skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are ruled by Market Logic so that everything becomes quantified (Mbembe Necropolitics) including the Public Commons of Human Shelter.

Things like public commons of human shelter do have a cost, as they require allocating and spending resources to build and maintain and to exist.

If you need to buy materials to build and/or pay someone to work on it, whether to build it or maintain it, then it has a quantifiable cost.
How is anyone OK with Apple employees viewing their private pictures because their algorithm fucked up?
Not everyone has an eye for data, but this is a pretty clear correlation (time delayed, of course) as far as real world macroeconomic signals go. Contrary to your claim, significant increases in M2 have historically predicted increases in inflation with high probability for over 50 years, even without controlling for other factors. And all the people predicting decade-high inflation and asset inflation since last year have been right so far.
As a reddit user, this sounds exactly like you're trying to drive me away from the site.
> It's true that they're not cryptographic hashes, but the false positive rate is vanishingly small.

What are you talking about? Ask anyone who has worked in this space: false positives are abound[1][2], especially when you're looking for fuzzy matches. And you have to look for fuzzy matches otherwise slight modifications to illegal images would bypass the detection system.

> Photos of your own kids won't trigger it, nude photos of adults won't trigger it;

This is also incorrect. In general, if two images kind of look like one another when you squint, they're going to have similar perceptual hashes. A lot of unrelated things look similar to one another when you squint, and a lot of unrelated things are going to have similar perceptual hashes. And, again, you'll be doing fuzzy matches on these hashes, so you're going to pick up those unrelated things even more so than when you just have hash collisions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091750

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110159
This has finally pushed me into finally getting a liberapay account and donating to a few projects, mostly related to XMPP and mobile Linux.

My reasoning being that in the FOSS world there's not a single company you can pump funds into (Pine64 does not proft much or at all from their devices, and Purism is just one company, not yet shipping the phones in large quantity), but individual developers scattered all over the world DO contribute and DO need our support.

It's the only way, until we get more Pines and more Purisms (minus the drama).
I've run arch on probably a dozen or more physical machines (more if you count VMs) over the last 12 years. I can count the number of breaking updates on 1 hand. The talk about it being unstable may have been sort of true 10 years ago, but now it's just complete FUD.
Why the downvotes on the parent? It's literally the same thing: running random code from the internet on your computer!
You're right that you still cannot do arbitrary media queries there. But from my experience (I'm not a designer though), staying within a set of predefined breakpoints (xs, sm, md, lg, xl) is often enough for most web pages.

The style attribute doesn't allow you to do anything responsive at all on the other hand.
There are good reasons to not allow some mobile apps to run on a laptop or desktop. For example for some games you might have an competitive advantage playing them on a computer instead of a mobile devices.
Beside that there are also impacts on the developer / company with additional training, documentation and support which might simply not make any sense to them based on their app and business model.
A lawyer put forth a theory that he knew to be a lie. I’m not surprised by this, maybe deep down I’ve always assumed that defense attorneys lie, and it’s sort of their job to create doubt anyway they legally can. After all the police can lie to a suspect, prosecutors can lie to jurors, why not defense attorneys?
But newborns grow faster than infants and the increased energy expenditure was not seen in them.
It's just black for me
Show HN: Chrome Extension to link to other search engines from Google CAPTCHA's
I mean, everybody blaming Arch for being breaking and unstable...as if Debian or Ubuntu never were unstable. Quick to forget all the Mir, GNOME, wayland messups, huh?

The huge difference with Arch is that it's usually recoverable, no matter what's broken. And that's what I like the most about it.
I have my default search engine set to DuckDuckGo, but sometimes when I'm in a rush, I'll just try and go straight to Google, using the hash bang.

I frequently get CAPTCHA's on Google, and as I refuse to solve them, it means I have to retype in my search query.

This extension puts links to some better search engines at the top of the Google CAPTCHA page.
I dont get it. do you confirm the argument that buyers of tesla autopilot understand its an advanced driver assist system which at this time requires drivers attention? or you do not?

asking becuase the message yours responds to says exactly that: people whoy actually buy autopilot do know very well that it is a system that requests and sometimes even requires driver's attention.

so if you confirm that, then how is a meta argument, ridiculously so?
I always liked Allen Ward's take on this. In his view, developers have two[1] forms of value-added work:

- Creating schematics for manufacturing[2], and

- Capturing reusable knowledge.

What's interesting is that these two may be thought of as in opposition. Time spend creating reusable knowledge does not directly benefit the customer -- and time spent obsessing over the customer may easily come at the expense of reusable knowledge.

Any methodology used by developers must take this tension into account. Ward suggests a non-authority project leader (like Toyota's chief engineers) whose job it is to deliver the best products in the world. To help them, functional departments do the actual job. But the functional departments are responsible for creating reusable knowledge, not delivering products.

So there will be a constant creative tension between functional department (who want to further their reusable knowledge) and the project leader (who wants the blueprints now, but cannot order anyone to draw them) and from this creative tension and conflicts great products are woven.

[1]: Actually, he mentions a third in passing: building tools for manufacturing. (I guess the software equivalent is tools for ops, or something.)

[2]: In the software world, read this as creating code that the build system can turn into a useful product.
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Not sure the article is accurate, the law reads a lot more like 'allow' than 'require', maybe you can say they're required to decide how many licenses to issue. But why would the state have to require a wolf hunt? People want to hunt wolves, they're just waiting for the state to allow them.

> If the wolf is not listed on the federal endangered list and is not listed on the state endangered list, the department shall allow the hunting and trapping of wolves and shall regulate such hunting and trapping as provided in this section and shall implement a wolf management plan.

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/acts/169.pdf

(a 2011 law, enacted in 2012)
Scenic Background Animations Pack
Hi, Thanks for your response. I have to admit I was unaware of mididings even
though I did a search for similar projects last year. Somehow mididings did not
pop up. Looking at their website it does have a lot of overlap with Pigiron.
The Harmonizer and scenes features look nice though I doubt I would use them
myself. I like the idea of being able to execute arbitrary shell commands,
that opens up a lot of possibilities.

Pigiron is actually an evolution of a previous (unreleased) project I wrote years
ago in Java. It had a similar structure of linked nodes, each specialized for a
specific task. One of the things it had that Pigiron so far does not, are sysex
editors, specifically for the DX7 and Oberheim Matrix synths. At some point
I'll probably write a client app for the DX7 and maybe a more general sysex
editor. Sadly the Oberheim has died. Another idea I want to investigate is
integrating basic synthesis blocks that can be linked directly into the Pigiron
tree. I want to keep it relatively simple though.
Nice way to pick the example instead of the actual reason why Intel and others are replacing their C and C++ compilers with clang.

How are those PlayStation 5 optimisations working out?

Guess which compiler is currently lagging in ISO C++ 20 support.
You keep saying they can scan for whatever they want but that’s not true, today, by Apple’s description.(which is all we have to go by and is what you are mad about)

Yes the government could order them to change the system. They could also order Apple to create the system in the first place without all the indirection, safety vouchers, human review, etc which make it inefficient as a direct surveillance tool.
Yep. I feel it's been a few weeks at least.
Lawyers [edit: and law students] spend a lot of time editing Word documents. If someone has such low proficiency at skills that are essential to their job/studies, their general computer skills are probably even worse.
The Beeb made the story into an episode of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Unknown] aired on Oct 6, 1966. Was once online somewhere (having no luck today.)

Every time I hear of Machine Stops, I think of Bradbury story "There Will Come Soft Rains" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh...] For me both of these fellas capture something of the H.G. Wells atmosphere, tinged with sadness.
So how do you stop it?
Real Numbers – how much you should be spending on your Website at every stage
Commented about US atrocities on HN, and they immediately censored it
That goes from sort of understandable to completely cryptic in about 3 pages
Pretending, even for an instant, that this wasn't political censorship is foolish. They know exactly what they're doing.
Talking about retro technology, I am shamelessly plugging my twitter account for retro tech adverts.

https://twitter.com/OldTechAdverts

I've been posting those amazing old tech adverts out of magazines 90s, 80s and older. Looking at adverts for retro games, retro electronics and others. Hope to see you there.
The number of pictures that are actually just ads upvoted to the front page was absolutely astonishing when I used reddit. I didn't understand how people could see a Coke can with a funny name on it and not realize that was an advertisement.
From a lyrical Wisconsin sage of yesteryears:

"We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars, but it all comes to the same thing: peace in our time. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but
too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau's dictum: In wildness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known
among mountains, but seldom perceived among men."

- Aldo Leopold, "Thinking like a mountain"
They have said the mechanism is global in both their FAQ and in an interview with Tech Crunch. They have no way to target a database to a region or device.
How do you cope with the temptation to distract yourself?
Biomass gasification can be used to generate hydrogen with carbon as a byproduct (as carbon black and biochar)

That's basically the same as blue hydrogen, except with biomass as a feedstock instead of fossil fuels
I know that the quick deprecation of keys inside the arch-keyring can lead to problems when you fall too far behind.

It would be awesome if pacman had an easy way to check what kind of keys are missing, and would automatically try to obtain them...because sometimes I had gpg/pgp problems, too, and these kind of problems are kinda unnecessary.
Well, solutions like docker, Ansible, vbox and Nix provide a containerized dev environment and help with requirement provisioning.

Codespaces, github.dev and github1s also kinda help with this although with a focus on helping on-boarding new team members. But IMO, in future, this could have features like export Dockerfile or any other format github desires.
Not sure what to make of stuff like this honestly: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking...

But it’s interesting every time these variants pop up and they evade vaccines.
But this isn't from automatic scanning. This is from dumb police work - one could actually argue that the scanning approach would have saved the person from this problem.
>The competitors here are nintendo consoles, and the playstation.

Nope, the competition is GPD and other UMPCs. Valve is quite clear about the fact that this is a PC, not a game console. It's a portable gaming PC, but not a console. It's a general purpose computer. I expect a lot of people to install Windows on it, too.
I've known multiple people that permanently lost their sense of taste after a bad flu.
I feel like this is a good thing given the circumstances we're already in. It might catch some predators while still keeping everyone's photos private. Sure, it's ripe for abuse, but when has it not been that way? Haven't we always had to trust Apple to do the right thing with our iDevices?

This could marginally reduce Apple's leverage against evil governments seeking to pry into iPhones since "if you can do it for CP, you can do it for tank man". But with Apple already being the dictator of all OS-level code running on your device, this capability isn't anything fundamentally new. Do we have any guarantee that certain devices in China haven't received a "special" version of some software update that introduces a backdoor?

Personally, I have an Android and hope that my next phone will run some flavor of Linux.
> There's not a single piece of consumer tech in the last 20 years that has made our lives tangibly better in any way.

Tell that to blind people who, for the past decade or so, have had screen readers built into our mainstream smartphones at no extra cost, giving us access to a wide variety of functionality all in one device. And that functionality includes access to on-demand transportation through Uber or the like. Yes, we have to pay for that last part, but for those of us who can, it's still liberating.

Edit: And I'm sure there are other counter-examples; I hope others will add their own. I just wrote about the one that has affected me and my friends.
Counterpoint - he may not want new users to have their first experience be one leading to them rating 1 star and requesting refund.
Undeniable proof that God exists
> Large government to Apple: "Please now also create a hash on each photo metadata field including date/time and location. Let us query these. AND BTW, this change must be kept secret. Thanks."

How do you know this hasn’t already happened? What does it have to do with the CSAM technology?
Announcing it isn't fishy. If they didn't announce it, they'd risk a whistleblower telling the story for them. In fact, the story did break a day before Apple could officially announce it. That may already have hurt them more because they weren't even part of the discussion at that point. What you want is to tell the story on your terms. If someone beats you to it you can't do that.

Unrelated to Apple, but that's one of the big problems with misinformation. You can't get ahead of it because it's all made up.
> why do they need to be such money makers??

Because that's capitalism. Investors want "growth".
Neither 1 nor 2 are in fact true. Spotlight indexes all kinds of metadata, as does photos search. Adding an agent to upload data from these is easier than extending the CSAM mechanism, and the CSAM mechanism as is is not all that plausible to abuse either technically or socially given how clear Apple’s promises are.
Would something like that exist on Windows?

Also, it doesn't seem to solve the problem of multiple accounts; I more or less accepted I need to manually configure user.name and user.email for each clone, but the account is not part of the same config, it looks like it's stored in some other ephemeral place - maybe GCM Core, or some Credential Manager or who knows.

I only realize it was using the wrong account when I try to push and get some unauthorized error; by that point, my commit log is polluted with the wrong account so I need to do some gymnastics where I reset the authentication, manually copy over files or unstage to purge the metadata, etc.
I don‘t know about you but in the last 8 years or so my job was it to maintain multiple games in different stores (playstore, appstore, kindle, etc.) The amount of things that changed over the years that had to be actively maintained in order to be able to push new versions to these stores is huge. Sure if you have a free app that just uses a minimum API and in case of iOS is somewhat responsive you can do a fire and forget publish.

But the moment you have a tighter integration with the system with a custom login or maybe ads and some inApp products you are in for a fun ride if you want users to get the latest and greatest version. The moment you have ingame products that are paid with real money you will have the added joy of dealing with customers and issues with said payments. The. One the yearly API deprecations with soft force updates to the latest build tools and so forth.

Also OpenSourcing a game is not just a push of a button on GitHub. For bigger projects and companies it means lawyers have to get involved.
Which would be fine if you weren’t forced to pay the fee. If you want to make a mobile app, you have to pay apples fee and have no other options.
> The worst part is: how do I put my money where my mouth is? Am I going back to using Linux on the desktop (2022 will be the year of Linux on the desktop, remember), debugging wifi drivers and tirelessly trying to make resume-from-suspend work?

Oh come on. DOn't make it sound like it's that bad. Wifi is a solved problem for a long time now, and you can buy Lenovo, System76 or Tuxedo if you want to make sure 100% things work as expected. Don't be that guy.
Producing a full-blown Lisp does not appear to be the primary purpose of this project

Rather, it's an attempt to judge the verbosity of various languages by writing the same small interpreter in each of those languages. I'm not entirely convinced that this is a definitive way of doing this, but that's what the author is trying to do. It says as much on the project page.
Unfortunately, people are not taught to question everything they find suspicious or use thorough evidence to back up their claims / counter-claims on what is going on. Ask too many good questions, with evidence and either they ignore your questions, gaslight you or they outright ban you because of their so-called 'guidelines' which they break themselves is also subject to change at anytime.

It is said that Facebook started to censor the official CDC guidelines [0] as 'False Information' as discussed here [1]. It is at this point they have made themselves the arbiter of truth for health guidelines, alongside with entire so-called 'Trusted News Initiative' [2] are (ab)using that as cover to mass-ban accounts that question this; or even question the bans.

One TNI member the BBC also recently spread some false information on to younger audiences themselves, as found by an independent 'fact checker' for once checked their claims right here: [1] Rarely do you see checks on news sites themselves since the BBC's own fact checkers are themselves biased.

Looking at the 'evidence' from several sources and 'fact checkers' may help paint the whole picture rather than a select few dismissing everything with the 'no evidence' label or even labelling official sources as 'false information'.

> We may not agree with what someone has to say, but it is absolutely shameful to try to silence someone just because we don’t agree with them.

When I see this:

> The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was set up last year to protect audiences and users from disinformation

That looks like a green light for tech companies to mass-ban accounts automatically on what they think is 'disinformation' and use that as cover (Even when they spread it themselves). Seems like Apple wanted to justify surveilling the content of your device to 'protect the children' now Big Tech wants to suspend your accounts to 'to protect audiences and users from disinformation'.

These platforms are the whole problem and it is getting worse. They will never change it will continue. This is just the beginning.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999720

[1] https://postimg.cc/XpWyN3pf

[2] https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative...

[3] https://fullfact.org/online/Hart-Newsround-report-misleading...
What O/S do you run on it? AIU Fairphone primarily advertises sustainability, but then still uses AOSP out of the box, with however an express policy to open up its bootloader to alternative Android-based OSes and keep warranty, or don't they?
> What is your source?

one source:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/delta-var...

The NYT says 1% of infected kids ends up in the hospital:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/health/coronavirus-childr...
(Obviously, you need to recognize more kids are catching delta so the base is increasing.)

France tells us about kids facing long covid:
https://www.france24.com/en/health/20210812-young-people-hit...
> But Apple was surprised its stance then was not more popular, and the global tide since then has been toward more monitoring of private communication.

Personally speaking, Apple denying breaking into a phone in 2016 was indeed one of the reasons I believed them when they said they stand up for privacy. This is now developing a foul after taste - when it really counts, they don’t publicly stand up against governments.
Why should Apple's promises be taken at face value? Doubly so in a world where they can be compelled legally to break those promises and say nothing (especially in the more totalitarian countries they willingly operate in and willingly subvert some of their other privacy guarantees)?

What stops Apple from altering the deal further?

And if you have an answer for that, what makes you believe that 10 years in the future, with someone else at the helm, that they won't?

Your device is now proactively acting as a stool pigeon for the government where it wasn't prior. This is a new capacity.

And it's for CSAM. For now. The technological leap from locally scanning just the stuff you upload, to scanning everything, is a very simple change. The leap from scanning for CSAM to scanning for some other perceptual hashes the government wants matched is very simple.
The deer lobby must be strong in Wisconsin.
Sounds like Visual Player 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtTDPmEywHE

Edit: sorry, this was supposed to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27998754
They run more than 2 already. Look carefully at the botocore source (for example).

This highlights they cater to every US classification level:

https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/government/

This announces their secret region, and references their top-secret one.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...

Note: you might have to dig to find the non-US government classified clouds. They are documented in plain sight though.

Left as an exercise for the reader.

[ edited to add links ]
85% of voters in Wisconsin are deer. The other 15% are hunters.
The FPU does not include the source in the NaN, but that doesn't mean your own objects can't.

What I do is have the error reported at the source, and then return the poisoned object. A better way would possibly be put the error message in the poisoned object, and report the error somewhere up the call stack.