building communities, etc.

PS- imdb.com sucks. You can do better.
Reading the article and the comments... No, these are not more efficient than silicon cells. They took an inefficient, simpler to produce PV material and found a way to dramatically increase its efficiency on certain wavelengths of light. It's still worse than silicon panels overall.
As long as false positives are a thing, there are very practical reasons for switching, especially for those who have kids.

I wouldn't be surprised if a completely innocent false positive gets you put on a list indefinitely, with little recourse.
Apple's just really weird when it comes to the control they exert over devices.

they do it with 'privacy' in mind and what they come up with is usually better than the worst case but it can still be pretty iffy

eg. a few months back when their notarization/entitlement verification system was being discussed

it's all just their vision of computing (which has some merits), hyper-controlled, locked down and "safe" it's not going to change if you're not comfortable with it you really shouldn't be using their products
Thank you, is there any way we could find out what is probable life span, is it more durable (hailing/dust/corrosion) or less than silicon crystal?
From time to time it would be nice if we had AMA on HN like on Reddit for the research team.

Also mA does not says much if we do not have voltage, and I am not sure what full sun means as in Africa full sun can mean 4.5 and 6.5kWh per m2 while in Europe we can get between 1 and 2.5kWh per m2 or radiation.
I've heard it argued that this allows Apple to move iCloud toward end-to-end encryption (which would be a good thing for privacy, right?). It seems like the current US government position is "we'll let tech giants use end-to-end encryption for user data as long as they put measures in place to catch CSAM."

by "US government position" I'm including negotiations and proposed/threatened legislation, not just the current laws on the books.
Digital Swatting
From Apple's announcements, there is a human comparison of the visual hashes. They don't appear to be forcing humans to view the images themselves.
It’s truly disappointing that Apple got so hung up on its particular vision of privacy that it ended up betraying the fulcrum of user control: being able to trust that your device is truly yours.

This is it. Of course I'd like child pornographers to be caught.

But right now my expensive phone will be using up valuable charge looking for photos that aren't there.

And in future I can't be sure it won't be searching for evidence of support for the political opposition. (This is not only China or Gulf states: democracy seems on pretty shaky ground in the US, UK and elsewhere right now).
It is the same when the authorities do it. They want to violate your privacy but they do not want you to violate theirs.
He didn't say that all measures to protect children should be rejected out of hand. He is just saying that if someones argument starts and ends with fear baiting around children then they probably have ulterior motives.
By reducing the “freedom” of corporations. (Of course, this requires your country to not have surrendered to regulatory capture.)
I think you have to be aware of what is happening, before you can say that nothing criminal happens. This is where scanning steps in. You can’t turn blind eye.
If you assume that the rich always figure out ways to avoid progressive taxes, why would you not also assume they would figure out ways to avoid paying a flat tax as well?

The thing that makes taxes complicated isn't the progressive tax table of 'pay X% on the first Y dollars you make, then pay Z% on the next W dollars, etc.', its the determination of what is and isn't taxable. That is where the rich game the tax system, and that's something that changing the rate schedule from progressive to flat will not fix.

If you want to close loopholes, eliminate deductions primarily used by the rich, put limitations on tax-exempt trusts, properly fund the IRS so they can actually audit rich people's tax returns again, etc., to actually capture more taxes from the rich... great! We should do that! But that all of that is completely orthogonal to changing the question of flat vs. progressive taxation.

Simply changing to a flat tax will lower the tax burden on the rich and increase the tax burden on the poor and middle class. All other things being equal, a change to a flat tax will hurt the average person, not help them.
Congratulations and good luck. Your hard work and perseverance have paid off.
note: title incorrect, this link does NOT point to PDF, just to Github's preview page.

You can still get the pdf if you click download button, but this is optional.
Just curious, what would the advantage of having an "Open 4G USB Dongle" be ? Why not just get a Ublox or similar module ?
Even if it's open you still have to pay usage on the carrier's network.
The problem is that not even Apple can guarantee it's not gonna be used for anything nefarious, since they won't have (and probably don't want!) access to the source of the PhotoDNA hashes to inspect them.

Not only we have to blindly trust Apple, we also have to trust a (government?) institution that most of us had never heard about before.
Where would that money go though?

Do you honestly believe that given enough money politicians can come up with a viable solution for climate change? Mind you those are the same people who want to end privacy on the Internet[1].

Same people who came up with European Union’s biofuel mandate which caused deforestation of Indonesia for palm-oil plantations. Across the pond, it's the same people that subsidized ethanol fuel which, more or less, benefited only corn farmers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115343
Same is applicable for Android for the past 10 years if you have enabled backup to Google Photo (everyone has). Or to Microsoft OneDrive or even Dropbox.

People tend to focus only on Apple and ignore everything else.
>reversing a product for repair purposes verses reversing it for duplication

What about reverse engineering for curiosity or even posterity repair?

Also how is intent of reverse engineering determined?
It's the same excuse the EU are currently using to infringe upon its citizens' privacy and require messaging application providers to install backdoors. It's an appeal to emotion, and since we have to assume that these legislators are intelligent, it's a disgusting overreach.
Here too, it seems to be available for western Netherlands, parts of northwest Flanders, all of France, California, Colorado, Albania (fewer trace density it seems though). Maybe they're still importing/processing? Calculating routes for all over the world is a lot of data processing.

There is also a layer named OSM202106 (the default is OSM202103) with even less coverage (e.g. not France), but covering all of the Netherlands rather than just a part of it and covering the USA east coast.
I have been noticing increased background activity on my phone after it reached 100% during charging, for years now.

Pretty sure they can infer your normal sleep schedule and, after your phone has fully charged (1h to 3h after you fall asleep) they can freely use it as a P2P computing device.

Nothing new really. And they can still keep their promise of a good battery life -- which is quite justified by the way, I am using iPhones for 4 years now and they've consistently won over any of the 13 Android devices that I've used in the years before (and sometimes during).

There are ways to achieve both -- good observable battery life plus ability to use your phone for P2P computation -- and it's IMO obvious that Apple has succeeded in that for several years now.
True. More generally, "think of the children" is representative of a class of moral imperative arguments. Such arguments are easily abused by policy makers as they are an emotional short-circuit of logical reasoning. Being skeptical of people who make such arguments is healthy.
That doesn't mean that "think of the children" shouldn't raise warning flags.

The fact that good child protection laws exist doesn't invalidate the fact that "child protection" is frequently and increasingly used to push through bad laws.
Thanks for the correction! I should have Googled that one
The library looks great!

Prodi.gy is great but focuses heavily on NLP and speeding up the labeling process. Our goal is really to help you reduce what you label before you use any labeling tool.

We are working with labeling tools as well as providers to streamline the workflow.
Considering I bought a wireless charger for $10 on Amazon to charge my 3 year old phone, I think it’s on the real of possibilities.
Defining Constraints with PostgreSQL and TypeORM
The Power of Machine Learning and Sonar to Detect Ships
This is basically the approach that I take. I expect git log --first-parent (and git bisect --first-parent) on the main branch to pass full CI builds, but I'm increasingly more lax about individual commits the further you get out into the DAG. I think it way more useful to record the steps-in-progress than to toss them (especially when you are trying to debug the why or the how of a change months or years later from say a junior developer; it's a lot easier sometimes to see things like "oh, this was a test value meant to be replaced" when you see exactly which intermediate commit it was from deep in a PR).

(ETA: It's easy to forget that the I in CI stands for "integration" and was always focused on merges of changes more than specific changes.)
Say it louder. Recently I opposed this and was met with "I bet you don't have children."

I do, and I am black and so are they, and I'm quite familiar of the present state of facial recognition tech (and, of course, the justice system generally) when it comes to people who look like us.

This is all unacceptable, and the fact that some of it has already come to pass is no reason to not fix it.
This reminds me of when I did something nasty to my back and could only lie down - instead of mounting my laptop I hooked it up to a projector I already had for films and pointed it at the ceiling. It required low light, but it was what I had available at the time and worked for the length of time it took for my back to get better.

However, I have to quibble with the "Healthy Hacking: DIY Supine Workstation" article linked to. That's a guaranteed way to make sure your muscles waste away, particularly if your aim is to "improve [the] ability to work for long hours." The human body is designed for movement, and static working is having a terrible impact, particularly on people who work on computers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4bf

My back was a mess until I got a standing desk and started pilates. What I found interesting is that the standing desk made me move around quite a bit more - I end up doing lower-body yoga poses sometimes and I feel much better for it. I deliberately choose not to work long hours (I recognise I'm lucky in that respect, although I run my own company, so it's partially earned luck) but when I do need to, I can always bring my desk down and use a chair.
Scanning photos for images of suspects in crimes. Checking location info on photos for evidence for investigation.

Scanning texts for online bullying and sexual harassment.

Searching bank statements for tax compliance and money laundering.
The keyboards really are nice to type on. Though for the life of me I can't figure out why, on a UNIX system, they put the pipe character in such a weird place. It's above the keypad.

If you (the general you, not you specifically, since you probably already know this) get your hands on a NeXT keyboard and want to use it with a modern system, Adafruit has a guide here for building a USB adapter with an Arduino: https://learn.adafruit.com/usb-next-keyboard-with-arduino-mi...
The current inequality is massively unjust.

Declaring the clearest and most effective ways of solving it as "unjust" because they clash with your particular ideology perpetuates a vastly worse injustice—one that costs millions of lives, rather than merely feeling wrong.
I guess we all now just realize the truth: you don't control your iPhone. Apple does. You merely use it.

In a way, nothing changed. Apple could've done on-device scanning forever. In another way, everything changed.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it. Problem is that the devices are really really good.
1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’ - Source: Salt Lake Tribune, November 17, 1967

1969: ‘Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.’ - Source: New York Times, August 10 1969

1970: Ice age by 2000 - Source: Boston Globe, April 16, 1970

1970: ‘America subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980.’ - Source: Redlands Daily Facts, October 6, 1970

1971: ‘New Ice Age Coming’ - Source: Washington Post, July 9, 1971

1972: New ice age by 2070 - Source: NOAA, October 2015

1974: ‘New Ice Age Coming Fast’ - Source: The Guardian, January 29, 1974

1974: ‘Another Ice Age?’ - Source: TIME, June 24, 1974

1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life’ -

1976: ‘The Cooling’ - Source: New York Times Book Review, July 18, 1976

1980: ‘Acid Rain Kills Life in Lakes’ - Noblesville Ledger (Noblesville, IN) April 9, 1980

1978: ‘No End in Sight’ to 30-Year Cooling Trend - Source: New York Times, January 5, 1978

1988: James Hansen forecasts increase regional drought in 1990s - Source: RealClimateScience.com

1988: Washington DC days over 90F to from 35 to 85 - Source: RealClimateScience.com

1988: Maldives completely under water in 30 years - Source: Agence France Press, September 26, 1988

1989: Rising seas to ‘obliterate’ nations by 2000 - Source: Associated Press, June 30, 1989

1989: New York City’s West Side Highway underwater by 2019 - Source: Salon.com, October 23, 2001

1995 to Present: Climate Model Failure - Source: CEI.org

2000: ‘Children won’t know what snow is.' - Source: The Independent, March 20, 2000

2002: Famine in 10 years - Source: The Guardian, December 23, 2002

2004: Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020 - Source: The Guardian, February 21, 2004

2008: Arctic will be ice-free by 2018 - Source: Associated Press, June 24, 2008

2008: Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013 - Source: WattsUpWithThat.com, December 16, 2018

2009: Prince Charles says only 8 years to save the planet - Source: The Independent, July 9, 2009

2009: UK prime minister says 50 days to ‘save the planet from catastrophe’ - Source: The Independent: October 20, 2009

2009: Arctic ice-free by 2014 - Source: USA Today, December 14, 2009

2013: Arctic ice-free by 2015 - Source: The Guardian, July 24, 2013

2013: Arctic ice-free by 2016 - Source: The Guardian, December 9, 2013

2014: Only 500 days before ‘climate chaos’ - Sources: Washington Examiner
What Apple is doing is the equivalent of the police one day deciding to search everyone’s physical home photo albums just in case there’s a picture of an illegal activity.
It is not a surveillance initiative yet, but it will be trivial to expand upon the scanning capabilities once established.

You have more trust in Apple, something i don't. So we see this change in a different light.
you’re not allowed to use the bible that way. you can only use it to justify irrational beliefs and hate towards others that don’t align with your view of the world. /s

seriously though, if people actually applied what the bible said in the context that it is said I think we would all literally be in a better place.
> And it's always there also for whoever they claim to want to catch, so this measure is useless.

Right. This will, a) catch the low hanging fruit type of criminal and b) keep honest people honest while forcing them to give up something for nothing.
Not that anyone reads them, but every cloud storage EULA has a clause describing how they may remove content at will, especially if it is illegal. That's their justification for why this scanning is happening on photos that are being uploaded to iCloud, and not simply all photos on every device.

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/

> Apple reserves the right at all times to determine whether Content is appropriate and in compliance with this Agreement, and may screen, move, refuse, modify and/or remove Content at any time, without prior notice and in its sole discretion, if such Content is found to be in violation of this Agreement or is otherwise objectionable.
I had a Bulova Accutron with tuning fork movement, which I lost. Some months later while napping I hear a quiet hum, and find the watch rolled up in a carpet .. it was a watch with inbuilt locator function!
All, Apple said to trust them. Case closed. Nothing to see here.

We should always trust trillion+ market cap megacorps. They always have our interest at heart and would never lie or tell us something that isn't true.
So I guess the answer is “don’t”.
Not everything can be quantified but things should be at least qualitatively validated by the user base. Sometimes the problems are well know by anyone reading the app reviews and still aren't properly fixed.
> D&D evolved out of a literal wargame (chainmail)

ok. Please avoid downvoting me then?
Victims of climate related issues of plummeted the last 150 years. Drought death have plummeted by 98% alone.

The always changing climate is less of a challenge today than it was 200 years ago when we were under 2billion people.

That's the rational lense to look at this through not whether humans have some impact or whether the climate is changing which we do and which it always is.
This is a total misconception. Anyone's $100B in a bank account has no bearing on money supply. In the short term, yes, money is taken out of circulation. But if that causes increased demand for liquidity, and banks are willing to meet that demand at the interest rate set by the central bank, money will be created by the loan that is initiated.

What dries up money circulation is not any one company's hoarding, but the banks' willingness to lend as a whole, and the economy's desire to borrow and spend as a whole.

Recommended reading: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Im not sure I agree with this. If you have a lot of extra taxable money just put it in a taxable investment account and keep some lowing amount in checking to handle bills. Keeping it all in checking and making the entire thing investments seems like an odd approach, the low interest you are getting in like <10k in your checking is not a big deal.
We need protein for our bodies to survive, and while I love chickpeas and soy, I seek higher protein.

Further, studies that debate insects are less efficient for protein are comparing entomophagy to farmed animals, which I don't eat for ethical reasons:

https://reducing-suffering.org/eating-insects-usually-less-e...
5G Devices Exceed 900 for First Time
Copyright scanning. Show us you legitimately bought and have a license to this content. Worry not if you don’t, the fines are automatic with Apple Pay.
Nice, thanks! Ill look into it.
muh climate change!!
Humans Saving Animals Stuck on the Beach
imagine the thing has no wheels. the wind provides an energy source.

now imagine a sail cart. you can put a dynamo on the wheel and extract power

now imagine a sail boat sailing close to the wind. it can go much much faster than the wind speed

now imagine a batter powerd propeller pushing a cart forwards.

now imagine the battery powered prop is pushing against the wind. a+b

now remove the battery and extract the power (a) from the wheels.