skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That's a tired talking point.

Well, I don't talk about this much so wouldn't know. From what I understand, atmospheric physics is extremely complicated, and it sounds like a _very_ hard problem to develop accurate models for, and we're limited to a relatively small sample size. I just have a hard time seeing it, as a field, arriving at clean conclusions.. I'll have to read into it more later, though.
OK? So why do you want the privacy focused employees to quit? It sounds like that would only make the problem worse.
The lack of people leads me to conclude these are actually screenshots from Unreal Engine.
Actually, WinCompose started as an AHK script, so your conclusion isn't far off.
I've been thinking for a while that it should be mandated that any of the "infinite scroll" websites should have to be able to explain in plain English why they show you any particular item, including ads.

"The advertiser gave us a list that has the email address you used to register."

"You are a female in Orange county between 24 and 26."

"This is a post from your friend presented in chronological order."

"Tom from your uploaded contacts clicked on this ad."

And if they can't explain it, then they can't show it. So "our opaque neural network decided this" doesn't cut it.

Kind of like how you can click in the tip-right corner of a Facebook add and get a very obtuse explanation for each ad.
Would love a nice golang mentor
I'm 45 and recently had a resurgence in my career, now a devop. I'm not very confident when it comes to coding and find some of the concepts challenging. I have experience in writing basic bat/powershell/bash/terraform scripts and am also following a udemy course on golang. I would really appreciate a kind and patient person who could guide me on the intricacies of golang - did i mention at my age i forget a lot so patience of an angel might be needed :)
nowadays the easiest way is to google the character by its name and add "unicode", then copy-paste, unless you do it a lot.

e.g. "a acute unicode" yields https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00E1
That's my opinion exactly.

I was impressed a few years ago when Apple wouldn't allow interference with a device that belonged to an unconvicted suspect (I can't remember the details, apologies). But this concession to unmonitored surveillance is really disappointing.
They have a monopoly in their markets, which is "on their OS". The exact definition of their markets, in particular if it's "on their OS" or "on phones in general", is one of the major points of contention in the case
One overlooked aspect of why Steam Desk is quite a game changer is the fat that it's the first actually open handheld gaming platforms.

All the predecessors (Nintendo DS, Playstation Vita, Nintendo Switch, etc.) have been regular consoles with heavy weight locked down walled garden, where all content had to pass a lot of byzantine review and respect least common denominator content rules and censorship.

With Steam deck there is finally a handheld platform where a much wider selection of games can be installed from itself that has much less insane content rules or totally separately directly from developers to users. Another community that has been mostly banned from consoles is moders - there are basically no games that support modding on consoles, yet its very popular in many games on PC.
And finally, we have a handheld that can run games with mods!

So I would hope that this will turn out to be a big selling point of Steam Deck & that affected communities (independent content creators & modding community) would make sure they are not cut off again like they were on consoles.
Stephen Wiesner (1942-2021)
Starliner takes off back to the factory and not space
"That's right; someone at Google reviewed this app, visited the LT website, scrolled to the very bottom of the page, and clicked through twice to find a way to contribute funds to the project."

Oof. So the app didn't link to the donate page, and it was at least 1 click away (maybe 2) from the page it did link to.
"And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains."
Another way to read this - many managers have gotten so deep into their "I have lots of employees in the office and visibly working on...something or other" worldviews that they are blind (perhaps willingly) to how little work there really is to do, and who is doing it.

For a sane company, which would be worth more - (1) finding and firing the (few at best) employees who are actually "cheating on them" this way, or (2) finding and firing the managers who are oblivious to, or ignoring (if not creating) the vast waste of company resources that "faithful" employees, merely pretending to be needed full-time, represent?

But hell will probably freeze over before the WSJ advocates for finding & firing worthless managers.
Probably very similarly. If the EU Commission tried to lead an investigation of some major disaster potentially originating in the US, cooperative is not the word I'd use to describe how it would go. Sadly.
> In the animal world there probably are life and death reasons (getting food, physical security, etc.) for fitting in a social status/hierarchy. You have skills and income that eliminate that from being something you need to be concerned with in modern human society.

Sure, but if you already have food, shelter and safety, what else is there to live for?

Some people argue that social status is a deeply rooted part of our animal (not only mammalian) nature, rather than merely a concept, and that it's necessary for your long term well-being [1].

[1] https://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/TheBiochemistryofStatusandtheFun...
Sorry but I do not understand this comment, can you please clarify?
I'm not seeing it as a unique thing. I have distinct memories of my grandparents, great grandparents, and their neighbors hanging out together on my great grandparents' screened porch and talking for hours into the evening after supper time. For people born in the early 1900s and earlier in the South, it's just what you did, because the wind moved better outdoors than indoors and the matriarch of the family just spent a couple hours warming the house up in the summer time with her cooking. The men would sit in rocking chairs with cigarettes or cigars and talk about sports, politics, how their crops were doing, etc, and the women would sit together on makeshift outdoor couches with dinner mints or desserts to discuss their kids and the local gossip.

Even today, my friends and their families will get together for game nights twice a week at different homes, just discussing whatever comes to mind while playing board or card games.
Why would you want to work there? For money?
Is it true that Microsoft skipped Windows 9 because too many applications check for "Windows 9*", and would have thought that they are running on Windows 95 or 98?
Python is not a systems language. I would also recommend Go but it depends on what is meant by 'systems' as it doesn't interface well with threads or memory allocation.
Have you ever read about inotify/inotifywait?
Boeing Starliner launch delayed again – returns to factory for troubleshooting
> Fact-checking is a dead end, a poor substitute for development of critical thinking skills in the broader population. It may be more challenging, but that's what we need to start working towards.

Pretty sure that work was started thousands of years ago.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. IMHO, insisting the only solution is to increase "critical thinking" to unheard of levels is wishful thinking that mainly serves to shoot down necessary mitigations for the psychological and social failings of individuals and communities. Fact checking isn't a perfect institution, but nothing is.
>There was no confusion at all.

I don't know what you and tharne are talking about here. There was definitely confusion. HN is a tech forum and I still saw plenty of people here worried about how they would get in trouble for having innocent photos of their own children on their phone. You are allowed to be against Apple's plan while still recognizing that many people didn't understand what exactly was part of that plan.
These perceptual hashes do have high number of false positives. That's why they employ AI to discard images that don't have certain features from the pool to minimise the risk. But that method in general without actual human checking manually is a recipe for disaster.
I love these kind of stories on hn. As entrepreneurial minded people, it’s common to think a lot about markets and opportunities. It’s hard to come up with ideas that will be viable.

But these stories serve as a good example of how, if you think about doing good and helping out others, the market for that is wide open. There is no end to opportunities. And often, by focusing on improving the world rather than making f—— you money, you end up being greatly enriched, financially but spiritually as well. It’s as though there were some greater force that recognizes efforts to do good and bestows upon these people great rewards, wealth, plenty. Doing good is anti-fragile.
It’s a lie to say they are scanning the device, when you know that are only scanning files that are uploaded. We know now that you understand both this distinction and what Apple is actually doing, so it’s clear that you were lying.
> The difference is that an asteroid is an existential threat to humanity while climate change is just short of that.

And you can see an asteroid heading straight for you, anyone skeptical could just get, or borrow, a scope. I don't think an asteroid collision would induce a politicized disinfo campaign personally, it's too concrete.
He said they were going to look into it. He didn't break trust with your example because he didn't make a statement of fact that it was a cure. He said they'd look into it.

Now if all you do is read the title of articles or videos from left leaning news site, you may walk away with the belief that he's telling people to inject it. But he's not. He says they're going to look into it. Watch the video for yourself (and take note at the video title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicGxU5MfwE.

I want to add--I'm in no way indicating the right leaning news sites don't do the same. They've both screwed the country up by failing to report news without some bias slapped all over everything.
I just put Lepton into place and my tabs are back and everything is nice again. https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
It also tends to derail the conversation and you end up arguing about fallacy definitions instead of the actual point.
> I have never been able to get my head around the religious paradox of God has a plan and free will.

I think this can actually be explained in a fairly straightforward way via science: the laws of physics dictate precisely how reality ought to behave, and yet we have thoughts and we make decisions and we believe to be largely free to do whatever we want even though our conscience and our entire being are essentially just a big clump of chemical reactions governed by the laws of physics.

According to some pantheist flavors, the laws of physics are the omnipotent property of God - aka "His plan" in christian lingo - as well as the omnipresent property.

The interesting thing about this interpretation is that it's immune to the determinism paradox: it doesn't matter if the laws of physics dictate a "plan" or whether "we" can randomly affect it (the definition of "we" is itself a big philosophical rabbit hole btw), because by their very definition, the laws of physics are what they are, and they always hold true no matter what.
Forcing the stores to have all the apps would be bad - swamped in shitty malware.

Stopping the stores from demanding that all apps have no method of payment except via their payment services (and its 30% cut) would be good. It would solve the situation in TFA at least.
He means the slow, grinding processes that virtually eliminated all natives in the Americas, stealing their lands and lives with phony treaties, disease, and war, leading to a most ridiculous zeitgeist know as Manifest Destiny, wherein we whitewashed colonial genocide of the highest order over generations in the name of freedom, established a country built on slave labor, and then allowed industry and military to establish a virtual high priest sect know as modern finance. With the high priests now failing us every few years, seemingly worse each time, and pestilence all around us, the drama continues to unfold. I think he means something like that, synthesis culture being euphemistic. I suppose that has a nicer ring to it than assimilation.

I bought this fiddle from some dude on eBay call Nero. Shall we play?
Are there any legitimate reasons to care about the user agent in this day and age? If you're still serving different css/js based on a self reported identification, then chances are your motivation is questionable.

Not unlike certain CPU and GPU makers. Frankly, I am surprised any of this is still matters. Guess I am still just an old an naive summer child
If this really did jump from bats, they should be able to find this IN bats.

Instead we can't seem to find that side of things. Instead the virus seems better fit to the mouse / ACE2 receptor stuff going on in the lab (with a big jump in infection rate) vs a gradual build from something evolving to work in humans.
It's an issue, but this article is about flipping houses between homeowners, not holding homes as rental assets.
Google is cracking down on their Play Store and enforcing similar rules to the ones Apple enforces on their App Store.

As of September 2021, all apps distributed on the Play Store must use Google's billing method[1]. Apps listed on the Play Store cannot link to alternative payment or donation methods in the listing's description or in the app itself[1]. Google will take a 15% to 30% cut off all sales. These rules are similar to the rules on the App Store.

Google and Apple hold a duopoly in the mobile operating systems market and the mobile app distribution market. The move to enforce the adoption of Google's billing system seems like the mobile app distribution cartel is engaging in price fixing[2].

It also seems like Google and Apple have leveraged their duopolies in the mobile OS and app distribution markets to dominate the mobile app payments market, now, too.

[1] https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing
> Is there any particular reason the author paying rent via donations is different from any of us paying rent from our work

Patently, yes:

-- "donation" means one can get the product independently of any money transfer;

-- «paying from work», «charging for apps», «require or accept payment for access to features or services», means that getting the product is conditional to money transfer.

"Donation" is not "payment".

In fact, I do not quite understand on which contractual reason the ban happened.
I don't see how this is any different from what Apple could already have been forced to do. If the argument is that they're going to knuckle under to an abusive request involving this system, then they'd presumably have done so under the prior status quo which was no more secure.

They already were storing the photos unencrypted (or with keys available, at least) on their servers, so any government that was able to push them to add a hash to this scanning system could have gotten them to scan for something in iCloud.

China, in particular, could definitely already be doing that, since China made Apple host all iCloud data for Chinese users on servers inside China that're operated by a Chinese company. See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
The incentive to move to AMP is gone, since it's no longer needed to land in the carousel, but moving off of it is still a project/effort.
I can't believe they actually posted that.
"Attention all employees: Chrome is the only approved browser for accessing HR websites. Please DO NOT use Firefox for accessing HR websites."
Tides of history podcast is great and talks a lot about ancient civilizations from all over the world.
Per capita and development status IS relevant. How can you expect nations like India who still have populations in poverty, still have huge rural-urban migration, to be able to focus as much on green energy than a mature nation like Europe USA?
The bigger humanitarian crisis in India is the sheer amount of poverty, not the impending climate crisis.
there is no local bat population near Wuhan, China -- nor is Wuhan known to be some sort of wet market epicenter. It has wet markets like any Chinese city would.

The reason the wet market theory came to prominence was because commerce seemed like a reasonable explanation for how a novel coronavirus showed up so far away from its known animal reservoir (bats).

The reason the WIV is in Wuhan is the same as the reason why the CDC is in Atlanta or whatever -- Wuhan is a major city and it has things in it.
Apple choosing the word confusion is horrible. It’s like a backhanded diss at their users.
It will also match completely different images, that why there is "neural" bit to discard images that e.g. don't have nudity from the pool of matches.
Was this a problem more frequently in some departments than others? For that matter, were they real profs or TAs?
You had me until the "wokeness" stuff. I don't think we have to have the culture war to critique structural problems in cable news; these are attention-driven ad-sales businesses, and they're competing with each other to drive to extremes. As you point out, thankfully, cable news has less control over day-to-day politics than the impression you'd get from... cable news. On the ground, it's mostly Kiwanis Republicans and PTA Democrats.
But there's nothing in this proposed implementation that could ever possibly result in that, because random pics of your kids would not be in a database of known CSAM content. So your pics wouldn't match the hash values.
So many people in this thread are convinced this whole thing is intentionally malicious, that Apple is doing this because they want to enable government spying, and they are intentionally using child sex abuse as a way of trying to make it palatable in a PR battle.

I don't think that is the most likely situation at all.

Apple has been, as part of their privacy initiatives, trying to do as much as possible on the device. That's how they have been defining privacy to themselves internally. Then someone said "can we do something about CSAM" and they came up with a pretty good technical solution that operates on device and therefore, to them, seemed like it would not be particularly controversial. They've been talking about doing ML and photo scanning object recognition on device for years, they're moving much of Siri to on-device in iOS 15, all as part of their privacy initiatives.

It seems to have backfired in that people actually seem to prefer scanning in the cloud to on-device scanning for things like this, because it feels less like a violation of your ownership of the device.

I think the security arguments about how this system can be misused are compelling and it's a fine position to be strongly against this, but I don't know that there's good justification that Apple has some ulterior motive and is faking caring about privacy. I think they were operating with a particular set of assumptions about how people view privacy that turned out to be wrong and they are genuinely surprised by the blowback.
Hotel of Mysteries is totally worth it whether you are 35 or 8.
You spend almost too much time defending Apple[0]. If you have any association with them, you should probably disclose that first.

0. Check the comment history, every comment is defending Apple and this has been going on for many months (years?). In fact, I don't see any comment that is not defending Apple.
I know I am making very serious allegations, but please go through the comment history to form your own opinion.

I don't believe that the user is a bot though, most comments are 'well-reasoned'.
So you're going to turn every key on the keyboard into a dead key? Also, the compose file can easily be customized, and some entries output multiple characters or involve non-character keys like the arrows. How is that going to work with a static keyboard layout?
Totally missed that, my bad!

(Given that this is in my country and in my field of interest that's a pretty good indication of how big of a miss this is, so thank you for the correction.)
Outrage is not equal to confusion.
In local news, officials announced that the accidental nuclear detonation a few blocks from the Acme Nuclear Weapons Depot was in fact the fault of a nearby farmers market. Back to you Jim for the college sports update.
Wonderful observation! Am curious: How you are still on a 1G conn in Aug 2021?

Pro tip: HN "from" call is almost precisely a minimalist RSS news river:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com
The price being what exactly? That you’ll get caught for storing CSAM in the device makers cloud?

I think the pros list stays longer than the cons list.
while I don't like wearing the mask in general, I do like that it helps me since I have a "resting asshole face." A major reason why I preferred working remote before the pandemic.
I will absolutely not tolerate on-device scanning.

I will drop Apple if they proceed, and spread the word as much as I can.
I've got a pinephone. It's still more of an interesting novelty to me rather than my main phone, because it's just Linux apps running on a small device. Battery life is an issue, I have an issue where if the phone puts itself into suspend it won't take calls and such.

But I paid a couple of hundred bucks for something I knew was going to be in a beta state, so I'm not choked up over my purchase
Company does a bad things.

Customers get angry.

Company: "I'm sorry you misunderstood me!"
This is a solved problem up here in Canada, at least in my experience.

Most restaurants will assume you want to split the check by default when you're with a big group, and most restaurant software lets you ring in dishes by the seat rather than by the table, while also splitting shared things across all of the checks at a table (this also helps service teams deliver the right dish to the right guest). Add to that the convenience of chip and pin machines that come to the table, and it is just a non-issue.

I'm American, so I understand that lots of restaurants in the US resist doing things this way. But it is quite silly considering that the software and hardware already exists to handle it all.
‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online: study
Easy fix. Ship Firefox2/1.0 /s
> "Don't be evil" is a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct, which it also formerly preceded as a motto.

What misinformation?

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
Speaking as an Indian, what sets apart adds is that they can go on for hours together and they happen at regular frequency.

Say you are bored (I know it’s a rare thing now a days) then you know that if you go to the usual hangout place you will invariably find a few people, some of whom are your acquaintances/friends, gathered aimlessly conversing.

The group is very fluid, random people join and leave and when you are sort of done you too leave. There are no rules as such but people usually don't cross personal boundaries.

It is an essential part of being in a community. One is implicitly expected to take part in such addas from time to time. This is how small towns/villages operate. Or at least did, I don’t see it around me anymore.
> This was a period when they actually thought the "throw weight" of your patent portfolio really mattered in cross-licensing deals. Most of those patents were utterly worthless in any sort of deal.

Could anyone expand on this? Sounds interesting, and I know little about it.
Lulu is the free and open source macOS firewall (like Little Snitch)