skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm impressed by everything about this project, but the idea of re-writing everything from scratch would seem to doom this project to obscurity. No?

How can any open-source project compete if it doesn't lean on other open-source projects? Am I missing something?

This approach seems to guarantee that they can do a handful of things better than anyone else (because they control the whole stack), but not enough things to ever be truly complete OS for any given market segment.

Unless 1000 developers fall in love and choose to participate and compensate for the absence of other OS code, I don't see how this can grow sustainably. I'd love to be wrong, though.
But in this conversations its basically an electric kettle.
This exactly.

I am mostly convinced based on the technical details that have (slowly) come out from Apple that they have made this system sufficiently inconvenient to use as a direct surveillance system by a malicious government.

Yes a government could secretly order Apple to make changes to the system, but they could also order them to just give them all of your iCloud photos and backups, or send data directly from the Camera or Messages app, or any number of things that would be easier and more useful for the government. If you don't trust your government don't use a mobile device on a public cell network or store your data on servers.

But all of that said there is a still a line being crossed on principle and precedent for scanning images locally on device and then reporting out when something "bad" is found.

Apple thinks this is more private than just directly rifling through your photos in iCloud, but I can draw a line between what is on my device and what I send to Apple's servers and be comfortable with that.
I get it; a computer can address these things by fixing software once. People have to be trained one at a time.

This is really the glory of automated driving - once an issue is identified, it can be addressed in all the vehicles of that type simultaneously.
As I see it, Apple had 3 options for how to deal with this case - in decreasing order of hostility:

1) Sue the company out of existence
2) Buy the company
3) Settle

They chose option #3, which from what I've seen is solely related to DMCA claims. With this in mind, why should Corellium be allowed to continue this work having just gotten out of the proverbial "doghouse"?

Apple's already marked them as a bad actor in this regard and continuing to make noise seems ill-advised.
A commercial reactor will involve far larger amounts of tritium, and the structure of the reactor will be so hot that tritium will permeate through it. The amount of tritium made and consumed in a 1 GW(e) DT fusion reactor in a year would be enough, if it were all released, to raise two months of the entire flow of the Mississippi River above the legal limit for drinking water. Containment is going to have to be extremely good.
Where I live I have seen Tesla owners riding in the passenger seat (driver's seat empty).

One of these douchenozzles has a sticker that says 'I'm probably not driving'. This particular tesla has whatever 'drive like an asshole' package where the car is accelerating unsafely, weaving between cars/lanes... as this lady is reading a book.

I followed it for a while just out of curiosity. Once it got to a shopping center with dog-legs to turn left, the tesla lost its shit. It began for no reason to ride the curb, and I mean ride it. Brand new tesla just ate up both its driver's side rims to the point sparks could be seen. The lady reached over and did something that did not work, and it just kept going until she slid over and regained control.

If tesla can't even get the simplest of shit right how tf can they claim self-driving? And does it matter that if this person kills someone they are at fault? No one would have died if Tesla hadn't lied about their capabilities.

How many people must die before they are stopped from doing this shit? Tesla says they aren't misleading anyone, but then why do so many of their customers drive hands-free?
Three or four years ago.
I should add that the abandoned patent application is a continuation-in-part of two issued patents, if folks are curious: 8,433,617 and 8,346,624, both of which issued before the bar for software patents was raised (and blurred, to mix metaphors) in 2014 by the Supreme Court in Alice v. CLS Bank. Software patents issued before that case tend to not fare well under the current case law and are often thrown out in the first months of a suit (with a few exceptions in certain fora).
One of the key points you raise is separating the task effort from overall workload. Something I do in similar situations is “Here are the 4 other things I’m working on and their customers. Who do you want to talk to about deprioritizing their work?”

How this gets handled says a lot about an organization. (Priority conversations vs “suck it up”)
That's awesome that you built that layer yourself. If you're up for it, would love to connect and hear why you did so.

We're PCI compliant so can use saved payment methods across multiple providers, however in our case it does not invalidate the built-in fraud protection that providers use. Additionally, you could also use third party fraud providers at any point within your processing flow.
>I would add that it's misleading to generalize the experience of tech workers to workers at large

I would add that it's misleading to generalize the experience of american tech workers to tech workers at large. Anywhere else, you're most likely just as underpaid and overworked as the rest.
At around 1:58 there are some fails included in the video (https://youtu.be/EezdinoG4mk?t=118), and it's good to see some of the behind-the-scenes where you see dripping hydraulic fluid, beat up and broken parts, and the racks and racks of replacement parts used to keep this fleet of robots 'alive'.

Wish they did more BTS-style videos like this!
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I agree with most of the points, but why is the tone written like an edgy teenager?

The worst thing IMO (in Europe) has been the assumption that lockdowns are zero-cost (never mentioned in the insane zero covid strategies), and that lockdown is equal for everyone. Some people have bought second houses and travelled to holiday homes, etc. whereas others have tiny flats with no AC, maybe sharing with strangers, and no place for working at home.
Why would someone do that? Why not just send the original if both are flagged as the original?
You could literally buy houses in Cleveland for less than $30k. 6 months of unemployment plus stimulus in Ohio was >$25k.

This is even more true for Detroit.
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Jsoup Bug Bust: Unexpected Exceptions Could Lead to Denial of Service
Applications that use jsoup to parse user-supplied HTML or XML inputs may be vulnerable to DoS attacks. Fuzz tests conducted with the JVM fuzzer "Jazzer", through OSS-Fuzz, uncovered 8 critical bugs and 11 further vulnerabilities.
I've seen junk drawer directories in repos full of similar files and usually the scripts don't get updated over time (perhaps the authors don't want to have their updates to the scripts reviewed). Having it with the file it manages commented out indicates it's intended as a purpose-built tool or historical artifact just for this file.

Beyond this it's just personal/team preference though.
My grandma didn't have a drivers license. She had to use those trucks to get food, or wait for grandpa to get home to go to the store. Those trucks were a real life saver for her. Today women drivers are not a rare exception.
How long before people figure out the CSAM service endpoints and block them via a PI Hole device?
> FEBEADDE

0xDEADBEFE?
Try YouTube Music. There's a tab in the player that shows related tracks for each song you're listening to.
The DOE is a fascinating organization btw…anyone who is so nonchalant about public oversight and security practices that the DOD gets angry at them has to be fun at parties.
> How can any open-source project compete if it doesn't lean on other open-source projects? Am I missing something?

It doesn't want to compete. It's a system for them, by them, based on the things they like.
I did, but as a tall white middle-class male counseling a short young inner-city woman of color it's a little difficult without being patronizing. Her response was "This is not even the worst thing that's been done to me; I have to let some of it go."
As I understand it properly, there was need to develop some solution with some limited technological stack.
The only kids I know who were raised vegan have excelled in school, the older one becoming valedictorian.
You have to pass a driving test at age 16 (in US), after that you never need to test again (sometimes eye checks when you are old), cause um... nothing changes about driving or cars or rules in the next 64+ years it would seem.
You'd be surprised by how many developers fell in love and chose to participate.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pulse/monthly
Those cases are not comparable, because the whole reason they have that impact is that the accusations are usually made publicly (because the whole point is to harm the reputation of one's rapist and warn others, should a conviction prove to be impossible), while CSAM review goes through a neural hash privately on your phone, then privately and anonymously through an Apple reviewer, then is privately reviewed at NCMEC (who - I think - have access to the full size image), and only then is turned over to law enforcement (which should also have access to the full image).

It only becomes public knowledge if law enforcement then chooses to charge you - and if all that happens on the basis of an obvious adversarial net image, the result is a publicity shitshow for Apple and you become a civil rights hero after your lawyer (even an underpaid overworked public defender should be able to handle this one) demonstrates this.

As others have stated in this thread, I think the real failure case is not someone's life getting ruined by claims of CSAM possession somehow resulting from a bad hash match, but the fact that planted material (or sent via message) can now easily ruin your life because it gets automatically reported; you can't simply delete it and move on any more.
A poor vegan diet can affect your health just as a poor non-vegan diet can affect your health. Three years ago the CDC said over 42% of Americans are overweight - most of them are not vegans, and this is often due to a poor diet.

The article mentions B12, and it has been known since the 1930s (and before that to some extent) that people need to eat foods with vitamin B12. Vegans and vegetarians need to make sure they get enough B12 and other things, and anyone who has sought to read about a good vegan diet for decades has known this. Just as people know that many non-vegan American diets tend to be too high in saturated fat, sodium, simple sugars etc.

The article mentions Gandhi. Many in India have been vegetarian for millennia, including many Brahmin. It seems to have worked for them over the past 3000 years.

That vegans need to make sure they get B12 and the like or they will eventually suffer ill effects is not new information, it has been known for a long time.

This whole thing really reads like FUD.
I don't believe that the WM would enter into it — as long as folks are using X11 the code should be, I think, the same for any WM or DE.

Now, using Wayland it may or may not be possible, depending on which WM/compositor/whatever you are running.
The "kidnapping" in your example happened in 1949. It's no longer about the hypothetical daughter, but more likely her grandchildren. Given the passage of time it's farcical to insist on reversing this.
Modern states are to a large part insurance providers. Citizens pay premiums and get health care, pensions, disability care etc.

Insurance works when a large group of people pay premiums to protect against some condition that has not happened yet. If you could sign up for a fire insurance once your house is burning, the system would collapse.

For similar reasons, modern states need to keep poor people out since, on average, they will be a large net burden on their welfare systems.
the pastor who did not write the book has access to the courts, it's obviously a tort case and probably has affected her ability to work as well so I suppose that means Google should end up paying a lot.

The next person Google does that too gets even more money!

Obviously this thread is evidence in the pastor's favor.

on edit: obviously the OP has been harmed by Google's actions, but I think the pastor can show they have been harmed more. Also being a pastor and stuff, it's a good thing Google is made of money.
Most people don't have or use their critical thinking skills the way you seem to expect them to.
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It still shows up for me, still with the wrong person's photo. I have reported it as well.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=andrea+vassell
Google sometimes does these weird things. For my company that I own, Google started showing a different CEO name on the google search homepage on the right next to business name. After some digging, I found out that we have an article on our website where that person is named as the CEO (one of our clients) and google AI thought that makes them the CEO of our company lol.
The _initial_ implementation of client-side scanning has the same initial result, but vastly different futures. Up until now it could be (foolishly or otherwise) assumed that Apple had your personal privacy in mind. Now they have demonstrated a willingness to compromise your local device privacy. Right now it's iCloud only, but I'm sure it's a boolean configuration away somewhere to make it scan everything, regardless of whether it's marked for iCloud upload or not. And I don't think Apple is strong enough to withstand a gagged demand to flip that boolean.

On their cloud services (Apple, Google, MS, etc) they can only get to content that a user has implicitly agreed to share (whether or not they understand the ramifications is another conversation). On your device, there's no more separation.
I think that it can be used in situation when you cannot reach an encrypted disk and have to move about in closed space.
There’s no going back now. They revealed themselves to be enthusiastic participants in a creeping global surveillance system. They’d have to fire every single executive who passed on an opportunity to tank this thing before they get the opportunity to make the case that they’ve changed.
Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to?
Due to the controversy around Apple's CSAM backdoor plans, it seems like quite a few people are wondering what kind of alternatives are available. Let's share them!

My choices:

- Desktop: Manjaro Gnome, because it feels like macOS. It even does the 3 finger swipe up to see all your apps with Apple's Touchpad. My wireless Apple Keyboard also works fine.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/UYPfgkC

To install it on my older MacBook Pro from 2014, but I had to use Android internet tethering to install the WiFi driver.
To install it on my super new desktop, I had to use an ISO with a newer Kernel (5.13) due to the Radeon 6700 XT graphics card. I got that one from https://github.com/manjaro/release-review/releases/ instead of the Manjaro main website.

- Phone: I considered a Pixel with CalyxOS, but ended up buying a OnePlus 8T with microG variant of LineageOS from https://lineage.microg.org

Alternatively a Pixel phone would also run this version of LineageOS. MicroG (https://microg.org/) re-implements some parts of Google Play Services, while safeguarding your privacy, like push notifications. It also has some other Google-specific features re-implemented. I have over 40 apps and only found 1 that didn't work so far (which is Uber Eats, because they seem to require Google Advertisement ID). I pushed a modified Google Camera app to it (from https://www.celsoazevedo.com/), so my camera is better supported. I think only 3 out of 4 cameras are working, but I don't care.

- Watch: Amazfit GTR 2e with the official app. Alternatively it should work with Gadgetbridge if you don't want to use the offical app ("Zepp"). Amazfit GTR 2 is a better option if you want it to have WiFi and want to store music on it. Alternatives I considered: OnePlus Watch and Fossil Hybrid.

Apple features that I gave up:

- Apple Carplay: Because I don't want to use the Google ecosystem, Android Auto is not an alternative. I'll use my car's own GPS system, or I'll end up using my phone's offline maps.

- Apple Pay: My bank luckily has a contactless payment app for my phone, but I won't be making payments with my watch anymore.
Yes, but the majority of deaths has been older people, most likely not in the workforce.

30% of deaths are from 85+, 27% for ages 75-84, 21% for ages 65-74

Source: same site as you https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics
> Otherwise why all the panic about global warming

Because it doesn't just need to be feasible, it also has to be actually implemented. That costs a lot, and comes with a shit ton of friction. The fossil economy is a massive beast to try to turn around, and it would be so even if aliens landed and gave us the schematics to a perfectly working dream fusion reactor right now. That's why there is a "panic".
And you are basically legally forbidden to bring up that the lockdowns may have done more damage than covid would have.

Which I personally definitely think, because of long term mental health and such.
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"A work/life balance that truly divides the work and life components of a person’s experience may be okay for a job. But for a career? It simply won’t fly. There’s no disputing it"

Is there no disputing it though ?
i feel like everyone in the industry ought to do a couple years in a small eat-what-you-kill consultancy early in their career. When not delivering what you promised when you promised it means the lights don't come on tomorrow you get very good at estimation and delivering on time... or you find a new way to feed yourself.
Hello Augustus and thanks for posting the link to your co-authored paper on HN.

I will have to read the paper more carefully however having quickly scanned the
paper it seems that it only reports empirical resuls. In particular, there seem
to be no theoretical results about lernability of programs from natural language
specifications using large language models. To make it more plain - how do we
know these techniques work as well as reported on problems other than the ones
in the dataset introduced in your work?

Note that I'm not asking why you introduced a new dataset, this seems to be
motivated in the abstract. I'm asking: how do we know how well this kind of
thing works ("this kind of thing" being what it says in the title) in the
general case?
80% of those deaths are of people retirement age and older[1], only ~130,000 working age Americans have died of COVID. That's significant, but definitely doesn't explain the extent of worker shortages we're seeing. There are a lot of things going on, but some of them might be there are many people who are now simply willing and able to not work, because that's what they had to figure out during COVID lockdowns.

1 - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm
I think you're partially on the right track but the replies disputing whether work is now easier or harder suggests worker dissatisfaction has changed for a different reason. I'd say that work is generally easier but people (anecdotally from people I talk to) are less interested.

I wonder if part of it is exposure to alternatives. Once upon a time, your awareness of an alternate life was a movie, or newspaper article, or a friend showing you their travel photos. Now, if you are ever on social media, you face a bombardment of peers or randoms having long lunches during work hours, travelling around, in the sun, at the beach, etc - or maybe it's just my feed. Hard to feel like you have your work mix right if your daily vibe doesn't compare to the aggregated freedom.
Majority of people in California can speak Spanish, and California is geographically part of a larger Spanish speaking area.
Why? If I'm designing my own protocol I could use middle-endian EBCDIC encoded octal and it shouldn't make any difference to anything else.
> Can fusion reactors be used to produce weapons?

> No.

That is a deeply misleading answer. While this would likely be easy to detect by international observers, it is not hard to enrich uranium in a fusion plant [0]. So fusion reactors, like fission reactors (though with less chance of clandestine operation) are still a nuclear weapon proliferation risk.

[0] https://web.mit.edu/fusion-fission/HybridsPubli/Fusion_Proli...
WhatsApp has a really weird default behavior: it imports all images you're sent into your photo library.

This is a smart thing to disable, even outside this recent discussion of CSAM.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/how-to-stop-saving-whatsapp...
From a Reuters article on same news https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-steal-some-person...

> T-Mobile’s data breach is the latest high-profile cyberattacks as digital thieves take advantage of security weakened by work-from-home policies due the COVID-19 pandemic

How is this for a spin?
You clearly have me confused with someone else, as I never mentioned anything about innocent people being framed.

With Apple, nothing is "obvious".
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9-5 is already too long anyway.
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In these places thats a lot of money, and have much, much higher priority items for such investment
comparison: https://wiki.almalinux.org/Comparison.html
This project feels more like a lover-letter to me than an attempt to compete against other operating systems.

I really dig it, although I don't expect to ever use it productively. And I love that the development is documented on YouTube.
Doing more manual chores is the opposite of debloating IMO.
95% of those people were 50+ years old and 80% were 65 or older. while terrible, I doubt that contributes much to the labor supply.
Sue them in Canada. Seriously.
Yes, I worked with some of them and I have close friends running them.

They definitely have this problem all the time.

Imagine having n PM from big brands who need to build some websites / landing pages and don't want to commit their own development resources (either they don't have them, or they do).

Agencies generally have internal project managers to match the clients and extract requirements.

A common pattern is to have some developers and designers on the payroll (but the pay is not great, it's hard to get good talent) and a few contractors you worked with on the side for more exotic projects (eg. if a client wants a 3d website).

The designers come up with the designs. Sometimes the client will have their own design.

Often times the design + some notes on the side can replace a standard requirements documents.

After that the designs are sent to the developers who convert it into code and deploy, usually with some sort of CMS (WordPress is still pretty popular, Django as well).

The project gets demoed and adjustments / bugfixing starts.