skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a policy problem. It's a governance problem. In the long run, we solve this, at least in liberal democracies, by voting people into office who understand technology, understand the value of personal encryption

Yes, it is ultimately policy problem. But the way we get people in office who understand technology is to get technological capabilities in the hands of people before they get into office, as well as the hands of those who will vote for them. Just like "bad facts make bad law", bad engineering makes bad law.

Twenty years ago we forcefully scoffed at the Clipper Chip proposal and the export ban on crypto, because they were so at odds with the actual reality of the digital environment. These days, most people's communications are mediated by large corporations operating on plaintext, and are thus are straightforward to monitor and censor. And especially when companies lead the charge, governments expect to have the same ability.

If I could hole up and rely on Free software to preserve my rights indefinitely, I wouldn't particularly care what the Surveillance Valley crowd was doing with their MITM scheme. But I can't, because Surveillance Valley is teaching governments that communications can be controlled while also fanning the flames and creating glaring examples of why they need to be controlled (cf social media "engagement" dumpster fire). And once governments expect that technology can be generally controlled, they will rule any software that does not do their bidding as some exceptional circumvention device rather than a natural capability that has always existed. This entire "trust us" cloud culture has been one big vaccination for governments versus the liberating power of technology that we were excited for two decades ago. This end result has been foreseeable since the rise of webapps, but it's hard to get software developers to understand something when their salary relies upon not understanding it.

Apart from my ][gs (and later my secondhand NeXT), I've never been a huge Apple fan. But I had hoped that by taking this recent privacy tack, they would put workable digital rights into the hands of the masses. Design their system to be solidly secure against everyone but Apple, control the app store to prevent trojans, but then stay out of users' business as software developers should. But brazenly modifying their OS, which should be working for the interests of the user, to do scanning against the interests of the user is a disappointing repudiation of the entire concept of digital rights. And so once again we're back to Free software or bust. At least the Free mobile ecosystem seems to be progressing.
This is a false dichotomy that is being pushed constantly online. E2EE is possible without this tech and in fact is only useful without tech like this to act as a MITM.
The goal is not for it to be swept under the rug. The goal is for it to deflect concerns over the coming Privacy Relay service.
CNN Explainer: Learning Convolutional Neural Networks with Interactive Visualization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.15004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnWIHWFbuUQ
https://poloclub.github.io/cnn-explainer/
What I don’t understand is how we can shut down the economy with a huge impact on small businesses, but not force the drug manufactures to share the capability with the rest of the world. We complain about the unvaccinated in the US and the possibility of mutations, but then don’t do everything we can to help vaccinate the world and prevent mutations. And Russia and China are sharing the less effective vaccines they developed.[1] The whole things seems tragic, hypocritical, and an inevitable blow to America abroad.

1. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/bidens-failure-on-covid-v...
Maybe I'm wrong, but I really want to be able to mostly correctly presume that the average HN user over the age of like... 20(?) probably has vague knowledge of the fact we don't understand the mechanism of things like acetaminophen (Tylenol) and most anesthetics...

Furthermore, most chemical engineering/pharmacy students learn that with today's regulations, acetaminophen would've never been approved. Do we think that's a good thing? I don't.

That said, I still very much agree with the parent poster's view.
I agree that this is a policy issue. The EU passed a new law just a last month regarding this [0].

I thought this was the implementation for the EU. If it was - it was fast?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753727
That's not strictly true, RE: Lewis. His opinion was even cooler.

Basically, Jesus was either:
- A liar
- A lunatic
- The Lord

And any three of those is incredible and worth learning about.

He's either a crazy person who founded the most powerful organization in the history of human civilization.

A con artist who did the same thing.

Or literally god, and people are so cynical that ~75% don't believe it
If an expert class were "most of the world" we wouldn't have to even talk about trusting the experts.
Your language suggests that you’ve already decided how you would like to believe, and your rebuttal to the OP fails to move past the first couple paragraphs of the guardian article or appreciate the other sources that are linked in the article, which elaborate on the concerns with the paper’s methodology and data.

This additional analysis on the data [0] to me appears to be of significant concern to the validity of the study and suggests fraud on the behalf of the investigators, or at the very least significant methodological failures with study design and data capture which trickled down into ultimately a flawed the study which at the very least is highly suspect to largely useless in adding knowledge to the question of whether ivermectin is a beneficial treatment for the COVID Arsenal. In an era where the politicisation of COVID and it’s treatments is at such a high level, and the thirst for polluting the discourse so high from bad actors, all players in this space need to be attempting to uphold the highest levels of scientific rigour and unfortunately it appears that standard is not being delivered upon here.

There are many other sources that you can follow from there from investigators (using the term in the academic/scientific sense) reviewing the data and paper that your keen interest in following and reviewing the evidence yourself will lead you to should you so desire

[0] https://steamtraen.blogspot.com/2021/07/Some-problems-with-t...
* Sir Terry Pratchett

It's Sir <firstname> or Sir <firstname> <lastname>.
> The system is designed so that a user need not trust Apple, any other single entity, or even any set of possibly-colluding entities from the same sovereign jurisdiction (that is, under the control of the same government)

Who's to say authoritarian governments don't team up? We just saw this happen over the last decade with the rise of nationalism everywhere.

We already know governments can put significant pressure on private companies. Don't capitulate, Apple. Blow the whistle. You're getting screwed and you have our support if you just stand up for what you said 5 years ago.
Tim Cook about privacy (2016)
> a massive lobbying push from Intuit, including a coordinated letter from Republican members of Congress demanding that the IRS not “compete” with private companies, with an implicit threat of reduced IRS funding if it did try to offer free filing.

Government would not be "competing with private companies" if it provided a core government service to taxpayers without charging them.

It would be "governing".
"False" is clearly shorthand for "there is no evidence that this is true."

If I wrote "brightball beats his wife" and then said you couldn't really say it was false because you couldn't prove it had never happened definitively it would be outrageous, right? Nobody would accept that as a reasonable argument.
Towards Interpretable Deep Metric Learning with Structural Matching
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05889
https://github.com/wl-zhao/DIML
You're right, but "compromise features due to budget or time" happens in pretty much any industry. Take construction, everyone would like to have a larger house. And just to stick with construction, think of the salaries of the people involved, and why are they what they are. The person that makes the most in construction is the guy that trades the packaged MBSes because to even know what happens after you sign that mortgage document is not that easy to understand to the average Joe.
Most of the time I'm quite outspoken. But it's clear nobody on HN is willing to change their mind on this issue. I'm just not interested in the emotional investment only to deal with oblique inferences that I'm stupid or don't understand their arguments.
I have a bit of a backdoor experience into mindfulness through my background in lucid dreaming.

And I completely agree that people need to handle their psychic health before they go down these rabbit holes. Reality can get very fuzzy for anyone, let alone someone who's already depressive, manic, or dissociative.
1) how would you know someone's being framed if it's not detected as such? in this case it just looks like the target had CSAM on their machine/account and they are found guilty, despite their objections, maybe because no-one really looked closely at the evidence, or it was planted well enough.

2) if it is detected as a plant. Would you know it? Would it fly above our radar? There is evidence this happens [1], some cases are quite high profile [2].

3) This technique is already in use. Russia is allegedly using it to discredit opponents [3]. Do you think you would hear from it if it was done by secret services of any country to discredit or get rid of foreign targets or even some at home?

4) it's the ultimate weapon against foes and opponents. It's a dangerous one but I have to wonder how many estranged spouses get revenge planting evidence [4], or how many journalists or troublemakers have been the recipient of some carefully crafted planting. I mean, nearly anyone reading HN could do it sufficiently well to get someone in serious trouble, it's not really a technical issue so it's not hard to imagine it's being done.

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/handyman-planted...

[2]: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/shaq-hit-with-lawsuit-for...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/world/europe/vladimir-put...

[4]: https://www.crimeonline.com/2019/07/04/wife-plants-child-por...
Sounds kind of like software.
They risk a whistleblower if they don't announce this news while implementing that in a country with a free press.

It's better to be forthright, or you risk your valuation on the whims of a single employee.
Of course you add a sane editor after it happens. But that first time…
> In India analytic geometry was the norm

Source?
A key point that needs to be mentioned: we strongly dislike being distrusted.

It might well be a genetic heritage. Being trusted in a tribe is crucial to survival, and so is likely wired deep into our social psychology.

Apple is making a mistake by ignoring that. This isn’t about people not trusting Apple. It’s about people not feeling trusted by Apple.

Because of this, it doesn’t matter how trustworthy the system is or what they do to make it less abusable. It will still represent distrust of the end user, and people will still feel that in their bones.

People argue about the App Store and not being trusted to install their own Apps etc. That isn’t the same. We all know we are fallible and a lot of people like the protection of the store, and having someone to ‘look after’ them.

This is different and deeper than that. Nobody want to be a suspect for something they know they aren’t doing. It feels dirty.
Honestly a great idea. But they are going for the prude & judgmental brand friendlily model.
That combined with marking types as Sendable points strongly at Rust influence. Then when you know that literal Graydon Hoare is working at Apple on Swift, the Rust influence is undeniable.
This guy is amazing. I don't even think he accepted donations until recently. I'd heavily recommend the Spanish course - his student is so active and attentive that you end up learning from her, too.

It's sad that a project like this has to suffer the bureaucracies of these awful gatekeepers. IIRC, he started teaching language for free in order to encourage understanding between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
That's actually not good science at all, not even a little bit. What that is is brow beating dissent of any kind, as well as a good laugh that a human being said this unironically.
What Tim Cook is saying in this interview makes so much sense - I wonder what caused them to do a 180 degree turn.

I mean, he literally says “You can’t have a back door only for the good guys, it will be exploited by other people as well.”
So 3rd amendment defense? These are digital soldiers being quartered in our digital house.
Glass: A new photo sharing app/community
The methodology that I think produces "pythonic" is the PEPs getting chewed on and argued about, and then documenting the results along with rejected ideas and the rejection rationale.

"Pythonic" may be so much "snakey groupthink" but there is a critical mass of documentation that is readable and helps the medium-weight user (me) get into it.
sounds like it will incentivizes battery installation
That's aspirational meditation, it's like seeing how much people exercise by counting gym memberships.
My point wasn't "the West has it wrong, you have to dive into the Eastern traditions for the real answers". It was more, "it's really complicated in Eastern traditions already, and we've muddied the water even further by adding our own expectations and biases on top of that".

So what I mean is that some people, like Culudasa, probably experienced a brain state that might be called "enlightenment" in some contexts. But either we've been way oversold what that actually means, or he only reached one of the lower "stages of awakening" and hadn't yet fully, and permanently, abandoned all the fetters.

(I tend to think it's probably the former.)
Compare what Craig Federighi is saying with what Tim Cook is talking about in this interview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177382

It doesn’t add up.
To be clear, my comment isn't a callout; I unironically believe that it's explicitly being addressed. I'd just find a writeup around the subject interesting.
If you buy a "smart" TV, then you're just supporting the market for "smart" TVs.

I prefer to support the market for "dumb" TVs.

Also, if you purchase a "smart" TV, then you either have to open it up and remove the WiFi card (and deal with any anoying messages), or hope no guest ever connects it to anything.
>it’s like the musings of an explorer who discovered a jungle city abandoned by a mysterious civilization

Disclosure: I have worked in construction.

I dont mean to get too off topic but please dont do this.
Wandering abandoned buildings is very dangerous. Roofs and stairs can collapse seemingly for no reason, exposed floor tile can release asbestos, and dry bathrooms without water in the pipes can expose you to potentially lethal concentrations of sewer gasses like methane and hydrogen sulfide that build up in enclosed restrooms with no power to ventilation systems.

If a fire starts, most emergency exits will be barracaded.
Deleting unethical datasets isn’t good enough
> Central to their findings was that metabolism differs for all people across four distinct stages of life.

There’s infancy, up until age 1, when calorie burning is at its peak, accelerating until it is 50 percent above the adult rate.

Then, from age 1 to about age 20, metabolism gradually slows by about 3 percent a year.

From age 20 to 60, it holds steady.

And, after age 60, it declines by about 0.7 percent a year.

*View in pocket to get rid of paywall
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/health/metabolism-weight-...
>He's either a crazy person who founded the most powerful organization in the history of human civilization.

I'd argue Rome had a lot more to do with that than Jesus. If Emperor Constantine hadn't found Christians to be expedient to his own political ends, the religion would probably have remained a strictly local Jewish cult, or been stamped out by Rome altogether.
Masks are expensive
Others have felt that way too:

https://smorgasborg.artlung.com/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml

The interview is not real, but it shows how some people felt about C++ years ago and the same feelings continue today.
U.S. chimp sanctuary is poised to give its primates a Covid-19 vaccine
Sugar isn't an externality so it doesn't have the same justification as a carbon tax, you are right about that.

But, it's still significantly better than taxing productive work (the current system), which is why I support it so strongly. In my mind, it's not a question of whether the sugar tax is a great idea, it's a question of whether it's better than current taxes (due to the incentives it fixes). Unless externality taxes can fund the whole budget, we will need to branch out.

I don't like the contrast with fat since fat isn't known to be bad. See studies on olive oil consumption, or see studies on how the keto diet might help with chronic disease. Sugar is bad. Taxing sugar will save lives. I'd say the same for alcohol and cigarettes.

I also view this as somewhat important for a functioning society. Even though sugar isn't an externality per se, having a society full of sick people isn't conducive to its flourishing, and might have pretty bad unintended downstream consequences. If everyone is depressed and sick, might they vote for a populist autocrat, after being unable to put their finger on what exactly is wrong? See Hitler's 10x explosion of popularity one year into the Great Depression. This is a broad view of externalities which I pay mind to.
I believe that Graydon left Apple a while ago, but following compiler Twitter, it’s pretty clear that the rust folks and Swift folks are usually in good terms.
A NASA Scientist Explains Why the Weather Is Becoming More Extreme
Capitalism doesn't work that way for health. It's only too predictable now.
Sounds like literally every living system.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
https://bird-group.org/

Take a look at these 2 sites
What We Got Wrong in Afghanistan
>I have a bit of a backdoor experience into mindfulness through my background in lucid dreaming

Could you elaborate on this? How does it help?
If-statements are for the weak :-)

This uses numpy, but it's the shortest answer presented thus far.

In [1]: from itertools import chain, zip_longest
...: import numpy as np
...:
...: def f(l):
...: a = np.array([-np.inf, *l])
...: up = a[:-1] <= a[1:]
...:
...: pos = (up[1:] != up[:-1]).nonzero()[0]
...: pos = [0, *(1+pos), len(l)]
...:
...: up_runs = (l[x:y] for x,y in zip(pos[0::2], pos[1::2]))
...: down_runs = (l[y-1:x-1:-1] for x,y in zip(pos[1::2], pos[2::2]))
...:
...: pairs = zip_longest(up_runs, down_runs)
...: return [*filter(None, chain(*pairs))]
...:
...: f([1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7])
Out[1]: [[1, 2, 3], [1, 2], [4, 5, 6, 7]]
Drug Testing Service
I don't have skin in this game, you're probably right.

All I know is what Lewis thought on the matter.
That’s only true if the Christianity itself is fungible — would Constantine have found any other set of teachings followed by the same group equally useful?
> With big-O, we need the term that grows fastest and conventionally we write it ignoring any constant scale factors.

> As an aside, for the same conventional reason, we would normally say the second version is O(N). It’s not technically incorrect to say it’s O(2N) according to the definition of big-O, but it’s not idiomatic.

Just to note, there is no difference between omitting the slower-growing term when we write n^2 + n = O(n^2) and omitting the scale factor when we write 2n = O(n). Just as you can write O(2n), you can write O(n^2 + n). The reason we don't is that O(2n) and O(n) are two names for the same set, just as O(n^2) and O(n^2 + n) are two names for the same set.
Swift actors seem to differentiate from other actor implementations (see Erlang) which have a decoupled message queue. Calling into a Swift actor may be non-blocking, but the result must still be await'd and from the actor's perspective all calls are sequential and synchronous.

By this token, actors seem to be the language-level implementation of a class where all methods are asynchronous, and also being protected by the same lock.

The novel feature seems to be cooperative scheduling amongst actors.
Here is one case which was allegedly caused by malware. Several people were arrested and subsequently acquitted.

I would say that the opt-out preference on iPhones that by default uploads all photos to iCloud combined with a remote execution payload like Pegasus would render such an attack plausible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Solon?wprov=s...
Why Programming? Why Python? Why Now?
Here's what I don't get: who is importing CSAM into their camera roll in the first place? I for one have never felt the urge to import regular, legal porn into my camera roll. Who the hell is going to be doing that with stuff they know will land them in prison? Who the hell co-mingles their deepest darkest dirtiest secret amongst pictures of their family and last night’s dinner?

I can believe that some people might be so technically illiterate that they'd upload CSAM to a private Facebook group thinking it was secure. But as far as I'm aware it's not possible to password protect photo albums using the built-in Photos app.
> Wow, I had no idea this was a thing. Not to distract from the thread, but thanks for sharing!

I think it was added in just the last few years. I am pretty sure it was added in one of the Win 10 updates. But yes it is really useful.
The tl;dr is that he was hiring prostitutes and lying to his wife about it.

EDIT: seems like there's a lot more to the story, and I think the poster you're replying to is assuming only the worst possible interpretation: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/comments/kw6wbl/...

Also, apparently he now has terminal cancer, and likely has less than a year to live. He's staying with family, which makes the above posters comment about "he is now isolated, leaving his very-much-extant sensual longings starved.)" seem untrue and unnecessarily cruel.
The most telling part of that site, or group of sites, is that long list across the top and down the left side. There are more than a dozen treatments that all seem to be as effective as ivermectin according to them. For such a mysterious, novel virus, that doctors have been stumped on how to treat, it seems like just about anything will work to treat it. From ibuprofen to hydroxy chloroquine, to ivermectin, etc...
The part Federighi's "interview" where he can't understand how people perceive this as a back door [1] seems incredibly out of touch. The back door is what everyone is talking about. Someone at Apple should at least be able to put themselves in their critics' shoes for a moment. I guess we need to wait to hear Tim Cook explain how this is not what he described 5 years ago [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/OQUO1DSwYN0?t=425

[2] https://youtu.be/rQebmygKq7A?t=57
But the catch is: all the incumbents already treated your data as if you were guilty until proven innocent. Apple’s transparency about that change may have led people to internalize that, but it’s been the de facto terms of most cloud relationships.

What I personally don’t understand is why Apple didn’t come out with a different message: we’ve made your iPhone so secure that we’ll let it vouch for your behalf when it sends us data to store. We don’t want to see the data, and we won’t see any of it unless we find that lots of the photos you send us are fishy. Android could never contemplate this because they can’t trust the OS to send vouchers for the same photos it uploads, so instead they snoop on everything you send them.

It seems like a much more win-win framing that emphasizes their strengths.
And if it were easy, everyone would be doing it
There is definitely a need