skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another tidbit: Schaumburg was the setting for the TV show Married With Children.

Yep: The western suburbs are cheesy. Think mullets, Camaros, etc.
Thanks. I really enjoyed Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Jerusalem, the Biography.
This is not a risk unique to Apple’s program to scan for known CSAM. Every cloud provider is susceptible.

Furthermore, I am fairly sure NCMEC’s due diligence process involves confirming the depicted individual was abused.
This is the refreshing analysis that I hope to see when I come to HN. Thank you for being reasonable.
> The sun is doing most of the warming work

What other heat source would there be other than geothermal or fission?

> Also the troposphere, other side of the co2 window-pane, is getting correspondingly colder..

As a result of trapping more heat inside I presume?
If the claim is true, the claimant should be able to produce evidence of it, such as someone who would have reason to know stating that it happened.
I have dedicated and virtual servers at OVH and Hetzner and other companies. I'm quite confident they don't scan for anything on the hard drives. One of the selling points of Scaleway.com's C14 backup product (previous incarnation, don't know about current one) was that the storage was encrypted and that they would delete their copy of the decryption key if you checked a box. If you chose that option, you could not restore your backup without re-entering the key (block of hex digits that you had to copy on making the backup). It wouldn't surprise me if that resulted in the obvious sob stories about lost keys.

Those are not US companies but I've never heard of AWS, DO, etc. scanning people's storage either.
Yes, but if only the system doesn't pop up the Play Protect button every few install, and words that discourage users instead of educating users about sideloading apps. Then I'll consider sideloading on par with installing from the Play store.
I was thinking about something like that too. How hard would it be to have a semiconductor-manufacturing-as-a-service with lower inertia like those PCB manufacturing services? The hobbyist affordable board houses these days generally have extremely good processes and quality that even beat some "industrial" board houses, as they're thoroughly refined by fabricating hobbyist boards with sometimes really awful DFM considerations
Now we just need everyone to have that same realization about almost all the software we use on almost all the devices we own. As a practical matter 99.99% of us operate on trust.
True enough. Apple does have the key. Well then instead the answer is that they are having you pay the CPU and energy cost instead of wasting twice the energy decrypting and hashing your photos server side.
Jury awards Optis $300M in second patent trial against Apple
I pity people who worship “productivity” without asking deep questions about what the ultimate value of the increased “productivity” is. The amount of stress and health problems produced by people worshipping productivity is jaw dropping.
The README make it look like a vector with a reserve(4GB)
lol. Right they will just go through every photo you have ever posted.
I have a lot of quibbles with "fact checking" as practiced as a distinct vertical in news sites, but in principle I don't find anything wrong with examining claims to determine whether they are true. To make it unnecessary you'd need not just critical thinking but also everyone constantly doing their own research, which would rather limit the number of things anyone could have an opinion about.
> dual French/US keyboard layout (one for writing, the other for coding)

Why not use one of the QWERTY layouts with accented characters?
There's those who don't want to change their way of life and deny the problem, and those who don't want to change their way of life and claim some magical but impossible techno fix will solve the problem.

Then there's those who realize that we won't solve the problem without some adjustment to the way we live.
I've got a bit of a thing about naming politicians below singular offices. It seems like part of the problem: name recognition wins elections and donations.

But to talk about policies, I would call defunding all police, complete student loan forgiveness, banning nuclear power and crude exports, and opposing market based carbon taxes extremist.
> Furthermore, while lockdowns may have protected some vulnerable people from exposure to the virus, they may also have placed them at increased risk of future exposure by preventing high levels of herd immunity from establishing broadly across the population.

This doesn’t make sense since anyone who is vulnerable now has now had the chance to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, making themselves immune without the dangers that accompany herd immunity through natural infection by the virus.

It’s unmentioned in this piece, but the author, Sunetra Gupta, has made false predictions that herd immunity via natural infection was already established for a year now. In July 2020: https://reaction.life/we-may-already-have-herd-immunity-an-i...

She has repeatedly argued against lockdowns based on her now falsified theory of herd immunity already existing.

> The critical question, of course, is whether it would have been possible to reduce the mortality and morbidity risks to the vulnerable population at lower cost than lockdowns? Other options were available, such as focused protection, whereby those most at risk from the virus would have been afforded protection whilst those at low risk would be largely allowed to go about life as normal

Focused protection appears to be more faith than anything else - the belief that there must have been some other option that would have still saved lives while allowing the young and healthy to party and work as normal. I have never seen someone explain how focused protection could be implemented successfully - while I can imagine a theoretical quarantine of the elderly and obese in special zones with border control, it seems incredibly totalitarian and impossible even for the the Chinese to consider, much less Western governments.

Widespread deployment of an experimental and untested vaccine would have made more sense than relying on focused protection - after all, it turned out that most of the vaccines except for Sanofi worked fine and if we had gambled and produced and vaccinated everyone first with an random mix of vaccine candidates rather than waiting for Phase 3 trials, COVID-19 deaths would have been greatly reduced in hindsight.
Intel locks down all remaining TSMC 3nm production capacity
Space/Star Wars, finally.
It isn’t silly nor did it require you to jump to the defense of vim’s behavior.

It was a simple statement that vim’s functionality can be clunky and with all of its flexibility, it cannot handle something as simple as nano/pico’s method for keyboard copy/paste.

It’s literally the one functionality I would love to become available in vim that exists in nano/pico which would make mine (and likely many others’) lives and efficiency better.
I believe Sam avoids using anything that's super awful to deal with. There's well defined procedures for taking care of most chemicals that involve neutralizing them sufficiently to be flushed down the drain
I feel that I was stating the incentives, though.

This being an area people are paying attention to makes it less likely they'll do unpopular things involving it, from a pure "we like good PR and profits" standpoint. They might sneak these things in elsewhere, but this specific on-device-scanning program has been shown to be a risk even at its current anodyne level.
What strikes me about this paper is that there are no names of the people who wrote it on the title page. Why were they afraid to put their name(s) on this?
Perhaps take a step back and ask yourself what you truly value in life. And then be “productive” maximising the time you have to do that instead of chasing goals that you actually, deep down, don’t care about.
Second scoop: it’s smart use of symlinks and no need for admin is exactly what Windows CLI needs.
Yes. The West saw extremely limited contact with ancient Indian mathematics until quite recently. I think India itself largely forgot about its own mathematical tradition well before it was occupied by European powers.
Wow, fuck Apple.
Agreed. I think this just shined a spotlight for a lot of people who didn’t really think about how much they had to trust Apple.
Really?? That's...depressing...
Having grown up in the boom, when people sang along with Bob Dylan "Come mothers and fathers, throughout the land/And don't criticize what you don't understand/[etc.]", I am skeptical. Many of the boomers were unhappy with their parents' generation, portions of which wanted to--and sometimes did--cut off our hair and send us to Vietnam. A reaction followed, about thirty years later, when we noticed that the parents' generation was dying off, we felt bad about it, and we bought a lot of not very good books about their generation, sometimes called (by authors and publishers with an interest in it) "Th Greatest Generation".

Within the last five years, or at least the last ten, somebody published a book to prove that "The Greatest Generation" wasn't that great, and that it was the boomers who set e.g. the Civil Rights movement going. By most counts, the oldest boomers would have been about 10 when the lunch-counter sit-ins started, so I didn't quite understand this. But the author was a boomer, and I do understand the impulse to think well of one's generation.

As to your points: mission statements strike me as on the whole a crock. I have known boomers who worked very hard to make recycling practical. As for the climate, there is a post somewhere on HN now about the 1970s anticipation of a new ice age: it takes a while for better estimates to make it to the general public.
Yes it reserves 4GB of virtual address space, it does not allocate 4GB of memory.
It's nice to hear that I'm not the only one, but I'm sorry it took so long and congrats on landing one. The way people are talking about it, it would seem like you can just say yes to a recruiter and automatically increase your salary by 50k.
Is this really surprising to you? I'm not trying to be rude, but this is an enormous distinction.
In today's world, smartphones are basically an appendage of your body. They should not work to potentially incriminate its owner.
I did not mean for my statement to suggest that it is doing something useful, just that the belief (either way) is what matters here.
Check out the miserable fate of "Culadasa" (author of the Mind Illuminated) if you want to see what kind of Midas touch situation can come of meditation without the companion practise of virtue, particularly restraint. e: (Midas because the guy claimed to be so "enlightened" and "living in the moment" that he lost the ability to worry about say, other people's feelings, right and wrong, causing harm etc. Acted then in ways that caused his disgrace he is now isolated, leaving his very-much-extant sensual longings starved.)
There's a Preview on google books: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Past_from_Above/7cd... .
This is not to stop the people who can download from a torrent (without getting sued into oblivion for copyright violations) and know how to install an OS. It's to stop the other 99%.
In some sense having an option for that 1% is a good idea, because it reduced their interest to break the "protections" in the Home edition that the majority uses.
Could this explain some architectural designs in the world that don't make too much sense like the skyscrapers next to a cargo cult of urban sprawl next to massive golf courses in Dubai?
I also use it for developing and use its developer tools. If it works on Firefox, there's maybe a few CSS tweaks I need to make when I test on other browsers
After Senate, new House bill takes aim at App Store competition
Ok, but that doesn't mean the posts weren't flamebait and that's what we're asking people not to do here. "It's a quote" is not a valid defense!
> now this trust is going away

Is it really? There are some very loud voices making their discontent felt. But what does the Venn diagram look like between 'people who are loudly condemning Apple for this' and 'people who were vehemently anti-Apple to begin with'?

My trust was shaken a bit, but the more I hear about the technology they've implemented, the more comfortable I am with it. And frankly, I'm far more worried about gov't policy than I am about the technical details. We can't fix policy with tech.
> I don't know what else you can hope for.

I could hope for being able to trust that an intensely personal device such as a smartphone isn't something that I have to be constantly suspicious of.

Admittedly, that ship sailed a long time ago, but I could still hope.
I find it contradictory how largely the same group that talks about diversity and inclusion and systemic racism etc is happy to champion policies that ignore the views of minority groups (whether ethnic, religious, rural, whatever), tell them they are wrong and their concerns unfounded, and call for them to be segregated and denied service based on their choices. An actual "inclusive" construct would work with people to understand and respect their concerns, and meet them where they are, not just tell them they're wrong.

Not that it's hard to find inconsistencies in religious / dogmatic positions generally. But in this case, it's messed up that people are going ahead with literal populism - enacting policies that placate an angry mob to the detriment and exclusion of other voices, while simultaneously claiming to support the under represented. Its almost as if their goal all along was not expanded rights, but just trying to find wedges to push their agenda forward...
Wouldn't both of those scenarios imply that the "bug" is bypassing any normal user consent? They're only practically different in that the "upload them all for cloud-scanning" one would take longer and use more bandwidth, but I suspect very few people would notice.
The Buddha sought an escape from the state of dukkha, and our western political and economic systems depend on maximizing the state of dukkha.

How do you make ‘self-help’ from a philosophy that teaches that there is no permanent self to help?
One thing I don't understand: why is everybody so upset? After all, it has been pretty much a law of nature that if a company gets large enough they will sooner or later screw over their users every way they can because there are no alternatives left.

Every tech company that has achieved global scale has gone down this path, and I really don't see what makes Apple so unique that it would be able to resist that temptation.

Show me a company with global clout, out of its hypergrowth phase that has behaved in an ethical way, and that has always stood by their customers and end-users in a responsible and ethical manner. Just one.

I'll list some of the ones that are on the other side, without going into specifics they're well known:

Microsoft

Apple

Google

Oracle

IBM

Monsanto

Pfizer

Sony

Coca Cola

And many others, and more generally

Any tobacco company

Any large insurance company

Almost all of the major banks

Media empires

I prefer the companies I do business with to play on a human
scale, something that I can relate to and where there are
alternatives. As soon as that's gone it is a matter of time.
Remember that emission cheating scandal? Where we supposedly had a system in place to detect bad actors and yet it was detected by a rare case of some curious student exploring how things work or some such.
Your (A and (B) mean the same thing or, alternatively, (A) is wrong. (C) makes no sense, because every peer-reviewed study is, at some point, not peer-reviewed. As to (D): this outfit is recommending Ivermectin without any proof that it works, and therefore not a science-based institution from the start.

However:

> The trial originally tested the results from a single Ivermectin dose in January this year, but was later changed to involve one daily dose for three days of 400 micrograms of the drug for every kilogram

So the dose was actually within the range your FLCCWTF recommends, which is “0.4–0.6 mg/kg”. Only it was given for three days instead of five, with the difference easily explained by one group choosing the regular dose that Ivermectin has been proven mostly safe at.

If it has no effect when taken for three days, it isn’t going to do wonders when taken for five.
std::vector::push_back() has a documented complexity issue that occurs if a reallocation must occur as a result of the push (in order to grow the memory backing the vector).

To benchmark this virtual_vec fairly against std::vector, you would need to call std::vector::reserve() with the intended number of items you intend to store in the vector before you start calling std::vector::push_back() in a tight loop.

[0] https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/vector/vector/reserve/
> It was illegal to export "strong encryption" for many years, remember? I've seen multiple reports that European lawmakers are planning to require some kind of scanning for CSAM. If this goes into effect, technology isn't going to block those laws for you. Your Purism phone will either be forced to comply or be illegal.

The point is that with a Purism phone or custom ROM on my Android phone, I could disable these "legally required" features, because the law is fucking dumb, and my rights matter more.

The law can ban E2EE, cryptocurrencies, and privacy, but so long as we have some degree of technical freedom we can and will give it the middle finger.

Apple does not offer this freedom. Here we see the walled garden of iOS getting worse and more freedom-restricting by the year. When the governments of the world demand that Apple become an arm of the dystopia, Apple will comply, and its users will have no choice but to go along with it.

Apple, knowing that it is a private company completely and utterly incapable of resisting serious government demands (ie GCBD in China) should never have developed this capability to begin with.

If Apple is going to open this Pandora's box, they ought to open up their devices too.
Curious, does any technological system used widely, standup to the threat levels you mentioned?
I'm in the market for a house right now and red flags for myself and my agent are houses that were purchased within the prior 2 years to be resold. We just don't touch them. If the market educates itself we can starve the flippers of revenue (not that I'm naive enough to think that will happen)
Slightly off-topic, but still anecdotal how far CGI has come, I recently showed my dad who hasn't played any video games for at least 20 years this [0] video of the current MS Flight Simulator. It is produced in a documentary style, so there are no real cues to it being a game. After watching it together, my dad said: "Yeah that's a nice documentary about this difficult airport, but I thought you wanted to show me that new game?".
You can imagine his face when I told him that we've in fact watched just that.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtAF1I_H01w
An academic tour de force of little practical benefit, because of insufficient openness from the AF2 team. For nuance, see https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/alphafold2-cas...
In general I do expect to be a bit disadvante, because my resume is pretty spotty. If you're starting fresh, I'd wager you'd have a better shot honestly. But that's sort of a discrete aspect, because I'm not having too much trouble actually getting the interviews.
0.6% die, and some rather rubbery number end up with symptoms lasting from 6 weeks, or 6 months, or something. The rubbery number is sometimes quoted as 1/3 of people who enter hospital, which if 5% enter hospital would mean about 2% of the population die or are so incapacitated they can't work for some number of months. By comparison, just about everybody hospitalised for flu is fully recovered in 2 weeks. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/long-covid

2% is getting up there. Even if 75% avoid that fate by getting vaccinated, incapacitating 2% of the remainder will be enough to send us into a deep recession.
I can resize pdfs...
>I sincerely wish Windows would eventually become a Unix-like already

Why? Unix is rather flawed. We've learnt a great deal in the last 30 years, we can do better rather than get stuck on an ancient standard.
I think the most reasonable solution to this problem is to not purchase Apple products for a few years given how they have responded to criticism and promoted the characterization of privacy advocates as "screeching voices". I was thinking of upgrading my iPhone given it's getting pretty old now but I can't really see myself doing that now.
Not certain, I hear some saying it still has an effect on at least iOS Safari <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629377>, though I’m not sure whether that’s true of current iOS Safari any more, or just slightly older versions that are still in use. I’d love to have someone test carefully and spell out exactly what it achieves, and for what versions.
So Apple has rightfully lost the trust of its users then. We submit to their walled garden because we believe they are benevolent. But when they make this kind of a mistake how can we trust them?

I don't really see how they can recover from this. Will they go out of business? no. Will they even lose market share? No. But there will always be that example of the time Apple got it wrong.

If I was an Apple employee I would certainly be concerned about how something like this could happen.
I suppose the antitrust stuff might simply have been too big of a distraction to allow enough focus on early mobile platforms like the Pocket PC, which could have been a much bigger competitor to Palm than it actually was.

But that still really would be the antitrust suits themselves since 1) MS got themselves into that mess in the first place and 2) Bill Gates shouldn't have let it distract him so much from potentially vital projects. 3) employee accounts of the internal politics at the time pretty much meant that most new products were doomed to fail from the outset if management on the Windows teams thought they were even the least bit of threat to them.
I would imagine this is not physical cash but funds in a bank account. You would need to launder the money first to get it into the financial system before making the real estate purchase.
It's not strictly semiconductor-related, but if there's one thing I would like to see, it's low cost, made-to-order integrated analog computers. The low power consumption of analog devices would offset the larger feature size, and hopefully the process could be made cheap/flexible enough so that needing a different IC design for each use case would be a non-issue.