skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wanted to appreciate the wording of the title. there is just soo much content out there that isn't exactly an ad but is still incredibly annoying. If anything, to me ublock is an 'annoyance blocker'. It is deplorable how much cruft is pushed to the reader in the guise of content. I am glad ublock exists. If it doesn't serve the user, it goes!
Yep. Python is a dominant language because it also cares a great deal about being easy to learn and accessible to newcomers.

In comparison, C++ does not optimize to be accessible to newcomers. C++ cares a lot more about compiled code running efficiently - as is evident from its insanely complex / powerful templating system. Its hard to learn, but its very powerful. Javascript and Python have nothing like that because that wouldn't align with the values of those languages.

Python values simple code that runs fast enough over complex code that runs super fast. C++ values code running fast enough, even if the code needs to be more difficult to write to achieve that speed.
>YOUR prerogative ends somewhere

Yes - and YOUR prerogative ends at demanding I rent-out property I OWN

If someone wants to own 50 houses and leave them empty, more power to them
Yeah, but that's not a proposition that I've ever heard anyone state. I certainly didn't say that in my comment, the comment you are responding too.

It's a global effort, and we played the game with one of the strongest players suffering a concussion and a hangover.
Here is what darkerside said 2 years ago.

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darkerside on June 8, 2018 [–]

This comparison just sold me on how morally wrong it is what Tesla is doing. Intentionally misleading and marketing to customers a feature called Autopilot that is only a marginal improvement on what other cars already offer. What if Volvo started calling their (clearly not independent) feature Autopilot and saying it was the future of hands-free driving? Seems inexcusable.
Apple only had pro privacy PR. They were always working this way. What you're witnessing is a PR change and not a technical one.
What a joke. Lollapalooza is safe but church and restaurants and having friends to your house is dangerous.
That alone won't do, I'm afraid. 100ns is a tough target for Linux on a RPi. I'd think in addition to the PPS a 10MHz reference would be needed. I don't see how the Pi can count those in hardware (perhaps its worth to you to use one core for that in rt-linux?). The Beagle Bone {Black, Green, Blue ...} with its PRU is probably the more promising platform for such.
I can't say for the cases you named but its easy to overlook small lifestyle changes, like how much someone walked in college vs after. That was one shift for me.
How to start a business starting businesses that start businesses, you say?
Why SteamOS Switched from Debian to Arch Linux
The main reason is the optimizer abandons trying to figure out flow-of-control when half the expressions can throw and present a path to the catch blocks. Furthermore, this all inhibits en-registering variables, because exception unwinding doesn't restore registers.

If you want your code to be fast, use 'nothrow' everywhere.

I don't know about newer versions of Clang, but I recall Chandler Carruth mentioning that LLVM abandons much optimization across EH blocks as infeasible.
I've sent you an email, we'll take it from there.
Look, I get that edgy names are fun, but I'm happy that I will never have to use this tool for work, and I pity the fool who has to explain why "unfuck" was needed to solve a real problem.
Holy hell that is a 'customer obsession' failure. How does that person work at Amazon?
Google Colab Pro+ ($50/month)
The only logical reason for Apple to implement such a complex system is to give them a defensive political tool to allow them to do things like encrypt iCloud backups and photos. “But CSAM” is a common political tool used against such encryption.

I don’t see this move from Apple making any measurable difference in how well a government can scan your device for arbitrary data.

If it happens it was going to happen anyway, your prediction of the future comes true with or without CSAM scanning, if you are allowing for new government orders and legislation.
> I’d be surprised that a YouTube video of white noise would be flagged for a copyright violation, and yet here we are.

Speak for yourself, because that didn't surprise me at all. When your corpus of "copyrighted" material is so utterly massive and almost entirely devoid of defined rules or boundaries, this kind of error is inevitable. If anything I'm more surprised that we haven't seen even more of these kinds of matches, like the sound of generic telephone ringtones, recordings of mechanised church bells, or machinery which performs highly uniform tasks, etc.

In the case of A1-categorised CSAM, the quantity of items is many orders of magnitude lower, the degree of technical curation will be orders of magnitude higher, and the thresholds for matches will be narrower. Is there a chance that the A1 corpus will have a few images that should have been classified as A2, B1 or B2? Yes. Is there a chance that it includes pictures of The Statue of Liberty or Westminster Tower? Almost certainly not.
> But I agree with Ben Thompson's point in that blog post, that it's OK to not have strong, unbreakable encryption be the default, and that it's still possible to use an iPhone without iCloud and get full E2E.

I disagree completely on this. For one, users aren't aware that using iCloud means that Apple has your decryption key and can thereby read and share all of your phone's data.

And two, opt-out is a dark pattern. Particularly if you surround it with other hurdles, like long click-wrap and confusing UI, it's no longer a fair choice, but psychological manipulation to have users concede and accept.

Third, as it's hinted, smarter criminals, the ones the FBI should actually worry about, will know to opt-out. So instead the vast majority of innocent users have their privacy violated in order to help authorities catch "dumb" criminals who could have very well been caught through countless other avenues.

disclaimer: I just read Bruce Schneier's "Click Here To Kill Everybody" after the pipeline ransomware attack, and these points come straight from it.
No, a good CDC response reduces the number of deaths along the way to endemic
I disagree that there was single possible outcome to all of this, and that there's nothing we can do to slow the spread of the Delta variant, or give people a better chance at surviving this. I didn't spell all that out.

To be clear, if I could have shipped all of the (idiotically) unused vaccine doses in the U.S. to India, Kenya, etc., then I would, but I can't. Would that stop the Delta variant? Apparently no, but it would save lives.
Forget about “just” or not.

Do or do you not think it’s a good thing for private individuals to be able to unilaterally censor what can be said in what really is the new public square?
Eventually, yes. As we work more towards AI's and "smart" image recognition eventually there will be a system that will have these false positives on innocent images.

Current CSAM depends on humans to "verify" the imagery, this is something companies desperately want to get rid of, and so do the employees understandbly so. Nobody wants a job (99.99%) of comparing CSAM. It costs companies money in labor costs, and draws them bad PR when those employees inevitably develop permanent/semi-permanent mental health issues from it.

The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because a startup can't just start scanning CSAM. They need the blessing of the feds to do that, which requires political connections, and of course requires competing with companies that already have that blessing - something that politics prevents.

PhotoDNA and current CSAM scanning only gets known CSAM, but not new CSAM. The end goal is to detect CSAM before it's ever even distributed, to be "closer to the victim", rather than just those consuming it.

Even with current PhotoDNA you can generate hash collisions, which flag the image for review, and a real human compares the material. This is of course subject to change for the reasons stated above.

Secondarily, automatic scanning and ID'ing of imagery is how you can easily throw an FBI raid at someone. Apps like Telegram automatically download every image/video in the thread.

Ontop of that you can create images that appear different at differing resolutions. At one resolution a harmless meme, at another, CSAM. Meaning that you can again throw an FBI raid at someone using simple tricks.
Can people who had the OG Covid(me) get it and get sick again? or are they more or less okay?
To reduce cost ( improve volumetric efficiency of transformers) such voltage conversion are done at much higher frequency. Side effect is lots of switching losses. Diamond based semiconductor are coming but that will take time.
Delta and other variants are not unlikely events though: the expectation is that they would emerge independently anywhere that the virus is freely replicating.

Delta is so named because using "origin of identification" kept convincing people the virus came from there, rather then was first isolated in a lab - and that relatively straight forward mutations couldn't emerge in multiple places with widespread infection simultaneously.
>There's a reason why Apple 0 day exploits sell for way more on the black market than Android exploits.

The opposite is true.

They're both shit though. Use FOSS operating systems you can administrate or don't bother with smartphones.
No that wouldn't have allowed for containing the spread. All it takes is one carrier getting through from "necessary" air travel or illegal immigration or whatever and then the exponential spread starts in a new area. Thus uncontrolled spread was inevitable in most countries. The only exceptions are a few isolated places like New Zealand which can actually control all arrivals.
Watching America’s Crack-Up
Just like many times in history as technology advances, such as how we couldn't stop mice/rats from spreading into other countries with ships - well before the crossing of the Atlantic/Pacific oceans reconnecting the Americas to the rest of the world.

Now there could be some small population in bats in a rural area in Asia which had some virus with a random mutation and it will no longer be isolated to those areas.

We've ultimately benefited greatly from breaking down these transportation and economic barriers and there's no going back without a serious regression in a ton of other areas (unless you want to live in a 'hermit' kingdom like NK). So it's a new reality we have to learn to adapt too.
> if

Yea, that's not how people work

Ever try to rally a disparate group of people across the world where the only thing they have in common is participation in a text based forum?

Might as well try to wrangle every species of cat at the same time.
Honestly, in the case of a shared computer, I wouldn't recommend even using a password.

A lot of employers put monitoring software on their computers, and have keyloggers that can record your passwords. It's probably illegal for them to use the passwords, but I have heard horror stories where employers secretly log into their worker's social media accounts.

I'd recommending buying a U2F or FIDO2 security key, and creating a ed25519-sk or ecdsa-sk SSH key, see: https://github.blog/2021-05-10-security-keys-supported-ssh-g...

Basically, the SSH key is stored on the hardware key, and for every single git pull/git push you need to do, you must have the security key plugged in. If you're worried about forgetting the key and leaving it plugged in, you could add a password to the SSH key as well, so you're doubly protected.
original non blog spam article:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a37260363/driver-assist-sy...
Hospitals hit capacity and run out of beds and ventilators. This is a hard threshold. Once you pass it, mortality goes through the roof.
I'm sure the masses they traded our demographic for makes up for it in their jaded little bubble.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I'm going to start rallying for my employer to dump apple as a vendor if they stay the course.
> People who are infected by delta variant will become immune to delta variant

"people who were exposed to H1N1 flu last year will become immune to it, so once it runs its course people will get herd immunity from it and the virus will die out".

that's not how it works. What the scientist is saying here is that it's mutating fast enough that by the time we start to approach "herd immunity" (via vaccination or just exposure) it's mutated and the herd immunity is no longer effective against the new variant. So yeah you're immune to the strain from last year, but it doesn't do anything against this year's strain.

and on top of that Delta is literally so infectious that it'll just about spread right through the existing vaccines. The vaccines were 98% effective against the initial strain, now Pfizer/Moderna are 88% effective, which means you have 6x as much spread (at an epi/population level), on top of a strain that is, itself, 2.5x as transmissible. So now we have to hit a much higher level of vaccination (near-100%) to get the reproduction number under 1.0.

And then you've got the other vaccines - some early studies indicated Astra-Zeneca is only about 60% effective (!) which means even with 100% vaccination that vaccine could not stop the spread. Best-case scenario you have to get those people a booster shot of something else - and the clock is still ticking, it is still mutating and in another year the effectiveness of all the existing vaccines will be even lower.

And on top of that, those are only the "severe illness" numbers, the "mild/moderate" illness numbers are higher, vaccinated people still spread an appreciable amount, and it's spreading through kids very aggressively now (funny how HN told me just last week that kids were immune and we could reopen schools...)

In short if you want vaccines to actually work and reach herd immunity - you have to slow it down enough with containment measures to slow down the rate of mutation. Because if you just let people get exposed, every exposed person is another chance for the virus to mutate, and it's mutating fast enough that by the time we get everyone vaccinated, the virus will have mutated enough the vaccines are no longer very effective.

(And reality check - we've barely got a start on vaccinating the global population, which is what you really have to do to control it. Vaccines are flowing like water in the US and Europe, and to a lesser extent in other developed nations, but in a lot of the world you just can't get a fucking vaccine even if you want one. A few months ago the number was something like 140 countries hadn't even gotten a single dose of vaccine yet.)

Realistically that is no longer possible at this point. People are done with quarantine and social distancing and 40% of the country won't get vaccinated even when they're free and readily available. And now it's mutated to become several times as transmissible - that's game over. It's over, it's going to become endemic, it's a foregone conclusion at this point.
Unreal. A new privileged class is born.
There are only handful of verified cases of people getting covid more than once. It's extremely rare from what I can tell.
For me I think Windows 98 VM could be the one.

Most of the games I played and am playing can be run on Windows 98. Only a few modern ones have to use Windows 7/10. So I'm content with that.

The only issue is that I don't know how to pick a retro platform for my kid. I never owned a real computer back in the 80s so I know nothing about Apple/Atari/C64/etc. Some people suggested that I should use a modern platform for that purpose (e.g. Pi) and I'm considering that approach. Basically I want my kid to start from something as basic as BASIC and directly go for C or assembly, just like what old timer kids did on Apple/C64. I'd like to introduce some resource restriction and low level programming to him from the beginning (POKE, anyone?).
"Successback". It's not naughty, it's just gross.

Failover / failback --> Successover / successback

Ugh.
Do you have a negative opinion of the nuclear family?
Apple's choices are do this or give people admin rights on their devices. Keep in mind there are iOS features for doing admin on the device that are kept internally, so that wouldn't require much (if any) new software.

One makes them look bad and the other makes them lose money. Which do you think they will choose?
What does that do for fontawesome-style fonts (icons in the private area) that websites love to use instead of SVGs and text labels?

I personally block fonts via uBlock Origin, which lets me allow them for the subset of websites I visit regularly enough that I'm okay with allowing fontawesome-style fonts.
Custom Deleter for C++ Smart Pointers
You’re both right - most people have coded for more than 5, but most people have been coding professionally for 5 or less.
New variants appear to be more contagious, but not deadlier.

For health people my age, there is very nearly 0% chance of death. Combining my chance with that of unhealthy people, especially elderly, isn't compelling.
The original 1000x study (I don't know if there's been another with a number that high) was actually a measurement of viral load on first detection. This is different from straight up viral load (other papers seem to indicate that delta is more like 4x viral load at peak compared to alpha at peak). The 1000x is due to how aggressively delta variant is about to replicate.

As for what the actual changes in mechanism is... I could try to summarize this (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02039-y), but I think I would fail. It's a nature news article (so free access for everyone!). It's on the technical side of pop-sci.
for most of human history, people knew the names and interests of people around them

anonymity is a recent thing
Yea, I agree. I see so many comments where people view the issue is black and white and that apple is clearly in the wrong. Yes, privacy is a great ideal. There are absolute monsters in this world and there is zero chance that no apple employees have brushed up against those monsters. I would ask that every single developer step back and think about putting themselves into a situation where software that you write is being used by monsters to horribly scar children around the world and ask yourself what you would do. Saying the moral and right thing to do is to protect the privacy of all of your users including those monsters just cannot be done if you are not a sociopath that only cares about profits and has glimpsed the horror that is out there. Fuck if I would write any code that would make it easier for those monsters to exist or turn a blind eye towards it. It may be a slippery privacy slope but I don't see how people that have glimpsed the horror would be able to sleep at night without stepping out on that slope.
> Isn't the whole point of Satoshi's algorithm that those magic numbers it takes to commit a transaction are ever fewer and farther between?

No. I suggest reading the whitepaper. Also c.f. Google search keyword "difficulty adjustment". There are some fundamental misapprehensions in your model.

> The point of Stross' idea was that this ever-increasing scarcity can be provided by astrophysics

With ever-decreasing performance. Bitcoin performance stays constant while its inflation schedule decreases to zero.

> So Bit"coin" is millions of times as secure now as it was a decade or so ago?

Yes

> Wow, it must have had really crappy security back then.

Correct, but no one cared enough to invest the resources required to derail it. Now its security threshold is sufficiently high that it's economically infeasible for anyone to derail it. This is well understood and part of the fundamental economic design of Bitcoin's security model. Once again, I suggest reading the whitepaper. It will clear up most of these questions you're asking.

> If you're saying it was so insecure then that it was pretty much fraud to sell it for real money

Is this a real argument or sort of a joke?

> What do you then say to your equivalent (or yourself) ten years in the future, when they say the same about you now?

This argument will be equally silly ten years from now

> But it still hasn't, has it? And there is no such point in sight, or can you give us an approximate date?

Whenever and if-ever Bitcoin displaces the dollar, yuan, ruble, gold, etc. as the global settlement and reserve asset. I expect its stability to asymptotically improve as it approaches that point, or to exponentially blow up before that happens.

> Within six months is precise enough...

You could make a lot of money if you could predict this, so I invite you to try.

> the point where the actual resource usage exceeded what's reasonable to waste on silly games like this was passed long ago

If you think millions of people are wasting resources on something and you can't really explain why, what's almost certainly happening is that they're buying something you personally don't understand (which I am certain is true in your case). Ideally once you understand how Bitcoin mining works you'll understand the economic security model and this will all make sense.

> lest this fucking Paperclip Maximizer eat the world.

Don't worry, there's not really any compelling reason for Bitcoin-related energy production to consume more than a fraction of a percent of global economic output. It's strictly bounded by the social surplus associated with using Bitcoin over fiat alternatives, which I would estimate at perhaps a few hundred billion dollars a year in current terms. Maybe even just a few tens of billions. So probably no more than 10-50x what it is now. There is no exponential growth problem like with a runaway paperclip maximizer. The Bitcoin network's "utility function" also isn't contrived, unlike paperclip maximization.
Different masks protect against Covid-19, and its delta and lambda variants
I mean, is there really any point in saying what would've or not have happened anymore other than some notion of nationalism?

I was at Newberry Lava River cave, Oregon last week. There was a mandatory orientation before entering the cave which went along these lines: "this cave is a bat sanctuary. As you may or may not know, Covid is a zoonotic disease that is transmissible between humans and bats. If our bats here get infected, Covid will become endemic to North America and will never go away. I've had Covid, and I was bedridden for 6 weeks and have scars on my lungs. I would not wish this disease on my worst enemy. PLEASE do not go in if you're sick and wear masks if you do." People were walking in without masks even after hearing that. Not a peep from the multiple park rangers, because freedom, I guess.

As a species, we're pretty much just asking to be wiped out by the next pandemic.
As of last week the US had already exported 110M vaccine doses.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-it-has-shared-110-mill...

Unfortunately most of those unused vaccines require careful low temperature refrigeration. The necessary cold chains don't exist in most parts of India or Kenya.
When in doubt, lockdown?
Fewer cases means tracking them is still feasible. Exponential growth can only happen after officials are overwhelmed with cases. Shutting down air travel probably would have relieved pressure enough to follow up on cases - doubling rate tells us beginning of February would still have bought us the necessary time. Beginning of March to mid of March it was game over already I agree.
> That is, it seems like Apple really wanted to preserve "end-to-end" encryption, but they needed to do something to address the CSAM issue lest governments come down on them hard.

This seems like an incredible reach to me.