skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
where in gods name are you getting 'the state is playing a role in telling kids what they should and shouldn't use as a news source'

The bill, the classroom experience, the examples are all about tools and heuristics to evaluate ANY news source.

Strawman argument...
Did you go through the technical summary ? They explain it nicely

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Researchers usually don't reach to companies since the university owns the IP and they have a licensing office that does this function. Is it a tool for them?
How many mainstream news sources used snopes as a reliable source?
Disclaimer: Never did any sys programming

I think C is pretty friendly as long as you can get through the basics of arrays and pointers. It's friendly in the sense that there is not a lot of grammar to learn.

But each field of system programming requires a deep understanding of something other than the language itself so overall I'd say it's difficult to get in.
apartmenttherapy fails to cite the actual study they are working off of. I'm guessing it is this one: https://www.nielsen.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/04/N...

Their methodology states:

> ABOUT THE SURVEY METHODOLOGY
The findings in this survey are based on respondents with online access in 61 countries (unless otherwise noted). While an online survey methodology allows for tremendous scale and
global reach, it provides a perspective only on the habits of existing Internet users, not total populations. In developing markets where online penetration is still growing, respondents may be younger and more affluent than the general population of that country. In addition, survey responses are based on claimed behavior rather than actual metered data. Cultural differences in reporting sentiment are likely factors in the outlook across countries. The reported results do not attempt to control or correct for these differences; therefore, caution should be exercised when comparing across countries and regions, particularly across regional boundaries.
Where noted, the survey research is supplemented with purchasing behavior using Nielsen’s Retail Measurement Services data, which is adjusted for inflation.

In 2016 it looks like 46% of the population had access to the internet.

https://ourworldindata.org/internet

Assuming that people that don't have internet access don't have access to electric washing machines would give 0.69 * 0.46 = 0.31 have access to electric washing machines. 1 - 0.31 gives 69%, remarkably close to the figure given in the article.
Quasicrystalline Voxels
> I think it is clear that Apple will have no choice, if they for sure find 1 CSAM image they can't say "it is just 1 img so it is not a big collection..." they have to send it to whoever to handle it.

This is a misunderstanding of how it works. The threshold has to be met before a detection occurs. Unless the threshold is met Apple doesn’t get to know about any images.

As for independent auditing and transparent statistics, I fully agree.
If they can cover, and never do, they quickly stop getting hung out with. This is generally true, in my experience.

If they can’t cover and never do, that’s fine - you simply take the L and call it an “investment” in the experience of sharing time with someone you care about.
Your grandad sounds like a legend. I think this social norm is a good way for people to be more engaged with their community and probably helps in old age too if you have a stream of buddies to chat with, who enjoy your company.

Better than just ignoring everyone or being seen as nuts, as is the case in NA cities.
Do you not think society is improving? Over the past 20 years we had the greatest drop of poverty ever seen.

Everyday society is improving.
A few years ago at family meals, for grace I started thanking the industrial supply complex for bringing us all the wonderful food.

I was being more prescient than I could have imagined.
Is there a better link to the organisation, its goals, the use-case, and design objectives here?

There are numerous small/portable washing machines already available, whether electrically-driven or human-powered.

The crank and coupling look terribly inefficient and prone to breakage. A fixed handle would be more robust, a foot-treadle far more efficient.

I have ... doubts and questions.
I've begrudgingly started paying for economist and FT.

And after that discovered that the feature I use the most isn't even subscriber only - their podcasts.

Oh well
Greece Wildfires: The Worst Ecological Disaster in Decades
One example where both are fairly common is coffee equipment. Obviously you've got big automatic grinders & espresso machines in most cafes, but it's quite common for coffee enthusiasts to use a hand grinder and AeroPress or V60 at home or for travel.
> Perhaps I should be writing a letter to the CMA!

You should. These kind of situations are exactly what they'll need to show to move this forward.
The issue beyond direct costs is it’s concentrated solar thermal which stops working in cloudy weather or dirty reflectors. Which means you need some other way to generate heat our your randomly out both daytime solar and backup energy.

Net result, PV + batteries simply cost less for more reliable power unless you have backup fossil fuel for heat. If the goal was say 80% reduction of fossil fuels then concentrated solar is ok, it just doesn’t really work for a zero emissions grid because you need just as much storage somewhere else in the system.
We have that already and it's called taxation. What would change would be that it would include a wealth tax that goes to 100% after that threshold.

Oh, but don't worry. Greed is such an amazing motivator that it wouldn't take a decade before we accomplished meeting those basic needs.
Ah well... Bakeries are private companies. They are allowed to refuse service for any reason or no reason at all, including baking cakes for gay weddings. If you don't like it, you are free to start your own bakery. They are not obligated to let you use their cakes in weddings which are against their own beliefs.

I hope you see the hypocrisy.
The Swimmer: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1964/07/18/the-swimmer
100% agree they always have worked in my experience too, still have the pleasure of occasional use of POWER7/8. I always recommended POWER/AIX for reliable compute where budget and s/w compatibility allowed.
My dog has been stockpiling for years. She's not worried. I'm more concerned what the old folks will put on the feet of their walkers.
Not one line of it is speculation. This is taken from Apple’s public docs.
I had a half baked idea of the government seizing shares, and those become non-voting shares. Those shares are then rolled into a huge fund whose shares are distributed along with tax returns. It would probably amount to essentially free $SPY shares.

Didn't think through it much, aiming for a national product that elevates everyone in the country. Kinda like a Norway oil fund.
https://www.callapple.org/software/assembly-language-in-exce...
I haven't looked at the usage pattern/implementation but the visuals are much nicer to the eyes than ImGui[1].

1: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
Snopes provides references and reasoning. It can be wrong, but the references can be checked by anyone interested in a subject. If Snopes were relying instead on because I said so then this might make sense, but it isn't. Maybe previous experience with fakery may have contributed to inspiration for a fact checking service?
Is there a showcase of live apps that are built on Judo?
I'm reminded of that story of how airline ticketing systems assumed names ending with the suffix "*MR" had an honorific appended and so cleverly stripped it.

Cue the Arabic name "Amr"

The thing is with this types of systems that are deeply ingrained in our lives, we create the possibility to make people's live profoundly miserable because of an "edge case"

And for that individual who is many times removed from the reason why their life is being wrecked by software it can be next to impossible to even feed back that their life is a misery, let alone get recourse.
I don't think that's the case for washing machines, but it is the case for some inventions. Like the typewriter, which allows you to write four-five times faster than when using a pen, and communications networks that are however many million times faster than carrier pigeons and pony expresses and what have you... So we should be spending less time writing and sending letters, and more time frolicking in the sun, right?
Taxes usually only apply to income, not assets.
I flat out started dropping classes when I showed up and lecture was regurgitating the assigned reading.

I understand some students are lazy. But that's what an F is for. Even in undergrad, I valued my time and tuition dollars more than that.

As my father told a student who complained about a D in his course: "No, I didn't give you a D. You earned a D. I would have given you an F."

(Went to GT and had family who taught undergrad and grad, so might have different perspective on expectations)
I‘m still baffled by this whole issue.

Snooping around on users devices, goes against anything regarding privacy they seemed to stand for. It makes me sick to think this might even be legal. It is also sad they completely ignore any valid concerns about this intrusion.

Whats the next step if we as a society accept this behavior?
Homepod listening in, until hashes of conversation snippets match some prehashed terms and sounds potentially related to child abuse and then alerting the authorities?
If I understand it, it's more or less the same in Sweden and in that case the result is that becomes a basic part of adult life for many people and shows up in public discourse, in the papers, on TV, online*, etc..

* with some minor exceptions like literal fascists who spam things with their bots or puppets.
This is a common response but who's problem are you solving? How many people are affected by this? And it seems modern state banks aren't as scared as inflation at the macro level, why do we need to be concerned?
Huh, so the detection of a MACHO candidate would be a WIMP?

That is some delicious astrophysics smorgasborg
Facebook has already blatantly lied in the past.

Like when they said it was impossible to cross data from Facebook and WhatsApp (both services ask for your phone number!), and when they later promised never to cross data between the two.
>1.) when you stop exercising, it does a lot for weight.

Yes, if you also don't downsize your meals at the same time. Which a lot of people don't.

>2.) If you start exercising, it does nothing for weight loss.

Yes, if you increase your food intake because you feel more hungry, which a lot of people do. If you keep eating the same -- then it of course has a noticeable effect.

For exercise to matter in your weight loss, you have to always keep in mind your food intake. It is still very beneficial and should not be ignored!
This solution is targeted towards a very specific situation, concentrated communities for people fleeing disasters and war. Refugee camps happen unexpectedly, there is practically no infrastructure and there is a race against time to keep people fed, safe and healthy.

In that specific environment, yes, a lightweight composite box that is easy to use and ship, requires little water and no infrastructure and accelerates manual washing by a factor of 5-10 is a practical solution.

But as a general solution for the "developing world", sorry, no, dumbed down versions of western household items that don't require electricity aren't the solution.

The developing world is poor precisely because it lacks investments, such as in the infrastructure that makes appliances work, the electric, clean water, sewer, gas, road networks. A single KWh of energy is the equivalent of cranking by hand for many hours, people in developed counties can get it by flipping a switch and paying 15 cents. That's where the wealth lays, in investment that drastically enhances productivity.
One problem is, the CSAM database he talks about is from the US and not managed by Apple. What if another country requires to use a different database and requires to put in other in this country "legally compromising" images? Who audits this? Apple in the respective country? Who will even get notified about this?
Apple have described the safeguards. If you want to claim they are lying, by all means do so.
It's definitely bad, but my view on this is to tackle also the problem at the source: cars. gas or even electric cars which have a pollution and carbon impact about the same magnitude. We must de-motorize the world, 80% of people in developed countries live in cities yet 95% household have cars, that's way too much. We must change people lifestyles on a global scale. When I see people stay in their parked cars with their engine and radiators maxed out for AC, when I'm riding among this perpetual dense traffic of cars , when I still hear them the night, I get the same reaction as this fisherman.
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)003...

>Nowhere in the paper I read that ADE was detected in the vaccined. Vaccine-induced ADE is only evocated as a possibility.

It's literally in the "highlights" of the paper at the top.

"Infection-enhancing antibodies have been detected in symptomatic Covid-19"

From the abstract:

"As the NTD is also targeted by neutralizing antibodies, our data suggest that the balance between neutralizing and facilitating antibodies in vaccinated individuals is in favor of neutralization for the original Wuhan/D614G strain. However, in the case of the Delta variant, neutralizing antibodies have a decreased affinity for the spike protein, whereas facilitating antibodies display a strikingly increased affinity. Thus, ADE may be a concern for people receiving vaccines based on the original Wuhan strain spike sequence (either mRNA or viral vectors)."
Doing load balancing at the client level if you can for example is not something that's going to significantly increase power usage but it has the opportunity to reduce infrastructure cost at the expense of complexity. That's the sort of compromise I'm taking about.
You can just omit the references and reasoning that go against your narrative.
Can we avoid linking to pre published studies? People base their opinions on articles like these before the process has a chance to make corrections
Except evidence says the opposite. I would start here. The right is driving polarization.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/solutions-to-political-...
So a wealth cap would also help to fix the insane inflation of house prices? Is there a downside?
Because the virus is dangerous. If you have the choice of getting immunity though a vaccine or by catching the virus, you should pick the vaccine. The whole point of immunity is not to get infected/sick in the first place. Getting infected so that you can become immune makes no sense at all.
um i'm pretty sure that's true for all biorxiv papers
Since I don't have any insight into their algorithm I'm going to use a naive hypothetical example: Say they did have a system to downrank negative/harmful/spammy content and it works by applying some kind of embedding model to posts and comparing their cosine similarity to a dictionary of known bad content. You have the code, but neither the trained model for doing embeddings nor the set of "bad" vectors. Can you answer the question: Is it politically rigged?

That's why I tend to be in agreement with the idea of treating it as a black box and observing what biases it exhibits.
It's unfortunate, yet not surprising, that Facebook's legal team would want to threaten and sue. Of course, Facebook's own behavior is most likely 1000x worse for users than the research that they are trying to prevent. As a consumer, if this bothers you, express your preference by uninstalling Instagram and whatever other product that belongs to Facebook.
However, quite paradoxically, the same kind of people are happy with living along 'communist' streets, instead of insisting on them becoming privately owned toll roads. I guess, there's still hope.

Edit: Meaning, as long as we are social animals, information is infrastructure. And there seems to be still a place for public infrastructure that is not contested.
You say that as if your own position is beyond question, but what makes it true? What is your position?

You may find my position is far from yours and what you've normalized, but if you do understand these issues, you know that that's not a signal about accuracy; it's often a signal about biases when we don't have room for considering other POVs.
They got a liability waiver for the vaccines, no need to be concerned
Right now, in America, you have more people suffering from poverty than you have people with wealth. You also have taxation which is regressive, not progressive -- which was what brought on the French Revolution.

We can have empathy now, or we can be surprised later.
> Americans could stop all exercise across the board, change their diets, and lose massive amounts of weight trivially, just by cutting out a few common items that nearly all obese Americans over-consume

To be fair, the yanks don't even need to change their diets to loose weight .... they just need to eradicate those stupid portion sizes.

A steak doesn't mean half the cow on your plate, a sandwich doesn't mean putting everything you can find in the shop (including the kitchen sink, if you could !) in between two slices of bread ... etc..etc..etc

Its simply grotesque.
>trust in establishment institutions are at record lows

Yes, because one political party in particular has spent 40+ years working very hard to destroy trust in public institutions (you only mentioned private companies, but it's true in general for both). A media literate populace threatens that work. Their motivation for destroying trust isn't to replace it, but to make people think there is no truth, there is no way to determine right from wrong. There absolutely are ways to do these things, it just threatens their views and their power.

>But if you can accept that this is how many earnestly see the world, you don't have to psychoanalyze the comments here and come to a derogatory view of those writing them.

This is why I want media and information literacy to be more widespread, so the general public can understand what is happening and how things have changed since the days of Walter Kronkite. It's why I want education in all subjects to be more widespread and why people arguing against this do not.
Snopes is truly disappointing and slanted. It’s early days it was a good reference tool… sadly in our divided times Snopes has clearly a political slant.
That’s not what I said, maybe ready my comment again.

OP: I have a problem with open source projects where the marketing and version number don’t match. If it looks like a prod, and smells like a prod, it’s a freaking prod. You owe us a 1.0.

Reply: Okay, but maybe don’t go gobble up any project out there that has a nice landing page and docs and get fooled into thinking it’s a prod. The devs are probably using semver to try and communicate with you. If the project smells like a prod to you but is only version 0.8 and that makes you antsy, then don’t be part of your own problem. Don’t use it in prod. Simple.

Also plenty of software is stable enough to be used as 0.8 even in prod even if it’s not feature complete and the maintainers don’t consider it 1.0.

If you want your 0.8 to magically become a 1.0, have you considered sponsoring the project so that some devs can work full time on it? Hmm.
Income taxes are the ones that apply to income. Other taxes apply to other things, e.g. property taxes apply to property and sales taxes apply to sales.
The problem is the non-mainstream is worse. It's like the alt-med argument - sure, point at "big pharma" and tell us how corrupt they are. That doesn't mean homeopathy works.
It reminds me of Mark Fisher's line that the problem with capitalism is it leaves no room to imagine alternatives.
So wealth tax then! It’s really just a question of finding metrics and then sending people bills to force them to liquidate or whatever
I understand this article is specifically referring to data centers, but big tech, depending on how one defines big tech, is certainly coming to some small towns. Bozeman, Montana is a great example. Snowflake has recently relocated to town, Aurora has a software and hardware dev office, many other large and small tech firms are located there. It's quickly growing with a large cadre of tech firms specializing in everything from computer vision to anti-drone technologies currently in use by the US Marines. There's a reason its one of, if not the fastest growing small/micro town in the country. -> access to engineers out of MSU, and the beauty of the area attracts folks from all over the country.
Sure.

I would love to have a way to quantify how much of the distrust is knowingly fueled by "chaotic" actors (snake-oil salesmen, foreign powers, cynical policitians, etc..) vs how much is "baked into" the history, political and mediatic structure and, as the original content explains... in our brains.

History and brains being unfixable, I hope there is something we can improve in the structures.
I have no love for these "fact checkers" which are nothing but mercenaries of the left but how does this revelation diminish the trust people should put on Snopes?
As many others have noted, I’m talking about residential property only. Should have been clearer.

Money Laundering with commercial property is no doubt happening as well—no quick and easy solutions there—but faceless LLCs driving the real estate boom in single family homes is easily correctable.
Don’t know how anyone (with a conscience) could work for FB.
Or maybe you have too much trust in those sources? I don't find Greenwald credible, for example.
For whom? In the US, we just had four years of people saying their lives were not improving and they had been left behind.

So they voted for an administration that would keep things that way. The world is weird.
Let's say I start a Saas company and it does really well. Somebody offers to invest at a valuation of 25$ million bucks. By most standards of evaluation net worth- I'm worth $25 million bucks now.

who seizes ownership of my company?

What's to stop me from offering you $10 bucks for .0001% of your company and making you illegally rich?

Taxes on net worth won't work because net worth is abstract
Okay, so then people will start to invest in gold. A cap on raw materials? Let’s keep a herd of cattle or two. And ad nauseam.

As someone from a post-communist country: when you put a limit on capital, another form of accumulating one will be created. Some people will be more able and motivated to get the new form of the value, others will be less able or simply not interested in it, some will inherit it over time. And we will end almost exactly where we had begun.

Limiting ways to accumulate wealth will not get rid of the desire to do so. Such a law will only force it to change the way it is manifesting.
I’m still struggling to understand why they’d want to block that.

Edit: on re-reading I realize it’s so that they don’t get caught for this plagiarism since their modus operandi was plagiarize first rewrite slowly.
>last year it was "the Trump vaccine can't be safe", if you recall

I'm pretty sure nobody said that. The only people who think Trump was involved in vaccine development are Trump himself and his supporters.
This raises a really interesting question. It’s quite possible that an algorithm tuned to predict which post most users will engage with learns to boost posts of people in bikinis without being explicitly programmed to do so.

So in this case who exactly is to blame ?