skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would I have a problem with being on a list that, from my perspective, I can't tell the difference between being on it, and not on it?

I don't know, I wouldn't be able to tell. If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody's there to hear it, does it matter to anyone whether it makes a sound?

> What if we weren't allowed to confirm or deny you were on the list, except to a prospective landlord or employer who filled out a form?

You're swinging at strawmen. Nobody in this thread is defending intrusive lists.

For some reason, though, you are conflating unintrusive lists (Which don't require oversight anywhere in the world) with intrusive lists (Which do require oversight in... well-governed parts of the world).

Do you have arguments against the former? I'm not interested in being convinced that the latter are bad, I'm already convinced that they are bad.

> edit: and, of course, what if the list leaks, and is used as an automated first step for disqualification by employers and landlords for the rest of your life?

If there's an unholy decades-long alliance between the FBI, the background check bureaus, and millions of employers and landlords, that neither my federal, state, or municipal government is interested in doing anything about, I think my main problem is not 'the FBI has a list'. I think my main problem is 'My society, on every imaginable level, is broken.'
Likely just Baader–Meinhof phenomenon[1]. Interestingly, I think that phenomenon ignores the superset of when you actually had seen something multiple times before but for whatever reason started noticing the frequency more frequently (eg you’ve seen backronym’s before, but you’re happening but your brain has decided to notice them more because maybe you saw them in quicker succession than you’re used to).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
DSPs are more expensive to engineer than these tried and tested chips. If you need the functionality of a DSP then you use one but the core performance of a power supply is relatively unaffected.
What about the Stereolabs Zed cameras?
> This is actually a really good example of the limitation of current ML/NLP approaches, that there isn't really any level of 'comprehension' at all.

That happens even with humans, so I'm not sure that follows. "Oh, sorry, you meant Mars, I heard Moon"
Which is why CSAM is possibly a really interesting compromise/counter-argument. Supposedly, the only actual crime that the FBI has repeatedly sent warrants to Apple about have been child pornography/trafficking and it's an interesting stance for Apple to take here: "we'll address the actual and specific crime you seem most interested in, but will still not give you a generic backdoor".

Many of the arguments/fears about CSAM is that it can be widened to be a generic backdoor, but as you point out in the arguments Apple has already argued in court Apple doesn't seem to think a generic backdoor is a good idea and have strongly fought against it and CSAM seems to be entirely designed to not be capable as backdoor, and especially not a generic backdoor.

I absolutely understand the fears of false positives and whatever processes the FBI and other TLAs choose to do with the results from CSAM (though many of those concerns apply to everything the TLAs do regardless of what technical tools they have at their disposal), but I'm not sure that I understand all the fears that CSAM is a generic backdoor (in the making) given what Apple have revealed about how it is built and what Apple's quite explicit reasons seem to be to build it to entirely avoid building a generic backdoor and that everything about it seems a "thumb your nose at the FBI by doing what they ask explicitly for but not what they really want to build" by entirely building something that can't be used as a generic backdoor and is very specifically built to only a tiny explicit use case the FBI has asked for. At least from what I've seen so far.
It's surprising to me that the highest viewed content on Facebook "only" garners around 50 million views. I know Facebook content is more ephemeral, but for comparison the highest viewed Youtube videos are in the multiple billions of views.
DMVs in the US already have fingerprint scanners; there exist physical documents that verify your identity and associate it with a face and name.

In this case, you'd have the Interior Ministry or equivalent be the certificate authority, and it can issue revocations and new certs based on the normal identity verification systems of the state.
T-Mobile confirms more than 40M customers' data stolen in security breach
"It found:

1,045 keywords blocked in mainland China
542 in Hong Kong
397 in Taiwan

In contrast, Japan, Canada and the US had between 170 and 260 filtered words."

A bit unrelated, but I find interesting that keywords are "blocked" in China and "filtered" in Japan/Canada/US.
Sounds fun, are they hiring remotely?
/s aside, I wonder if there is evidence showing that breaches really are effective at reducing our reliance on SSN-as-auth.
The Kinect Azure outperforms the RealSense devices.

There are also devices based on the Infineon lidar, such as the pieye Nimbus 3D camera.
The census only happens once per ten years. Ordinarily I wouldn't expect a region to double in size but if there's only 60 at baseline it's not unreasonable to expect ~60 more in ten years.
I had a coworker lose their Drivers license and later get arrested because the person who found it decided to rob a bank and drop it on the floor to send the cops elsewhere.
More Than a Quarter of C-Level Execs Unaware of Low-Code, No-Code Revolution
Because the founders have some experience in the domain, but think since tech is the driving factor in "solving" the problems they've identified the name isn't as relevant.
Surprisingly good production value for 2001.
Take a look at the Stereolabs Zed cameras.
I didn't realize that Star and PC were released together - what a contrast! Unfortunately the Star was too closed and too expensive to succeed, but it also doesn't seem that Xerox had the culture to do it any other way.

Xerox continued being active in this field for a long time and showcased some amazing work on visualizing and navigating ordered graphs with 3D graphics (can't find the article I'm afraid) which were way ahead of the time.
Nor was justice being served at any point. Depending on the terms of the employment contract, firing anyone is just business as usual.

The problematic part is that sexual harassment is a crime though. Both the act and accusation warrant court. Not to fire someone from their job, but to prosecute them under criminal law.
Thank you for talking about us like lab animals.
> Outlook is also a joke

My Outlook sometimes flickers and instead of showing the email list, it shows the calendar. It only corrects itself after I mouse over
The two big consoles are literally x86 PCs. One even runs Windows; the other one runs a locked down version of FreeBSD. Why should they be allowed to do that but not smartphones? Their business model is a deliberate choice, and if sideloading on a gaming console breaks that, why should I care?
Suggestion:

Take the Facebook leak from earlier. Create hundreds of collections if 1.9M people. Release it to the dark web.

Just flood then zone with noise. FBI can still keep their list (and know it’s legit), and peoples privacy will be ensured.

Otherwise this is going to 100% get integrated into various social credit systems we have in the US.
Must be rolling out still, I see no appearance settings.
The Milky Way has a 'broken' arm that could reveal its galactic history
Last time this was discussed here one of news reports mentioned internally executives pushed for this style of report to be released so they can massage the metrics how ever they like and own the narrative.
Just curious, what brought you to HN to create an account and comment on this post?
My word choice certainly could have been better (I was upset, and it showed), but to quote what I said there anyway: "If you understand the design goals, but don't agree with them, why not channel that in a positive way - e.g. by building something that fits your vision instead of directly working against Elm's design goals?" - in substance, this is consistent with what I said above: it's totally encouraged if anyone wants to go in a different direction from Elm's design, just please don't call it Elm.

As it turned out, this is exactly what the OP in that thread did - he created https://www.mint-lang.com - which I think is a very positive development indeed!
>They were held liable because not only did they know about the specific instances in which it was mailed, they allegedly conspired with the shippers to facilitate the mailings.

Apple knows that CSAM is being sent and conspires to do so (i.e. transmits the image). Conceptually they are the same.

The rest of your post details the practical differences between sending physical packages and digital images.
mkose@casper:~/Desktop$ ./elm repl
---- Elm 0.19.1 -----------------------------------------
> Basics.modBy 0 3
Error: Cannot perform mod 0. Division by zero error.
We are innocent until proven guilty, I never disputed that.

I'm saying the accusation, the witness testimony, is NOT assumed false, the accusation is simply unproven.

If the jury/judge believes the testimony, they may convict on that testimony. Then the accused is proven guilty.

That the accusation started off being false and then magically became true when when the jury believed it is the bonkers belief here.

The fact that witness testimony is unreliable is a big part of WHY the accused is presumed innocent.
It seems like the time start was unintentionally shared with the link. It is much better to watch all 12 minutes, not just the end.
To be fair, Europe looks a bit disappointing. After years (decades?) of talking about global warming there is still so much electricity coming from coal.
15th Amendment:

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The 19th Amendment has identical language for "on account of sex", the 24th Amendment has "by reason of failure to pay a poll tax or any other tax", the 26th Amendment has "on account of age" for 18 years and older.

Like many other things in the Constitution, the constitutional text defines the general principle and the power of the federal government to enforce it, and normal legislation establishes the actual enforcement mechanisms.
> The technologies behind computer networking that ultimately resulted in the internet were funded by DARPA starting in the 1950s.

Much of it came from the telegraph network that had been developed in the previous century. See "The Victorian Internet" by Standage.

Also, in the 1970s working on computers, everybody with two computers invented ways to hook them together, i.e. invented networking. Many became commercial, like Compuserve and MCImail, some became free, like the BBS systems. Then there's Ethernet and TokenRing for LAN networks.

(Note that DARPA figured out how to connect two computers as soon as they had two. It's just inevitable, not something coming from nowhere. Given two computers and the telephone lines, inventing a way to network them is going to happen in short order, just as water flows downhill.)

We'd have had an internet one way or another.
> Yes, we’re building on Electron

I hope you'll reconsider as your team grows. Developers look at their own app and think the extra resource usage isn't too bad, but the more this happens, the more Electron apps I end up running at once. Because Pop includes presence, it's something that, if it were more lightweight, I'd keep running all the time. As it is, if someone wants to call me, they have to first contact me on another platform to ask me to load Pop.
Staff of socialist magazine Current Affairs fired for attempting to organize
Besides, CSV can be written by a human and initially it was the way how data was entered and read, because it is a text file - database. If there is a need for something more convenient, then there are other file types. Nonissue, IMO.
You're correct. The amount of misinformation in this thread (and in the other responses to you) is out of control.

The database of CSAM hashes is blinded and no one has the hashes. Without the hashes, this attack is useless.

It's also mitigated by a LOT of checks and balances. First they have to know 30 hashes to target (they're secret). They have to get 30 colliding images on your phone. The images have to be unnoticed by you (why not just infiltrate CSAM, then?) or sufficiently compelling that you don't just delete them. Thirty images have to pass human review at Apple. At least one has to pass human review by law enforcement. Then, and only then, will you be arrested and face a threat.

Short version: If somebody wants to frame you for possessing CSAM, there are much easier ways. There is no new threat here. https://xkcd.com/538/
FYI, bupropion is not an SSRI. Escitalopram is.
Three days? Pfft, all I had to do was go to sleep in a cave in Arizona...
You don't necessarily even have to tunnel, like one would do with a borer. I think that would be cost-prohibitive.

Trench and cover, probably with streets.

But it would create a lot of extra void to maintain that would need its own drainage, maintenance to keep it free of debris and pests, inspections to make sure they don't collapse, and security to keep people out. Feasibility is probably commensurate with urban density.
There is no requirement to post reactions to VAERS; it's completely voluntary.
Why was this flagged? I'm sure there are good reasons, I just want to know.

EDIT: Oh, I mixed up tabs. This is a link to a google drive of pictures. Because I have scripts disabled, I got no thumbnails, and I'm thinking since this was flagged, maybe I really don't want to get any thumbnails.
So far all I see is PR and nothing published or peer reviewed.

They are late to the party, fluvoxamine and it's effects on Covid was already investigated and published by a team at Washington University in St Louis a last year in JAMA [0]

It's not the only medicine that has a potential effect on Covid-19 infection. Colchicine [1] for instance.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33180097/

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34051877/
I watcher this video a few days before. For everyone interested in the overarching why and if you can stand a lot of rambling there is this [1] episode of problem of "Well There is your problem".

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=PW6lg-7L7yk
A Texas Monthly article[1] from 1997 is cited by the Wikipedia article and alludes to unusual voter residency rules in Texas:

> Thanks to Texas’ domicile law, people who don’t live or work in the county can still vote there if they own a piece of land—and there’s plenty of land in Loving County for sale. “All you need to do is claim one of these little old deserted shacks or even a tree that you can eat your supper under as your own,” says one woman, who asked not to be named. “It’s all perfectly legal.”

The whole article is worth a read. It’s wild. Especially considering it was written before social media.

[1]https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/not-so-loving-cou...
When I asked about this on AT&T I was told that prepaid plans do not qualify for some type of peering system that increases coverage and reception by using other carrier's towers: I haven't looked into it more, but if this is true this would be a potential factor in choosing post-paid over pre-paid. Would love to know if this is true for AT&T or all carriers as if I can get pre-paid service of the same level as a post-paid plan I would make the switch.
> I must of been busy that day, I would of remembered that.

As a non-native speaker, I'm having trouble understanding the sentence, specially the "I must of", "I would of" constructions. Is this some style choice I don't know about?
if laser pointer was a gun, and you shoot the moon in one spot and then another, you just have 2 holes from 2 different bullets.
No, they're largely (the Venn diagram isn't a circle) the ones who want to require it.
Nitpick of a nitpick: for an interviewer, t=0 is right now. They’re interested in predicting your future performance on the job, assuming they hire you, and so it makes sense for positive t-values to be the future and negative t-values to be the past.
Scientific progress despite irreproducibility: A seeming paradox
I wouldn't read into blocked vs filtered. The report itself doesn't differentiate. This is just a BBC journalist trying to use varied vocabulary which is nicer to read.
Where did you get this idea, scooby doo?

It is not illegal to be an unwilling recipient of illegal material. If a package shows up at your door with a bomb, you're not gonna be thrown in jail for having a bomb.
>if the engraving resembles SQL content (e.g., “; DELETE FROM”) ... then the API crashes and returns an HTTP 403 code and an HTML error page as opposed to the expected JSON response

Poor Bobby Tables can't even get his name on his phone.
Doesn't particularly matter how the DMV would authenticate you, the point of the electronic ID is to get rid of the exchange of full copies of the identifying information. More careful re-assignment of identifying information is nice to pursue but also a completely independent issue.

Same with state vs federal question. Right now SSNs are assigned federally and drivers licenses and birth certificates by state. It doesn't much matter which it comes from as long as the identification is trusted nationally (as it is currently with the above examples).

What DMVs are able to sell varies by state, many can't sell drivers license photos for example. SSNs are also illegal to sell based on federal law. Ultimately that comes down to the content of the law relating to creating said ID not past actions with other information.

As for why we need to identify ourselves so often it often comes down to the public use case of credit checks and various forms of identification for governmental reasons (e.g. applying for official licenses or forms or travel documents or so on). It's perfectly fine to do these 2 separate but as-is we are already tying the 2 together so why not answer both in one go with something like eIDAS.
That's a good point and maybe I shouldn't have re-posted these stories in my comment as I have not personally witnessed this behavior. I just know that when I started learning Elm initially (Nice Frontend master courses btw) I ran into this sentiment a good bit on reddit and hackernews so thought there was probably something to it if it was being echoed by so many.

I'll add a reply to my comment to make it clear this is hearsay and doesn't necessarily reflect the truth.
Wow, this was not what I was expecting when I originally read the headline.

Initially I assumed it was just a pile-on media outrage about Apple, thinking "how is it surprising, pretty much every engraving service bans certain things that are either vulgar or trademark infringing". Reading the article scrapped all of those presumptions I had.

For those who want quick numbers from the article, here is the table showing the number of terms banned in each relevant region for engraving:

* 1,045 keywords blocked in mainland China

* 542 in Hong Kong

* 397 in Taiwan

* Japan, Canada and the US had between 170 and 260 filtered words

The most egregious example imo was the one banning engraving "8964" (literally just a 4-digit number), because it references the date of Tiananmen Square Massacre. Not the name of a politician or some living person. Just a date that is being forcefully attempted to get erased from history.
Seems silly - not quite running, but consider that Europeans forgot how to swim efficiently and really only had the doggy paddle until they observed native Americans doing the front crawl. Basically the swimming equivalent of knowing how to jog, but not how to run or sprint.

ref: https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/how-europe-learnt-...
Instant word segmentation with Rust
When you realize Snaps suck, you can switch to Linux Mint or Debian.
Reminiscent of Stripe in the pure schleppiness x obviousness of the idea!
Given what I’ve seen on it comes to government of Canada chair procurement, this seems like it would be a needed niche.
One of my big career disappointments was having a meeting with Marc Andreessen with regard to a project he needed us for, not as an "investee". I didn't idolize him or anything before that but I had it in mind that he would at least have something to offer. In our conversation I realized almost immediately he was a total buffoon and had just been in the right place at the right time.
Govly sounds like something a London street seller would say.

Oi mate! Wanna up yer prices and have lucrative support contracts for ever? Lovly Govly.
Do you have any guidance as to how to best make this transition? It also seems there are many better trajectories on the tech org side compared to just being purely technical.
You are right. There is a lot more too it.

Although arresting and jailing someone is not being justice being administered, it is facilitating justice and fact finding and it itself is indeed an act of violence.
But then OP would have skipped a lot of the fun
Should Halo games be forced to run on Playstation?

Should I be able to install MacOS on my Xbox?

Should Audis be forced to design engines in a way that makes oil changes user-servicable?

I don’t buy this overly broad “consumer rights” argument. You can frame anything you want as a right this way.

The practical reality is that you have a choice in the marketplace. No one is being strong armed into anything and there are alternatives that can give you what you want.
For example. In essence any tree that allows you to "rotate" based on some statistics about subtree popularity. This becomes more and more interesting in combination with copy-on-write strategies because there you have to rewrite the top of the tree anyway. So why not aggregate some statistics while you're at it.
That machine can be in a Russian or Iranian nuclear physics or bioweapon lab and run very specific software. E.g. you can be looking for some project code names.
I think you've left out the most important problems in this space: the graft, turf building/protectionism, and corruption. Tech isn't going to solve those. That aside, this seems like a pretty decent idea for a company.

Also, this is a gem: " Most people don’t realize, but the vast majority of government opportunities are only released to a subset of organizations called “prime contractors”. We have built a network of these prime contractors who are uploading their “private” opportunities into our application. "

A lot of people truly aren't aware of it! Nor are they aware of the fact that often the Primes' contract vehicles have requirements/constraints on the subs the primes select to farm work out to (e.g. some minimal fraction of the subs must be minority or women owned, subs cannot be foreign entities, etc.). What your feature here looks like to me is something that may be prone to abuse: primes post a set of (sub)contracts and cherry-pick the subs that they can shoe-horn into their checkboxes at minimal cost. Alternatively, this just seems to relabel links in the chain: instead of a would-be contractor bidding on a government vendor portal, they're bidding on your portal, and the bids are submitted to Primes instead of the government. I'm not sure this solves a problem so much as adds a middle-man. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it. Any thoughts about that?
Please don't punch me too hard, but this analysis seems to point to vaccines not being as necessary for children. A better use for humanity at large would be to get them into the arms of adults in other parts of the world.
Erased - by Apple themselves

"Replying to the group, Ms Horvath said Apple's rules depended on the region - and "no third parties or government agencies have been involved in the process."

Nothing to see here says Apple's Chief Privacy officer Jane Horvath