skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried multiple times to understand what it is actually saying.

But between the vagueness and buzzwords I didn't get it at all.
Why is this downvoted? This checks out -- A problem with local scanning is that the source code will always be available and thus the user can learn exactly which perturbations trick the system.
USB PD works because they can assume very short distances. It wouldn't work for anything longer than a few meters, and it isn't clear you can safely scale it up to longer distances or higher voltages.
When I see this Tesla headline, I think that they are 100% recycling like they are 'Full Self Driving". We don't know what it means, we don't know when it will be here, and we don't know if it will be any good.
> In 2020, 50-78% of Americans earned just enough to pay their bills each month

It is questionable what the signal of that statement is. I know people earning top tier salaries who can "just pay their bills". Truth is that their bills cover their mortgages on which savings they plan to retire -- If one count in adding money to you savings account, the I reckon 100% person of all people earn just enough to cover their bills.
> Are they not required to comply with driving time trackers?

Unfortunately not for the smaller vans. In your link they mention:

> road haulage and passenger transport vehicles,

which "road haulage" I'm pretty sure means the regular big lorries we all think about. But when driving a Mercedes Sprinter [1] the same rules don't apply. You can actually drive that Sprinter with a regular driver's license, while for a regular lorry you need to take additional exams so that you can get into the "you can drive a lorry/big truck" category.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/20...
RV is an incredibly shitty company. I doubt this company will last. The middle management there sucks and the company has no vision beyond "lets just do what other sites are doing." Their entire business model is about not giving a shit about the consumer and just ramming and hiding bullshit deals down their throats.

Talent wise, I have never worked with a group of assholes as delusional as the people who work there. Their technology sucks, and the people who are implementing are is extremely fucking dumb. They get distracted by shiny new technology all the time. This lead to all of their crap being this unmaintainable mess of crap powered by wordpress.

And if you tried to make things better, everyone there had the biggest egos you can imagine so any criticisms were seen as an attack on their character. One time there was this code that was super insecure with SQL injections all over the place and remote code execution vulnerabilities. When this was pointed out, the director who wrote that code 20 years ago tried to get someone fired. No quite a place I would trust for all of my personal information btw.

If you think you are the best, this place is for you. Shitty technology and shitty products that leave plenty of room to just coast with no real challenge. But if you are actually smart and want to work with real smart people, this place is not the place. One of the worst places I worked at in my career.
If you're still in doubt about the phone, I recommend OnePlus devices, because they seem to generally work well with the microG variant of LineageOS (https://lineage.microg.org/), which allows you to break free from Google too.
Alternatively, Pixel devices also support a wide range of ROMs, including LineageOS.
With microG to replace Google Services, you still get push notifications, but without having to log in with a Google account.
I've got a OnePlus 8T for 3 days now. The OnePlus 9 sadly isn't yet supported by LineageOS, and the 9 Pro has some downsides that I don't like.
>If you polled people

Not a perfect proxy but people have been polled around how they value extra years of their life. According to this article [1] they would pay $7,500 to add an extra year to their life.

So if 5% of a typical human lifespan is 4 years that's $30,000. Median annual wages in the US are about $34,000, so people would willingly work full time for a year to extend their life by 5%.

Hard to see in any universe how wearing a mask at school for a couple months is more of an inconvenience than working full time for a year.

>would you agree that masking children does massively more harm than good

You've still failed to demonstrate masks do any harm more than being a minor inconvenience. It sounds like you personally don't like wearing them, and are looking for ways to rationalize that opinion.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20151201-how-much-would-y...
Yup, had an ICE car that was part of a recall for risk of fire when parked. The letter I received suggested not parking inside a garage until the repairs had been completed.
I was on the fence on this one because of Alex Stamos statements on this. I did expect to be able to trust him and in extension the Stanford Internet Observatory more.
I have a passing awareness of the Corellium situation and interpreted the headline just like you.
Could you take your fascist propaganda somewhere else please ?

Associating Vlad Tepes and the people above is like associating the indian religions with the nazis just because the nazis picked the swastika as their symbol.

It may seem interesting to you but it brings nothing but noise to the discussion.
You should council your friend to keep as much data, write everything down (keep a log book), keep backups of emails etc.

Don't let time, let scum win.
Covid’s Forgotten Hero: The Scientist Whose Breakthrough Made Vaccines Possible
In broad strokes, I agree with you. I think you're absolutely correct that most trained, educated, technologically sophisticated law enforcement bodies will do exactly as you suggest and decide that there's not enough to investigate.

That said, I'm not willing to say it won't happen. There are too many law enforcement entities of wildly varying levels of professionalism, staffing, and technical sophistication. Someone innocent, somewhere, is likely to have a multi-year legal drama because their local PD got an email from Apple.

And we haven't even gotten to subjects like how some LEOs will happily plant evidence once they decide you're guilty.
True. I've been to enough such projects to start actively avoiding them. Also I've found that in a team numbering in the teens my bargaining power is next to none.

I don't envy anyone put in such a situation.
Have you not had the chance in 25 years to go somewhere that gave you a decent view of it? Camping or a farmstay?
Why would they extend the CSAM scanner? It would be much simpler to just use all the OCR and image classification functions they have already deployed.

CSAM scanning is only useful for areas where Apple really doesn't want to even look at the actual material until they are extremely certain that it's a match. If they want to detect anti-government propaganda or something, there would be no such concerns, they would just do a regex search of your inbox. Infinitely more convenient.
Introduction to Causal Inference from a Machine Learning Perspective [pdf]
Amazon employees blast the company's latest return-to-office plans internally
This system does not use ML to find new CSAM images. It only checks for ones already in a known database. Your pictures of kids in the bathtub are not on the list.

What is show to the reviewer is a "visual derivative" which hasn't been clearly defined. A thumbnail image? Something with a censored section? We don't really know.
> if you reduce the number of variables at play... that means removing the human element altogether (and even then, mother nature may have other plans), meaning self-driving cars should have their own roads.

Why a pipe dream? It's one of the most sound solutions to the problem at the moment.

This is the model China went with its self-driving pilot projects for example.
That is an Apple current policy, not any sort of law. If the FBI wants to know if there are any collisions on a particular phone, that will be shared. If the FBI wants to know of all single collisions, that too must be shared. A corporation's internal policy decisions are nothing when faced with a government official carrying a warrant. If they have data indicating possible crimes, no matter how small, they can be forced to divulge it to investigators.

Unlike Lavabit, I don't think Apple will ever close up shop to protect customer data.
> 7. Apple reviewer confuses a featureless blob of gray with CSAM material, several times

I find it hard to believe that anyone has faith in any purported manual review by a modern tech giant. Assume the worst and you'll still probably not go far enough.
Musk spoke about this (JRE Podcast) and he compared the camera to eyes. He said that the only way we'll ever achieve full self driving is creating a system that is at least as good or better than human eyes.
FWIW, this sort of argument may not trigger a change in policy, but a technical failure in the hashing algorithm might.
Exactly. Another comment on this submission (on a completely different thread) put it very well- businesses have no intrinsic right to exist. If you or me decided we didn't want to pay for the rising cost of food, rent, etc., we could be out on the streets and it's their fault. If businesses decide they don't want to pay for the rising cost of labor, a bunch of armchair economists come out and defend them.

Why we feel the need to treat businesses better than we treat other people is beyond me.
First town in America to ban new gas stations
It does seem more or less in line with the Brexit votes, but it's worth remembering that the vote was pretty close and a large chunk of the country voted against Brexit. You'll find a wide variety of attitudes to immigration within the UK.
Most of the time what is in a prenup should be part of your state law anyway. Write your congressman (state not national) and get reasonable laws in place. Most people shouldn't need one.
It's not nothing; so it isn't misinformation. Also there are many other rare earths used for cars of course. The point here is that ICE proponents get all green and hippy like when it comes to EVs but are not willing to talk rare earth sourcing when it comes to ICE engines, fuel production, etc. It's called selective bias. The reality is that ICE vehicles contain a wide variety of materials. Ice vehicle recycling is mostly focused on extracting steel and aluminium however.

Cobalt specifically is also becoming less relevant for EVs in any case because more recent batteries use less of it; or none at all in some cases. Like for example the solid state batteries discussed in the article.

Regarding recycling, Tesla is working with third parties as well as working on in house expertise:

https://electrek.co/2019/04/16/tesla-battery-recycling-syste...

You need economies of scale for battery recycling to become more significant. One minor challenge here is that batteries seem to last a lot longer than people expected a few years ago. Supply of used up batteries is simply not there yet. Mostly the industry is still focused on recycling batteries from laptops, phones, etc. So, not an urgent issue for Tesla to be working on yet. But there are of course plenty of startups in this space as it is such an obvious thing to start doing in the next decade. J.B. Straubel, the Tesla co-founder, just got a nice investment of 700$ million for one of those companies. So, very practical and lucrative apparently.
> There is no queue.

> I mean that: there is no requirement for cases to be processed in any kind of order, if at all, and nor is there a quota (except in the minds of Home Office managers).

That's an if-I-close-my-eyes-the-room-will-be-empty way of looking at it. There's a backlog of cases waiting to be processed and a finite processing capacity, so adding more applications is necessarily going to, on average, delay existing (legitimate) applications.

> Hardly anyone does this, or at least there's no evidence of this. If you have money which you wish to trade for healthcare, there are usually better ways than bribing a firm to give you a fake job in the UK?

If there's a loophole that lets someone get NHS healthcare for significantly less than the market price of equivalent healthcare, it seems absurd on its face to imagine that no-one in the world would want to exploit it. Most people are honourable, but there are enough desperate people, and frankly if were that easy then I wouldn't blame them for taking advantage of the system.

> See Afghanistan.

> It was, allegedly, important enough to invade and spend billions on, as well as a number of Westerner lives

Pure whataboutism.
Imagine putting an 'emergency helpline' on WhatsApp and using that as a replacement for emergency numbers, not knowing that Facebook can ban the number.

Oh wait. [0]

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/d8e29de8-aebb-4f10-a91e-89d454d4a...
Our brains dont have lidar though. right?
decent humans can have a lower standard for thinking someone did a crime than the criminal justice system does.

this is true whether you believe or disbelieve a rape claim, because if you disbelieve it you typically must believe the corrolary that the victim was committing the crime of lying to the police.
What does this have to do with the thread or the article?
On could argue that this is scanning is also opt in, it requires you to purchase an iPhone. Also, at least according to Apple's provided material, the scanning only affects images which are uploaded to the iCloud, so not every image on the device. However, how long that restriction actually holds once the system is in place is questionable. Also, the risk of abuse by authorities as well the fact that there is no way to monitor the system as a user is a huge part of the problem.
Either Zillow is scraping data or there’s a data sharing agreement in place with the MLS; my family realtor has never had to individually list on Zillow when listing on Georgia MLS or FMLS.
Scrolling is very laggy in Firefox.
You're welcome! If you want more features, the GTR 2 (regular, not "e") is only ~20 EUR more and gives you WiFi and some storage for music and some other extra features.
The GTR 2e supposedly last much longer on a charge though.
I've got the "always on display" feature activated and I project to have 7-10 days of battery life.
Not necessarily houses then, we could build multifamily. The US sincerely needs condos/townhomes to reign the housing economy back in.
Impossible (or nearly so) for a cryptographically secure hash function, not a perceptual hash. When the stories on this first broke it wasn't entirely clear which type of hash Apple was using for their CSAM detection. (I assume now we know they're using NeuralHash?)
Claming that soldiers or not affected by emotions is laughable and speaks volumes about your understanding of human psyche.

Why don't you go to PTSD meeting for veterans and just tell them to stop being jumpy because they are not suppose to be fragile and its all in their heads.
That's true; no minimum wage Walmart employee has ever been incorrect.
Radar detects stationary objects just fine.

From my understanding, the problem is the software doesn't know if that radar object is a car or a sign or an overpass. So it assumes that moving objects are cars, and makes a good guess at stationary objects. Occasionally when it is wrong, there would be unusual braking for signs, or just plowing into stationary cars.
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Impressive. That does seem like a thorough objective process for which promotions/advertising* would have had zero impact.

So: Touché.

I don't think that's the norm, even among the majority if HN readers, but I agree that your process as described appears to remove any potential promotional influence.

* Marketing, as I've argued elsewhere, goes beyond promotion and impacts prices and the details of the offers, which obviously did impact your choices. But I think you and most people in this thread are referring specifically to the promotional side of marketing, so it may be pedantic of me to make my argument here.
Scottish Government wants to make emergency Covid powers permanent
Ranking urls by perceived relevance is far different than displaying a seeming answer.
What begs to emerge in the SerenityOS world is a form-centric visual RAD IDE like Delphi/VisualBasic/VisualStudio-WinForms. Powered by a higher-level (than C++) language preferably. And high-level (automatic memory management, first-class Unicode strings) languages don't have to be heavy, VisualBasic did quite well on 486s. But I don't actually mind C++, I enjoyed Borland C++ Builder (a Delphi clone I used because I never learned Pascal) and QNX PhAB and had no problem with C++ (but I didn't really enjoy MS VisualC++ MFC which required you to code the UI manually).

I hope the actual GUI toolkit is engineered with potential support for visual designers in mind.

It is also interesting to note how well do legacy Windows controls integrate with the system so old Windows apps running on modern Windows versions enjoy seamless support of modern user IO facilities which didn't exist when they were born (autocompletion, spell checking, dictation, screen reading, etc).
> They are probably not actually closet misogynists or anything like that, they probably just haven’t thought that far ahead.

I agree, this is more probable than the closet misogyny theory. But it's still not exactly a ringing endorsement to say "whoops, we didn't think about who would have to do all that labor once we took away all those labor saving devices!" It's not like this is some hard to predict third order effect, after all.

Overall, the whole argument they're making is kind of silly. Washing clothes by hand sucks, people rushed to buy machines to replace this labor for a damned good reason. If someone's plan for the future involves persuading people to go back to doing labor the vast majority of people don't want to do, then they should prepared for a lot of failure. Given the continued sales of brand new washing machines at my local home improvement store, I would argue that they have failed thus far.

(Ironically, there is probably a good lower-tech argument in making labor saving devices simpler and more reliable. The short lifespan of our appliances is both deeply unpopular and environmentally problematic, and doing anything to make them more repairable would both be good for the environment and incredibly popular.)

Back to their original argument, there's a reason why I hold up the e-bike as an unqualified success that the authors here are incorrectly ignoring. Cycling enthusiasts--myself included--have argued for decades that biking is better and people should switch over to using bikes for more trips. Repeated appeals to the environment, the wallet, and ones health haven't really moved the needle much in this area. Yet it's the high-tech (gasp!) e-bike that appears to be finally getting commuters out of cars and into the saddle. It turns out that while moralizing is fun, actual change involves making compromises towards the convenience and comfort of your average person.
It's funny how it's always CP or terrorism we need to watch out for.... Never is it the politician who accidentally went to war with wrong country, or the tax return of the congressman, or a cop sleeping with somebody who's under arrest, or EPA employee who took a bribe to declare a chemical safe, or mysteriously malfunctioning cameras in a prison the night of an alleged suicide.

Build surveillance to catch those people and I'll listen.
If you know in advance that you'll need to switch a directory atomically, you can make `dir` a symlink to `dir_v1`. Then you can atomically replace it with a symlink to `dir_v2`.

This doesn't really solve the situation we're discussing though.
C++ is the one language that actually scares me. I’ve seen several people say things along the lines of “I’ve been learning C++ for 10 years” and I have trouble finding introductions to the language that actually teaches all the features added over the years , and not just as “C with classes”.
I didn't use them in the end, but the Google OR-Tools is a pretty amazing resource for this. I don't have a CS degree, so just seeing the names of the algorithms was helpful ha.

https://developers.google.com/optimization/routing
I thought he was only applying this to one or two outlines at a time ? I wonder if there are other performance trade offs when you outline a hundred game elements in frame or something ?

Also, FWIW, this was posted today on Reddit - a nice writeup of "5 ways to draw an outline" in Unity that also tips a hat to the OP article:

https://alexanderameye.github.io/notes/rendering-outlines/
You are a liar. Covid deaths have been overeported by the CDCs and NHS own admission, if you die while infected you get counted as covid death even if you had mere hours to live from terminal cancer but tested positive. PCR test lost its approval because it cannot tell the dif between cv and flu. Look it up yourselves off of censored google.
Sorry, don't see how 3 in your "syllogism" is remotely true. If 10 employees of yours come to you and accuse another employee of sexual harassment and you fire that employee, at no point were you acting as the state or using violence.
I've only seen Apple admit defeat once, and that was regarding the trashcan MacPro. Otherwise, it's "you're holding it wrong" type of victim blaming as they quietly revise the issue on the next version.

Can anyone else think of times where Apple has admitted to something bad on their end and then reversed/walked away from whatever it was?
Lots of things become unethical at scale.
My fairly large solar setup provides a max of about 6.5kW under ideal circumstances (which isn't always when we need to cook, FWIW), but it's far far beyond what a typical woman in developing Africa could afford.
> And the betrayal began 20 years ago.

That was pretty good, not going to lie. I feel bad for my fellow Americans that are still stuck there. And sure, the withdrawal from Afghanistan was horrible; Biden could've and should've done a much better job with that. But there is a larger issue here: the fact that we should've never been there in the first place. Biden's speech sounded good, but it's a speech that should've been given 20 years ago.
Well of course if you believe that FBI can ask Apple to share anything and they will agree, and not tell us, then what is even the point of this discussion? Then they already have access to every photo, every email, every text. Because Apple controls those apps on your phone.
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On one level, I'm not surprised and can understand why Apple might be pissed off that Corellium is still making news.

"Researchers can audit our CSAM process...except for you, who we just handed a pile of money over to and are still on our shit list."
What are the Taliban's sources of income?
> I was sold Mr. Elias as modern-day Mr. Rogers for all the praise lavished on him.

Saint in the streets, abusive asshole in the office.

I too once saw him as the guy with worldly wisdom gained when his plane (Sully Sullenberger flight) crashed into the Hudson. The guy with a number of noble sounding nonprofits like Road to Hire.

It's tiring coming across two-faced people like this and the erosion of trust they cause in taking anyone at face value.
That document is dated August 13, 2008. Two years prior to the ACA, and before the vaccine was approved in a) males and b) 27+.
The merit of my personal opinion is reflected on the Apple hardware that I will be willing to still spend money on.

If enough people do the same, Apple will realise how much merit our opinions collectively achieve.