skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> long term immeasurable value (e.g. tarnishing the company reputation)

This isn't exactly "immeasuable." Balance sheets quite commonly have an entry for "goodwill" and brand/IP valuation is an art in itself. It's clearly difficult to measure, but it can be measured.

On the other hand, while, depending on how liquid the market is for ownership and debt shares in your company, it may be fairly straightforward to place a value on the entire company, with estimates of how to divvy that up getting less clear between individual line items on a balance sheet, attributing that value to specific individuals, roles, and actions is nearly impossible for all but direct salespeople.

This is where the notion of creating value for your customers gets a lot more nebulous. It is entirely possible to actually measure the monetary impact your product and even specific features of that product can make for a customer, and extrapolate that history to estimate the impact of similar products and features, but there is an actual measurement and statistical science to doing this, and almost no one involved in technical project management and certainly not engineers actually have any of the toolsets of accounting and economics to do this, so we mostly just wing it and make guesses based purely on intuition, so we can get back to our real jobs and do what we're actually good at, which is not measuring and estimating value.

And, of course, this gets a lot stupider when you get into government work and nonsense like EVMS, because your customer isn't a profit-making entity that has any monetary value in its operations at all, yet all of our tooling and thinking is based on the premise that value can be quantified via a common medium of exchange and ranked.
I find how severely this is all being misunderstood, as in very few actually RTFM, on a site like HN, incredibly eye opening.
the federal government. We had two programs, JobKeeper and JobSeeker. In my opinion this is why we have governments, to support the citizens in their time of need.
That's just wrong. Why do people keep claiming this? Consensus immunity for Pfizer against delta is still in the 60-80% range, which while less than the 95% measured against earlier variants is vastly higher than the unvaccinated. (Though to be fair this is hard to measure against the confounding background that the vaccinated tend to be better at other mitigation strategies too.)

Even the Israel data you cite, which is an outlier, measured 39% effectiveness, which is STILL twice as good as being unvaccinated.
It's not scanning your device, but your iCloud uploads, and if configured, the imessages of your children
> Didn't people start America because the places they came from hundreds of years ago, Britain, Germany, France etc. were so oppressively unequal with respect to wealth and liberty?

No not really. As far as I understand it was religious freedom which brought the pilgrims, and then the American revolution was about tyrannical government.
Ehh, not _that_ carefully. Real inflation is notoriously difficult to track, as you need to take into consideration things like decreases in manufacturing quality, ingredient substitutions, planned obsolescence, etc.
At the time, Internet Explorer was still fresh on everyone's mind. It's not like we haven't been exactly where we are now before.
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Good thing this system doesn’t scan browser cache, then. Unless you’re programmatically extracting photos from your browser cache and uploading them to iCloud, which would be a pretty impressive way to make sure you’re using up all your storage.
But that’s not the proposed design. Browser cache isn’t getting advanced. It’s photos for iCloud.

I’m not asking if people do bad things, I’m saying over and over again this is getting coverage on Hn and people are pointing to this hypothetical issue — yet this hypothetical issue has been possible for years on many more devices.
depends on exchange rate, there is a precedent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo#Soviet_Union

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-union-pepsi-shi...
It's the screenshot. The left screenshot appears to have been resized so it's markedly more blurry than it should be.
The power of arrest has and is abused to punish and harass people. Perhaps I'm mistaken and in the UK those accused of unauthorized downloading are subject to arbitrary arrest, but this all seemed very abnormal. The police only investigate a fraction of the crimes reported to them, even when there's evidence or they they think they could get a conviction.

If you called up the police, any police anywhere, right now and said "Officer arrest this man, he downloaded a pdf from my server and I have the log.txt file to prove it!", I would honestly be willing to wager the deed to my house that the police would not be banging my door at sunrise to forcibly take me away and interrogate me.

At best it was gross incompetence, at worst abuse of power.
"Enthusiastic about joining" is very, very far and different from "willing to accept shit wlb to join". You can have both genuine enthusiasm and healthy boundaries / self respect
Disappointed that there's not a single graph in this press release. C'mon Census Bureau!
Power 101: preach one thing do opposite
Ironically making it not even that unique amongst "social networks", since Depop adopted GT America as their brand typeface back in 2017. Whilst Depop is technically a shopping app, it's one with a heavy skew towards social networking functionality.

Though to be fair, Depop uses GT America Extended and Expanded, rather than Standard.
I think anything within a factor of two is just a mild engineering challenge away. The latest chargers are 350 kW. So use two of them.

With current battery tech we'd probably need a 600 mile pack to make those charging speeds feasible for 300 miles in 10 minutes. That's a big pack, but again, just a bit of an engineering challenge, not revolutionary.

Though I otherwise agree, home charging is where it's at. Starting every day with a full charge and never going to the gas station is really nice. I hope we can quickly scale up the infrastructure so everyone can enjoy it. Right now maybe 50% of the US population is able to easily charge at home.
Playing Nice with the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Climate Denial
It’s different from Facebook in that you can access it without having to see the Facebook news feed (either using the messenger app, or messenger.com). It’s the same as Facebook in that you need a Facebook account to login to it, and it’s just the messenger part of Facebook.

The discord app is pretty nice, just remember to mute any fast moving servers that you are part of to avoid getting spammed with notifications.
> Although I do play Dwarf Fortress occasionally, so I might not be representative of the average demographic...

Based on the current state of games and pay-to-win mechanics I really wish you were, might see an improvement :)
> Any technical or financial excuse they might have used in the past to not scan files locally is now rendered null.

This just proves that people don’t understand much about technology in depth. Capability has been there already, for very long time.

99% of their work has gone for implementing that perceptual hashing function and their PSI system.

If you want to give excuses, there will be always more. But they are not reasons to prevent this pandora box.
I flagged this. It's a perfectly fine paper, and quite interesting to someone with a deep interest in virology. However, the only purpose I can possibly see it serve in a Hacker News discussion is just to go around in circles on vaccine fears.

ADE is definitely one of the things to worry about, especially given that there were some signs in animal models and also in vitro. However, if ADE were an actual problem, we would be seeing massive signs of it, given how much virus is going around and how many people are vaccinated. That, of course, won't stop the "do your own research" people from freaking out.

ETA: Please, please prove me wrong. Post some comments that contribute towards an intellectually curious discussion. That will change my approach to this kind of thing. My cynicism is based on past patterns, but I don't think those are completely locked-in.
A curated list of self-supervised speech representation learning papers
Please give this repo a star if you find it useful!
* This repo provides a curated list of recent developments of self-supervised speech representation learning for reference.

* Unlabeled speech data are easier to collect, so we should take advantage of these data.
* Pre-trained models provide compact and benefit representations for downstream tasks like speech recognition, speaker classification, diarization, slot filling, etc.
* Some approaches like wav2vec 2.0 and hubert are successful on various tasks.
* Feel free to add more related papers to this repo by PR.
That's awesome! Thanks for your information.
Correct. A conscious decision has been made in Australia to prioritize human life over business profits. What most didn't realize is that by choosing this path we're optimizing both, eg because we don't have any community spread our economy is booming.
There's a bit of dissonance between this:

> What I feel...

versus:

> facts...
Even with thresholding and manual review, the idea that most iphone users (who don't have any CP) are going to have a non-zero child porn score in apple's database is just super creepy.

Just a minor policy change (lower threshold) away from calling millions of people pedophiles.
Not driving a car might help people also.

Not leaving your house also might help people.

If it 'might help people' why not either of those options?
Currently it would not catch that 4chan thing as they only scan things that are uploaded to icloud photos. So you'd have to click on it and save to photos. This is the current implementation. I would guess that once they have their hooks in though all files with an image extension/header will be scanned and reported.
I don't know history, but the Wikipedia definition is good: "In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are self-regulated by buyers and sellers negotiating in an open market. In a free market, the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government or other authority, and from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities."

The "free" is on the forces of supply-and-demand, not a lack of regulations altogether (which is laissez-faire / anarchist). Wikipedia continues -- although with a bit of a non-sequitur in between, to explain that:

"All of these fields emphasize the importance in currently existing market systems of rule-making institutions external to the simple forces of supply and demand which create space for those forces to operate to control productive output and distribution."

Note that regulation is _external_ to supply-and-demand. It shouldn't interfere with the core concepts:

- Economic equilibrium

- Low barriers to entry

- Competition

- Spontaneous order

- Supply and demand
Something tells me people with access to nuclear arsenal are not going to take pictures of it with an iphone and share them via imessages
I solved this by adding this rule to uBlock:

||http://abs.twimg.com/fonts/*.woff
If the threshold is 4, then 4 photos needed to have incorrectly matched, meaning the accuracy needs to only be 1/10000 if the average user has 10k images. (1/10000)^4*10k is 1 trillion.
Modern ICE are hitting 40%.
Consensus can change.

Blockchain are just databases. But they still run due to consensus and the consensus is made up by humans and it is humans who uphold it.

For example, humans came to a consensus that there will there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin. However, we cannot guarantee that one day there may be more than 21. They also came to a consensus that that this shall never change. However, all that is protecting this consensus is a meme. The source code can be changed should everyone agree, especially if the future humans find that such a cap does not work.

The benefits of decentralization is that the consensus is hard to change by individuals or centralized organisations... Consensus must be reached by all of the participants of the network.
In both the generous definition of a ponzi or the technical one, Bitcoin doesn't fit in. Words matter. Neither does it fit any definition of a scam. A scam has a central owner, trying to rug-pull somebody. Bitcoin doesn't have any owner or central organization behind it.

You have no point. I already explained how it's secure savings technology. Hence if you use Bitcoin for that, you're a user, and it has a use.

You lack even the most basic understanding of Bitcoin as mining cannot be banned. If you outlaw large scale mining, as recently done in China, the Bitcoin hash rate recovers in mere weeks. Which is what just happened.

Even if you'd outlaw any and all large scale mining in the US, it will just move to another country. Many happy to host such a profitable business. Many places with surplus energy.

And if that fails, we just go back to home mining, which would decentralize Bitcoin further. Drawing power from a solar panel, what exactly are you or the government going to do about it?

None of this will even happen as it won't be banned in the US.
Alternative title: approximately half of workers can't afford an apartment that costs more than average.

If anyone is more knowledgeable than me wrt economics and supply and demand feel free to correct my intuition here:

As long as there's a distinction between "luxury", "average", and "barebones" apartments, it seems unlikely that we'll ever reach a point where everyone (or even, say, 90% of people) can afford a better-than-median apartment. If the number of people who can afford a nicer than average one becomes significantly greater than the supply of above average apartments, some luxury apartments will just increase prices until they hit a more profitable equilibrium.
Important adjustment -- privacy and surveillance are what's on a spectrum. Security is not the inverse of privacy.
What does that mean? Can you elaborate, or provide an example?
Climate change involves more extreme weather events, including anomalous temperatures in both directions. An increase in average temperatures doesn't do as much visible damage as an increase in probability of long-tail events. It is accurate and important to connect statistically extreme weather events to climate change.
I don't know why technical people assume non-technical people fully understand the privacy implications of certain technology.
It's sad, because smart contracts were originally about something much simpler and without blockchains. A smart contract was just a contract which partially consists of portable executable code. What made it "smart" is that, due to the included code, it could "know" about certain formal conditions in the contract.

To make this all concrete, a vending machine offers a smart contract to its customers. The vending machine "knows" how much money has been deposited in it, and that lets it be "smart" about when to uphold its end of the bargain and dispense snacks.
Ok, we've done that. Thanks!
I appreciate you saying this, I felt the same way. I was delighted when Apple started selling privacy hard, and hoped it would persist. Their "Mind your own business" [1] ad was a delight - only 2 months ago. Now my question is, which of the annoying characters in the ad is Apple?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y
I think Apple actually thought they were doing the right thing. Maybe they are, and we're overreacting. Things have to calm down a bit first before that will be clear. But either way, it was [yet another] PR miscalculation. A very Apple thing to do...
Uh oh, you've now merged remote master into your local master which was two commits ahead and 3 behind!

My git config has fast-forward only for pulls and I habitually use --ff-only for any pull :)
Correct, the "1 in 1 trillion" does factor in the requirement for multiple images to match. From Apple's technical summary:

"Using another technology called threshold secret sharing, the system ensures that the contents of the safety vouchers cannot be interpreted by Apple unless the iCloud Photos account crosses a threshold of known CSAM content. Only when the threshold is exceeded does the cryptographic technology allow Apple to interpret the contents of the safety vouchers associated with the matching CSAM images."

"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..."

And when the manual review process sees that the images flagged aren't NCMEC classification A1 (A=prepubescent, 1=sex acts) the flag is cleared.
These results look marginal, as in, if you tweak the assumptions slightly you can get a net positive. I'm not saying they're wrong, but there are quite a few results in the green economy that look like this from the outside and it's hard to tell how things will turn out before you try them.

To be clear: I think batteries are a much better choice than hydrogen for consumer applications at this point in time. It is unclear what will happen with Over the Road long haul trucking and airplanes.
they really don't though. no one can force them to scan a user for anything, however if they do scan and spot CP then obviously they have a duty to report it. Just like you have a duty to report child abuse if you're a teacher. No scans, no CP, no issues. This has been forced on them by the government by some means I think, either the US government or the CCP.
The universal truth leptons and bosons and photons, too much for any human to comprehend. Summarization is subjective choices.

> whether the event happened in the first place is a fact

Facts are easy. I'm 6'3" tall

How do you know which facts are true? How do I know?
There are a lot of double standards that it's easy to glide over.

People are critical of belief in "alien visitations" who are not necessarily critical of more conventional religion.

In a lot of settings, belief in "fairies" would be treated differently from belief in "angels".

It is a real practical problem in psychiatry of how to evaluate someone who claims to have religious experiences such as hearing God.

The standard approach, if I recall correctly, is to consider it a mental disorder if it involves significant distress and/or interference with normal life, or if it involves angry and violent themes.

The problem with the intellectual consistency of that (from the perspective of Western culture) is, well, have you read the parts of the Christian Bible where Jesus is in a bad mood? Or accounts of various saints?

There has always been, and continues to be, a fair amount of prejudice based on how many people exist with a similar belief structure.

Belief in odd things is not a matter of education, at any rate.
It's time to popularise getting people not to fill out the census.

It's not your civic duty anymore.

The government already has too much data, more than they need.

There are already attacks because the census used differential privacy.

People don't care about your privacy. We have to learn to stop giving out our data anywhere

Here's a example of how the privacy measures weaken the data because it's now too easy to trace it to people - https://twitter.com/HistDem/status/1410682403279060993

Here's the 16 states attacking your census data privacy - https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/993247101/for-the-u-s-census-...
Wait, was that for a mortgage? I bought a house outright with cash that had been moved from Gemini (US crypto exchange) to Schwab less than two weeks before and the title company never had any questions about it.

Throwaway for obvious reasons.
> People peak quite early. Also seeing your values, beliefs and lifestyles being ridiculed by the new generations isn't that much fun.

Implicit in this is that people can't change.

More time alive to experience different cultures, form relationships with different people, and perform different roles in society are all likely to encourage people to be more accepting and adaptable, not less.

Put another way, I don't have to change if I'm just running out the clock, but if I'm going to be around a while then it's worth staying engaged with my community.
Please don't post flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments. We're trying for something a bit different from internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
literally 1984
I think you'll find that a few of us, above poster included, have been saying all along it's a farce - that their stances have been missing the point for a long time. In that case, it's called foresight. Sometimes just luck, but repeated lucky guesses are indistinguishable from predictive power.
The most charitable option is that it’s simply a great pleasure to imagine retreading familiar years. Due to human limitations, those years are the ones we grew up in.

That explanation has the benefit that it doesn’t need to counter-assert against daydreamers that things are getting better, worse, or staying the same.
Would you like to have a landlord coming to your flat as they please to look for drugs? It's the same thing. They make you a suspect by default.
Recommend you take a look at this to see more factors involved in inflation, in a more quantitative light: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/.

The reason CPI is a terrible metric is because measuring inflation is very difficult and somewhat arbitrary (see for example: hedonic adjustments). M2 is a significant, consistent, and logical factor. Even from 1980-1986, rapid changes in M2 consistently correspond to a change in inflation. But there are other factors, like real economic growth, population growth, changes in size of the labor force and velocity of money.
> In the past, the solution was just not to use any of that. A bunch of files inside a random folder in your computer

This is what my company does. Except we use git. Everyone just keeps their repo on their drive and there's no central "canonical" repository. Everyone has a personal folder in the main fileserver and they push frequently to their personal remote repo.

Any time they send emails saying they've made a notable milestone, anyone curious just merges against their remote.

The codebases somehow rarely (never) diverge catastrophically. Maybe because we're doing embedded work.
Tesla superchargers are delivering 250 kW today, at ~380V. The largest of these is like 40 stalls; they are not shared (you're thinking of the 150 kW v2 chargers that split current between two stalls). Hyundai is about to ship a car that can take current at 800V. (There are 350 kW CCS chargers too, though those seem to be poorly exploited and hard to measure in practice with real cars; but I've watched my Model Y sink 250 kW with my own eyes.)

So just naive application of already-deployed technology can get you to ~500 kW. You don't think someone's going to squeeze out a thicker cable, really? No, this is doable. The real limit is how much current the battery can sink without degradation at the top end of the charge curve. The electrical stuff is kinda trivial.