skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's sort of like saying, "Now that I'm no longer busting rocks on a chain gang, I don't get any physical exercise." The response to which would be fairly straightforward, right? Join a gym, exercise at home, take up weightlifting as a hobby, etc

Well, I'm pretty sure the average construction worker is way stronger and tougher than the average coder with a gym subscription.

Try comparing a hobby musician with a professional one. The first one may be devoted, but he'll have a natural tendency to practice songs that he personally likes, and up to the level which is personally acceptable to him. Unless he gets bored and ends up browsing memes for the rest of the evening. The professional one will have to learn all kinds of different material, at the level required for playing to the audience, and for a specific deadline.

I've tried some of the items from your list, especially in my 20s I had quite an active hobby life, but if socializing with people requires an active effort, not always works out, and you don't have strong external motivations, you eventually end up looking for excuses to browse memes in the evenings.

Not to mention that accomplished people tend to stay in their own social circles, and don't usually hang around networking events / hobby groups looking for new people to meet.

> - Read a book out loud. Yes, even vocalizing alone is good exercise as it forces you to do what you're missing when working remotely, which is to quiet your mind and focus on speech.

This sounds like a particularly depressing idea. I absolutely don't want to be spending my life reading books out loud to practice my own speaking.
Yes. Again :-/
One thing I haven't seen mentioned, isn't this basically required by law in the US now? Doesn't FOSTA-SESTA make Apple legally liable if they permit these images to touch their servers?
This is inaccurate by definition, of course. Obviously. "My way or the highway" implies there is no alternative.

But in this case, of course, if you're an adult, the Messages part of this doesn't apply to you at all, and the photos part can be completely avoided by not using iCloud Photos.
That would be a problem if that was what was happening here. But it's not what's happening here, so it's not a problem :)

Google is listing the app as free. Separately, on a website via a page that is not linked from the main app in any location, you can donate to the developer. The developer is not linking to or steering the user towards that donation page in the app or in the app description, they're just linking to their code repository, which is clearly important for an Open Source app to do. If Walmart gave me a product for free, and separately I donated some money to the person who originally made that product, Walmart wouldn't really have much justification to complain.

The analogy you're proposing doesn't really make sense to me. Are you arguing that any method of donating to the developer at all outside of the Play Store is intrinsically stealing from Google? Are you arguing that the developer is stealing from Google by not hiding their donation pages on other platforms that exist outside of the app?
Dropped out for me again just a minute ago.

Getting the same JSON error[0] on attempting to log into my account that I got last time.

Damn good thing I'm not using DO for anything critical this past month. I'm not happy that this is happening again so soon after the last 10-minute unscheduled downtime.

[0]: {"error":"Looks like something went wrong. If this continues, please open a support ticket so we can help you out"}
That's exactly my point. It doesn't help anyone to blame anyone else, and the fact that Americans are so fast to blame China is very telling.

Years of propaganda has worked its magic in far more sinister ways than any of us want to admit, especially to ourselves.
on YouTube 3 channels I really recommend : history with CY - very easy to follow animated videos and great narration , Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages - have everything and good quality, also talk about mythology. World of Antiquity - most scientific vibe
Microsoft are already inferring that arbitrary software is dangerous - SmartScreen's behaviour for unsigned code works against FOSS because a project (or person) has to pony up money to pay for a certificate.
“I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “Could they have come from our lab?”

- Shi Zhengli
The most rational answer is that the Geomagnetic excursion is causing many of this strange weather phenomenon, amplifying Solar forcing to unprecedented level in modern times, & that the modern warm period has peaked & we are going into a Grand Solar Minimum.

Most of the models factor in Solar Forcing, which was only introduced in CMIP6, to varying degrees. This means models based on <CMIP6 did not include Solar Forcing, which means there has been institutional inertia that completely ignored an important factor into what drives the climate.

This meta-analysis shows the different models & how the different factors are weighted.

http://www.raa-journal.org/docs/papers_accepted/2020-0449.pd...

> You just choose not to believe the most rational answer because it's inconvenient.

Key word is "believe". You have a belief & your scientific opinion follows that belief. Are you willing to look at the data from the perspective of other beliefs? Are you open to unknown unknowns? If not, you are in danger of practicing Pseudoscience with a pre-determined outcome. Your "belief" determines your understanding of nature.

What's "convenient" is to go along to get along, make as much money as possible over APGW, & receive the social validation that one is "saving the world". There's plenty of money, personal reputation, & many careers that depend on APGW being an "existential crisis".

You should consider if you just choose not to believe the most rational answer because it's inconvenient.
> structures

Multiple sacrificial altars surrounded by balconies from which the faithful could watch.
I've been killing 20-30 a day in front of our bee hives for a few weeks now. They don't even attack me when I'm doing that, the bees are the only risk.

These kinds of alarmist articles are always a bit amusing. We've been dealing with this mess for years now in the north of the country but when a single nest was spotted in a city park in the capital it made national news. These suck for the native species that are not adapted to them but they're almost no risk to people. You'd have to go mess with their nest to have a problem. I wish I could even do that. They're so well hidden I'm stuck trying to fend off a relentless attack one by one.
Actually, HN is, as usual, doing a great job of evaluating and discussing this issue, in real time.
I feel lucky to hear these stories and "hang out" with these engineers, even if I can't personally get access to what they're discussing.

I think it's absolutely awful that you and others in this thread are actively discouraging this kind of wonderful discussion.

I think you are going against the hacker ethos and the Hacker News ethos.
I also exert zero net pull when I tear open a package of snacks. Yet the package is destroyed in the process.
You lost me. What synthesis culture? And why no Adam Smith?

Could you expand a bit on what you meant here?
The full couple of paragraphs is kind of lengthy to paste here but I think the main "coolness" is that while debugging, the phone rang. Not sure if in the other cases people are mentioning, the phone couldn't run. Also the development turn around time was much faster for Android's case apparently.

> ...whereas the engineers that other companies, they had the big breadboard prototypes, the big full sized prototyping board, and the phone would run on that, and it was not connected to a radio so they couldn’t actually use it as a phone.
GitHub’s Journey from Monolith to Microservices
It's also pretty easy to take it apart and remove the SIM card and/or disconnect the antenna. Also mobile data is expensive. Even more expensive if you want something that works in more than one country.
> On the business and entertainment side of things, there will be Top Golf, restaurants, a hotel, and a shopping and entertainment center, all serviced by parking lots to encourage visitors from further afield. The area also hopes to offer concerts, movies, and ice-skating.

A similar thing happened to the IBM campus in Austin. "The Domain" is essentially land that was formerly owned by IBM. I believe there are plans to further develop the remaining site as well.

I found this particular statement really funny, as there's a Top Golf adjacent to the current IBM Austin site.
> Sure, but the media is not writing encyclopedia entries. They make hyperbolic claims about how they break stories before anyone else, and how accurate they are.

Well, breaking news stories is their job an no one else's.

> If new information comes out later that changes things, write a new article that references the mistakes of the original. There were still decisions made to include the content that was later shown to be incorrect, and I would _much_ rather see a follow up explaining what they got wrong than "correcting" the article after publication.

I'm sure a front page of mea culpas and minutiae about the process of reporting itself would scratch some people's ideological itches, but it wouldn't actually be very useful as an information source about what the current state of things are, which is what people are actually going there to get.

Personally I'd prefer they just issue a new version of the story with a kind of version history (or at least leave the old version up somewhere), at least for major revisions, but I also kind of empathize with them not wanting to do that, because that would probably be a feature almost exclusively used by annoying pests trying to stir up BS outrage (e.g. like the kind of people who think that software should never have bugs).
Of course not, their status page says All Systems Operational! (yes it's down)

https://status.digitalocean.com/
Who knows if climate change will be an extinction event for humanity? When things get dire humanity turns to war and there's a lot of nuclear armaments at our disposal. Would it be insane to wage such warfare? Yes. But when crops are failing, cattle are dying and our civilization is undergoing extreme duress don't rule out our resorting to the insane. I think the hope is we're 50-150 years (or more) from things getting that dire and perhaps we'll have a technological solution to the problem. I hope so, but hope is not a strategy.
Good luck with that. Every alternative is an order of magnitude worse and also less honest about it.
I last noticed this happened on July 28th. Took about 5 minutes to come back up. Hopefully we're back online soon.

Edit: Back up for me after 5 minutes.
Yeah it's an interesting balance of asking per permission and pushing forward & begging for forgiveness. There's no true answer and it really depends on trust + culture + teams you're interacting with.

I've often error-d on the side of side stepping once I get a feeling that people have enough context on what I'm attempting and won't hate me for it :) even if not green-lit by upper management..
No its actually a result of a case MS lost decades ago - there are plenty of Big Tech workers on this sort of contract.
If I was in charge of monitoring compliance I would write the Paypal link checker bot in my first day of work.
What's worse than child pornography in, say, Saudi Arabia? Atheism is. They can force Apple to tag accounts that have images that are popular in atheist circles (memes, information, etc.) and track these people down. The penalty for that in Saudi Arabia is death.

China can start finding Uyghurs based on the images they tend to share. If we're unlucky (as a world), they can even start searching for particular individuals.

"Save the children" is just the classic political ploy to get a ruling through that's just a precursor for evil things to come.

I'm absolutely disgusted by Apple.
The plot widget is pretty nice. Makes me wonder if it could be an interesting frontend for viewing data in Python, like a realtime-capable, GPU-driven, web-friendly matplotlib.
I just use the built-in screen snip. You can configure it to activate on press of the "print screen" key.
So almost every picture. Isn't it the default to upload all photos to iCloud on iOS devices? Doesn't it even helpfully remove photos that aren't used as much to make room for new ones?
An exact match of a perceptual hash is basically deliberately misleading. The entire point of a perceptual hash is that there are an almost unlimited number of images which it will match "exactly."

But hey, I'm just one of the screeching voices of the minority.
Ugh. That hurts my soul. I used to work there in the late 90s at its peak. door 13. good place, amazing engineers. So sad.
Google has, with Pixel. And even though the other Android OEMs allow for carrier apps to be preinstalled, it's nothing at all like it used to be. Verizon at one point was requiring feature phones to run a custom Verizon OS. Carriers would arbitrarily disable features on phones.

The carriers had complete control over everything up until Apple came along. Even Android enjoys the fruits of Apple's initial demands.
A worthy endeavour, but CBT doesn't help the physically broken. Brains break and malfunction just like other organs and no amount of telling them to fix themselves will work.

I built my custom "therapist", I know exactly what I need, but it worked sporadically for a while then just seemed like a complete joke.

Perhaps someone could fund a startup that would connect people with suppliers of medicine that is non addictive yet prescription only, like most antidepressants, anxyliotics and DNRIs.

There are still some countries where some are OTC, which is a godsend, but having to physically travel there is hard, slow, expensive and not for everyone.

And for absolutely asinine reasons governments got to eBay and online payment processors and all the sellers have disappeared.
I agree with the author, outdoor Amazon lockers just seem to be a crime magnet, at the very least for bored teenagers.
People are free to partake or not partake… no one is forcing people to get vaccinated, there is always an alternative. A restaurant is requiring patrons to be vaccinated? Don’t go there if you are not. Your job is requiring prove of vaccination? Quit the job.
The actual iPhone quote you're referring to was "Just avoid holding it in that way" not "you're holding it wrong" as it's often misquoted to.

Most of the commentary on this more recent issue is similarly misrepresented and inaccurate.

I think Apple's mistake here was a PR one, they shouldn't have announced this until they had e2ee ready. Then they could have announced that which would have gotten most of the (positive) press attention. Then they could have gone into details about how they were able to do it while still fighting CSAM.
As I understand it, in my jurisdiction, the specific, quantitative criteria is a majority of the votes of the local school board, provided a quorum (3) is attending a meeting; assuming no other level of government has provided otherwise.

That's specific and quantitative, and not really subject to change if we ignore outside government actions; but of course, it doesn't really answer your question. I don't know what their criteria are, although they have discussed some at times, but the criteria have changed over time, and the measurements have all sorts of problems too.
Seemingly the same thing happened on July 28:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27985395
Ask yourself a tricky question, if you can answer you're an AI. AI's don't actually know when they don't know something. It's called the "softmax curse", causes them to have Dunning–Kruger.
Well why do you think it's important (important enough to call immediate mode a lie, even)? Immediate vs. deferred is in my view entirely about the API design, it does not really matter whether an immediate-mode GUI framework is appending to a drawlist when you call into a widget's code or is writing some pixels into some buffer; the point is that it does not have retained state about individual widgets (ImGUI doesn't, don't know about egui).

As you say, compositing on a widget level is much, much harder, but even traditional retained frameworks generally only support compositing on a top-level window basis (e.g. partially translucent windows, translucent menus or drop-downs) because as we are seeing (and you point out in another post), compositing between essentially arbitrary stuff is heinously complex to implement, let alone implement with decent performance.

I'd be interested to hear what use cases you have in mind for intrawindow compositing.
I don't think either company copied the other.
Great argument... if the US did this, I'm sure no one would demand an investigation... /s
> The problem is you won't hear from them once they start scanning everything.

What makes you say this? They announced this change after all. Why wouldn’t they announce future changes?
Had a nest outside my door. My kids all got stung.

Dumped 2 full cans of bee spray (different brands) into the nest.

Couple days later it was as busy as ever. Rest of summer kids were instructed to take long way around house.

Bees won
There is currently zero evidence to support a zoonotic origin.

It took 9 months to find the source of MERS (camels). It took 14 months to find the origin of SARS1 (bats).

What evidence do you have that this was transmitted from an animal carrier? What mammal in China (it's not like there are that many mammal species living in the Wuhan metropolitan area) has been identified that easily catches COVID? The answer is zero.

The most likely explanation for this, which fits with all the other circumstantial data, is that the zoonotic origin was a genetically engineered mouse with human ACE2 receptors lining it's lungs. Note that I'm saying the mouse was genetically engineered, not the virus itself. The virus could easily evolve to infect humans by repeatedly exposing the humanized mice to the original, completely natural origin bat viruses.

Calling out "mental gymnastics" when you are acting as if it's a pure coincidence that a bat virus pandemic originated in a city containing the world's leading bat-borne virus research facility is the height of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance. And before you say that the lab is in Wuhan because that's where the viruses are, no, it's not. The viruses historically have emerged in Yunnan province, in remote caves 1000 KM away from Wuhan.
The data, collected beginning in April last year, does not include anyone who moved during the vast majority of the coronavirus pandemic.
Please check your facts. Total USA emission is still almost double that of India. (Per capita it's almost 8 times higher.)
He said it in the interview and it was in the initial announcements. This is exactly the confusion he’s talking about.
I see. I didn't realize that was the distinction you were making, but now I see what you meant.

Just to spell this out (since I think this thread could still be a little confusing):

1. The photo scanning does occur on the device, not in the cloud. However,

2. Apple's explanation indicates that this device-based scanning will only occur on photos that may be uploaded to iCloud.
The bigger the better for this type of page, given that some people that use it may have faulty eyesight.
Disable iCloud and there’s no scanning.

Many people (like myself) are worried about the slippery slope where this is turned on for all photos, since why not? Not all abusers will upload their CSAM content to the cloud, why wouldn't Apple flip a flag in the future to scan everything, including photos and downloaded content? If they are serious about fighting CSAM and have this great privacy preserving platform, I don't see why they wouldn't do this?
The whole story as presented in the article and comments here is a bit misleading. None of these buildings were "abandoned", at least not in any practical sense. The buildings documented here were old (from the 70s I believe) and full of asbestos and things like that and had really outlived their usefulness, and the very large piece of land they occupied had become extremely valuable. The buildings were still fully occupied when the company decided to sell the campus and relocate to new headquarters in downtown Chicago and move manufacturing to a new facility in Elgin.

Once sold, the company moved out. Shortly after, demolition began, and that's when these pictures were taken. The damage is from demolition, not from the normal "abandoned for 10 years deterioration" you see on those Urban Explorer Youtube videos. People worked in these buildings just a few years ago, and a lot of them had been remodeled somewhat recently and were actually pretty nice inside. The 6-story building with the large atrium was newer than the other parts and is still there and the new owner/developer is hoping to continue to use it as an office building (last I heard anyway).

Motorola also still occupies the 14-story building that used to be the world headquarters as well as another large building on the property. The real story here is much more mundane: a big company sold off some valuable real estate as part of a move to chase a younger workforce in downtown Chicago (jury's still out on that decision, especially with a more WFH-focused future).
You're wearing so many layers of rose-tinted glasses that you're probably Redshift-compatible.

There were some nice unique things back then. It also sucked a lot. By the standards of back then we're living in pretty much a utopia. We have devices that Star Trek barely thought of. Seriously, I have a tablet that can speak to almost anyone anywhere in the world, instantaneously, translate into any language (imperfectly), look up any information, access to an encyclopedia tens of thousands of times larger than the most complete ones of just two decades ago, the ability to find free videos teaching me how to do anything, and that's all just the tip of the iceberg.

If I were to talk to someone in 2000 and list the shit we can do in just twenty years there is zero chance they would believe me. And it's not like the internet didn't exist back then. I was on it, as were many others on HN. Those who remember, remember that it mostly sucked.

What we have today sucks in different ways. But it's also accessible to billions of people, which is billions more than back then. That "nightmare" you're talking about is fixable, and it's certainly not fixable by "going back" to anything. You know there were also ads back then and they were just as awful as today, right? There were just less places where they could end up.
> It was taught in more the general sense of how to apply critical thinking to judge news stories.

Critical thinking is a general thing, not something for news stories. Besides the idea that school teach critical thinking in anything is laughable in this day and age.

What should be taught is history of news and why it exists. Not how to decipher good "news" from bad "news" because there is no good or bad "news". There is only agenda. Schools should also teach the history of modern school systems and the education department. Quite eye opening.

By your comment, it's apparently clear you didn't learn anything valuable in your class. But then again, it's Stony Brook.
Intrinsic Typography and the Future of Typesetting
The intro seems really funny to me. They could find no textbook that covers these topics so they printed their own. Meanwhile ISLR just released their 2nd edition. This book is the gold standard of all textbooks let alone on statistical learning. Their efforts would have been better covering case studies or advanced applications well.
Can't access any of my clusters, but hey, at least they're still serving the content I guess :|