skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get most of these (even if I don't agree with it). Porn and drugs, I think it's counter productive to ban such literature, but sure. Hobby manufacturing and gang descriptions I get. Heteropatriarchy and the 3 Pillars of White Supremacy? Like, banning that is just proving to the potential readers that what it says has validity.
Modern management believes that the lower ranks need the whip while upper ranks need the carrot to get motivated. It's the same as people are getting nervous about inflation when lower wages are rising but not when the top 1% incomes are going up.
The better sounding ones use a paid service API, you can set one up yourself.

https://github.com/waldenn/playthis.link
Yeah - I can hear Tim Cook quoting those numbers as he explains this on stage.
That would seem to be the path-to-radicalization, and there certainly seem to be more people at the extremes. BUT there is a really broad group of people not at the extremes resisting radicalization much less interested in expressing their ideas online because the backlash is too much, they don't feel confident enough in their opinions, or they simply don't care that much.

The problems in this country and perhaps the world at large is a lot of people seem to want the extremists to get along and get into arguments with the fringes and take away that these situations represent most of reality. The truth of it is, hopefully, that there are actually an enormous number of people who are relatively quiet who just need to learn how to identify other moderate people of differing views and how to, when to, and really TO have conversations about their differences and understand and empathize with why somebody else has a different position.
Thanks for sharing that article; really gross
> It’s not a back door in any sense of the word.

It is. It's a simple matter for two foreign governments to decide they don't want their people to criticize the head of state with memes, and then insert such images into the database Apple uses for scanning.

Apple's previous position on privacy was to make such snooping impossible because they don't have access to the data. Now they are handing over access.

What I and thousands of others online are describing ought to be understandable by anyone at Apple. The fact that an Apple exec can sit there in a prepared interview and look perplexed about how people could see this as a back door is something I don't understand at all. This "closing his ears" attitude may indicate he is full of it.
To be fair, the vaccines we have today were literally the first ones out of the gate, and they should be considered a stopgap solution that only serves to mitigate the problems caused by the global pandemic, but they patently don't work in eliminating it or even reach herd immunity.

Basically the current batch of vaccines (the best ones, to boot) just train the immune system for it to have a fighting chance at not being overwhelmed by covid. But that's it.

Some vaccination locations even make it their point to distribute pamphlets stating quite clear that the vaccine is not a silver bullet, and all basic health and higiene precautions in place should continue to be followed.

It's far too early to talk about preventing mutations or any scenario where the current vaccines making covid is a thing of the past. If anything, the economical gains from the vaccines illustrate that much needs to be done to get a better, long-term solution.
“It’s the only rational explanation.”

Or, perhaps they feel really strongly about child exploitation?
Is this the legal equivalent of setting mines and not marking them?
You can have any Steam game that supports Windows run through Proton, and then install and run Cheat Engine within that game's Proton/Wine prefix.

Definitely not as user friendly, but it does work. Alternatively you can use Game Conqueror, but it very basic compared to Cheat Engine.
Ask HN: Resources for Learning C
Hi HN,

I'd like to get back into low level programming and learn C properly. I am a seasoned programmer for many years in high level languages. I've done a few small embedded projects on ESP32 and wanted to seriously learn C.

What are some of the interesting intermediate/advanced resources for learning C? Even if it is not in a "tutorial" format, if you could share some projects, or repositories I should look at and implement my own version? Of course, would welcome C programming books and how to professionally write C avoiding common traps.

I've also read K&R cover-to-cover and I found that it lived up to the its popularity. I tried searching on HN but couldn't find a definitive thread for learning C specifically.

Thank you!
Unplug a windows machine, or any os, while its updating and see what happens. Y
Well, I've never seen that add before, and I agree it's just as problematic as what Elon has been saying for years. Happy?
I don't think they should of included an image that triggers false positives in CSAM

edit +reference
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
The point of the comment appeared to me to be that none of the "experts" deserve the label. But they are angry at someone.

When I look at the comments section of a right of center blog these days, I see people dismissing in similar language to the grandparent:

- the federal government
- the military
- local governments
- teachers
- health care employees
- hospitals
- doctors
- the corporate world
- people who run non-profits
- those who run higher education
- academics
- people who went to college in general
- tech companies and tech employees
- scientists
- people who live in cities
- political activists

and many others.

I think the above are most of society collectively, and while they are certainly not 100% experts, they are grouped due to assumed support of some sort of orthodox power structure that puts so-called experts at the top.
Hate to break it to you, but every large companies call centers are already like this.

There’s an entire suite of software companies that have been building this stuff for twenty years, companies like Verint.
Trolls will continue winning in ad-supported social media. A troll is fantastic at engaging large numbers of eyeballs. A low-quality trollish sentence is quick to write; drop a few of them here and there and you got a few lurkers graduate to what the platform can now claim as “active users”. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

(In this regard, as far as I’m concerned, for a novel type of social networking platform it’s much more important to be paid, rather than play around with likes and algorithms. Long-term business model will prevail—if your paying users are the advertisers, you’ll align with them sooner or later.)
Which is probably why Sam's process uses a DLP projector install of masks.
I don't think it's simply about what the market wants. If it were, you wouldn't have the majority of opinion-masquerading-as-news channels with a similar politic bent, you'd have it about down the middle, just like the consumers in the market itself.

I think the move to opinion is more about influencing decisions of the viewership than giving them what they want. Fox started it right around 9/11 as an approach to drum up support for war, and it worked, and the rest saw how effective that was and adopted it cautiously, of course the common thread and my implication is that there are agendas that they all have that this approach helps them achieve better than just delivering information would.
They go to far over and over.
To me, the fact that they are making such a strong statement is a big deal. If they had plans or thought that they would be forced to add other content they would not be so direct in this statement. I hope I am not wrong. As you said: trust.
That’s what Canadian banking is for, just have a lawyer set up a local account for a foreign entity, transfer money through a Canadian bank and just about everybody will take it next. Or so I hear… https://projects.thestar.com/panama-papers/canada-is-the-wor...

Who knows if that’ll change https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/blogs/techlex/canadian-a... or more broadly, https://www.iisd.org/itn/en/2021/06/24/the-end-of-tax-incent...
HF is no big deal, haven't you watched breaking bad? Piece of cake, just use plastic containers. What could go wrong?
> TikTok might just be the queerest and most inclusive platform on the internet today.

No, TikTok merely suggests what you are actively looking for. If you're creating a new account and don't look up other kind of content then you will see a lot less of it, especially in the "default" videos.
And who exactly will the market share go to? Do you thing the privacy-conscious folks will go to Google? Or a dumbphone? Or Purism maybe? I mean, no need to fret over my photos if I can't take photos, right?
I have a slight urge to blame this lack of "community" to the institutionalized nature of C's standarization in the style of "Against SQL".[1] Although in this case the barrier is not between research and implementation, but between implementation and standarization.

[1]: https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/#innovation-at-the-implementation-level-is-gated

(But hey, the defer proposal is here and might actually become a thing... right?)
I actually have no problem with pharma companies seeing huge profits from the covid vaccines.

Should they not be compensated for their extremely difficult/impactful work? Why won’t someone else do it for cheaper?
Doesn’t “cash” usually just mean no financing contingency?
> Medicine is the only industry that can sell flawed products, offer no guarantees, and charge arbitrary prices for services without any consequence.

Where do you frame mandatory requirements for clinical trials along with your personal assertion regarding "flawed products with no guarantees" ?
This is a potentially sensitive and conflicting topic. I don't think people can take strong view on this in real life for multiple reasons, one of them being pedophilia is a disorder that is not super uncommon.

The fact that WSJ did a story on this with and a lengthy interview with Apple SVP means this is already a mainstream story.
Because it is more profitable to grow the pie than to hoard your slice of it.
Whether this works depends on several things, like /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory and how much RAM+swap you actually have available.
>Apple is treating CSAM as an engineering problem.

No they're treating it as a political and legal problem (with the UK and the EU being the furthest along on passing legislation). Their implementation is the compromise that preserves end-to-end encryption, given those political winds.
> … the less likely it seems that it would make it radically easier for those bad actors to do so

Depends on implementation. I can easily see a possibility that the check is gated by a server side logic that can be changed at any moment without anybody knowing.
our ancestors saw patterns in the stars; we see patterns in molecules and such. Only the tools of observation have changed, our minds stayed the same.
There are companies working on scaling e-beam lithography, which might be along the lines you're looking for [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam_lithography

[2] http://www.multibeamcorp.com/
How much can you sell a patent to a troll for?
> how they would’ve liked their service provider to handle a difference in opinion about what to build in the future

And the answer is that they shouldn't implement things that violate people's privacy, such as things that would be illegal for the government to do without a warrant.

That is the answer. If it is something that the government would need a warrant for, then they shouldn't do it, and doing it would violate people's privacy.
That's no reason to try out random drugs, and pick some of those due to noise and artifacts in the tests.
I agree. I do have AAPL and will liquidate it. I have also been an Apple loyalist for 25 years. They burned their bridges with me.
In theory this sounds awesome but I have to say that demo was pretty underwhelming. It looks like there's a bunch of configuration that needs to be done to ensure this is set up properly, not the least of which is that the app needs to be running in a Docker container?

Thats a non-trivial task that I don't need to do on Heroku.

This seems to be targeting smaller, one off, services not full stacks? Can I deploy my whole cloud at once?

Not to mention no talk of how does your app connect to your database? Or caching? Or static assets? Do I need to translate paths in my apps to new domains?

Does it transfer my DNS listings?

What about auth? Does it translate Cognito to GCP or Firebase auth?

What about the data itself? Does it transfer my data between clouds?

Lots more questions than answers here.
Black Hat... one of the best thing about Vegas.
Seeing HN over the last week, I can think of a few reasons…
I enjoyed the process though. It's like dating, but as the hot girl. It's a bad place to be in if you urgently need a new job, though.
Part of me wish that this interview is posted on HN as a real one, for the greater good.

This is really an enjoyable read, I'm glad I didn't skip it.
High-level overview of 3GPP IMS, VoLTE, VoWiFi [video]
> I'm saying that sh*tty elites who inspire and empower such rhetoric are the real problem.

Some of it could also be due to external circumstances, I think Hoover was supposed to actually be pretty competent and intelligent relative to other politicians of his time, but countries everywhere had trouble dealing with the great depression effectively.

Ray Dalio has an interesting perspective on populism where he goes into detail on a bunch of specific cases [1].

In general, he argues that part of the reason for the emergence of populism this time is the end of a long-term debt cycle, where debt levels increase and interest rates decrease until interest rates hit 0 and can't be easily lowered further, and that the great depression and the financial crisis are examples of this dynamic. And that after this happens, internal tensions often increase (keep in mind on a macro level, dollar debt/savings are two sides of the same coin, so if debt levels stop increasing savings do also, and the economy takes on a more zero-sum dynamic). He covers the economics more on the home page of the same site [2].

[1] https://economicprinciples.org/downloads/bw-populism-the-phe...

[2] https://economicprinciples.org/
If I were to design a spying device, I would definitively put it on both the client device and the server. That is because third party apps are not required to put their contents on Apple servers. By putting it on the client, you can potentially hoover up any app’s data. Just write a background service that scans the client’s file system and track all calls to encryption APIs.

The list of apps is such a treasure trove. Signal? Clubhouse? Telegram?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying...

I need to research what Signal does on iOS. My next canary is encryption of messaging apps other than iMessage.
> In a normal market situation, prices are determined by supply and demand. But that's really not such a situation here.

Isn't it exactly the situation here?

I mean, a few months ago we even had central governments bid against their own local governments to have access to vaccines. Doesn't that lay out quite clearly that this is a demand-driven market?
He will flash.
I have some patents from my last (failed) startup in this space. I'm going to call Optis on Monday and find out.
This is from the series of Osmocom dev calls:

https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-dev-con/wiki/OsmoDevCall
Isn't "Anti Anti-Money Laundering" just "Money Laundering"? Or am I missing something in English (not a native speaker)?
Oh so bad these people are using their time efficiently against the internal ambitions of their bosses. Alas, the busybody work they demand might not get done!
Then people need to start asking themselves if privacy is really a value they really hold or is just an empty, bandwagon idealism.

Because sacrificing privacy for convenience is why we got to this point.
This is the hill to make the anti-privacy tyrants die on.
This in my mind is the mentality that contributes to a perpetual outrage culture. Standing up for your beliefs and trying to convince others by argument is exhausting and not always effective (see: Brandolini's law). My preference is to just leave my thoughts without the intention of trying to convince anyone, and to learn what can be learned. Sometimes it is necessary for us to disengage when constantly arguing isn't worth the effort.
I assume that my keystrokes are always being monitored on a company device. Obviously I'd prefer to not be monitored, but I don't really have an expectation of privacy at work on a work device.
Why would they without expertise in the medical field? It's not something to dismiss out of hand either.
> If this is your read on the situation, you have problems

Obviously yes, I have a low IQ and don't make anywhere close to what you made 3 years into your career.

> First of all "y'all" is multiple different people on a website who don't know each other. You can't cite a comment by one person to support your claim that another person believes something, and

Yes, it's true society things of people like me are failures because I don't make $400k+ at Google or wherever you work now. Not just you, it's a bunch of people.
If you want 100% guarantees and no side effects make sure your creator is your doctor.
No, this is the behavior for any value of vm.overcommit_memory.
Looks this was being downvoted. Probably for the “Not a big deal really”, possible tone of saying “we should accept micromanaging distrust”, and the behavior monitoring of drivers and warehouse workers is dystopian, this could well go that direction.

However, if you’re working at an employer-provided work device, your practice is a wise one.
Forcing vaccine manufacturers to give away their vaccine creates strong incentives against inventing vaccines.

It works once, but the next pandemic may happen without any vaccines.

The consensual, win-win way is to buy vaccines from the manufacturers, at high prices. This makes manufacturers wealthy by making people healthy and aligns incentives for the common good.
> What I personally don’t understand is why Apple didn’t come out with a different message: we’ve made your iPhone so secure that we’ll let it vouch for your behalf when it sends us data to store. We don’t want to see the data, and we won’t see any of it unless we find that lots of the photos you send us are fishy.

That is PR speak that would have landed worse in tech forums. I respect them more for not doing this.

The core issue is this performs scans, without your approval, on your local device. Viruses already do that and it's something techies have always feared governments might impose. That private companies are apparently being strong-armed into doing it is concerning because it means the government is trying to circumvent the process of public discussion that is typically facilitated by proposing legislation.
The Myth of the Myth of the Latte Millionaire
Disabling iCloud does not remove the scanner from your device though, it is always there waiting for any other API to call it and begin scanning.

Apple promising not to use the scanner is a weak promise they know they can’t keep (NSLs)
Wait, i thought this is what we negotiated when the initial development and payment for the vaccine happened?!
The sort of questions about 4A protections here haven't really been tested. Third party doctrine might not apply in this circumstance and the court is slowly evolving with the times.
Tumblr Transformed American Politics
I wonder how much performance hit you get by enabling 57-bit virtual address space. One could imagine this could hurt very random access patterns due to extra layer of translation.
They definitely think they're innately superior to people like me. If anything I'm underplaying it.

When you're given everything from peer bonuses to spot bonuses to first class flights to Hawaii to unlimited external validation from everyone else - it's not surprising.
Did a doctor ever give you a guarantee that their treatment would heal you? Contrast with almost any other industry... the baker telling you "this piece of bread might cure your hunger, but there is a 10% risk that it will kill you instead". Clinical trials are in many cases smoke and mirrors - very elaborate and inscrutable, but provide no guarantees in the end. When it comes down to results of medical treatments, your mileage will vary and you take the responsibility upon yourself.
Because of this interview I’ve added Craig to my mental list of executives who need to lose their job over this little stunt of theirs.

Apple has spent billions in engineering and marketing to establish themselves as the privacy leader, all wiped away by this idiotic system so full of holes you could serve it on crackers.
Seems like it. I like to believe this is karma for their CSAM spyware initiatives. Please continue to fight the good fight, patent trolls.
Or just have government funded researchers that are well compensated, it's not the actual scientist that developed the drugs getting rich.
You assume Sweden's high rape rate is based on their counting and reporting practices. Have you looked through the counting and reporting methods for all other countries in Europe and standardized them to reach this conclusion? To me, as someone who hasn't looked at the crime reporting and counting methods of all the countries of Europe, this sounds like a possible explanation, maybe even a likely one, but possible explanations aren't necessarily correct and nor should we assume they are.

Sweden really does report more rapes than the other countries of Europe. Maybe this is function of how they count and report rapes, maybe that's part or all of the excess rapes, but "Maybe" doesn't mean you can conclude the original true, even if complicated or misleading, fact is false.

If we see some odd phenomenon in the metrics for a country, and you can come up with a plausible sounding explanation for the phenomenon, that doesn't mean that your explanation is accurate and it doesn't mean that it is false to assert that the odd phenomenon does exist.
> Having said that, having heard from people who have investigated how bad pedophile activity actually is, I can imagine being easily persuaded back in the other direction.

There are terrible things out there that we should seek to solve. They should not be solved by creating 1984 in the literal sense, and certainly not by the company that became famous for an advertisement based on that book [1].

Apple, take your own advice and Think Different [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMBhDv4sik
I only had a few thousand APPL, so I’m a small fry in the big scheme of things.

I sold every share the day they announced this.
There's tons of money to be made interpreting Pharaoh's dreams too, until the year the crops go bad.
Bear in mind that Christianity was an oral tradition and there were dozens or more gospels and various traditions like Gnosticism which would later become heresy, and none of the canonical gospels are believed to have been written sooner than a century after Jesus' lifetime, and not by their attested authors. It would literally be impossible for everything written about him to be accurate.

CS Lewis' Jesus is the result of judicious editing by the Council of Nicaea leaving a lot on the cutting room floor.

>Lewis seems like a smart guy, so I’m not sure how he missed that possibility.

He was a Christian. By definition he believed in the correctness of scripture. He wasn't actually trying to consider rational alternatives to Jesus' divinity, but to convince the listener that simply accepting Jesus as a moral teacher was absurd with a classic false dichotomy - that one must either accept Jesus as the Son of God or dismiss him as a lunatic. Of course, those aren't really the only possibilities, as the criticism page on Lewis' trilemma shows[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%27s_trilemma