skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is just Android minus the nosy bits, it works just fine. I've used AOSP-derived distributions since 2011 and never felt I was missing out on anything, au contraire. Longer battery life, no ads, no spying other than through the radio firmware (which is part of all devices from all manufacturers using all operating systems [1]), no nonsense.

[1] I seem to remember that RIM (of Blackberry fame) made devices which used combined radio and systems firmware so those would be an exception to this rule
South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philipines and other were already firmly under the American umbrella before China expanded it's territorial waters.
"Portland police officers did not intervene during any of the confrontations and made no arrests."

This is disturbing.
I understand how there can be no center if the universe has positive curvature. But if the universe is saddle-shaped and non-infinite, surely there has to be a center?
The New York Times’ Big Deficit Numbers
Data of three million elderly citizens exposed in cloud security oversight
1,000 year old remains may be of a highly respected nonbinary warrior
The other side of this is that if you're a high profile person at Google, there are few companies that can give you similar or higher compensation. Even fewer if you only consider remote.
More productive can be different from more effective. Sometimes I'm more productive from home, but it takes longer to realize we've built the wrong thing. That said, I agree that organizations tend to optimize for productivity as a proxy for effectiveness, so I agree with you in that way.
A novel approach to entity resolution using serverless technology
The value you bring to the company is almost irrelevant. It's all supply and demand. Of course if you bring a lot of value that might increase demand for you, especially if few are able to provide that amount of value.

Also, no market is perfect. There are (well-paid) employees that bring zero or even negative value without anyone noticing.
« the company will not change an employee's salary based on them going from office work to being fully remote in the city where the office is located" -> that’s a huge saving for the company right there when you consider the price/sqft of offices in dense areas
Hi, I’m one of the (prospective) co-founders of TiloDB, a serverless “entity-resolution” technology.

We built TiloDB as the tech team at a European consumer credit bureau when we were faced with the technical challenge of how to assemble hundreds of millions of data sets about tens of millions of people in a way that is scalable and allows fast searching, without breaking the bank.

We tried various technologies, such as graph databases, but none of them could give us satisfactory performance.

So we turned to the opportunities of serverless technology (AWS specifically) to build a new type of entity resolution technology.

In this article we write about the technology breakthroughs that led to TiloDB, and there is also an interactive demo where you can submit data, see it linked, and see other people submitting data in real-time.

We want to spin the tech out into a new company, release it as OSS, and so are keen to hear about potential use cases you might have.
> Why not

backtracking on promises after buying from them
It's an accurate and objective description of the situation; there is no opinion involved. If you think facts are over the top, perhaps the situation is actually outrageous.
It's a good method of protecting important documents. Simply add some stamps on top of all documents in case someone steals them
Use notetaking software instead. Just as searchable, can add context. But also most web content is not worth bookmarking and will be link rotted in an eyeblink anyway. If you are serious about organizing your knowledge do not externalize it to the flighty whims of the web.
Both and more. The danger from the beam is limited to a specific energy intensity, otherwise the beam will pass through without depositing much energy (there is ways to calculate this). The bigger dangers are all the atoms the beam knocks out on it's way that are likely to transmute into radioactive isotopes via various modes of actions as well as the hard bremsstrahlung generated by the beams interactions as well as some of the stuff it knocks along (there is enough energy that if the beam knocks into an electron, the electron will dump some bremsstrahlung while it slows down again).
Not sure that holds.

If laws are made behind the veil, then, by definition, they are neutral to the worst off and the best off.

Edit: lots of talk about "if" and "best" and "worst" below. I don't think they're the point. It's about right and wrong regardless of if / best / worst. Sure people have agendas, the aim (which may sometimes / often fail) is to work beyond those agendas.

For me Rawls is a goal, not a fact.
Nice. I am able to relate this with the book : organize your mind organize your life . https://www.amazon.in/Organize-your-Mind-Life/dp/9351060640
Yeah my comment is kind of tangential to the post and aimed more at the general idea of location-dependent salaries.

I don’t argue with the concept of saying “we want you back in the office, if you don’t want to come to the office then take a pay cut” like is going on here.
My understanding (from someone who would know but said this in a Chatham House rules space) is that NCMEC is already incredibly underfunded, understaffed, and backlogged. Similar incentives apply to them. They're a nonprofit: a private organization who has significantly fewer dollars than Apple does.
All watchers of Clara Morgan were watching what is legally categorized as “child porn” (=“any depiction of an individual under 18).

And since “depiction” includes drawing, any consumer of Hentai (s. manga) is hosting what passes legally as clear child porn.

I wouldn’t be surprised if 25% of the youth could be taken to jail according to the law, so, definitely, a learning period or warnings are required.

It’s akin to all the US adults who are registered as sex offenders because they peed in a park at night. Apple is clearly help with law abuse here.
Looks like something useful, at least as a form of additional documentation to CM4.
Firefox 91 Introduces HTTPS by Default in Private Browsing
Wait, are you a fellow 57er? I thought there might be quite a lot of math school alumni on HN.
But how does that allow our company to sell more pesticides?
I'm confused what scenario you're positing here. Given the widespread adoption of encrypted communications, steganography is of no use to traffickers of CSAM. Steganography generally serves only one purpose, which is to transfer material in public view with plausible deniabilty—such as leaking material out of a military facility which has exceedingly robust data protection processes.

Apple have explicitly said that their hash algorithm is only concerned with visible elements of the image.
This will happen with or without iCloud; the photos in iCloud are already not end to end encrypted and could easily be scanned on the server side because Apple can read all of them today.

The only reason to do this clientside when the data is already readable on the server is to do it to images that aren't hitting the cloud.
again, I hope someone sends a couple of executives the recently posted images, to make a point
You don't even need to inject code into a public website. There have been no shortage of zero-click exploits for iMessage
It's a different kind of tool. It doesn't run any automated audits. The idea is to present your website in a way blind users would "see" it so that it's easier to empathize with them.

This plugins renders accessibility tree for a website. E.g. instead of images you'd see their accessible name.
How is that going to get the image into your iCloud photo storage?
Lando Calrissian: That wasn't part of the deal! You said the wookiee and Leia would stay under my protection!

Darth Vader: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further. [departs in an elevator]
Indeed, translating from the #1 language to the #4 language (or back) is problematic. Google's translation is usually enough to approximate what was said, but often results in gibberish. As a small example, it consistently fails with the spanish pronoun "su" - which is a word that depending on context can mean "his", "hers", "its", "your", "y'all's", "their" -- which seems to be a good example of the compressibility of natural language. How big does the corpus used to train their models need to be to get "su" right?
If you could have your company pay you all the money they have (but still magically continue to function), wouldn't you?
And there is your answer "from 90's to 00's". Beating was done in communist era, not after the fall of Iron Curtain.

I personally received beatings from my math teacher during middle school (5th to 8th grade), which was before '89. He would make me have the fingers up and together (think of like Italians argue) and then would hit my 5 thumbs altogether at once with a wooden stick.
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The Walrus Operator: Python 3.8 Assignment Expressions
Filtered in Fortunes Cookies, Full Stack, ORM Only, MySQL / Postgres DB, and Realistic Approach, the difference is still 50x. That is already lower than the RAW SQL approach from 100 to 150x.

And if we just look at .Net and ASP, these were done before all the optimisation came in latest .Net and ASP.net version.
You’d be saving energy by closing more tabs indeed.
The https://heibox.uni-heidelberg.de URL required for the checkpoint file seems to be down or at least very flaky. I wonder how many Colab boxes are currently trying to download the 900 megabyte weight file...
I've been looking for platform-independent bookmark keeper and like to selfhost things, so I've set up a wallabag instance [1] hosted behind my TLD. There's an Android app via F-Droid as well.
Can recommend this a lot. Using it to either save websites (wallabag downloads all HTML content) or catch up on longer articles during train rides etc.

[1] https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
If there's few years of diff usually no matter the effort put in everyone will want to rewrite this, not only just because, but because tech ages so fast and everyone wants to work with just the latest.
I stopped using stock Android and went back to iPhones because I thought Apple cares more about privacy than Google does. Not exactly correct in all cases I know (ie. they both suck in terms of privacy), but it seemed like Apple users are buying in, so it might work.

Now I think my next mobile OS is going to be GrapheneOS.

Like others have mentioned, this is as big of a warning as anyone's going to get to get out of that locked-in ecosystem. On that note, the outrage is kind of useless if you don't skip buying the next iPhone. You should fully own what you fully pay for.
We've done the experiment indeed; see the historical example of the Spanish conquistadors. Other than that I'm not aware of it, so we don't know if such an attack could work. Its a hypothesis.

The original SARS and MERS were too deadly to spread widely. In order for the attack to work, you don't need a disease which is lethal. All you need is a disease which makes your enemy ill enough to attack their infra, while you're immune (e.g. via full vaccination, or because of group immunity from antibodies).

Right now, Israel is practically immune to COVID (and was the quickest to get vaccinated), while their surrounding regions are not. This could give them an advantage in warfare, should they decide to initiate such (legit or via proxy). Which, incidentally, is also why is was clever of Israel to pay large sums of money for the vaccines.
I had the privilege of watching a bunch of (6 or 7) French engineers make an impromptu visit to the ticket desk (of the airline I worked for) at Charles de Gaulle airport and work their magic, running comms and power with no fuss, just teamwork and that brilliant "why not now?" European attitude.

Meanwhile back at Heathrow that would have taken months of permits and planning and dealing with useless subcontractors.

State monopolies FTW.
Spotlight on a Chinese Espionage Campaign in Israel
What is it that you're struggling with? Then we can have someone that doesn't struggle with that issue tell you that you just have to do this or that. Afterwards your struggles will be a thing of the past!
> One Google employee ..would likely see their pay cut by about 10% by working from home full-time
> The employee was considering remote work but decided to keep going to the office - despite the two-hour commute.

10% paycut in place of 10 hours of commute seems a good deal to me.
> <img width=0 height=0> would do the job.

No, that's not how the Apple's system works.
https://archive.is/LyRKW
Which is why most popular sci-fi franchises end up with velocity caps, justified either in-universe or out-of-universe. E.g. Star Trek sublight propulsion (impulse engine) has been established indirectly and through "word of God" to work with speeds up to ~1/3 c, which is not enough for relativistic effects to cause a big impact. The issue is conveniently omitted, because why travel fast through "normal space" when you have easy access to warp drive / jump drive / hyperdrive / wormholes, that gives you FTL and happens to drop you out into a convenient reference frame? And all the interesting action happens around planets anyway.

This omission makes it easy for the writers to introduce relativity as a nerdy plot point. For example, StarGate: Atlantis had an episode with a ship traveling absurdly close to the speed of light, which was devised as a convenient way to introduce characters that should've been dead for many thousands of years.
The moment the author mentioned SPAs as feeling snappier, you could predict that would be the main topic of discussion in the HN comments.
> once you get close enough from c, all the stars in the universe appear to be either right in front of you, or right behind you,

I don't understand that one, could you please expand on how it works ?
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ISA says solar is the way as IPCC gives red warning of climate change
Essentially large part of education falls onto the shoulder of parents, which is natural. I'm even preparing to sharpen up my Math/Physics/Electronics skills for the future. Time to re-learn those things that I mostly forgot!
You only need to encounter this problem a few times before you stop trusting the compiler at all.
I think all you need to do is wait. Eventually the statistical methods will stop progressing so quickly. Either because they starting hitting tough obstacles, or because they manage to solve all the problems they set out to solve and go "now what?". That's when interest in alternative methods will pick up.
Fair point. There was a discussion about an article asking why companies don't pay their Developers more to stay recently [1].

If I was maintaining some decades-old legacy code and knew that my employer will most likely still be around and pay me a competitive salary for the rest of my life, I wouldn't mind just mastering COBOL.

But most companies go bust or lay off developers at some point, so keeping yourself employable by working with the latest tech stack is unfortunately quite a necessity.

[1] https://marker.medium.com/why-dont-tech-companies-pay-their-...
I feel the exact opposite about the reactivity.

React is: always right, sometimes slow

Vue is: always fast, mostly right

I prefer fixing performance bottlenecks later over having any doubt about the correctness of my view or debugging why this one property only sometimes becomes reactive. But I can see how others would feel differently.
Software development as a career.
Hahahaha. Thanks for the lough.
"About 1 in 4 girls [...] experience child sexual abuse at some point in childhood."

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast...
Rethinking To-Do Lists
The planet is actually on fire, right now, as you read this.

So fuck productivity. We can manage.

We must sacrifice the inconvenience of wasting our time commuting because of some arbitrary productivity definition to stop the surface of the planet from being engulfed in flames.

There's also a pandemic that's killed 4.3 million people because productivity is apparently more important than containing the outbreak of a deadly disease.

Really, to hell with that.
On device hash generation is 'scanning local files.' The fact that this process is only initiated by being flagged to being uploaded to iCloud doesn't change the fact that it is being done on-device, and increases the capacity for surveillance significantly.
Right. But how did anyone come across this knowledge? Who would suspect that a particular creature might be better at fighting cancer than all the others?
No, I'm from 'Vtoraia Shkola'. And I wouldn't be surprised at all if there is a bias towards russian math school alumni here.
Not universally true, indeed. However if you got little children, it is most certainly true.
Elastic amends Elasticsearch Python client so it won't work with forks
This has not been my experience; my teams are actually more productive from home. And not by a small amount.

In a vacuum this isn’t a trend, but remote work does work well for so many people that the jobs that offer fully remote options are going to capture the lion’s share of the talent. There’s not a whole lot (if any) of competitive disadvantage in doing so, but there’s a whole lot of competitive disadvantage in not offering remote work to all employees. The Nash equilibrium is to offer remote work for all those who want it, so that’s what most companies will do.
Tabs, bookmarks and browser history are productivity nightmare; there is just no good way to organize all of it and search through it. Navigation is pain.

Imo the greatest problem of the modern internet is search; there is so much information and in particular unstructured information and no internet search engine even comes close to efficiently searching through all that trove of information.

Personal analytics and better internet search solutions should be the next big focus of web development in order to increase productivity. Metadata and semantic web dream should never be forsaken.
Apple's own transparency report, under FISA orders. Presumably it includes all subscriber data they can access for the specified accounts, so likely contacts, photos, and device backups (full iMessage chat history, or sync keys to decrypt same).

FISA orders are not warrants and do not require probable cause; the FISA Amendments Act Section 702 spying that goes on (aka PRISM internally to the IC) pulls data directly from cloud provider systems without a search warrant and was cited by Ed Snowden as one of the main reasons he came forward.
In some games the right moral choice is not to play them.
WhatsApp was my first thought as well. Any app that automatically saves photos to iCloud without user interaction is a huge risk.
You can use broad leaf herbicides on corn. Also modern tech spot treats at planting. Some farmers do this already. I don’t think everyone is growing pioneer.
I hate SPAs but I like APIs as I can build my own programs that add missing features to make my life easier.
This link is misleading and contains very outdated information.
> If Googlers had any collective bargaining power, they wouldn't be getting salary reductions: they would be getting extra expense money for desks, chairs, and ISP upgrades.

Since Google already pays the most, where do you threaten to leave to while bargaining?
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Yes, but now they have earned four times the money and better understanding of the product for releasing a year earlier than the bug-free version. Twice the price could be cheaper than releasing a year later.

I may be exaggerating but, as always, engineering is all about trade-offs.
The reported response from Apple offers little reassurance:

> The executives acknowledged that a user could be implicated by malicious actors who win control of a device and remotely install known child abuse material. But they said they expected any such attacks to be very rare and that in any case a review would then look for other signs of criminal hacking.

What triggers them to look for signs of criminal hacking?

Does every manual review process involve such checks?

Are they searching device backups for indicators of compromise [IoC]?

What if there's no device backup or device image to scan?

What if the scan fails to notice IoC?

What if the device was compromised after the last backup?

What if the device was compromised via physical access?

What if the device isn't compromised and the material was pushed maliciously or via drive-by download?

It's dangerous to assume that all material on a network-connected device arrived with the consent of the user when it can accept incoming messages from strangers, trick people into downloading files, or be compromised without your knowledge.

“That isn't mine” is going to be a tough defence if you can't even take measures to log where content came from.

Client-side scanning seems to amplify this issue (which could still happen with cloud storage) because at least cloud storage doesn't generally ship with or integrate deeply with messaging apps, social media, a web browser, QR codes, App Clip Codes[1] etc.

The impact might be fairly low right now with the current proposal (images would have to be uploaded to iCloud, so cached browser images don't get scanned as far as we know), but the existence of the non-consensual scan in the first place is worrying, because it means such attacks are only a policy change away.

[1] : https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Came for a similar sentiment: China is a billion people with a billion wishes. There are many clusters that conspire to achieve many different things, often opposites
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110610
> As for the US government having access to the backups, that’s required by law.

This is a false statement. Google's android backups are end to end encrypted.
Catastrophe is probably too strong a word, but I agree with the main idea here. The folks worried about human health effects are barking up the wrong tree. The risks (if there are any) are probably ecological, not medical.
This doesn't line up with all the other problems, which reward having some insight as well as the concrete algebra/arithmetic skills to finish it out.

If anything, your approach sounds more like what's expected in American schools: either you have been taught a foolproof way to solve problems matching Pattern X, or you stare slack jawed at the question paper thinking "I must have been absent the day they covered this question pattern". Exactly the opposite of the kind of thinking described in the article.

Besides, as in another comment of mine on this page, there is no generic method your teacher could have taught you here that always works. (If you think so, please set the right hand side to 1681 and solve that version...). The principal method I was taught for solving cubics was to make a guess. Numerical methods came later.