skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently in the last fire, just before he was caught, he got his car struck. His behavior attracted attention of a hiker. He was observed and filmed by this concerned citizen who contacted authorities. That filming including getting his picture plus the license plate on his car. That cinched enough to know his identity and suspicion.

Once he became a suspect to the level, a court order to get phone records would be easy.

The moment your phone is on, it is constantly keeping a full data handshake and connection to any base station nearby and to phone company switching computers. You are constantly "under surveillance" in a geographic sense if you have a cell phone turned on (with or without a valid SIM card - the phones serial number gets logged even if an account isn't validated). Having it this way is the only way an in-coming call could ever be routed to you!

Remember phone switches are all Unix based and they have log files constantly filling just like any desktop system. Literally just "grep" the files. The most amusing experience related to this I ever had was being able to talk to my uncle who was blue-collar AT&T technician. But he knew his Unix.
What makes compiling FFTW on Windows so troublesome? That's currently on my to-do list.
I don’t understand the downvotes. Are people really in denial about the fact that covid is endemic and will be with all of us for the rest of our lives and our children’s lives, just like the flu?

We already had our technological miracle (the vaccine) but we’re too stupid as a group to make it work. Barring a sociological miracle, nothing is going to change.
It is correct, but it’s also true that it runs on the device. It’s actually an interesting trade-off as it’s more private in some ways, at the cost of potentially being less private if misused in the future.
If they're paying me for the time, then sure. Just happened to me last month. I got to learn some stuff, improving my employability, on their dime and time.
you are now a progamer
>> Over $60 billion worth of USDT now circulates through the crypto ecosystem... Tether has historically never faced a large amount of redemptions. Issuances have outpaced redemptions by more than 20:1.

Does that mean that $60bn in net Tether has been sold by the "mint?"
No thanks, I like having MSVC available for fast iteration builds-- clang builds too slowly.
Maybe a system where people work in the extreme system from 20-30, get paid highly, and save enough to not need to work again in their early 30's. Seems like a much better system than UBI.
Both statements are correct--for now. It runs locally on device for photos synced to iCloud. Presumably it's a slow boil: they'll make it run on all photos in a year or so, once the press from this one has blown over.
> Given that she got her account back that's funny more than anything.

You don't understand. This is a "mail from readers" type of article, where "WM" from Cambridge wrote the bolded text and Anna Tims responded with regular text.

The victim's PayPal account was only reinstated after the journalist asked the company about it. There's probably no other way to get past automated responses.

This is far from funny.
While it's hard to prove that this (or anything) directly causes headaches, Chirp has an unusually small x-height (stem width to x-height ratios would normally be around 1:6 for a legible font – Chirp's ratio is 1:4, very small) and an extreme x-height to body height ratio (the capitals are MUCH taller than the non-capitals).

The net effect is that even at the same "font size" you have to squint more to read anything, because non-capital text is very very small and tight relative to the rather large capitals.
Literally just get an Android phone.
Yeah they are wording that poorly, it’s definitely on the device. This article feels like the most charitable read of CSAM.
Company is asking me to take a course for a skill that I feel..at minimum, competent, with/in.

It's just another...aggravation in what seems like a job mismatch - role, expectations, etc.

I'm not keen on it for at least a couple of reasons, not the least of which is because....I've seen said skill demonstrated at the company, and I'm not impressed.

And it's just me that is required to take the course -- i.e. they seem to truly believe I'm not competent/enough in said skill.

Were I a different person I might think, "Cool - I get to brush up on tying my shoelaces", or "Cool - a couple of free hours", or similar, but I'm not a different type of person.

I didn't push back (yet) on this particular topic because previous pushbacks on various issues did little or nothing, and I've been job hunting already.

There is a 5% chance I could end up staying, so curious how others have dealt with 'getting nephewed'.
A solar flare or a coronal mass ejection that hits Earth would be catastrophically bad.
This is so dope - creating good generators is so hard, great work!
Looking good on iOS.
China tested all 11M Wuhan residents in a week
Simulaton of a swimming dogfish shark with Julia
I don't think this is right. They have to raise prices in some markets (e.g. California) to meet new regulations, sure, but some cities were already profitable pre-pandemic without money burning shenanigans.

The single largest thing that threw a wrench in the profitability projections was the pandemic, which caused two huge impacts in the supply/demand graph (the first one down when everyone stopped going out, and the second up now that things are going back to normal-ish, out-of-whack economy notwithstanding.) Uber, being a two-sided economy company, is extremely sensitive to abrupt changes in supply/demand.

There's this persistent notion here that Uber used VC money to lower prices across the board, which is ostensibly true to some extent, but the reality is a bit more nuanced in the sense that Uber operates in a hyper-local fashion, with budgeting strategies catered individually to each city, each with the end goal of eventually stopping the `money => growth` strategy and switching to a self-sustainable model (or if that can't be achieved, then GTFO of there grabbing equity on the way out, as it already has in multiple markets).
I think the problem is you're assuming that general AI = Turing machine, but there's no indication that needs to be the case.

"General AI" to me means human intelligence running on an artificial system (silicon, simulated brain, etc), so the optimization I'm thinking of is more akin to having an assembly expert translate your code into assembly than a compiler optimization pass.

Given that I have optimized my fair bit of code by removing abstraction layers or simplifying code, by definition a general AI should be similarly capable & can handle even ambiguous tasks like "refactor this codebase in this way". Obviously this gives up accuracy, but humans make mistakes writing code as well & it would be much easier to say "I've observed a fault that has this properties. Figure out the problem". It should do an even better job than I can on problems like that because for complicated problems it should be able to follow complex codebases with greater ease than I.

Again, I'm defining a tautological definition of "general AI" as one that's capable of doing all that. If it's not capable of doing that then it's not general AI.
I strongly disagree with the author. Apple did this feature not for "increased privacy" or "better cloud security". Sorry to say that but that's a desperate believer right there.

Why did Apple do it, though? To create precisely this kind of cognitive dissonance. It's not Apple that's observing you. It's the government. Apple has basically created an API for government surveillance and can now say "see, we don't collect the data. We don't even know what big brother wants to know about you."

Apple just side-stepped the question on how to reconcile trust in propietary software and surveillance requests from the government. And everyone who tells you that it's not guaranteed that this feature will be extended to texts, spoken language, and other contents, is not worth talking to.

We now live in a world, where our personal computers come with "AI" that detects illegal use of those computers and automatically turns us in to the authorities. This general pattern won't disappear, ever. In a couple of years you will have to carefully consider every word you say in a car, every movie you watch, every website you visit, every program you write, because some neural net will use it to create a fingerprint that might be classified as illegal behavior.
"Won't someone think of the insurance company execs?"

Leadership bonuses are just not cutting it this year... amirite?
>This is a disingenuous depiction at best

Numerous studies DO show that masks are unable to prevent the spread of COVID and stop it.

Here's a publication stating that cloth Mask usage INCREASED chances of infection.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

Here's a collection of studies showing the ineffectiveness of face masks.

https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/

This is still an open discussion but the people like you continue to suppress dissent and demonize the opposition because either your ego is so big or your virtue signaling is so strong, that you can't admin you might be wrong.

If Galileo was around right now he would have been deplatformed for trying to tell the world that the Earth revolves around the Sun which was counter to the narrative.
The same thing could be said about the Internet, or tech in general.
It was kinda hard for me to understand the basics of deep learning. A lot of formal courses makes a lot of assumptions.

I ended up watching the deep learning series by 3blue1brown, reading the book it was based on. Watching lots of linear algebra and calculus videos. Then taking the deep learning specialization program on Coursera. This process took 2 months, it taught me the basics.

Then I built my own project and realized there were lots wholes in my knowledge base. I found an old post on hn that recommended deeplizard on YouTube, that was an excellent recommendation and intro to pytorch.

One thing to keep in mind is that as you are learning, new methods are being invented.

Edit: typos
If you want to try time-blocking: https://crushentropy.com/ It's like markdown for planning.
I think the point is that for an application writing a local file to a local disk that should not be required to run. Even just prompting or asking would be fine.
Sure, now find me a new car that doesn't have the ability to do OTA updates
I am using it an expression evaluator in my library
Exactly, many comments here are saying the difference is in LLVM IR ("middle-end") optimizations but IMHO more secrets are hidden in the backend. For example the latency of different instructions (and their operands) which has huge impact on the overall scheduling.
Sounds like the perfect job. I've always wanted a job that requires no effort or time.
Canada PM Trudeau planning snap election, seeks approval for Covid response
Wow! Things have gotten this bad in Canada? I know they were burning down churches but this is some next level communist shit.
I would insist that the useless phrase is “free market” , as it implies a vacuum where government does not intervene, but what is a business but an agreement with the government to operate under certain rules?
Democrats will want the algorithm that helps them, GOP will want the algorithm that helps them. That doesn’t mean states won’t eventually settle on an algorithmic solution.

We’ve been through this before, with competing congressional apportionment algorithms.
It doesn't matter what the first version does. They will not stop there ... Russia started with "protecting children" too... look what they do now 10 years later. Imagine what they will demand from Apple with such capabilities. And Apply will most likely cooperate ...

"
The authorities are now moving not just to reduce the influence of foreign tech companies but also to force them to promote Russian services — as with the new regulation mandating government-approved apps on all new smartphones.

Apple has agreed to this "

https://time.com/5951834/russia-control-internet/
You agreed to let them alter the terms of the deal. It's in the EULA.
The OpenAI Codex challenge is down
"Consumer choice" is not how you stop hostile all-pervasive monopoly machine learning algorithms. The number of times I've heard from smart people: "Don't use Google"; "Don't use Amazon"; "Microsoft are evil" (true) - now "Don't buy it". Running into the hedgerows and away from the mainstream of digital life is not an option for all but a tiny fraction of people. "Just get an Android phone!" is an even worse idea.
It shows Segoe UI for me
Def not diversity and inclusion.

If they wanted me to take a D&I-type course, I'd be legit worried that I had issues there.

And it's just me.

Think, if I was a legit senior coder, and they wanted me to take an Intro to Algorithms course -- that's a good parallel.

...updated to reflect my slow comment.
You don't have to sign a contract to find vulnerabilities in an API. The thing that you have to obey is the law. Just because we call it smart contracts it isn't above the laws.
What if this own goal was done on purpose as way to prove the business cannot sustain this level of intrusion? It could be a piece of a larger game to build a case against Congress trying to force its hand further. The outrage has got people politically motivated. It could be weaponized against the surveillance state.
> You either receive the Tether you asked for to make your own trades, or they keep the Tether and purchase the crypto you really wanted. In either scenario, someone besides the OTC has the Tether now.

So instead of buying coins directly, people are buying Tether then immediately selling that Tether to… someone? Who apparently is okay holding on to huge quantities of Tether?

It’s weird that crypto proponents always act perplexed at why anyone would hold large amounts of fiat losing out to inflation, but when that fiat comes in the form of a cryptocurrency representation it’s actually okay and perfectly logical for huge amounts of it to exist in the crypto system, sitting in a few very large accounts somewhere.

Comparing Tether to USDC is also conveniently ignoring the fact that Bitfinex and Tether tried to mislead everyone into thinking they were unrelated companies, when in fact they were tightly coupled this whole time.
>It's terrible for identifying dissidents because it only catches them if they upload to iCloud servers.

This is a configuration change. Without knowing the implementation, I'd bet a lunch that, for the time-being, the reason this thing is executed only upon upload to iCloud is because there's some simple business logic buried in there telling it to do so.

>Dissidents are much more likely to be tech savvy than random child molesters.

This is a curious argument. You didn't explain why you think this might be. What is it about a dissident that makes him or her more savvy than some random child molester?

>An effctive surveillance mechanism would need to change all of these.

If true, the obstacles you outlined are trivial to overcome.
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For the same reason why we still use wind tunnels and a lot of other types of physical simulations when it comes to fluid dynamics and many other fields of “classical” applied physics.

The reality is that all the equations and formulas we use are approximation, even simple things like the actual direction of flow in a pipe aren’t as simple as you think take any pipe and flow fluid through it in one direction, now introduce a dye in the middle and without a recirculating system the dye will eventually creep up against the flow.

None of the equations you can nominally apply to fluid flows would enable you to predict nor explain this. There are now diffusion calculations that you can apply to calculate how much and how fast things could diffuse upstream, but these are essentially statistical models that we derived from experiments.

So back to the Tesla valve question, the simulation likely work on ideal flows and geometries which are nearly impossible to actually produce through engineering so the slightest of variations in the surface, fluid density etc. can have drastic impacts on the outcome.
If you are still manufacturing in China, you are a fool. Get ready for your factory to be seized/shut down in the next couple of years, or be taxed/fines so much that you have no choice but to leave. Or get ransomed by the local factory that you are working with (like extreme delay of products or shoddy products delivery).
>The survey was online, yes, which is what allowed over 5 million people taking part in it.

I didn't get that part. Five million was mentioned, but there were only five hundred thousand responses. I'd guess five million were offered the survey?

>Also 2.1% of the responders had a PhD and 2.0% of the US population has a PhD, that does not seem like "a fair amount higher"

The percent with a PhD I could find ranged from 1.2% to 1.6%, and you're ignoring that some amount of the 13% of "no response" would have PhD's as well.

>They also mention that "our sample is more educated with higher vaccine uptake than general population, indicating that vaccine hesitancy is underestimated in this sample.

Or that indicates people are lying about their education, supporting my previous point. They mention that one of the limitations is that the answers just need to be taken in good faith.

So basically I will remain skeptical of Facebook surveys.
Good!

So tired of this covid coup. Really hoping some brave patriots do something about it. I don't have the balls.
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It's a bit more dramatic if you look at cost of living again as GP did. Numbeo again:

> You would need around 3,309.51$ (12,912.27zł) in Warsaw to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 8,500.00$ in San Francisco, CA (assuming you rent in both cities).
> With its on-device CSAM scanner, Apple has built a tool carefully calibrated to protect user privacy. If building this tool enabled Apple to finally offer broader encryption of iCloud data, it might even be a net increase in user privacy.

> But tools are neither good nor evil. Apple has built this tool for a good purpose, but every time a new tool is built, all of us need to imagine how it might be misused. Apple seems to have very carefully designed this feature to make it more difficult to subvert, but that’s not always enough.

> Imagine a case where a law enforcement agency in a foreign country comes to Apple and says that it has compiled a database of illegal images and wants it added to Apple’s scanner. Apple has said, bluntly, that it will refuse all such requests. That’s encouraging, and I have little doubt that Apple would abandon most countries if they tried to pull that maneuver.

> But would it be able to say no to China? Would it be able to say no to the U.S. government if the images in question would implicate members of terrorist organizations? And in a decade or two, will policies like this be so commonplace that when the moment comes that a government asks Apple or its equivalents to began scanning for illegal or subversive material, will anyone notice? The first implementation of this technology is to stop CSAM, and nobody will argue against trying to stop the exploitation of children. But will there be a second implementation? A third?

I’ll add this: Is our outrage at Apple enough to stop governments from requiring that they implement features like this?
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I am a python developer interested in learning HTML-CSS-Javascript. What are some good online resources/ courses that covers the fundamentals in great depth. Looking for some guided resources rather than something generic like w3school
It’s probably more “moral” for the hacker to keep the funds in this situation. However, he probably fears for his safety.
Could be also cool to identify "mmm"s and "uuuh"s and remove these, too.
Personally i wouldn't be able to tell they re different without a hint

Not sure what the fuss is about
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TIL £1000 for 16-port media duplicator is cheap. Competitors seems to be charging three times or even more. $3499 for a 16x2 LCD and a glorified USB hub!? $7800!?
> Regardless of whether you’re pro or anti Helvetica, I think we can all agree that it’s not up for the job.

… we can?

(From https://twitter.com/DerritDeRouen/status/1354548649561186306)
If you think it's not spreading to Android phones, you are naive. Apple set the precedent, now it's gonna come to every mainstream device.

The only option is to abandon ship.
Different states had different rules for when absentee ballots could be counted. Pennsylvania's Republican state legislature mandated that votes not be counted until in-person e-day voting began. Florida, on the other hand, was allowed to start counting absentee ballots 22 days in advance. And 2020 was not an ordinary election; it took place in the middle of a pandemic, which radically increased the amount of absentee voting. This stuff is all pretty straightforward, but it's easy to leave details out and make it sound less so.
That's even mentioned in the article.
I think the profiles will need to be country specific too. What counts as CSAM in some places doesnt in others (here in the UK we have a ban on cartoons but bath pics are allowed for instance).

This is something Apple have been pressed on a lot. So far (I'd be happy to be corrected) they've only said "whatever local law permits". That sounds ok, till you realise Saudi will want gays reported and China wont like any Winnie the Pooh pics...
He mentions DoorDash. The service was launched in 2013. Back then I would have assumed that online food delivery already had dominant players and it would be hard for a startup to get significant traction.

How did DoorDash overcome that and become to the biggest food delivery service?
This is wonderful. There's just something evocative about fish--with their flat side portrait look, and wide open eyes that make them a perpetually interesting subject for art.
> It’s so funny to me when everyone touts crypto + smart contracts as revolutionary™ then when you follow a system implemented with them to its logical conclusions you have analogs to everything that already exists. Lawyers to audit the contracts for bugs (and yes there can be bugs in a formally verified spec as well), courts to arbitrate disagreements, and an authority to enforce rules when someone finds a security hole.

Tech people tend to think of technology as computerized things, but all those things you listed are also technologies that solve real problems that people encountered in the past.

IMHO, crypto is like a new car with the revolutionary new feature of not having seat belt technology. Maybe the inventor has some dumb idiosyncratic or ideological hatred of seat belts, and maybe some people buy into it... Then the new cars get popular, people start crashing them in numbers, and we realize, "hey maybe seat-belts weren't so dumb after all."

Of course, when that happens someone in that community will call it a seat-strap and claim it's a revolutionary new invention.
What gives you the confidence that it's going on circles? I cannot see our industry repeating the mantra that NoSQL solves all our persistence problems ever again. There are use cases for them, but not everything is a good fit and I'm pretty sure we found that out as an industry.

I'm sure there are always going to be individuals that will claim that they're better at everything, but that doesn't really mean anything. There are people that believe in a flat earth as well after all