skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if that were true, that Apple might accelerate attempted government overreach by encrypting data end to end, the obvious better solution would be to hold the line on the status quo for as long as possible (including legally duking it out with governments around the world to hold the line to the extent they can), not to do what they're doing now.

If they were badly losing on that front (such that all hope were lost so to speak), then they could attempt this new approach at that time, they could offer that up as a middle ground, and their seeming capitulation then would buy them a lot of slack. Instead, they're supposedly pre-capitulating (if you buy into that premise).

Doing what they're doing now, it looks like one of a few possibilities: they're just that stupid (I'm skeptical), they're groveling for points (hey, if we give you this, maybe you'll leave us alone on anti-trust, as our size and quasi-monopolistic position is beneficial to your surveillance aims), or they're already being compelled (as they were with PRISM) and are not publicly able to reveal that.
Simple fix: allow users to save video only if logged in (could prime with a CTA). Right now you cant save any video from reddit, not just nsfw, not even from the app. This would incentivize people to create an account since its easier and less shady than content grabbing sites. If they want they can even limit to the app which would at least have an impact on boosting app users
That is not practical for many people who wish to be a part of society anymore. See: rollout of virtual vaccine passports, etc.
a) we didn't know that because people smoked and had coal fires in their houses so everyone had cancer, and b) we did know but BigCo conspired with government to cover up and deny.
> is it actually objective qualities of the font that are giving people headaches

The typeface pulls your left and right eyes toward each other, making you look at it cross eyed. It's incredibly nauseating, like the feeling you have right after stepping off a poorly-designed amusement park ride.
Did we learn nothing from the Snowden revelation?
Google couldn’t do it, not effectively anyway because android vendors and variants are decentralised. They could do it for the pixels but that represents less thats half a percent of the market - not to mention that everyone on a pixel could just move to lineageOS if they didn’t like it.

That freedom and decentralisation doesn’t exist on Apple (at least yet, maybe the DOJ or congress will regulate them).
Will it fix onlyfans spam!!?!?!
> Not sure if there is an English version somewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeqF1-Z1g0

Seems to be: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6558_-_de_-_saal_g_-_201412282...

Direct: https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2014/h264-hd/31c3-6558-de-...

Which has german/english dual audio, but defaults to german (so presumably google ruined the english track on upload). If your video player doesn't support picking audio, you can probably fiddle with ffmpeg to strip out the german track.
There already are a number of insurance options.
You've already said it, any small providers are already playing a rigged game at the expense of the oligopoly. There were a few low cost cell providers that bought spectrum in major cities (all three of them) I'm not sure if any of them still exist or were swallowed up.

If you can find a way to bypass the CRTC (like the shadowbanned poster alludes to with starlink) that is the only real method I believe. We have a regulatory structure designed by and for incumbents, and anything within it is playing their game.
Yes, also given that electric motors have an efficiency of 90%+ (or thereabouts) and internal combustion engines only of 20-30% IIRC.
Apollo used fuel cells to good effect. Their constraints lined up perfectly - they already needed oxygen tanks, and a supply of water, and they didn't have li-ion batteries back then either. Also, the weight cost of the fuel cells themselves amortizes nicely when you need power for an entire week - and hydrogen is light. And once it had been used, the water was flushed, saving further weight. The big downside to batteries is they weigh the same empty and full.
Princess Leiah was reanimated in star wars sequels. She made it pretty deep into the uncanny valley, and died there.

No digitally rendered realistic human has ever made it through the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is to be avoided at all costs, but many digital animators refuse to learn.

Gollum from LOTR worked well because it didn't matter that he was in the uncanny valley. He's supposed to creep you out, it suited his character.
You already got COVID, so you're already stuck with whatever long-term side effects there are from COVID infection and probably have some immunity already, so I understand your desire to not take additional risk by getting the vaccine.

But for someone who has not yet had COVID, why would you suggest they should be uniquely concerned about hypothetical unknown long-term side effects from the vaccine, and not COVID itself?
https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/12143-three-things-to-k...
Not really. This has been the argument against pesticides and GMO foods for years, and it’s completely valid in hindsight.
They're searching for different things though. To my knowledge, before now iOS has never scanned for fingerprints of specific photographs. It would be so darn easy to replace the CSAM database with fingerprints of known tiananmen square photos...
I remember quite a few SARS and swine-flu scares over the past few decades - the disease would be quite destructive but small in scale. We aren't at "bring out your dead" levels yet but we have been living primarily in lockdowns for the past year and a half. If this doesn't qualify as a plague we should take seriously and address I'm rather afraid what would actually reach that level for you.
Depending on how many shortcuts you take and how much resources you have, it could.

If it's naïevely rendered, 66 seconds times 30fps is 1800 frames, 10 minutes rendering per frame, 12 days. This scene is very simple, so I think 10 minutes is a bit much, but in any case it's not an unreasonable statement.

(The scene is so simple I feel that with PBR and some fancy postprocessing you could come very close in real time even without their RTX tech.)
> I believe a few years ago there was research stating that roughly speaking, 70K per year (in spending) is the happiness threshold.

> Any spending above it leads to no, marginal, or only temporary extra happiness.

You are quoting an outdated study. New research [1] has shown that happiness does in fact not plateau at 70k, unfortunately

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2021/02/07/new-study...
The kitchen in 2020 was real. The kitchen in 2021 was a combination of real and fake shots, and you can clearly see transitions between them.
Not only that, but they log all metadata on the envelope of every letter sent.
If iCloud content was encrypted (as it should be given what Apple says about themselves and privacy) they wouldn’t and couldn’t care any less what the data on their servers contains since, ideally, they’d have no way of decrypting that data. No need for any privacy invasion!

> Apple needs to make sure you don’t have certain content on your phone.
Excuse me, what? What does Apple care what I have on my device?
It’d probably find out their parents and grandparents are the same people. And uncles too, most likely.
I think you’re overestimating how generic package management is. They’re very tightly coupled to their respective languages and build systems.
So, clearly you're just making a nitpicky point about whether we can say there are "no side effects" and ignoring context. But the context here is a vaccine against a very dangerous disease, and the need to make a risk analysis decision as to whether to use it.

Broadly: you seem to be implying that you think a ~0.5% fatality rate just "takes a long time to develop". Even if you posit 100% infections in the US (laughably wrong given the trajectory of outbreak, but whatever), you have to accept an IFR almost 0.2%.

Given the ~170M Americans already vaccinated, any side effect worth discussing would need to be at least as bad as killing 334000 of them. And needless no vaccine in history, maybe no widely prescribed drug of any kind, has turned up a long tail side effect analysis like that. Remember when everyone lost their shit about Vioxx? Best estimates are that 38k people died; an order of magnitude lower.
You can use Access Tokens which are "application specific" passwords instead of SSH keys.

You can use a git credential manager such as GCM Core (https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core) to automate the flow from username/password to access token. (It pops up a browser window where you login, retrieves and access token for you.)
What's the end-game here? I don't follow.
Long-Term Vaccine Side Effects? Things to Know
There will only be an alert if that photo is extremely similar to an image in the NCMEC database, AND there are numerous other such photos on the account that match. The threshold number of matches to trigger an alert is tuned for a 1/trillion chance of false positive.

Furthermore, if you were using say Google Photos to store your images, then you were already subject to this vulnerability.
Different. Many people are okay if you upload files to a third party that they are then scanned by that company.

People here are not okay with a local scanner installed on your device. Despite Apple “promise” it will be only used for photos and those you “intend” to upload…. this falls on deaf ears. If you were only going to scan content intended for the cloud…. then just scan it on your servers when it arrives.

Despite talks of E2E … apple has not said this is the reason for the local scanner.
Why don't they all just find new jobs?
Extremely valid point. I fear toll roads will be out of favor by the masses before their profit horizon kicks in. In a good portion of DFW, tolls are typically in the $300-$400 per month range out of a household budget. And, they keep adding more and more tolls. Some portions of town has an average household income that simply can not afford to get around town. Oh, and public transportation is a joke because... it's Texas.

ERCOT should be more vocal about their budgetary needs and the consequences of delaying planned expenditures. The growth numbers support it. Legalize weed to pay for it.
My instinct is that Reddit as an organization and as a set of employees are B players, and for that reason a place like Facebook would not want to acquire them. We’ve seen Reddit “execute” a new site design, we see people complaining about being unable to buy ads, and we’ve seen the board’s competence level in finding CEO’s. For the acquisition to break even, you would have to burn down the organization you just acquired, and fix it with your own people. It’s like a bar of gold wrapped in poop. Do you really want to clean off the poop? It might be fool’s gold.
Im surprised there’s a ton of people who don’t believe in vaccines here…
I think you maybe have misread me! I wasn't "splitting hairs" about numbers; I don't know where you get that from.

I thought my estimates for Cold War casualties were pretty generous - I didn't want low estimates to get in the way of my case. But I think my case stands even if 100,000 died in the Cold War.

If you're going to argue that every mid-20thC "hot" war was just a campaign in the Cold War, well I'm sure the consensus is that the Cold War didn't include open conflicts like Vietnam.
This cuts both ways. Our laws not evolving with technology is also the reason why tapping and intercepting secured digital communication is orders of magnitude more difficult than tapping someone's analog phone line, or why decrypting a hard drive is far more difficult for the police than sawing apart a safe.
Headaches? That's just a side effect of being on twitter I'm afraid.
Randomly suggesting that every authoritarian decision taken unilaterally by an american company was made to please the evil chinese government while offering no substantial proof is not "criticizing the CCP", it is just shoehorning US's far-right talking points into a thread that has nothing to do with it.
Ask HN: What is your favorite “A Page a Day”/daily format book?
For example:

A Poem for Every Night of the Year by Esiri

A Calendar of Wisdom by Tolstoy

God's Wisdom for Navigating Life by Tim Keller

Those three all fit the daily format.
They've given you two options:

1. Encrypt everything in the cloud but upload the hashes of these items as well on the device. Also notify us so we can notify law enforcement if they're doing some illegal stuff.

2. Everything is unencrypted in the cloud. No actions are taken on the device. No notifications to authorities.

With option one the sanctity of the device ownership is breached. With option two it's maintained. Maintaining that stark distinction is hugely important for what future actions can be taken in the public eye. Normalizing on device actions that work against the user must be fought at every instance they occur.

Your line of thinking dangerous because you're ignoring the public perception of a device you own actively working against you. Apple's behavior cannot be allowed to be considered normal.
>>the number of matches to known CSAM in your library exceeds a threshold, then a person will look at a "visual derivative" of only those pictures whose perceptual hatch match that of known CSAM

Apple very specifically said that their employees will look at the suspected picture before sending it through to authorities. Where do you see the bit about visual derivatives? What would that even mean or look like?

Also what is this threshold? As others have pointed out, us parents have literally hundreds of pictures of our newborns, toddlers and kids - having to trigger some detector "multiple" times doesn't give me any peace of mind at all.

>>Where are all those false positives?

Google doesn't use perceptual hashing, or at least haven't said they do.
Does a river run through it? (2019)
Will `screen ./command` automatically and seamlessly reconnect my ssh session when I roam between different wifi networks? Or do I need to reconnect to ssh for myself, and then run a second command to reattach to the screen session?
Yes we do! The policy is that we correct them, except when I'm at Trader Joe's. Fixed now. Thanks!
Any Amazon InMail has been an automatic ignore for me.
There's an semi-official github[0] for this.

AFAICT from the issues page, Clang and binutils/LLVM tools work fine with no patches for the mainstream archs and when not trying to be super-fancy with custom flags. The more non-mainstream one goes with arch or flags the more likely one will run into something.

[0] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues
(Note they use github for issues/wiki, not code, so no surprise the 'linux version' in code is oldish).
No one said it was trying to be real except the submitted title.
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What's public about a private message?
I honestly feel this same way about the past 20 years. You captured it so well.
Uh, Neuro atypical people are much more likely to spot the fake, and are also much more likely to have been doing the modeling and rendering.
You can use a git credential manager that supports GitHub login flows. GCM Core is the big one: https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core

(It lets you login to GitHub in a popup browser window and then manages the access token for you. Stores the access token in a machine credential cache for subsequent calls on that machine.)
I was there, and global cooling was on the evening news and the covers of magazines. I can't speak to scientific consensus at the time, but I know it was considered such in popular media.
> What's public about a private message?

Is this the set up to a joke? Nothing. But so what?
I genuinely was curious about the reasons why the US gov't was looking into enforcing anti trust laws. Why would they do that, now that their entire political careers depend on the unlimited donations they get from these sharks

The reason is clear now. They want the sharks on their side
I think it probably needs to not be fully automatic, but users should be able to vote to nominate a moderator for removal or addition, subject to admin discretion. Ideally, any user of the sub should be able to see the 'case' and contribute why they think the mod would/is doing a good/bad job, and people can upvote and downvote reasons. Maybe kind of use AITA's style of comment voting (but with admins finalizing decisions as a check valve against gaming).
no guarantee? look at r/de biggest community of german people I've ever heard.
r/europe gigantic subreddit, all national subreddits r/italy r/polska r/belarus (known for international protests) r/hongkong also

oh look at: r/norway and their users are even more wealthy than average us redditors
> Constitutional rights can be voluntarily waived.

That...varies. The right to a speedy trial can be waived. The right against enslavement cannot. You can consent to a warrantless or otherwise unreasonable search given adequate specificity, but outside of a condition for release from otherwise-constitutional more severe deprivation of liberty (e.g., parole from prison) I don't think it can be generally waived in advance, only searches specifically and immediately consented to when being executed. But I don't have any particular cases in mind, and that understanding could be wrong. But “constitutional rights can be waived” is definitely way to broad to be a good useful guide for resolving specific isssues.
If we can give internet to everyone in Cuba using our tax dollars, why don't we use our tax dollars to pay for internet for everyone in the US as well?
Thank you! As an update for anyone reading this, it is now also available on the main site.
I never said I wasn’t worried about the side effects of getting COVID in 20 years.

I didn’t have a choice to get COVID, I DO have a choice to not get the vaccine.
Sequoia leads $13M investment in Aalto, the homeowner marketplace
The USA is not the only country with a constitution.
Does that include people who opt out of the redesign with RES? None of the content I see comes from that subdomain.
NCMEC is not exactly a normal NGO; it was opened with Reagan present and Congress frequently gives it funding. It also works with other government organizations on a frequent basis.
On both platforms those are enabled by default.

96% users keep defaults[1].

[1] - My estimate
Key line for me: "Reddit is also enhancing its video products with an eye toward more advertising."

They are already moving videos to their awful self-hosted solution. Adding pre-roll definitely makes sense. If they can guarantee premium brands 0% play on porn....
I wonder if it's a monopole.
Interesting study from Carnegie Mellon and Pitt found that the most vaccine "hesitant" group are people with PhDs and they are the only group that has actually increased in hesitancy to get the shot over the last few months

https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/cov...
It actually has Vault, Terraform, and Nomad in the Projects Emeriti section at the bottom. They just never edited the original article. It appears Inkscape was the longest holdout, and went 19.7 years before finally releasing 1.0, though that's only of projects that did make the cutover. Some chemical process modeling software out of CMU called "Ascend" has been proudly avoiding 1.0 since 1978. I'm not sure how to get it as their website no longer seems to work, but apparently they were part of Google Summer of Code five times.
We're hiring for product engineers, checkout the job description: https://jobs.lever.co/aalto/6de8d1b3-1091-4d41-9081-eb7ae5e1...
Seems fine to me? Slightly clumsy wording on the part of the recruiter, but I don't see an issue with them not chasing up such a lukewarm prospect.
Please do, and I appreciate the introductions! My email is robert at parallel.bio.
I’m not a believer in randomized control testing as I am in theoretical science. I believe side effects should be evident before administration simply based on known theory of ingredients within.

It’s possible that we don’t know the ingredients well enough to formulate a theory about what could happen. Here is where RCT is useful.

Otherwise what ingredients do these vax have that could possibly cause these reactions?

I’m thinking the fats and lipids the mRNA is put with are aminos that cause different affects in people. The cynic inside believes they are to sterilize people. I got vax’d but still I want to know.
Foxconn to build EV plants in US to offset slowing smartphone industry
Actually, think of it. If we have to accept Electron apps existing at all, Etcher is precisely the best possible kind of such app. One that you open, make it do its job, and close it. Meanwhile being an HTML UI it allows the creator to focus on the best operation possible and not lose time on UI shenanigans.

For comparison, the worst kind of Electron app in my opinion would be one that you have to keep open at all times, losing all the resources that Electron eats, on a "permanent" way.
If you mean 50%+ as majority then yes. But a nonvaccinated death rate around 2-10% worldwide compared to 0.1% of the US vaccinated population getting covid to begin with, that’s a huge difference.
> A battery just has two wires sticking out and that's it.

Considering the heating/cooling mechanisms required for EV batteries this is a pretty disingenuous statement. Not even considering the highly-toxic fire risk with Li-ion.
They aren't being coaxed or coerced. If they were forced-- or even incentivized-- by the government to perform these searches than they'd be subject to the fourth amendment protecting against warrantless searches.

Apple is engaging in this activity of their own free will for sake of their own commercial gain and are not being incentivized or coerced by the government in any way.

As such, the warrantless search of the customer data is lawful by virtue of the customer's agreements with Apple.
Why is this not how you should look at it. This is exactly how I look at it. It's your device, no company should be able to scan shit on a device that they have sold to someone. That's like keeping the key of a house after you have sold it and then checking sneakily every week whether the new owners are doing illegal stuff.
Repeated Exposure to Subinfectious Doses of SARS-CoV-2 May Promote Immunity
Yeah, I mean I get that in theory, I just can't think of many examples? I guess it must really be desktop apps that are delivered as web apps.
Oh yeah, I didn't notice. Bizarre submission. (Unless it changed since perhaps?)
You can see this in action on ANY subreddit by sorting by "Top of all time". Almost every post is either some in-joke or meme, some random brigade that happened from a sudden temporary influx of users, etc. for at least the first 10 posts.
Thanks for the heads up. We're looking into it, but in the meantime robert at parallel.bio or founders at are both good email addresses.
Australia’s capital city to enforce snap lockdown after one new Covid-19 case
People are looking at this the wrong way. If this is where we are headed, its better to have a government vaccine mandate, and let the government take responsibility for the political fallout, and for enforcement. It's both a cop out to pass it on to businesses, and it creates a ridiculous amount of inequality. To be clear, it's not just right wing people you dont like that are affected, many minority groups also lag in vaccination for various reasons. With a government mandate and presumed vaccination, the government has to bear the brunt of this, we don't suffer the continued privacy invasion, and businesses are not stuck in some absurd enforcement role.

Perversely, I imagine government mandates would be less popular with everyone, because of the imposition on freedom on one side and that it doesn't create the very publicly two-tier system the zealots on the other side want