skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just shows your ignorance even further.

"Mask policy" - what a government organization (DOH, city council, what have you) states as its recommended behavior, action, enforcement practices.

And has _absolutely nothing to do with_ epidemiological studies on communities. Nothing. Whatsoever.

Policy: 'you should do X'

Epidemiological study: a controlled investigation into what happens when people do X, when they don't, including how many do, how many don't, and all the circumstances surrounding it.
First major US city mandates proof of vaccinations for certain indoor activities
man thisis why im just sticking with localstorage these days. juat 5mb limit but totes safe
Well, the second paragraph of the Nankin massacre article is relativizing, saying things like 'there are a lot of contradictions' and that 'the truth of the incident is still unkown'.

> 中国側は南京大虐殺や南京大屠殺と呼称しているが、事件の真相はいまだ不明であり、捕虜、敗残兵ないし便衣兵を殺害したのか婦女子も含むのか、どの程度の規模か、などの点で食い違いが多く、事件の規模、戦時国際法違反か否かの論争、犠牲者数をめぐる論争が存在している。日本の学界ではこれをめぐって賛否が分かれており、犠牲者の推定値は20万人、4万人、2万人などいくつかあるが、「宣伝目的ででっち上げられた」と主張する国粋主義や学者もいる。
I don't think it follows that "the average house is affordable to the average person." A 1br apartment is certainly not the average home. And paying more than 30% of your income on housing might sound like it'll reduce your savings and investments if you are earning a high income where other essential expenses might only take another 20% of your income, but for a low income person, it would mean not being able to afford healthcare, food, transportation. If you can't see the problem, then you don't know much about how the other half lives.
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A lot of this stuff is transitory, and there are signs it's starting to come down. However with the rise of delta, I think we're in for a rocky ride ahead.

Edit: in the spirit of worker solidarity though, if you can convince your boss to give you a 20% raise by showing them the M2 money supply, I fully support you in that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmoore/2021/08/12/cpi-data-...
this take is singe-ing but I think it ellucidates a truth that the vast arrayed pissed off scared vocal anti-web-progress retrogressionist amassing un-silent minorities are so pissy about:

we have only just started getting good at the web. the web is still ripe, still, exciting, still heavily heavily optimizable & usable for the cuttingest of cutting edgest computing & computing experiences.

look: the web is often poorly utilized. the folks making money have been doing so at great cost to the user for a long time, on one hand, and the tech itself is still radically underexplored, under tried, under utilized, and most companies use cookie cutter massified software development tools that radically constrain what systems they might produce. they refuse to think.

but some people do think. they have some good thoughts. they reconsider what these platforms might be used to enable, rethink how to assemble experiences from this base matter, from these first toolkits. kudos to everyone still engaged with working the web towards better: we have so much to find out, so much to try, to tune, to evolve along, and we need diverse spirit of all kinds of efforts trying for better. that's why the web keeps winning. because the tool kit can, because the web is low level, because it permits endless platform & architectural engineering atop it's simple & long long long enduring media form.
I tried Etcher on linux 2-3 years ago. I would love if it had _asked permission_ before making requests back to your servers. Perhaps this is now the case.
How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says
I assume anything I say to a "stranger" can come back to bite me even if I send it in a private message.
Haha, this is a great idea.
and my building's mail gets routinely stolen
This is a misunderstanding of the system. It's not a classifier, it's a hash. The only images that are going to be seen by this low-wage worker are going to be:

A) Images which are a correct hash match to an image already known to NCMEC or other agencies which have already been assigned CSAM category A1 (A=prepubescent, B=sex act);

B) Images which are a hash collision. According to Apple, the likelihood of a collision is 1 in 1 trillion per user account.

This system isn't a child detector strapped to a porn detector, being backed up by a low-wage worker making legal or editorial judgement calls. It's searching for images already known to child safety organisations—and even then only the most unambiguously horrific classification within the set of known images, far far far beyond the point where any ambiguity could possibly reside.
I think he’s saying 1x on both Electron and Swift UI was making it too hard to ship either version to an acceptable standard because each was slowing the other down due to inconsistencies, difficulty staying in parity and double communication.

Unfortunately, it’s normal in software development for multiple platforms to increase development complexity when feature and UX parity is prioritized.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and combustion of hydrocarbons emits it.
A one bedroom where ?

The issue of cost relativism is key.

In low cost flyover country, mortgages can be cheaper than rent. This is why CAP [1] rates in Middle America are so attractive.

20 an hour would be fine for a one bedroom in many places in lower cost areas.

I don't think 20 an hour will cut it in LA, SF, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, DC, or NYC, but you can always double up.

[1] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/va...
Afghans Tell of Executions, Forced ‘Marriages’ in Taliban-Held Areas
Both the official Dropbox client and Maestral take hours at high CPU usage to complete an initial sync of my 7 gigabyte Dropbox with 30 thousand files. Maybe sync is hard, maybe Dropbox's data representation is inefficient, maybe it's because both are written in Python, an inefficient language.
The only way what you said is not true for any networked device is to just go down to the river and throw it in and never use a digital device again. It's not a false sense of security, it's a calculated position on security and what you will accept, moving spying from the server to the phone was the last straw for a lot of people.
An AG needs probable cause for a criminal charge to subpoena all intermediaries, and "shady LLCs" lack probable cause. Similarly, a federal money laundering charge requires an illicit origin, so since the state doesn't know the origin and has no probable cause on what specifically criminal (or non-criminal) origin there is, indiscriminately going after random property owners and random LLCs is going to get curb stomped by every judge in the union. Fishing expeditions don't cut it in this country.

Anonymity doesn't require a lack of paper trail. Only a benign paper trail.

What did you have in mind for such AG to do?
I think you're misunderstanding the point the OP is making.

He's talking about the nature of communication, not about the actual underlying facts of whether the data is gibberish or not.

We know what happened in the election. We know roughly how well the vaccines are working and how safe they are. That's not the problem, the problem is how the information is presented, communicated, how clearly repudiated evidence can still be perpetuated as 'evidence'.

In particular, the OP's point about how there are contradicting statements in the article is really interesting: this should be common as there are a lot of disagreements in the real world, and yet, we don't really see a lot of that in most journalism which betrays the fact that it's likely a lot of journalists are actually advocating for an idea, and selecting the quotes necessary to make that case. Which is more common than not.

I have to admit personally being confused by the apparent duplicity of the quotes ... and it took me a minute to realize that this was actually valuable information, that we rarely see.
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?

So, hundreds of years later, what have they created? Something better? Something similar? Something same same but different?

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/top-worst-paid-jobs-206169...
Right - the system is actually quite complex to blind apple to something they currently have sitting with their own keys on it on their own servers. I mean, they can (and maybe will) just scan directly?
This is untrue. The same photos being used by Apple for this scheme are already in use for CSAM scanning by many major platforms (Google, Facebook, Microsoft).

If someone wanted to generate a false positive image, they could already leverage it on these other platforms.
> Is this effect global? Who knows, it’s anecdata

You say this like no one measures inflation, but in fact we do measure inflation quite carefully, and it's nowhere near 20%.
And the US asks the OPEC+ to produce even more oil to boost American growth
The part not blackened when subsequently posted on Twitter.
Yes, data shows that the infection fatality rate is very low for children.

Adding to that, evidence suggests that the vast majority (65% - 95%) of infections in children are asymptomatic [1].

Overall this implies that many children have or will obtain naturally acquired immunity.

[1] Estimating the asymptomatic proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general population: Analysis of nationwide serosurvey data in the Netherlands
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00768-y
What makes it even weirder is that just couple months ago, everyone was praising Apple for their whole "Privacy" ads when they announced iOS 15 with the do not track defaults.

I even think that Apple would have faced less backpack over this CSAM stuff if they hadn't used the "privacy" shtick just couple months ago.
Snap lockdowns have proven effective at slowing and stopping the transmission of the virus, and it has been proven time and time again that a handful of these cases can become hundreds very rapidly.

Personally I think it's quite justified, the question is how long can this strategy go on for.
Atmospheric CO2 growth rate over time

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gl_gr.html

Year-by-year is alot of noise, but over decades we see mostly steady accelleration.
Centralized payment settlement systems are mutable. That’s the difference and the whole argument.

A bug in a DeFi contract? Sorry nothing we can do! Bug in Wells Fargo account settlement code? Ah we’re sorry, let’s roll that back for ya!
Copy pasting a previous comment:

Apple is not being anti-competitive, competitors are free to go play in Google's play ground. The iphone started with no third party apps, Apple has zero obligation to anyone. Apple's walled garden approach is differentiator against its competitors. Forcing them to act like everyone else is anti-competition because you are removing my choice to willingly buy into that walled garden.
They can retire the meme when any measurable fraction of mainstream users are using Linux without a proprietary software layer provided by a big tech company.
> that betrays its user, is a self that betrays itself.

And cloud computing are corporations that take your self away from you.

And that was always going to happen. And people have been fighting that idea in the shadows for a while.

This issue is just bringing it to the foreground in a most intense way. "Think of the children."

They are coming for your self. They will take it. There's not doubt. There never was. Your self is too valuable and you've just been squandering it anyway.

Eventually you become Apple. Unless you start resisting, but that's hard. Just slooooowly warm the water. This froggy is fine. Nice and warm. Just don't touch the bottom of the pot.
Well if the USSR economy was in shambles in 1941, that makes the Red Army's pushback of Barbarossa, and the reversal of initiative at Stalingrad all the more impressive.
I don't necessarily think you were wrong to believe in Apple, perhaps just a bit naive about how little "as much as possible" is good for in this context.

Apple is a public corporation at the mercy of several superpowers. Economic incentives and the people with the guns make the rules. Full stop. Apple's privacy stance was always one desperate/amibitious business unit or bureaucrat away from complete collapse.
Disagree - most city subreddits are pretty hands off and they get overrun by people coming from alt-right subs who don't even live in the city talking about crime.

Moderation often improves quality. It can also be bad, but is not universally so.
> I have no experience in web development and am making my first site.

Can I very very strongly recommend, that if this site does any collection of PII or handles payments (even if those are 3rd party ones using something like Stripe), that you get a trusted and experienced dev to do a review for you?

You acknowledge you have unknown unknowns, you must also realise that there are people out there (quite likely people you count as friends) who's space of unknown unknown in the web platform security area is smaller than yours.

There are many unexpected things you likely haven't considered. Where I am, IP addresses are not on their own considered PII, but email addresses are. Somewhat less expectedly though, is that IP addresses that can be linked to another piece of PII then become PII themselves, so if you have a database with an email address and, say, a signup or last login timestamp, suddenly all your web server logs full of IP addresses, request paths (which can identify signups/logins), and timestamps - become linkable via the timestamp/request path to users logging in and their email address in the db, and suddenly the log files become PII with all the duty of disclosure around breaches. (And that's without even considering super common rookie mistakes where PII gets written out win clear text to access or error logs on purpose for debugging reasons.)
> So what level of sacrifice should be required of those that don't make it

The same as it has always been for all living things: pain, suffering, and death.

> low wage workers both locally and globally who aren't making it

Pretty sure quality of life is up by pretty much every measure for "low wage workers" both locally and globally.

> none of this is new, but it doesn't have to be this way.

> We know how to solve many of society's problems and we choose not to do so.

You could have made this statement at any point in history, and people might agree with you. If this is the only way it ever has been, why do you think it doesn't have to be this way?

We know in theory. There is a vast, uncrossable gulf between theory and practice, as various communist experiments have shown. There is no known solution to ingroup/outgroup tendency, sociopathy or naked self-interest.

> If the core reason for these things is "human nature" and we shouldn't try to change

We should totally try to change! But we shouldn't expect to succeed, and we shouldn't be surprised or disappointed when awful things happen. We should instead realize that, looking at the past few centuries of history, this is an amazing time to be alive, by every metric. Better to accept humanity the way that it is, space rockets and genocides and all, and realize that it's still a net-positive, than despair that humanity doesn't hold up to some sort of fictional ideal.
The data disagrees with my hypothesis, therefore the data must be wrong.
A false positive in matching faces results in a click to fix it or a wrongly categorized photo. A false positive in this new thing may land you in jail or have your life destroyed. Even an allegation of something so heinous is enough to ruin a life.

The "one in trillion" chance of false positives is Apple's invention. They haven't scanned trillions of photos and it's a guess. And you need multiple false positives, yet no one says how many, so it could be a low number. Either way, even with how small the chance of it being wrong is, the consequences for the individual are catastrophic. No one sane should accept that kind of risk/reward ratio.

"Oh, and one more thing, and we think you'll love it. You can back up your entire camera roll for just $10 a month and a really infinitesimally minuscule chance that you and your family will be completely disgraced in the public eye, and you'll get raped and murdered in prison for nothing."
Hmm it seems to work for me - here is an alternative link you can try:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157106451...
How would the agency issuing an NSL be able to generate a hash of a photo they’re looking for? Presumably if they already had a photo to derive the hash they’d already have whatever it is they’re searching for.
I mean, absent a gallop poll there's really no way to know, but we were discussing this at my office today, and I work at a graphic design studio, not a software development firm.
It's the software that people pay for, not the hardware
Governments have wilfully not kept up with the technology, so they can spy on it all.

Imagine if the government suddenly decided that they would open and scan everyone's physical mail into a permanent database. Why should email be any different?
Apple just announce I would posit it will be a few weeks, not a few years. This news is everywhere.
No offense - but the /r/sanfrancisco sub is basically a dumpster fire of trolls and stuff.

The endless crime-posting is exhausting, it is rapidly turning into nextdoor.
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Why does Reddit need funding? Legitimate question. What are they going to spend this money on? A direct ad sales team? I would assume it takes a somewhat small engineering and DevOps team to keep it running. Is there a huge roadmap of features that requiring $100m in engineering?
I've used GitExtensions from the start of my Git usage. I've never had to blow any of my repos away at any point. I also use things like Rebase without thinking about it, something which from what I've read on here is considered a slightly unusual/difficult task.

Using GitExtensions means I can use Git as easily as any other tool, I never give it a second thought. I see the command line commands being executed, but never think about them. The flipside is I'd be knackered if I had to use the command line only.
It’s true - I’ve had much better luck setting up purely exploratory calls with actual sales than recruiting. Not sure why that is, perhaps recruiters’ commission is maximized by the steady flow of smaller “deals” vs sales where they prefer to score big ones
Thanks for coming on here.

You WILL be downvoted.

I'm a parent, it's also crazy to me how THIS of all things is where folks are going crazy over privacy. Literally, they will build something to track your every mouse move, scan every photo, log and sell all your browsing history and TV watching history (including big ISPs and mfgs).

And this is the thing folks get outraged about? Apple can already scan your stuff on their servers (and should!).

Instead of apple being charged criminally, other companies that do any kind of E2E without this may be required to do something like this. That's my prediction.

We will see if these "irrefutable" claims amount to anything like a child porn charge against apple.
> In the real world, plenty of alternatives exist for practically every Electron app out there so if you don't want to use it, you don't have to.

There's choice with password managers. But look at music. You have Deezer and Spotify. The only two free services that I'm aware of that only have Electron apps on desktop. (YT Music doesn't have an app on desktop). Spotify has exclusive content. You don't have choice when apps are the same as services. Hate the Hulu interface? You can't watch The Handmaid's Tale on Netflix. It's that kind of thing.
You can definitely consent to giving up the right to not be subject to warrantless search and seizure. Everyone who ever joins the military under UCMJ allows their commander to conduct random inspections of personal property at any unannounced time.

There are limitations, of course. If you live off-post in private housing, your commander has no legal authority to inspect it. They can only go through your stuff if you live in government-owned housing.
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If a small circle of people only share not-already-known CSAM content among themselves and never share known CSAM material then there is no way that Apple's scheme can catch them.

However, if at any point one of them screws up and shares a known CSAM image, the entire ring can be caught. This is not actually an implausible scenario. See for example: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1424037132201431045?s=...
Unfortunately since iOS doesn't allow changing default Camera app, using a third party photo client is not that easy.
Why wouldn't you just use methanol, which can be synthesized from CO2 and hydrogen, and can be used in existing internal combustion & turbine prime movers?
There’s nothing OS specific here. Google Photos could ship this on any Android distribution, and they have a billion users.
Look at the second chart:

"M2 Money Supply vs. CPI and GDP"

220x increase in the money supply vs 18x increase in CPI
> It only runs if you have iCloud photos enabled.

The detailed specifics of this would be interesting to know. If I accidentally flip iCloud photos on and then turn it off within a few minutes, would that give the system license to scan all my photos once? What if my phone is in airplane mode and I turn iCloud photos on? Will the system scan photos and create vouchers offline for later upload?

Edit: On a related note, will turning on iCloud photos now come with a modal prompt and privacy warning so you're fully informed and can't do it "by accident"? Pardon my ignorance if this happens already. I've never turned mine on and am not about to start.
Does the set of validators really need to be static (or fixed-size)? I may be missing something obvious, but it seems like we can also support a dynamic set. Consider the following scheme:

- In addition to transaction data, each validator stores three sets: CURRENT, the current validator set; IN_PENDING, the set of clients who are to join the validator set; OUT_PENDING, the set of validators who are to leave the validator set.

- Validators support four additional requests: v_nominate, v_initialize, v_remove, v_eject.

- When a client wants to join the validator set, it sends the v_nominate request to all validators. Validators who agree add the client to IN_PENDING, sign the tuple (CURRENT, IN_PENDING) and reply.

- If the candidate client receives 2 * f + 1 signatures where f = (max |CURRENT| - 1) / 3 (maximization is over all responses), it sends the v_initialize request to all validators (along with the signatures). Validators receiving this request remove this candidate from IN_PENDING and add it to CURRENT.

- When a validator wants to remove a validator (can ask to remove itself) from the set, it sends the v_remove request to all validators. Validators who agree add the outgoing validator to OUT_PENDING, sign the tuple (CURRENT, OUT_PENDING) and reply.

- If the validator who originates the removal request receives 2 * f + 1 signatures where f = (max |CURRENT| - 1) / 3 (maximization is over all responses), it sends the v_eject request to all validators (along with the signatures). Validators receiving this request remove the outgoing validator from OUT_PENDING and CURRENT.

Wouldn't arguments similar to the ones in the article also work for showing consensus on these sets?

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But what if we handed the printed dollars to a large number of individuals to spend immediately to cover their income shortfalls in unprecedented government largess?