skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone who flies, aviation is a huge fraction of their personal emissions. It isn't about "targeting aviation." Just any individual (who isn't an anarchist) should reduce their flying. But as you say, they should also reduce their emissions from ground transportation.

Beyond the personal, on the broader political scale, I also don't know that targeting any particular thing makes sense. All emissions, from all contributors, need to fall. Something like a carbon tax would cleanly attack the least efficient carbon emitters first.
This is a lame justification; software companies were quite capable of sales rather than subscriptions and have been throughout most of their existence.

This model is simply more lucrative and strips customers of a number of their rights which are inconvenient for corporations.
Employment is up, wages are up, booze is cheap.
Governments already are. The question is what safeguards you have against your own government doing this.

If we weren’t worried about government overreach, we wouldn’t be worried about CSAM scanning.

In another thread someone suggested that the 4th Amendment might be a protection in the US. I am doubtful about this, but I am interested in what actual law might help. Breaking up large companies doesn’t seem likely to protect us from the government.
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I'm pretty sure pedophiles will be looking for another platform following this news. Now any platform that doesn't scan for CSAM will be associated with it.
If you don't choose upload to icloud, no upload to apple at all.

If you do choose icloud upload (most do), they were being uploaded already and stored and may be available to law enforcement.

If you do upload to icloud, NOW they will be screened for matches with "known" images in a database, and if you have more than a threshold number of hits, you may be reported. This will happen on device.

Apple will also scan photos in their cloud system as well from what I can tell (though once on device is working less should land in cloud).

Note that it is HIGHLY likely that google photos / facebook / instagram and others will or are already doing similar scanning and reporting. I've heard millions of reports go in a year.
There are cases, were even i doubt the "lawless china narrative".
Lets take something recent from china for comparisson, the local ccp-officials who in the middle of the night send digging crews to endangered dams to open them and flood the areas downstream - without a warning to the population.
Cause if they warn them - they would be liable for damage compensation. So there seems to be somewhat justice giving system, if cases make it to national awareness. But in this cases, the population of villages and the digging crews brawled on the damn, resulting in incarceration of people who defended there reasonable interests. Its complicated, and i do not think the empire has not eroded away some parts of the justice system of the west.
Funny enough paying for professional moderation will actually help Reddit. The quality of almost every major subreddit is trash due to mods on a power trip (or paid by a third party to push an agenda).
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I never understood the logic of American companies asking to fill up your "race". Isn't it a tool of racism itself to do such things.
I suspect (without proof) that Reddit's unique user count is far smaller than its actual user count. People proudly use multiple alts and such behaviour is tacitly encouraged by the platform. It's not at all unusual for a user to have alts for gaming, porn and other things. Obvious this phenomenon exists on other platforms but my gut tells me it's far more prevalent on Reddit.
I think I would be content with the panopticon if it were All Can See All. That way I know there is no selective enforcement. That way I know that if a law is overly restrictive I can apply it to the guys making the law too.

Actually, no, I’m not okay with that but I’m okayer than with others can watch me and I can’t watch anyone.
CBM had 5 byte floats, but when they were copied into the floating point "registers", they were expanded into a 6 or 7 byte representation for speed. It was 8 bits of exponent, 1 bit sign, and 31 bits of mantissa (with one extra implicit bit since the leading bit is always 1).

It's true there was very little performance gain to using BASIC integer variables, since they'd be converted to floats internally almost always. The one real advantage of integers is that a DIMed array of ints was more compact than an array of floats.
Dang, I just bought a pair of Legacy Lifter IIs.. Maybe I should spring for a backup pair if they work out.
> This could point toward Facebook’s role in misinformation scandals, but given this is what has helped power QAnon and COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies on the right, it’s a point of interest that the vast majority of Republicans consider Facebook to be the Big Tech outfit with too much power.

Maybe I misunderstand this statement [admittedly, a sentence with two "this" and an "it's" makes it hard to definitively parse the subject]. It seems like a blatant cheap shot at associating being right wing / Republican with being a conspiracy theorist. I keep seeing more of these digs at the right as if anyone who is a conservative is somehow some kind of raving conspiracy nut. It's a bit ironic because I imagine the group thinking these jabs are appropriate probably also thinks "misinformation" is bad, despite being happy to mischaracterize those that disagree with them at every opportunity.
Do Indians also count as Asians in those statistics (like 40% of Google)?
I'm the opposite: I think it's disgusting people brush before breakfast, just to dirty their mouth right up again with breakfast and walk around un-brushed afterward
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It's worth reading this, which is basically the only good reporting I've seen on this topic: https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initia...

There are legitimate things to be concerned about, but 99% of internet discussion on this topic is junk.
The 25% keep enough people fooled to get enough time to spend the ~$1B.
There's a video about how Reebok became the sole sponsor of UFC, forced every athlete to wear them for pennies on the dollar (making them drop their more lucrative endorsements).

Their store would have clothing with the athletes' names misspelled, combine two athletes' names together, wrong faces, sell clothes on the wrong section of the store (men's/women's), have wardrobe malfunctions during female fights, feature a map of Ireland for Conor McGregor but completely cut off northern Ireland. And they'd misspell giant words on the screen during their big press conferences.
Building off what others have pointed out about sqlite not being a good choice for a browser standard, I just want to note that the approach laid out in the article is exactly the right approach to integrate sqlite into a web app: a web app links a version from a well-maintained “distro”. The issues inherent in trying to use an implementation as a specification and standard go away, while a “distro” maintained by experts will lower the bar to entry.

I think devs should be happy, not sad. It looks like we’re finally getting it right, and will have a feasible way to add the incredible sqlite to the set tools we have available to make web apps.

Hopefully absurd-sql keeps going and browsers adopt a good storage standard.
Interesting note here is that as of last year the US manufacturing of Brooks Brothers was closed.

They had been the manufacturer of the top quality of Naval Dress Uniforms (optional), but now it’s only what’s left in stock due to uniform items not being authorized for wear unless they meet a bunch of requirements (Berry Amendment), of which made in the US is one.
False dichotomy. You are choosing between no vaccine, vaccine a, or vaccine b. When really the choice is between Corona virus and whatever vaccine is available.

And Corona virus has bad proven effects. Life limiting effects that can persist as chronic illness.

Scientists may not know 100% that the vaccine is safer than covid, but they can be sure enough. Why take the greater risk of covid when there is a lesser risk? A jab made by scientists to save lives is more trustworthy than a virus cooked up in the lungs of a pangolin and coughed around the world.
I'm not sure I understand your taxonomy. In my mind, an image board is a type of forum (generally anonymous and ephemeral). Reddit is more like a forum than a typical forum than popular imageboards, since users have long-lived identities and posts are permanent by default.

As far as "most cat pictures and memes", maybe it is, by volume. But that doesn't diminish the substantial corpus of more substantive, forum-like, discussion hosted on the site.
What makes you think reddit wouldn't just take the third party's money to push the agenda themselves, like many media companies do?
I don't know the accuracy of the sources, but Wikipedia has the Taliban has almost doubling in size since 2001:

45,000 (2001 est.)

11,000 (2008 est.)

36,000 (2010 est.)

60,000 (2014 est.)

85,000 (2021 est.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
It was never going to be as simple as all or nothing. We have to define where to draw the line, and not everyone will agree on where the line should be. So this is a good conversation to have, and "do nothing" is not an answer most people will actually agree on.
I personally would love to see better i18n routing in nextjs. Supporting translated routes while routing to the same page, e.g: /project, /projekt and /projet for en, de and fr
Arent the perceptual hashes based on a chunk of the image?

I wonder what the false positive rates are for:

- A random image against the DB of perceptual hashes

- Images of a baby's skin against the DB of perceptual hashes

It seems like the second would necessarily have a higher false positive rate: similar compositions (contains baby's skin) would more likely have similar chunks. Is it just a little higher or several orders of magnitude higher?

I know hash collisions are rare, but wonder how much rarity of collisions decreases with perceptual hashes.
I see, ok thanks!
Option 5 is that someone can become a “healer” or other “practitioner” and most societies are very receptive to them operating for private payment. The wider public is served better by paying for doctors, who follow science for the public good.

I think your options are incomplete because they assume a board-certified worker who wants to avoid malpractice.
When it comes to popular resistance movements, you are underestimating the most prominent force of all... that of persuasion.

The Taliban had to just sit back, do nothing, and preach at the mosques about how the evil christians were coming to destroy good islamic peoples, and wait for their followers to amass. You have to be deluding yourself to think that poppy farms are what they really want. They are a religious faction. They want followers. The poppy farms are just an added benefit.

But in terms of holding land, they have what matters most... people. And more importantly, they have religious and cultural dogma.

You will never win against the Taliban. Just like empires have never won against Christianity. You are talking about a group of people with shared values that can act in concert without ever meeting because they have shared values that are so deeply engrained in their culture. The best way to break the Taliban apart would have been covert ops designed to sow sedition and splinter the group, but even that is risky and not a guarantee.

> In fact, that's why they're trying to take over the country again, to once again have control of the Opium / Poppy farms and start getting more money for their organization.

No it's not the reason they want control of the country. They want control because they believe it is their religious obligation. Any discussion of the Taliban that does not include Islam is like discussing Spanish colonialism without mentioning the church.
I am unsympathetic to the reaction of Swiss banking officials who are apparently deeply emotionally affected by the imposition to report on the financial assets of wealthy people with financial interests in the US. Switzerland's history of providing financial services to the very worst people in the world is not much of a bush to hide behind.
Unless those pictures are also in the NCMEC database, there won’t be a match.*

* As addressed in the comments below, this isn’t entirely true: the hash looks for visually similar picture and there may be false positives.
I really don't see why the scanning would ever be done on the phone instead of on iCloud if it only affects iCloud images.

But I do have guesses why.
What happens in practice, is that police stop investigating most crimes where there isn't good CCTV coverage. The cost-benefit tradeoff is much more favourable in surveillance conditions. After a while, the public learns that if they want the police to do something about thefts and robbery, they need to support more cameras.

(Victim of one motorbike-jacking, one attempted motorbike jacking and 5 separate motorcycle thefts in London.)
What the heck is "little women bootleg dvd" doing on there?

CP?
> Right now it is effectively impossible for a consumer to buy a TV that doesn't include a computer capable of this.

I buy monitors or projectors, no TVs for me.
This might have worked twenty years ago, had we as a society done anything. But it is too late for that now. Since we put off doing anything, it is now going to be much harder to solve the problem. Eating any beef at all now is immoral.
There are numbers larger than 1.
In the hn tiktok thread, I saw a salient comment that said: "When I visit reddit I just leave angry".

Tiktok doesn't have this problem. I always have fun on that app, and leave feeling like it was a good time. Reddit is the total opposite. Nothing but people screaming and mods power-tripping, forever.

Never experienced a website that objectively has such terrible impact on peoples lives. Are they going to use this money to turn it around?
What the hell does a site like Reddit do with almost half a billion dollars?! That's insane.
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It's splitting hairs in the end. You're arguing that they only pre-scan it for bad stuff if you decide to upload it, so they don't end up with that material on their servers.

BUT THE CAPABILITY TO SCAN CONTENT OF PHOTOS ON DEVICE EXISTS. The argument is tomorrow they can simply start sending scan meta data or captions of image content up to a server without you opting into cloud storage.

The capability exists on device. It's all baby steps.
On writing useful (unit) tests
Nothing. That's not what's happening though. In a lot of places people buy houses and don't even bother renting them out. So not only buying prices are increasing, but renting prices are increasing too, because there is a group of people choking the supply for own financial gain.

>>Who cares who's buying it?

Well, that's certainly one way of looking at it, but another is that as a society we might want to take a step back and think what do we want out of our cities - if we collectively want affordable housing that people who live in a city can use, then allowing foreign investement funds to buy houses and then not live them is probably a bad idea.
Americans have this weird definition where Asian only equates with East Asia... don't ask why, it makes no sense to even have to fill this on paper.
That's what make reddit great. Certain reddit are heavily moderated and you get great content.

If you don't like how moderation done, go start your own reddit.
I think they do what other private equity groups do with medium sized tech businesses. These companies are usually profitable to some degree, but don’t really have a pathway to growth.

This generally makes the unattractive to most investors. However, companies pick up these brands, remove redundancies by combining core aspects of different businesses, try to increase profit margin and just ride it out.

Rinse and repeat and you build a portfolio. Once one dries up, you pick up another. A bit like combining good and bad loans together. As a package the good ones can support the bad ones to a degree.
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This confirms my theory above that the most important resource is people, which the united states handed to the Taliban in droves by occupying the country for the last twenty years. The look of a Christian country occupying a Muslim one is an easy catalyst that the Taliban can use to radicalise even the most moderate Muslim, especially when the US was happy to bomb anything and anyone. This was not difficult to see for anyone with a sound understanding of Muslim Christian relations and Islam in general. The US was always going to lose the moment we engaged in pro-longed occupation.
Thank you for sharing. I'll make sure to watch it.
that is the current limitation of human logical brain - whatever good looking small social/economical improvement is stretched, in real life or just as an idea, well beyond its original context it always ends up looking like communism. Situation somewhat similar to physics - great Newton mechanics taken well beyond its original context of slow velocities ends up being a completely false theory.

Wrt. the OP though - couple years ago when i checked the Google's racial make-up did very well match the racial make-up of the SAT above ~1450.

A recent anecdote - a Russian guy filling new hire paperwork in a US company checked completely different box than "Caucasian" just for fun, and when round eyed HR challenged him on it his response was "Sorry, we weren't taught how to correctly divide people by race", and the HR backed off.
You mention data lineage on your pricing page, but do you have any examples of what that looks like? Can you support custom lineages driven by an api?
Ask HN: Improve my ability to participate in a group of fast talkers
I'd like to improve my ability to participate in a group of fast talkers. I typically find myself unable to jump into the pauses and get an opportunity to speak as well as other members.

It feels like my reflexes are a good bit slower.

Any idea how I can simulate that environment and practice those skills or maybe just solve the problem another way
> I get autocomplete and goto definition with dynamic languages just fine.

No you don't. See how autocomplete does with this function:

def foo(s):
s.

Now try it with type annotations:

def foo(s: str):
s.
I was under the impression that we're way past the point where we should be removing co2 from the atmosphere instead of talking about some emmissions budget. There is no budget. Practically nobody I've ever spoken to on the subject of climate change actually knows what the 1.5C "thing" is all about. The assumption most people seem to make is that we're fine for now, we just have to make sure that "some temperature" doesn't exceed "some value" by 1.5C, within, uh... "some time frame". In other words: don't worry! The boffins have drawn a nice safe imaginary line somewhere, and future generations better not cross it or bad things will happen to polar bears! But don't worry, keep eating steak and driving everywhere and buying shit you don't need, and of course you can fly transatlantic as long as you're vaccinated!

That while 1.5C thing was supposed to be a "DO NOT CROSS" worst-case-scenario. But it was domed from the start because it was based on a lot of best case scenarios (like magic co2 capture that doesn't exist) and didn't even account for the multitude of feedback loops that were thought possible (but actually all happening).

I did a deep dive on this stuff 4 years ago. I was already vegetarian and don't drive, don't have kids. All I could really do was give up flying (which I did). I'm done worrying about this stuff. I know we're fucked, but I refuse to let it bother me. It's funny having it ignored for years until suddenly the weather actually turned to shit and people all start to talk about it like it's a surprise.

Sorry. I'm drunk and pissed off seeing this shit.
What happens if you talk about it in polite society?
Now, your race and sex matter more than ever.

But consider all of the little slights of hand performed. I recall the unhappy Tweets from feminists when women were considered for the draft, mostly around the theme of "this isn't the equality I wanted." Equality is the whole package, it isn't a pick and choose. It isn't "only the good stuff."

And then the shift has been to equity now. You have probably noticed this.
If it's not been published, then why would it not be copyrightable now? I don't understand. Who knows when it was first written? Is that even important?
I don't see than you can really work with arbitrary media queries in this, either. There are just some combinations of widths and orientations baked in, which is nothing new.
Germany too: https://www.oh-projekt.com/ - owned by Ajmal Rahmani [1], Afghan MP, son of Mir Rahman Rahmani, speaker of the Afghan parliament. Nephew to a Northern Alliance general - Baba Jan - who conveniently held a part of Bagram airbase until 2001, so that he supposedly had a nice jumpstart for his trucking business. Trucking business got fined for some millions of dollars after he bribed his way to US army officials (10k/month) [2,3]. Noone cares, probably because he has bought a cypriotic passport [4] – yet every politician wants to tackle real estate price (certainly not lowered by blood money searching for a safe haven) and feels a duty to the poor Afghan people.

[1] this links his person with OH-Projekt https://politis.com.cy/politis-news/kypros/o-entimotatos-tho... - given that there's probably not that many Afghans with the same name and the 100+ Mio€ in cash to do these projects...
[2] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-us-funds-talib...
[3] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-afghan-companies-plead-gu...
[4] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/8/28/exclusive-cyprus-so...
okay, then just replace Switzerland with a country you respect then and its the same deal
That's...not true?

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/llvm.html

I could be missing something, but I don't see any suggestion that you need a specific forked tree with patches to build with LLVM, and I've seen people filing bugs about using LLVM sanitizers to build the vanilla tree, so I don't think the expectation is that you need to apply a huge out of tree patchset for this to work any more?
So, validators are centrally controlled? I guess that'll be nice for existing real-world institutions or Ripple or something.
Reddit is such an amazing platform. It is the practice of freedom made real. Don’t like the mods? Make your own subreddit. Don’t like someone? Block them and you’ll never see them. Universal SSO across thousands of communities makes it a trusted source for reviews.

It is akin to social networking what Craigslist is to marketplaces.

A magical magical place.

I would have liked if it was easy to federate, I.e. make a new subreddit that is just like this other subreddit and posts show up in both. You can make multireddits with plus signs but you can’t create a new one that is just like the old one except you don’t censor the word “pumpkin” or whatever.

Would be interesting but maybe a bad idea since it fragments the user base.