skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a "friend" with a single solitary plant in "their" backyard right now. It's been growing from a seed since February. It is barely 10" tall. No signs of whether it will be a female or male. It has been getting watered and fertilized with all of the other veggies/herbs in the garden. This plant is not going to be keeping my "friend" in supply of flower for any kind of regular use.

You too sound like someone that has never tried growing their own plant. I can tell you from experience, of my "friend", that it takes way more effort. My "friend" is not using lights or anything to trick the plant into doing more like other places do. It's just a green thing with unique leaves in the garden.

Edit: Correction, it's barely 20" tall now.
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Particles that travel faster than light have been theorized about for a long time. However, if something was traveling faster than light speed it apparently could never slow down to light speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
Is the obvious and only logical way to colonize the space.
You'd think, but come to San Diego and take a look at downtown. I frequently see 2-3 buses driving in a row down Broadway with single digits of occupants between all three.
He understands, he's just playing the game.
Why doesn't Apple have the freedom to detect and report child porn?
The chart that shows excess mortality seems to have much more volatility than I would expect.

Why can't this simply be noise?

As an aside - I'd be very interested to see the excess deaths by cause. Could it be possible that some or a lot of these deaths were actually people that got Covid but had no symptoms?
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Oh dear. I am afraid I must have communicated poorly or perhaps you misread the question.

I am asking what the delta between set B (bullying) and set C (criminal activity) is. What false premise is there? If you don't think there's a delta, then you agree with me ab initio. If you do think there's a delta, then how can you say that asking what the delta is relies on a false premise?
$1 per Earthling and year for a Moon Base is a very cheap and obvious investment!

It's genuinely impossible to predict how much money Moon Tourism could generate, until you've built it.
"Did the offer contain a map you believe came from a precision planter monitor?"
While browser extensions are a security risk (especially auto-updating), you might want to check out https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia
By reporting potential criminals to the authorities by scanning what is essentially private data (images, messages), I'd likely argue they're violating unlawful search and seizure and I doubt a conviction would stick[1]. It's not like my landlord can barge in my apartment and look under the couch for illegal drugs because he heard a rumor I bought some.

I mean, probable cause is already sketchy enough, what Apple doing is beyond the pale.

[1] https://reason.com/volokh/2021/08/05/apple-plans-to-scan-us-...
I use Wipr. Firefox Focus is a free one for iOS though.
Because they don't want to decrypt your non-child-porn files!
Can you explain to me then why there is such a surplus?

All of above sound rational to me, and yet, massive and growing surplus while retail prices are increasing. There is bullshit somewhere. Is this what you mean by not quite a free market, that these surpluses are a function of market barriers? They have no one to sell it too?

That might explain why concentrates are dropping in price. If you can't sell it, make something with it you can sell. Conjecture, that.
People can only walk so far especially if the weather is bad, they are older, etc. The point is if I have to walk past multiple gas stations and a car service center with broken down cars and fumes then it’s not a nice place to walk. I have lived next to a car service center before and even though it was tiny it was a constant blight on the neighborhood.

Not to mention almost all the grocery stores in San Rafael are east of the highway while the Google-labeled walkable areas are west of the highway. So in practice people probably don’t walk to the grocery store on a regular basis unless they go to the Safeway. You may have a different view but Safeway is a terrible grocery store by Bay Area standards so it’d be a real shame for that to be your only realistic option without resorting to bus rides.

Bus transit is less reliable than metro for a number of reasons, most notably getting stuck in traffic. It’s fine if it works for your particular usage pattern but a bus that runs once an hour and doesn’t have an exact arrival time isn’t the most convenient. I’d much rather have a metro that comes every couple minutes like almost every major city in Europe and Asia.

You seem to hate BART but I’m not really sure why and why you believe the cities outside the North Bay are full of lawbreakers. San Mateo has a higher household income and SF is tied with Marin. Marin is just full of more NIMBYs. It’s not like their shit doesn’t smell just because they live in a less populated county.

As for why I focus on public transit, it’s because you can only walk so far before you need another mode of transit. If you don’t find a convenient one, then most likely you’ll take a car. If people take cars a lot, then the city will be designed to support those cars which makes it harder to walk. Then fewer people can reasonably walk to all their needs so even more people buy cars creating induced demand as the highways and roads constantly need to be widened over the decades.

Maybe you’re happy with a tiny little downtown like those in most of the Marin cities but for most people from a major city they would be bored with what they could easily explore on foot in one of those towns in probably a few weeks. Without a way to connect to other cities, you’re basically just trapped in a tiny little area without resorting to once an hour bus service and cars.
> If this is 1°C, what's 2° going to be like? 3.5°?

Lots of dead people.
I think it’s alright to have an un-nuanced position about it. The whole problem of course is false positives, how they will be handled, what recourse innocent people will have to exonerate themselves, etc. None of that is going to be done in good faith or out in the open.

Think Guantanamo, or PATRIOT act- this is the mode of operation in our political economy. How many lives did that save, how many attacks did it prevent? I’m not asking that rhetorically to imply the answer is zero, but to point out the whole problem is we can’t and never will know. It’s simply justified as “well we have to stand up to the baddies” and that is that.

There never will be an accounting for the intrusion upon freedom versus the benefit to society, you’re meant to just shut up and accept it. Because, jeez, there’s no easy answers!
I was thinking something along the lines of applying small transformations to all images before uploading, or even just images that are known to be problematic. Seems like something that people who traffic cp would be willing to do
Which TLD is that? Because I never want to use that domain and I'm thinking about hacking my DNS to fake-NXDOMAIN it entirely.
Emotional illness? You mean like "has mental health impacted your career positively or negatively"?
Even if they're only making technical decisions and not managing anyone directly, it still is going to result in employees being told to do what he commands.

You've either got power or don't, there's not much to being high-up if you're decisions don't carry much weight.
Roam is more oriented towards networked thought and knowledge management. Calculist is geared more towards problem solving and calculation.
> Because it's the land that drives value in the Bay Area.

I'd say that's kind of their point.
Even if Apple backtracks on this their trust has been broken
Farmers are receiving offers from tillable [0] to rent land that appears to coincide with data collected by Precision Planter monitors [1].

[0] https://tillable.com

[1] https://www.precisionplanting.com/products/product/2020
Finally, how cool it would be for someone on Earth to look at that crater with a telescope. Especially when an astronaut turns up at its focal point.
One thing I don't understand which Alex also points out in this thread is why Apple does not build a tool in iMessage to allow users to report/flag such inappropriate and abusive comms to Apple where Apple can then report to the authorities? Why Apple goes to this CSAM scanning route instead?
One theory put out by John Gruber was that the scanning was being done in device so that they could E2E encrypt iCloud in the future. So they satisfy the 'think of the children people', while giving you strong encryption elsewhere.

Time will tell.
>the indignity of being forced to prove I'm human

It's worse than that - if I prove I'm human by choosing pictures the machine doesn't agree with it won't let me in.

I recently found that using IE made for exponentially more tests. Out of pique, I tried doing the opposite of what was requested; for instance, if it wanted me to click on fire hydrants until there were no more, I clicked on pictures without fire hydrants until every square had one.

But it never got tired, or decided it was wrong about what fire hydrants are, or deduced the rule I was following.

It won't even let me differ on, say, 1/4 of them.
The last table in the paper is a one-sided t-test, where they get a 89-97% chance that the gap is not random.

EDIT Included the whole range
Not who you asked, but I use Firefox Focus as a content blocker. Since iOS only has Safari and WebViews (Safari in different clothes), you enable content blockers by going to Settings > Safari > Content Blockers.
Wow, this looks like the perfect answer to the OP’s question.

It’s a $5 app, one time purchase, with a simple HTTP API to send notifications. Looks super useful.

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The shape of traps is also similar to the pre historic desert kites of Middle East to hunt wild animals on land
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There's a great live conversation between Alex, Riana Pfefferkorn, and Matthew Green here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbYZVNSOVy4. Has more details on the reasoning and a little debate on the issues from some really good people.

Even pretty non-hacker people intuit quickly that it would weird (and maybe dystopian) for your laptop to constantly scan all the files on your computer against a government database. Why this should be different for phones seems unclear to me, and none of the pro-scanning takes I’ve seen have made convincing arguments about it.

Alex and folks in the broader abuse-prevention community don’t really make a principled argument about why phones should try to do this, but not laptops. I think it sounds a bit more obviously like something an authoritarian state would do, so the laptop analogy gets avoided. This isn’t really a theoretical concern; a natural next step for Apple would be to do this on the Mac too.
Pretty thoughtful take IMO. It is complicated and there isn’t a clear answer.

I liked Alex’s suggestion though: when it’s a highly complex issue, the best solutions happen when you can bring together the right experts in their field together, and collaborate, and I think it’s a very fair critique of Apple. It’s hard for me to imagine a situation where showing up at the conference, sharing a preview of what they were thinking, and then hearing the feedback would not have been beneficial.

(Speaking as a reasonably happy Apple user, I wish openness for some of these things was a little bit more of their DNA. When you’re as big as Apple, people need to just recognize that the standards are different. It may not be fair. But it’s just the way the world works.)
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
Agreed.

The problem, of course, is that the dataset is exclusive to Google, so while it may benefit society it's not creating a public good. But that's also true for text OCR.
> Domains are not that great for project identifiers.

I tend to agree. But the fact remains that you don't see fights over namespacing in Java even though everyone uses the same top-level space. I can't see how the claim "you still have the squatting problem of the top-level names. It's just now a fight over who owns `oracle/*`" holds any water.

> Domain ownership is not permanent, but project identifiers should be.

Package names aren't actually linked to domain ownership. There's nothing stopping me from releasing software under com.oracle.
Yep. Licenses, too. Being able to just pirate tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars (per seat, per year!) in ECAD, MCAD, cutting edge design and simulation software, and being able to do it in the open, sharing tips and tricks... being effectively exempt from US IP & copyright is a big advantage for small companies in the hardware space. I, too predict a wave of innovation that happens outside the US sphere of influence on account of shooting ourselves in the foot like this.
That doesn't matter. I was replying to a comment about our response to the pandemic. That comment indicated our response was a failure based on what we know today, and I disagreed that it was a failure based on what we know today.
I am of Pitcairn descent. My grandmother was born there. I'm a descendant of the mutineers Fletcher Christian, John Mills and Edward Young, and the Tahitian women who went there, Mauatua, Vahineatua, To'ofaiti and Teraura.

I've been to the island and I'm active in the Pitcairn community here in New Zealand. The island is a vibrant community of people working. When I was there they were very warm and welcoming. The island itself is small but with mountainous areas and there is much to see and do. The vibe on the island is very similar to any small rural town in New Zealand.

I have photos of the trip if anyone is interested http://cd.pn/pn2012/
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I am a bit skeptical of that studies findings. However, it is quite absurd that the US anti-smoking legislation (taxes, advertising bans, etc.) completely ignore the different forms of tobacco. Pure tobacco is probably better, and chewing tobacco is considerably better, and vaping is not even tobacco. Yet the US treats most the same way and many states are even adding tobacco taxes on vaping.

The reasons I can come up with:
1. The anti-smoking movement became very classist.
2. Big tobacco certainly prefers that cigerettes remain the most common form of tobacco since they are more profitable.
3. States like collecting taxes and don't care about the actual effect on public health.
This does raise questions about the wisdom of mandating experimental vaccinations for low-risk people. The vaccines are quite rough on the body from everything I've heard.

That being said, even if the vaccines do kill a few extra people there is still a pretty good chance it is net-positive. A lot of people will avoid nasty damage from COVID and death statistics aren't everything when the numbers are so low.
I struggle to label it as character flaws because it implies that it is an immutable property of the person. In reality, a lot of the no-stakes cheaters are compensating for something else. People often use video games as a means of escapism. There’s no reason not to think that people cheat in video games as a means of experiencing success, while living in a world that increasingly becomes difficult to succeed in.

There’s another group of “cheaters” and that’s just people who like pushing the game to the limits. Most video game speed running nowadays involves exploits and bugs. There’s often a fine line between labeling something as “cheating” vs “a whole new way to experience media”. I wouldn’t label those people as people with character flaws, even if they use these exploits maliciously. Some people don’t see the video game as something holy and untouchable. They see it as a testing ground, like how a pen tester might see a company’s infra. And their innovations sometimes produces great benefit for the gaming society, for example advances in speed running, etc.

I think the people that cheat in online chess probably fall in the first category. But I wanted to produce the second category because they might also be labeled as “cheaters” with character flaws.
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We should bomb the moon.
It's very hard to feel sorry for the victims. This suggests there are people who would rather pay 650 euro than get the shots. Is even the initial 300 euro worth it? This is so bizarre.
Land is 50-60% of the total value in the Bay Area. You can’t ignore the other 40-50%.
I’ll be downvoted you hell for this, but I’m gonna put this out here.

I’m a little concerned by the lack of concern towards the immense benefit this can have towards the terrifying problem of child pornography online.

If Apple wants to use this for the CCP, they will; and there’s already so many companies who are bowing to that regime.

False positives will be pretty obvious in court. I...I get the privacy concerns but honestly, I’m concerned with this getting almost universally negative reaction.

There’s nothing you can really say about privacy here I haven’t already read - I’m not interested in that. I know I’m going to get shit on by 99% of this community for this - but someone has to offer the opposing opinion; and I guess I’m that bitch atm.

I’m here to offer an opinion I’ve surprisedly never read in the maybe dozen comment threads on HN about this I’ve seen in the past few days.

As a victim of child sexual assault, I highly encourage anything that prevents that from getting worse.

I’m alright with this, I understand the community’s concerns; and tbh I don’t honestly think I need to read the - what I’m aware will be - scathing - responses to this comment. Happy to just see me at -50 karma tomorrow - heh.

Yes, let’s help stop child rape and pedophiles. Yes; sometimes to be serious about that we will have to take some extreme measures.

Thank God those extreme measures exist. May a hell of a lot more pedophiles go to jail from this. Looking hella forward to hearing how many arrests this was responsible for in a year’s time. <3
Someone who isn't me hung around on 4chan a lot back in the day. Indeed, there was an effort across the boards to disseminate heuristics to determine which one was the already-known word and which one was to be parsed by humans. The agreed-upon procedure was identify the latter as "penis".
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Preprints and blogs should be the default. Instead of peer review, which sometimes (often?) turns into gatekeeping or dismissing new ideas, we’ll judge research on reproducibility. The github model for science sounds better than what we have now. Journals to curate research is pre-internet tech, it’s outdated.
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> You can claim all you like that there is no coercion taking place

It's not just myself claiming it, it is google claiming it under oath. If they were perjuring themselves and their scanning was, in fact, coerced by the government it would not change improve the situation: In that case by scanning in response to government coercion they would be aiding an unlawful violation of their user's fourth amendments and covering it it up.

If you'd like to sustain an argument that there is a large conspiracy of tech companies along with the government to violate the public's constitutional rights on a massive scale and lying in court to cover for it-- well I wouldn't be that shocked. But if that's true then it their complicity is a VASTLY greater ethical failure.

I think, however, we should greatly penalize the prospects of a vast conspiracy to violate the public's constitutional rights. It would be far from a new thing for there to be large number of commercial entities violating the civil rights of the public without any government coercion to do so.

> My gut feeling is that the people bemoaning this as if the end-times were here will still all (for reasonable definitions of "all") be using iCloud in a few months time, and having their photos scanned

Well not me. I don't use any of those privacy invading services, and I hope you won't either!

And there are plenty of data storage providers that have users data encrypted by default.
It is a failure compared to what we already knew back then.

If people had just been smart enough to listen to Mike Ryan instead of bashing the WHO we'd be in much better shape today. All this slow-walking cost us dearly. That it could have been worse is true. But it also could have been much better.
I'd presume that this sort of content is been sent around between people who are both into it. Not much reason to report in that scenario.
"I dunno about illegal drugs, they're illegal for a reason. "

They're illegal for many reasons, which are mostly: stupid, unjust, racist, harmful, and hypocritical.

Alcohol is one of the most harmful "recreational" drugs, but it's still perfectly legal, and no one is seriously proposing we make it illegal again, despite all the violence, addiction, sickness, and death it causes.

Virtually all of the illegal drugs are less harmful than alcohol, and when they are harmful it's largely because they're illegal, as it means people can't reliably get what they thought they were buying, which leads to overdoses.

Not to mention all of the organized crime, imprisonment, and ruining of lives that prohibition causes (especially of the poor and minorities).
> - Even falsely claim you failed captchas even if you get them right

Do you have a source for this?
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And they all use reactive resin. No professional no matter their style uses a polyester ball for their first shot.
Object detection will find the bounding box around the text then you will need another seq2seq model to convert image to text.
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Two things - first, no typo, but in my jurisdiction legal alcohol age is 19, so +6 years is the margin of error (at that particular set of stores, anyway). Second, it's more about changing how the question is framed in the mind of the clerk. Instead of "is this person definitely over 19?" it's "is this person definitely over 25?" - which has a much safer error rate if there's a big penalty for selling liquor to minors and a small penalty for asking for ID when you don't need to.
> If I have greenfield projects under my direction, it is a promotion. If I have maintenance projects, it is a demotion.

This one's particularly dubious. Maintenance is important. Depending on your industry, it may be the most important thing.
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Your post is long and I don't disagree with much really, except maybe your flirtations with some restrictions on speech. Certainly we all understand, even in the USA, the concept of a "provocation". And on it's face a provocation is something that is hard to allow.

My problem with that is that criminalizing the provocation has lead in all liberal countries except the US into the criminalization of things that offend the sensibilities of the powerful.

I'd allow Charlie Hebdo to continue swimming in the cesspool of mediocrity it belongs, and I'll put up with blasphemy, if in exchange I have the full unrestricted freedom to argue for my conscience.