skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emblematic of my general disdain for the entire field of Web Design/UX/UI, whatever we're calling it these days.

Just let the damn user decide for themselves. It's ridiculous and stupid that we can't do this.
This reminded me of a great talk (in German) by David Kriesel about scanners not scanning correctly but replacing letters and numbers because of pattern matching (if I remember correctly).

It was a really great talk. Not sure if there is an English version somewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeqF1-Z1g0
Exactly. How about we put it this way: "CSAM is a problem, but corruption within politics is more of a problem. Apple, morally, really has no choice BUT to monitor all politician communications and police communications looking for certain suspicious or risky phrases."

The camera is facing the wrong direction...
Those are retail rates, big users get much better pricing. Dropbox used S3 for years until finally moving to their own datacenter to be more efficient.

And like others have said, users are charged for storage that many don't use so there's a lot of revenue padding. Same model used by the other clouds for consumer storage like Google Drive.
Reddit is now valued at more than $10B
Carson Block explains what he got wrong about Elon Musk and Tesla
I’d be inclined to vote for a policy to do that and give $100 (or thereabouts) to every adult citizen every month. (Or maybe every adult permanent resident.)
Ricardo's law is the advantage of specialization. If A can produce more value by producing X instead of Y, it is best to produce the former and buy the latter - that efficiency in production creates a possibly counter-intuitive extra for both trading parties.

«In this kind of economy, communities specialize in producing certain goods in order to participate in the regional exchange system [...] they see their efforts are better spent in producing other products to exchange for desired goods made in other villages or regions. [...] development of a regional economic system rooted in exchange networks among communities underpinned the peaceful heterarchical metal age socio-political system that endured in Thailand for over two millennia»
No, that is completely wrong that the USSR economy did well during the depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

There are many other sources / economists who will support that, wikipedia is just the fastest.

Stalin's government did do a great job of ramping up industrial production before and during WW2.
>This is likely because the prize money is significantly funded by the tickets sold to the “meatspace”.

Absolutely not. The prize money was exclusively funded by the sales of in-game battlepass, which is purely digital.
Congress has already gone a few steps into your hypothetical. The EARN IT Act[0] proposed to ban E2E encryption based entirely on making companies criminally liable for any CSAM they can't scan for. While EARN IT wasn't passed, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple sees the writing on the wall and figured they'd get out ahead of things.

I also feel it's important to note that every major image host is doing the same thing Apple is doing, but server-side on unencrypted images. What Apple is planning to implement is, out of context, an improvement; in the same way that Google's FLoC is an improvement over ad tracking based on third-party cookies. Get a trusted client to cooperate in some smaller act of self-surveillance and we don't need the server to do full take.

That being said, I don't think we even need to rely on governments threatening Apple into doing surveillance. The scanning scheme relies on paying human moderators to basically look at CSAM all day and check if it's a valid match. Big tech moderation is already understaffed and overworked as is - so it's almost certain that the people involved will just forward everything as their sanity degrades. Apple will almost certainly wind up accidentally or unknowingly forwarding along bogus CSAM reports, no coercion required.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act_of_2020
Some of the open source phone projects are interesting. But I stopped carrying a phone entirely about 3 years ago.

HN is a weird crowd, so this obviously isn't a solution for +99% of people. But I'm choosing to opt out entirely. Living in the 90s is annoying when coordinating with unreliable people, but this isn't some kind of impossible feat. I don't even think about it anymore, it's a non-issue. Just get on with it.
Disgusting, I know where I'm never returning to
"If your ideology is focused around production or productivity or work then you’ve already failed."
Not sure if this a joke, but zerover sounds like the worst idea ever. Whole numbers are intuitive, easy to understand and easy to compare.

It is way easier to compare something like 1.0 & 2.0 than it is to compare 0.1.9 & 0.2.0-rc.2

Plus then you get the added advantage of Major/minor versions.
America’s White Population Shrank for First Time in U.S. History
No, quite honestly I think they are stupid (and was called a homophobe for that once).

Having minority characters in itself is perfectly okay, overcompensating in the other direction and flooding people's media with people that barely make up 10% of the population in a misguided attempt to "promote tolerance" is bizarre.
Coupled with the fact that supporters of this idea all seem to share a very moralistic attitude and jump at the opportunity to call any critic the most extreme names they can come up with, that makes the idea pretty weak in my eyes.
There are competitors with less name recognition, but arguably a better product (WD40 is great for water displacement, but it isn't very good for most of the things people use it for).
“During the lifetime of our grandchildren…”

That’s now. Climate change deniers often point to stories like these from the 1970’s.

Heck, many Americans won’t even take the Coronavirus vaccine.

Don’t expect humans to do enough to avoid some amount of climate change
That sounds more like choice stress than overthinking. I'd say the latter is rather where you consider something from a million angles (overly many; overthinking) whereas the former is just having many questions to make a decision on because you don't yet have an established language to work with and are simply new to this and so it's overwhelming.
I was just going to mention customer service reps, who traditionally would have worked out of call centers and been subject to restrictions to make it more difficult for them to steal customer data (with the side 'benefit' of micromanaging productivity). With the pandemic, businesses that had considered CS staff they couldn't replace with AI as not sitting for remote were forced to figure out a way, and that way was essentially to replicate many of the security conditions of the call centers in the home, rationalized as a necessity to keep people employed and get through the pandemic. But let's be real, CS has long been a race to the bottom cost segment, often outsourced and run as a computer with a mere human overlay. So it was only a matter of time before management was satisfied that the security risks were mitigated enough to justify the new coat savings. Some big companies have already decided to stick with the home-based support setups they put in place only because of the pandemic. And now to apply the formula elsewhere.
Actually, that got me curious. Couldn't a billionaire crush tether by shorting so much of it that it exceeded the cash reserves?
The Ins and Outs of Dmarc Monitoring
Wigner crystals have been well known in theory since the 1930s, there's nothing bizarre about them.
why isn't this an NFT project?
“A SRE friend” is “pretty confident?”

That’s a very bold claim to make on hearsay. Does your friend work at Apple? Are they just speculating, or do they have actual evidence? Why do you believe them?

C’mon, people, I know this is a knee-jerk issue, but exercise some basic critical thinking skills.
It's a solution looking for a problem. As such, it imposes bad tradeoffs that a fit to form solution wouldn't have.

Lack of methods to handle fraud and abuse is the one hilighted in this thread.
You really need an income considerably above average to be able to think about FIRE in Poland (whereas in US you could probably retire early on an average salary). In that regard, it's less applicable.
It's interesting how it's now fashionable to bash on Uber and Lyft. Seems everyone conveniently forgot about the medallion system Uber and Lyft disrupted.
Pre-Uber, either the driver rented the car to a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won't touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid).

The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it's value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.

And I'm not even touching the usual pain points and often discriminatory practices of medallion drivers (refusing card payments, refusing rides to non-white passengers and to non-white neighborhoods...).
Oh I see. Yeah we use google mail for our business and I use fast mail, both with custom domains.
I joined an early stage start up once. I was employee number 3. I learned the hard way that just as they do a background checks on you, you need to do background checks on them. I later learned the founder of the company had several personal bankruptcies and DUIs.

This bled over into the company the company was a mess, and ultimately lead to the company going bankrupt. All this could have been avoided by paying $20 to one of those background check websites. In larger companies the inertia of the companies protects the companies from one or two bad actors, but at a small company one bad actor can quickly sink the company.
In what case is the software not the biggest threat, though? Software is completely malleable. How many people update their systems by downloading the source diffs of all the libraries and apps, reviewing them line by line, and compiling locally? For the vast majority, the underlying software is considered a trusted system out of necessity.

The surprising thing to me is that there have been so few critical reviews on the system as it exists today - they are 99.9% "what if" scenarios.

To put it a different way, the possibility has always existed that your trust could turn out to suddenly be misplaced in a single, near-instantaneous policy change. So most of the discussions are actually about reevaluating whether they should consider Apple devices to be a trusted system or not based on this policy change, and trying to predict future policy changes based on it.

The reality is that Apple's spat with the FBI was possible because the US legal system allows it. Other countries can demand anything they want, and Apple has to negotiate with them or decide whether they have to leave that market. The scanning is a US-only feature to comply with US regulations.

If say China adopts a policy Apple does not want to abide by, their choice is exclusively to leave the Chinese market and to potentially adapt to no Chinese manufacturing or even Chinese suppliers. But this is no more or less true than last week.
Dystopian.
America wasn’t there to create an empire. We were supposed to leave long ago
Oh hey, there's a non-mRNA based vaccine available. Now what's your excuse?

The chicken pox has a similar survival rate, but you got vaccinated for that didn't you?
The New Leaders of Remote Engineering Panel [video]
This is why I haven't used LocalStorage or any other browser storage solution for a long time. They seem really cool, but if they will just get wiped by some browsers, then what is the point? As of a couple of years ago, localStorage didn't work at all in a private windows in safari. Unless you have some very specific needs, I don't know how you would every use IndexedDB
At the risk of nit-picking, if the work was written more that 100 years ago, then the copyright has almost certainly already expired (barring some quite rare circumstances).

Nothing preventing you from publishing it, and a useful forward or other newly written content would, of course, be automatically copyrighted (copyrights, at least in the US, only need to be "registered" if you want to sue someone :-)
There is no reason to take the guy into custard for downloading a file, he didn't do anything violent, and should be allowed to stay home as long as he cooperates with the investigation.

Cooperative people accused of non-violent crimes should NEVER be taken into custody until proven guilty in a court with fair trial.
This is a great article. Wonderful detail on the totally bogus measures and nonsense non-GAAP accounting. I understand why investors placed a lot of hope here. There was always some tiny chance they'd actually solve self-driving, or individual cars would just go out of style and everyone would become totally reliant on a monopoly and who doesn't want to be on the ground floor of Amazon for transportation?

But it seems increasingly obvious that won't happen now. I doubt we're transitioning into a 100% permanent work-from-home future, but I suspect demand for vehicular travel will remain permanently depressed and all the major office construction projects will look increasingly stupid. I remember a Uber building going up just a few blocks from me for years originally promised something like 70,000 jobs to Dallas and I don't think they're delivering any at this point.

I agree with both the positive and negative takes expressed here. This was great as a consumer. It was fun while it lasted. App-enabled rideshare proved that consumer products can be wonderful for consumers when they don't need to make money. On the other hand, the part they played in promoting the gig economy and eroding labor rights, all while depressing demand for green public transit projects in an era where we may only be a decade from common mass-death events thanks to heat waves, is not going to be looked upon kindly by history.

We as technologists don't want to be held accountable for the negative social impacts of our technology. We don't want the prevailing memory of us forever to be a blank thousand-yard stare talking about how we've become death, the destroyer of worlds. But we play our part.

Then again, so do these accountants, except they actually regularly get sent to prison.
Depending on your needs maybe an old school service like a free shell account can do the trick for you. Here's a list: https://freeshell.de/~lysy/public/free.htm
> Increasingly, an up-to-date and unmodified Android or Apple smartphone is required to interface with the modern world. Want to use a Linux phone? Sorry no banking app for you. No check-in for flights. So you either need to accept massive day-to-day inconvenience or subject yourself to surveillance and control.

On my desk right now there are five Android phones (two of them don't even have SIM cards). I use them for different things. I wouldn't dream of signing in to all of them with the same Google account.

If you want to retain some degree of privacy and use Instagram on your phone, you need to get another phone for that.

They're cheap.
I think there isn't a one-size-fits all because group dynamics differ across groups. A group collaboration strategy has requires experimentation and evolution.

Trello boards (Kanban boards in general) work great for certain types of people like designers, but they've never worked great for engineers I've worked with.

Jira is often just way too complicated.

Slack is great for asynchronous team meetings but if you're not checking in reguarly, you might find yourself scrolling way up to figure out what people are discussing.

A Github pull request + code review workflow is great for collaborating in code, but for documentation writing, some writers don't get it (and struggle with version control -- to them, track changes makes more sense). Google Docs makes more sense.

Almost all group collaboration solutions are at best local minima for the group you have right now and for the types of stuff you need to accomplish. Add or remove people from the group, and the dynamic changes.

That said, I have found my own local minima in Google Docs, and Markdown design docs + Mermaid diagrams in Azure Devops wikis (Github wikis are similar). But I also live in a word-centric culture. These things might not work so well in visual cultures.
Ask HN: Can you spam my forum?
I run an Internet forum that has no admins or moderators. However, it has an unconventional moderation system in place that has worked well up until this point. I want to see how it works under heavy spam, so could you please spam my forum? I will post a link in the comments.
I beg to differ. I don't think Google is relevant.

As far as I can see, Google provided a search-result, which eventually (after Google's batted it around internally a few times) turns into an HTTP request to the CBS website, which resulted in password-free access to a public document.

So that will show up in the CBS webserver's access log; that's how they got the IP address. Nothing to do with Google.

Getting from the IP address to the person is messier; websearches, requests to ISPs, and presumably searches of activist databases the cops no doubt maintain might all have played a part.

My guess is the cops knew there was no case against him, because they tried the URL, and saw that there was no password challenge; but charged him anyway, because he was an activist, and they wanted to intimidate him.
Yeah but the title makes it sound like Google Drive or something grassed him up. They weren't downloaded from Google, they were found using it
Their present business models have no future, nor should they. There's no reason local drivers moving around local riders need a middleman siphoning money from the service like this; see also every non-local food delivery service as well.
> ... the core issue is that the website didn't properly protect its data.

It seems that the bigger issue is that the activist was arrested by the police on supposedly only IP address evidence presented by the company/society.

Somehow the IP had to be linked to the person, probably a warrant should be needed for that too.
Gitlab as Your Continuous Deployment One-Stop Shop
It also seems that chirp has unusually short ascenders and larger lobes/bowls. For example the 'h' character looks like a child drew it and much closer to an 'n' than one would expect.
The whole feature could be killed with a loaded question by a journalist - "Are there that many pedophiles on your platform?". That should be the default whenever government or corporation decide to "protect children" in Orwellian way.
I'm the OP. Here's the forum in question:

https://www.peachesnstink.com
Sync.com also has zero knowledge end to end encryption:

https://www.sync.com/pdf/sync-privacy-whitepaper.pdf
I think all home screen apps run on the system webview, there are no “safari bookmarks” in this context.
>(00:12:30) The climatic record in these deep sea cores tells us that there have been eight ice ages in the last 700,000 years. It also tells us when they have occurred. This provides us with a test of various theories of the ice ages. We now have a theory that tells us that changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit act as a pacemaker for the ice age succession. Since this theory can precisely predict when ice ages occured in the past, it also can predict when ice ages will occur in the future. From this theory we can say with confidence that we are currently heading towards another ice age.

Dr. James D. Hays

https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~pkoch/EART_206/09-0303/Hays%2...
Sure, but Rsync and Dropbox are very different. There's really no software option that handles that many small files well with the same features (realtime sync, folder moves, binary diffs, file history, etc).

Rsync is great for taking a snapshot and replicating it elsewhere, which is probably a better fit for research projects anyway.
Wireless Earbuds Charge Themselves Using Solar Cells
What's absurd is that we aren't even really trying. Curing death and causes of ought to be the singular paramount goal of our society, but it's not, because we have been trained to accept it as inevitable ever since we were capable of thought.
CVS/RCS is "guilty" of 1-based versioning.

The linear version history of a RCS file goes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.

If we shoot a branch off, say, 1.2, that becomes 1.2.1.1, 1.2.1.2, 1.2.1.3, ...

Switching that dead horse to zero-based would have been a solution in search of a problem even in its heyday when it was considered viable. (BSD people, feel free to read that as "today").

We don't do arithmetic on version numbers, or not any that involves higher power operations like multiplication so the origin of the numbering doesn't matter.

The components of versions are not always numeric anyway. Is 1.3.A zero-based or not? Is A the zero of the alphabet or the one?

Versions for creative works have been traditionally one based. The first edition of a book is edition 1. The only good thing about zero is for indicating an alpha or beta version not considered to be released/published.
What about religious experiences?

I've always thought that if nearly all religions have such experiences, they must be similar enough that they bely their true bias in their hatred towards each other.

Either they believe those experiences come from God (or aliens) or they do not. But they always seem to find an "obvious" way to explain it away ONLY IF there is an us-or-them relationship. It's like "My experience was authentic, even though all those other ones are not."

In either case, it's hard to not notice the similarities if you are observing from the outside. Especially when people who purportedly have witnessed UFO's have typically witnessed several of them throughout their lives.
Afghanistan: waste of time
Sure, fine. But one would not arrive at using terms like that if they were not being exposed to and buying into the propaganda being put out there. The proof that they're affected by the propaganda is them using the jargon of it. Before that, no one was going around saying "God I hate it when I see conspiracy theories!" It wasn't something on anyone's radar.
>If it wasn't obvious from the get go that Tether was a scam, what more do you need.

Not a fan of Tether, but I can't understand what your argument is here.

In what way does the fact that a huge chunk of Tether was sold to a liquidity provider and an exchange point to a scam?
I did not get that impression. The defendant said he used google to find these things, google did not snitch on him. He was in turn discovered by sharing them on social media.
It is unreasonable speculation, insomuch as it begs the question _why_ - they're unrelated propositions. There's no legal framework where youre only allowed to encrypt data if you check if it's child porn first.

My biggest fear is the only reason I've seen this come up this week is the Apple community, that built me into a programmer from a waiter, has become susceptible to the same kind of irrational tribalism we see everywhere else - "surely this bad thing is happening because it's part of a secret plan to fix the other bad thing!"
Youtube -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXXZzwCeew4
That's not a bigger issue because the police simply had a warrant for the person who shared the documents. The first sentence of the article is:

> A man who viewed documents online for a controversial London property development and *shared them on social media* was raided by police after developers claimed there had been a break-in to their systems.