skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Repeatedly showing stats won’t make things better or make people more aware of the problem, in the end people will still use their cars while they wait for others to make a change. Hypocrisy at its best, that’s what I see
Right, the hubris rained there after Jobs.

rained -> reigned

It’s also a bit of a laugh to suggest Jobs didn’t suffer from hubris. See: arguably the Mac itself, $10,000 NeXT Cube, the Power Mac cube…really anything with cubes.
He was lying. That’s the face Craig makes when he’s lying.
Where did you graduate from? What's the local industry like around you?
How does this work with operations that return basic types like int or string? Can a string be poisoned?
touche, and apologies for being impatient.
I assumed the hair they're splitting is it's your own device that's doing the scanning, and not "Apple". Meaning, their iCloud servers won't scan your photos. They want people to read that as "oh, I thought my pictures were going to get scanned without my say so, I guess that was just wrong and this is a false alarm", but what is actually going to happen is that you are going to scan your pictures, then send Apple a hash.

To be clear, this is a distinction without a meaningful difference. Or, if there is a difference, it's that it's actually worse than the alternative (cf. the Stratechery article that's been making the rounds).

If that's right, then this isn't a lie, but it's incredibly mealy-mouthed, misleading, and disrespectful of their customers' intelligence.
>Imagine it was a leak. Dozens or hundreds of people -- researchers with PhDs and international cred and travel ability -- would have had to be knowledgeable about the research and in on the coverup

Maybe. And? Dozens or hundreds of internationally-relevant people would have been knowledgeable about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's specific involvement in 9/11, but that didn't stop it from being covered up for almost a decade.
How does this help? The Aurora Store is just an alternative Play Store client. If Google removes an app from the Play Store, it'll be gone from this too.
Good on you for remembering their credibility, but most people suffer from Gell-Mann Amnesia:

> “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
That's great for whatever ecosystem succeeds us, not so great for us, our children, and their children.
No, there's no confusion. I'm not happy to have my personal files scanned on my personal device that I paid for, simple as that. Apple aren't getting another penny from me.
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Craig Federighi’s interview with WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-techn...
apple is a shiny jail.
I would risk suggesting that he is being downvoted because of cynical point of view.

It is us, right now, who are exploiting the world.

It is our kids and their kids that are going to pay for this.

And here somebody complains "the cost is too high".

It is as if the robber, after robbing your house, complained the bus fare was too high to get to work, so it somehow excuses the theft.
Pennywise, pound foolish.

--->

Pennywise, pound-wise.

If you want to read real, well-researched data about the demographics and behaviors of actual millionaires, Thomas J. Stanley compiled and analyzed the data, and wrote a number of books on the topic. Furthermore, Felix Dennis, the late but an actual billionaire, wrote a hilarious book with a tongue-in-cheek title.

Biggest correlations with wealth are the marshmallow test as a child and then not participating in low-/no-skill chance gambling as an adult.
The problem is that when I implement pagination it's often because I want automated scripts to be able to export ALL of the data, which means they need to be able to paginate to the end of the results.

Example from one of my projects: https://covid-19.datasettes.com/covid/ny_times_us_counties - it uses keyset (cursor) pagination so it's possible to efficiently export all 1,611,908 rows of data.

"SELECT * from table limit 100 offset 10000" requires the database to skip 10000 rows in order to get to the rows it needs to start returning - and then on the next page it has to do it again, using offset 10100.

If you're showing an interface to users you can implement an easy workaround: don't allow them to click past page 10, in which case OFFSET pagination only ever needs to loop through up to about 1,000 rows (depending on your page size).
> It sometimes seems the more data we have the more gloom and doom we get.

Ignorance really is bliss isn't it?
Ask HN: Any tools for understanding what a Neural network is learning?
That's right WSJ, scare all the managers reading this into forcing everyone at their company to work in the office again so you can force it on your employees and they can't just quit and join another company.

How many of these anti-WFH articles have they and NYT printed in the past few months? 10? 20?

I'm sure what's in the article happens, but then again those same people would just be killing that time some other way in-person, on their phone, in the break room, taking a walk, chatting with coworkers, slipping in some Facebook.

Besides, these people are helping alleviate the labor shortage you also like to complain about. Let them help out two different companies instead of strapping them to their office chairs at their open office desks to make sure they don't escape.
Now that's an extraordinary claim. My story was meant to explain why I think they're fallible, but I also believe they have good intentions and are trying to do an accurate job of it. I don't see any reason to think they're getting paid to lie about stuff.
Future is already there on PC: Steam, Epic, EA and zillion other stores - it sucks. In China there are hundreds of Android stores - it also sucks.
Charlie Munger.
> This is absolutely outrageous and disgusting from Google

This is Google. At this point this is expected behaviour from one of the Big Tech Tyrants, Over [0] and over [1] and over [2] again [3] multiple [4] times [5]. Unless we seriously break it up, they will never change and the suspensions will continue.

Like Facebook, when you are banned by their AI moderation tools, there is little redemption and it's unlikely they will give the account back; since you don't even own it.

Once again, these tyrants are NOT your friends.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26488655

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25693679

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22334537

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984408

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25964226
Donations are voluntary, in-app purchases unlock features (traditionally).

Besides, Google has to maintain the App Store to keep their OS afloat.
There is a severely underestimated group of religious people who think that only God controls the weather, His reasons for what he does with it are not for you to evaluate, and that saying that humans can change the weather is blasphemy.

It's easy to make fun of, but the most direct experience that people have of a God who controls the universe would be the weather. These people need to be approached theologically; secular explanations are not going to hack it. The fact that polluters have an easy job getting their support doesn't mean that the ideas that they have about the weather originate from polluters.

To preempt a certain type of response, telling them that "climate" is different than "weather" is not going to work unless you can cite a biblical verse that explains that distinction.

We (middle-class PMCs) vastly underestimate the number of honest fundamentalists the same way we vastly underestimate the number of English-speaking illiterates. I'm always amused on HN when people in a thread realize that the reference to demonic possession or witchcraft by another commenter was completely in earnest.
> For example my pointing out that climate zealots act like zealots is observably true

That's a tautology. Perhaps you could explain who exactly is a 'climate zealot', and why, without just painting everyone who doesn't agree with you as one.
Cold records being broken are less frequent than in the past. Pretending that 1 cold record being broken disproves global warming is just the kind of disingenuous argument that deniers make.

Figures 1-4: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

https://www.climatesignals.org/data/record-high-temps-vs-rec...

https://www.axios.com/climate-change-warm-cold-temperature-r...

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ap-hot-falling-cold.html

https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-cold-weather.htm
Check out “eigenfaces.” It’s straight forward and works reasonably well. There are a lot of interesting applications of PCA and SVD. Signal and noise separation, machine learning, the list goes on.
By illuminating, I assume you mean gaslighting?
I'd never heard of them, but judging by their website it looks like they produce apps for iOS, for Android and also have a webapp. Should they be required to remove an optional donation link from their website even though it might not have anything to do with Android at all? How does this involve Google exactly?
I have one: Ping Pong, the Japanese film from 2002. After watching the bonus features about how they developed the actors' individual playing styles, they revealed that the balls were entirely CGI animated. That let the actors focus on the precision of their movements, without worrying about actually volleying!

The balls looked a bit odd in the film, but I figured it was simply an artifact of 23fps film capturing a small plastic ball moving at high speed. I never would have guessed it was all CGI. I think I'd seen the movie three times before buying the DVD and watching the special features, years later. So I was fooled in the mid-00s and again in the late 10s.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168695
The bigger problem is that it wan't even an expert opinion. It was actually a political opinion coming from the mouths of experts. Here's my proof:

Many of the scientists have now admitted that they refrained from publicly acknowledging the evidence that the virus may have been engineered in the Wuhan lab. Alina Chan was one of those experts who says this now:

"... it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn't want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins."

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/lab-leak-theory...

It never occurred to these "scientists" that claiming the virus came from bats because they eat bats in China is the more "xenophobic" thing and not the possible lab leak caused due to poor handling by "scientists".
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lol factor, not factory. woops
>The express drive-by the WHO did in china served absolutely no purpose.

I served it's purpose perfectly! It allowed China to pretend that an investigation was done.
Depends on how "early", but know when you're getting a bad deal. As a general rule of thumb, if you're between employees 1-10, you should be treated like almost like a founder. You should likely only be pursuing that role with the intention of building up a function that will eventually mean you have an entire department running under you, as starting up a function means you are a leader.

Start ups hiring people to be ICs and pay them like ICs (in the form of equity) that early is a bad signal. They should be hiring contractors instead if they need specific work done as an IC.

The first bunch of full time hires are leadership hires. You will wear lots of hats, and do lots of things you wouldn't do as an IC at a typical large company.

Beyond that, you need to be absolutely sure you will mesh with the "founders". You are in essence a founder. You are likely building something that will be foundational to the company. You will be making decisions that will probably live beyond your tenure at the company.

So either you need full autonomy, or you need to know that conflict will be handled properly and your opinion will weigh just as much as the "founders".
Isn't more data good, giving more confidence? If more data paints a bleaker and bleaker picture, aren't things bleak?
I am disappointed that none of their messaging at all attempts to explain how the feature won’t be further misused (by governments or others, quietly or loudly) in the future.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28171597
Why move it on-device then? They've made no announcement or attempt to encrypt iCloud backups, so they are free to keep scanning on their servers. Moving it on-device has zero value-add for iPhone users, it only serves as a Trojan Horse for any future "scanning" projects that they may adopt, willingly or otherwise.
I couldn't resist.

import operator as op
import itertools as it

def mono_split(cmp, lst):
start = len(list(it.takewhile(lambda t: cmp(t[0], t[1]), zip(lst, lst[1:]))))
return lst[:start + 1], lst[start + 1:]

def get_mono_splits(lst):
while len(lst) >= 2:
if lst[0] == lst[1]:
yield [lst[0]]
lst = lst[1:]
else:
cmp = op.lt if lst[0] < lst[1] else op.gt
run, lst = mono_split(cmp, lst)
yield run
if len(lst) == 1:
yield lst

This assumes you're operating on lists and that monotonicity is strict. It's reasonably short, reasonably clear, and uses standard Python modules. Arguably the definition of start in mono_split could be confusing but I don't think it's too bad.
> Snopes can only go by what other sources have written

Or they could do basic journalism: directly contact sources or seek access to first hand material and do cross-refence. It used to be the standard back in the days to have at least three independent sources before publishing a story.
This is timing. I was just looking for a solution for a friend who has very bad eyesight due to accident. They want to be able to listen to news articles and such.

It would be nice if we can choose languages other than English.
> How many more times must threads like this be posted to HN before we DEMAND action be taken?

I completely agree with you, but do realize that the majority of hacker newses are coders (not even programmers) who would never take responsibility for their shoddy work. Heavens forbid they, or their management, be held personally liable for their mistakes. They won't even call defects, "defects"--they're just "bugs"! Whoopsies!

What could they be hiding in all that proprietary code--incompetence, malice, or both?
> I was very much a skeptic until I started seeing more and more real world (as opposed to just models) evidence. I am pretty convinced now.

There is an enormous momentum, by the time the model predictions are here in the """real world""" you already have both feet in the grave...
I think this form of counter works if and only if users explicitly direct the algorithm.

If you buy a handgun, and sometimes that handgun goes off without the trigger being pulled due to faulty design, then that's the one time the handgun manufacturer is actually liable.

It's not as if you get to tell the algorithm "Hey, I want Facebook to be a positive experience" or opt in to content.

When you have an interest like religion or politics and the algorithm starts showing you anti-vaxx material, that isn't the user in control. It is more like that faulty firearm.
Yes, they are THE problem. So what's your solution to it?

People are different emotionally, intellectually, etc. You may take in the information rationally but not everyone will. They can vote too. So what to do?

I also think acting moralistic (I understand the science, you don't so it's all your fault not mine) won't solve the problem. Aren't we interested in solving the problem? Or are we more interested in coming off as virtuous?

The responsibility lies with all of us.
Carbon Engineering [1] seems to be making good progress toward this goal. They even published a paper about their process and its economics in Cell [2].

"We describe a process for capturing CO2 from the atmosphere in an industrial plant. The design captures ∼1 Mt-CO2/year in a continuous process using an aqueous KOH sorbent coupled to a calcium caustic recovery loop. We describe the design rationale, summarize performance of the major unit operations, and provide a capital cost breakdown developed with an independent consulting engineering firm. We report results from a pilot plant that provides data on performance of the major unit operations. We summarize the energy and material balance computed using an Aspen process simulation. When CO2 is delivered at 15 MPa, the design requires either 8.81 GJ of natural gas, or 5.25 GJ of gas and 366 kWhr of electricity, per ton of CO2 captured. Depending on financial assumptions, energy costs, and the specific choice of inputs and outputs, the levelized cost per ton CO2 captured from the atmosphere ranges from 94 to 232 $/t-CO2."

[1] https://carbonengineering.com/
[2] https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30225-3
GP was not well-phrased. I think they meant "the first detection of a MACHO candidates could be via a WIMP detection" (a black hole planet 9 would likely be in the last uneliminated sliver of MACHO candidate space and we'd see it via WIMP annihilation)
They aren’t scanning users devices. If you think this, there is definitely confusion in the information getting out.
“Confusion” needs scare quotes badly.
Hooked me with talk of Costa Rica and it's safety, got a free lesson about drugs along the way...
And 4.5 billion years ago the Earth was a ball of lava.

I guess we can only acknowledge the problem after it gets hotter than at some arbitrary point in the past.
> they can't respond to government demands with "we don't have the capability to report dissidents".

> Apple shouldn't do this.

But they have already done this.
I don't get the sense that those varietals will only grow in Guimaras, but the locals will tell you that it's not just the varietal but also the specific soil, micro-climate, and cultivation methods of the island that makes them special. I have no idea to what extent that's true, but while I've had lots of good mangoes all over the Philippines, the ones from Guimaras were definitely the best.
>Then major social networks and the medias reversed their positions. What changed in the meantime, other than the president?

Further, the above (reasonably) implies that, had the president not changed, the reversing of positions would not have occurred.
Perhaps, but the parent post was right to notice that headline wording choice has an effect on emotion, and can be manipulative. Human interest stories aren't always chosen and conveyed with the interest of the reader or the subject in mind.
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What year does NOAA choose as the beginning for "record"? It's relevant to the discussion.

Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Humans have existed for 200,000 years.

This all comes off as political or quasi-religious because I can assure you that the author knows average people will read that headline and assume "begining of time". Hence I call bullshit.
Raping young boys is tradition in Afghanistan but you can’t blame the Taliban for that — they are very much against it.
The biggest thing the iPhone did was come up with a user interaction method that made using a mobile computer/phone intuitive.

>Chris DeSalvo’s reaction to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. “As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over.’”

“What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties,” DeSalvo said. “It’s just one of those things that are obvious when you see it.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...

Android was nearly ready to launch as a Blackberry clone when Jobs demoed the iPhone.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if they actually are confused. Consider from Apple's perspective. They were being criticized for allowing CSAM to be uploaded to iCloud, since they don't scan for it. They see two options:

* Start scanning all images uploaded to iCloud

* Start scanning on-device, but only photos that are to be uploaded, and only alerting after some threshold is reached

No matter what HN says, for them, not scanning is not an option. If you look at it this way, maybe the latter option looks better than the former?
I'm not an American so have no this Democrats vs. Republicans dichotomy, cheering or deriding the very same decisions depending on whether they're coming from "our" or "their" people (as in "He's a Son of a Bitch, but he's OUR Son of A Bitch").

I can afford to be more consistent. What attracted my attention to your post specifically (knock at conservative values aside) is the mentioning of tax cuts as if that's something terribly wrong. It's not.

The paper you've linked that allegedly is supposed to impress Americans, wouldn't anyone else. Authors' assumption for some reason (was it what Republicans promoted?) is that government doesn't have to be more thrifty and less wasteful. It reads: look, the government was just an inefficient juggernaut as usual, and the tax cuts put this behavior under risk.

Insatiable appetites of governments aside, tax cuts do pay off. And not only economically, but also in terms of bringing greater justice and better satisfaction of all but communists.
The quotation marks are on the wrong part of the title.

Apple regrets "confusion" over iPhone scanning.

We are not confused.
Unfortunately its not that politicians were warning people about it, its that the politicians of the other side were. So many of us automatically discount the opinions of anyone in power if they have the wrong letter next to their name.
I'm sorry for being nitpicky but have you even skimmed the article? It has nothing to do with AI: a human visited their website and decided asking for donations there violates the Play Store ToS. I mean your comment is perfectly fine, it simply has nothing to do with the article.
A spiritual malaise may contribute to the problem, but economic stagnation would appear to be an unlikely contributor, given that societies get fatter as they grow more affluent, as a rule.[0]

From the study: "Population obesity prevalence exhibits a positive relationship with national income and there is no evidence that the relationship, while weakening, actually turns negative at higher income levels (“obesity Kuznets curve”)."

and: "In terms of the strength of the income-obesity relationship across our analyzed countries, we find that a 1% increase in per capita income was on average associated with a 1.23% and a 1.01% increase in the prevalence of obesity among adult males and females, respectively."

[0]https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
They aren’t currently scanning their servers though.
My answer to that is "People that choose to live a risky live should be the last offered an emergency room"

It's just a trait of human nature to not care about these risks until you're/they're the one on the floor dying and then its a priority emergency, no expense spared.
You stated that it implies bias without articulating why you believe the bias exists.

Will you elaborate on how you feel the quote you included implies bias?