skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not magical. They're just smart use of cryptography.

Ashton Kutcher's foundation Thorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization) does a lot of work in this space. They have hashed content databases, they have suspected and watchlisted IP addresses, etc...

I don't know why I'm being downvoted. This is an active area of cryptography research, and I've applied these types of content checks in real life. You can maintain good privacy and still help combat child pornography.

Sometimes HN takes digital cynicism a step too far.
> I guess it depends on where you are

Yes, in my case I was imagining a wide river close to a many millions people city, and people from the slums (no AC) go there to cool down, and more and more people arrive all the time to the river, pushing those already there outwards, deeper water, people cannot swim

At rock concerts 10 000 people can create dangerous pressure, I wonder if a deadly heat wave and the chance to cool down at a specific place can do that too

Or maybe people would spread out along the water, but at the same time, it might be hard for an individual person with occluded vision to know what makes sense to do

Sometimes people rush out from a building in panic, everyone gets stuck in the door opening
Normally I'd agree with you, but the rest of the response is such a whiff I imagine it'd be hard to be insulted by it.
That is really far off from the reality of determining viral origins.

Both SARS and MERS were recent coronavirus outbreaks that have had their origins rigorously pinpointed. Did this happen because governments cooperated and journalists provided important information? Not even close. Governments interfered with research into SARS and MERS origins for political reasons and journalists never really contributed anything of significance. The hard work was done by scientists doing sampling and sequencing of viruses and their results are extremely robust.

The next most recent pandemic is HIV/AIDS. When AIDS first hit everyone absolutely knew for certain that it was caused and spread by rampant gay sex in coastal cities. Then when research pointed to the Caribbean everyone knew that decadent travelers were to blame. It was only after a great deal of scientific work, again focused on sampling and sequencing, that we came to know HIV came from interactions with wild animals in Africa and didn't explode until much, much later. The one thing that can be said for certain about all of the early popular hypotheses is that they were all both completely wrong and thoroughly unhelpful.

The biggest problem with the lab leak theory is that it ignores all of the important information we have learned from past outbreaks and origins investigations and instead asserts that things are different this time and everything is about making narratives that have a coherent feel like a novel or dramatic film. An alternative conclusion that is far more simple is that finding the origins of SARS-CoV2 is going to be similar to the experiences we had with HIV and SARS and MERS. The rest is politics and click bait journalism.
Who are you arguing with? Because I'm pretty sure climate change cannot hear your complaints or arguments. It's just going to do what it does, destroying your world and that of your children, while you argue about... commonwealth, I don't know.
It was like 20 years ago and I just tried to find the email but wasn’t able to. I think it was Barbara, but honestly don’t remember.
Looks like a great project template for making a robust keylogger. Neat.
> The kind of evidence provided by the GOP? Yes that kind.

Do you assume I somehow care? This and then Obama's 8 years of drone bombing of weddings in Pakistan, hospitals in Afghanistan, prolongation & expansion of mass surveillance all over the world just shows how "trustworthy" your government is (or in fact, any monopoly of violence).

> The GOP lies a lot, but usually for their own benefit.

For whose benefit is DNC lying?
Yeah that was what made me switch to DDG from GSearch as well in late 2018.

I use the terminal theme in DDG, and it's become the canonical SERP in my mind. When I do !g every now and then, it feels like GSearch has become AltaVista with a dash of MySpace.
Why is it composing e.g. ´ + e into é when that's the default behavior without composing? Is it just to make the compose key a no-op in all such scenarios?
Salary comparisons:

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/347691-matt-lauer-and-and...

https://www.thestreet.com/lifestyle/highest-paid-news-anchor...

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/don-lemon-chris-cuo...

Also not exactly salary but the operating budgets of these corporations is massive.

https://archive.is/aDOav

> “The Atlantic needs to make $50 million in annual subscription revenue in order to break even, according to Thompson. Hitting that target has become more complicated since Trump left the White House and the pandemic let up. New subscribers are coming in at about a quarter of the rate they did last year (10,000 a month, on average), and the magazine faces challenges keeping some of its existing audience, which may have less of a need for The Atlantic’s journalism in a post-Trump, post-Covid world. Without Trump or the pandemic, the path to $50 million is significantly harder. Since February, the magazine has brought in about 10,000 subscribers a month — roughly analogous to its growth rate before the pandemic. Meanwhile, its retention rate for existing subscribers is about 75 to 80 percent, Thompson said. The net result, according to Thompson’s presentation, is not growth. It’s a static or slightly declining subscriber base.”
You can also view these as tools. Like, these are the rules of thumb that the brain lazily relies on. So if you’re pitching something, maybe try slipping a couple of these biases in there... (just don't make it too obvious!)
There is also a major group that would be severely disappointed if technology did magically save us (say if 10 years to fusion was actually this decade), because it would deprave them of the possibility to solve other societal problems or push through reforms using climate change as a lever.
It's part of the process that uploads the photos to iCloud. If you think through the likely implementation of such a thing, it would be more than a simple config change to change this.

> end users have no way to confirm whether this claim is actually true

This is true of all proprietary software.
The difference is that an asteroid is an existential threat to humanity while climate change is just short of that. The rich and powerful are always going to be protected from experiencing the worst aspects of climate change.

They won't be the ones working outside when the air quality is dangerous from wildfires. They aren't going to be the ones who can't sleep because it is 90 degrees in their home. They won't be stuck in the path of a hurricane without anywhere to evacuate to. They won't be the ones who are left homeless and penniless due to a flood. They won't be the ones who can no longer afford the high prices of food or water. They won't be the ones fighting in wars over dwindling resources. Short of those future resource wars going nuclear, they don't really have to fear climate change the same way the rest of us do.

And if their primary fear of climate change is decreased wealth, it isn't a surprise why that wouldn't be enough for them to sacrifice their current wealth.
And expand that "feature" in the future.

>They are scanning photos chosen for upload

That's pretty much scanning on the device.
This right here is a huge challenge. My smartphone is a gigantic source of my daily stress -- it transmits the awful news, the demands of my friends and family, a ton of garbage advertising, all my bills, AND all my work communications!

Someone please make a standalone device for all the mental health apps, so I can take it to the park with me and detox :)
I’m sorry, but what kind of hole (or bubble, to use a more popular term) have you been living in the last decade? There are a studies like the one you are requesting coming out regularly. Unfortunately, they can’t tell you exactly how many dollars different policies will cost, but that is due to the nature of the subject, not because of any faults of the studies.

But the conclusions are unanimous: it’s going to cost much more to do something today than it would have cost yesterday, and it’s going to be much more expensive tomorrow. The poor are the ones that will be hardest hit, not because they can’t afford AC, but because its their food that won’t grow when there’s no rain or too much rain, and they can’t move.

Science is currently speaking loud and clear: do much more than is currently planned, or we are facing centuries of wildfires, floods, storms, food and water shortages and hundreds of millions of refugees trying to find new futures.

And this is not alarmist. This is what climate scientists, like Cassandras, have been shouting about for decades.

I’ve met a few like you, who think they represent the voice of balance and reason. But you are the ones that still are haggling over the price of buckets while the fire breaks through the roof of the orphanage.
Speaking of bearings, I'd introduce newbies to the Context Diagram:

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

OK, that bubble in the middle is your program. How does it fit into the world?

While drawing the context diagram, we should keep in mind two questions (at least):

- is the bubble at the center of it necessary at all? Can we remove it, such the other pieces around it function just fine without it? Is it just a "middleman" that can be "cut out"?

- if the bubble is necessary, does it have to be a computer program, or can it exist just fine as some non-computerized process? Can some of it be computerized, and some of it not?

- if the computer program is necessary, does it have one that we make, or can we find an existing one?

- if the program has to be one we make, or can we modify or extend another program we already made?
I feel like that's a pretty weak distinction given Apple's push to have you upload everything to iCloud.
you'd think that asking capitalists to user more energy-efficient processes would be an easy sell because of cost.

apparently thats just completely backwards
Lab leak and lab engineered are not the same thing.

The SARS1 virus escaped from a lab many years after the original outbreak (via accidentally being put in a fridge reserved for inactive virus and being examined under electron microscope, infecting employee), and it wasn't engineered at all. It was 100% natural origin.

I have ZERO doubt in my mind that natural viruses have leaked from US labs in the past, and were covered up. Can't prove it of course. Superpowers don't admit to these kinds of things.

Belief that this wasn't leaked from a lab requires a dismissal of a huge chain of improbable coincidences, and it's much easier to believe when you are part of a community of scientists who will undoubtedly have funding up-ended when people figure out they were at fault. Not unlike what happened to the field of nuclear energy after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. The international virology community knows this.
This may also be relevant to those wishing to switch. In the part of the FAQ concerning using your own account to login.

>However, you may want to be careful as Google retains full rights to block any account under their Google Play Terms of Service §4 (opens new window), because using Aurora Store clearly violates their terms of services. Being banned means that the very Google account you used to sign in with will be blocked forever. It might be worth using a dummy account for that reason.

I don't know how often using aurora store has actually resulted in a ban though.

Here's the google play ToS:

https://play.google.com/intl/en-us_us/about/play-terms/index...
Slightly off topic.

Chet Haase and Romain Guy both were treasures in Java community and now in Android community.

Thanks Romain Guy and Chet Haase for everything you guys do.
I think apple regrets that the media coverage and the outcry was tremendous.

Off course they have been victim to general scepticism towards big tech companies which has gained traction recently.
One might ask, why did they not broadcast clearer messages and why was the "confusion" clarified for so long.
Wow, thanks, I have tried hacking together something that would work like this for playing text posts while I'm driving or working out. Awesome! :)
I think the web felt a lot larger and more reachable in the Lycos and AltaVista days, I'd be happy to go back there over the nightmare we have now.
That "exact fingerprint" is, in my opinion, intentionally confusing.

This DaringFireball[0] article states the goal of the system is to "generate the same fingerprint identifier if the same image is cropped, resized, or even changed from color to grayscale."

So while the fingerprint may be "exact", it's still capable of detecting images which have been altered in some way

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initia...
Why is "Man makes toy bears" superior? It doesn't sound any more objective.
Yeah I am just not buying this. I think Apple regrets that they are not able to just brush this past the public without blowback. My confidence that they really care about privacy is shook.
There's pockets of everything.
I think is this a good document and it also brings to the table the threshold images count (around 30) and the alternate neural hash they will keep private (to guard against adverserial images trying to create a false positive on-device).

FWIW, I actually did an amateur threat model analysis in a comment in separate HN thread. I always thought this was called for because the initial document set was just the mathematics, not the people/process/implementation/policy risks and threat model that was the source of widespread concerns.
I just moved to a house in Florida that has mango trees. At least 2 varieties in fact. The 2 taste and feel so entirely different they could almost be different fruit.

Point being I'm not sure there is a way to cast a general attitude for mangos, let alone from a certain region. Its almost certainly the specific cultivars rather than the region that you don't care for.
The main building was known as IL02, this is where I had my first job interview (the Blue Conference Room!) and afterwards joined Motorola Labs in 2004. The tall building shown was called the Sector Tower, a lot of money was spent renovating it. My colleagues and I would walk up the 6 floors and down after lunch for exercise. Mot Labs had 1000+ people around the world when I joined, was down to ~30 in 2010. How the times change.
Eh, Apple maybe read my mind with upcoming Focus mode:

"you set an activity that you're doing, such as working, exercising, reading, or spending time with family, and block out the notifications that are unrelated to those tasks"

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-focus-mode/
Inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs
That statement is actually so wrong and shows so little understanding of the topic that I dismissed the entire article. Even a cheap garbage-grade 5V 1A charger from AliExpress won't damage your phone, it just won't charge it well.
I think it's most likely this was done by someone lazy or not paying attention.
{chuckles} to coin an internet meme - I see what you did there
> [The billionaires] job is creating companies, jobs, products and services not ending poverty

They're being asked to pay their fair share of taxes and instead are using their wealth to find loopholes so that they pay nothing. The US has regressive taxation.

> Too many Marxists on the left...

I'm not sure that there really are any Marxists on the left and that's certainly not what's holding back addressing poverty. Neither of the groups you mentioned have any real political power.

No, the political center has the power, and it's that center which has moved right to be more concerned with protecting wealth than helping the poorest, at least in America. As you said, Richard Nixon considered UBI and Milton Friedmann was quite clear about the need for a negative income tax. That was the right; now that's the radical left. See the problem?

I honestly didn't mean to start a fire with my first statement above. I'm saying that the wealth inequality gap is disastrously large and growing. The wealthiest, much like before the French Revolution, both won't pay taxes and frankly don't care how much poverty exists. And that's unacceptable. We should be talking about that and nothing else.
> I don't see how hearsay evidence could ever be debunked.

Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Hearsay doesn't reach the necessary standard to be considered evidence in the first place in sensible forums, including most courts.
Do you have a source on the iMessage thing? I don’t remember seeing anything about iMessage but maybe I failed to adequately read the press release.
The Saudi Government's involvement in 9/11 was public knowledge shortly after it happened. I read about it around 2002. It just didn't get media coverage.
Are online subscriptions a bad thing? Paid newspapers support traditional journalism, paid newsletters create opportunities for independent writers, and there will still be non-paywalled content. Furthermore, subscriptions were standard in pre-internet days and news consumption has been pretty balkanized even without paywalls.
Ah yes, the studied non-apology apology.

Just as you cannot be partly pregnant, you cannot be partly trustworthy on privacy and security. Apple blew all their credibility in one stupid decision to appease the unappeasable authoritarians.
Citation: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219

You’re right, that line is technically correct but very misleading. There appears to only be a very slight racial bias among the “definitely not” crowd.

As opposed, for example, to the party affiliation skew which looks quite pronounced.
That analogy doesn't really apply imo.. Global murder totals don't impact me like murders in America do. Similarly, climate change effects all parties, no matter their contribution. A better analogy, imo, would be something like a leaking ship, where the portion we're responsible for has a pinhole that we're debating on if/how to patch up, while other parties have gaping holes gushing in water constantly with no clear intent to fix the hole, as we all begin our descent.

And in this case, I don't think buying a Tesla or some vegan burgers is going to make a substantial difference. As long as there's economic incentive to negatively contribute climate change, it will happen.
Windows uses what they call "alt codes," where you hold down the alt key and type a numerical code on your numeric keypad. You can find them with a search: here's one site:

https://sites.psu.edu/symbolcodes/windows/codealt/

Note that you can't just do an accent and apply it to any character (like compose). You have to put in the code for the accented character.
I think you entirely missed my points followed by a couple of insults.
I do not think that your source supports your claim, although I might have missed something. To the contrary, it states:

> Although the physical labor of laundry was lessened somewhat by the machines, the actual time housewives allocated to their family laundry increased.

(This is claimed to be the result of housewives being responsible for the entirety of laundry, instead of employing help, however.)
You can try installing it using

pip install 'u8darts[torch]'

This will give you everything besides Prophet and pmdarima.
It reminds me of 2002 and the "patriot act" it had the perfect name at the perfect time so that you could just choose to be a "patriot" or a "pro terrorist"...nothing in between was acceptable in public.
The only facts they could debunk would be the truly absurd (e.g. that this smoothie will extend your life by a decade!)

Or instances where insufficient evidence is used to draw an absolute conclusion.

I've seen them actually commit the latter where they fact check a politician's prediction based on an expert projection as if the expert is infallible.
There was no confusion at all.

There is no way Apple released their initial PR piece without thinking it through and deliberately fusing all those new features together as one big unassailable initiative. It was typical my way or the highway.

Which also make it funny now that they attempt to distinguish between them and run into same hole that they dug for other people.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
The possibility of OS vendors forcing users to only install software from their walled gardens is the reason Valve started to support Linux, created their own Linux distro (Steam OS, now based on Arch Linux) and ultimately why Steam Deck was built.

IIRC the main trigger was Windows 8 that back then had a strong push to only use Windows Store to install software.

Valve could not conceivably continue doing business if OS vendors took a cut of all purchases via their walled garden store, not to mention having the OS vendor limit what games they can distribute and how.
The confusion was about the pushback. They expected a 2 foot wave, and they are getting a tsunami.

We drank the Apple Privacy Kool-aid, and now we are holding them to it.

This is totally a battle worth fighting!
Definitely recommended, and available on nearly every platform.
There was public information about the UVA catheter at the time Trump made his comments.

>The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Therapy, were based on five days of 20-minute treatments with ultraviolet A (UVA) light using a catheter inserted into the patients' tracheas. Patients were followed for 30 days. The findings were based on four patients; the fifth patient had no detectable levels of SARS-CoV-2 at the study outset.

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/reduced-viral-loads-se...

>The problem with trust and credibility is that once it’s lost, it’s very hard to gain back.

Are you talking about corporate media? They seem to break trust constantly, and a large % of the population continues to trust them.
In many of them it's still "bug". Just like computer is still computer or some version thereof. A lot of newer and technical words are copied or transcribed from English instead of being translated.
Animation of “Mechazilla” catching Booster is “pretty close”
Total aside but I never knew about the `kbd` HTML tag used for the key sequence renderings in the readme.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/kb...
The Department of Truth would most certainly be worse.
But, even critical thinking ability relies on good inputs. There must be some baseline of facts to work with.

I do agree however that fact-checking is extremely challenging, but for different reasons. That is, in a society that is being programmed to choose the reality/truth they prefer, you'll end up with cult-like belief systems that no amount of fact-checking will break through.