skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> could you tell me what "E&O" means?

Errors & Omissions business insurance. Basically goof-proofing. I keep it, even though I don't really do contract work for others.

As a contractor, I'd consider it an exception to not provide full source (and proof of provenance).

Yeah, like so many of these things, having working prototypes out there, is one way to set an example.

I'm always leery of licensing requirements. I think it depends on the application.

I do think that supply-chain dependencies should have some form of assurance, but I don't think we should expect to have a full license requirement for a brand-fluffing app.
Translation: get ready for arbitrary enforcement of nebulous, ill-defined standards!
Commodore 64 BASIC and KERNAL on Atari 8-bit hardware
>This general pattern won't disappear, ever.

It should disappear due to active push back because freedom, democracy and human rights cannot coexist with such surveillance.

Privacy is where independent thinking is happening and generated and if it's not guarded properly the whole idea of democracy is not possible. More on that here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28084578
> they really are keen on annoying investors aren't they. i wonder for how long tencent and the other conglomerates will obey these orders

They will obey as long as the state has power, which will be for the far foreseeable future.

The Chinese government has been smart enhance its power by keeping its domestic businesses in a strictly subordinate position and creating an environment were foreign businesses cooperate because dependence is the best business decision (e.g. Apple has no "plan B," it's China all the way for them).

And it might work out for them, especially if foreign nations continue to complacently indulge in free market Kool-Aid.
>Electron is essentially the only reasonable way to develop non trivial macOS applications at the moment.

How do you even come close to this conclusion? What are your criteria for reasonableness?
To play devils's advocate: well, it might just very well turn out that what most humans are currently engaged in can very well turn out to be reducible to "big linear algebra functions slapped on top of a large processor".

And then the part about "being just like humans" will be the marketing gravy train that funds the operation.
I have to disagree - privacy requires openness. Indeed, "just get an Android phone" from Google, OnePlus and several other major manufacturers is a viable solution - they allow you full control over the device without their permission.

You don't want Google? No problem, blow the ROM away and install Lineage without GApps, you can even mess with MicroG if you're reliant on some app that needs Play Services.
Honest question though - but what _should_ Apple do here? I'm moving away from Apple due to this decision so i'm no fan of it.. but i also don't think it's on some corporation to spend their money to defend my freedom.

Corporations have done nothing but repeatedly invade my privacy, exploit my data and attempt to squeeze money out of me at every turn. The relationship has seemed adversarial for quite a few years. So what should i expect from Apple here?

It sort of feels like the alternative is for Apple to stand up to governments. To fight for the people.. But this seems super, super hopeful. A desperate plea founded in wishful thinking that corporations have any incentive aligned with ours.

So what in your eyes is the right solution here? Apple letting us down here is par for the course here to me. But i also don't see an alternative where i'm not just blindly hoping some corporation will defend my freedoms for me. I've lost all trust in literally every other corporation.. honestly, should i have trusted Apple?
I think offset based file access could be really powerful just based on what people are achieving in the browser with things like Flat buffers, proto buffers and even http range queries.
Canada PM Trudeau Plans to Dissolve Parliament Monday
...because of covid.

What the fuck!?

Not the onion.
He posted the video. The car was driving straight towards the gravel, so if he had done nothing it would have hit it directly. His response was in the right direction, but was a little too late.
SF first major U.S. city to mandate full vaccination for many indoor activities
Help me understand "not particularly unusual or scary, because worse things have happened before." Is it more that people have survived worse, so we can survive this? Or more of that people's response to fear should be constant throughout history?
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/p24fo8/i_modified_the_...
The foundation is made of sandstone and full of cracks and mud from the beginning; you never had root or the ability to replace the kernel. Apple has always been able to do whatever they want and they've rented that privilege to carriers and law enforcement in the past.
> Steady flow experiments, including with the original design, however, show smaller ratios of the two resistances in the range of 2 to 4.

I looked at the linked article [0] for this statement and I was hoping to see other passive check valve designs. But it mostly looked like the original Tesla design. Have there been optimizations of the design that achieve a better performance since the original Tesla design?

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23009-y
> permanent war

Not exactly a new thing though is it? Plus the actual percentage of people worldwide exposed to war or directly affected by it has dropped significantly. The world is more peaceful than it has ever been.
This should serve as a lesson to the follow-up infrastructure. If fewer people develop side-effects than expected, then either the delivery is suspicious (not necessarily malicious) or something more interesting is happening locally.
My greatest "productivity" improvement over the years is exactly this. Learning how to tell others (and myself) diplomatically "no". I used to take on, and create for myself, endless projects to "work on" and felt like I never accomplished anything. Paring down to the most important and fulfilling projects (and not trying to be everything to everybody) has improved things significantly.
I think MathML might not have failed so hard if it weren't so ludicrously verbose and time-consuming to type compared to TeX notation.

XML apologists generally propose special editors to make the experience less unpleasant, but that's not what working users of mathematics want.

TeX notation provides a way for us to type formulae in plain text form, anywhere that ascii is accepted, as fast as we can type normal text. That's the bare minimum required for any representation to be relevant to mathematicians and physicists.

I don't know what a more 'web flavoured' notation satisfying this constraint would look like. (Are web standards people even capable of brevity?)
Sure, but I already have an android. The concern I have is that the regulatory landscape will change if Apple opens Pandora's box. Google could just as easily do the same thing, hampered only by their complete inability to keep androids updated. I have a pine phone but what happens if the Congress critters decide everyone should have this feature and networks should ban devices that don't.

The point is that we're REALLY playing with fire here.
Yeah the follow buttons confused me for quite a while. I thought I was following a bunch of folks at first glance. Then I realized they've flipped the sense of outlined/solid buttons!
I think it's important to keep in mind the difference between "I changed this one thing to fix problem A, and it happened to also fix B and C" vs "I changed this to fix A, that to fix M, and another thing to fix X".
What makes you so sure that would happen? Many people like the city and have friends & family there. And for the company it makes zero difference if you work from some small town in Mississippi instead of NYC.
Climate Change as a Biological Accelerator
Except the list of hashes is a black box. Today it's child porn, tomorrow it's anti-government or something similar. It's a slippery slope that's only going in one direction.
You can, why lie?
I think the author, amongst others, speculates that Apple will announce E2E encryption of your iCloud data, such as backups, in the future. This is not an unreasonable speculation, nor does it imply support of the whole CSAM scheme.

BTW: I've been an Apple fanboy since the mid-80s, but I find the whole concept of my phone suspecting me of child pornography appalling. It's the thin end of the wedge, and IMHO Apple have made a huge mistake.
Can’t you “turn off” anything by just sticking it in a Faraday cage to block it from phoning home?
Ask HN: Does a service for a small, personal Linux machine in the cloud exist?
I am looking for a small machine that sits on the internet, is reasonably secure, and can function as a server to do things like send mail, do automation jobs, is available by ssh, etc. I'd rather pay someone to do this for me than expose a box on my home network to the internet.

Does such a service exist ?
> Assuming the marketplace is functioning

It's not. That's the problem.
>Comparing hashes is not anything crazy.

If they just hash photos, and if they only use the NCMEC database and if they only look at photos being uploaded and if the government has no access, then it is not anything crazy. But by implementing the system they invite scope creep at every one of those ifs.
If the government forces you to reverse an acquisition of an asset that loses money in isolation, that's not just business. That's a populist government intervention without any sound financial reasoning.
If Giphy had filed a Chapter 11 in the US and Company Voluntary Arrangements in the UK, to be then bought by FB, would the UK government be even scrutinizing this?

In this case this sets precedent that no other social media operation can buy Giphy. Who else could buy it and somehow make it work as a losing money asset in that case?

This is essentially the government saying: "you have to sell this back to someone but you cannot sell it to other social media companies, so you probably have to sell it for pennies to some private equity or shut it down". In what free market economy does that make sense at all?

Luckily FB can afford to lose 400MM, but what a horrible precedent this sets for the M&A activity in the tech industry.
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/161998356.pdf

They found a design that can work with current materials and lift 500kg worth of payload.

>”The tensegrity based design using current materials, accounting for losses due to deflection of the membrane and other factors, is capable of 500 kilograms of payload. If trends in the mass reduction capabilities of the tensegrity beam design continue to higher complexities, which is probable, then implementation of a complexity 4 beam will result in 1 to 1.5 tons of payload capacity. In addition, the tensegrity design has been shown to offer full deployability and can be collapsed for transport to Mars.”
What happens when you have multiple regulators in different countries that may have different views on the acceptability of an acquisition? Do all of them have to be satisfied that there are not competition concerns?
I hope people who are mad at Apple and who also criticize people for using the ‘slippery slope fallacy’ reassess their criticisms of those that try to predict negative outcomes. Slippery slope means something different than you think it means.
Yes, but if you try to aim for the bowling pins, and you miss, don't make a disingenuous claim that you intended to miss in the first place.
I suspect that breakthrough infections are a lot more common than what's being reported. They can only report the cases they know about after all, and for the fully vaccinated it's a lot milder so it's not much to worry about, so why go through the trouble of getting tested?

I know tons of people who got covid but never got tested.
You seem to be under the impression that companies hire engineers to improve the product. My pet theory is that FANGUL/et al. really just poach as many engineers from the talent pool as possible - it’s cheaper to keep the smartest guys on payroll then inevitably buying a competitor for billions of dollars.
No one wants to sit in a train for 10 hours on what would have been a two hour flight
I find that I am happier now, than I have ever been.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.

> So how to know a mask is safe? Check whether the mask has a one-way breathing system, verify that one-way valves are in place both in the snorkel as well as in the orinasal mask section, and last but not least check if the orinasal mask makes a good seal on your face. If these checks are positive, then it is a good indication the mask is safe to use.
It's a message of solidarity to the engineering team trying to solve a major outage or crisis.

I don't think customers paying for it matters: most of us have been in their place, and it's not a great place to be in.
I would suspect because governments repeatedly want this surveillance and as the GP comment correctly pointed out, this gives governments what they want while Apple sits on the side and acts innocent.

Given pressure from governments for this type of surveillance is, i think, well agreed upon - Apple giving in while avoiding direct responsibility seems quite the incentive in my view.
Would this and Codespaces make solutions like NixOS less necessary?
> a peculiarity of copyright law means that the actual shapes of the letters aren't actually protectable by copyright

Warning: offer not applicable in UK and most countries in EEA. They have the concept of protecting designs there. Japan excludes most designs of fonts because of its utilitarian use BUT if the font (technically typeface) is distinctive and used in a way that can be defended as an artistic choice, it's protected under copyright.
Well, i'm glad Stripe is a thing(even thought i'm not a fan of the company either, but it's the least terrible, i guess), along with PayPal, Xsolla will be now in my list of tools to avoid
Cortical neurons are well approximated by a deep neural network (DNN) with 5–8 layers

This is a link to the abstract so you don't get to find out the width of these networks. But given that neural networks are universal approximators, it seems to me that all that's being said is a neuron is a very complicated thing. And so the phrasing seems to give an unjustified impression you still best think of a biological neural network as just a larger artificial neural network.
> I think real education happens when we see masters practicing their form

It's worth being 'in the trenches' just watching, not having to do much, just observing how the nitty gritty tasks are done. Just like an internship: you mostly watch, not commit to complex tasks. Unless you are an intern & want to risk it and accidentally mess up the company's code. There are so many companies wrecked by interns' bad decisions, but luckily most of them bounce back from that with grace.
Hmm... I was in the middle of rewriting an application of mine from JSON stringify into localStorage to IndexedDB, but was having issues with the API being so clunky. This is a tempting alternative. It does increase size from ~200kb by a whole mb, but the app's usage patterns are such that people open it and then use it for extended periods of time in the background.
Right, but you also don't have to deal with fraudulent claw backs like with credit cards. It's not secret but it makes the integration/code easier. This is why a lot of obscure/experimental services tend to have bitcoin payment support early on and struggle with paypal/credit cards.
> And it has more to do with talent competition than cost of living.

This statement is easily falsifiable.

Salaries for anything are much higher in Switzerland.

I doubt there's more "janitor talent competition" in Switzerland than in France, yet Swiss janitors are paid more :-)
I really wish this would be the end of it. But 99% of consumers will keep buying into these walled gardens and will forget about all this within a week if they even heard of this in the news. Because the next iPhone will come in pretty purple that they absolutely must have.
Dental plaque DNA shows Neandertals used 'aspirin'
But is the problem not different? You can make millions and probably billions with open source (viral or non viral) but often not enough if you have VCs or public shareholders. If Elastic were bootstrapped and just looking to be a healthy company open source works: investors and public companies are looking for multipliers and that is an issue. For that you need to have the security that you won't be copied fast and you have to make sure that they come for you for support. There are not many companies that can show the invested side to work without dropping a lot of the open source philosophy. And many newer companies have it built in: you can get the source but you cannot really do anything meaningful with it. So it is more gimmick to attract first movers cheaply.
> 'Apple ... can now say "see, we don't collect the data. We don't even know what big brother wants to know about you."'

I don't know what Apple is thinking, but I doubt it's that, because people who care about being surveilled are very unlikely to be persuaded by that argument. (And obviously people who don't care much about being surveilled are unlikely to care very much whether such surveillance happens on device or in the cloud.)
Some fonts are only subtly different, but this doesn't strike me as one of them. Those lower case gs are about as different as the letter g can look.
If you operate in all markets then yes that’s how it usually goes.

When it comes to large deals there is always a lot of politics that comes with it well beyond the economics too.
The US does this as well.

I've heard plenty of stories from Special Forces acquaintances...
I could not find any Toyota that does OTA updates. Honda has a website to do a USB update, but I could not find evidence that they do OTA either:

https://usb.honda.com/

Subaru lets you do it over your Wifi, but does not seem like they come with a modem:

https://techinfo.subaru.com/stis/doc/ownerManual/Gen4_FOTA_H...

Although, Mazda’s website does say this, so maybe it will not be for long before they all come connected to mobile networks:

https://newsroom.mazda.com/en/publicity/release/2021/202106/...

> Mazda intends to fortify our initiatives of development of fundamental software technology in order to be able to accommodate for next-generation Mobility as a Service (Maas) and update vehicle functions Over the Air (OTA)

> Five Japanese OEM companies 3 including Mazda will jointly develop standard engineering specifications of next-generation in-vehicle communication devices to push for a standardized communication system in order to provide safer and stress-free connected services sooner.
Which part of the EULA is being thrown out?
I take issue with most of the alarmism about this CSAM scanning. Not because I think our devices scanning our content is okay, but because of the implication that there's now a slippery slope that didn't exist before. For example, from the article:

> While today it has been purpose-built for CSAM, and it can be deactivated simply by shutting off iCloud Photo Library syncing, it still feels like a line has been crossed

Two simple facts:

(1) The system, as described today, isn't any more invasive then the existing CSAM scanning technologies that exist on all major cloud storage systems (arguably it's less invasive - no external systems look at your photos unless your phone flags enough of your photos as CSAM, which brings it to a manual review stage)

(2) Auto-updating root-level proprietary software can be updated to any level of invasion of privacy at any time for any reason the provider wishes. We aren't any closer to full-invasion-of-privacy with iPhone than we were before; it is and always has been one single update away. In fact, we don't know if it's already there on iPhone or any other proprietary system such as Windows, Chromebook, etc. Who knows what backdoors exist on these systems?

If you truly believe that you need full control and a system you fully trust, don't get a device that runs proprietary software. If you're okay with a device that isn't fully trustworthy, but appears to be benevolent, then iPhone isn't any worse than it was a month ago.

Until there's evidence otherwise, iPhone will continue to be as trustworthy as any other proprietary closed-source system. If you need more than that, please contribute to projects that aim to produce a modern, functional FOSS smartphone.
>In short, Apple has built a CSAM detector that sits at the doorway between your device and iCloud. If you don’t sync photos with iCloud, the detector never runs.

If you don't want your photos scanned, turn off iCloud. You can disagree about whether or not that's anti-consumer, but you cannot argue they are changing anything about your device or it's EULA (they are changing the EULA of a service).
Don't cower in fear. Learn to use about:config, VMs, VPNs, and TOR.

Not everyone is able to do this, but you're technical enough to be spending time on Hacker News.

(Also, this doesn't preclude lobbying for restrictions on government and corporate surveillance. It's not a dichotomy)
This is indeed a thing.
Are you actually getting Chirp? Seems some Linux users are not. I'm on Chrome on Ubuntu 20 and I do get Chirp, and it looks quite bad IMO.
The tenfold categories are also a way to rescue a bad movie-watching experience, because you can at least debate whether (say) Ad Astra was a ROP or something else instead of just bitching about the science violations.
USSR followed the same path when their citizens grumbled about liberalization. State owned enterprises are now seizing power from private companies and foreign entities. Pretty soon you are going to see replays of USSR SoE dominance such as lack of innovation, bread lines, inefficient operation, and corruption. It seems xi jing ping did not fully study the downfall of USSR after all.
> Your new grad salary is probably going to be around $40K or so in the US.

Of course $40K then is $80K now, and you were working at 9-5 at BigCo, with a pension plan. Interest rates were 3-4x what they are now, the value of the house that you spent a couple of years salary on is probably going to quintuple, and the stock market runup over the next 30 years is going to be unreal.
Google’s photo library already scans for CSAM.
Would love to see this happen -- for example, the fact that you can't install an alternative web browser on the iPhone should always have been illegal, IMO.

My key question, though, is how would this affect the app-store-like world of game consoles? It'd be kind of neat to install Steam-for-Switch.
I never got why they still have ash trays in the bathrooms of the planes. They have a nonsmoking sticker right above the ash tray with a cigarette logo. If you aren't going to replace the door, why not just put the sticker on top of the little ash tray and cover it up?