skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the linked study covers January-May 2021, it's too bad they don't have a breakdown of the reasons for not getting vaccinated vs. education. The vaccine was still in short supply in the US for a number of those months, and I could see a lot of educated people choosing the "Other people need it more" option, with the intent of getting vaccinated when the shortage wasn't as severe.
>The issue with things like this is, it's often a tradeoff of making the public happy vs making the government.

The company should only be concerned with following the law, not earning bownie points for extralegal behavior. Making the government happy shouldn't be a thing in a country ruled by law.
Engage with the given example, which proves the claim.
heh, I worked a the schaumburg HQ in the mid 90s. We had awful problems getting java applets to print cellphone invoices in a ms/sun compatible way. Many thanks to the anonymous coworker who taught me the dot operation in vi there.
BBC, grow some balls and say it how it is. Still normal people reading this article wouldn't understand what's going on. This is the only acceptable time to use a click-bait title to get normies attention.
A true story...

Me (Last month):
"Apple is taking privacy very seriously. I'm going to vote with my dollars and switch from Android."

Me (This month):
"..."
I’m sorry, at what point there was any confusion that Apple is going to use our phones to do scanning?
For current status, most or all of the removal is complete - I think there's one empty building that I'm not sure about the plans for.

Counterclockwise from the northwest the credit union is long gone (now "Andigo" and on Meacham) though I think the building is still there, there are some nice looking (and pricey!) apartments along the west side, then there's Top Golf at the southwest corner (which has been in operation for quite some time - pretty sure they were open before the pandemic). South center of the property along the expressway is the area still owned and occupied by a Motorola company. There's Zurich America at the southeast corner, which was the first new construction on the campus several years ago, and another new building ("B") just north and a little west of it that appears finished but I'm not sure it's actually occupied yet - I rarely drive by there during business hours. The east and northeast parts aren't really developed yet, but they're doing a lot of work on the roads around there (Algonquin and Meacham). There's an area of (I think) condos still under construction on the north side along Algonquin, the westernmost buildings are already occupied and they're working east at a pretty decent clip. In the center of the complex is the "B" building mentioned above, as well as the remaining unoccupied old Motorola property.

There's also other construction in the area - one new apartment complex on Algonquin a bit west that's been there for a couple years, IIRC built on vacant land. The single-story office complex directly northwest of the campus was partially removed and is under construction for a new set of luxury apartments or condos, the western half of that complex is also for sale and I wouldn't be surprised to see it torn down and built on soon as well.

My biggest disappointment about the whole thing is that once upon a time there was possibly going to be something called the STAR line, basically a commuter rail line built in the center of 90 running from O'Hare out to Elgin then south. I had dreams of them turning part of the Moto campus into a station and parking for that - would have been great for Schaumburg a decade or two back by providing easy access to the core of Schaumburg's shopping areas when malls were still highly relevant.
Climate change is not an existential threat, although it is a serious problem. I suspect that while millions or even hundreds of millions may be impacted, the majority of humans will survive and adapt to it. A reduction in the population, even if forced upon us without choice, would help correct the problem. There is much debate about which humans exactly are impacted (the poor in third-world low-lying countries?) or if the ones causing the most impact will be the ones killed (from rich Western countries?), but there is some population threshold beyond which our per capita consumption levels and high standard lifestyles will come into balance with the realities of climate and the environments around us. This is different from facing a large asteroid, where one such impact can literally end all terrestrial animal life on the planet on a much shorter time scale.

More on the notion that climate change is not an existential threat here, from a Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Washington: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/08/is-global-warming-exi...
> the fact that Americans are so fast to blame China is very telling

* P(agressivley blame china | american lab leak of gain of function)

Not a 0 on that one.
"expand" how? Help me out.
Yea he blamed it on antitrust lawsuit and said that Microsoft lost $400bn because of missed mobile OS opportunity or in another words because Android beat Microsoft and its Windows Mobile/Phone.
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Everyone who's working a non-volunteer position is doing it for the money. So, obviously, yes.

There's a facade that we really work for other reasons, and money is just an inconvenient byproduct. During a job interview, you may be asked "Why do you want to work for us?". And for some reason "So I can afford to buy food" is not a good answer.
“Ritual statistical magic” is even more genius: Future civilizations will look down on us for believing that statistics were part of science, not not seeing the hand of the cleric in making them up, just like we look down on middle ages for believing anything monks pretended to translate from the Bible, which in fact they made up.
Whether to use infrastructure depends on the complexity of what you need and how many steps removed it is from the core value you're delivering. Infrastructure has configuration costs, an opaque debugging and hardening process, and maintenance costs too. The more complex the problem this one component solves, the better the value proposition of using a third-party solution as infrastructure.

However, if the component is key to your value-add, the less likely such solutions will fit your needs exactly, and so it might quickly become a bottleneck. You might then find yourself rolling your own solution anyway. Just use good judgment.

This is why there are so many different database types now, ie. key-value, time series, etc. Relational databases aren't perfect for every problem, they're just good at most problems. But you should probably stick with relational databases unless you know for sure you're better off without one.
I need to start looking into all this. Would be cool to finally be able to license and distribute iOS apps outside of the app store. :)
This comparison just sold me on how morally wrong it is what Cadillac is doing. Intentionally misleading and marketing to customers a feature called Super Cruise that is only a marginal improvement on what other cars already offer. What if Volvo started calling their (clearly not independent) feature Super Cruise and saying it was the future of hands-free driving? Seems inexcusable.

Jajajaja
> if it repeats something we've already heard many times - memes, politicized talking points, etc. - it's not critical thinking

This seems to be the modern default of online political arguments. Everyone spams their rehearsed talking points without any real engagement of what was being said. They may quote opponents, but the refutations often to have little or nothing to do with what was being refuted.

Then again, public debates have never had truth-finding as a goal: they’ve always been exhibitions to rally your base. Changing minds happens at the private scale.
I agree with that, yes.
"Factually correct/incorrect" is a red herring—there are infinitely many facts. They don't select themselves; humans do that, and humans have agendas.

There are also infinitely many ways to present the same facts. Some break the site guidelines and some don't. Please choose ways that don't.

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Nothing you wrote contradicts the claim of it being the rape capital. The rate can drop and still be the highest. Are you aware that you're not logically countering the parent comment but just saying something tangential to it?
They just revealed that the threshold is around 30 CSAM images that would result in Apple knowing anything about your device. And even then, humans at Apple do a review to see what’s happening; if it’s not CSAM, nothing else happens.

It doesn’t seem that false positives are possible—either it’s CSAM from the database or it’s not.

But even in the event of some unforeseen edge case, humans at Apple check things out before anything else can happen.

But that would have to be quite the edge case to meet the threshold of around 30 possible CSAM images before Apple can know anything about a user.
> Just wait 5-10 years and it will probably be the same way on Windows and MacOS. They will argue that installing arbitrary, unvetted software through the web is dangerous, so it's only reasonable for Microsoft and Apple to make this very difficult and instead promote installing all software through their app stores

Apple already does this on macOS. macOS treats all un-Notarized apps as if they're radioactive, and leads users to believe the un-Notarized apps they choose to run are either broken or malicious. If you want to run them, you need to know how to perform a magic ritual with the UI and adjust arcane settings. Every Mac based on the M1 chipset and above will not run unsigned binaries, either.

With both Apple's Gatekeeper and Microsoft's Defender, developers must regularly buy certificates to sign their apps, and they must remain in good standing with each company if they want their apps to run without problems on macOS or Windows. Apple and Microsoft can revoke certificates whenever they want, for any reason they want, and macOS and Windows won't allow apps signed with the revoked certificates to run. Apple goes one step further and forces app developers to Notarize their apps, which involves uploading the app to Apple's servers so they can scan and approve of it. Un-Notarized apps are, again, treated as if they're radioactive.

If you use the Mac App Store or the Microsoft Store, your operating system won't trick you into believing that the apps you downloaded with them are malicious or broken. It's no coincidence that the happy path for app distribution on either system is the same one that generates the most revenue for either company and hands them the most control.
There is a possible explanation for the schizophrenia example. My wife did a google search for a particular medication that person had been on and went off of. That was a couple days prior to the ads showing up. So good old Google could have been part of that - not sure how google searches affect facebook ads - or perhaps it was the pages she visited to read about that medication. It's all just f-ing creepy sometimes regardless of how it come about. It sure seems like verbal conversations being overheard is a part of it.
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There is already a version of Windows 10 that works this way.
Here you go: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 and https://pine64.org/pinephone
> My phone, in my pocket, is now checking itself for evidence of a heinous crime.

I see your point here - this is a slippery slope for Apple.
However I don’t see how anyone could achieve both purposes - no fingerprint reporting and prevention of CSAM storage on Apple servers.

Also, a practical thing to do is to just not store your photos on iCloud but use something else for sync and backup - there might be a startup opportunity here if enough people care.
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We dont need to compare anything. We already know. Even the Biden administration who kisses China's ass agrees. Its well known and all the virus experts that aren't brainwashed leftists agree. Many of them did from day 1. They had other leaks and there are news articles about it with the original SARS.

Stop trying to play pretend and believe the truth.
That's one of the few good aspects of a legendary fuck-up like this: you learn about people defending it.

People defending CSAM should go to hell, fast. But are we already done destroying all low-hanging fruits? Did we stop Johnny Savile? Did we put all clerical actors behind bars? Did we extinguish the child porn network behind Marc Dutroux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux)?

And even if we did, would that be enough of an excuse to implicitly accuse anyone? My spouses' family (well-off, so using iDevices) took photos of their young age kids playing, partially naked at the sea. They are now frightened if their photos could be stolen by someone and marketed as child porn.

So unbelievable.
I feel like this is a great idea, honestly.

But in my opinion I think that you should make the website fully work without the use of client-side JavaScript.

Not that I dislike JavaScript, in fact, I love it. And it's great! But there are several reasons I think that this would make sense doing.

Here is a detailed explanation for "why":

The website already works without the use of client-side JavaScript, only not the index.

If you for example go to: https://per.quest/https://example.com it will work just fine and redirect you to the generated MP3 file.

But if you put https://example.com inside of that input on the website index and have JavaScript disabled it simply won't work. There also is no notice that it does not work without JavaScript enabled.

The solution to this is simple and I think that it would not be hard to change the way you are getting the user given URL from your back-end. What I think would make more sense doing is to just make it work using a URL query parameter.

For example: https://per.quest?url=https://example.com

... which would then allow you to make use of HTML forms, and simply add the "name" attribute to the input with the value set to "url".

So, this would then work in both cases: when the user hit enter and/or pressed a button inside of the form.

Hope that you will agree with me on this!
Here is Greece we just call them bugs (we use the English word, not any transitions).
Is this somehow using the waybackmachine to scrape pages? When I try some of the classic ssrf paths like file:/// or http://localhost:8080, I get audio about the internet archive.

When I put in https://localhost:443, I get audio for the default nginx page, which matches what the internet archive has for that url: https://web.archive.org/web/20210620003533/http://localhost/

But putting http://localhost returns the audio from per.quest's home page.
Of course, anything that has a remote possiblity of affecting ads, popups and content block screens would adversely affect revenue.
I think it's hard to know. I would have thought the earth being round was "too concrete" to dispute, but here we are.
More likely if Microsoft did it, they would integrate Steam into the store, or allow Steam to be installed via the store

They have already signaled their willingness to add 3rd party stores with their partnership with Amazon for Android Apps.
Lololol. I've never thought about it that way.

But it's true. Citizens of those ancient Egyptian cities probably did roll their eyes at some of the wall hieroglyphs.

Especially because the pharaohs exaggerated their victories.

And the priests probably made up ridiculous stories of what their gods "did" and "accomplished"

Some citizens were probably just as incredulous as we are today.
If you want something different to happen then you need to do something/s different, especially things you think you might not be very good at.

Seek not fame, but enjoyment and a task well done, then if fame does come it will be with some substance and less chance of being fleeting or chancing.
> projected a 1–29% cereal price increase in 2050

I agree that everything in this article could and probably will happen. However, how could even a 29% increase in cereal prices lead to a societal collapse? I didn’t see anything that would lead to societal collapse.

Humans adapt. They always have. Is it not possible that we could perhaps be made better as a species because of climate change?
Does it maybe also work for Firefox?
You say disproportionately impacted. Can you quantify that? That's exactly the hand-wavey language we should avoid.

Water level rises by how many feet, displaces how many people? What is the cost of the coastal real estate lost? It can all be quantified (within range).

You'd probably find that for poor areas it's quite cost effective for people to relocate. New York City going underwater is much harder to replace. Obviously due to the level of cost to replicate the construction.

You say famine... Why would climate change bring famine? Farming and arable land would just shift to more cost effective areas. Some arable land is lost, others is gained (cold areas becoming warm). Building logistics to transport food to localities that can't support it locally is a good idea, and easy to achieve. That's the power of trade.

I don't dismiss the reality or impact of climate change at all, but look at the responses I get. Just people taking hyperbolically without really getting into the details that matter. Or lacking convincing and detailed statements. It's all hand-wavey and vague generalities about flooding or fires.
Doesn't matter how technically well done this is. I do not want my device to poke my files and send them to an AI software to make a decision. It makes me uncomfortable.

This is malicious. I do not want them to touch my photos or anything personal. I paid for this device, now it is doing things against my will.
>The founding fathers of the US understood this 240+ years ago

You're the one bringing up the 'founding fathers'. This isn't a constitutional issue. You're not being censored. YouTube is a private company. If you don't like don't use it. That's how free markets work. This Nicole Malliotakis person has her own website. Nothing is stopping her from posting it there.

>I never claimed the government did this

>one side of the government is colluding with the big tech companies.

What? Those are contradictory statements. Pick one.
It seems a new policy of is to add "donations" to "purchases", and the drone which referenced the policy apparently could not be precise.
I’m hopeful that this will cut the friction of buying or selling. Spending so much on brokers, taxes, and the various fees is out of hand.
Many years down the road, will currently famous Silicon Valley headquarters suffer the same fate?
True, but a small point of contention compared to the introduction of on-device scanning for illegal activities.
The policies of which could be changed at a moment's notice. Other details are relatively unimportant.
> They will set up app stores that are required on their phones (since the laws will not prevent this).

It does prevent this. All apps and app stores included with the device must be disableable is in the language of the bill.
Dense urban areas where residents have to walk rather than drive probably helps in creating such a culture.
Ah, okay. Sure. And PSD matrix A is diagonalizeable with orthogonal matrices i.e.

A = Q^T * D * Q

The ellipsoid visualization you meant is insensitive to the Q term (any rotation of a sphere is the same sphere), but not to the Q^T term.

What I am still failing to understand is this sentence from the article:

> The basic QR algorithm can be visualized in the case where A is a positive-definite symmetric matrix.

It sounds like you can visualize the iterates A_{k} no matter what. Is the problem that there isn't a fixed point when the ellipsoid is axis-aligned?

The article has:

> Under certain conditions,[4] the matrices Ak converge to a triangular matrix, the Schur form of A.

So am I to understand that for A positive semi-definite, the A_{k} converges to a diagonal matrix?
Also, vestigial toes are usually removed in infancy, or sooner rather than later. If you wait too long, they have a harder times getting shoes to fit.
I'm dubious of this, but cannot prove or disprove it so I'll take your word for it. Given this is an executive is a large US company, it doesn't change the discussion any.
> Yes, it could theoretically be abused if Apple went to the dark side, but...

> ...we should give Apple the benefit of the doubt...

You have to take off your apple branded rose tinted glasses my friend.

Any company as big as apple needs to be scrutinized as harshly and critically as possible.

Their influence on the world is so big that a botched roll out of this sort of tech could be absolutely devastating for so many people, for so many reasons.

I don't care if it's hashed tokens or carrier pidgins. We should only allow companies to act in ways that improve our lives. Full stop.
"Climate change is an issue for which Dyson is asking for more evidence, and leading climate scientists are replying by saying if we wait for sufficient proof to satisfy you, it may be too late."

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html

Is Freeman Dyson an "anti-intellectual"? Populist? Afflicted with ideology-driven motivated reasoning.

My point is that the article is trying to make it seem that ANY opposition to the consensus is due to anti-intellectualism, populism, etc. Some of it sure, but much of it for a variety of valid reasons. This article is a way of protecting their orthodoxy from pushback by tainting the opposition as "anti-intellectual, populist, etc". It's the modern day equivalent of trying to silence a critic by calling them a heretic.

Do "intellectuals/experts" think they are modern day priests - not to be challenged. Their words are gospel? No thanks. After all it was "intellectuals/experts" who gave us nazism, state racism, human experimentation without consent, etc.
I’m in my 30s and was coming off the back of part-time retail jobs before I landed my first dev job.

I have a B.A. and taught myself programming (including React). Over the course of 4 years, my gross income went to something like 25k to 160k (in the U.S.) because I learned React.

So, I guess, don’t compete if you’re not up to it, but if you’re willing, the jobs and monies are out there.

You just need to get your first dev job, stick it out for a year or two (even if it sucks), and you should be a lot more desirable going forward. Do whatever you need to do to get that first one under your belt.

I personally know another person (bootcamp grad). Got their first job at 80k and is about to double their salary after a couple years.
I know it won't be a popular opinion here, but I am not sure I trust the judgment of mathematicians with conflicts of interest.

It would be human nature for those who were involved in lobbying for 1+1=2 to continue are now unwilling to entertain the idea that something as devastating as 42 was a result of such a calculation.
> strongly promotes automatic distrust for any an all politicians.

But... it wasn't politicians. It was never politicians, really. It started with scientists! Left leaning politicians got on board only once their electoral base started moving, they are a lagging indicator.

Again, this is excuse-making for having deliberately ignored people who were telling you the truth.
RIP David MacKay. The world could really do with him right now.