skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair use is more about making transformative work. Otherwise anyone could just post a 10 seconds gif of the 100m dash in the Olympics and call it fair use.
> Does this sound familiar?

No not at all. You will have to explain more clearly how a risk to others who were vaccinated in order to enter a location is the same as a risk to unvaccinated nursing home residents.
The data suggests there is a slight down trend in heat related deaths since 1999. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

I doubt heat related deaths will be a large factor in the next decade. More people than ever have access to AC and clean water.
Your comment sounds like you are predicting a mass human extinction, or close to it?

I personally think that's incredibly far off base, but if you are confident in your prediction for mass doom, I recommend throwing some money into prediction markets around it. It could be a great way to calibrate your model of reality (and potentially make money if you are right!).
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
If you’ve never logged into a Linux machine without nano installed, then you probably haven’t logged into that many flavours of Linux machine.

I agree this is pretty much a non issue for the average developer, but those of us who work on network infrastructure, as red-team hackers, or do any work on embedded systems can attest to how much of a pain it would be to not know how to use vi/vim.
My whole point is to avoid turning this into right or wrong by realizing that an accent or a bias merely describes a particular way of speaking or thinking, not a degree of deviation from some standard.

In linguistics, this is the prescriptive vs descriptive debate. It's not controversial that a prescriptive grammar declares how a language should or ought to be used. Declaring one accent the standard is a similar prescriptive position.
This is so cool, I love seeing people derive interesting remote sensing data from nonstandard sources!
- Who is going to have their dog killed by a misguided SWAT team that doesn't bother analyzing the automated report before acting on it?
> I think the "What are we going to do about it" is implied by not having a conclusion attached to all the "bad" news. But isn't the rapid Taliban takeover 100% proof that we didn't build any sort of sustainable alternative while we were there?

IIRC, the US pulled too much of the rug out from under the Afghani government too quickly. For instance, I've read the US long ago evacuated the maintenance contractors that maintained the Afghan Air Force, which means they can't fly even if they have the pilots.
I think Pakistan and ultimately Russia funds them? I’m not well-versed, it’s only my understanding.
We're generally more in the smart scripts camp at present. The conversations are graph based, with each node being associated with code that can look at the state of the user and any input. It may be that the input is a set of fixed options, or that the input is freetext. Usually in the event of freetext we're classifying that freetext, looking at the state and using these two things to determine the output and next node to go to.

It's still early days with the product and to date we've generally avoided anything that is generative, as you say, it's hard to keep on track and is hard to predict what the range of outputs can be. The next steps in development will most likely be to improve classification of freetext and use it more extensively within the app. We've also considered having individual nodes which use generative output (at least in part for the output), to go more to the generative end of the spectrum, but retain control of the conversation flow, however this is still at the concept stage for the moment.

We've seen some graph based / smart script engines where you can enter subgraphs where the output is essentially seq2seq until various trigger conditions are met (e.g. the text is classified a certain way), before continuing to another part of the graph, and this is another way the two approaches can be blended. It's not something we're looking at at present, and can also be potentially quite unpredictable.
Large companies are often worth less than the sum of their parts, particularly if there's little synergy between the parts.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conglomeratediscount.as...
Ok, appreciated.

I have to say, I’m not entirely convinced by the growing wealth gap argument. Pickety’s numbers are all before taxes and transfers, there are huge holes in the analysis. On the other hand, there are too many renty ways to grow wealth. I believe the right approach is to recalibrate taxation and the incentive system, not just slap huge punitive taxes on top of what’s already there.
There was this illusion that the US was an unstoppable juggernaut. That image was damaged by the failures in Afghanistan/Iraq in middle and high school, followed by the GFC in college, and finally totally destroyed in the eyes of Gen Y and Z after Trump's election and the bungling of COVID and the second GFC as the generations try to start families/get their footing in the job market.

Your theory while very intriguing is something I can't possibly see ever happening just due to the hubris that occurs when you think you are unbeatable.

That is exactly what the sentiment was going into the war.

I am reminded of this scene from 2004's Slacker Uprising. This woman reminds me of the MAGA people of today. That same hubris is what got us Trump and it probably won't go away until the country stops being the singular world superpower.

[1]:https://youtu.be/Axk_8DV2GXM?t=3030
Still not good enough. That’s like an invading army saying they have a “kinder, gentler machine gun hand.”
Maybe not everyone’s experience mimics mine but I felt like people looked down at me a bit when I was 16 for using nano on the command line.
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What I thought were people looking down on me were in fact people looking at me with hopeless pity, because I fought the idea of learning vim.

People need to check how they encourage other people or promote things. You probably weren’t wrong about feeling looked down upon. Even if they really thought you would benefit.
Destroying the media is not strictly necessary.

It's a lot easier to instruct a rack of servers, or even a set of (centrally managed) desktop machines, to wipe itself than it is to physically destroy it, let alone the equivalent amount of information on paper.

Moreover, assuming encryption is in place, destroying the keys without touching the actual data is generally sufficient.

You will probably want to wipe the data then destroy the hardware as defense in depth, but in a dire emergency, taking the one thermite charge to the central key management server and its backup and cutting the power feed to the rest of the infrastructure is going to be good enough.

With human readable information on paper, you simply have no other option than physical destruction, which is an extremely slow and labor-intensive and manual process. Even with preparation, you can't really accelerate it much, whereas with digital information prepared for the possibility of needing emergency destruction, it's a matter of pushing a button and the data is gone less than a second later.

The flipside of that is that the worst crimes of a future surveillance state will likely stay hidden even after it gets toppled, unlike the East German Stasi that failed to destroy many of its documents in time.
Back in that era in Australia, offices all seemed to either be strung together with a spiderweb of coax for 10-base-2 or some variant of AppleTalk/PhoneNet. Can't say I ever saw anything of ARCnet except in magazines. Latticenet killed it all in an incredibly short period of time, seemed like a matter of months back then where piles of coax could be found in the skips at the back of buildings and contracters were literally everywhere putting in twisted pair. Crazy times.

What were you using ARCnet for?
Your comment uses too many acronyms to understand, I'm sure others here feel the same. I know that CIA is the US Central Intelligence Agency, and KIA means killed in action ... by context I'm pretty sure AQ is Al-Qaeda and AFG is for some reason an acronym for Afghanistan? But I have no idea what IC, CTC, or the USS Cole are. Is "United Front" an organization that would justify the capitalization, or do you mean a united front in general?

Aside from that, what does an embassy bombing in Tanzania/Kenya have to do with Afghanistan or 9/11? Was it done by Al-Qaeda? And could you clarify or expand on most of the rest of your comment?
> Furthermore, this all inhibits en-registering variables, because exception unwinding doesn't restore registers.

I'm sorry, but this is just not true of at least the Itanium exception handling system used by Linux, macOS, etc on most architectures.

It does make the exception handling data quite large and throwing extra slow, of course.
I guess that’s why nothing is done about climate change in a hurry.

We’re told it will affect us all, but obviously, some people believe that with money it will affect them less.

Although, it will be interesting to se what people with money do when their air conditioner breaks and the AC mechanic is out due to heat stroke.
Maybe this is the warrant canary

Lets push that idea so allies in the government can go looking and void it
Here you go: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/

It’s the report from 2014, the updated one will come next year. It’s a few thousand pages, but still just a summary of thousands of academic studies. You can go to each individual paper if you want exact confidence interval for each study.

Climate change is already impacting the average American with wildfires, drought, more hurricanes and floods. Costs of insurance in many areas and homes that are no longer possible to insure.

And for the political discourse. Just fucking google it! It’s everywhere. There are countless studies and articles and discussions that are easy to find.
They're convinced that it's worth the benefit to abused children to let the tech community vent fears about the world at them for a while. I don't really blame them. My views don't align with the mob here, so it would be a waste of my time to discuss them while y'all are upset and angry about this; best just to hold my position, remain silent or reserved, and wait for the pitchfork mob to find another target or exhaust itself. I'm honestly surprised Apple even commented at all.
because it's really friggin hot out ( and in )
Japanese is a better example than Korean. Hanzi/Kanji are Chinese ideographic characters adopted by Japan and still used today. But Chinese is an 'analytic' language that uses grammatical words instead of conjugation (much like most of English). Japanese words have significant and complex morphology depending on the grammatical context, and Chinese characters aren't well suited for writing that.

Ideographs aren't great for languages where the same word is written differently depending on the tense, case, person, etc (like English '-ed' for past tense; 'is' vs 'was'). They're good when you have a distinct word for expressing those things (like English 'will' for future tense).

The Hiragana syllabus was developed to write the grammatical parts of words. It was developed by taking existing Chinese characters, just like you described with Akkadian, and simplifying them to make them easier to write. Many Japanese words will contain a mix of writing systems, with the root of the word written in ideographic Kanji and the grammatical conjugation written in syllabaric Hiragana.

And there's also Katakana which is a syllabus of even further simplified characters derived from Hiragana, which is used for writing loan words not derived from either Chinese or Japanese.

It's of course a bit more complicated and messy than just what I described, but that's the gist of it.
A FISA subpoena or an NSL can only compel Apple to give certain types of information that Apple already has. They can’t compel Apple to gather information they don’t already have.
Where did "very susceptible to false positives" come from? If the odds of a collision are one in a million that is troublesome if they only need one match. If they ignore anyone that has less than 3 matches, we don't really have to worry about false positives. People who have CSAM generally don't have only 1 or 2 images.
How is it better than `sudo vi /path/to/file`?
Why is it that one conspiracy breeds another with you guys? I just skimmed your history and not only are you a climate science denier, you are also a covid denier, and you believe that the "mainstream media" is conspiring to depress GameStop's stock price! Surely you at least recognize how unlikely it is that all of these are true and you just happen to be one of the special few who figured it out? Cmon...
Thanks for your answer, out of interest what languages are you primarily working with and what sort of team and codebase size? It sounds like being forced to consider navigability would offset the tendency for codebase 'melt' in larger IDE assisted projects.

Also one area I lean heavily on an IDE is I can switch codebases up to 4 times in a day between JS and Java, so I'm not going to remember structure most of the time and being able to have all kinds of crutches helps me maintain velocity. Do you find your sense of navigation when swapping is enhanced because you have a deeper understanding of the structure from memory?

I'd say VS Code kind of straddles that middle ground, like an enhanced text editor++. But then full IntelliJ is where I feel most at home so obviously we have different preferences and that's fine. I just worry I'm missing out and heavily dependent on IDEs.
Burning paper is surprisingly difficult to do at any noteworthy scale.

The NSA has a recipe for that: https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/decla...
I really hope to see a video of it in action one day.
> creates by the US I might add as a tool against Iran in the 1980s

No, earlier than that as a tool against Communism in Iraq. Later, the US rushed to support him (including in his use of chemical weapons) when he got bogged down in war with Iran that he launched expecting a quick territorial gain, but that's not where US involvement with him started.
> Overthrowing governments is awful foreign policy. This was never going to work, just like it didn't in Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, the Congo, Guatemala, Syria and elsewhere.

It worked perfectly for the people who implemented the policies and their patrons. The point was never to make average Westerners more secure. It was to hand billions to contractors and oil companies, practice new forms of counterinsurgency and drone warfare, and make token moves against the latest bogeyman used to distract from the empire's exploitation and subjugation of its own people.

All the examples you cite similarly benefitted the elites calling the shots in one way or another.
I've been looking for an immediate mode GUI library for LibGDX, I might have to write a port of this. I'm struggled many times to get ImGUI working nicely with LibGDX but it's never worked for me.
So they're still retaining the ability to look on users devices? I have nothing against them looking at the abuse material, I have a problem with them having power over my device, which could be piggy-backed on by state actors (or others) for their own purposes later.

Nobody is against them trying to prevent child sexual abuse, pretty sure we all agree that fighting that is important, but doing so by creating what is essentially a back door of sorts into my devices isn't the right approach to doing so.

It sounds to me that this is still allowing them that access, so this changes absolutely nothing.
This isn't particularly surprising. Some folks like attention, and giving them attention for something they are doing, results in them doing that thing more. Social media simply taps into that dopamine loop in order to sell page views and ad clicks.

Perhaps the saddest testament to this was a troll who was banned from Twitter and told a journalist "I feel like I don't exist anymore." That is a really awful place to end up. It is also an unhealthy place to be.
There’s definitely some ambiguity as I have reasonable doubt that a Qt app wouldn’t clear the bar for “native” and yet, on Windows and macOS, it doesn’t really use the native UI toolkit. (To be fair, it can be the native UI toolkit on some platforms, but that’s a bit irrelevant to this point.)

I don’t really know what makes an app “native.” React Native apps are considered “native” because they are using the native UI toolkit. (C++) Qt apps are native because they are “native code,” and compile down to machine code with native binaries for their platform.

Web is distinctly not native because it’s a different runtime abstracted from the underlying OS. Electron introduces wrinkles in the distinction since they put the abstraction layers into the application package. React Native does that and then also introduces the idea of “native” meaning native widgets.

But what is the native UI toolkit? Win32 has a controls system, but even many Microsoft apps built into the OS don’t use it… so if your app does the same thing the built-in OS does, and uses say, WinUI or what have you, it’s hard to argue it’s “non-native.” Likewise for Linux. There’s no actually standard UI toolkit in any given Linux desktop setup.

MacOS and iOS largely stand alone as the platform where the “native UI” distinction stands strong, but I do think Flutter challenges it a bit on iOS, if at a high cost.

This all to say, I think the word “native” is surprisingly unclear.
This is just business. Governments around the world are thinking of breaking up the app store, and Apple is saying they'll help governments surveil on their citizens inside their walled garden. Would be a shame if users can escape from the surveillance by choosing alternates outside of the walled garden, wouldn't it?

Expect an App Store rule soon - all photos apps must scan for CSAM.

In a year, expect Signal to be banned from all app stores, just like how it's already banned from some countries.
I have no interest in provoking a reaction from you (trolling), I'm just pointing out that all administrations say stupid things, and that's not a good reason to dismiss the correct things they say or to deny it without consideration. I honestly don't understand why this is controversial. Instead of an explanation as to why any administration's claims ought to be dismissed out of hand, I am being accused of breaking site rules.

It seems to me, that by downvoting and then accusing me of breaking site rules, you're trying to make me react. Isn't that also trolling? At no point did I ask for your comments or try to 'bait' you into making them. Have a great day!
What would happen if Apple reveal the national security letter? What’s the government going to do, arrest Tim Cook?
That included a row over the generic concept of a tablet, where in defense the Samsung lawyers brought up prior art ... from the Kubrick movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". The astronauts in the movie are using something that looks just like a tablet.
July was the hottest month ever recorded, NOAA says
The winner here is Pakistan.

"Victory will not be claimed by Pakistan, but tacitly the Taliban will owe it to Pakistan", says Nazir, a retired brigadier and defense analyst in Islamabad.

Pakistan has been allowing Taliban leaders free movement into and out of the country and continues to serve as a safe haven where fighters and their families can receive medical care. With the U.S. intention to leave publicly declared, Pakistan did away with any semblance of denial that the Taliban leadership was sheltering there.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/world/asia/pakistan-afgha...
I've been using mcedit (the editor component of midnight commander) for about 15 years now as my primary editor for coding.
I have come to see house flipping as a horrendous scam that kills the economy and is all but sustainable. And real estate agent are complicit and making the problem worse because it’s making them money

One of my accountances is a professional house flipper. They claim to regularly make over 100k of profit on a single house in less that 3 months. Keep in mind they contract out all the manual labour.

The 1st step is obviously to find a house, preferably before it hits the market. Then, contact the seller’s agent and promise them that if they sell you the house for a good price you’ll go through them when you sell the house after having flipped it. At this point, the agent’s incentive is disconnected from the seller’s: If they can convince to sell off market, they’ll sell quicker, make the commission on a lower price but expects to make a much higher commission on the 2nd sale than what the 1st one would have fetched. The seller gets fucked.

Then, the flipper finds the cheapest contractor with immediate availability. cheap+available is usually a bad sign in term of quality. They have them do the minimal work to make the house “look good”. No deep electricity, certainly no plumbing, rooftop or foundations.

After a couple of months. Put on the market. At this point, you want to put it on the market at (original price paid+original agent’s fees+second sale agent’s fees+remodel cost+your sizeable margin) that ends up easily increasing the original pricd by 30%, sometimes more.

The buyer gets fucked too because they pay extra for shitty work. They’ll have to do more work on the house, both short term and long term.

But the ones who get really fucked are the other potential buyers : it’s super hard to find a house that wasn’t flipped, prices go up because everyone wants whatever the neighbors house got sold for, there’s even less contractors available

I’m convince flippers have a negative impact on society at large.
Because this way they can encrypt things on your phone and claim that they can't see your photos once on the server (because whatever they had to do with those photos, was already done on your own phone).

(There are many ways this can be a slippery slope, but we don't have to pretend they could just so what ever body else is doing just as easily and they just want to do it on your phone because they are lazy or whatever. This is a solution to a legitimate problem and also it turns out that people are rightfully worried about what's next; those two facts can coexist)
> victim

What an interesting word for a bloodthirsty mob. I’m sure the real victims, the Afghans, appreciate that you have no agency.
It's not in the least like saying that. It's saying that these are not the same thing:

1. a comment includes facts;

2. a comment is within the site guidelines.

#2 is the important thing. Bringing up #1 in response to being told that you've broken the site guidelines is a red herring. It's also the most beloved tactic of trolls, hands-down.

Following the HN guidelines is not hard if you choose to. Please stop using HN primarily for ideological and political battle. We don't care what flavor you favor; we care about having an internet forum that doesn't burn itself to a crisp.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
If you're betting on collapse, and you are right, you aren't going to be around to collect.

If you're betting against collapse, and you are wrong, you aren't going to be around to pay up.
> and is built so transformed images hash to the same number.

That is the goal of all perceptual hashing algorithms.

> Apple's system only concerns exact hash matches

Then it is almost useless. All someone would need to do to evade the system is make minor enough adjustments to illegal images so that the distance between resulting hash and the original is minor.

In reality, perceptual hashing systems use fuzzy matching on hashes by using a metric like hamming distance to calculate differences between two or more hashes.
Conveniently, the other participating nations are all members of Five Eyes. Probably.