skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sooner or later the copyright enforcement companies will find a judge whose willing to rule that since Apple has the capability they have to use it even though this system is aimed at still images only, no sound or video. Then Apple will end up fighting it for years if they're lucky and it doesn't get a quick trip up to Supreme Court that's drastically Hollywood-friendly. The legal difference between mandating that a company create a brand new scanning capability and "just apply" one they already have is significant.
Also, your std::string tests happen to work because it's taking advantage of small string optimization, otherwise it'd leak memory and wouldn't pass valgrind.
Yes but it is more about exerting control over the population because that is how career politicians maintain their legitimacy
Australia has a lower vaccination rate than most other western countries, having ordered fewer vaccines early.

Australia is experiencing a surge of cases, yes.
Nor me. I will not opt out because I think there is no threat to me and I like iCloud photos. That doesn’t mean I like the presence of this mechanism.
It’s just PR. It matters to Apple whether the story is “Apple steals tech from tech startup & gets sued” vs. “patent troll frivolously sues Apple”. It’s not to convince a judge, it’s for the court of public opinion. Lawyers spinning the story in the press to make their side look better is not a new phenomenon…
This is exactly it. Even the best tools today cannot, and do not monitor all attack vectors.

If you can't trust someone to be an employee in a position where they have access to your systems, they should not be in that position.
I think Codex/Copilot is the beginning of the end for software development as we know it. In 2025-2030 the majority of "programming" will consist of feeding business requirements to AI models in the form of natural language and screen design tools, then performing tests to ensure the end result conforms to specifications.

Here are some reasons why I think this will be the case:

- Codex is an extremely low-effort first attempt but it already works for simple programs. It's capable of generating syntax errors, yet this shouldn't be technically possible if it's language-aware (it should know exactly which tokens are illegal). They literally just trained a language model on source code with no considerations for the domain. This means there is a lot of room for improvement, even without advances in ML.

- Codex is not programming as humans do, it's actually doing something much harder. Most software (for end users at least) is designed to display 2d graphics, text and interactions, yet Codex knows nothing of this entire modality. This means its capabilities should increase massively once these modalities are incorporated. It's clear that OpenAI is already pursuing this direction with CLIP/DALL-E

- Source code is actually not a natural representation of software programs, but an abstraction for humans. A more natural representation of software is the syntax tree in the compiler, or maybe a finite-state-machine. The upcoming graph/equivariant transformers should work a lot better in this domain.

- "Worse is better". It doesn't matter if the AI system is sometimes wrong, as long as it's cheaper. For businesses it's more cost effective to hire a low skilled human who can wrangle Codex 3.0 compared to a skilled human at FAANG salaries.

It's early days for this field. Given the current pace of progress I'm pretty certain that in 10 years almost all repetitive, non-creative programming tasks will be delegated to AI systems (eg. current "CRUD" patterns). The "real" programmers will move up the stack and become more like system architects.
> Aspartame is an amino acid right?

No, that's not right. It's a peptide (a unit composed of amino acids), not an amino acid.

> Isn’t it going to be in all sorts of proteins then?

Proteins are made of peptides but not all peptides are common in proteins, no.

> Doesn’t that make it rather implausible that it is toxic?

No, lots of proteins are toxic to particular organisms, too.
Perhaps these past threads might be of interest?

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22519876

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21006995
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

— Anaïs Nin
Ask HN: Small companies, how do hire without Leetcode
Hi,

I joined my current 300 people company about 2 months ago. We are trying to hire Software engineers and are using Leetcode type problems as a selection mechanism.

The problem with it, is if a candidate is very good at it she will be getting an offer from some of the larger companies who follow a similar process and there is no way we can compete with them on salary.

Additionally, internal Google research has also found poor correlation between such tests and performance at the job.

So question for HR and hiring managers from smaller companies - what alternative approaches do you use to interview employees?

One option is take home tests. I have taken them while job hunting and wasted numerous hours only to get 'we will not be proceeding' emails or even ghosted. Too many hours wasted.

Any good alternatives?

Thanks.
Just love how you selectively quote that paragraph. The following sentence is: In some fruit juices, higher concentrations of methanol can be found than the amount produced from aspartame in beverages.

In other words, all of those compounds are fairly simple small molecules and will be found abundantly in nature. There is no indication that aspartame leads to the breakdown of larger quantities then many "natural" foods.
bro, fuck right off with that "oh it's just the flu" shit. it's a bad faith argument and you know it.

at some lvl, I got COVID-19 in January and it was the worst month of my life, I still haven't recovered to my pre-COVID cardio endurance. I would request that you don't belittle people who have had worse experiences or died as a result of it.

if you want to let /pol/ melt your brain you are more that welcome to do that just keep it in the containment board my dude.
I know, but a lot of discussion ended up being about git with people saying they didn't "get" it (heh), hence the link.
Aspartame isn't just widely consumed, it's practically universally consumed. If it was carcinogenic in humans, wouldn't there be obvious epidemiological evidence to back that up?
What's helped me is getting really comfortable to the fact that the things around me are never really real.

They're either wholly manufactured (dreams), or partially manufactured (flawed senses and biases).

This tends to make me very mindful when awake, and very lucid while asleep
What do you mean yes. In what way are “most people” in Australia or even Sydney vaccinated now?
I was thinking of giving an option of exporting notes to roam with automatic backlinks generated.

Given, obsidian's popularity, this is also definitely something on the roadmap. Ability to integrate what you learn directly into your knowledge-base (or second brain as some people call it), is an excellent idea.

However, don't have the manpower right now and much focus is to create courses right now.

Might be able do it, maybe within a year or so.
If they only intended to scan iCloud photos, then they would’ve done it on the server (since they have encryption keys) instead of installing spyware on everybody’s iPhone. If they had done that then there would’ve been little to no outrage since people wouldn’t need to worry as they could just turn off iCloud.

What do you think will happen when e.g. the Chinese government demand that they scan all photos for hashes provided by the government, upload them regardless of whether iCloud is enabled, and let a Chinese company handle the reviews? If they couldn’t stop the CCP from gaining full control of iCloud in China then they most definitely can’t prevent this either.. and other authoritarian governments will copy the CCP and make similar demands.
“You are not permitted to go to property that you own legally own within our jurisdiction, without prior approval from the central agency.”

Meanwhile, ‘getting away’ from people is one of the best options available?

What timeline am I in? Can I press the reset button?
No. I clearly remember seeing that in the end credits, when I first watched Rambo 3 on TV, in the late 90s. Rambo 3 was a great movie and I liked it more than the first one, because I was a kid back then.

I remember it clearly because that was the first movie I saw exploding arrows. I don’t know if the explosive arrows were made famous in Rambo 3 or in Predator. In any case I watched quite a few reruns of Rambo 3 on TV, and they clearly had that dedicated to mujahideen fighters message in the end credits.
Is there any reason to suspect that Ivermectin should be able to prevent COVID-19?
Just curious. I worked with two SWE's there, both top notch.
We are battling a new wave of the Delta variant, as to why these measures are being brought in now it's because of two reasons:

1) NSW vaccination rates are very low. As of today only 19.6% of citizens are fully vaccinated and 37.4% are partially vaccinated. This is in part because our PM didn't secure a large enough supply of the Pfizer vaccine, and the government then sent very mixed messages about Astra Zeneca vaccine that led to a lot of people waiting for more pfizer doses.

2) The NSW government failed to take strong enough steps early in the delta outbreak to prevent this long protracted lockdown. Instead of going through a short sharp few weeks of lockdown, we are now in the 6th week of lockdown and cases have continued to rise. It seems likely at this point until we will remain in lockdown until the 80% vaccination rate is reached in late november.

TL:DR, both Federal and State governments made poor decisions, and now they're rushing to stem the outbreak as it continues to worsen in the face of their half measures.
And universal car chargers for electric/hybrid cars
That’s some weapons grade FUD you got there.

First the dose makes the poison and second, all of those compounds are naturally occurring in humans as part of our metabolism. The pathways responsible for metabolizing proteins and keeping us alive produce them.
Damn bro your first comment got insta-killed, I wonder whose mad

Anyway, not everybody gets o-chem in their lives, but we all have an opinion on the news.

All I want to know is what does it say about my biology that aspartame tastes like shit to me.
This isn’t an anti anti-money laundering. It’s providing the same information as an anti-money laundering service, the only difference is that its access isn’t limited to large exchanges and banks. I, for one, am happy to see this kind of technology available for the masses. If I were legally accepting bitcoin as payment for my small business or whatever I’d like to be able to check that the bitcoins weren’t involved in criminal activity before accepting them rather than dealing with trouble when trying to deposit them to an exchange.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/
I keep hearing this argument and I don't understand it. The entire world would know within about 30 minutes if Apple ever pushed some malware update that did an end run around security and started grabbing files off people's hard drives. I don't trust them, I know they don't do that - and we would know pretty quickly if they did. Now they're saying they will.

Could they write and deploy something overnight that hoovered up everyone's data? Maybe on iOS, less so on OS X, but now they're going to ship with that capability. I don't understand how some people can't see the difference between "they could always push some nasty update," versus literally shipping hardware and software with a backdoor.
You need to make hydrogen as a precursor to making synthetic kerosene.
I can recommend tagatose.[1]

It tastes and feels indistinguishable from ordinary table sugar to me.

[1] - https://www.wired.com/2003/11/newsugar/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagatose
yes cases are surging and vaccination rate in Australia is low but even with higher rates the country wouldn't be as laissez-faire, Australia has a markedly lower tolerance for the disease. Successfully one might add given that the country has only registered 900 deaths during the entire pandemic.
Gonna have to agree here.

If a cable fails, its easily swapped. Not great if it's proprietary, but it doesn't break the device itself.

If a non-replaceable battery fails, you're likely looking at a cumbersome repair/replacement, or (if the manufacturer gets their way) replacing the whole device. It's arguably the progenitor of planned obsolescence of modern electronics. Additionally, "Failure" here doesn't just mean 'no longer holds any charge at all', but also applies to a significantly reduced battery life/amperage that can result in your device no longer functioning as it once did - be it just not lasting the target usecase, or throttling or worse.

Non-replaceable batteries induce orders of magnitude more cost, inconvenience and waste than a lack of one charger cable to rule them all.
Australia moves firmly from a second world country to a third.
Postgres CREATE INDEX: Operator classes, index types and more
You're doing a bang up job man. It's very kind of you to continue responding to these folks when they've taken your attention rather off topic from your original comment above. Other people's bad behavior doesn't excuse your own, which also happens to be the Chinese version of the golden rule: 己所不欲，勿施於人 (literally: what you don't want, don't apply to others)
> Before we go on, why would I even begin to bother pointing out that a pound sign is called an octothorpe? The answer is simple: I think the word octothorpe is so excellently funny, I have to gratuitously spread its name around whenever I get the opportunity. Octothorpe. Octothorpe, octothorpe, octothorpe.
So anyway. After the C preprocessor has finished preprocessing everything, the results are ready for the compiler to take them and produce assembly code8, machine code9, or whatever it’s about to do. Don’t worry about the technical details of compilation for now; just know that your source runs through the preprocessor, then the output of that runs through the compiler, then that produces an executable for you to run. Octothorpe.

This is the most excellent! The author is hilarious, I'm already hooked. Thanks!
> Apple says that using a single charger would hurt innovation and create a mountain of electronic waste as consumers who own whatever cable they choose to force won’t be able to use them with future devices.

Is there some error in this sentence? It seems to say precisely the opposite of what would seem to make sense.

(Suppose they choose Cable Q, the sentence says that whoever owns Cable Q won’t be able to use it with future devices. I presume they meant anyone who owns anything other than whatever cable they choose to force.)
Nobody said that faces and emotions don't matter. That's a strawman argument.
> It's the same as people are getting nervous about inflation when lower wages are rising but not when the top 1% incomes are going up.

Not really. Which do you think is a larger increase in total income?

- Bottom 50% of all wages increase by 5%

- Top 1% of all wages increase by 20%
>Apple says that using a single charger would hurt innovation and create a mountain of electronic waste as consumers who own whatever cable they choose to force won’t be able to use them with future devices.

What kind of innovation will Apple be stiffled from doing since apparently they are committed to never changing the Lightning port/cables in order to not create a mountain of electronic waste?
He said he might switch to nano. It's not currently his editor of choice (unless there's something more recent). If I recall correctly he has been using uEmacs/PK (https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs).

> I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly. Probably 'nano'.

https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...
See Concurrent Haskell as possible set of ideas how typeclasses can be used to constrain the set of operations and sequences a type can perform.
Simple. Software is math. Math is freedom of expression. All software patents must be completely abolished.
I'm actually with Ape on this. Reason? The only universal charger the EU can come up with is USB. In the past twenty years Apple has had two versions of its charger (30 pin and Lightning), and USB has had how many? 7 iterations? Resulting in a connector that is bigger than Lightning which matters for phones.

Also, by the time EU finalizes its decision the USB Consortium is as likely as not to come up with a new version.
Perfect and many thanks. The first one is a gold mine, not sure how I didn't find it.
There are real benefits to be gained though from new compilers. Look at "Circle" by Sean Baxter as an example. Outside of supporting a powerful form of compile time computation and allowing things such as reflection and writing shaders directly in C++, benchmarks have been floating around showing that it compiles quite a bit faster than GCC and Clang whilst still being able to compile big projects such as Boost. Although LLVM is the backend, the front-end is written from scratch by one guy.

https://www.circle-lang.org/
> I just don’t think these arguments about back doors and creeping totalitarianism are either accurate or likely to persuade everyday users when they weigh them up against the grotesque nature of child exploitation.

Agree to disagree. This opens the door to something much worse in my opinion.
It's not unreasonable to assume that the current rate of disease in our populations might be able to be lower since we weren't tracking the association of the introduction of products to safety in years past as well as we do today.

A better question is, suppose it was known that it did create a small but measurable in lifetime cancer risk, would you actually want to keep consuming it?

EDIT: Also aspartame is hardly universal - it's biggest use is in diet soda. Those of us who essentially never consume it (it's been...over 2 years for me) would almost never be exposed to it.
You forgot the second half of the paragraph from your source:

> Human studies show that formic acid is excreted faster than it is formed after ingestion of aspartame. In some fruit juices, higher concentrations of methanol can be found than the amount produced from aspartame in beverages.

Also:

> Aspartame consists of two amino acids—aspartic acid and phenylalanine. When ingested, aspartame is broken down into these amino acids for use in protein synthesis and metabolism. In addition to aspartic acid and phenylalanine, aspartame digestion also yields a small amount of methanol, a compound that is naturally found in foods like fruits and vegetables and their juices. The amount of methanol resulting from consuming an aspartame-sweetened beverage is about five to six times less than that resulting from the same volume of tomato juice.[1]

[1] https://foodinsight.org/everything-you-need-to-know-about-as...
From: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/08/th...

> Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that

> Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

>Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

> Australia has now violated each and every clause of this universal human right and seemingly without much debate or objection. It is deeply troubling to see people prevented from leaving or entering their own country and soldiers in the street making sure people do not travel beyond a perimeter surrounding their homes. The costs of lockdown are very high and thus so is any delay in ending these unprecedented infringements on liberty.
TL;DR:

> This immunohistochemical and morphological re-evaluation confirmed the original diagnoses of malignancy in 92.3% of cases. Six lesions originally diagnosed as lymphoma (8% of all HLTs) were reclassified: 3 to lymphoid hyperplasia, and 3 to chronic inflammation with fibrosis. There was no evidence of Mycoplasma infection.
That doesn't change the fact that Haskell and ML did it first on their type systems, regardless how pedantic we want to discuss type theory.
O? What’s alcohol got to do with aspartame?
I don't know, like everybody else, I eat things with substantial amounts of acrylamide, which is a carcinogen we actually know is problematic, unlike aspartame.

You're commenting on a story that suggests that even small exposures to aspartame might be dangerous. And you stopped drinking diet soda only recently. I think you might have a hard time finding an American (for instance) that hadn't consumed a substantial amount of aspartame.
The uncanny absence of nihilism
We barely understand the causes of most cancers; how would we separate out that aspartame is the cause of a bump in rates among so many other carcinogenic influences in our lives?
More NYC businesses refuse to become vaccine police
You're obviously using HN primarily for ideological battle, and that's against the site guidelines (regardless of whatever it is that you're battling for), so I've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is a lot of cancer in the western world. Without looking it up, I assume many cancers are even correlated with Aspartame consumption, for instance the US will have a lot of both.

Maybe there’s the evidence.
> That doesn’t mean I like the presence of this mechanism.

I don't think I ever said you did.
Seems like a reach to me. The government doesn't just care about CSAM. They care about terrorism, human and drug trafficking, gangs, organized crime, fraud, etc.

That might make sense if CSAM detection is just the start, and they plan on detecting all those other things, as well.
It’s depressing that wokest of woke users(including myself) still use Google to find a link or at most DDG which is just a wrapper to Google Search.
I would probably be wondering where the machine is kept that reads punch cards. And how to use it. And how do I make punch cards. Then, after all that, your list seems like it would suffice.
I'm saying yes to "is there a spike in cases", which is true that there is, and I suspect it is because the data is showing the vaccine is not very effective against the delta variant.
No, the correlation evidence apparently goes the other way with aspartame.
Yes! I grew up on Donahue and the Geraldo Rivera show and Mory too. Those shows ratings were entirely built upon outrage. Social media is an iteration which allows all of us to join the audience. Tho I do admit for a romantic longing for 90s internet. It was total discovery and horror and obscenity and surprise but zero outrage. It is hard for me to be mad now about anything online now after spending hours on Cult of the Dead Cow and having my art downloaded by thousands of East Germans to jack off to. It's confusing and the lies I tell myself, but those were good times. The solution is not censorship but meaningful engagement with how human subjectivity is actually constructed vs the dissonance between individuated sovereign subject we are told we are and how we need each other to construct an ideological order/a safe polite backdrop we all agree on so we can privately go on about our lives.
Just gonna mention, that Windows Mobile had that feature too probably since its conception as Windows CE.
Indeed, it was the handset Ericsson who paid for a bunch if that development in the 90s
This reminds me of the Bayesian thought experiment of "how many people do you have to mildly inconvenience to be equivalent to one murder?"

I don't understand the logic of putting fully vaccinated, mask-wearing people into house arrest. I suspect deaths of despair will offset the breakthrough covid deaths.