skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ship sailing under Panama flag runs aground in northern Japan, splits in two
Over the years, the complexity of our collective knowledge vastly exceeds capacity of any individual to get everything right.

This reminds me of the book checklist manifesto [1]
Even simple tools like checklist can substantially decrease errors and spare much of our cognitive capacity in doing quality work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Checklist_Manifesto
Presumably whoever called the cops turned the password protection on before doing so.
If Alameda & Cumberland paid for the minting of USDT by offering Commercial Paper (e.g. IOU from Alameda) and Alameda isn't actually good for it then they've just printed USDT backed by essentially nothing.

They may be able to extract enough $ to cover it by the time they actually have to show reserves, that's what they did previously.
That sounds insane to me. You'd need a large carbon sequestration program running, which means you'd need to be producing enough clean energy to supply all human needs and sequester the carbon.

And no, trees will not cut it.
Inconvergent (https://inconvergent.net/) is another stunning generative artist as well; their generative trees (browser version: https://zv.github.io/static/algorithmic-tree.html) are especially evocative of Fishdraw.
React isn't fast, let's learn why
It doesn't seem like it since it specifies on-device stores, but hopefully!
> This all leads me to believe that there’s another shoe to drop here, one that will allow Apple to make its cloud services more secure and private.
> If this scanning system is essentially the trade-off that allows Apple to provide more privacy for its users while not abdicating its moral duty to prevent the spread of CSAM, great.

Even assuming this other shoe drops, then this logic implies that there is a moral duty to implement other types of scans to prevent other serious crimes. Surely Apple shouldn't abdicate its moral duty to prevent murder. There's really not much of a limit to this argument. As long as there is the level of false positives is similar to that of the technology now being implemented, there is a moral duty for Apple to deploy the surveillance methods.
They stole years of ridership from justifying global public transport investment, all while promoting oil demand. Solid investment on the saudis part...
Few years from now, most people would be totally okay with Apple letting random governments coerce them into putting “illegal” non CP related photos to their database in the name of “national security” or what not. All it takes is one tragedy for the population to give up their principles and rights in the name of tiny bit of “safety”.
Just a decade ago, freedom of speech used to be something most people would fight for even for things they opposed and found offensive. Now a days, people make excuses why companies coerced by governments are totally fine with censorship because “it’s just a private company”. “It’s a private company” principle is how censorship is done in authoritarian countries too- private companies simply do the job of the governments.
I have zero hope for the future of free internet. Soon journalists like Julian Assange and whistleblowers like Snowden would be even easier to shut down and track down in the name of “national security” which Apple has made easier to do.
> Additionally, a skin (for this example), could also be rendered decades from now in a retro-style game arcade within the metaverse. The permanence of the blockchain will probably outlive most access keys to it.

But this isn't how any blockchain is currently implemented. With NFTs the underlying asset is not actually stored on the blockchain - URLs are, and the URLs are just as prone to being dead as the companies that own them.

I can see maybe a point with decentralization being a guard against bitrot, but that isn't how it works? Hell, there are already NFTs with dead URL pointers, so they are now nothing more than certificates of authenticity to content that is unviewable. The hypothetical retro skin will die when the company that issued it goes out of business - all the blockchain will give you is a permanent faint outline of the content where it used to be, it doesn't preserve the content itself.
> and nobody was working on rewriting SQLite from scratch.

One could also have embedded a trimmed-down PostgreSQL or MariaDB into browsers.
Yes but we want a comparison. I check Twitter election to election. There is no way for me remember the old font. Let alone compare it to this new one.
This is the best Apple can do. Apple can’t say to governments that client-side scanning is impossible, because it obviously is. In fact it’s quite easy. There is no magic technical fix, but at least Apple has preserved e2e encryption of cloud data. This is a political/societal issue; Apple is subject to the rule of law like everyone else. Contact your elected officials if you want it changed.
Comment about this from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28122734

From my perspective the baseline is pretty stable but the fluctuation around it has a fairly large amplitude. That makes for phases when certain types of story are more or less represented than others. If there were significantly more worldnews stories now than in years past, I'd be surprised. That's certainly not our intention.
It is a piece of speculative fiction after all.
> For folks looking for a pay-for-it-once app

That's what the folks at 1P told us all too..
Predictable Revenue for Creators and Small Businesses
>It's sort of like the people who say mobile devices are destroying the more open PC market and replacing it with closed mobile "consoles." There are far more PCs out there today than there were in the 1990s and they are cheaper, faster, easier to use, and more versatile.

Well, there definitely are more PCs now than in 1991, but pre covid-WFH era, PC sales were at an all-time low, following a multi year downward trend, thanks to people moving to those closed mobile devices and consoles.
There are several threads on bicycles that have metric diameter and TPI thread pitch. Off the top of my head, at least Italian bottom bracket and freewheel threads and French lock ring thread are like that but I'm sure there are more.
“These kind of juvenile inexperienced arguments”

I would suggest to you that maybe it’s said from a place of significant experience that the cryptocurrency community simply doesn’t possess at 11 years old.

That aside, the notion that your problems as an individual begin and end at your “onramp” (which is a terrible term for it’s own reasons) are incredibly naive.

If massive amounts of the value in the market is fake money, as has been alleged, then what’s the value of a [COIN]?

Is it $1M? Is it $30k? Is it a song?

You’ll only find out when more than 5% (20:1 issuance:redemption) of people try to take profits, at which point I don’t know how you turn all of those unbacked IOUs into real money? Sorcery? Sassy remarks about “boomers” not “getting it”?
> GitHub uses "main"

Amid the currently fashionable trend of language culling, I was mildly surprised to find myself agreeing with this particular change: In git, I think "main" is a better choice than "master", because it more accurately and succinctly reflects the intent.

(In general, though, I think the trend is misguided and counterproductive.)
Cars create suburbia which is depressing, isolating, land engourging, and plain ugly. Cars mean traffic. Traffic means going nowhere. Cars crowd out alternatives like a gene drive. Cars also contribute to obesity.

I never said transportation is bad. Take rail at all scales, and ride bikes and schooters.
I was rather alluring to the different mobile apps which all seems to often be developed by various unknown developers (some closed source) instead of the core developers of the main project.

I too would trust the core of e.g. Syncthing or pass.

Making it all work on mobile is a completely different story though. I myself can’t do without mobile access to my passwords.
Firefox 91 removes the options to disable the Proton UI redesign
https://archive.ph/vqdmC
Really great project! Thanks for sharing it
I agree Apple is giving in just like they did in China. However, they were already doing this on the server. Wasn't that already the thin edge of the wedge?
Oh the irony...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
The difference is I supposedly own my device. This is a line we use for all sorts of things, such as, say, hacking charges.
That's not how the process works though. You could argue that they should change the process, but the reasoning behind it seems solid to me:

> Implementation experience is required to show that a specification is sufficiently clear, complete, and relevant to market needs, to ensure that independent interoperable implementations of each feature of the specification will be realized.

From https://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#implementation-exp...
Different parts of the region specialized in one kind of metal production and traded with the others for the other metals they needed. They didn't have a single ruler but were each self ruling.
I found "The Phoenix Project" a great read, although the learnings there were things I had picked up from places I had worked at. Haven't read "The Unicorn Project" yet but it's on the list.
Or in the words of John Lennon " Time wasted is time well spent"
I think Apple is getting so much heat for this because they have at least maintained an outward appearance of separation between device and cloud for so long.

Some of this was just due to being further behind on the SaaS ramp than MS and Google. Everyone expects a Google-services enabled Android device to basically be a cloud thin client, but less so an iPhone. And Apple has actually stood up for encryption and not putting in openly exploitable backdoor capabilities just to appease law enforcement, see their back and forth with the FBI a couple of years ago.

Apple seems to be coming up with awkward solutions as they try to do the "right thing" in some places (more end to end encryption) while governments / law enforcement don't want hidden data because of "the children", terrorism, etc. They announced this proudly as though they had finally found the holy grail to negotiate this quagmire but the messaging did not go over at all how they seemed to expect.

I don't think there's a path forward for fully open and non-proprietary software that everyone uses. It hasn't happened on the desktop so I doubt it will on mobile devices. And most people want their devices to be cloud terminals, not sovereign system states.

So I think it comes back down to a legal and political issue of what requirements governments put on these tech companies, how data and privacy protections are guaranteed (or forced to be broken), and how that gets enforced.
So why aren't we all using JOVIAL to develop IoT systems?

Apparently it wasn't required to reinvent any other high level language for embedded systems programming, it was already solved problem in 1960.

Why reinvent the wheel for embedded systems programming?
Doesn't the plot on that page directly contradict that?

It was effectively flat from 2012-2017, then small upticks in 2018 and 2019?

The second derivative of CO2 seems to show a huge decrease in the last few years.
Do you worry about the data being on Hetzner servers?
This a company that hosts and distributes GIFs. It's hard for me to see how does an acquisition of a GIF company has human rights concerns.

Even the CMA's statement is focusing solely on competition concerns.

I'm not dismissing any other potential concerns that may arise from this, but I fail to see how this isn't just a case of "FB bad so let's fuck with FB".

Someone already mentioned it here, but why didn't Google's acquisition of Tenor received similar scrutiny? Just to be clear, I'm not arguing in favor of FB or anyone.
My argument is against governments disrupting free market through unfalsifiable hypotheses of how an acquisition is gonna unwind and impact the competive landscape.

In this particular case it's clear to me that financial reasoning is needed to force the reversal of an acquisition.
Sounds pessimistic to me. I think we can make it there earlier. Don’t underestimate technology, the solutions to carbon sequestration and clean energy are getting exponentially better each year.
Thanks! I really like Julia's blog, I hadn't seen those entries before!
Labyrinth Seal
PWA are not a standard, they are a Google concept pushed through Chrome (OS). I’m fine with Apple never supporting it.
If by "this whole thing about imposter syndrome" you are referring to people talking about imposter syndrome the way your parent comment talked about it, than yeah I agree completly: its just a humble brag, nothing else.

I originally understood your comment to mean impostor syndrome is never used in a valid way. I have seen these statements being made about mental health disorders, including very serious once like depression. I think they can be really damaging, since they convince people not to seek help. This is why I disagreed.
I spent an hour setting it up, the export worked well from 1P but you get to the very end to find out that "features" like a functioning F2A code generator or image storage are premium features that require, guess what, a subscription.

Damn it. It's only $10 a year but i'd rather buy it outright the way 1P allowed me to in the past.
Idk about JOVIAL, but I certain mind too see some modern Ada out there.
History....
That lack of distinction and plausible deniability is how the AirBnb hosts skirted around laws requiring a hotel license to use your property as a hotel.
> Then again, if I was wanting to burn 1000s of cards a day, I would probably do what everybody else does and create/contract an actual manufacturing process

In practice, lead times are long enough and release cycles short enough that it can make sense to have these devices at point of manufacture so you can ship with the latest software image.

Imagine you order 10,000 pre-flashed SD cards for your project but half way through the production run you decide you need to change the software. Do you discard thousands of SD cards and re-order a new batch? Or do you buy a couple of these and simply add it as another station on the assembly line so you can get back to production right away?
Long term, do you see yourselves in the MDM space [0]? Informally, I think of MDM as "enterprise into analytics", and my first impression of Secoda is "analytics out to enterprise". Schemas and data dictionaries seem central to both. An MDM solution like Tamr looks a lot heavier weight than I think the experience you target.

[0] https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/m...
I think you're possibly misinterpreting it - the news article is unequivocally clear about what its sources are saying, the sources are the ones who are contradicting each other. We are so used to newspaper editorialization / tunnel vision that to see two disagreeing sources on the same page is surprising.
scary future, hope this doesn't happen. Lets do our best to build more green environment.
remember the pirateat40 bitcoin ponzi scam? he was paying 7% interest A WEEK on deposits and all these copycat "funds" popped up paying 6% or 5% or whatever that were "safer". when the original ponzi collapsed all the "safer" funds were revealed to have just been taking their deposits and depositing them with pirateat40 and pocketing the difference. the whole ecosystem collapsed
I don't know if it's the quality of the screenshot, but the left image (old) looks way more blurry to me then the new one.
Yeah, by even using the device at all, you already agreed to a very long EULA which includes provisions for whatever the vendor of the product wants to do. So, like you say, there's really no reason to have a shred of trust in proprietary software where you can never see for yourself what backdoors (etc.) might be there.
Apple should do nothing. Child pornography is a problem for law enforcement. It should not involve blanket and universal surveillance of personal devices.

Today it's child pornography. What about tomorrow? Let me make a case. First, let me make something clear at the outset. I am 100 percent against child pornography. For all I care, castrate all the adults involved, when you catch them.

Now, with that made clear, let's take a look at how bad, comparatively, pornographic photos of underage individuals on a person's phone is—and my apologies to those who cannot stomach the following discussion.

The photos have already been taken. The harm here is indirect. The harm is that possession of photos means that you have become part of the market for child pornography, and provide incentive for the production of future materials. The direct harm occurs when the materials are being produced, and the direct harm is categorically worse than dissemination and possession of the photos.

Compare that to something like terrorism. Recruiting terrorists and planning terrorist activities is, I would argue, a greater and more direct harm than mere possession of child pornography. (Leave aside the production.) So, how can someone accept that this is okay for child pornography and not terrorism? And once we've accepted it's okay for terrorism, who is the "potential" terrorist? What is terrorist contraband?

And now that we've accepted sniffing for terrorists, what's next? Election "manipulation" that "threatens" our democracy? Public health "misinformation"?

This is the Panopticon.
do you have a youtube channel?
They cut off Brave support but it still works in Chrome on Macs. Just a matter of time before all browser support is gone.
Emscripten wasm binaries with memory growth enabled can use up to 2 GB heap. That's very surprising that you're hitting a memory limit.
> We now live in a world, where our personal computers come with "AI" that detects illegal use of those computers and automatically turns us in to the authorities.

Wait a second, but only if you're uploading photos to iCloud? They were presumably already doing this once you upload them, so what is the big difference? I have totally missed this detail in a lot of the coverage, and it changes my view of it.
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Const should be default. Kate Gregory has a C++ talk where she discusses being brought in to clean up code and she's like OK step one, mark everything const. Of course some of it isn't const, but the compiler will point out every place where this made no sense, so next you can remove the consts that the compiler is unhappy about until you get a const-correct program.
> Schlock Mercenary is supposed to be launching a new series too...

I can find no mention of this anywhere.
I am curious how that works for iMessage. In the example screenshots they shared, they show their scan runs on iMessage too. Is there a way to disable that?
Also disabling iCloud would be an option if they allowed for third party backup/sync apps to run background tasks.
That's regular Semantic Versioning

https://semver.org/

> Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

> Version 1.0.0 defines the public API. The way in which the version number is incremented after this release is dependent on this public API and how it changes.

> If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0.
I don't know the reasoning being not doing it, but I'd guess it's related to those DB engines not being geared or interested in embedded use-cases and that no SQL engine seems to entirely agree with any other how to handle certain parts of SQL.
Why do you believe that web tech cannot contribute to those fields? Seems like you could contribute by joining companies working in those spaces with your current skillset.
In a sane world the management of the company would be in prison for that.
>None of those claims contradict each other

>Merritt says it's off the table, but Kurt Olsen says it's still on the table and that "Mr. Merritt would not be privy to that information"

Those two claims contradict each other, but the paper is reporting them accurately. The fact that people are having so much trouble parsing this goes to show the extent to which we have become accustomed to newspaper editorialization. :-)
If you'd actually bothered to read it, this paragraph explains the difference:

The real killer in Chennai is the humidity. The combined measure of heat and humidity in air is the “wet-bulb temperature”—the lowest temperature to which something can be cooled through evaporation from its surface. In dry air, even at temperatures well above 37°C—human body temperature—people can sweat to cool down. But at wet-bulb temperatures of 32°C and higher, “it becomes unsafe to perform most physical labour,” says Moetasim Ashfaq, an atmospheric physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Few people can survive a wet-bulb temperature above 35°C. In the past decade, wet-bulb temperatures in Chennai have regularly risen above 32°C. But for much of the past week, wet-bulb temperatures have repeatedly crossed 36°C—a fatal level.
I mean it would be great if you could configure your device to just refuse to even load these banned items. I don't want that shit on my things.
Does the book end on a hopeful note?
Low-Latency Compilation of SQL Queries to Machine Code [pdf]
That book is excellent. It's the only one that I can recommend to beginners.
Not naming names, but it’s easy to be left with the impression that if you are vaccinated and wear a mask, and your social circle are all vaccinated, that there is negligible risk. The media as a whole have not done much to rectify this false impression though they’ve chosen their words carefully to avoid being responsible for such misunderstandings. It’s frustrating to say the least. Reminds me of “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”
One author is an MD, the other is an MBA (!!?!??!)

That doesn't smell right. It's also a pre-print without peer review yet.
> Today it's child pornography. What about tomorrow?

Our latest Antipope.org post (discussed here yesterday), suggested we extend the child-pornography treatment to possession of unauthorized cryptocurrency.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28145918
I wish these bookmarks extended to other browsers on iOS. It's already crazy they can't ship custom rendering engines, but basically this in and of itself could be considered anticompetitive (only Safari bookmarks can be exempted from this GC process) lol!
I've been using it for over 20 years...
>I don't know how the thing works but if it makes it annoying for my kids to take/send nudes, then great.

My understanding is that this only works for known abuse images and even then only if the files are identical. So apple has no way to know if high schoolers are sending nudes to each other.
Not only that, when they suggest that morally they would or would not do something they’re either being dishonest (which to be fair I don’t think is the case) or genuinely naive as to the limits of their control here, even over their own products.

Once the tool exists, they’ll add whatever features governments in major economies tell them to or they’ll be forced into adding them.

All this said, I don’t blame Apple alone here and I have mixed feelings about it still - as I really do believe in their fight against CSAM. I just don’t think this is the magic solution to solving CSAM while preserving an innocent user’s right to privacy that they’re selling it as.

I’m also certain there are engineers who worked on this system who also share these concerns.
Java / OpenJDK never used semver in the first place. Also, large projects like Java have entire layers of different APIs, whose compatibility guaranties can't really be described with a single number, no matter what versioning scheme they use.