skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not overthinking but losing contact with reality.

Not thinking too much, but thinking too much on the wrong things that are not important.

You focus your time, money and effort on the wrong things.

Those are not the important things because you lack knowledge about reality, about the system as a whole.

But humans solved that problem long time ago. It is called "authority". If Michael Phelps tells me I am swimming wrong and wants to give me advice I listen. Idem If John Carmark tells me how to program.

The problem is that humans could be tricked: Michael Phelps could use his authority in swimming to sell microprocesors.

Noam Chomsky could use his authority in languages to sell you totalitarian political regimes that have failed over and over again.

Also the fact that someone knows something very well does not mean that he will tell you. People can deceive you because they profit from that.

Most con mans are experts on what they do. They know very well the Truth.

An intellectual can sell you a bad political regime because he personally expects to profit from that. A youtuber can sell you a product because she is an affiliate and earns a commission.

If you know how to compensate the biases, you can get very far reading the right books, and listening to the right people.
I run a small Ubuntu VM on Azure. It is like $10/month. I chose Azure because I get a credit with my Visual Studio subscription.

However Microsoft does not allow outbound SMTP port 25 from Azure by default. It is possible to get them to allow it, but I do not know their criteria, as I've never done it.

I try to avoid running my own mail infrastructure. Even now when I need scripts to send mail, for reports and such, I'll use a service like Sendgrid instead of mucking about with Sendmail. It is just too easy to do it wrong and end up in a black hole.
Basically one of the gods of the C++ pantheon.
With my team. Everyone in my org. does it. Multiple teams
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New evidence of a large cold spot partly causing dimming of Betelgeuse
On a slightly different topic: do you think it would theoretically be possible to build stable 3D structures composed on positrons and electrons (and not have them annihilate each other)? I don't really understand the physics of why electrons don't collapse into the positive nucleus, since positives and negatives should attract, but I'm wondering if the same interaction keeping protons and electrons apart in an atom could come into play with smaller particles like electrons and positrons alone.
I mod a surfing video sub, and I censor the heck out of wakeboarding videos! Oh, the power I wield! Mwahahaha!
I read the paper. It's well written, short, accessible, and answers most questions a reader would have about the claims. It introduces a complete system and evaluated performance tradeoffs involved in using different cryptographic primitives. I this paper shows that simple digital currency systems do not need to be complicated to be fast.

Crucially it includes benchmarks on real hardware, although the simulated configuration doesn't correspond to the real world in important ways, such as with latency and failures.

I also don't understand how sharding interacts with the quorum thresholds. Is there a separate q of n quorum for each shard? Or is sharding completely separate, ie each validator must run one separate process per shard?

As for the relationship to cryptocurrency systems, I think this paper is overly naive. The idea that the client should be responsible for providing the existence of a spendable input, and that commuting transactions don't need to be sequenced by the protocol, is not novel and exists in many cryptocurrency systems. The most well known is probably the planned ETH 2.0 system, which uses receipts to send information between shards.
John Gruber is biased because his brand is closely tied to Apple’s brand. Ben Thompson wrote a better review on the topic:
https://stratechery.com/2021/apples-mistake/

There’s also the Op-Ed by Matthew Green and Alex Stamos, cyber security researchers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/opinion/apple-iphones-pri...
Calling this "Draconian" is a little bit of a stretch, but I agree that it's a good thing for employees this policy has changed. Amazon does makes and publish games, and it is common to have clauses that you cannot compete with your employer. Given Amazon's success (or lack thereof) in gaming it's not 100% unrealistic that a lucky employee might make a game that is more successful than anything Amazon has made. Most game publishers and developers allow you to submit prior work, and get exceptions so ownership is clear. California labor code 2870 (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...) also offers some protection, but when working at a company as large as Amazon they could legitimately claim almost anything is competing with them.
That sounds great! Let's do it.
Figure out how to make two thirds of a billion dollars off its users, that’s what.
Saying only 4 states allow it is mostly meaningless when one of those states is the state that by far registers the most companies per year.
Only semi-good reason is it would enable E2E encryption in the cloud while still allowing detection of CSAM.
It's almost like the state is too powerful and criminals best tool is abusing the states systems to leverage its violence
How do product leaders showcase what they're working on?
Netflix is adding residential IP addresses to its VPN blocklists
It creates a world-wide network of exploitation of the less wealthy.

Increasing world inequality drives massive foreign buying of properties that are then kept empty or rented at higher values.

The staggering increase in rents across many cities in the world in the last 5 years is caused by this.
"You're doing it all wrong." said someone doing nothing at all.
MLK was against what people today call colorblindness. Just because he said he wanted people to not judge his children by the color of their skin does not mean he didn't recognize that modern society does and will continue to do so, so we need to put in place compensating measures. Using a dead person's words in the exact opposite way they were intended is bad.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/colinseale/2020/01/20/mlks-i-ha...
Richer people own more property than poor people. You're using an old saw that says taxation is worse for the poor but it's not. It's also simple to give breaks for purchases under x dollars or redemptions or for family homes that are occupied etc.
It’s not going to be Tumblr all over again if they choose to ban it. But I wonder how many people use Reddit just for nsfw.
I am frankly tired of this as a person of color. I work in Silicon Valley and constantly being hassled by HR/PR/Marketing teams to pose as their diversity pawn. Yes, I have a picture of me taken (company owns the rights) to put me at the fore front of their marketing materials.
Ironically, your comment itself also lacks any detail of countering or clarifying information, and is itself just a content-free slam on the person you replied to.

Is your point that the mods don't have all these blacklists (including of words), or that the mods do have the blacklists but they're allowed and expected to? Is the mod system working well, in your opinion?
They define "Asians" by race and looks. Typical.
Even HN reporting / article linking / comments have been surprisingly low quality and seem to fulminate and declaim with surprisingly little interesting conversation and tons of super big assertions.

Linked articles and comments have said apple's brand is now destroyed, that apple is committing child porn felonies somehow with this (the logical jumps and twisting to get to these claims are very far from strong plausible interpretation).

How do you scan for CASM in an E2EE system is the basic question Apple seems to be trying to solve for.

I'd be more worried about the encrypted hash DB being unlockable - is it clear this DOES NOT have anything that could be recreated into an image? I'd actually prefer NOT to have E2EE and have apple scan stuff server side, and keep DB there.
Firefox on iOS supports strict ad blocking. It’s not as good as some of the purpose-built extensions on desktop, but it mostly does the job.
But every time you take more money you have to make more money. It’s like they’re trying to give themselves permission to do things they haven’t dared to do so far.
Exactly. If you wish for the government to spend a couple trillion dollars on something, be careful what you wish for.
How are you going to protest? Organize. Communicate? They control all media.
The near future of short-haul trucking is electric. The boring but useful Ford Transit goes electric next spring, along with the F-150 pickup. Many companies who have a fenced yard full of company trucks parked all night are likely to go for that. A Level 2 charger at every space, and the fleet sits there and charges at night.
That's all very rant-y. I'm not sure I quite grok the author's thesis here.

But, for the sake of debate...
"The reality is that Silicon Valley is one of the most open and diverse industries in the United States."

Ok, that might be true, but the supplied graph doesn't exactly support the statement. Blacks make up 13% of the population, but <5% of Google employees in the US. Similarly, Latino/Latinas make up 18% of the population and <7% of Google employees. Drilling into the chart (leads to a Google-owned site), the workforce is 32% female vs ~51% population.

Yeah, there are a lot of Asians (from many countries and ethnic backgrounds) in STEM. That doesn't prove that there isn't a lack of opportunity for US-born minorities (or even some majorities, as we see with women).

So, yeah, tech companies might be better than others, but the author didn't provide anything to back that assertion.

I also take issue with his statement that 365 reviews are a near-universal in STEM. They aren't. I've never had one done on myself, and have only ever participated in 2-3 (all of which involved a manager, not an IC, who was failing and eventually exited). I believe most of my peers would report a similar experience. I'm also not sure what these have to do with diversity in the workplace.
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- but 'hardened' by custom configuration, extensions, some caution and no JavaScript. Without those extensions my productivity is 0 and I loose track of everything I do in newer versions.

Is there something specific that I shall be aware of ?
I was told, directly to my face by the hiring manager after presumably doing well during a FANG interview:

"Why does it always have to be a white guy with a beard".

I did take the job, but I've reflected on that moment once in a while.
Gruber practically (no, perhaps actually) worships Apple. He'd welcome Big Brother into his house if it came with an Apple logo, and he'd tell us how we were all wrong for distrusting it. He's not the voice to listen to this time, and you should trust him to have your best interests at heart.

People are furious with Apple, and there's no reason to discount the completely legitimate concerns they have. This is a slippery slope into hell.

It's a good thing congress is about to start regulating Apple and Google. Maybe our devices can get back to being devices instead of spy tools, chess moves, and protection rackets.

(read: Our devices are supposed to be property. Property is something we fully own that behaves the way we want. It doesn't spy on us. Property is something we can repair. And it certainly is not a machination to fleece the industry by stuffing us into walled and taxed fiefdoms, taking away our control. Discard anything that doesn't behave like property.)

[edit: I've read Gruber's piece on this. It's wish-washy, kind of like watching a moderate politician dance on the party line. Not the direct condemnation this behavior deserves. Let's not take his wait and see approach with Dracula.]
> Activists want structural change, not a superficial papering over of the abuse of power that has been inflicted on their communities.

What is the reason for the structural change though? Because mostly I see it just to fit an ideology of "how things should be", with not much thought beyond that.

I agree that many of the current systems are horribly broken, but I don't think that critical race theory or other Marxist-founded systems put us in a better place. They certainly don't have a track record of success, and I'd argue that even in their limited application in the US their effects on the general population, and their effect on perception and treatment of minorities, has been largely detrimental against their own claimed goals of equality.
What will it be like when Covid-19 becomes endemic?
It's two factors, both the match on an image hash and an unknown threshold of matches at which point the data gets sent up. If the threshold is not met then nothing gets notified (even if there is a match). Arguably this is why this approach is better for privacy. Cloud matches would not be able to have this extra threshold (in addition to this model allowing e2ee on the cloud in the future).

I'd also like to know more about the specifics here, my guess is that threshold value is pretty high (their 'one in a trillion' comment not withstanding). It's probably targeting large CSAM dumps of matches which would not get flagged by different images.
Absolutely not true. Apple is using a similarity based hash, so if the NCMEC database contains a picture that's similar to one that you have, it could produce a match even if it's not the same. Apple says this isn't an issue, because a person will look at your picture(yes, a random person somewhere will look at the pictures of your newborn) and judge whether they are pictures of child abuse or not. If this unknown person thinks your picture shows child abuse, you will be reported to NCMEC and then what happens is unknown - but likely that it would result in some legal action against you.
Regardless of what anything thinks about it, it's here to stay as the diversity industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. The people leading this movement have amassed lots of power over corporations and government.

EDIT: Downvoted for speaking facts. Amazing this site.
Especially as we move more key infrastructure into the cloud. If people start trusting these sorts of remote systems with things like financial data, the payoff of a clandestine compromise could be hundreds of billions of dollars.

Doubly true when you consider the history of Google working with the USG.
Honus Wagner, Long Baseball’s Most Valuable Card, Is Poised to Reclaim Record
It could become deflationary before 2140 by more Bitcoins bring burned then created by schedule.
It may support a dotfile repo in your GitHub account like Codespaces does, but I've never setup such a repo so I can't test.

I do use VS Code's Settings Sync with my GitHub Account. I was surprised it wasn't on by default, but the menu steps to turn it on on the GitHub Dev site were very quick (didn't have to relogin, it did know which account I was already logged in under on the main GitHub site). It synced quickly with my Settings. It even pulled in some of my extensions, the most noticeable one being a custom color theme. Other than the obvious limitation to extensions that support "Virtual Workspaces", I'm not exactly sure why the subset of supported extensions is what it is. But it's neat that some of them show up. ("Virtual Workspaces" has been an interesting project to follow in VS Code's release notes and lets you do something similar to GitHub.Dev in your locally installed VS Code as well: open a remote GitHub repo you've never cloned/downloaded.)

(I have a Vim emulation extension to VSCode in my Settings Sync, but currently disabled for reasons in that I haven't used it in a while. It shows up as supported in the Extensions list on GitHub.Dev, which is interesting. Might try reenabling it and seeing how it works these days.)

After turning on Settings Sync once in GitHub.Dev it seems to remember it on subsequent visits (even from different repositories). Pretty neat.

It looks like GitHub.Dev only supports VS Code. If you want to provision an environment how you want it setup you could use Codespaces the next step up "big brother" tool to this GitHub.Dev site. (That gives you the ability to specify a full Docker container the Codespace runs in, including things like port forwarding SSH to allow working with vim, which GitHub mentioned doing in their recent Engineering blog about moving to Codespaces.)
This screenshot looks perfectly normal on my computer, or maybe I just can't see the difference. All of the o's look the same to me. Anybody else...?
Except despite this being repeated over and over… Apple has not said anything about E2E
I tried it recently (< 2 months ago) and the experience wasn't too bad. This was the first real ad "campaign" I had ever set up. The targeted group was pretty niche and while Reddit suggested going broader, I was able to stick with the subreddits that I considered relevant.

The most annoying part was the rather opaque period between launching, approving, and actually running the ad. The first real confirmation I had that things were working was a bill.
>Cooperative people accused of non-violent crimes should NEVER be taken into custody until proven guilty in a court with fair trial.

Uh, so if someone set fire to a bunch of homes in a neighborhood, and there's video of them doing it, but they did it knowing the homes were empty, they should just be left free until the trial is over? I'm sorry but I feel like a lot of online comments on criminal justice are very shortsighted
Absolute - I think this is one of two key questions for me. That is why I put "known" in quotes. It can't be an exact match because it has to handle cropping, rotation, resize etc.

Images then do get a manual review before a report is made which is good and may help provide feedback on alogs being used.

Going to be hard though for apple to set the second factor to high - I'd say 5 maybe? It's hard to say you had matches on potential CASM and ignored them I'd think.
I was told by a military intelligence dude that airstrikes are mostly laser guided by ground based special forces when it comes to anti-insurgency stuff. The satellite imagery is just too inaccurate for small targets that shift around.
I picked up a pair of Shaq shoes when I was in middle school for that reason. Weirdly it did help. I remember a kid that would pick on me stopped because he thought my shoes were cool. Everyone thought they had to have been really expensive too (like Jordan shoes), but they weren't. I had found them at some discount retailer. I'm not even sure if they were legit, but they said Shaq and they looked cool. Eventually someone else found the shoes and brought up that they were inexpensive shoes, but by that time I'd already moved on to a different pair of shoes.
Actually you should be using S/MIME or GPG if the other party is worried about fraud. If fraud happens (someone claiming to be you signs a contract), it is typically the other party to the contract that loses, because they did insufficient due diligence to ensure that they are entering into an agreement with the correct partner.
Yugoslavia is in Europe and not Asia. The Gulf War was in-and-out within a year and actually achieved a concrete mission set out ahead of time.
Several European car manufacturers are also truck manufacturers, although there are several that aren't.
> Slippery slope is also a fallacy if you take one instance of a trend and then logically project it to an absurd extreme, but this is not what we're doing here. We're simply looking at the next obvious, logical, well-evidenced step, with plenty of people who obviously want this even if they are a bit too discreet to come right out and say it in public.

What makes it easy to oversell as a fallacy is that everything you described that defines it is subjective, and easily argued about. People disagree a lot on what's "absurd" or "obvious" or "well-evidenced."
I am not sure how this would be implemented except by machine translation (probably from English). There are all sorts of problems with this—and since machine translation is already possible, switching to an English and translated Wiki would only really be justifiable if the disadvantages were very few.

1. Machine translation is highly uneven. The official status of certain languages means we have a large corpus of material from international organisations and multilingual governments. But there are still lots of languages where the corpus is much smaller—even if there are lots of users who contribute (e.g., Vietnamese.) The quality of these Wikipedias would decline substantially.

2. A few Wikipedia articles are a joy to read—they are idiomatic, easy to understand, and well-written. Machine translation simply cannot do this properly. This would be lost in every language but English.

3. What you want in an article probably differs by language. Frames of reference differ: one can probably expect e.g. certain pop culture analogies not to require explanation (or perhaps just a link) in some languages but to require fuller explanation in others.

4. The use of non-English sources would require much more work. At the moment, a French-language source may appear on French Wikipedia without any translation work. Now, it will only appear if a bilingual editor happens to find it and can be bothered to translate it. The pattern of course is general, and would be most undesirable.

5. There exist many perfectly good Wikipedia editors who do not know how to write in English, or would lack the confidence to do so. Are we to lose all their contributions? If not, we’d require legions of bilingual editors to verify machine translations from non-English languages. Experience suggests that there do not exist many such editors.
Any idea why Apple didn’t just implement server side scanning like everyone else?
How did you conclude there is no immediate danger? There is something obviously wrong with the elevator. What if it plummeted down and someone died? Even a couple of floors can turn out badly.
Maybe, but why are these companies spending billions of dollars on diversity consultants and hiring Chief Diversity Officers when you could literally just tell your existing HR staff to boost diversity hires? It's not exactly rocket science. Something is really fishy here.

EDIT: Keep downvoting me guys. I'm saving screenshots of all of this to show how flawed the state of discourse is on this site. To the mods, something is systemically wrong when an innocuous statement made in good faith can be downvoted.
It's unfortunate that Commodore shipped BASIC 2.0 on the 64. They already had shipped PETs with the much superior BASIC 4.0 years earlier. It was likely a cost saving measure: they had a more favorable licensing deal with MS on BASIC 2.0 and it fit on fewer ROM chips. Too late the C128 came with BASIC 7.0 which was actually quite good (for an 8-bit BASIC anyway).
Twitter is not letting me view these images in full without logging in. Is that new behavior from twitter?
They bet they can cut costs (and hence quality) faster than customers lose trust in the brand.
I found that if you stick to very specific subreddits there is a way to use the site without getting angry.
I have some generative art tutorials using p5js on my blog @ https://brianfernandez.dev/art
I think this is likely why Reddit has heavily pushed direct revenue with an expansion of awards available (cheapest ones are 50 coins now), in addition to the continued ad-free option with a premium subscription.
That's the crux of it. Why bother with on-device identification, unless one of:

a. Apple intends to E2E encrypt iCloud data.

b. This is intended to extend to all photos on the device in the future.

I'm hoping it's (a), but it's probably (b). And in either case it sets a bad precedent for other companies to follow.

Edit: This also turns every jailbreak into a possible CSAM detection avoidance mechanism, giving the government plausible cover to treat them as serious, criminal actions. Apple would probably love that.
It would be interesting to see how diverse each of the diversity groups are - for example, breakdown of Indians by caste.