skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The entire point of having a liberal democracy is that we are the government, and we can pull it back from authoritarianism.

We technically can. We also can technically elect people that understand technology. But practically its 100x more likely that I, a person that works with technology for a living, magically finds a way to provide my family with a decent lifestyle doing somethign that doesn't use computers at all. And I view the chances of that happening to be almost non-existent.
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I still see a lot of people thinking the EU law demands the scanning of images for CSAM, but really it permits the scanning of images again. Apparently no one noticed that EU privacy laws actually prohibited the scanning of user images until last year, when companies like Facebook stopped scanning images to avoid fines.

So Apple's move can hardly have been for the EU, but had the European Parliament not passed it, Apple would have had to disable it in the EU.
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It’s an interesting observation. The outcomes mentioned are inevitable because of the way market value is assigned differently to men and women. When I separated from my first wife, I suddenly found myself with an extremely high “market value”, which was in equal parts fun, puzzling, and terrifying. The latter was because the pool of women accessible ranged from pairs and extended down in age into women with so much less experience that I feared I would not resist to behave in the unethical ways described in the misogynistic character from the article.
The default macOS is much nicer and coherent than the default KDE, year on year.
No one has claimed you would have to pay for open/free software. But, as with everything else, you need to calculate the total cost of ownership. And there your personal effort or your efficiency comes into play.
> Having the ability to theme one's desktop is nice, but I prefer having an ecosystem of well-designed applications that all conform to a common set of well-designed UI/UX guidelines.

How is "well-designed" defined in that case ? e.g. the oft-referenced paper that Apple apparently used to define their environment as primary mouse-driven ("keyboards users state that they take less time and measurably take more time than mouse users to achieve a given task with a keyboard" or something like that, don't remember the actual phrasing) has famously not been reproduced. In contrast the UI work that went into the win95 design seemed much more experimentally reliable.
> people give up on exclusive relationships.

The stability seems to be good for raising kids. If that’s the goal, it’s harder to reconcile it with multiple non-exclusive relationships.
> don’t put anything sensitive on your phone and basically treat it as an adversary already has root access

Why am I paying 100s of $$$ to own a device that is adversarial?
Not a hoax. This was on the VHS release of Rambo. "The dedication on the VHS release of the film said "to the brave Mujahideen fighters". It was later changed to "to the gallant people of Afghanistan"." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo_III
>Vancouver, BC seems to be the favored place to park Chinese money.

Not familiar enough to say, but as I hazily understand it people with Chinese money often want to get it out from under party control.

In the most common understanding money laundering is used to make 'dirty' illegal money into 'clean' legal money.

Are there situations where laundering money from any particular country is more of a gray area than this common understanding? The Chinese example above springs to my mind as being potentially one, but that is because I don't know enough to know why my hypothetical is wrong.
NSW Covid: entire state in lockdown as premier warns ‘this is literally a war’
I know for a fact that it is full of false positives, there's also public sources making the same claim. [1]

[1] https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
The closest thing we've had might be Lisp Machines, but that didn't work out.

That's why Emacs is still great: users can do whatever they want with it, and they do.

To a lower degree, we can sort of do that with workflow engines on the cloud (ex: Azure Logic Apps), or locally (ex: iOS Shortcuts).

As a user, I like being able to do that, but I do not like having to maintain my partially working thing, nor do I want to spend time ensuring it works as I expect (aka doing QA) outside of what I use it for today.
Ask HN: Interoperable Covid Pass Verifier
Now that various jurisdictions around the world have their own versions of covid passes, is there a platform that can verify more than one of them?

The types I’m currently aware of that have significant adoption are:

EU Covid pass (digital green certificate)
NHS (UK) vaccination certificate
SMART health cards (US various)
Excelsior pass (NY)

There are probably others.

Most seem to be QR codes with signatures over various claims. I don’t see why a single app couldn’t verify all of them if the public key registries are public.

If such a platform doesn’t yet exist, is anyone working on one? It sounds like the Linux Foundation Public Health people are investigating things from a policy perspective.
What actually happened is not what the media reported? The china in the media is not real. Its a fabrication,synthesized by the CCP who is in control of all chinese news sources.

On the ground, the news of the virus was first supressed by local officials, allowing lots of people to attempt a "escape" from wuhan, when they got informed by relatives that something was up.
When the pot boiled over, the bejing government stepped in and "walled" in wuhan. But they told that first and acted later, allowing thousands to "escape" ( they boasted about this on social media, thats how we know) and they escaped into lots of other countries - because while national flights were cancelled, international flights were still allowed.

This thing has been a lecture in disastrous disaster management - nothing more, nothing less. Its proof that totalitarian states even suck at the one thing they claim to be good at- being totalitarian.
Someone said they don’t want to try something and you still pushed on with “How about this way then?” with added gaslighting on top.
> Sweden surveys every single citizen, every single year, and asks them (amongst other things) whether or not they have been a victim of a sex crime.

Do you have a source for that claim?
All those are good examples, especially for HN readers who can leverage their work experience and investment portfolio. I’ve done that with the mindset that if those investment don’t work, I wouldn’t have a world where to retire so those are sound either way.

I'll add, at a personal level:

* promote remote work: commutes are an astounding part of the carbon footprint, and unlike a warm home and diverse food, often not that enjoyable; this is the one where you can influence your colleagues the most: if you are at home, why would _they_ go to the office have a meeting with you?

* set-up a heat pump, preferably a ground-based one, if you have a heating bill; isolate your house better either way, have horizontal shades to block Summer but not Winter sun;

* eating less red meat and dairy — once a week, once a month; I’m no vegan and I’ll gladly share a Porterhouse with you for either of our birthday, but in the Wednesday bolognese, plant-based substitute are fine;

* travel less far, by train if you can.

There’s more you could do, like recycling, but if you check, the impact of those is minor for now or at least, your ability to encourage those as a consumer isn’t great. Running a personalised carbon estimation is a good exercise to see what’s your most impactful effort.
that will just lead to a whole lot of "we dont have that information" or alternativly, "all of these 10000 people used that, have fun!"
Ask HN: So I finally aquiesed to Alexa?
So I finally agreed to alexa's prompts to concede to an extra 3$ a month for unlimited music. I Immediately asked to cancel, but was instructed to get on the app I dont have due to only owning legacy incompatible hardware, to cancel.

Should I just pay and enjoy the bonus music and be thankfull?!?....$h0uld I take the vaccine and appreciate my betters? M@$kWH0L3s need not reply.

SP
> The implications of the government’s demands are chilling. If the government can use the All Writs Act to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone’s device to capture their data. The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple build surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone’s microphone or camera without your knowledge.[1]

[1]: https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

Chilling indeed, Tim, chilling indeed.
Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app
"We don't have the ability to determine a specific subscriber based on the information provided" and close the request.
Not exactly ruined, but it introduces a lot of problems. First, because it's a very WEAK privacy protection regulation, where explicit concern is only one of the six criteria you can use to legally collect personal information.

Second, because some of those other criteria are absurd: legitimate interest, really? What does that even mean? And let's not even get started on legal requests for interception of personal data.

Third, because it gives people a false sense of security while pretending their privacy is being respected. But GDPR is in fact much weaker than some previous privacy regulations, including French "Informatique et Libertés" law from 1978. GDPR is a huge regression for privacy online: a huge regression because most privacy invasion that was illegal in French law (and others) is now perfectly legal, and because in terms of UX we now have "consent" popups everywhere, destroying the very concept of consent* and forcing everyone and anyone to use JavaScript to use websites (JavaScript being the enemy of security and privacy on the web).

EDIT: Why do you think those regulations passed without even strong debate/opposition? In the rare case regulators want to make a good consumer protection regulation, there is systematically strong opposition from the lobbies, and the law is usually taken down or rendered meaningless. The "rendered meaningless" part didn't even have to take place with GDPR because the law was insignificant to begin with.

* Explicit user consent is slowly starting to be interpreted as in sexual consent, i.e. you can refuse without negative consequences. But even that basic interpretation is taken time to become unanimous.
Tesla’s plug is smaller than the Level 2 J1772 plug (not to mention the fast charging standards) and is able to handle both Level 2 and Level 3 charging. I’ve used both types of plugs, and Tesla’s is just much more elegant and better designed.

It makes sense to standardize on Tesla’s plug because as far as I know Tesla built it before either of the other standards existed and Tesla was (and still is?) willing to let other manufacturers use the plug: I’ve never heard a good reason why the other manufacturers didn’t take up the Tesla plug and invest in the supercharger network when Elon invited them to.
Objective-See is great stuff.

I threw a tiny amount of money at them via Patreon (IIRC).

BlockBlock is a thing like "Little Snitch for kernel extensions" -- if a process tries to install a kernel extension, it is blocked until you approve the action via an alert. It is in the process of being reworked for macOS Monterey, but I've used BlockBlock on macOS 10.11 up to Big Sur and it does the job.
> There’s no disable button or even clear indication that it’s going on.

iCloud Photos is an on-off switch.

In terms of clearly indicating everything that is going on within the service, that is just not possible for most non-tech users. It appears to have been pretty difficult even for those familiar with things like cryptography and E2E systems to understand the nuances and protections in place.

Instead, the expectation should be that using _any_ company's cloud hosting or cloud synchronization features is fundamentally sharing your data with them. It should then be any vendor's responsibility give give customers guarantees on which to evaluate trust.
Your best bets are GrapheneOS or CalyxOS. In both cases be prepared to sacrifice a lot in terms of convenience (more with GrapheneOS).
Taken from their homepage: https://svelte.dev/chat
It is the most popular compiled strongly typed language, so they went for both market share and ease of implementing refactoring (vs a dynamic language, like Python)
It's kind of clear that entertainment would still get made without copyright. But the videos thesis around drug discovery is much less well thought through.

I'd be interested in seeing someone think these issues through more deeply. For example I know a reasonable amount about the development of next-gen DNA sequencers. How would developments like this have played out in a world without patents?

It doesn't seem feasible to say that academics would be willing to prepay to fund the development of a life science tool that might help their research and appear in 10 years time or might just fail and not get developed at all. Research markets were the initial markets for these instruments.

Same goes for drug discovery, perhaps they need some new analytical tool. So do they directly fund multiple high risk approaches to develop this tool? In our current scenario VCs/startups take on this risk, in exchange for a time limited monopoly.

It doesn't seem reasonable to expect individual drug development companies to take on this risk. Do they ask prospective users of the drug to pay these downstream development costs? Do they take out a loan to cover the development costs?
At present at least there is no CSS transition here (I checked before I first made my comment).

You could also use a CSS animation (which can handle display), multi-stage transitions controlled in JavaScript, or Svelte’s own animation system.
IMO (ignoring the child porn hysteria) the whole thing is more reasonable if there is a clear distinction between iPhone the product and iCloud the service: Your phone is not monitored, but you are required to run this dodgy client side thing to use iCloud. If iCloud had an open protocol, we could even imagine some sort of fancy zero-knowledge proof saying an e2e-image corresponds to the magic child porn hash.

The irony is thaht it's exactly Apple's insistence on bluring the line between products and services which make it not OK, and thus bites them in ass!
Wow, a ham radio aficionado who is technically and socially inept. What's the world coming to?
And isn't that the privacy we all would really enjoy? :D
The premium is for easy app compatibility. MS Office runs on macs, Adobe software, etc. And unix tools (in particular programming language ecosystems) also run on macs.
It's a pretty clever process as some of the more critical steps (gate oxide, poly deposition) are done elsewhere. This allows for very stable transistors without a lot of Vth shift. I also like his use of resits for the ILD.

Maybe it would be possible to replace some of the more agreessive acids used for poly and Al etch with KOH and lowly concentrated HF.

Also, one could also use alloy doping with aluminium to create the junctions and skip the need for a high temperature diffusion. But that would probably not result in a 10µm process and present yield issues...
Glad to see the mental health apps space expand.
The problem with curative healthcare apps is that it's hard to make it a sustainable business without government fund or private partnerships. App success is generally linked with usage. The longer the people use the apps, the more successful they are. In the case of curative apps that's reversed. Your app is more successful if people don't need it anymore, which makes it hard to monetize. I hope you manage to overcome this challenge and wish you great success!

It might be interesting for you to follow the story of Quirk and how they had to pivot as a company: https://github.com/Flaque/quirk

Also an interesting read, their original Launch HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646918

I am not affiliated with them, their story is the first thing that popped in my mind when I saw this.
Well, if that organisation didn't have a use for those addresses... I don't see what the big deal is.
You can't just deposit large amounts of Monero to an exchange without a REALLY good reason. Monero is a red flag these days.
> taking pointers from Rust

Surely you meant borrowing.
I shudder to think of the thousands of gay children this will out to their unaccepting parents, some resulting in physical, verbal or emotional abuse -- or worse.

This feature is a catastrophe.
Well, Cambridge analytica was also doing research.

You ban user data collection you get this. That's how the cookie crumbles.
I used https://github.com/kay-is/react-from-zero when I started (fourish years ago), would still recommend.
Does similar data exist for other cloud giants?
What I don’t understand is that if they announced they would do that scanning server side, the only eyebrows that would be raised is of people who thought they were doing it already. It’s not like if those pictures were e2e encrypted. I still haven’t seen any convincing argument about why searching client side provide any benefit to end users, while being a massive step in the direction of privacy invasion.
Most domestic users don’t want or need this. If you’ve got a special requirement use a commercial ISP.
I can't understand the reasoning here.

They need to go after other service provider, not isp.
ISP provide CGNAT to facilitate access to ipv4 only service.
> And if those are all that's left that meet your criteria for a non-abusive platform, then... well, that's what you've got to work with. Maybe try to improve those non-abusive platforms.

There's always the potential to work on the underlying laws. Not every problem can be solved by tech alone.
In case anyone is wondering, the "propaganda slogans" on the walls are the Motorola "common values":

We are innovative. We constantly create ingenious solutions to the real challenges of today, tomorrow and beyond.

We are passionate. We meet every challenge with energy and determination, always pursuing ever-higher standards.

We are driven. We keep it simple by focusing on what matters most so we can seize opportunities with speed and confidence.

We are accountable. We stand behind the work we do, the contributions we make and the high business standards we maintain.

We are partners. We succeed together because we respect all individuals and value contributions from colleagues and customers alike.
I suspect anyone using this is making a trade off. The downside being that by putting something in between you and the cloud provide you can only use a subset, and any problem could be in two places: the cloud or the middle layer and you have to figure out which.
FreeBSD has `/usr/bin/ee` (Easy Editor) so it does not need GNU Nano. But you can install GNU Nano with:

# pkg install nano
It depends on the product. Sometimes you can test the market without building anything, sometimes you just need a landing page, and sometimes you need to build an app. Sometimes you can build the app with no-code tools, sometimes you can use a platform, sometimes you need to hire an agency or get a technical co-founder.

Feel free to email me if you want advice for what you have in mind. My email is in my profile.
The problem is that many Android apps require Google services to function properly. You can try two Android derivatives: CalyxOS[1] that implements a privacy-conscious subset of Google services allowing many Android apps to work properly, and GrapheneOS[2] that excludes Google services altogether at the cost of lower app compatibility[3]. Both require using Google Pixel hardware.

[1] https://calyxos.org/
[2] https://grapheneos.org/
[3] "GrapheneOS vs CalyxOS ULTIMATE COMPARISON (Battery & Speed Ft. Stock Android & iPhone)", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iS4leau088
All you need is memory mapping. You map an ALU/whatever to some memory locations. Move your register to the right input addresses, move out the output.
I’d probably pay for a “premium” service that let me generically block stuff on Reddit - /r/popular is infested with a lot of stuff I’ll never be interested in.
For example, here's IMO a bit cleaner Sexp record:

record Sexp(SexpKind Kind, Token Atom, (Sexp First, Sexp Second)? Pair) {
public String Pretty() {
if (Kind == SexpKind.Atom) return Atom.Value;

const string nil = "NIL";
return $"({Pair?.First.Pretty() ?? nil} . {Pair?.Second?.Pretty() ?? nil})";
}

public static Sexp Append(Sexp first, Sexp second) {
if (first == null) return new (SexpKind.Tuple, null, (second, null));

if (first.Kind == SexpKind.Atom) return new (SexpKind.Tuple, null, (first, second));

return new (SexpKind.Tuple, null, (first.Pair?.First, Append(first.Pair?.Second, second)));
}
}

One issue with original code is that it assumes 'pair' tuple is not null in most places while it is initialized to null at the beginning. I haven't had the time to dive into the code to see how to properly refactor this.

To get more modern C# I would:

- turn on nullable reference types for the project (it takes some time at first to get used to it)

- replace all Tuple.Create calls with new ValueTuple shorthand: (val1, val2)

(Tuple is old class based tuple, ValueTuple is modern struct based tuple type that is integrated into the language)

Code feels very imperative to me. While this is good for performance, using more functional style would probably simplify code a bit more. I'm not sure it is possible though, as I haven't tried to refactor it myself.
Oh Thank You. Finally one useful piece of signal given all the noise about this.

If this is true I am willing to bet it is GPU and CPU made for Aurora SuperComputer. Which was originally aimed to launch in 2018, pushed to 2020, and now expected ( somehow ) to be done in 2021. Since we haven't heard anything from it, and the original schedule of 2021 never made any sense due to the usage of Intel 4nm ( previously Intel 7nm ), they had to deliver it ASAP.

And media are making big fuss out it. I mean like for pete sake it is only 20,000 Xeon + 60,000 GPU, When normalised to Die Space it isn't even 1 Million Apple Smartphone chip. And Apple is expected to have 60M+ shipped.
> You're not a soulless resource that can be used and tossed whenever your boss pleases

Once healthcare is tied to employment, that is exactly what people are.
If it’s encrypted but apple has the key, it’s not encrypted to them.
I mean, all of this is fair, but I don’t know how we find a solution without getting a substantial majority of people onboard.
not able to open it
It is quite an interesting question if this was in fact a GDPR question.

You have a user of an electronic tool providing (potentially per definition of the GDPR) PII data to a third party without the consent of the people the data is about.

This coming from FB. The company how massively nudges people to share their whole phone books when installing any one of their apps.

So can we expect FB to stop this practice as it is structurally comparable?