skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not Apple can see the results is completely irrelevant, to me at least. Automated surveillance is still surveillance.
I’m not talking about enforcing an injunction. I’m talking about granting one.
I'm disturbingly close to my 40s myself and I'm a bit worried by your comment. I'd imagine that any novelty that the young'uns would have to you or me wandering into a yoga class/room full of programmers would wear off quickly when we just do our thing like everyone else and fail to fall on our faces or do anything else to draw negative attention to ourselves. I'm far from a social butterfly, but I've yet to feel any particular awkwardness (more than normal, anyway) due to my age when joining social or work events which I have been invited to.

I'm sorry if this comes off as a bit brusque, but maybe this is a self-confidence thing on your part.
There are ways, but they would require the cooperation of the political actors who don't want people whose votes they do not have--and, more generally, who they appreciate being at the mercy of the police in very actionable ways, which is the other issue with a lack of identification.
Yeah this doesn't add up - most viewed appears to mean most number of times people viewed the text of that link, not the page itself or its content. Their own sharing debugger tool shows that url only has 837 total engagements (on 87.2M views?)
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2...
I haven't found any official documentation about this.

What's happening?
For macOS, I'm talking about XProtect and MRT. I don't know the exact subsystem names on iOS, apologies.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/protecting-against-...

Each system is closed source, provides a mechanism for checking content signatures against files on disk, and is thought to report telemetry to Apple when signatures are found.

How is CSAM scanning new and different from those existing closed-source systems?
Maybe one of them cracked.
AMP was first and foremost an answer to Facebook's Instant Articles (or whatever they were called), and, as an extension, a death grip on publishers.

Everything else in AMP served that.
In the past I trusted Apple to resist government efforts to spy on me to the best the law allowed. Now they are innovating ways to help a government spy literally live in my pocket.

Trust is fragile and Apple has taken what in the past I believed it understood to be a strategic advantage and stomped it into little pieces.
Beyond Meat (and other meat alternatives) handles a lot from the amino acid and iron side of things.

Soymilk/Dairy Alternative ls will often be fortified with B and D vitamins.
Maybe. It is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem though. They aren't likely to become popular until editors support them.

Also, the fact that they have been around for years and never taken off implies that they probably never will.
My reading of that is NCMEC provides NeuralHash hashes of their CSAM library to Apple, and Apple encrypts and blinds that database before storing it on devices.
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Do brokerages give all this info to the SEC so they can do this type of analysis and then be able to personally identify the buyers/sellers?

It seems wrong that my personal info is being given out by my brokerage, in a way that lets them identify my personal trades.
My pleasure! Sorry to be pedantic :)
Jevons' paradox applies to efficiency, not massive increases in the amount of supply. There isn't really an argument that foreign workers are more efficient than local workers (unless they are being paid less!).
Technically true, but like I said "CSV" is more a term for human readable data, with some delimiter in them. Maybe it's a comma, maybe not. In every case you need someonne to look at it. If you want a machine-machine data protocol you can use XML or JSON if it needs to be somewhat human readable.
History is complicated. Scepter of Goth (SoG) preceded MUD commercially as the first commercial multi-player role playing game. But Scepter of Goth disappeared while MUD continued to be around for longer, so SoG is not as well remembered.

Bartle's book is great, it's highly recommended.

People are still developing interactive fiction ("text based adventures") today.
Hi! This may be off topic. There is a bug in Google Search for El Salvador for quite a while.

Every search query related to prices/curtency are shown with the wrong local currency.

For example, this query, using a Salvadoran IP address:

https://www.google.com/search?q=precio+bitcoin

Will show bitcoin price in SVC (Salvadoran Colon), the former currency that was phased out in 2001. The current currency in El Salvador is USD, so prices should be show in US Dollars.
You're not cynical.

The problem isn't middlemen per se - often, they're very useful. For example, almost every service provider you use in your private life, like a barber shop or an accounting company, is by definition a middleman - they stand between you and the person actually performing the service. It's clear such intermediary tends to benefit both the service giver and the service receiver.

The problem starts when the middleman tries to lock you in. All kind of pathological, abusive behavior grows from there. In the relatively rare case of being a portal to a single system, they'll try to prevent you from going behind them and interacting with the system directly (TurboTax is a master example of that). In a more common case with tech companies, which is "aggregating what is otherwise disaggregated into a single location" (aka. bundling), they'll frequently attempt to decommodify the resource they're bundling. E.g. media streaming platforms making exclusive deals for content, or chat/collaboration and social media platforms working hard to prevent interoperability between services.

It's not cynical to be on the guard, because lock-in is the default business plan of many tech companies, including most of the well-known ones.
Counterpoint: I have a friend who works in a biomed lab where results would regularly just be made up. If a lab culture takes 5 years to grow, reproducibility is more of a theoretical than a practical matter. Also, not every reviewer has a particle accelerator in their back yard. Or the money to reproduce large computational models.

A lot of published results only pass peer review because you essentially trust the authors not to have made up their numbers.
I've ran into issues with forum s/w URL sanitizers mangling URLs from DPReview. Maybe I should have just tested it. Here we go!

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/image-comparison/fullscreen...
Based on what I saw, looks like the answer to the question is "no".
Ask HN: Has Twitter removed the ability to browse while logged out?
The behavior I am seeing is demonstrated here: https://gfycat.com/thornyfeistyleafcutterant

I am always returned to the page that I was linked to if I try to browse elsewhere on the site.
It's worth mentioning that SQLite is committed by its publishers to be backward-compatible out to 2050 and is the recommended by the Library of Congress as a safe long-term storage format (as are XML, JSON, and CSV). https://www.sqlite.org/locrsf.html

For single tables a database is probably overkill, but it's nice to have around when you need something reasonably powerful without being overly complex or hard to get started with.
The article goes on to say that tools the SEC uses made the success of the trades look improbable.

The only fine I see listed is for about $72k. I can't tell if the scheme was profitable or not because that was just one person. I assume the others are going to trial, so we won't know for a while.
They are referring to draining residual power, not "static charge". I.e., CMOS reset.
All of the programmable ones? ;-)
Interesting read! How would you differentiate your paper from OpenAI's Codex paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03374)? They also show smooth scaling with parameters, that repeated sampling works, and that BLEU score correlates poorly.
i occasionally get thrown a Program Management job listing

they seem cool, but usually require more people management experience than i have

but when i think of jobs i might actually find interesting, Program Management is up there.

then again, some of them are pretty business analyst-y...which sounds fund for about one project. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> > Additionally, it is a problem that can largely be mitigated by simple text compression.
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> "Simple text compression"? Not sure what you are referring to there. If you are speaking of generalized compression, there's a bunch of information theory pointing out the problem with that thinking.

For most natural text-only data, .csv.gz is probably close to the limits of what we can do. For numerical or categorical text containing patterns or structure, I agree that better formats may exist (e.g. H.264 for CSV files containing video frames). Not sure how a more general format will solve anything you couldn't already do by converting to a more specific format and tarring everything afterwards.
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I found Gimp to be to be less than intuitive, but don't tell others that. The first reply is usually “it's a different, but not harder workflow, than Photoshop, and you'll get used to it.” I had never used Photoshop until last year, so didn't have the bias. Still found Photoshop much easier to pick up.

Gimp is still great, but there are choices I just don't get.
I guess people had a sense of ownership of these devices and they feel that it’s doing some they they don’t want. If ownership means control, maybe in the digital age full ownership/control is not really possible on a managed device like the iPhone. There are other example like the John Deer tractor issues.
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I lived in Arizona for two years, Michigan for one year, New York for three years, Washington state for two years, California for the rest of my life. Liberal cities, conservative cities, and towns with and without colleges. Have visited a bar in well over thirty different states.

The only time I’ve been let into a bar without showing ID was in New York City.

“Rare.”
Some of the AI generated ones just need a little bit of a tweak and I think they’d look a lot better than the human generated ones. It seems like the AI ones would be a good jumping off point to give humans to go off of rather than a badly drawn sketch as a starting point.
> Unless you think every company in the Western world (not just Apple) ought to cease doing any and all business with China

Yes. China very clearly doesn't care what the West thinks about them. They would probably care if Apple stopped manufacturing and selling iPhones there. Economic pressure is the only pressure we can reasonably appt.
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Irrespective of the self-rationalization, if their success is conditional on their starting place, how can one judge it to be “lucky”? It must necessarily be predetermined, correct?
given what AI does today, why in the world would you want a regurgitated mashup of all previous logos?

How is that original or memorable?
Talked with an SEC guy at a conference one time, they have access to every order that touches any American exchange (filled or not) in a huge data warehouse, apparently most of this detection is just a series of SQL queries.
I also switched my photo editing from Gimp to Krita. I tried it for the adjustment layers, and stayed for the superior UI.
Wasn’t defragmentation more important in general on spinning media to reduce random seeks? And now most performance oriented things are happening on SSD?
Hancock-Zucker vs. Cox-Zuckerberg would be the next step.
Firefox mobile allows you to use uBlock origin, which improves things tremendously.

Every time I accidentally end up in mobile Chrome, it's like being transported back in time 15 years with popups and overlays and modals that are deliberately designed to lag just enough for you to accidentally click on the ad rather than the tiny X button.

What happened? Google happened.

The mobile web is essentially the desktop web before ad blockers, and Google won't allow mobile Chrome to support extensions because "oh no, extensions are hard" -- they're lying. They know that a mobile ad blocker is the easiest and fastest way for us to hide their toxic cesspool of mobile ads.
It’s assuming the average pool goer consumes an average amount of artificial sweetener. Even further it’s making assumptions about the average person that pees in a pool.
I don't think that there is a need for monitoring since radiotracer usually have a short halflife, they usually use fluoride-18 (half life 110min) to replace a -OH or a well placed -H in a molecule that bind to the site of interest (ex: glucose -> fluorodeoxyglucose, levodopa -> fluorodopa).
It entirely depends on what you mean by "the product" and I can't help but feel that you are deliberately missing my point. Suppose we take it as a given that for any given program, ignoring performance, a pure Python program requires fewer developers to implement the same number of features than the same program in C++; does it then follow that we would need fewer Python developers to build a web browser than C++ developers? It does not, because you simply could not build a web browser in pure Python that would fulfill people's performance expectations. But for many other projects, the claim does follow, because they are within the realm of "stuff you can do in pure Python."

My claim is that a similar phenomenon applies for C++ and security, regardless of whether Rust is otherwise more productive: no matter how many people you add to a large C++ project, you are not going to come close to the level of assurance on security properties that you get from a Rust program of the same size (your only real hope is formal verification, which for verifying code in just about any language is multiple times less productive than writing the same code without verification). For these cases, asking which is more productive is pointless--C++ cannot deliver the expected product. However, if this is not the case for your project, I believe Rust's productivity benefits are more modest and are probably outweighed by things like team experience and available tooling.

I think I'm being pretty clear here about what I mean and why your question does have a single answer that applies in all situations.
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Wow, this feels like a win-win-win for wgpu, bevy and the rust ecosystem in general
This article is full of inaccuracies.

a) People have extracted a pre-release version from an older iOS phone. It is not the one that will be released and not the same one Apple uses server-side to verify the process.

b) Adversaries can not reasonably break this process by flooding it with bad data across a range of compromised phones. The client side version is there to prevent this as is the fact it would require jailbroken devices with iCloud logins.

c) If you can't trust Apple not to include non-CSAM hashes in the database then how can you trust them not to compromise the operating system itself ? It's illogical. Apple verifies hashes against two sources and two manual checks are required thus needing multiple failure points in the process.
What a dream, spending your days carrying water for Billionaires.
We already have a national id system. It’s called a passport, a birth certificate, a DMV id or driver’s license, a social security number. Those are all national id systems.
Go has some nice tooling which is quite easy to use w.r.t. static analysis. I started writing a nil pointer analysis tool which was going to take advantage of and provide some more advanced information*. I "unfortunately" had a lot more fun stuff to do during my vacation, but it was very easy to get started with! So kudos to the Go team for making this kind of stuff possible for a 1-man team.

* Just a forward-style abstract interpretation living on-top of Go's type system as an additional layer so you get explanations for why the tool believes that a nil-pointer dereference may occur, etc.
They attempted a coup. I am willing to make an exception for traitors.
At the end of the article...
"It has since been suggested that the entire Stonewall Nation idea was a hoax perpetrated by the Los Angeles GLF to generate mainstream publicity."
I don't see the advantage in employing this strategy, it seems risky. You could be fairly confident that you would get criticism from within the gay community about the plan, but nothing more. It would be hard to predict the level of hostile reactions from people outside the community, and how hostile the reactions could get. To take this chance over a hoax sounds implausible.

Edit: I've forgotten how to format on this site, sorry.
I have a commercial question for you about CSVfix (yes, I know it is no longer maintained). Email me if interested (see bio for email).
>... that matches editorial policy.

Can you please link us to their editorial policy that you're using as a source for this? For all we know this could just be an entirely speculative, biased asserition on your part - without context, we don't really know.
That’s only a problem in countries with poor network infrastructure, most developed countries have unlimited data plans at reasonable costs
I don't think you're making selling to government easier, you're making it easier for contractors who are bad at selling to government connect to contractors that are good at selling to government.

There are lots of government contracting vehicles. Some lend themselves to large mega corporations, some are specifically set aside for small business. Some reward past performance, some are designed to increase women/minority/veteran owned, disadvantaged location, etc.

Different vehicles also have different risk profiles. Some are optimized for speed, some for consistent pricing. Some work better when you have poorly defined requirements, others are used when there is significant risk of completion. Basically a good government CO/COR/TOR will work with their program managers to strategically structure contracts to meet mission needs while also proving best value.

If you really want to get good at selling to the government, then you need to understand why something is out out to bid (or not out out to bid as it may be). There are tons of federal contracting classes for COs covering both general FAR rules and agency specific needs. Plus, it depends on what you are hunting for. It could be grants, SIBR, direct contracts, IDIQs, etc. All have different drivers.

My suggestion is if you really want to sell to government, find a good federal contracts person, hire them away from the federal government, and have them work bids. Or at least find someone who can explain in detail some of the things I mentioned above.

- source: I've been part of a mega corp, been a sub/small business selling to the government and a government program manager responsible for 200M/year in services and equipment.

*Edit : that came across harsher than intended. This is still a good idea, but they are helping facilitate b2b sales, not b2g sales. Plus, one of the best ways to learn is to work with someone who has already been successful.
90% of Sturgeon's Law is crap.
Might be a regulation that brokerages have to comply with? Seems like a reasonable solution if such regulation was made in order to detect insider trading.
This isn’t what Apple is doing, regardless of the fact they are using the same terminology. See my edit above.
Do you have to have a 'crude state ID'? Is there any legal pressure to keep the data on it up-to-date? Are the standards for 'crude state IDs' identical between states or would you have to know the rules and regulations of 50 different jurisdictions?
The only reason I use Edge is because that it's basically the best free PDF reader/annotation tool I found for light study. I'd love to switch to another one if there is a better choice
The Guardian ought to be blacklisted here. The articles are terrible and predictably devolve into flamewars in the comments.
I'd love to see this database too.
for YEARS that tutorial has been stuck on "Alright. One more step toward a fully-operational btree implementation. The next step should be splitting internal nodes. Until then!". Must not be worth the time to finish writing the tutorial.
A lot of the biomedical sciences has similar problems with reproducibility. A survey found similar problems in pharmacology (I think there was one article quoting someone saying the pharmaceutical companies they were familiar with internally budgeted for about 2/3 of published academic articles to be false) and oncology, and others.

Whatever you might have to say about research in psychology, it's also the field primarily turning the microscope on itself. This is part of a tradition in the field -- modern meta-analysis has its origins there.

I'm less familiar with physics but there's a lot of problems with reproducibility in many fields.
Not only didn't you answer the question; you invoked a history which contradicts your model.

The Taliban did not roll through Afghanistan as a big wrecking ball. A moment of thought would tell you that this model does not match the growing area they controlled, nor the way it grew toward Kabul from all sides. Nor is it plausible that the army, with more than double the troops, better vehicles and air support would be unable to converge on your hypothetical wrecking ball.

The Taliban avoided big battles, because they always lost those. By all accounts, their final advance was so rapid only because they met virtually no resistance. When they reached Kabul, they initially stayed outside the city, until word got out that the military and police had abandoned their positions and looting was underway, at which point they announced that they were going in to restore order.
> catch the bad people doing very bad things to children

You may catch a few perverts looking at the stuff, but I'm not convinced this will lead to catching the producers. How would that happen?
The trading information is essentially public.

It’s just a matter of finding suspicious trades to start an investigation.
This seems like it's going beyond a simple uncharitable reading and straight into psychoanalysis-from-a-distance.
Why is this being downvoted? Depressing to see that open source software is not respected here.
SBIRs are going to be from multiple agencies, but they might get aggregated on sam.
The KDE Apps[1] are far less well known than they should be. They are of a consistently high quality. I recently discovered "KStars"[2], a beautiful Stellarium-style desktop planetarium that can even control your robotic telescope.

The only mildly annoying thing is that the apps web page mixes desktop apps and mobile apps, they really should be separated.

[1]: https://apps.kde.org

[2]: https://apps.kde.org/kstars/
Inside trading of the information in that database would be something!
They probably all cracked.

The SEC could put them in a perfect "prisoner's dilemma" game and we're only talking about regular people, not hardened operators with like, a suicide capsule in their molar.
There is no comparison between the organizational coherence of coyotes (or coywolves) and full wolves.

Wolves are bigger, stronger, and cooperative in larger packs. Coyotes are more opportunistic and ad hoc, and easily scared off.

The net is that wolves have far more success with large prey.

Feral (or wandering) domesticated dogs will sometimes hunt together too, but their coordination is limited. Wolves are impressive creatures.