skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More astounding was the privacy issue they raised with it, which I've not seen raised by anyone else.

Let's review how this feature works. It is only on if parent's explicitly enable it for their child's phone when they set up the child's phone for parental controls.

If it is on, images sent to the child's phone are scanned using a ML system to recognize sex images. When such an image is found, the child is given a screen that warns that the image contains content that may be harmful to the child, and may be an image of someone who did not consent to having it sent.

The child is asked if they want to reject the image or view it.

If the child elects to view it and is 13-17 they are shown a blurred version of the image and that is the end of it.

If the child elects to view it and is under 13, they get another screen that says that if they view it their parents will be notified because the parents want to be able to check to make sure the child is safe. They are again asked if they want to reject it or view it.

If they reject it, that's the end of it. If they view it they get a blurred version and the parents are notified.

The privacy issue the EFF has with this? If I send your 12 or under child a dick pic and they elect to view it knowing that their parents will be notified and see a copy of the image, my privacy might be violated because I did not consent to the child's parents being told I'm sending their child dick pics or to the parents seeing my dick pic.

I wonder what the EFF's opinion would be if I sent a dick pic to a 12 year old whose device does not have parental controls, but the kid decided to show it to the parents. Has the child violated my privacy? If we are in a state that has a civil law against nonconsensual image sharing would the EFF help me sue the child?
From the article:
We also found that bug-fixing commits by authors tended to be larger in size and scope, and address multiple issues, whereas bug-fixing commits by other developers tended to be smaller and more focused on the bug itself.
>This is effectively a virus scanner. Files are hashed (in a fancy way), compared against known hashes, and matches are reported

yeah with the small difference that the virus scanner reports to you, whereas this scanner reports to Apple or authorities.

The virus scanner's purpose is to alert you of viruses on your machine, the purpose of apple's scanner is to engage in blanket surveillance and treat ordinary users like potential consumers of CSAM by default.

Nothing about this is privacy preserving. Privacy would be preserved if Apple refrains from touching any of the information that belong to me and doesn't treat their customers like potential criminals. Imagine you rent parking space for your car and at random intervals, with no reason at all, nothing suspicious has ever happened, the owner comes up, opens your trunk, and rummages through it to check for child porn. That's what Apple is doing.

Since when has renting storage space ever entitled anyone to check what the customer puts in the storage? Do you expect the bank clerk to crawl through your personal safe deposit box as well to prevent crime?
I've literally never heard of a slave password.
Yeah...I'd say so. They're a bunch of people with lots of money, trying to make more money, that's reality.

All this wishy, washy feelings bullshit the world is focused on doesn't really matter when it comes to making money when it involves people with lots of money. That shit doesn't actually matter to the people in power. That's just for the peasants to distract themselves with so.they spend more money making the people with money more money.

All that matters to any VC providing seed funding is, 'will I make money?' That's it. That's the only thing that matters. Who you are, your story, your bullshit...Nah...that's just marketing you use to make those rich fucks invest in you in the hopes that you all make money.

That's the truth of YC or any other person offering money to your company in exchange for future profits.

Who you are only matters as far as 'will who you are make profit?'

If it won't well, you're shit outta luck buds.
The reasons you've cited ought to be reasons for an employer to require office attendance. If employees are less efficient when working from home, then they shouldn't be offered full-time wfh.

As I understand it, the rationale behind offering pay-cuts to full time wfh employees is that the pay cut is relative to the employee's lower cost of living. The employer sees an opportunity to avoid including the cost-of-living salary-uplift that is required to attract people to San Francisco etc.
This would be relevant to a discussion about using AI to make decisions with that have ethical implications. But this thread is not about the ethical consequences of automated decision making, it's about property rights.

If you produced a copyrighted piece of work, and I saw it with my eyeballs, and subsequently went on to produce my own work having been influenced by your work on some level, why should that be any different than using a computer to perform some portion of that process? Or perhaps more specifically, what copyright claim would you expect to have on my future thoughts?

The particular situation here is somewhat novel (with AI content generation being involved), but the fundamental legal question being asked isn't new at all. Derivative work is a very well established component of our legal copyright framework. If I paint a portrait, I don't have to produce an exhaustive list of all paintings I've ever seen to ensure that the copyright holders of all other paintings have the opportunity to properly consider whether I've infringed their copyright. I don't have to do that when I write a line of code either. So why would it be any different if a computer algorithm is responsible for some portion of the content generation?
>You can teach a group of socially awkward and introvert people an entire 4 years course of how to be a charismatic socialite and most of them still won't become one.

That’s why I’m not missing out on the A-team bullshit by working remotely, I wasn’t the type to land it when I was in the office. I ate lunch at my desk and got the fuck out when I was done for the day. I’m not wired for all of that.
I don’t disagree at all! But let’s just say I’m waiting out a severance contract before I talk in more specifics about mine because damn.
It's hard to believe this nonsense continues...you can't fight the inevitable with taxes.
I'm just an immigrant here.

I don't think it's very likely you'd get sued, but I wouldn't want to risk it against well funded adversaries with expensive lawyers.
the usage of master in "Master Password" is an adjective; seems like pretty a weak connection to the noun "Master" in the context of slavery
I don't think monero has anything close to the liquidity to handle all crypto drug buying.
Not super reliable, sadly
I look back at my youth and I wonder about the drawbacks of WFH: I managed to talk exclusively via textual media (IRC, forums) and developed deep lifelong friendships, carried out group projects successfully, and gained an education more robust than the glorified introductions service many people seem to aim for. I've known some of the people I met for twenty years now, been best man at one's wedding, but others I've never met in person.

With that in mind, I wonder why people can't succeed in the same way while WFH, and I conclude it is other people which wreck it.

I'm prepping a side project for launch at the moment, and if I ever hire, it will be for a company whose internal communications are all text based. I strongly suspect this will prevent me from ever relying on old world extroverts whose MO amounts to nepotism.
I don't understand why it is NOT the norm already and we still need to have a global crisis like a pandemic to "force" this.
I like Mylio[0] - it's local only but syncs p2p style across local network. Or obviously you can sync folders with Whatever Online Service you choose, Mega or whatever.

https://mylio.com
> In my impression, they are removing useful features and adding unnecessary ones.

Also they took away the extra storage I had gotten from various deals.

Saved them 3.8 GB or something, lost them an unpaid sales representative and got them a few posts like this on the internet.
Do you not have to be a resident of the state to be a voter?
If performance, Especially concurrency matters then we should include Go based libraries in the discussion as well.

Colly[1] is a all batteries included scrapping library, But could be bit intimidating for someone new to HTML scrapping.

rod [2] is a browser automation library based on DevTools Protocol which adheres to Go'ish way of doing things and so it's very intuitive but comes with overhead of running chromium browser even if its headless.

[1] https://github.com/gocolly/colly

[2] https://github.com/go-rod/rod
They blocked very little and can only do very little. He seems to know enough that I don’t believe he’s scared of them finding his identity

His own explanation is the one I find the most truth in.
https://sites.google.com/view/hackersconfession/home/hacker-...
Right, that means there must be an archive.is link for it and of course there is one: https://archive.is/qK9Mk
sure. I'm at mediratta at gmail.
I assume this means you’re working remote and it benefits you? If so, that’s awesome and it should be accommodated!

Edit: I take that (assume) back and wonder if there’s other social benefits you’ve gotten from isolating regardless of work conditions. I also support that if so!
Ok sure.
No nerdy guy pushes apple for security and privacy. It is all closed source with data leaking by default - partially not possible to turn off.

They rather push devices like librem 5, Pine phone, Fairphone with /e/os, but not Apple...
They do acknowledge multi lingual countries like India.
Amen. Company cultures that allow for good online text based chat are great, but what the GP described is basically poison to them.
The real promise is that the Chinese will continue to accelerate without having to do the work.
mypy accepts much broader types then the concept I was proposing.
Lets take this example:

def foo(bar: Optional[float]) -> Optional[float]:
return bar

def test_foo():
assert foo(5) == 5

It has 100% code coverage and mypy will accept it.

What I proposed will complain in this case, that you never tested `foo` with `None` or `float` as input parameters and that it never has seen `foo` returning `None` or `float`.

So even with 100% code coverage and mypy not complaining 'type coverage' could give you some hints that
a) your tests are not extensive enough
or
b) your annotated types are too broad
> But I do believe that those "nerdy guys" did a lot to push the Apple brand

We sure did. We're also ignoring all the celebrities that helped to push the Apple brand (remember the iPod and it's terrible but iconic white headphones?).

Popular culture has a much stronger influence on Apple's standing with non-nerds, than nerds do. We like to think we're important, and that people value our opinions, but increasingly that's not true. as the differences between the options diminish to 'probably bad for the world long term' (big tech) and 'probably bad for you today' (open source / pinephone / etc, they're just not usable enough yet), the value of our opinions drops, because there's no real choice between bad or badder.
SSH is great and full-featured, and mosh uses it for the initial connection, but try mosh if you haven't. I did years ago and never looked back.

It reconnects immediately over any connection and works so well you can miss 15% packet loss. SSH feels so brittle next to it.
I’m a happy Dropbox customer because I use all of the 2TB space, they have a Linux client, and their syncing works far better than Google Drive and OneDrive. I can do things like modify git repositories, add and delete thousands of files, have files open for editing, rearrange large folders… - all within the Dropbox folder - and Dropbox manages to sync it without any issue, whereas when I tried the other two, there was a low threshold of “file change complexity” above which they choked.

I don’t use any of the add-on services like Paper.

I used to be disappointed that I couldn’t get an account larger than 2TB at a reasonable price, but then I adapted my workflow to split my data into hot/cold, with hot staying in Dropbox and cold going elsewhere. Because of this I could probably adapt to a smaller Dropbox account now.
Nothing at all like that. Take a look at his “confession”

https://sites.google.com/view/hackersconfession/home/hacker-...
>There's nothing magical about in-person communication.

Other the fact that the brains of our entire specie has evolved for millions of years for this exact type of communication, there isn't anything magical, I guess...

The information bandwidth of in-person communication is absolutely unparalleled, even if technology can now match in latency.

Good luck replicating body language, eye contacts, subtle facial cues etc with Slack messages.
Different problems require different solutions. Working from home is here to stay and will probably be much more accepted moving into the future. If it is going to eliminate working in the office, I don't think so. If it will, it will be gradually over many years - and if it does disappear (working in the office) I hope that new devs will find new ways to collaborate that has equal or better benefits. Future is bright!
In the first paragraph you say you disagree, but the second one just reconfirms the article?
Reveal Reddit's Removed Content
> There is a reason why companies like Google are doubling down in Silicon Valley real estate.

As a person who lives in a geologically stable region I have to chuckle because it is entirely possible that this comment will age as terribly as that 'which country is best equipped to deal with a pandemic (2019) post that we saw recently.

I don't deny the part of your comment about in person interactions being the foundation of creative output but all that is overridden by the notion that this must take place in Silicon Valley.

With rising sea levels and the fault lines in the region I'm aghast that so many of America's eggs are in one precarious basket. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon are all based in this region, it just seems so utterly short-sighted.

What the hell is America going to do if there is a cataclysmic event that takes out this region?
Mega and Stingle are the only options I'm aware of that are "truly" private, and every other major cloud storage provider will scan your files for CSAM. The best way forward for truly privacy conscious people would be to roll their own NextCloud instance, because any public service that allows you to store E2EE images will get hunted by the Government for allowing CSAM if they reach any significant userbase. Case in point, even good ol' MegaUpload scanned for CSAM, because that's a bigger risk than getting sued by the MPAA.
Why do I have to tell each website the language I want in a website-specific way when there's been a standard HTTP header[1] to do exactly that for more than 20 years?
I'm honestly asking: do web developers ignore know basic HTTP features or is there some specific reason?
Consider finding a non-VPN-provider to set up your own tunnel via.

A VPS already bypasses known VPN provider ranges. A friend in the UK or US willing to put a box on their network and lose some bandwidth for a contribution towards a bigger connection would be even better (but of course requiring some trust)...
Fine, but at least make it consistent then. GitHub uses "main" and now this uses "primary", next someone will use "base" and I'm not sure at all how this is better in any way.
sometimes even when watching a trailer without seeing the logo i still get a hunch that its a netflix original. i dunno what it is, maybe a combination of the camera gear they use, lighting, actors I've never seen before, the bland dialog
The entire article is based off scrapes of HN "Who is Hiring" threads. Why do we think that they're a sufficiently representative sample of the overall software job market?
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, as long as you are happy and you get what you want out of your job.

My entire argument is that for most people, they will unlikely be having their cake and eat it too. But if you never cared for eating cake, then all the powers to you.
All the sources I can find (like [0]) say "Starlink is currently available in some major cities especially in Western Germany, and promises to bring the network up mid-to-end-of-2021, but many, especially rural areas, are not in reach yet".

So IMO not applicable.

[0] https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/spacex-toch...
I don't think the EU parliament hat the integrity or competency to evaluate the repercussion of such a law. So no, I don't think the parliament is a trustworthy democratic defense, if they get a say at all that is.
> why can't you accept the fact that the societal benefit outweighs the potential risk?

Because a shit technical solution (which opens the doors to other abuses) isn’t the fix. Because Apple are not the government.

A meaningful scheme to protect the children would need:
- better sex ed in schools
- better education for parents and people who would like to become parents as to the risks and signs
- publicly announced meaningful support for people who self-identify with dangerous thoughts and seek help before their thoughts become behaviours
- better support for people from abusive homes as they mature
- (probably) two or three generations to pass through before you could measure statistically sound improvement
The Nazis may never have found the headpiece if they hadn't followed Indy. That's his primary contribution. He clearly knew exactly where Marion was, even though he bullshitted the spooks about it. So he was careful with that information, and it's not likely anyone else would know.

Here's a question: how do we know those were government spooks at all? Maybe they were Nazis trying to setup Indy just so that they could follow him :D
Longevity Escape Velocity
>The ability to toss out random thoughts/idea at any time, and have others discuss/expand on them at their leisure is... powerful.

Yes, That is powerful. And I utterly fail to understand how some people appear to NOT see this.

OP for one appear to argue that people are expected to talk about work when they are having lunch ffs! I mean, it is OK if you want to talk about work, but you cannot realistically expect others to share your enthusiasm as well, or may be they do share your enthusiasm, but might want to talk about other things when they eat...
I'm sorry you feel that way. I'd love to know more about your issues with our current vault implementation in more detail, so I can pass along your feedback to the rest of the development team.

> What gives me pause is how I write regularly asking for separate vaults for trivial passwords and passwords that could lead to financial ruin.

Just to clarify, what solution are you asking for? Do you want a local vault option to store sensitive passwords? Or something else?
Right, I should have clarified that both Pfizer and Moderna are quite effective at preventing hospitalization, 85% vs. 91% respectively. But because of base rate Moderna ends up being two-fold more effective.
Luckily Apple is trying to hire nerdy guys. Though, they try very hard to expand their hiring reach to other groups which might also be less displeased about such moves.

Remember Apple was convicted of colluding to keep programmer salaries low just as the mobile revolution was started. I think the impact of what they did on the world is undercounted (though, it was visible in the market capitalisation they reached in time).
> Lawyers and courts are notoriously inefficient

Inefficiency implies that we can fathom a way to navigate the same space more efficiently. Do we? Or do we, for this mental gymnastics to work, actually have to change the space, to one where people are kind and the whole complicated system is less so?

Certainly having lawyers in big business must be efficient enough that they beat not having lawyers or else the market would adjust around that, no?
Technically correct, but even GitLab has a relatively short list of countries where they hire[0]. Legal requirement are probably going to continue to limit the talent pool for the foreseeable future.

[0] - https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/employment-so...
You are a citizen of a state if you are a US citizen and reside in the state, but you may be a citizen of a state, and entitled to vote their, under other circumstances. Generally, I believe (and this is specifically the rule in California) citizens residing outside the US retain citizenship in the State (if any) in which they were last resident, and are eligible to vote more specifically based on their last resident address. (Military voters have different rules, this is general overseas citizens.)
Most of the profit is in the areas of programming that are not LOB CRUD apps. For the simple reason that profit accrues to firms that are differentiated, and if you can lump a bunch of work into a category, it is by definition not differentiated. Liquidity and compensation are inversely proportional: you make the most money in markets where it's hard to find people who do what you do.

Corollary: if you want to make money, you should seek to be in areas other than where the vast majority of programming is being done.
Extortion Scams and Review Bombing Trolls in Goodreads
Lightway: Open-sourced and audited for proven security
This is a niche mindset.

From experience spanning 30 years, good initiatives rarely start from spontaneous discussion. In fact most of the ones from that class of communication turn into dead ends or wandering off the path into the woods and burning money and time.

In fact I’d argue most of them come from thorough understanding of a problem and the requirements around it and a hell of a lot of work and research.

We’re not all startups and we’re not all trying to construct new problems to be solved.
A VPS as a VPN server is coming from an IP range that belongs to a datacenter and netflix has Bern blockng these for some time atleast from Hetzner.
That depends on whether Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger or not.
It's not that hard to infer writers intent from:

- function and variable naming
- social conventions around ownership
- stated intent by code writers
- common sense

By any reasonable standard, this was theft.

Is a door with a pickable lock always unlocked? No, that would be silly. What makes using a key on a lock different from using a lockpick. Social convention, intent of the creator, common sense, the fact that one thing is called a key, and the other a lockpick.
I think it’s because Microsoft’s market cap was stagnant for the entirety of Ballmer’s tenure as CEO.
What matters is whether the R0 > 1 or < 1.

Vaccine help reduce the R0, but if they are not effective enough to reduce transmission so that R0 become < 1, the epidemic go on and almost everyone will still get infected (albeit more slowly).

Let's take an original R0 of 10 to make the number round : meaning that one person would normally transmit to 10 other people.

Let's say they vaccine are 90% effective at reducing transmission (1 vaccinated person transmit it to only one whereas it would have transmitted it to 10 if non-vaccinated).

It mean that even if you have 100% vaccinated population one person will still transmit to one other people and the epidemic can go on (combined R0 of 1).

We are dangerously close to the threshold where vaccine alone won't suffice to stop the epidemic. And the more active cases you currently have, the more chance there are for vaccine resistant mutation, or higher transmissible mutation to occur.

Humanity is currently running on luck, we are one "Antibody-dependent enhancement" mutation away from turning the vaccine from our greatest weapon to our greatest weakness, and by vaccinating while not taking the necessary measures to reduce the number of active cases we are pressure selecting for it to happen.