skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically you are describing the consequences of the "war on drugs" which started in 1971. Many overdose deaths are directly related to the unknown quality of black market drugs. There would be no gangs "fighting over the spoils" if it were legal. You are conflating the consequences of prohibition with the consequences of drug use. That isn't to say all drugs are good, but as we learned in the 1920s prohibition is assuredly worse.
In the past the FBI used some cryptographic hash. Collisions with a secure cryptographic hash are functionally unobservant in practice (or else the hash is broken).

The use of the perceptual hash is because some people might evade the cryptographic hash by making small modifications to the image. The fact that they'd discarded the protection of cryptographic hashing just to accommodate these extra matches is unsurprising because their behavior is largely unconstrained and unbalanced by competing factors like the public's right to privacy or your security against being subject to a false accusation.
Tesla starts sending AI Day invitations with a new chip teaser
Isn't that exactly what browser PDF viewers (e.g. PDF.js [0]) already do?

[0] https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
You might be safe now in relatively okay Western countries. Consider the possibility of places like China using these features, or just future Western governments which are worse.
Would it not be easy for a state actor with a large amount of resorces be able to launch an attack on the network by providing most of the mining capacity for a short burst and effectively take control of the currency? I thought that was a thing.
There is none. I partly blame apple for putting these 3 distinct features into the same PR doc, news articles that are flat out wrong, and commenters for not reading the original source. Because it’s apple and privacy, people immediately lose all semblance of understanding it seems.

There are some valid slippery slope arguments to be made. But, the feature as described and implemented today actually increases privacy for CSAM scanning.
This is the most reefer madness comment I have ever seen on Hacker News. Seven possible deaths with just Kratom and this justifies banning it?

How many deaths and ruined lives will those enforcing a Kratom ban be responsible for? Perhaps we should consult the history of bans of other drugs to get some idea.

Anyone claiming that their reason for adding yet another substance to The Forever War on Drugs is harm reduction should be laughed out of the room at this point.
I reckon that, because the Covid vaccine has been responsible for at least ten blood clots we should also set up a global ban to ensure nobody ever gets to take it.
I'd be really careful dumpster diving for processed food at a production facility. There's a chance they found a problem with it, and that's why they're dumping it.
Where Republicans Are Starting to Worry About Big Oil
For me the biggest concern is not that Apple is scanning the images for $BAD_STUFF but rather, now that the scanning occurs on my device instead of Apple cloud servers. The trust has been eroded. I can understand Apple scanning images on their servers (although I don’t think Apple should). However, running the scan on device is taking it too far, even if the assertion is that only images that would be eventually uploaded is scanned. Apple promised security and privacy on their devices, and this breaks the trust. Now I question their future software roadmap, such as:

1. Will the scanning come to MacOS?
2. Will the scanning start to include additional $BAD_STUFF, such as political censoring and/or even other files (video, document, etc.)

I really like Apple hardware. The iPads and the M1 Macs are awesome, but this news makes me hesitant to stay in the Apple ecosystem and will be looking at alternatives. I already run Linux desktops, and I’ll probably move to Linux on laptop.
>Less desire for shared/common working space.

At the individual company level, there's some level of common understanding of rules/protocols for coming into offices. That's not generally going to be the case with co-working spaces.
Wishful thinking. You either don’t think climate change will have life and death consequences or you have a lot of hope that humanity will get its shit together and solve it in the next decade.

Life expectancy isn’t going to go up, and quality of life won’t improve after the tipping point. It’s all downhill beyond that.
If people can't afford it, it means it is expensive, and only way for it to be expensive is that someone can afford it. And the more expensive it is, the more it is going to be extracted. In the end, it is very simple. You want to stop fossil fuel consumption, you need to get the price paid to the producer so low that the producer does not want to produce. Producer price can be high only if someone is willing to pay it.

In economics terms, you do not only need to get price down, but the whole demand curve. That is, with any given price, there needs to be less demand than currently is. The supply side is fixed. Anything profitable will be extracted and burned. I do not see how anyone can disagree with that.
To me it reads more like (open (source code)) which feels very distinct from ((open source) code).
I think this is what happens when people forget they are standing on the shoulders of Giants.

A few years of basic physics courses will allow this kind of error because you've forgotten you're standing on the shoulders of those giants. Additionally it doesn't give you the prerequisite knowledge to re-implement the base principles required to become the giant yourself.

This is a very similar feeling in the flat Earth communities. They dispute or believe that they have found fundamental flaws in knowledge that they are incapable of recreating or unwilling to devote the necessary time and study to recreate from scratch.

It is good to question things it is good to reaffirm and relearn first principles. The issue is when we fail to understand how those discoveries were made the time and energy and genius that went in to discovering them, we fall into the trap of children thinking they know better than the parents. Curiosity and new perspectives can be a good thing but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What I saw in this post was simply the writings of someone who needs to spend more time in study.
> Open Source is best for everyone in the long run.

It's literally written as a proper noun!
You're creating an imaginary strawman and arguing against it here.

The space treaty does not ban nuclear power, only nuclear weapons. Nuclear power is just for the most part not worth it, and in the rare cases where it has been worth it, we've used it, in the form of RTGs because that's the only form of nuclear that has ever made sense for any space mission we've launched. Nuclear power is talked about a ton in the space community, with everything from "here's a way we could potentially power spacecraft to bases" to "hey, maybe we could build a nuclear powered rocket engine and get much better mass ratios when we send things to mars".
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I apologize in advance if I make a mistake here, because I'm new. I need some career advice. I am 24 years old. I have been working for more than a year as a Python developer in a small startup. The problem that I face is that the startup's future is uncertain and I don't know if anyone else will hire me, because I don't have a bachelor's degree. Due to several mental disorders and circumstances, I had to drop out of college twice and I can't get a degree no matter how hard I try. My question is can I survive without a bachelor's degree? I consider myself to be a skilled developer and my bosses agree as I was hired after only a month of working there as an intern and promoted twice after that, all within 9 months. But would the companies consider hiring me based on just experience? My high school score is not good either.
“Insured to some degree” is not “insured”. The pensioners could take a huge cut.
Did you ever compare the side effects of marijuana to the popular antidepressant, antianxiety and ADHD medications being given to children?

> There is a growing mistrust of pharmaceutical companies and mainstream psychiatry that mirrors the rise of things like anti-vaxxers

This statement seems to ignore the crisis brought by narcotic drugs. People should be skeptical of pharmaceutical companies. There is a long history of their drugs killing people. It's really not worth my time to post it all, but feel free to do a little research yourself.

Comparing them to antivaxxers is inflammatory and inaccurate.
Please don’t glorify Kratom as some sort of miracle herb without downsides.

Kratom is an opioid, full stop. People are under the mistaken impression that it’s less addictive because it’s less potent on a per-gram basis, but addicts simply end up consuming more grams to get similar highs.

It’s not a “mood regulator” in any magical sense other than it’s an opioid and opioids temporarily put people in good moods.

There are many communities dedicated to quitting Kratom and handling Kratom withdrawal, which is the same as withdrawing from other opioids (For instance: https://www.reddit.com/r/quittingkratom/ ).

Whether or not you think Kratom should be legal, we shouldn’t be glorifying it as a harmless substance that somehow defies the realities of every other opioid.
> In 1866 there was a bank called Overend, Gurney and Company [..] they went bust. They invested a whole bunch of money in the railway industry and then the railway bubble burst. Thing is, if you invest a bundle in railways and lose it, there are still railways, people can still use them. But that's increasingly not how investment works. A lot of companies, especially tech companies, borrow money not to make anything, just on the promise that they will eventually make it back.

> Let's take a case study: WeWork. WeWork are an American company that provide office space. They dress it up as revolutionizing your workplace and bringing people closer together(, but we're doing materialism, remember?) They own a bunch of offices, and if you need one you can rent it from them. They're landlords! [..] In summer of 2019, WeWork was valued at $47 billion. Now, just a few months later they're worth.. Well actually, it's not clear how much they're worth but nowhere near that.

> So what happened? Was there some kind of disaster? Did the offices burn down? No. The truth is, they were never worth 47 billion.

> [..]

> Their business model was just owning stuff and charging rent, and if nobody wants your stuff or nobody can afford the rent, then all the money that was invested in you can just vanish.

From:
The Trouble with the Video Game Industry | Philosophy Tube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYkLVU5UGM8&t=1000s at 16m and 40s)

This was published in November 2019, before the pandemic. I am amazed that WeWork is still around.

Citation on that segment: Grace Blakely, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation
No, except inasmuch as the resin may degrade over time, but that's not just an issue for impact resistance.
Sorry you got rate-limited. On HN, new accounts are rate-limited by default because of past abuses by trolls. I've turned that off now for your account (I'm a mod here).
The way this article is structured is bizarre, I don't know how I'm supposed to read it or what it's supposed to be telling me. Is this a book review or advertisement?
The rise of YouTube and Patreon has made grifting a more profitable and common phenomenon.
US govt-sponsored website Bellingcat disrupts MH17 trial in Netherlands

Source : https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/02/bellingcat-disrupts-mh17-...

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Bellingcat fabricate evidence, deliberately hide documents in new ‘Russian spy plot’

Source : https://armswatch.com/exposed-bellingcat-fabricate-evidence-...

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Bellingcat is funded by and works together with the UK government through the 'Institute for Statecraft' aka 'Integrity Initiative'

Source : https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bellingcat#Integrity_Initiative
So far, this is only for iCloud photos so currently it seems highly similar to what we have now except that it’s on the device and could be done with end to end encryption, unlike the current approach.

For me, the big concern is how it could be expanded. This is a real and valid problem but it’s certainly not hard to imagine a government insisting it needs to be expanded to cover all photos, even for people not using iCloud, and we’d like you to add these signatures from some images we can’t show you. Once the infrastructure is there it’s a lot easier to do that.
The new Summer plant reactors in SC were abandoned during construction after spending 9B. The units were nameplate rated at 2200 MW. Even at the point of abandonment, the cost of a MW was over 4 million. Solar is 700k to 1MM per MW. Wind is about 1.3MM per MW. Even adjusting for capacity factors nukes are more than twice as expensive per unit of capacity. Neither solar nor wind require difficult to produce fuel, produce nuclear waste, require waste heat reservoirs, or require years long complex and expensive decommissioning (which in the US is paid as a surcharge on electricity used). Solar or wind do have subsidies but nuclear gets a subsidy in the form of the Gov backstopping meltdown insurance (the current pooled industry meltdown insurance fund is like 20B, Japan has spent 200B+ cleaning up Fukushima). You don’t have to be anti-nuclear to think these huge projects that we can’t build don’t make a ton of economic sense at the outset (even factoring in the more desirable production characteristics which can be offset by more storage and/or overbuilding wind and solar capacity). In theory modular nuclear will solve some of these issues but in theory practice and theory are the same thing but in practice they aren’t.
I find this comment particularly amusing given what Animats aka John Nagle is most known for...
It strikes me as a perfectly reasonable business model for anything other than an enormous startup. Not every thing can grow to a million billion, not everything should.
Likewise. After falling into the coffee rabbit hole in the pandemic, I’ve accidentally discovered coffee does in fact taste good. You don’t need to go as deep as I did with an espresso machine and roasting my own beans, but having freshly roasted beans and a v60 dripper is a cheap, sub-$40 way to get good coffee that is sweet enough on its own that it doesn’t need to be balanced with milk and sugar.
China showing just how ahead of the curve they really are. I really wish they would have the gall to try some of this here, but the ruling party is owned by big money (the Jews, really) and any of this happening would go against their interests. So we are saddled with a decrepit, slowly degrading way of life while on the other side of the globe someone with some sensibility has found a way to put words into actions.

Last week they called games something to tune of “mental opioids.” Can you imagine Steam and even Netflix being banned here if it was found it has a net negative result on society? Yeah fucking right they would.

Kudos, I hope this turns out to be a positive long term change for them.
Honestly we don't know. The original bill is vague and there are two competing amendments that are being debated. It will take some time for this to shake out.
If there were no false positives there would be no legitimate reason for Apple to review-- they would just be needlessly exposing their employees to child abuse material.

But the fact that there is no legitimate reason according to the system's design doesn't prevent there from being an illegitimate reason: Apple's "review" undermines your legal due process protection against warrantless search.

See US v. Ackerman (2016): The appeals court ruled that when AOL forwarded an email with an attachment whos hash matched the NCMEC database to law enforcement without anyone looking at it, and law enforcement looked at the email without obtaining a warrant was an unlawful search and had AOL looked at it first (which they can do by virtue of your agreement with them) and gone "yep, thats child porn" and reported it, it wouldn't have been an unlawful search.
I am not 100% on HN policies regarding flagging / renaming threads, but I do see articles get renamed on a fairly regular basis without getting flagged into dead status first? Is there not a mechanism to suggest a different title without getting it pulled entirely?

I think the click bait title is a good knee-jerk reaction test, and I would suspect a fair number of folks flagged the thread without reading the full article. In the spirit of open discussion and intellectual honesty, this seems like a failure.

A more descriptive title would probably be for the best, though.
If it is cosmetic, that doesn't explain millions of dollars of loss from grounding the aircraft.

Respectfully, this makes zero sense. Is there something more?
Just run highly rated MERV filters. I use a bit of a bulky MERV 14, but as long as you can cycle the total air volume of the space you're cleaning quickly, anything with 20+% uptake on small particles will work over time.

The experiments and data on that site (I assume it's yours?) don't give me nearly the same conclusions you do - Almost all decent filter setups will hit the same particulate equilibrium asymptote with the only real difference being the duration it takes to get there - a negligible plus or minus half an hour. Speed is not aim. It's the maintenance of the steady-state that is.

If the filter stays on, the air stays clean (barring total capacity issues - you can't filter a huge house with a single box fan).

So the only real roadblocks are human factors that would 1) make people skip making a filtering setup and 2) make people want to turn off the filter. This is where the real UX comes into play.
I don't use WhatsApp, but I bridge my other chat apps through the Matrix client Element.

It appears that WhatsApp does have a bridge for Matrix, though I've not used it.

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/mautrix-whatsapp
At the moment anyway, that XML link won't render per an XML parsing error. For anyone who wants a quick look at what these XML docs look like here's one for UUID6 [0].

[0] https://github.com/uuid6/uuid6-ietf-draft/blob/master/draft-...
What a horrible article. I'm very interested in the details of this phenomenon and the article said basically nothing about it. I'm tired of journalists who hide behind dumbing things down for the reader as an excuse to not actually look into what they're supposedly writing about. If you're going to write an article for the supposed reason of informing the reader it better actually inform the reader.
It can actually play really well with Python's optional typing. I should add that to the implementation in Datasette!
> Contemporary philosophy of mind is positively replete with warnings that we ought not to fall into easy dichotomies between intelligent and voluntary processes on the one hand, and unintelligent and automatic processes on the other.

There's something really beautiful about habits being both intelligent and unintelligent (or neither). If you invest your attention on habits while performing them, there's an opportunity to observe what you do effortlessly and (slowly, with time and energy) improve/evolve already highly involved activities. Eventually your habits are improved and yet again, effortless. You definitely see this in sports, but lots of examples in all the things humans do.
"They are often talked about as if they have little or no harmful side effect"

Unlike all those "unfun" drugs? I think side effects are part and parcel of virtually all drugs. Do we need a special all-caps disclaimer anytime a drug is mentioned to remind people that side effects exist? If we did, most of the biggest disclaimers would be reserved for fully-legal, commonly-prescribed drugs.
> They are often talked about as if they have little or no harmful side effects.

Most drugs have side effects, including all the legal pharmaceuticals. E.g. normal antidepressants aren't without risk.

Anyways, that's why its important to study them - see where they lie on the risk-benefit trade-off curve.

> The opioid epidemic was largely caused by the idea of them being non addictive

I don't know which idiots thought these were non addictive. Like there was even the opium wars faught over this point in the 1800s. We've known of the danger since the 1700s.
road cycling is probably less harsh than a plane cycling through 0 to 30k+ feet multiple times a day, though.
Fatigue is not a concept applicable to carbon fiber reinforced materials. Carbon is anisotropic, unlike bulk metals which can be modeled as isotropic. Carbon may suddenly delaminate or whatever, but it doesn’t have a cycling limit.
I mean, that sounds basically like what PDF.js is. It’s not static, though.
I’m struggling to see how a few people shitting on Pelosi’s desk and stealing a podium really changed the nature of American stability.
because there was a profit motive to lie.
There’s a lot of “whataboutism” when it comes to marijuana, but it doesn’t negate the fact that heavy daily marijuana usage is a net negative for mental health and produces worse long-term depression scores than abstaining.

And yes, she generally refers people to psychiatric treatment under the guidance of doctors who can monitor and adjust medications over time. Outcomes on mainstream depression and anxiety medications are far more positive and the people do much, much better after getting proper treatment with proper medications.

There is no comparison. Marijuana is not an effective depression treatment even though it may temporarily dull feelings and emotions. Long-term studied outcomes are poor.
Segmentation fault! (Core dumped)
VR has probably killed that market.

Walter you might be interested to know that London City airport's Air traffic controllers do actually use this technology. There isn't enough space for a full tower so they have a redundant camera system on site and the controllers are nearby elsewhere - this allows them to use tricks like overlaying data about aircraft onto their view, and they actually compress the whole viewing area directly onto their panels.

https://youtu.be/MsoxL6tMG_I
In this context they have similar mobile and internet coverage (excluding South Africa)
To everyone here who wishes we do nothing about this: you should rethink your position. There is a difference between “let’s be careful and design the right solution” and “let’s do nothing to maximize individual liberty”.

In 2017 a 369% increase in CSAM in terms of reports happened. The only explanation is that platforms now facilitate the sharing and a growing problem continues to grow.

In raw percentages the data clear: too many children are being abused and the numbers are growing.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
I was once in Dunkin Donuts quite late (10 pm, I think). They gave any perishable food item left, for free. I got some doughnuts. I guess they could just give away the leftover food at the end of the day. Though the logistics of it wouldn’t be easy
There is a dead sibling comment to my comment that seems inflammatory but is correct historically.

Many societies continued to have slaves after the introduction of Christianity, including Britain before the Norman conquest.

There was a religious reform movement around the time of the conquest that if I understand correctly gradually eliminated slavery over a few generations to a few centuries.
If you're going to label scientific papers you don't like as a "wall of FUD" [edit: I see you've decided to remove this remark], I'm not sure there's much we can discuss further.

I didn't say it should be banned. Or that it shouldn't. I don't know enough to form an opinion on the question.

I just wondered how balanced and objective the post from irthomasthomas was, did a quick search for other points of view, and felt it was worth offering some additional comments for consideration.