skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Had the US continued to vaccinate in the summer at the same rate as in the spring, the US would be near herd immunity by now.

This obsession in the media with herd immunity is strange. It's not even clear herd immunity with Delta and our current vaccines is attainable. Just look at Iceland where 65+% of cases are fully vaccinated (https://www.covid.is/data). UK has had high vaccination rates and is still surging (https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/).

We can certainly make the pandemic manageable - I'm not worried about hospitals toppling over in the Bay Area with its 80+% 12+ fully vaccinated rate, but covid is still on the upswing.

> People think that either (a) COVID itself is a hoax or not that bad, or (b) that the vaccines are a hoax

Granted this is the Bay Area I'm in but the folks I know that refuse to take a vaccine don't see it as a hoax. They are some combination of unconvinced of a low risk of long-term vaccine side-effects (by virtue of us having no actual long-term observations) and concluding P(risk_of_getting_covid) * expected_cost(covid | infected) < expected_cost(side_effects)

For some other analysis that this is more than just politics:

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/07/31/whos-agai...

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/07/27/americas-...
Thanks, I thought so. But I always understood that to be in reference to the tech involved in the cash transaction. So if the article was about McDs getting a lower fee for electronic transactions, the POS makes total sense.

But this is about fixing a machine, so I would have expected "franchise" or "restaurants" in that place, and there is (apparently) something called "Point-of-Service"— so I was truly hoping parent would clarify.

But thanks for responding instead of simply down-voting. I appreciate it.
Because I dislike the implication that only Apple is doing it. No. Everybody is doing it. Apple was just the first to publicly admit it. Doesn't make it better, sure, but let's not delude ourselves at least. No company can resist using all that valuable personal data on the smartphones.
Flat income tax schemes, like sales and use taxes, and user fees, are all regressive: striking the poor harder than the classes above them. The appeal of flat taxes (and the others mentioned) is their perceived simplicity in both assessment and collection. But that's an assumption that flies in the face of historical practice.

As you say, the rich always find a way to avoid taxes of all kinds. They pay accountants and politicians to ensure that. The middle class may not have many politicians on their payroll, but they do have accountants -- and have learned how to use them. Besides, the progressivity (a word that the tech giants still don't know how to spell) of our current tax structure is inconsistent and intentionally incoherent.

Just a note: the US tax system seems to have been at its fairest (a very relative term) during the late 1940s through to the Kennedy tax cuts in the early 60s when the highest rates were in the 90% range and when estate taxes still took a credible bite out of ultra wealthy generational wealth. Of course all that money collected didn't go to help eradicate poverty. It mostly went to build warships, bombers, missiles and the nukes they carried.
The consumer can control it by not enabling iCloud photo sync, right?
>when I see billions being used to buy bonds and prop up the stock market. It’s just ridiculous

Because the former doesn't really cause inflation (it just sits on the bank's balance sheets), whereas printing money for infrastructure projects is.
What did FB do on a OSS project with AI?
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In what world is hundreds of millions of people drastically changing their lifestyle because they've been instructed to stay home by their governments "individual action"? That's a collective response to a crisis mandated by government.
For that 'spherical cow' example, assume that the vehicle has batteries to average out the duty cycle while the turbine is going back to the front. Fold the mast down flat and stow the blades so it has minimal air resistance, assume it has minimal weight, and let an electric motor zip it back to the front of the vehicle at 100 knots ground-speed or 90 knots into the wind, if you're moving forward at 20 knots this gives you an 80% duty cycle.

The critical thing to glean from the example is that when it's anchored, the 10 knot ground speed wind is generating power at the turbine, and this has absolutely nothing to do with the speed of the vehicle.

Yes, in the real world, there are all kinds of problems with actually building such a vehicle, and the folding and weight and efficiency and timing and air resistance and rigidity and friction and so on would make it hard to actually get it to work. But these are all purely engineering problems, the physics obviously work!
False positives of the kind you're thinking of aren't possible--it's checking for hashes that match known bad images, not running machine learning/image detection to detect if the photo you just took contains bad content. The issue is that there's nothing stopping Apple/the government from marking anything it finds objectionable--like anti-government free speech--as a Bad Image, beyond CSAM.
It's unclear exactly what this means to be honest. Which is not less scary but more.

This sentence:

> Next, iOS and iPadOS will use new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online

seems to suggest that the hash-matching happens only on iOS and iPadOS.

The rest of the text OTOH suggests many things happen across all types of devices and OSs.

Regardless, this seems very bad.
The only problem is that you think a private cooperation and not the government YOU elect should be in charge of your privacy. Insanity this whole discussion is symptomatic with the whole tech bro movement. Everyone expects that the government THEY elect have the worst for them in mind. If you are really scared of your government you have to change the people that govern you and not build arbitrary tools to "secure" your privacy.
Home Mini used to search YouTube first. At some point, they changed the preferred context to Play Music, and you would have to say, "Play x on YouTube" to get YouTube audio, even if a more correct result was on YouTube than was on Play Music. Obviously, Play Music is no longer available; it seems like it it now completely ignores YouTube searches and will only use YouTube Music.
Author is using a biased source of opposite opinions. There are more than two classes of skeptics. For example, I bought it initially, learned and understand how it works, became a skeptic, but still hodl because contemporary market mechanics.

Author might consider the arguments found among many HNers
No. The intent is not that it works on iCloud. The intent is catching pedos.

This is obviously not effective given that you can get around it that easily if you want to. Coincidentally though, it will be totally effective at surveilling the 99.999% that are normal users and won’t go out of their way to disable iCloud. The whole CP thing is such an obvious farce.
git does have a concept of a merge commit, and most pull request tools have the option to force merge commits (as opposed to and in contrast to fast-forward merges or squash/rebase merges). If merge commits are forced you have an object representing completed PRs in the DAG. You can use tools like git log --first-parent to browse the "PR list" without needing to get into weeds of the individual commits "inside" the PRs at first.
I’m not denying man made climate change. I’m challenging the status quo and looking for a response with our solution when the climate will, evidentially, change.
Thanks, that's exactly my point.
This makes me appreciate the tough spot that Apple is in:

> both the UK and the EU are moving forward on bills that mandate online service companies proactively look for and report CSAM. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if this were the most important factor behind Apple’s move: the company doesn’t want to give up on end-to-end encryption — and likely wants to expand it — which leaves on-device scanning as the only way to satisfy governments not (just) in China but also the West.
They're all a bunch of commies who want to repair their stuff and... own? it.
Any use for this now? I would not mind however to have a VM of a single computer i used since 1990 (mind you i skipped windows from 98 til 10) so it would mostly VM for mac & linux)
My daily driver is an Apple Watch. It does a dozen small things which add up to a great deal of utility. Sure I have to charge it every day, but it's worth it. Needless to say the time is always accurate, and I can display it however I want just by flicking a finger across the surface.

When I dress up, I put on one of my mechanicals (I have three and will probably add more before I'm done). There's just something cool about an intricate gear-driven machine on my wrist, and they look good: a dress watch is jewelry which happens to tell time.

Quartz watches kind of fall into the middle for me. It runs on electricity, but it won't tap my wrist with two different patterns which tell me if I'm turning left or right when I'm driving, and I can't tell it to remind me in an hour to take the laundry out of the dryer. It won't track my heart rate and I can't play 2048 on it.

So, boring. But that's just my taste, I'm glad you enjoy quartz watches even though they're obviously inferior as technology to a good smart watch.
I don't know much about Linux kernel internals, but I suppose the stack grows down in a virtual address space, where pages of the stack are allocated as needed by the kernel (?)
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I think they restricted it to 50% because it's looking at federal taxation (payroll, local and state level gets much more complicated), and ~43% of Americans don't pay any federal tax or receive a rebate. Many of these people are elderly, low income with children, unemployed, etc. But including them when looking at the impact federal taxes have would be incorrect.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/242138/percentages-of-us...
This is an ultra-cherry picked example. How many such 11-month-olds is this happening to? Is this a frequent occurrence or an astonishing rarity? I want to know how many children are being hospitalized after infection per capita. Everything I've read makes it seem like children being hospitalized by covid is around 1 in 100,000 with closer to 1 in 1,000,000 dying from it. Kids are at higher risk just going to a swimming pool. In a nation of 330M+ people, it's not hard to find examples of extreme outliers (just google "kids struck by lightning" for example).
> They could have done what you describe at any time in history.

That doesn't make sense. The issue is that Apple is very publicly signaling they are changing their approach to privacy now. Companies change approaches to any number of things all the time, they're not static entities. As such you have to evaluate their nature as a consumer on an ongoing basis, not one time forever. It's true of food, it's true of consumer electronics, it's true of general product or service quality, it's true of privacy issues or censorship, and so on. Apple even knew the consequences ahead of time - per the insider notes - and don't care, they charged ahead regardless.
I'd like to panic, but I'm exhausted from panicking about Covid-19 Delta variant and the climate reports and news.

There's no crisis, critical and similar words - I assume we can just ignore this one? Or should we panic? Please tell us.
What does TT ultimately intend to do with OSM data? Do they intend to:

- provide OSM as a second option in their map products

- gradually switch over from proprietary data to OSM

- switch to OSM but only in select countries

- do something else entirely?
Not necessarily, but I jave no reason to believe China, Saudi, Turkey, the UAE or other countries with some kind of leverage won't try. Especially with their own citizens living abroad.
The roles of hands and feet in temperature regulation in hot&cold environments
>no doubt influenced by music licensing law and contracts

Yes. Well, I assume this must be part of it.
Sure, then let them play their authoritarian hand in attempting to follow through on that. Maybe at some point, it gets ridiculous enough that some critical mass of people get fed up and we are able to reverse course.
I love this fix. I have an analogous problem. I have a small powerboat. When speeding across even mildly choppy water, it can be difficult to read the navigation and instrument monitors. Wish I had the time and skills to make a hack for this.
HN is the only place I feel safe enough to post these pro-privacy opinions. In many other communities, I've seen people being accused of serious crimes for daring to take issue with whatever surveillance the authorities are trying to implement. I've seen people openly speculating about the CSAM stashes of encryption users. What else could they possibly be hiding, right?

I don't think I trust actual authorities either.
Australia has already moved to make legislation [0] that is basically an expanded version of it, with incredibly vague terms ("material... may be harmful"). Weaponising it has already begun.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/canberra-asks-big-tech-to-intr...
If you need to hire high powered lawyers to be able to use crypto, isn't that demonstrating that crypto has failed to be a universal, government-independent currency? Or am I misunderstanding something and that was never the point?
If you force merge commits you at least have a record of completed PR activity in git history, even if you don't have details such as review comments (or in progress/in review code review efforts).
Is it cheaper to find and prevent ALL vulnerabilities than to find and exploit ONE?
You probably need a mix, because "extract carbon from the ground" wouldn't work for other sources (eg. methane or cement production).
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I keep hearing the AGPL-makes-corporations-wince argument, and I'm curious: what are the reasons given?

Does the AGPL really place such burdens on the organization such that the benefits of a locked-open, community-guaranteed (albeit popularity not guaranteed) technology aren't worthwhile?

Or is it kind of a cargo-culting and cultural-norms phenomenon where people don't use AGPL projects because they've heard that other people don't use them, thus continuing the cycle?
Many of the biggest lies ever sold, such as the Operation Iraqi Liberation, started with "We must do it for The Children™!"

Yet we have widespread evidence that political/financial elites engage in Child Sexual Abuse in a Cult-like way, as a condition for their assumption of political/financial power.

When Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Bill Richardson, many other politicians and financial elites (the majority are still in the shadows, not yet exposed to the public) have been jet setting with decades-known child sexual abusers such as their good friend Jeffrey Epstein, it really makes me question the ACTUAL motive.

Ruling elites do not care about CSAM-- many of them engage in it, as part of unbeknownst or beknownst honey pot schemes, whereby blackmail is gathered on them as collateral that they will follow the political and financial dictates of their [ultimately] Israeli Intelligence handlers.

This is merely an excuse to exercise power. And why now? Because you know qui are afraid that they've played their hand too sloppily-- forbidden knowledge on their true colors has spread too fast & they can't keep a lid on it-- and now populaces around the world are rioting against their satanic organization.

Hence, this is likely to find and eliminate their political opponents from effecting their mission to centralize financial control.

One way to centralize financial control:
Demoralize and Destroy a capitalist society. Introduce communism. The massive revolution will cause real estate and capital prices to fall in relative value (such as thanks to massive inflation), making it all the easier to buy up by elites to further centralize their control. When you're happy with your level of control, re-implement Capitalism (but not before selling the most important state controlled infrastructure assets to your cronies) and the cycle begins a new. Such is the Capitalist-Communist dialectic that we've all been exposed to for the last ~120 years.

Actual solution: Eliminate Israeli intelligence agents across the US Government & Economy. Hold Israel accountable.

(Rather inconvenient to do when they're holding blackmail material on you as a politician)
> The idea of societal benefit is very nebulous. [...] How do you measure something like societal benefit?

That is indeed a very hard problem and one of the mayor challenges of any society. But that doesn't mean that any endeavor that includes this notion is to be avoided. You gave the example of eradicating disease.

> I can guarantee we have different opinions about the value of things. That's why we should be free to make our own choices. We don't need everyone in the world to help define what "societal benefit" is for them, they can do it every time they pay for something out of their own pocket.

But now you are not arguing about ice cream anymore. You seem to be just generally skeptical of a strong centralized government. And you can of course argue that and there are no simple answers here. I was just pointing out that your ice cream argument doesn't hold water.

Unless it is "Any kind of government interference is bad. This is why we shouldn't ban ice cream. Therefore we also shouldn't ban bitcoin." If that is your stance, then ice cream and bitcoin are indeed equivalent for your. But that is probably not the worldview of the people asking for bitcoin to be banned. Then your post does not argue against their view, but against your version of their view.
You'll experience the climate crisis as an ever increasing digital stream of catastrophes captured on cellphone camera until, one day, you're the one doing the filming.
Do you mean this would apply to Macs too? So if I used some non-Apple photo app, and uploaded photos from a camera, they would be similarly monitored?
> Progressive taxes harm the middle class whilst the rich figure out ways to avoid them. If you want the average person to do well, you should support a flat tax.

If the concern is "the rich figure out ways to avoid" taxes, there's no reason why you need a flat tax to address that. A progressive tax can abolish deductions, etc. just like some flat tax proposals do.
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I simply disagree. A tax on rent is the most effective and efficient method of redistribution, justified by well studied economic principles. It will create more wealth and save more lives than the alternative. No other tax is clearer or more effective, even in theory.

If you have a minute, just browse the "Economic properties" section of the wiki page on Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism#Economic_properties
That's also opt-in, though it's opted in by the parent of the child you're communicating with.

If you're talking to adults, or children whose parents don't want to use the service, you're not getting your photos scanned.
IMO if you’re capable you should start your own business that adheres to the values you mentioned.

If you’re FI might as well craft the future you want instead of hoarding the potential capital. If you hate mega corps then start a company and put people from minority background on your leadership roster. Focus your resources towards building something useful. Idk I feel like waiting for FI or the “system” to change is naive.

My whole career as a software engineer and entrepreneur has been stitching together multiple systems to work together in harmony. It’s much easier to write layers on top of the complexity for new people, or to leverage the strengths and account for the weaknesses of certain systems to make them work well together.

I’m sure this can apply to changing the society. It’s cheap to say just burn it down and start over, or that the system sucks and boohoo. It’s hard to actually do the work of making a difference now today so society will be better off in x decades.

Also life is literally a competition for survival. It doesn’t mean we should be awful to each other but to try and remove competition wholesale is also a dead end IMO.

Good luck!
On somewhat of a side note, has anyone stopped their subscription to Stratechery in the past year?

I've been a paid sub to Stratechery since the Amazon acquiring Wholefood article - I think Ben's thinking is really unique and valuable.

But - I've recently stopped my subscription, partly because of change in my own finance, partly because I am no longer interested in what Ben wants to cover - namely privacy, policy, and anti-competitive. I miss the days where companies like Stitch Fix could earn a email. I think Ben is covering important topics - but it's not something that I'm really interested in.

Plus the fact that each post seems to require a large amount of prior knowledge - manifested by the large amount of quotes in each email.

What do you think? Have you found other blogs worth subscribing to?
True. Everything I saw so far doesn't show that Haig came to that conclusion put of an understanding of armored or combined arms warfare but rather from sticking to tactics he knew. And IMHO the reason why you come to a conclusion can be as important as the conclusion itself.
>If not, it will be an interesting test of how many users Apple will lose over this.

Lose.. to whom? PinePhone? Not trying to be flippant, but... there is no longer any option for the common user.

No, my elderly mother is not going to download and flash a custom de-googled ROM for her OnePlus 9 Pro. Pure fantasy that Apple will lose users because of this. This is a nonstory to everyone who lives and works east of Tahoe.
jumping from Google Search to a specific thing on Youtube/Music is just that, a jump. These are complicated/addon systems that are evolving and there's not a direct connection between the two necessarily. There are all kinds of contract and alterior motives involved when music industry and YouTube Music product marketing/goals etc are in play. The choices they've made as far as user experience (which is what your complaint is really about) are theirs. It's not horrifying. It is 'something else is going on' but not freaking deceptive must-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-conspiracy. This could be a blog post you could link to?
Thanks government!
Is 1000x from current efficiency good enough?
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