skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, he has settled for securities fraud with the SEC for claiming over Twitter that he would take Tesla private; and he is currently being sued for literally defrauding Tesla investors in order to prop up his bad SolarWinds investment, including outright lies about the state of SolarWinds technology (he had a huge press conference before the acquisition vote about a series of houses tiled with SolarWinds solar tiles, that he knew at the time were not working).

He has also defrauded Tesla customers by claiming that the cars they were sold will have access to full self-driving in a future software update, which is obviously not going to happen (FSD has already been claimed to actually mean L3 self-driving, and even that is unlikely to be achievable without hardware modifications).

He has consistently come out before the public and claimed that he&his companies will achieve impossible things in a year or two, or presenting failed ancient tech ideas as future success ("hyperloop", or the 1850s vacuum train idea, which has never worked and will never work). I gave a list in another post, but I will copy it here again:

FSD, SolarWinds solar tiles, the robotaxis, "founding" Tesla, "founding" PayPal, the Vegas "loop", cheaper tunnels, hyperloop, NeuraLink brain-computer videogames, flying cars, the cave submarine, turbines on cars, "more efficient" batteries, Space Ship point-to-point, Tesla semi
I doubt this is actually happening due to lack of easily compiled evidence. But, I was curious and looked into price discrimination law a little more. Apparently this isn't illegal.

Stated as a rule, price discrimination becomes unlawful under federal antitrust law only when it threatens to undermine competitive processes in an affected market. I.e. offering a lower price to one party who then goes on to outcompete the other party who you charge a higher price.
According to the thread

> Which, to be clear, they kinda were. PornHub was notoriously bad among the tube sites for its reckless lack of content moderation and exploitation of the people whose videos ended up there. Because of the story, Visa and MasterCard both cut PornHub off.

This should be fairly easy to verify and would corroborate the thread
Isn't this just .NET MAUI?
I think you’re misunderstanding the ability for an echo chamber corporation to fuck itself thoroughly on that one.

They have serious problems admitting they did something stupid historically. Butterfly keyboards, reliability issues, you’re holding it wrong etc.
Don’t add your personal iCloud account even if you want.

Your goal is to not have to repurchase your music, apps, etc., but not commingle your personal photos and messages. You can do this with iCloud family child accounts.

To use “your” stuff you paid for on a “work account” they ask you to set up using alternative email address, you can make the work account be a family child account.

Then the work account can use purchases etc., and you control its access even if work attempts to take it.
If this is probably true, then it is an exploit if the company utilizes its data against you.
No way; it was Ballmer trying to copy Apple (again) and thinking being a second mover would work out.
JetBrains Rider is an amazing cross-platform IDE for .NET, with many more features than VS Code.
Wow, I wouldn't have thought there are any Epoch Times fans here.
I find FaceTime video calls really superb, but for whatever reason the audio only calls have short (sub-second length) moments where it cuts out and it's very disconcerting. This happens when calling both my parents and my brother, both of which are only KMs away and like me have 25Mb/s or faster fibre connections.

Strangely I've never noticed this audio problem during video calls.

So I tend to do voice only calls using WhatsApp and video calls with FaceTime.
Abuse and assault are distressingly common and underreported. The numbers I'd heard from an acquaintance who does counseling were higher.

None of the stories I've heard about would remotely have been helped by this tech.
In geofenced customizer non consumer cars?

Tesla/musk self driving claims require extensive independent verification, as do the other fsd wannabes (they are all wannabes right now).

I still would like primary focus on highway driving and safety. That is the big efficiency win for logistics and slot easier than urban streets
World perception is what they are solving, control is already mostly solved and can be bought (see Boston Dynamics).
Boosting Google's new Core Web Vitals performance metrics
Glyph is the founder of the Python Twisted project.

> ... forget about them until you have time for another round of security updates. If the service breaks? Roll back to the previous image and worry about it later. Updating this way means you get to decide how much debugging effort it’s worth if something breaks in the rebuild, instead of inherently being down because of a bad update.

The easy roll-back is probably one of the best benefits of containerization.
I had forgotten about hearing breathing; you’re absolutely right it was more intimate.
Uhh pornhub takes btc and ach only
So in Brazil the government blocked WhatsApp payments until they launched the central bank's own easy payment method called PIX

PIX is so good because there is no middle men, no transaction cost(for now), just an easy money transfer

Solutions like PIX would remove completely the pressure that credit card providers have on companies and individuals, especially when it comes to sex work
I don't think that's a range thing though. It's confusing the vehicles with things like road signs or puddles that you can drive over/past.
The new ‘Jeopardy’ host, Mike Richards, is stepping down
My phone disables the camera flash under 15%. I don't see that as anything particularly nefarious. That said I fully support the principle of least privilege.
Yea this data purchasing is a pretty extensive problem, used at all levels. I like EFF and think they do good work. Hopefully they, and other organizations, can help figure this out.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/secret-service-o...

[1]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/military-intelli...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/how-your-digital...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/cbp-does-end-run...

[4]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/one-company-want...

[5] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fede...

[6] https://www.vox.com/recode/22565926/police-law-enforcement-d...

[7] https://www.businessinsider.com/police-buying-hacked-data-by...

[8] https://futurism.com/the-byte/cops-buying-social-media-locat...
There are a lot more stories like this that would be great to unearth, rather than continuing to focus on the Jobs/Wozniak story. Much as I did love my ][!
A lot of people who claim that this feature made it “easy” to scope creep don’t appreciate that Apple escrows everyone’s keys for its “end to end encrypted” messaging service. Who would be able to tell if they dropped a couple extra keys in that list? I can think of dozens of security and privacy claims on iOS that are a simple configuration change away from being totally defeated.
Sorry but I feel it important to correct one detail:

-- experts are the ones supposed to be reliable about the outcomes¹; politicians should be the ones reliable about the weighs to choose as multipliers to said outcomes in decision.

How good one is at one's job, it still depends on the individual.

--

¹That's not exactly «knowing what's best». Experts are often biased in a field. To the doctor it may easily be "not to overcrowd the hospital", to the economist "not to undercrowd the commercial areas".
Most Christians I know are way more myopic than that.
"only exists on top of CeFi" is another accurate way to put it
I love posting the landing rocket to the fraudster astroturfers.
Does wireless Android Auto require a wifi unit inside the HU (wireless Apple CarPlay does)? This seems to be one of the main blockers to adoption by OEMs. AFAIK, in the US, only BMW has implemented wireless CarPlay/AndroidAuto across most of it's lineup.

Edit - also, 100% agree on the cable. From my experience, if a cable is at all worn, it stops working in the car, even if it works just fine for charging or data transfer in the home.
I feel the current marketing of topological data analysis and similar is directed towards people who have at least taken several graduate math courses.

I'm really not an expert in TDA, I only know Ghrist's book and have read Hatcher. Are there really important topology ideas in topological learning, or it can all be phrased combinatorially?

If it's an important research area, the current language really raises the bar to entry.
If putting every rapist in solitary confinement prevented a single rape, it would be unethical to not do so.

These sorts of articles come out a lot. I think they gain traction because people conflate the wrong ng conviction with the harshness of the punishment. Note how almost always it's about innocent people suffering, but presented as a human rights abuse innehich case their guilt should be irrelevant.

The courts have a problem with arbitrariness and wrong convictions. I think that's the real issue, and people are conflating that with the human rights debate around punishment itself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry

“ Exodus Cry is a non-profit advocacy organization seeking the abolition of the legal commercial sex industry, including pornography, strip clubs and sex work, as well as illegal sex trafficking. The organization originally developed out of a weekly prayer group founded in 2007 by Benjamin Nolot, a filmmaker and member of the charismatic Christian International House of Prayer.”
I'm not sure how to phrase this without sounding rude, but what is this saying that adds insight to what I've been reading on places like HN for a decade?

Is it true that people are getting dumber? Big claim, no evidence. Do paragraphs exist? I'm looking for solution. Saying nobody knows what the future looks like ain't it.
Understanding the variability in responses to Covid-19 illness in older adults
tl;dr: Do something like professional chess, that:

1. Takes hours each day.

2. Creates a persistent stress response while you do it.

3. Distracts you from food.

---

Using heart rate to estimate calories burned is mentioned. Has anyone here actually used their fitness tracker to discover an unexpected calorie sink?

e.g. I've had an action movie fight scene on the gym TV grab my attention for a couple minutes, and transition me into a sprint on the elliptical machine, without me realizing. Nifty, but I couldn't reproduce the effect.
I believe that it's an assumption for now, but a reasonable one to make. I think it's unlikely that Visa exposes itself to legal risks where MasterCard is not - why give your competitor an edge like that?
Yeah, from their talk it seemed more that it was difficult to integrate the information from the radar and visual sensors.
Clojure Radar 2021
Well, they seem to be so reliant on cheap Chinese manufacturing that they're willing to be China's complete bitch.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
One Head, 1k Rear Ends: The Tale of a Deeply Weird Worm
As far as I can tell the slowdown or cessation of the gulf stream will not lead to an "ice age" but to a cooling of north-western Europe. The climate there will be more comparable to that of the southern part of Alaska. While to the inhabitants of this region it may feel like an "ice age" the difference is that in an ice age the global average temperature goes down while this is not the case for the above scenario. It is quite possible - likely, even - for some regions to end up with lower average temperatures while the average global temperature increases.
Surveillance Data Shows White-Tailed Deer Exposed to SARS-CoV-2
Chip-based digital PCR detection technology and instrument developed
There is also no transparency if the scope or depth of iCloud scanning increases.
Completely agree.

However exercise is essential for your mental and physical health so you must keep doing it.

I found a weird side effect though. I lost a lot of weight. Then didn’t find exercise difficult and quite enjoyed it. Now I do a lot of exercise because it’s fun and eat more than I did originally. Reprogramming myself has been an interesting experience.
Blown away by a prototype clamped to a bench, eh? If this thing existed they'd have MLPerf benchmarks to show.
Correct. Idempotency isn't precisely the right concept to appeal to here. The right concept is that GET requests are assumed by convention to be "safe," which implies they aren't tied to user interaction. "...user did not request the side-effects, so therefore cannot be held accountable for them" (https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#:~:te....).
And yet while the US debated endlessly, China built this. It's transformed how people travel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
[All of] HN always... always... never...

What an extremely low bar for an argument. Underachievers, please try harder!
Half of unsubscribe links seem to auto-submit. Are they all broken in O365?
And, if those problems were solved and it became more of an everyday form of payment, there's the problem that government would start regulating it like other money anyway...
Bright distinctions between work and personal devices make it easier to stay disciplined.

Threat model is straightforward: I have no expectation of privacy on my work devices. I do not want my employer entangled digitally with my personal life.
> what they had

I am unconvinced they've lost it. There is a lot of noise right now, but how much of that is coming from people who already hated Apple?

Out in the real world, even people who've heard something about this largely don't care. It's a tempest in a teapot -- granted, a little larger than usual, but it's easy to fall into the fallacy that everyone else should care the way HN does about something. And this topic seems to be pretty divisive, almost political in nature.
Regex and fun in the same sentence? Hah
>do we have a right to sacrifice one population to protect another?

You're doing that one way or the other. The question is merely which one should be protected and which sacrificed.
TL;DR: To use an iCloud personal account on corporate device =~ s/personal/child/ig.

As posted in a sibling subthread:

Don’t add your “personal” iCloud account even if you want.

Your goal is most likely to not have to repurchase your music, apps, etc., but also not commingle your personal photos and messages.

You can do this with iCloud Family “child” accounts.

To use “your” stuff you paid for on a “work account” they ask you to set up using alternative email address, you can make the work account be a family child account.

Then the work account can use purchases etc., and you control its access even if work attempts to take it.
It is quite obnoxious that this slideshow doesn't have a date on it _anywhere_.
Interesting point - chess is something we perceive as "intellectual" but it might actually use less metabolic energy (even in the brain) than other physically stationary activities like video gaming or watching sports. It'd be interesting to see some proper research into the topic, would love links to any!
Because you do more while playing chess than passively watching other people do things. Using your brain expends calories.
That number is unlikely to be correct. 20% of the bodies energy is used by the brain so ~400 calories per day, bumping that to ~4400 while playing chess and would mean people where seriously overheating etc.

It’s very likely they made some significant error.
Explains the arm-chair discussions on Clubhouse :-)
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This is the only app I'd trust with access to my battery level https://diewithme.online/
I'm a cryptographer, so I do understand the system fairly well. What Apple is doing is applying an automated hash-based image matching system to all photos in your library, and triggering an alert (plus a low-resolution photo) to a human being when 30 photos match. Except for the use of cryptography and the "30" threshold, this is functionally identical to what existing providers do on the server side. As an expert in this field I'm thrilled to see the use of fancy cryptography, but the use of a 2PC protocol does not change the underlying functionality at all.

What is different about the Apple system is that unlike many companies (as of 2019) [0] they are not simply scanning shared photos intended for distribution. They are scanning all photos in your library, even unshared ones. This to me is much more significant than the use of PSI or adding a threshold of 30 reports. You can agree or disagree but it's much more helpful to argue this based on the merits than to be rude about it.

[0] page 8: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2020/6593...
I haven't ordered it yet, but found this 'portable' CarPlay device interesting. I uses wired CarPlay, but I'm ok with that.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/26/review-car-and-dr...
From major technologies around Hadoop we use Hive, Oozie, Spark... it's easier to say the ones we don't use: HBase.
The brain is a surprisingly hungry consumer of energy. During childhood, it can make up 60% or more of the body's energy usage. Adult brains generally use around 20-25%.

I have a friend who has ADD that I'll play Super Smash Bros. with. If I'm playing well, his competitive instinct kicks in and he'll start sweating heavily and has to turn on a fan. I keep telling him he needs to study the fundamentals of the game so he doesn't have to use so much energy processing our interactions. But he just doesn't get it, so the cognitive load of playing the game takes a lot out of him, while I can sit and play for hours and hours.

Whereas I'll break out into cold sweats trying to process social interactions.

Everybody optimizes their brains to store and process different kinds of information. When we run into situations that we haven't learned how to efficiently process, we use more energy. The body pumps blood into the brain, heating up the body, causing us to sweat.

A chess grandmaster pushes this system close to the limit.

https://www.livescience.com/burn-calories-brain.html
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You can also not use iCloud, and have the same amount of privacy.
Oh enough already. If you are uploading 30 or more images that would be illegal in your country to iCloud you're not using your head.
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Apple wouldn't be able to tell if it's Whinnie or a polical organizer, because they'll only be provided with hashes of the original images. Any government participating would be able to include any image it wants without Apple's immediate knowledge.
It seems slightly confusing, but I think the idea is that the brace is creating a new text object, which is returned and you can then add it to the scene. So it's not "get the current string" it's "give me a text object with this string." Could have been named `create_text()` perhaps.
"Delegated Domains" might interest you [0].

In this mode you manually configure a CNAME record once like "_acme-challenge.important.example => _acme-challenge.lessimportant.example" and then setup your client with DNS API keys for the lessimportant.example domain. You still get valid certs for your important domain without exposing creds for it.

A leaked key would prevent attackers from changing your important DNS records, but they could still generate valid certs for your important domain.

We bought a cheap domain (~$14/y) for this purpose and hooked it up to a DNS provider with a better API than our main provider. It has worked great and gives some peace of mind.

[0]: https://cert-manager.io/docs/configuration/acme/dns01/#deleg...
On the one hand, I generally favor allowing users/their apps to get more granular information out of their phone rather than somewhat arbitrarily deciding what they need to know (e.g. there's more GPS detail that iOS could provide but doesn't).

However, in this case, the phone has a battery meter and provides its own low battery warnings. I imagine you could have more sophisticated battery use tracking apps than Apple provides but, in general, not sure why you would legitimately need this info.
is it possible to refurbish them when their life is done?
These kind of posts attract lots of debate, maybe less so on HN, but to strengthen OP's statement: every technique beyond total calories intake is an optimization. Sometimes, if your body and lifestyle is in a situation that has many opportunities for non-calorie weight loss optimization, it may seem like total calories is not the most important factor. This is a confusing illusion because those optimization opportunities will change over time, and as you address them. Total calorie intake is the underlying reality of weight loss that will not change.

That said, there are a lot of useful optimizations and hacks out there. OP says exercise is almost irrelevant, but I can say that training up the ability for endurance exercise is really effective for me personally. During quarantine I've gone from sedentary to completing 10 mile runs, which have noticeably helped me lose fat. In the past I've also had successful experiments with restrictive diets like paleo, keto, and intermittent fasting. YMMV; experiment with optimizations, but never forget about total calories.
We need kind of consumer protection agency (with teeth) to advocate for "right to repair" and generally don't let corporations away with designing such lemons. (I mean Apple track record with swollen batteries, unworkable keyboards, bendy phones and ipads).
>Now, will China follow this? Probably not.

It's quite possible that countries would do the same thing interested parties on both sides are accused of doing with membership and voting in the International Whaling Commission: find countries that have no interest in the matter either way, and buy their support (or in this case, their addition of images to databases), which can be quite cheap when the matters don't actually affect the country.
I am an international master and did notice that I tended to lose weight while playing in 2 to 3-day tournaments. I wonder if intensive mental effort in general burns calories. What if you are programming for 8 hours a day, trying to work as fast as possible?
It's worth looking into the privacy concerns that Apple was actually trying to fix here:

1. Photos (and other documents) are currently uploaded to iCloud un-encrypted

2. These photos are already scanned for CSAM after upload

3. Because the photos are not encrypted, at any point, any government can file a court order to release those photos.

4. The court order can require Apply to not notify the user, or the public in general.

5. [Speculation] Such orders might already exist and be somewhat common within Apple

Apple wanted to fix this and introduce end-to-end encryption on all photos uploaded to iCloud, but scanning for CSAM was non-negotiable (due to internal or external politics?). They must keep doing it.

So they implemented this big mess of a workaround to scan for CSAM before upload and attach a cert with a decryption key only to photos that match so that they could later human verify once a user had enough matches and weed out false positives (which Apple acknowledge will happen) before notifying law enforcement.

Because of the direction that Apple came from, and how much effort they put into designing this system to maximize privacy, they saw this solution as a large privacy win over the existing situation.
It's not surprising Apple might have been blinded to the privacy concerns of doing AI scanning of photos on user devices, they were looking at it from the wrong angle.