skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, maybe mcflurry machines being broken leads to people talking about mcflurries a lot more and ends up selling more units.

I kind of want one right now.

Broken machines as marketing tools.

Nightclubs sit empty and make huge lines of people wait outside, because scarcity is marketing. Maybe broken ice cream machines mean people buy something and come back later to get their ice cream and buy more cheeseburgers.
Do you have evidence this is worse than allowing the greenhouse effect to rule in the interior, than having to run the vehicle with the windows down and/or run the A/C harder and/or idle before leaving to cool off surfaces like steering wheel and shifter? Or is it just frustration at a lack of performative emissions reductions?
For sure! Of course, the official website has it paywalled, so here's a Google Docs link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WL1F-sEazLeo8uFjNpPyFLak...

The Heidegger stuff is in the fourth section, 'Artificial Intelligence In Technological Society', but a rough summary: Heidegger argues that the essence of technology involves a command to human beings to order the world as standing-reserves of resources. Our specific place in this schema is as the being who can do the work of ordering, of revealing the world as orderable standing-reserve and then actually putting it into a particular order (e.g. of a supply chain). However, modern AI, with its emphasis on pattern-recognition, search, optimizing for a goal, etc., is also working towards that function. This has two implications. First, it suggests why AI research heads in this direction, because it's the way human intelligence manifests in the technological framework (and, thus, suggests that AI research could potentially benefit from trying to replicate other aspects of the human mind). Secondly, it means that modern AI might affect a Heideggerian theory of technology by making it possible for humans to delegate the work of ordering to AI, which wouldn't have appeared a possibility in Heidegger's day. If we can in fact hand off the task of ordering to AI, how should we do that and what effects might it have on human culture? While it appears a loss of agency, it may even have a liberating effect in the same way other technologies have liberated us from previous forms of labour.
Google could’ve announced the same solution for Google Photos as a 3rd party app. I don’t understand what privileged position Apple as OS maker has used to build this solution. It’s a feature of their Photos application when used with their cloud photo service.
Note that the FSF takes the position that binary blobs that are in non-writable memory and executed by secondary processors are part of the hardware and thus not relevant for judging the openness under RYF criteria. Which is how the Librem5 achieves that status, by deliberately picking components that do not use firmware upload from the host CPU but rather ship with the firmware in non-writable memory, and by adding read-only memory that is only used in the pre-boot environment. The OS is blob-free because the thing is engineered to make the blobs inaccessible to the OS. Which is a valid choice, since entirely blob-free would be impossible to make and ship, but I also see why people disagree that "blob-free" is a good description for the device.
Hi, just for completeness - the decryption key is added to the secret URL as a fragment in the penultimate step.
Super cool - thanks!
Building a more efficient Background Segmentation model than Google
That first line of the quote is misrepresenting what Apple is doing. They are not copying files from your device. You are sending them the files. As it stands the only images that will be scanned are the ones you are uploading to iCloud. And I'd be shocked if they weren't already analyzing those images on the server side.

When it comes to governments being able to pressure them into being more invasive, nothing has changed with this update. If a government wanted to poison the CSAM database, they could have already. You'd end up reported when the server does the scanning. If the government wanted to expand scanning to include things that you're not uploading, they already could have asked Apple to do that. It would have been possible to silently add a much simpler scanning mechanism or data exfiltration into an update.

This isn't a spin to say anyone is doing us a favor. iCloud should be end-to-end encrypted and there shouldn't be any scanning at all. But why should that opinion on how we should treat privacy be taken as the only valid opinion? The people who do want the scanning are not simply asking for it because they are stupid or uninformed. Instead they put different weights into what they value.
I probably won’t buy another iPhone at this point. I’m in a tough position because I have said the same about Android for other reasons.

In the end, all I can say for sure is that I have lost my enthusiasm for consumer technology.
If the government passes a law mandating that encrypted messages be scanned, it won’t be done using this CSAM mechanism, and it won’t only be Apple doing it.

In short, you might be right to be afraid of this outcome, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with CSAM countermeasures.
True. The constant migration of everything to the cloud has lots of consequences just like this. If the false positive are as common as the fotoForensics guy states, this could also become a new weapon for corporate warfare. A small competitor to a market Apple wants to control happens to have assets stored in an apple cloud? Guess who's offices are getting raided today?
There are three primary sources stating that the database will be embedded in iOS. Remote hash updates introduces privacy risk.
This is just really sad. Apple used to be the beacon of hope. Maybe it was false hope all along.

We must go full FOSS from hardware to software to preserve humanity. Everyone needs to get on board, not just the savvy minority. That's the goal.
or blast villages out of the map when playing in creative mode :)
They literally cannot. They will just be Lavabit[1] until they comply.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
1. Humans have managed to fundamentally alter the global climate on a timescale of about 150 years.

2. Humans are incapable of fundamentally altering the climate on any significant scale compared to natural processes.

Pick one.

Yes, feedbacks can outpace what we're already emitting. Yes, we're in a dire situation that is going to take radical innovation and a huge surplus of zero carbon energy to basically reverse the exothermic process we used to burn millions of years of stored carbon with an endothermic process to draw it back down. But this doomer stuff isn't helpful. Anything we do to mitigate the rise of greenhouse gases, even if it is not a complete reversal (that's pretty much off the table) will give us time to innovate and change the outcome from extinction-level catastrophic to merely a drastic change in our way of life. Every bit counts. Trees, BECCs, direct air carbon capture, lowering emissions, albedo alteration, etc. The sad thing is I don't think you've researched that thoroughly, you're only got the parade of some scary facts. Indulging in overwhelming doom is just another emotional coping strategy to avoid responsibility, the same as outright denial.
Not for people that didn't trust the cloud and didnt out their life in there in the first place.
The difference is you don't put your data in Google's cloud, they can't sell it. With this Apple change on your local device, you don't have any recourse other than get a different phone.

Also, Google sells your data already don't they? Probably not a great counterpoint.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/05/07/google-selling-user...
> think they restricted it to 50% because it's looking at federal taxation (payroll, local and state level gets much more complicated),

Federal payroll tax is part of federal tax (as are federal excise and consumption taxes).

> and ~43% of Americans don't pay any federal tax

As well as being kind of dated and thus quite likely not accurate, this number os for federal income tax, not the more general category of federal tax (or even “federal taxes on income”, which includes payroll tax.)
Given how many had underlying conditions last time we shut down, all the more reason to!

\s

Curious if this leads to a _third_ shutdown given the new furor.
IIRC, the lowest-back-muscle-tension recline angle isn't actually 180° (laying completely flat) but actually 135° (legs forward, back and neck against a wedge. Or probably—in the ancestral environment—against the base of a tree.)

Anyone got a good ergonomic setup for achieving 135° recline, no-neck-flexion computing? (Besides buying that one ridiculous $5000 chair, I mean.)
> The government actually loves monopolies because it makes monitoring citizens easier.

You make it sound like the government is a single person with a plan. I don’t think people and departments in a government are very coherent and aligned, it’s a huge number of people with a zoo of mandates and everyone is fighting to be seen as somebody who makes things happen
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Wouldn't you agree that, without frequent training, it is very difficult for a person, under heavy stress, to engage a target at 10 yards with a pistol? What about follow up shots? Wouldn't you agree also that, if handgun efficiency in urban environments was higher than rifles, studies conducted by the PPSC wouldn't indicate that even law enforcement officials lack training? (http://www.theppsc.org/Staff_Views/Aveni/OIS.pdf)

Seems like a difficult skill to master, specially given the important variables surrounding defensive gun use (bullet over-penetration, stopping power). A rifle, specifically AR-15-style rifles, in a CQB configuration seems to be ideal for self-defense, knowing that efficacy is drastically increased by ergonomics, recoil management, longer barrel length, and the terminal ballistics of the 5.56 and 300 BLK rounds. LEO's seem to agree with that rationale, knowing that most urban defense task forces are outfitted with AR-15-style rifles with shorter barrels.

If you are in a situation of stress, with your life on the line, you want a tool best suited in protecting you in that moment. If LEO's, and studies carried by their departments prove that, employ rifles rather than handguns to defend their lives and the lives of the people they are defending, I'm under the assumption that it is the best tool for self-defense.
Scanners with banknotes remind me of my kid's LeapFrog book. It's basically a book and a pen which can read whatever you tap against. It has an optical sensor at the tip of the pen and the print just has a bunch of microscopic dots barely visible to the naked eye. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeapFrog_Tag
The work in that link has some pretty far-reaching requirements to claim that, that do not generalize to random phone hardware.
Aha - that's what this is. I keep wondering why many sub-20$ items on eBay keep getting cancelled on me. The equivalent item on Amazon is usually 20-25$ (but doesn't quality for free tier shipping on its own) so I shop eBay for same - half the time or more recently it's either a) a drop-ship from Amazon even in its box/packaging, or b) cancelled as 'buyer requested cancel'. I knew it was a scam but I didn't know what for.

Good thing I ship to a PO box and use a generic C/O name.
Nothing stopping you from using display: flex;
Those solutions (car battery storage like a Tesla powerwall) is not what comes to mind with the words "rent out your car's battery". More like: I'm not using my car, here's its battery for you to do whatever with.
These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.

The Elephant in the room is "this will be on Mac OS".
So the fact that the user cannot have root access to an Apple mobile device is well established by now.
But to have my desktop/laptop computer do things on behalf of third party, whatever the "logic", is total madness.
This is not some SaaS app. When I buy a car I expect that I am in control. When I buy a computer I care about my control over my property.

What is this madness? Is due process and innocent until proven guilty bed time stories now?
The original Basic (the 'Holmes Blue Book' by J. Eric Holmes) was actually a reorganization and simplification of OD&D, not Advanced D&D (despite Holmes being published around the same time as AD&D). Holmes was intended as an introduction to OD&D; AD&D was extensively revised from OD&D, and the OD&D/Holmes rules were very different from AD&D in many ways.

There were at least two more revisions of 'Basic', which was updated into the early 1990s. It was much more a separate game, not a lead-in into 'Advanced', and I think publishing it may have been a contractual obligation to D&D's co-creator, Dave Arneson, who was gone before AD&D.
Thanks for posting. I love these kind of things. Just wish there was a cost effective way to get them printed up.
That's very much the minority of soccer games. If those are all you've seen, catering to you is less important than catering to the billions of active fans.
Heat is necessary, AC is not necessary (I realize this is not entirely true, but I think it's fair to say a lot more people would die without heat than without AC).
Since I've missed the edit window, I'll reply to myself here to offer a much better argument against the "nothing to hide" position, one that actually addresses its assumptions (this is from Wikipedia):

> Bruce Schneier, a computer security expert and cryptographer, expressed opposition, citing Cardinal Richelieu's statement "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged", referring to how a state government can find aspects in a person's life in order to prosecute or blackmail that individual.[11] Schneier also argued that the actual choice is between "liberty versus control" instead of "security versus privacy".[11]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

I don't think the "nothing to hide" argument is unassailable. There are good arguments against it. The "naked in a restaurant" or "why do you pull your shades" responses just happen to be very silly ones.

Crucially, Schneier's argument directly deflates one of the core assumptions of the "nothing to hide," position, whereas the "naked in a restaurant" response is a pithy but meaningless volley that misunderstands the argument it's replying to and so ultimately addresses a position nobody actually holds.

More generally, and at risk of verbosity, it's generally of little use to attack a policy position on the grounds that holding it renders the supporter a hypocrite. "If you support this policy, then logically you have to support this other policy! And since you don't support the other policy, you can't support the original one! Gotcha!"

No, one can support Policy A and not Policy B, even in the face of convincing arguments that one must support both in order to remain ideologically consistent. Ordinary people aren't all that interested in ideological perfection, so it's just simply not a fruitful line of attack.
Ah, the favourite argument in every political discussion: "It's their fault, not mine".

That certainly will work, since developing nations will not suffer anything from climate disaster, right? /s
To be installed by default and not removable on one of the most used devices in the world.
Anyone doing this with a VR headset, to avoid the need for mounting a screen in a funny location?
The Swarm Tile looks easily integratable into PCB designs. And, it's very low power. Although, I wonder why they need about 3 Watts power consumption when transmitting. At their low transmit frequencies (148-150 MHz), I would think they could lower that number to less than 1 Watt since the wavelengths are so long. But hey, if you deploy your sensor in a sunny location with solar panels, then why not?
> but about whether someone else could...

Why would they be able to? I haven't heard of any such exploits for Signal, and their crypto as well as their app-related code is open, well-documented, and repeatedly audited.
The principles of a grid-based design are still adhered to though. This isn't "gridless" in any real sense (other than maybe its handling in CSS?) from a design perspective. Maybe a better term is "adaptive grid" or something similar, which would make more sense in the design for something in a shifting and dynamic medium.
My understanding is that the NCMEC actually has the pictures, and they’re basically the only people in the US who can legally hold onto them.
Could the title of this entry be altered to include the full article title including the extremely relevant "[...] with a virtual machine" so as to be less misleading and click-baity?
We are discussing a specific set of technologies.

That said, camera's are already spreading pretty quickly (check out ring doorbell and friends) and homeowners are voluntarily registering these with local police departments.

So yes, people don't mind if they are recorded going into and out of their own house and voluntary let police review this footage.

Again, I think folks are overstating the "huge" damage to apple's brand.
I don’t think the scare is warranted.

This really is a narrowly targeted solution that only works with image collections, and requires two factors to verify, and two organizations to cooperate, one of which is Apple who has unequivocally staked their reputation on it not being used for other purposes, and the other is NCMEC which is a non-profit staffed with people dedicated to preventing child abuse.

People who are equating this with a general purpose hashing or file scanning mechanism are just wrong at best.

It’s not like the no-fly list at all.
Actually, at least Cray, Intel, and NAG Fortran compilers already fully support Fortran 2018 standard.
I don't use the cloud. I don't even sign in an email address on my android phone. That makes all the difference to me.
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> lost it for nothing substantial (devices and social networks

I do not understand these arguments: they seem to imply an exchange, and there is none. Basic dignity is threatened without a positive counterpart, with the possible exception of more security.

And I am very diffident of the "security" effect. There are countries which implement constant and pervasive tracking: their history of 5..10 burglaries per thousand houses per year are not shrunk to a small fraction, for example.
It's because Mozilla is visibly, painfully, repeatedly, and incomprehensibly, grossly mismanaged.

They have an enormous budget, but are funded from basically a single source, and the future of that funding is not guaranteed.

They have dramatically dwindling market share. This is critical because their voice in the future of the web could easily be drowned out by the interests of Google-Apple-Microsoft.

Their non-browser projects are inconsistently conceived, and unreliably maintained.

These situations have been created and compounded under the direction of their CEO.

They have no roadmap to fix these issues, any of which could be fatal.

Mozilla is our best hope for the future of the free web, and their gross mismanagement makes me very fearful.

Every single year, they are funded well enough to remake the organization, and every single year they do not.

I say this as a loyal Netscape/Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox user since always.

I say this with a continued belief that Brendan Eich created a situation (or a situation was created around Brendan Eich, if you prefer) where he could not have effectively led Mozilla.

And I say this with awareness that 99% of us would probably fail to lead Mozilla (it is a delicate balancing act) -- but that only the current management has dipositively done so.

If there was any accountability to users or shareholders, the Mozilla executive team would have been replaced years ago. It is difficult to watch this astonishing waste of resources, and massive dereliction of duty to the public.
The efficacy of the vaccines is really being called into question though. Gibraltar and Iceland are getting more cases after being 99 and 75% respectively. Iceland is actually getting record cases.

The government did very little to protect the most vulnerable and chose actions that massively disrupted people's lives. Shutting down schools was probably the most egregious of the many mistakes.
They always had the potential, but now the code is there and running.
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If you don’t mind custom ROMs etc, Pixels with GrapheneOS or similar?
Sparcstation 4, 5, 10 and 20 models (and the Voyager) can run NeXTstep. For the 10 and 20, it depends on the CPU. Sun SuperSPARC modules should work, but Ross HyperSPARC CPUs are not supported. NeXTstep only supports one CPU, additional CPUs are ignored. Later models (UltraSPARC) are not supported, unfortunately there is also no support for earlier SuperSparc Sun 4m (e.g. the LX) or Sun 4c systems.

I have a SparcStation 20 with 512 MB RAM and the 24 bit framebuffer RAM expansion, this is a great machine for NeXTstep.

If you happen to have an hp PA-RISC machine, some models using the PA7100 CPU (e.g. the "Gecko" 712-series) are also supported and are really nice NeXTstep machines.

Vintage Apple hardware does not work with NeXTstep directly, but you can run Rhapsody (essentially NeXTstep for PowerPC with a System 9-like UI) on early G3 Macs.

The Motorola 88k-based NRW (NeXT RISC workstation) was unfortunately canceled when NeXT decided to leave the hardware business...