skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All valuable points when one ignores the history of bytecode distribution formats since the early 1960's, capabilities and containers security measures on OS processes.

No need to modify the code when data can be corrupted and thus be misused to influence the decisions taken by the code.

Yes, it will be probably a fun project replicating Burroughs architecture in 2021.

By the way, had Chrome the same market share in 2010 that it enjoys today, everyone would be talking how great PNaCL is.
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> Nongqawuse was the Xhosa prophet whose prophecies led to a millenarian movement that culminated in the Xhosa cattle-killing movement and famine of 1856-7, in what is now Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Cool story. I don't see the parallel here though. Is anyone seriously suggesting that we destroy our civilisation to save the environment?
yeah but I think that was caused by the Stray Cats being big with their videos on MTV - so Cliff Richard shouldn't have shown up first?
“it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

-- Upton Sinclair
If Apple didn't want CSAM on their servers, they'd implement it server-side on a worldwide basis, and not on the client-side for US clients.
The article, and many like it, does a poor job of explaining the consequences we will face. 1.5°C doesn't mean much to the lay man. Explain that uncertain harvests, tied to speculation on risks, will much likely lead to an increase in the price of bread. Add to that an increase in oil will also lead to a price increase.

Heatwave in Greece ? Greece is usually hot in summer so one doesn't care. Now explain how many houses were burnt in fire, how many people died, how much it costs to rebuild houses, where that money will be taken from, etc.

Consequences... Not prediction. Interestingly, my kids have hard time understanding the word "consequence". It's a difficult concept to get.
The public elects the policy makers.
His wealth is locked up in some form which though is valued in USD won't translate 1-1 to other forms of wealth.

You should also consider that Bezos can access his wealth in more ways than simply selling his stock. It can be used as security against debt for example. Should Bezos decide he wanted to he could borrow many billions of dollars secured against some of his Amazon stock today (assuming his contracts with Amazon don't preclude doing that). Bezos could also donate stock to a charitable trust, which could then sell it with much less market disruption. Or he could use dozens of other financial mechanisms available for accessing his wealth.
Feels like they messed up the comms on this in a quite un-Apple-like way.

My understanding (high level) is their system is designed to improve user privacy by meaning they don't need to be able to decrypt photos on iCloud (which is, if I understand correctly, how other cloud providers do this scanning, which they are required to do by law?), but rather do it on the device - without going in to the upsides and downsides of either approach, I'm surprised they didn't manage to communicate more clearly in the initial messaging that this is a "privacy" feature and why they are taking this approach, and instead are left dealing with some quite negative press.
I mean, they are employees. If they aren’t working, they will get fired. There work is measured in updates to the apps. They have to keep changing.
I Concur. Even though i am still not a fan, since his psrsonality was really offputting to me, Steve Jobs way able to do that. And he even was able to put it into words: "Stay hungry". Complacency begets Mediocrity at best (or worse).
I think we should do neither. Impose a co2 emissions tax and let the market figure it out.
Individual action won’t solve this problem. We need to leave the fossil fuels in the ground, which means switching energy sources, which is not something individuals have much influence on. Reducing energy use at the individual level is good, but insufficient if the energy used comes from fossil fuels.

I’m not sure we need to switch lifestyles that much, but we will need to radically change energy production. There has to come a global moratorium on fossil fuel production and the wells that exist need to be capped. If it comes out of the ground it will be used somewhere and the carbon will end up in the atmosphere. The more low carbon our lifestyle the cheaper fossil fuels will get and someone somewhere will always buy and use them. Regrettably politicians dare not talk about this elephant in the room.
I’m surprised that people continue to share that graphic with a straight face.

If “rent-seeking” contributes to people becoming wealthy then the two notions don’t remain orthogonal. The chances of finding more rent seeker among the wealthy is far higher than more rent seekers among the non-wealthy.

Additionally the size of “problems” that a single low-wealth rent-seeker causes is not equivalent to the amount of “problem” created by a single high-wealth rent seeker.
> climate change is going to be solved

But that's part of the problem - there isn't going to be a magic solution to climate change - it involves lots of changes to the way we do things, some small and some big (the way we travel, and build and consume things), most of which we already know about - but often they'll be economically damaging or a change in the way people live.
Biggest problem is "who govern the governors"

What is the feedback when such system is abused

> Existing images of CSAM that have been acquired and validated by X organizations

Will Apple be considered as responsible? punished?
Will Apple or the X publish the list of images and allow regular 3rd party validation? (I see security related product companies do that)

In this era it's hard, VERY hard to entrust our private properties to these giant tech companies. There is so little to NO negative feedback to their mis-behaviours. These companies need more regulations than individual citizens.
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my workflow is different : we use voice chat to share and we edit collaboratively. Both these allow to actually work together and, more importantly, think together.
So I fully agree, but we have to acknowledge then that the same kind of work can't be done at the home? On the flip side as a customer I wouldn't want my personal data to just float about the country into people's homes with loose security?
I would imagine dyke schemes will be a solution for the mega metropolises. It's the poorer ones that will disappear.
I went for using no framework/library at all. Surprisingly I don't have the feeling that I am developing slower than with.
My ex-gf was paying $100/month for a ghetto studio in Mariupol last year, and a foreigner I know is paying $200/month for an old 1BR on the fringes of Kharkiv right now. Kommunalkas can be insanely cheap, I've heard of $30/month for student bunks in Kharkiv, but you have to be on the tuition roster. Prices in USD terms dropped significantly after the 2014 crash.
I really liked Bill Gates new Book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster[1].
I liked that it shows what we have to do to get to 0 greenhouse gas emissions. What's the current state of technology and what's still left to do to get there.

I often find suggestions like "Meatless Monday" or "Only fly when really necessary" etc, while probably good, not really useful advice.
In Gates book he talks about that transportation and "building things" is good and we should not stop it, but instead find a way to make it emission free.

[1] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/My-new-climate-book-is-fin...
By which time Mickey Mouse will have lobbied to extend that yet again.
It's almost as if no one who buys that book and is in the middle of reading it but forgets it on their desk one day is going to say, "I know, I'll visit https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/ and pick up reading where I left off."

No matter how many inane replies you write (calling other people obtuse), it's not going to change the fact that you ignored the request and went ahead and posted a link to a marketing page, anyway. (As if, had it been the case that someone were actually looking for that page, they wouldn't have been able to find it in 5 seconds just like you did.) One can only imagine that you're the kind of person who spends their days reading half the words in an email, support ticket, or StackOverflow question, comprehending none of what the actual message is but convincing yourself you've got a handle on it, and then closing them by the dozen with some non-resolution while exclaiming "SOLVED!" and patting yourself on the back at the end of the day for a job well done.
And the stations that are not close to cities did not record any increase in temperature? Idem for seas and oceans?
I can think of no better illustration of the inequality in our society than this: the poor and middle class drink £5 bottles of wine purchased from Aldi, while the rich drink £50,000 bottles of wine. It’s truly shocking.
I understand that the EU is working on legislation that would make Apple's Child Safety plan manditory on all private communication platforms within the EU.
> Or are we still going to go after individuals eating traditional food

I mean, yes, we should continue doing that. Our relationship with food is unhealthy and also a massive contributor to environmental decline. I'm not sure why you contrast this with other improvements we can make, many of which, individually, would be less impactful than a transition to a more sustainable diet.
It's not only Amazon reviews. But also Google My Business reviews. Not to mention Yelp.

One of our businesses depend a lot on GMB reviews. Fortunately we're good about customer service and doing a good job, so 98% of our reviews are 5 stars.

However, in a couple of cases, customers gave us one star for things we had absolutely no control over, or something that was quite trivial and could be resolved in a minute or two. It's insane what that very tiny segment of reviewers will do.

There is good and bad about this. We've found a few bad reviews are actually a good thing, since people have said directly to us that we seem like a "Real" company. They know that reviews are gamed a lot these days. And they realize that real companies make mistakes. So we take those "L"'s and move on.

I don't agree with the heavy-handedness, but I understand they some do it. These guys are taking it too far though.
The question and answer i’m missing is:

Will Apple notify a user once an image has been (/erroneously) flagged and will be inspected by Apple employees?
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I don't really see how this is possible for humanity at a scale that affects global warming. Most water vapour by far is generated by nature itself. We couldn't make a dent in that.

The CO2 is what upset the balance and we are by far the biggest contributor there so it makes sense to address that.
Where does it say @import works with binary modules?
I like your attitude, and would love to hear more about why you think this. It doesn't seem obvious to me that it's something we'll actually "solve" while maintaining our current population/civilization, but maybe I just read too many doom and gloom articles?
As usual the elephant in the room is the global population.

We can't eradicate poverty, protect the environment, and maintain the human population we currently have.

Bikeshedding is always easier than facing hard issues so people focus on marginal things, like air travel or plastic cups, rather than facing the root cause of it all.

Do we want all humans to have a good life with high living standards among a thriving natural world? If the answer is yes then we need to be lucid enough to realise that this is not doable on this planet if we are 8+ billions.
Even security updates?
The reference is from about 20-25 seconds in to that video, from memory.

Edit: 1:17 in. I'd forgotten about the moon launch bit...
"Earth not being flat" is both consensual and unequivocal, isn't it?
One could generalize Tim Bray's "everyone should stop driving fossil vehicles starting now." into "everyone should stop burning stuff ASAP". Burning stuff is the largest source of CO2 emissions.

The two largest sources of direct personal CO2 emissions are transportation and heating and/or cooling our homes.

For personal transportation, EVs are a great replacement for ICE. They allow you to stop burning fuel directly and instead buy electricity. They're improving really fast, to a degree they're getting usable even for 1000 mile trips. And they use less energy, about a third of an ICE.

For heating and cooling homes there's heat pump, which uses electricity to pump the heat either into the house when in heating mode or pumping heat out of home when in cooling mode. No more dealing with soot, ash, and chimneys, and they're so efficient that you get more heat if professionals burn gas in power plants to power your heat pump than you would get if you burned the gas directly.

Both these allow you to drastically reduce your direct CO2 footprint, also known as scope 1 emissions.

A lot of electricity is produced by burning stuff, that's where it makes sense to get solar panels to try to produce most of your consumption or at least offset your use. Those are a modern miracle - getting 20% of sun's energy into usable form is far better than photosynthesis, which gets few percent at most.

While Tim says "everyone should stop driving fossil vehicles now", I acknowledge that it's logistically impossible to replace all the vehicles overnight. But the car market in the USA sells about 4 million of new cars every year, and those really should be electric if at all possible. Buying an ICE is essentially buying a 10-year subscription to fossil fuels and CO2 emissions.
Which is completely true! Antarctica was even covered by rainforest at one point! It's just the rate of change that's the issue (by many many orders of magnitude).

(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5)
What about tourism ?
Those of you on this site who hate on crypto to an emotionally charged, dismissively reactionary degree, take note: How secure do you think SciHub's donations system would be if it depended on Paypal, credit card processing, Venmo or Stripe?

You see? Crypto fanboy "to the moon" fanaticism and the criminal activities that bitcoin et al get used for aside, there are positive, defense-worthy use cases for blockchain currencies.
Nope. You cannot really sponsor yourself working for you own company, that would be such an obvious loophole.

I've been living here 3.5 years, 2 on a YM visa, 1.5 on a work visa. Unfortunately, my 2 years on YM don't even count towards the 5 required to get ILR. You can build up an entire life here & all it takes is for your work visa to be disappeared and then you have 1 month notice to gtfo the country otherwise you're "overstaying".

After 3.5 years somewhere you definitely build up "a life" there, but the UK gov offers no protections at all. Until you hit that 5 year mark they don't give a toss about you.
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It's difficult to care about long-term problems like climate change, when you are struggling to provide for your family in the present.

That's some of it, although some others seem to emotionally reject any information about climate change, which is more concerning (especially when those people end up in positions of political power).
A carbon tax that would be high enough to force changes quickly enough would also be devastating for the poorer segment of the population and hence very hard to pass in a democracy. I mixture of a carbon price and other measures can be easier to sell to the voters.
Yes, https://abetterrouteplanner.com/
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I'm pretty sure they could implement the same transport controls that my cassette deck had in 1989. They could also enable additional features when the vehicle isn't moving, if they cared enough to do so.

What's not safe is providing an app that's so frustrating to use that it encourages the driver to touch and grope and scroll and drag all kinds of different things, looking for a commonplace UI affordance that, surely, has got to be there someplace, yet somehow isn't.

Or (worse) providing an app that frequently (but not always) fails to return to the same screen and playback state that was active when the engine was last shut off. That's the #1 unforgivable sin in any autosound system, and... yup... they somehow managed to pull it off.

It's as if the Spotify dev team is managed by B. F. Skinner himself, and they think we're all a bunch of lab rats.
>we don't spend much time going into the weeds of how that number came into being

Because number of shares owned x current market price on an actively traded public corporation just isn't all that complicated. Where are the weeds?

Using $ as a measure of wealth whether liquid or not is absolutely normal in all sorts of contexts. I struggle to see why anyone would object

>absorb all that wealth instantly.

I asked before why anybody would want to spend $180 billion in a single day. You seem to have tacitly assumed that he would but I'm uncertain why. Or, alternatively, why this unreal hypothetical matters in this context.

Bill Gates is in the slow process of liquidating his entire MSFT fortune and spending it/rebalancing it, proving that being rich on that level is no impediment to actually using your wealth. Bezos is doing the same with a billion sold here and there to build rockets too. Where are the weeds?
> Why is Apple doing this now?

I find the answer to this question unconvincing.

If we think very selfishly from the company's perspective - Apple already had one of the most secure, private and trusted platforms. And they must have anticipated the backlash against the new feature. So I still don't get why a company like Apple would consider the marginal benefit from this to be worth the cost.
Climate change is bad. Govt are not doing anything.

But has any model taken into consideration about covid deaths?
I lived outside the US from 2004, including in France and Spain from 2009-2014. It definitely feels much less militarized there than in the US. Returning to the US after ten years was absolutely shocking.

However, I also lived in countries in Asia and Latin America where the actual military plays a major role in policing and putting down protests. Now I live in Portland, where the militarized local police put down protests, and I can say that the qualitative difference between those situations is that the local police do not represent the government of the country. They still answer to the courts. They can't throw you in a black hole without legal representation. They don't have the true power of the state behind them. They may be fucked up as hell, but they aren't the army, in the sense that the actual military is sent in to suppress uprisings around the world.

That was my point about what allowed America to escape the tragic cycle of coups that has befallen most other presidential republics ... the taboo on the military engaging in domestic policing. No other country in Latin America has that taboo, and as a result the army in each county functions as a bludgeon by whoever takes absolute power -- usually fascists, but in odd cases (Venezuela, El Salvador), leftist totalitarians.
As long as you mean 5 years of uninterrupted work visa (YM doesn't count) where losing your visa forces to to leave w/ 1 month's notice, then sure, they have "open borders".
Post Covid.
Does the fact that the NSA can comb your personal files and look at people's nude photographs not concern you? That's a present day reality brought to light by Snowden. Showing a colleague a 'good find' was considered a perk of the job.

We're lying to ourselves if we think this couldn't be abused and can implicitly be trusted. We should generally be sceptical of closed source at the best of times, let alone when it's inherently designed to report on us.

To your point of 'as a layman end user what is the cost to me?': more code running on your computer doing potentially anything which you have no way to audit -> compromising the security of whatever is on your computer, and an uptick in cpu/disk/network utilisation (although it remains to be seen if it's anything other than negligible).

My defeated mentality is partly - 'well they're already spying on us anyway'...
In the late 80's I took a Botney class at Sonoma State.

The professor always talked about what 1 degree of warming will do to the oceans. He talked about it all the time. It was his worst fear.

I though he might be overreacting a bit at the time, but not now.

He was an interesting guy, and was far from politically correct.

I remember his stance on people/bikes who don't walk on designated paths. The whole, "You are ruining the indiginious fauna argument". Well his unpopular stance was the surviving plants will be stronger.

I will never forget the honest worry he had over a 1 degree change in temperature.
They press conference ended and they didn't even said "One more thing...". And so much of the data already got leaked by journalists!
The candidates all mostly have the same program. Having the choice is an illusion.

Trump is not doing what's right for his supporter, he is doing what companies who paid him ask.

Biden is not doing what's right for his supporter, he is doing what companies who paid him ask.

That's not conspiracy theory, that's the model on which our society is built on
Yeah, but is working from home really a 'right' akin to 8 hour day or a 'perk' similar to office dinners or sabbaticals or corporate Christmas parties?
They explicitly don't want to implement it server-side due to the privacy concerns of decrypting every image in iCloud Photos. Doing it on-device limits Apple's possession of decrypted photos to those likely to be CSAM.
I was recently thinking about why bitcoin shouldn't just be banned to help mitigate the ongoing climate catastrophe which led to my recent article [0] which equated banning bitcoin to banning ice cream, which I hope helps to illustrate the absurdity of picking and choosing versus just charging for carbon more directly.

[0]: https://qasimk.io/2021/bitcoin-and-ice-cream/
I agree that communicating the average seems very ineffective, and if you can carefully source better numbers to replace that measure, you would do well to post them here. People will be happy to copy those if you can show it to them.

I suspect it may not be trivial to find a measure for the widening that people intuitively understand, but it's worth trying.
Before we had tens of thousands of years to accomodate though. Not hundreds.
I simply take it as a description of reality. As a child, you are nothing yet, but you have the potential to become almost anything. As you get older, you trade in that potential for something specific. It's up to you to choose. You can trade all your potential for one thing only or you can divide it up to become multiple things. The right balance is debatable. The real danger lies in taking it to the limit. If you try to become everything, you divide your potential up into infinitesimal pieces and end up remaining nothing at all, a child.

In any case, there is some real wisdom in Peter Pan, but it was completely lost on me as a child.
A frequent flyer tax would help here. Everyone gets a tax-free flight, then a low tax for the next one, and it keeps increasing for more flying. ~23 minutes in this podcast describes it and explains how it'd make a huge impact: https://www.cheerfulpodcast.com/rtbc-episodes/fair-miles

The key stat is it'd be enough to reach the UK's target on carbon emissions from flying by 2050, at a cost of 0% for the first flight and 9% on the second (going up steeply from there). Of course, other countries may have different data but the principle should be the same.