skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a hell of a lot of denial and negotiation when it comes to the carbon-based economy.

There is a painful amount of searching for some way to keep on digging up carbon out of the ground and turn it into something green.

So far the only real solutions are to leave the carbon in the ground and switch to wind/solar/etc.

We need to get past the denial/anger/negotiation/depression phases and just hit the acceptance phase of post-carbon energy.
I guess I've never been a victim of a major crime, but to the extent that I've been a victim of minor ones (like being harassed or swerved at by drivers while on my bike commute), I've never had success getting an action out of the police even when I can supply helmet cam footage clearly showing the incident.

So I can imagine that a person without CCTV footage on their side might be especially inclined to despair, but these experiences have led me to question the worthwhileness of crime-reporting in general.
Any particular game is merely a singular and temporary amusement no matter how temporarily pervasive the smartphone is the single most pervasive platform for communication, culture, work, and computation in the world. There can be no comparison.
Yes the revenue stays in Pakistan
There are restrictions on outward remittance from Pakistan except for special cases.A large remittance from a company account requires permission from the central bank. Hope this answers your question.
Heck, this is worse.

More like do you want the bank coming into your house to look for drugs because you have your loan with them.
> Out of the major browsers, Chrome's IndexedDB implementation is the best.

But an earlier post said chrome was the slowest.
I'm not solving anything and I did not bring turbulence into this. Parent wrote that the Tesla valve harnesses turbulence to function, I gave a counterexample of how Tesla valves are applied for laminar microflows, ergo turbulence cannot be the working principle behind Tesla valves.
It's easy to organize as long as you can gather in real life at restaurants, pubs, parks, churches.. oh.
Send it via WhatsApp where it gets added to photos and later iCloud by default if I recall correctly
How big is the market? It seems people who really need this and see it frequently have the resources to build their own and its otherwise rare enough to not be worth a whole product.
Thanks.

You mean e.g. this techy thing at the end of the inlet tube right? It's electrical and only opens when the machine needs water, correct? I think I read a warning about electrical hazards for this plastic tube.

On the downside, this valve probably doesn't allow flushing the inlet with some hypochlorite solution easily... Well knowing the drinking water is safe helps. Hydrogen sulfide is detectable in such low quantities, I am probably stressing over very little contamination anyway.

I wonder if you could reconstruct the whole of "western" civilization just from norms and regulations :)
>As currently implemented, iOS will only scan photos to be uploaded to iCloud Photos. If iCloud Photos is not enabled, then Apple isn't scanning the phone.

Except for the "oops, due to an unexpected bug in our code, every image, document, and message on your device was being continuously scanned" mea culpa we will see a few months after this goes live.
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This is true. I can easily burn through all my daily ad spend on Reddit at rates of between $0.50 and $1.00 CPMs. And the click through rates are awful.

On Facebook or Google, you've often got to spend at least $5-$10 per mille to be competitive in most verticals. $25 to $50 in some verticals like insurance. And it converts.

The reddit userbase just isn't as monetizable.
You make a promising start with some salient points, then jump prematurely to a conclusion without supplying a missing premise.

By that I mean you entirely discount the value of long term value creation, dismissing it as "very hard to compute".

Your analysis could yield significantly more value by pointing to ways that long term value propositions can be evaluated, sold, and balanced for risk.

It's an easier sell than you might assume. Point to examples where it paid off - e.g.

Roslyn Franklin's X-ray Crystallography --> Watson and Crick's DNA --> Genomic sequencing --> mRNA vaccines

Microsoft's Windows development for 3 versions before conditions were right for the GUI to prevail on desktop computers.

Brin and Page captured long term value from Page Rank by waiting to monetise their search business until it had established clear technical leadership by virtue of its reputation for satisfying users.
That’s wrong. They are also enabling on-device detection for Messages.
Yeah ditto, I need that.
>Positives get reviewed by humans, at which point false positives are identified and discarded.

Let's not forget, this part only happens if you are lucky. You get the wrong photo reviewer and you catch your girlfriend with the wrong type of lighting that makes her look as if she could pass for 17 and you're going to have the police show up at your work and cuff you, demanding to know who this person of interest is. Adult males have been tried for possession of CSAM for having images of well-known absolutely above 18 adult video stars: https://reason.com/2010/05/03/porn-star-saves-man-from-incom...
I recently saw a review of the "Volla Phone" which is running Ubuntu Touch. Seemed much better than the Pinephone but still has issues:

https://youtu.be/neG2Z21epLI
Also good old fashioned confirmation bias. If someone thinks inflation must be through the roof and the government is lying about it, then they're going to notice things that get more expensive, while ignoring things that get cheaper or stay the same.
So you will be the only LLC member for now?
Flip phone - about $50 - you won't miss anything a "smart" phone has to offer. And anything you do miss, you can just use an Android tablet.
Right, the difference is that now, you can be reported to the authorities for a photo that the CSAM algorithm mistook for child pornography, whereas before the image classifying was purely for your own use.
The command you want is "git pull --rebase". There are configuration settings to make "git pull" rebase by default, and I'd recommend always turning that on that default (which may be by why the person above omitted it from his pull command).

I actually thought "git pull" did "git pull --rebase" by default (this may be what you get from running `git --configure` without modifications?), but maybe I've just been configuring it that way. You can achieve this in your global Git configuration by setting "pull.rebase" to "true".

I don't think it's sane behavior for "git pull" to do anything else besides rebase the local change onto the upstream branch, so I'm surprised it's not the command's default behavior. Has the project not changed the CLI for compatibility reasons or something?

When do you ever want a "git pull" that's not a rebase? That generates a merge commit saying "Merge master into origin/master" (or something similar) which is stupid. If you really want to use actual branches for some reason, that's fine, but "merge master into master" commits are an anti-pattern that if I ever see in a Git repository I'm working on or responsible for, results in me having a conversation with the author about how to use Git correctly.
> the question is how long can this strategy go on for.

Australia's strategy involves relaxing/reducing lockdowns when vaccination rates reach 70% and again at 80%. These levels are less ambitious than they seem because they don't count the 20% of the population under 16 years old.

Other thresholds are:

* when vaccines become available to anyone, which should be the case by December (Australia's vaccine roll out has been excruciatingly slow)

* the national budget anticipates opening up in the middle of 2022

My expectation is that the country will spend the first half of 2022 screaming and arm-twisting at the vaccine hesitant to get jabbed, and will then open up anyway on June 30.
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Look at it from the point of view of the majority non-abusive parents: This can only increase the risk that their children will be taken away from them. This includes Apple employees.
If I were to speculate, I’ve seen lots of references as to how Apple reports way less of this to the appropriate authority than the rest of their competition. It does kinda sound to me like this is the consequence of external pressure. I cannot prove this but speculate, of course.

I just don’t think the messaging they had around this is reassuring at all. While they had all sorts of technical explanations as to how trustworthy this will all be because they are in charge, the whole thing quickly went from “this is only for iCloud photos” and only in the US to “3rd party integration can happen” and “we’re expanding it to other countries”. Which I guess is a logical next step but it is a hint at expansion.

The walled garden becomes much less tempting after all of this, especially right after a scandal like the Pegasus one.
It's hard to know -- but something that definitely struck me was that we at Sun did much better technical work in the bust (2001-2005) than the boom (1997-2001). (It's hard to say anything definitive about this as there is so much there that's specific to Sun and the group of technologists I was working with, but it certainly didn't make me long for the boom!)

As for the progression of software development, this may be trite to say, but in my opinion the single most important revolution in software is the rise of open source. I don't think that there was a single event here per se but rather a multi-decade long progression across many different domains that has changed just about every single aspect of software development. (Cloud computing too, certainly -- but I don't think that cloud computing is economically viable without open source.) So software development from the 1990s is unrecognizable in large part because it is just so damned proprietary -- which, as it turns out, was in fact a relatively short blip in the fullness of history.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpnncakrelk, in which I expand a bit on the history of open source, among other things
Going out on a limb here, but in the course of announcing your lawsuit, did you mention any of the myriad covid talking points that youtube has been banning for months now?
That's not how security works. Give users the easy option, and they'll take it. For things to be secure by default, you need to disallow or _heavily_ discourage all potentially insecure options.
Most who really care about the central hypocrisy have been banging our heads bloody about all those other surveillance issues. We're so damned concerned, because this is a textbook case of cramming through another brick in the wall of deconstructed privacy now and into the future. There is plenty of terrible arguments, but the good ones that people keep trying to handwave or ignore are the more pressing one.
I'm sorry your family had to go through that. Your wife meant well, but I think overreacted and wasn't very rational. Young children are the most resilient group against COVID, even without vaccination. Most of them don't even have symptoms.
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I use TortoiseGit under Windows. It took me 3 days (on and off) to figure out how to push code to my repositories again. The amount of misleadng and confusing information on the internet is extraordinary.

Signed: a developer with well over a decade of experience in version control, *nix, Windows, crypto, etc.
That’s all you have to say? The fire in a theater example (and you call me banal)? You really can’t think of any other form of speech that has been unfairly censored by social media sites?

Are you just not paying attention?
Why would you assume that? Electrochemical compressors, as well as high pressure vessels, are rapidly declining in cost. Fuel station grade electrochemical compressors were ~$1M ten years ago, $300k five years ago, and about $150k today.
I looked at the Pinephone and, user experience not coming close is an understatement. Looking at the table of OSes, it looks like getting it working would be like installing Linux on a laptop circa 2008. Librem 5 looks a bit better, but a 6mo lead time for a $900 phone with a 720p screen and n WiFi? I’m going to continue my search.
Apple's track record on user protection compared to Google or Samsung has been very good. For example, resisting wide net Federal "because terrorism" warrants as much as they legally can.

There's a reason why Apple 0 day exploits sell for way more on the black market than Android exploits.

Trust is hard to earn, easy to lose and even harder to regain. User trust is such a huge part of Apple's business and success, it's shocking to me they'd damage it so much and so fast.

A system that exists but has "protections" can and will be abused. A system that doesn't exist can't be. It's really that simple.

Here's the big question though: did Apple executives not realize there would be a backlash against this? Or did they just not care? Either is hard to fathom. Apple's board and shareholders should be asking some pretty tough questions of Tim Cook at this point.
There is no universe where you have a right to purchase a particular product via a particular market. For example if Fred Meyers doesn't carry every product that Walmart does you cannot say that the merchant infringed your rights by not offering it for sale in the market you would prefer.

Apple is using its position to insert itself between vendor and customer while the customer sits snug in their own home whereas your position would require positive action on the part of someone who has no particular obligation nor relationship to you. You have not hired them and they aren't obligated to work for you.
It is not complicated.

In the realm of social media, FB is much more dominant.

Companies that are more dominant, almost by definition deserve more anti-trust scrutiny.

The closer a company is to being a monopoly, in that specific market, the more that anti-monopoly laws will come in to play.
When I first heard of Giphy I thought it was a weird dumb idea. I was wrong. It allows competitive intelligence inside other apps.
Another good reference is Eugene Volokh's "The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope": https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/slippery.pdf
The CTO shouldn’t even be involved in that conversation imo. If I was your supervisor I would told the CTO about 3 weeks into your 5 weeks and off-boarded you with other engineers if needed.
I think you missunderstood a bit what I said. Capability was there, already as implemented, for example as Neural Nets which categorizes your photos, by scanning all of them. Detecting faces and giving them names. So on.
Even your Files app scans all of your files, and probably collects some metadata for iCloud sync process.
What about a face embedding? The vector representation is the coordinates of the face (i.e. that combination of facial features) in face-space.

I give up.
That comment was in the context of the assumption that the backing was real honest-to-god commercial paper being used in the real world. That would take actual tens of billions of dollars to produce that commercial paper. It would also get noticed in the marketplace. That isn't what the commercial paper is. And there isn't $65B in USD in the crypto space anywhere to have produced all that commercial paper in loans. That is my point there.

And to the extent that you're arguing that tether is backed by quite literally nothing and its printed out of entirely thin air, I'll disagree vehemently with that. Then it wouldn't be stable and would have already collapsed, and there's no mechanism to maintain the pin.

USDT is pretty clearly backed by crypto one way or another, which is why USDT issuance increases as bitcoin goes up (and USDT is used to pump bitcoin up, around and around). To the extent that crypto is "just electrons" I'd agree, but I think you were making a dramatic oversimplification which isn't how it all works.
How would Apple roll this back?

Seems unlikely, but stepping into "what if", what are people's thoughts on what it would like for Apple? Does it mean Cook resigning, firing a team. How do we get from here to there? Is CSAM on iPhone the next AirPower where it just gets cancelled?
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I think the power-delivery aspect is solvable. From the perspective of a power company, EV chargers seem like ideal customers: you can run high-capacity power lines to one big customer instead of running little power lines to every residential customer. Though on the other hand, if you have a fast charger that's seldom used, that's a lot of infrastructure in place that's sitting idle most of the time.

Coming up with batteries that charge quickly is a different matter. Batteries are getting better, but it seems that part of the solution so far is to just have batteries that are so big that they don't need to be charged very often. Charging a 30kwh battery in an hour only gets you half the range in the same time as charging a 60kwh battery in an hour.

Maybe if we keep increasing the power of the chargers, we'll eventually ditch the cables and move to something like parking a car over a pair of big copper plates that extend to make contact with a matching pair of copper plates on the bottom of the car. I could also see some kind of system where the car has a fixture for attaching a coolant hose, and the charger pumps cold water through the battery while it's charging.

At some level, though, I think this is a trying to engineer around a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. If we had electrified roads that are capable of charging vehicles while they're moving, then battery sizes and charge times would be less of an issue, and we wouldn't need to have cars that devote a quarter of their mass or so to batteries. It would only really need to be on major roads, and probably only in short sections at regular intervals.
If you're doing actual OCR these days, it'll be sophisticated enough that it doesn't need a dedicated font. OCR-A has no practical purpose anymore other than to convey a certain look.
they aren't exactly independent. several authors are on both papers
That would appear to have backfired.
I’m curious to know why these updates have to be so large. There must be some clever way to send only the parts that need to updated, based on the users current version, no?
I think it's simply because lots of people on HN didn't buy any and now they think that they've missed the boat. They're angry because "stupid" people got rich on it. HNers like to think that they're smarter than everyone else and missing the boat hurts their ego. Although that isn't true and it's never too late to buy bitcoin.

Another reason is that most people on HN don't realize that there are roughly two sets of people in crypto. There are bitcoiners and then there are all the shitcoiners and scammers (who talk about use cases, ICOs, NFTs etc.). It's ok to hate all the scammers, but bitcoiners should be left out of it, because they're totally different set of people.
It’s fuzzy hashing, so they don’t need the bit-for-bit same image.

Outside the US and other western countries, this could be a government (Russia? Chechnya?) forcing Apple to look for LGBT pride flags.
13" Surface Laptop 3.

2256x1504 (recommended) at 150% scale (recommended)

On Windows 11 too, if that has any consequence.
github auth is literally so broken that it claims chrome cant even support fido security keys, and they think SMS is a secure alternate path.
Legacy flip phone might be best for paranoia.
This is simply a complete falsehood, because photos that are not uploaded are not scanned for CSAM.

Photos for your own use that you do not upload to Apple’s cloud are completely unaffected.
From Apple's technical summary:

"The threshold is selected to provide an extremely low (1 in 1 trillion) probability of incorrectly flagging a given account. This is further mitigated by a manual review process wherein Apple reviews each report to confirm there is a match..."

So it's 1 in 1 trillion per account PRIOR to manual review in which the odds of error get reduced even further.
There's a lot of redditors who sense a corporate conspiracy anytime a brand name is mentioned, but there's tons of subreddits entirely about consumption. Media, food, hobbies. I was active on r/homebrewing for years and people talk about products they want to buy all the time.

The trouble with those types is they all have very strong opinions and think most products are crap. They're not opposed to buying things, just shitty things.
> not just possible, but user-friendly, to write in a way that guarantees machine translation is 100% accurate.

Not in (human-readable source) English, no, since it's too heavily[0] optimised for general-purpose colloquial communication, but it's probably possible to engineer some cross between text localization systems, procedural content generation for text games, and early-AI-style natural language processing data structures that could serve as a backing representation subject to linting/sanity-checking/etc.

Edit: 0: To be clear, "heavily" is not necessarily the same as "well-".
Implementation in Windows is quite different. Especially x86 vs x86-64 which has much less overhead. Also gets quite complicated with the Windows built-in Structured Exceptions/ asynchronous exceptions which can be translated into c++ exceptions -- and even more complexity due to different compiler options that handle these!
Just anecdotal; but the people I know who used to drive for Uber have desk jobs they do from home now. It’s a better quality of life; why would they go back to driving a car?
Communication safety in Messages is a different feature than CSAM detection in iCloud Photos. The two features are not the same and do not use the same technology. In addition:

Communication safety in Messages is only available for accounts set up as families in iCloud. Parent/guardian accounts must opt in to turn on the feature for their family group. Parental notifications can only be enabled by parents/guardians for child accounts age 12 or younger.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
Yep that is the truly terrifying part, when you realize that many ordinary people actively support tyranny ( not tyranny in their eye of course) from corporations/govt etc.
The original:

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Juden holten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niemöller#Habe_ich_gesc...
Just read the techical paper. [1]

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Not by engineers who thought the whole thing true: https://www.tinaja.com/h2gas01w.shtml
> Apple Privacy head Erik Neuenschwander addresses concerns about its new systems to detect CSAM

> We want to ensure that the reports that we make to NCMEC are high-value and actionable, and one of the notions of all systems is that there’s some uncertainty built in to whether or not that image matched. And so the threshold allows us to reach that point where we expect a false reporting rate for review of one in 1 trillion accounts per year.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/interview-apples-head-of-p...

Leaves some ambiguity but it sounds like the reporting to gov is 1/1t