skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but not everybody is Galileo and not everybody's opponent is a dogmatic and powerful church. Just like it's probably not a compiler bug, an oil geologist's difference of opinion with a climatologist on whether and how the planet is heating up is probably not due to a fault in the climatologist's data or analysis.
Sorry but this is why we need regulation and fast. We need by default other app stores on all operating systems (similar to search engines Google were forced to advertise)

Google should have to compete on merit and if somebody doesn't want to give Google/Apple a cut, too bad.

These platforms should probably not be placed under the control of such large entities, Android/iOS should be split into their own organisation .

Google/Apple can then pick their OS or appstore, not both.
They have to replace God with something. This faith will do.
How incredibly curious that you find the word 'dad' to be manipulative but think 'man' is just a generic fact about someone.
I think this could make sense if it is applied in a small community of tinkerers that understand and accept the risks (cf. accredited investor), or I suppose a community of dissidents that trust the police even less than they trust the code, but for wider society it would not be appropriate.
Assuming the climate continues to change rapidly, which I presume it will, what efforts have been made (in any country) to deal with it? I have seen much about attempting to prevent climate change, but very little planning about how to deal with its consequences.

We can and should continue to discuss and explore our options for sustainable civilization, but at some point we need to start mitigating the risks for calamitous outcomes.

It feels a little like we are living at the base of volcano, debating about the best way to prevent the volcano from erupting.
> Can you please elaborate why you would think this is a mistake and Google should side step the app store rules applied to all businesses?

I don't think anyone is arguing for this app in particular to get an exception from the rules. People are arguing that this rule is ridiculous and that nobody should have to follow it as it's currently written.
> so that they can try and humiliate people driving hybrid and electric cars

I don't think that's really what they're trying to do. It looks more like garden variety virtue signaling. Just like flags in the back of the truck, etc. They're announcing membership in their tribe. I do wish they'd choose something that didn't pollute the air we all breathe.
> Other friends have CS degrees and don't believe it either.

I have three CS degrees. Our field has a real problem with hubris and reinterpreting everything through a CS lens, particularly assuming everything is discrete, falls into neat categories, and is not subject to noise.

I had a decade long debate with a friend from Chemical Engineering about whether the Universe was continuous or discrete, and also about whether it was deterministic. I recall confidently stating tons of crap about quantum mechanics, and it turns out I was completely full of shit because I did not understand probability theory or wave functions.
I would still like to see a push toward cellulose and wax replacing single use plastic.
But according to this article you can avoid this by not uploading photos to Apple’s service. Google is already doing this when you upload photos to Google’s service and Microsoft too.

The distinction is whether the matching happens on-device before upload or in the cloud after upload, it seems. If Apple already does on-device ML, it makes sense they would add more photo processing client-side to take advantage of encrypted or archival blob storage server-side.

Additionally, there’s still the option of using a third-party camera app, which wouldn’t upload photos by default at all.
Like the chemical weapons in Iraq, that kind of evidence?
> You are basically doing an hominem attack.

Were you trying to spell "ad hominem?"

> fox is doing an opinion piece on what RealClearPolitics reported

Right, which is the argument I said you regurgitated. It's such a cliché even Fox News already moved on to new talking points.
Same here. I'm not confused about what they're doing in the least.
Too late, you lost my trust. You had me at handoff and lost me with this.
These aren't payments. The user isn't purchasing anything.
I thought Bill Gates' recent book covered all the important problems and how they could be addressed.
Here is a good summary: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Lowering-Green-Premiums
It will most likely scan files in the /iCloud directory inside iPhone/iPad. In there, the file scan process described above will be executed, regardless of what the user stores there.

I do not see how this wouldn’t be easily extended to all mountpoints on the device. And again, one needs to have faith and assume the /iCloud binary information on storage is really physically isolated from everything else. Sorry, it is very unlikely they aren’t really scanning, as I said, everything.

Edit: clarity.
What authoritarian governments are people concerned about? I don’t think this makes any difference in a place like China.
The average disposable plastic water bottle ♳ is made of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate

and contains no BPA or other additives known to be toxic. You can reuse these a large number of times and not be afraid of anything.
Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]
As of last year[0] it looks like they were trying to make sure the app assets had clear licenses first.

[0] https://github.com/language-transfer/lt-app/issues/24
I still want to understand that side. And know how it can be counteracted, e.g. by subvention (to encourage the more expensive but better alternatives), and regulation (to outlaw the cheap but terrible ones).

For that, I'd like to know what exactly the "anything green related" is that's (being perceived as) expensive.
Apparently this isn't how Google sees it, but I'd say yes, giving people a way to donate on your website where your website is linked to from the app under "About" or "More Information" is clearly different from offering an app for purchase, or with in-app purchase, on multiple fronts.

The first is that it's a donation, not a purchase, and changes nothing about the app.
The second is that there's no mention of donation anywhere in the app, and the website/about/more info link does go to a website with more info.

If you instead, like Google, decide that this still counts, you end up the in the (in my opinion, clearly wrong) situation where Google either controls what you put on your independent website, or Google disallows you from linking to your website/portfolio in the app you made.

That sounds quite draconian to me. I wonder if adding an in-app purchase that says "donate w/cut to Google" would appease them.
Right?! This is honestly a service I would pay for and it’s… up for free?

There must be some type of cost on their end. Heck I’m happy to invest!
Tell that to history, current social issues, vitamin D levels, sickle cell and the cops.
same rednecks vote for trump...
Being a plan 9 nerd, I originally found 9ime [1] when I wanted a compose key in windows. It serves the same purpose and has the same default compose key of right-Alt. I’ve yet to be frustrated by it enough to switch to wincompose (but the UX is certainly better).

[1] https://github.com/sqweek/9ime
I also had to engage in an arms race with z-index:999999 to keep it above a website's sticky header.
> My skepticism was rooted in the fact that politicians, pundits, and the media were trying to scare me about it.

I'm sorry, but this excuse borders on a clear lie. There were "politicians, pundits, and media" lined up on both sides of this issue. And there had been going all the way back to the dawn of the issue in the 70's.

What happened was that you chose to believe one side. And it was wrong. But rather than admit that "your side" was wrong you're blaming the "other side" for, I guess, making you distrust them on a subject where you should have trusted them.

> I still think that should be a default suspicion, but that means you have to dig and check the details and check multiple sources.

Which is exactly what you did not do! You get that, right? Rather than check details and multiple sources, you chose to walk away from the people who were telling you the truth.
> Librem 5: Holy expensive Batman! for really low specs.

This is not just specs: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

Also the specs are not as bad as one might think: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p...

The i.MX 8M Quad is better than the Allwinner A64: 30% faster CPU clock speed, 140% faster RAM standard, 140% 20 better OpenGL performance, USB 3.0 and support for higher resolution cameras.

>One of the top posts was "HOWTO - Get MMS Working" and decided that, no

It's true: MMS is not well supported yet. But there is already proof of concept, so it's a matter of time until it works without tinkering.
That's not an argument that deals with whether climate change is real or not – but whether it's reasonable to believe it is, based on one's own lack of understanding in combination with making (reasonable) assumptions.
Doing this is not mutually exclusive to taking action on climate. Fracking is what's really killing the coal industry.

The kind of reasoning you're using rings hollow when you actually look closer at what's going on politically:

https://www.slowboring.com/p/climate-left

> $16 billion for capping orphaned wells and cleaning up abandoned mines.

> $47.2 billion for climate resiliency projects.

> $48.5 billion for public transit.

> $66 billion for freight and passenger rail.

> $15 billion for EV charging stations and electric buses.

> $73 billion for upgrading the electricity grid.
I have never been able to get my head around the religious paradox of God has a plan and free will.

Can we make choices that effect the outcome of things or is it all part of Gods plan? It can't be both right?

Did God create everything including free will or does it exist outside of his control?

I don't blame my program when it does something wrong, I mean I wrote the code that tells it how to behave.
Scared people flip to angry people. Leaders want to give people something/someone to be angry at that isn't them.
Maybe focus more on backend skills? Those tend to change a lot slower. SQL knowledge is still plenty marketable, even with no-SQL and GraphQL out there.

I'm still getting a good amount of attention from recruiters even though I have zero professional React experience. But then again I do have some decent Angular experience.
I think this link that has the actual interview might be better. The bbc is picking quotes out of context

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-techn...
On what grounds do you draw that connection?
The myth of the Indian vegetarian nation (2018)
>The 14 percent of Americans who are firmly opposed to getting the vaccine are overwhelmingly non-Hispanic white adults,

Followed by a chart showing a 65% white, 13% hispanic, 13% black breakdown for the vaccine hesitant.

Given the actual racial breakdown of the states is something like 60%, 18%, 13% etc., does it really make sense to call the vaccine hesitant "overwhelmingly white"? Reads to me like an article which tells people exactly what they want to hear.
I was deleting and reposting because they were getting insta-flagged. The comments weren't breaking site guidelines and we're relevant to the discussion. This is reddit level narrative shaping... I had no clue that kind of abusive flagging would make it's way to HN.

I will make a permanent account at your request. Thank you.
Could still have been an AI that automatically visits all sites and subsites in an App and scans for certain keyword and makes screenshots
> but are those mutations antithetical in some way to antibody production?

The problem Delta presents to antibody-based protection is that there is a several day lag in the body's response to detecting the virus until it produces mass antibodies.

If the (small) number of circulating antibodies are overcome by a large viral load, and if the virus becomes transmissible in a shorter time period, it can "get inside the curve" of antibody response and result in a transmissible infection before the host mounts a full response. Delta is apparently a couple of days 'faster' than the previous Alpha strain in getting to the transmissible stage.
Can I know why not scanning is not an option?

What happens, DoJ fines Apple? Police walk into Apple HQ and arrest Tim Cook?

Not speaking rhetorically here to be clear, I'm actually curious why it's not an option.
> atmosphere is shared between all countries

True, but since we are talking the old boss vs new boss... Neither can exactly tell China or Europe to stop increasing their CO2 output.
*smartjail
You can buy something similar on Alibaba.[1]

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Handy-Portable-Cranke...
What am I denying? That it is a hot summer. Or that I don't believe in climate change. For one, the records for temperature only go back a 100 years or so, so I would call it statistically insignificant. But, secondly, I truly would like to know what us as a people are actually going to do about it? Nobody on HN is going to give up their devices, or stop buying crypto that uses massive amounts of energy to produce. I just feel that the genie is out of the bottle in regards to the fact that the world will keep on producing more and more regardless of how people interpret weather patterns.
"Do you want to live in the Altered Carbon future? If not, realize that death is an important part of life. Paid for by People Against Cancer Research"
Also, a cognitive bias isn’t necessarily a fallacy.

It’s only a prism that deforms our perspective of the world.

Fallacies are a different beast altogether.
It seems you are stating that the loudly-spoken and widely-distributed words of the US president are "not important". I completely disagree with that. What the US President says is definitely important. I have already expressed anger in this thread that Biden has not taken the right actions. His words aren't even right. But there IS a difference - it DOES matter what he says.

Denial is not the same as acceptance. Saying that it doesn't matter if the president is a climate denier or not is pretty far out there - I haven't heard this take before.

Is it okay for the president to spread messages of pro-genocide and hatred? That doesn't matter right? The president's words literally don't matter, so whatever, he can go on about yelling that he's gonna nuke someone, doesn't matter. "Words [of leaders] don't matter" is a terrible take.
Science is what got us here in the first place, is it not?
Agreed. Usually it’s a fallacy to anchor to author, but in this setting it’s so ironic that it discredits the document. For example: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/30/investing/charlie-munger-...
How does this compare to the built in Win + .?
Perceptual hashes between a source image and its derivatives will be similar if they kind of look similar to one another. That's the point of perceptual hashing.
> Nothing wrong with boredom that leads to long walks and discussions. I think we need more of that kind of boredom in the US.

But then how will your existence be monetized? /s
I believe in climate change, the evidence is there when looking at the earth’s geographical shifts in time.

The question I pose to people which sometimes is misinterpreted is this: What will we do in order to survive climate change? All we hear is how to consume “greener” products.

Where’s the plan for major city relocation, new technologies, etc?
That brings back some fond memories from back when I was young. Slow? Ponderously. Primitive? Without question. Fun and endlessly entertaining? Absolutely!
On record meaning 142 years of history. Sometimes people conflate "on record" with "ever since humans were around" but on a species scale 142 years is basically no history at all.

Not to say that climate change isn't a very serious issue, but we will likely have to live with the realities of where we are headed, and life has adapted in the past to much larger swings of temperature.
> They aren’t scanning users devices.

They are scanning images on iPhones and iPads prior to uploading those images to iCloud. If you're not uploading images to iCloud, your photos won't be scanned -- but if you are using iCloud, Apple will absolutely check images on your device.

From Apple's Child Safety page:

> Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM is designed with user privacy in mind. Instead of scanning images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices.

> Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos, an on-device matching process is performed for that image against the known CSAM hashes. This matching process is powered by a cryptographic technology called private set intersection, which determines if there is a match without revealing the result. The device creates a cryptographic safety voucher that encodes the match result along with additional encrypted data about the image. This voucher is uploaded to iCloud Photos along with the image.

Source: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Generational Garbage Collection in Dolt
It’s not like the only alternative is Communism, seems like several Northern European countries are redistributive and don’t have 5 Year Everybody Must Die plans. Also I take the OP’s comments more as an indictment against trickle down economics which has been proven to not to have the claimed impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
Then I want you to do this today.

Fill out a form that says "If I get COVID I want no emergency resources to be spent on saving my life". Get it signed and notarized.

And if and when you are gasping for your last breath, I demand you stick to your convictions. That you don't want masks. That you don't want emergency live saving resources spent on you because of your demand that everyone return to normal for your sake.
I don't understand what this comment has to do with mine. Most people are not millionaires, there looks to be around 10.5M in the USA as of March 2020. https://spectrem.com/Content/millionaire-count-reduces.aspx
> we should talk about “destabilising the atmosphere”.

Or, more bluntly, "planetary fuckups."

Habitat loss, chemical pollution, overfishing, and microplastics are others, all leading to very bad things on their own.

Climate change is the big one though.
Samsung’s leader is out of jail, allowing US factory plans to move forward
This is just plain bullshit. The process is well documented, and there is no general scan of files inside iCloud.

In fact there is no filesystem scan at all. There is only a check that takes place during the upload process to iCloud Photo Library, which is separate from iCloud Drive.
PolyNetwork Exploiter is having an AMA
Maybe I've spent too much time among lawyers, but I have noticed that there are some very smart people that seem to relish having certain unconventional beliefs. A critical, independent mind is a great thing, but the danger is when the view is held because it is unpopular and not because of any critical investigation of the evidence. Call it "anti-confirmation bias" if you want. Or to put it another way, some people just seem to enjoy smugly dismissing the obvious answer because it makes them feel smart!
If you are tech illiterate then it doesn't matter if you have access or not to the scientific literature, it is hard enough to follow for people that are tech literate and this doesn't always seem to be by accident.

Almost every paper that I've seen could have been more direct, less obtuse and more transparent, especially when it comes to the presentation of evidence that is in doubt or marginal.

If you read papers from the beginnings of science they are such a breath of fresh air compared to the stuff that is produced today. There are some exceptions but they are few and far between.

Obviously science itself has developed, things have gotten far more complex and so on. But that's not really my point, the point is about the language used itself, which seems to be more related to attracting the next round of funding than it is to moving the needle in a scientific way. And those papers that do end up moving the needle tend to be remarkably blunt and precise in their findings.

There is a parallel here between scientific papers and start-up decks. Those start-ups and those scientists that know they have a live one don't need to fluff it up or polish the numbers, they can just present the cold hard truth and you will know it for what it spells out when you read it without any kind of embellishment.
Do some interviews. You'll see. The remote market is everywhere. Good luck.
> Its not only about me. Plenty of people do not like mask.

Look, I don't like wearing masks either. They often hurt my ears, and my glasses fog up depending on conditions, and they're uncomfortable in many other ways. Some of these things could probably be fixed, but mostly I enjoy being a hermit, so I can deal with it.

But, I really don't like all of the negative consequences of uncontrolled community spread worse. If the ICUs are full and I get an injury or other illness that needs ICU treatment, that's not going to be good for me. If the funeral homes are overbooked and I die, my corpse may linger for months before it rests.

If it's too dangerous for my kid to go to school in person, I'm going to have to hear more of the most awful video conferences ever this year. I thought work VC was terrible when I had to do a couple hours a week, it's much worse when all of the participants are using home networking, and nobody has a decent connection and everyone has their volume at max and are yelling; I like that a whole hell of a lot less than wearing a mask.
I expect most digital nomads don't work for employers--though I've known limited time exceptions within the US. For employers, I imagine it would create tax and accounting headaches and, while people can and do have working vacations and such, that's different from heading to Thailand for three months to work remote.
Fact-checking is a dead end, a poor substitute for development of critical thinking skills in the broader population. It may be more challenging, but that's what we need to start working towards.
Even for the child protection purpose alone... the 30 photos threshold thing is meaningless unless the false positive of the hash matching process becomes transparent. To achieve good recall rate, the hashing has to be in feature space instead of a plain md5 on the jpeg file (otherwise any compression or metadata change happened to the file would render the reference dataset meaningless), and I don't think anyone can promise that this has no false alarms, i.e. you take a pic of your child playing in the pool but accidentally get a hash collision.

Of course this is not the point. But skimming through the article I'm not impressed by these mostly irrelevant bits either.
For a long time polycarbonate Nalgene bottles did have BPA but they've removed it. Who knows what they replaced it with.
Haha I drive the turnpike all the time and these ones make me laugh the most. The ones that say "the green new deal is america's off switch" and the ones that were pro coal at least kind of make sense (their message is that people will lose their jobs), but these new pro-CO2 ones are just so absurd.
Correct me if I'm wrong. From the screenshot[1] it looks like the donation is made through Paypal, not Google's merchant services. My understanding is the app just links to a website. If there's any tax evasion going on it has nothing to do with Google.

[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1474671/129396236-...