skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can infer from your comment that you expect people to purchase more than $200,000 in Tether. Someone who does so might want to perform more research than reading shills on the Internet. It be far more rational to start one's own crypto-currency in order to remove distrust from the equation.
In the US, generally speaking, the following items are necessary for a contract:

1. Multiple parties

2. Consideration: all parties must get something out of it. You may have an agreement where you don't get something out of it, but you cannot have a contract where you get nothing out of it.

3. Offer, acceptance, and mutual assent. One must make the offer, the other(s) must accept, and all have to see eye-to-eye.

4. Legality: you can't make a contract to perform illegal acts. A contract with an assassin is not legally a contract -- one cannot be found in breach of this contract by a court of law no matter what (though bringing the suit may incriminate you for conspiracy to commit murder).

5. Parties legally able to enter contracts. Minors can't enter contracts.
You said that:

> ‘not looking but happy to chat’ was code for ‘yes I’m looking but not saying so publicly’

but this was in a private message, so why would this person be speaking in code?
Wait, what conspiracy am I saying is 100% true?

If your phone was listening to everything you do all the time then you'd need a lot of processing to analyze it on-device and exfiltrate the critical pieces of info (which would be pretty obvious when looking at CPU usage and battery life), or you'd be sending an insane amount of data off over the internet all the time.

I'm not saying it's technically impossible - I'm just saying that the ol "Facebook is listening to everything and that's why you get ads for something after you talk about it in real life" is almost certainly a myth with zero actual data to support it other than some anecdotes online.
Interesting how people are using the lack of evidence as form of conclusion on your hypothesis in the comments. Guess what? Your spouse is cheating on you. Even though there is no evidence suggesting that is the case, can your spouse provide evidence that s/he’s not cheating on you? How is this a coherent argument.
> they wouldn’t and couldn’t care any less what the data on their servers

Except they're legally forced to care. Thats why this is happening at all. They have a legal obligation to care, encryption be damned. They chose to preserve encryption instead of preserve trust.
The link between exposure to visual material and illegal buying is IMO extremely sketchy. I mean, we can’t even get enough people to pay for legal, mainstream, consensual and officially produced porn.

Getting random people to pay for content is a pretty hard thing to do, and I’d assume illegal content wouldn’t just be taking credit cards either, so the barrier is way higher. The conversion rate looks to me to be abysmally low, and we’re trying to police the whole internet for that.
Vesting is a way to show investors that you're committed to the company (although the LIFO rule mitigates most principal-agent problems). Changing things later costs more billable hours, so you're probably better off just doing the vesting now. If you're a year in that means you're already ~25% vested and you can add something like ~6% every quarter.
I'm ready to go back to 2003 era technology at this point.

If I need to take photos, I'll buy a digital camera. If I need directions, I'll get a GPS. If I want to talk to someone, I'll call them on my Nokia or email them from an anonymously registered address. If I want music, I'll download it and use an MP3 player.

There's not a single piece of consumer tech in the last 20 years that has made our lives tangibly
better in any way.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mcclure111/status/142554526675777...
How do we know that the people who look at the photos are not child molesters, pedophiles, psychopaths themselves?

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Seriously. The people who worked in the abuse department at facebook when I was there were an odd group of people with whom I would not trust my kids to be around unattended.

Zuck had some weird fucking bodyguards as well...

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Cool - I'll expect that child abusers are downvoting this.

When did you stop abusing your kids?
So now you need both a metric and SAE adjustable wrench?
Thanks for the feedback! I'm happy to share more.

- They're derived from secondary lymphoid tissue. We're trying to biobank as broadly as we can to capture sex, age, race, HLA, genetics, and other characteristics in a wide net.

- These are not iPSC-derived organoids.

- This depends on the readout but workup post treatment so far has included histology, immunofluorescence, serology (ELISA, SPR, etc.), CyTOF and other flow, broad RNA-seq, bulk and single cell repertoire sequencing for B and T cells, and MSD/Luminex.

- We haven't looked for mutations from drug and vaccine treatment. We'd love to know more about what you're thinking there.
It has already be announced, this is not only iOS, but all Apple devices.
That is to say face scanning is equally insidious as the new feature?
If you search anything related to eating disorders on Tumblr you’re presented with basically the same thing with links to help resources. MyFitnessPal pops up a similar message if you log less than 1000 calories in a day. Same with topics related to suicide on any search engine.

There is a very real bright line difference popping up a “please get help” message for self destructive behaviors and arbitrary censorship.

Source: have eating disorder and consumed thinspo and proana content in my teens.
One of the last major consumer purchases to be brought online...
Access tokens can practice least privilege and be scoped to a limited set of actions on a single repo. Your user password has whatever privileges your user has on every repo you've been given access to.
Don't forget low ignition energy and hydrogen embrittlement
If they are acting on behalf of the government there is a massive secret conspiracy to illegally violate the constitutional rights of hundreds of millions of Americans.

It wouldn't be the first time... but it shouldn't be our first assumption.

Instead, in litigation caused by this scanning the companies of testified that they conduct the scanning out of their own free will with no coercion or incentive of the government, simply because they don't want their brand being connected to the distribution of child porn.

Implicitly, they'd rather be associated with unaccountable mass surveillance-- with products that violate human rights, and with a push of a button could be used to enable genocide.

They aren't stupid, so you have to assume that they think that the latter is less of a hit on their bottom line than the former. Lets prove them wrong.
You are incredibly naive.

Apple started out saying that they can't decrypt data from anyone's phone. They fought a lawsuit from the FBI over the San Bernadino terrorist phones. This is one of the reasons why I went all-in on Apple, because they were willing to fight the government over our privacy.

Now, years later, they don't encrypt iCloud backups because the FBI told them not to.

Google used to human review all copyright violations on Youtube. Fast forward a few years later, and all copyright violations are demonstrably shown to be approved and the content generator needs to prove that they didn't violate copyright. Look at the violations over white noice. Google doesn't even care anymore, they just let the copyright violations go through and affect the content creators with no review.

To believe that Apple employees will review CSAM-flagged photos 5 years from now is so incredibly naive, it's actually funny. You can bet they are working on AI that will handle this for them right now in Cupertino.

And then, it will be random chance whether or not we are flagged and labelled as pedophiles, or if a government wants to tag us as "problematic" and wants access to our phones because we are journalists and they want to see our anonymous sources.

It's naive to think that it won't go in this direction.

If you're a pedophile, after this announcement you will delete all the photos off your iPhone and never use it again. After the first few rounds of arrests and cleansing, it will be well knowing within the pedophile community not to use iPhones. And then the only ones who will be getting their photos scanned will be innocent people. So the entire feature doesn't make sense at all. It's a ruse.
There's no need for a vesting schedule for solo founders.

When/if you get investors, you'll usually issue more shares. Those might be made available to you as options (with a vesting schedule) at that time.

(Caveat: IANAL, etc)
I think you're forgetting that Apple isn't using PhotoDNA. Just because PhotoDNA hashes can be reversed into images, doesn't mean Apple's perceptual hashes can be reversed into images. I think there's a good chance they can be though.
Well, the needs are similar even if the reason is different. Parents want to know their kids will not go wandering, so yeah, it very much is a "detention" centre in the sense the kids will be detained there until pickup.

If you've ever been to a daycare centre... it pretty much is a prison. For little kids. With hopefully caring guardians and an exercise yard. :-P

And if you've ever known a 2 year old, some of them can be little sociopaths at times.
> against a very dangerous disease

Ebola or smallpox are very dangerous disease. COVID has much lower negative impact on lives/health, it is more like flu or risk of stroke, very dangerous only for specific subpopulations, mostly old / unhealthy people with preexisting conditions.
It's not about CSAM scanning its about where the scanning is done!

> I’d say most people have iCloud Photos enabled, so I’m trying to gauge whether that’s true of Google Photos too.

I'd say most people don't have CSAM eitherway.
except for the time that its 100% for an account...

But the truly sad thing is that there are trillions of instances, photos, moments that will never even see the light of day. and plenty of human children get abused, raped, murdered every single day.

Child abuse should be a capital crime.
>Anyone who didn't get a 20% raise this year lost money.

but inflation (as measured by CPI) isn't anywhere close to 20%?
OK, I'll humor you.

I went and clicked on the first two links in that collection, both claimed to show "little to no evidence for the effectiveness of face masks in the general population":

Both were studies of mask POLICY (i.e. does TELLING people to wear a mask work?) and not mask USE (do the masks actually work?). The first was just a historical review of previous pandemics with no ability to look at case studies.

The second looked only at Denmark, an environment where masks aren't common, and didn't even track whether or not the participants actually wore them. All they checked was if they were "recommended" or not. And the kicker? They ACTUALLY DID find a statistically significant benefit to mask recommendation, just not a large one. The inclusion in your magic "collection" is basically a lie.

Now I read two links carefully. Your turn: go back to that UCSF site and read some of the links there.
It's literally on Twitter, isn't it?
I would start with basic things, don't worry about offering lots of gigabytes or the what the streaming crowd want. I would go after the people who want basic services. I'd say the vast majority of people don't need 5G or even LTE speed. They just want something that keeps them in contact with other people.
To do this in Zig you would ship a binary + a "header" file that looks like:

`pub extern fn foo(c_int) c_int;` etc.

then import with `usingnamespace @import("./my_header.zig");` and now you have a function `foo` that you can call; then you just need to link with the object file that defines it. Is your complaint that you still need the "header" file? What language / tools do you use that let you skip that part?
> In what way are they more complicated?

When you change wifi networks you either have to remember to manually disconnect in advance, or wait for ssh to time-out the connection, then you have to create a new ssh connection, then you have to run an extra command to re-attach to the {screen/tmux} session you started earlier.

It’s not insurmountably difficult work - but for the specific use-case of roaming across wifi networks, “doing a small disconnect and reconnect dance” with tmux is way more complicated and annoying than “open your laptop and all your connections are still working” with mosh.
> "visual derivative".

Do you have any idea that means? Because I certainly don't - how could you possibly identify whether an image is CSAM without looking at something which is reasonably the same image?

What is a visual derivative? Take that algorithm and run it over some normal images and show me what they look like.

All of this is being aggressively talked around because everyone knows it's not going to stand up to any reasonable scrutiny (i.e. plenty of big image datasets out there - does Apple's implementation flag on any of those? Who knows - they're not going to refer to anything specific about how they got "1 in a trillion").
I've ran into a similar problem but not a quota error, sometimes large Blobs simply fail to save for no reason in Chrome. It's only certain blobs and not others. Never tracked down why, but it rendered idb unusable for me in that application.
Hah, guess who can't read properly...

No, their hesitancy didn't increase, every other group's decreased, making the hesitancy percentage among PhDs (since it remained mostly constant) to be the highest by May.

To put it in 5th grader terms, if Alan had $30, Beth had $20 and Charlie had $15 at the beginning of the year, and Alan"s and Beth's savings decreased to $13 and $5 but Charlie's only decreased to $14 by May, Charlie is now the richest of the group.
They could have filmed some of the freezer stuff live and then overlayed it on the other stuff
They didn’t do themselves any favors by blurring the line between apps and the OS. If it’s just Apple’s Photos app doing this, you can install a different app and not use that one.
The case fatality rate has been quoted to be much lower than that - 2% in bad cases (health care system failure) and 0.5% in more well managed situations.
The only country where it is actually fairly simple is Canada, because Canadian banks already have the infrastructure to automatically tattle on you to Uncle Sam and the IRS.
The platform social media agencies don't want you to know about
I founded a platform called Pallyy (https://pallyy.com) - a social media scheduling, analytics & management platform.

We're up against the likes of Later, Buffer, Hootsuite and so on, so we'd love you to check the small guy and give us some feedback.
Not saying for everyone in this situation, but for many people who find themselves not have enough savings to survive a year or two without working.

How do these people end up here in the first place?

Why so many people living in the most prosperous country in the world saving nothing for themselves?

Why people over spend so much and live so much beyond their means?

How and when would people take some serious responsibility for themselves?

I bet that you find much less first-generation immigrants in this situation, even though they make much less income and are in much more disadvantage in every part of their lives.

Think about that.
The older you are, the more likely Covid is to kill you [1].

> Compared with 18- to 29-year-olds, the rate of death is four times higher in 30- to 39-year-olds, and 600 times higher in those who are 85 years and older. (In the table, a rate of 1x indicates no difference compared to the 18- to 29-year-old age category.)

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
> FWIW, I think it's silly that reddit has banned the term "retard" site-wide, although I also acknowledge that the term may be becoming broader and more offensive than I personally understand it to be.

Do you have any source of this? As far as I know Reddit bans no words site-wide, and I see the term used now and then.

On the very same website a post could not come through because I described someone as having “retarded pubertal development”, in any case.

> In the case of "kill yourself" in /r/SuicideWatch, though, it's such an extreme case with potentially disastrous results that I wouldn't find it particularly problematic. The occasional false positive is arguably a small price to pay.

It's also completely useless because people that want to get through the censor will et through it by other means that will still make their message easily understood.

Word censors are window politics and people that want to get around them will get around them and I assume it's already against the rules on that subreddit to encourage suicide so they would be quite willing to also break a rule to evade word censors.
> The only case I know of is old British cars

My mother's 2018 Shark robot vacuum cleaner uses a mixture of 2.5mm and 3/32" hex screws.
> EU: the European Union & single Euro currency make the EU easier to understand & travel in it much less tricky and expensive

A funny point considering the absolute unmitigated disaster that is the Eurozone both in concept and implementation x)

> Keurig & other Single-Serve coffee machines

Another unsustainable waste of materials. Just use ground coffee please.

> Clothing has become almost “too cheap to meter”

Yes, it has been outsourced to countries with dirt-cheap labour. I'm not entirely sure if that's a good thing.
Couldn't a billionaire crush tether by shorting so much of it that it exceeded the cash reserves?

Short answer --- no. They can just print more tethers --- which exchanges and crypto-fools will readily accept as being worth $1 USD.

You're making a common mistake --- you're assuming that the crypto market is actually a "free market" similar to the regulated stock and currency markets. You're assuming it is free of the inside manipulation that keeps the price of USDT artificially pegged at $1 USD no matter what.
I think it's pretty fucking scummy that LinkedIn is showing my profile when I have everything set to private and set as "not interested", yet recruiters are cold-emailing me through LinkedIn multiple times a day and insisting on next-day calls. Some of them cold-text me.
If you do not understand what the software on your phone is doing; you cannot control it; you do not own it. Apple owns it.
I've seen the existing "competitors" like TekSavvy, but my understanding is they are essentially under the whim of the big companies anyway, is that true? Or will they be able to over take the monopoly in time?
You're going to get downvoted into oblivion but as a PhD, who has also worked in manufacturing, I have a number of reasons to remain skeptical about the vaccines. I won't repeat them here because everyone has pretty much made up their mind one way or the other.

For what it's worth, I did end up getting vaccinated recently (J&J, not mRNA-based) after quite a few unpleasant conversations with my spouse that I was endangering our children on the presumption that unvaccinated people more easily spread the virus. This assertion has been thrown into doubt, however, by the CDC's Barnstable study [1] suggesting viral numbers between vaccinated and unvaccinated are similar (among people tested). Consequently, I'm just staying home these days.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm
> [The GHG footprint of blue hydrogen is] more than 20% greater than burning natural gas or coal for heat and some 60% greater than burning diesel oil for heat

Totally apples to oranges comparison - heating is and always will be way more energy efficient than electricity generation on a per-watt basis because you eliminate the inefficiencies inherent in the compressors and turbines. You have to compare hydrogen to what it’s being used to replace - internal combustion engines, which are wildly inefficient.
Leiah (and Tarking) are not good examples.

Blade Runner comes awfully close. Compare the original movie footage with the replicated 3D version and it's almost impossible to tell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQcxEo5MUc8

I'd say, rendering is basically solved. The problem now is animations. Very hard to replicate all micro expressions and imperfections we have come to accept from humans. Even humans with motion capture rigs seem to be insufficient.

That said, what about the John Connor death in Terminator: Dark Fate? What's uncanny about that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YHDbdRP0A

Behind the scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Rm9k7kTZQ&t=60s
That 1/1t rate apple gave is post human review according to a recent interview
My whole point was that "Trump supporter" is a nonsense name for the lose group of people they mean by it and it seems to be intentional to "brand" people like that. And BTW all the mainstream media is pro vaccine regardless of which political side they are associated with. Only niche more radical outlets aren't.

Assuming a majority of vaccine hesitant people is in such an radical media bubble is kind strange and seems to be just an attempt to "simplify to dismiss" the problem.
My understanding is they already do server-side. But relying on server-side alone means trying to end-to-end encrypt your data on the server would put them in political/legal crosshairs.
> Anyone who didn't get a 20% raise this year lost money

Inflation numbers that just came out measure year-over-year inflation at 5.4%. And last July we had artificially depressed demand during the pandemic.
>Option #1 doesn’t really breach the ‘sanctity of device ownership’ because it only occurs if you’ve enabled iCloud photos on the device.

I'm done. You'll rationalize anything.
I am glad someone not actually from HK to point out all every single one of these incidents.
Are there any approaches to this problem that are distributed perhaps could take advantage of serverless functions type implementation?
Ebola spreads poorly and never achieved anything larger than a regional outbreak (but yes, it's very dangerous). Smallpox is extinct.

Covid is a pandemic, literally killing millions of people. You don't think that's relevant to a discussion about vaccination policy?

BTW: that "smallpox" idea you threw out? Give you two guesses as to how it was eradicated.
True but the same goes for covid itself. In fact we already know of long covid. Which we still don't know much about. We don't even know if it ever goes away. So there's a known long-term effect already.

The vaccines are a lot better understood than the virus. We don't know of any long-term issues so far.

It's still a much safer bet to get the vaccine IMO. And it will also help with the societal problem around the covid measures. We can't keep going on lockdowns for years to come. It will destroy the economy which has its own associated health risks.
The long lasting side effects of Covid are just as if not more underresearched than the vaccines.
It's shown time and time again that the alternative, with a radical free-speech approach to content moderation, is that the community attracts users who post trash content (e.g., white nationalism, screwball conspiracy, glorification of violence, misogyny), who then gradually drive away everyone else. That's why they never attract much of a following and end up withering and dying.
Signed contracts have a signature. This has been an acceptable way to ascertain authenticity of the document for a long time. Signatures are surprisingly difficult to forge.

I have developed my signature so that nobody can replicate it fluently. I also use special one off archival ink that nobody else in the world has.

Emails do not have any default mechanism like that, especially if they only rest on servers of the interested parties. Emails are just bytes and can be easily edited.
> Like, say, the naughty pictures you've been taking of your (consenting) adult partner. I'm sure Apple's outsourced low-wage-country verification team will enjoy those.

I'm not sure they'll be able to after looking at CSAM all day...