skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best I have been able to tell is that productivity is like lifting weights, where you have to be always changing up your routine to "shock" the muscles into growth once you hit your plateau. Productivity is a series of brain hacks to keep yourself from falling asleep at the wheel. Like with a relationship, you have to always be doing new things to keep it interesting (don't stop dating your significant other.)

The value of stan systems is...

1. Take notes (documentation) on things.

2. Refer back to those notes (duh, might come in handy later when you find yourself doing the same thing.

3. Keep these notes in the same place.

Do ONLY the above and you probably get enough benefits to be worth it without dropping out because you failed to find the one true way.

Sounds stupid, but the hours I could have saved myself by writing things down for future reference add up. I can't just simply link to documentation, because the time I save is by documenting the spaces between the documentation. Stuff the writers didn't think to write because they already knew everything. But I'm not doing this simple thing if I have already said f*ck it, I give up, because I found the sword in the stone but it didn't choose me. I can't be king, so I go back to filling out spreadsheets.*
What if by the time you get to that level of technology, you no longer need that much physical space? I don't even mean in a soft sci-fi "evolutionary progress means becoming energy beings", I mean a hard sci-fi "advanced civilizations just digitize themselves into a virtual reality simulations."
yep agree. But why deploy LOB SaaS browser applications on Citrix? It doesn’t add up.
>it can be trivially generalized to use any character as a delimiter

But then you have the additional problem of trying to work out what the delimiter is. You can take an educated guess, but this isn't going to be 100% reliable.
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But isn't BBC itself a propaganda arm for the UK ? So now they simply hate it cause they have competition ?
Try reading the GTD book. What could have been a flowchart, maybe bundled with some potential downsides/gotchas-and-how-to-avoid-them, somehow became this nonsense 300-page sleeping pill.
I'd also recommend Obsidian to anyone who doesn't like the everything-is-a-bullet-point aesthetic.

https://obsidian.md
awesome thanks! I finally got to read the article :)
No, they don't "know".

Those symmetries are not shown to be universally true, they are just what we have been able to observe, much like Newton's laws are based on observations on the Earth only.

Yet Einstein showed that they are only a special case of a much more general universe.
>The Dyson Sphere is an "emotional support sphere" for the Black Hole to remind it of its youth when it was surrounded by stars before it consumed them all
I think there's some strong hints in apple's implementation that they were under external pressure.

If you read the documentation on how it's implemented, there's some fairly advanced crypto - private set intersection, threshold secret sharing - that only makes sense if Apple took the line "we have to do this, but we're willing to do it in a really expensive way so that we ourselves have as little access as possible". They went to the effort of running the NeuralHash on the client device, as far as I understand.

The standard implementation on other cloud providers is that the provider has access to your data on the server if they really need it - much cheaper, and makes it technically possible in future to easily change the T&C to "we may use this for market research and to improve our products". I view Apple's client-side implementation as drawing a very big line in the sand saying we will not do that and we are willing to put our money where our mouth is by writing this crypto protocol.

But that certainly raises the question, why would Apple do anything like that at all, unless there's some (current or anticipated) external threat that forced them to?

As to whether we'll ever discover it - I wouldn't have predicted the Snowden revelations, maybe this will come out the next time something like that happens. If it does, I also predict we'll be shocked to discover just how big the market and distribution network for child abuse online is, and how many people are involved.
Breaking the law is wrong.
Snitching is a civic duty.
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The focus on technical solutions, Roam vs. Obsidian vs... obscures the fact that regardless of the software - maintaining a useful, up-to-date, well cross referenced corpus of knowledge is a lot of effort. The effort must be constant and ongoing, few will have the stamina to keep it going.
I'm speaking about Canada. I should have mentioned that. You're right that the payment options are probably quite different in each country where Wise operates.
This is not completely true - I’ve implemented and maintained remote setups that have worked brilliant. It’s about using it as a tool where that tool fits.

One successful example is a support call-center with 2000 users. The specific role used about 30 apps and they were all packaged and maintained by my team. Using a ci/cd fashion to build os image and apps we could roll out updates to base image and sandboxed applications completely seamless to these users.

(Side note: We built an automation that synced the two latest versions of all applications to a locally attached SSD drive on all hosts - app startup was near instant for all users which was fantastic at this point in time)

Running the clients inside the datacenter brought the latency to a minimum which greatly improved the performance of specific business critical apps.

Managing all parts pertaining to logon properly had the users ready to take calls in 10-15 seconds - a great improvement compared to the previous distributed client/server setup.

- Reducing latency between application and backend was a major win. Greatly appreciated by users as we saw massive reduction in latency for specific operations (crappy apps).

- Being able to integrate with the ip-telephony call-center software required a windows workstation environment hence the choice of “VDI”

- No noticeable os and app updates EVER was greatly appreciated by the users. Even when moving from XP to 7 at one point.

- Our ability to roll out massive OS and app updates at will to pilot groups who can roll back with a logoff/login was greatly appreciated by the team

Granted, this was 10 years ago and my opinion was always that these business applications should be rewritten - BUT I have yet to see a better managed and performing windows client & app delivery.

Citix provisioning services (PVS) coupled with app-v/app streaming was an incredibly progressive way of delivering windows workspaces.

During my time at citrix I often raised the fact that PVS for linux coupled with docker was an amazing setup - never got any traction on this though… everyone was way too focused on windows delivery.
It’s typically about control and auditing. You can record entire sessions, for instance, and limit the ability to scrape sensitive customer data. The list goes on and on if you have a security mindset.
post-infection syndromes are well established, and not unique to coronaviruses. It can occur after an infection with ANY pathogen, including covid-19.

after any critical illness, doesn't even have to be an infection, with an ICU stay where intubation was required, the odds are ~50% you will be left with a permanent injury for life. However even after relatively moderate infection a permanent lifelong injury may remain.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21161-post-in...

It's not like injuries are binary: dead or alive.

you could also end up alive, but in a wheelchair with oxygen for life.

There is a huge spectrum in between, anything from vague brainfog, properly known as executive dysfunction, to partial or total paralysis due to a neuropathy often requiring mechanical ventilation, narcolepsy, organ failures, autoimmune conditions, and so on and so on.

None of this is new, nor controversial.
Don't give them any ideas, it's dystopian enough already...
It really depends who you’re asking. Some autistic people don’t like to be defined by their autism, hence “people with autism”.

I personally think it’s just a weird discussion with no value. There is no universal term people are happy with - You can’t do it right. Whatever set of words you’re using, you’ll end up offending someone. It makes it hard to talk about autism, because the endless discussion how to call these people distracts from the real discussions.
That sounds like five half-assed ID systems. Such is the fear of government databases: it prevents a central database with proper oversight so fifteen worse ones take its place and store stuff that never would have been admitted to the hypothetical single DB.
Are they even losing users overall? This[0] suggests MAU is still increasing.

0. https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
NeuralHash is a hashing algorithm made by Apple to create hashes from images. Where other hashing algorithms would look at the pixel values, NeuralHash creates hashes based on the visual features of an image.

You can read more about it here: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
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It's also conjecture that the more advanced a civ is the more energy it needs
And even if you could, once interviewees know you're doing this, they could easily game it by intentionally bombing the first interview.
Apple's "CSAM detection" feature is a two-part on-device/server as I understand it:

1: Run on-device code to perform perceptual hash comparison of each photo against
an on-device encrypted database of known CSAM hashes.

2: On iCloud Photos servers, send out the relevant notifications when a user’s iCloud Photos
account exceeds a threshold of positive matches.

So as a high level testing strategy, I would want to:

- Verify on-device lookup of CSAM hashes. This could be tested by provisioning a test device with an on-device database containing CSAM hashes of images that aren't illegal. As a bystander, I think I'd be fairly confident with this approach because I'm guessing the on-device database that Apple ships could conceivably be changed over time to expand the definition of the images it will flag as CSAM.

- Do some exploratory testing to discover the threshold of how much image manipulation can be done on a flagged image before the perceptual hash comparison fails to return a match.

- Verify that the notification system notifies the correct parties once a user account exceeds the defined threshold of positive CSAM matches.

- Ensure the flagged account can still be investigated if user deletes the offending material from iCloud, or their account by the time a real person gets around to investigating.

- Ensure that the logging is informative and adequate (contains device name, timestamp, etc.).

- Test behaviour on same iCloud account logged in to multiple devices.

- Figure out any additional business logic - are positive matches a permanent count on the account or are they reset after a certain amount of time?

source: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...
How about a big ol' waterwheel?
What does "white washed form of eugenics" mean? Legitimately curious!
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I preferred simple smileys and have used them privately in the IRC days. But emoji actually have more variety, color-wise. I recently started dating and it's incredibly wholesome to get a heart emoji, which comes in a dozen or so colors.

What's funny about that particular emoji, is that the hearts are actually different, separate emoji. While many others, like the U+1F9D1 PERSON emoji, can be combined with skin tones.

I'm not quite certain why there isn't a simple HEART emoji, modified with a color but it's probably historical.
So… they are selling ads, and correctly labeling them, and we’ve all seen that system, including the backend..

But then there’s another, shadowy market, where they sell far cheaper ads to really lowbrow content that people are more likely to click on, but that just doesn’t have an obvious way t monetize these eyeballs?

Getting less money, diminishing their platform with bad content, breaking laws by not disclosing it, and keeping it all secret?

What I’m saying is there may have been a reason why you were downvoted.
No idea why you are so condescending. Maybe he doesn't have a blog and he's just using the platform where his following is.

Fwiw, I prefer chain of tweets like this to blog posts. It forces the author to compress as much information as possible into every paragraph and split up their thoughts.
They didn't train a classifier, just a hashing function.
What I meant is that the backend - i.e the workspace/terminal delivered was a unix one with a client for OS/2.

I helped manage many solaris servers running citrix metaframe at one point, many years ago.
Kurtzgesagt made a video explaining some possibilities. In short, you can throw mass or radiation at a spinning black hole and "steal" rotational energy from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY
Most journalists working for big outlets are docile when asked politely not to publish on a certain topic (either by their boss, or by government agencies), and that's how they avoid problems. See for example Glenn Greenwald's choice to leave the Guardian in order to publish the Snowden papers. For the french-speaking among us (not sure you can find english subtitles), the documentary "Les nouveaux chiens de garde" (the new watchdogs) goes into detail, interviewing sociologists and journalists, about the ties between the mainstream capitalist media establishment and other circles of power (industry, political parties).

About the no-fly list specifically, you should really check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Notable_cases . Some relevant quotes:

> TSA refused to allow an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico to cross U.S. airspace because it was carrying Colombian journalist Hernando Calvo Ospina

> On August 19, 2009, Air France flight AF-438 was not allowed to cross into U.S. airspace because of the presence on board of one Paul-Emile Dupret, a civil servant at the European Parliament for 18 years, who had written some articles criticizing the EU's policies toward Latin America because they are aligned too closely with those of the United States

> A U.S. citizen, stranded in Colombia after being placed on the No Fly List as a result of having studied in Yemen

> In October 2008, the Washington Post reported that Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent political activists as terrorists, and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases

Seems like it's not hard in practice for psychopaths in uniforms to abuse secretive powers given to them.
reachable does not mean being on camera all the time
I for one appreciate this Q&A summary. I can never figure out the Twitter layout especially on mobile.

(I’m in the millennial bucket in case the ageism comments come in).
If you've got an extension disabling WebRTC, turn it off, that worked for me.
A counterpoint is Buckminster Fuller's ephemeralization: over time we learn how to do more and more with less and less, until eventually, we can do everything with nothing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization
> I also predict we'll be shocked to discover just how big the market and distribution network for child abuse online is, and how many people are involved.

I don't think it is big compared to what authoritarian states would like to use this for. You're talking about, at the very least, putting everyone in non-democratic states under even more pressure to obey than they're already under. And in democratic states this invites bad actors both in and outside the government. There is no net-gain in justice here. It's wrong across the board.

Welcome back to HN after taking 5 months off, btw. You're a SSC fan?
Just print the man page, fold it and put it in your shirt pocket.
Linux probably supports more platforms these days. But it often requires vendor-specific kernel forks, specific distributions, etc. NetBSD is impressive because it can be (cross-)compiled for many systems using the stock distribution without much effort (build.sh script).

Disclaimer: I haven't used or looked at NetBSD since 2006-2007 or so, but I think this is still accurate.
That's funny, just this week I was writing an AI for a creature in a side-project game that uses this exact same heuristic of getting away n nav-mesh nodes away from the player. Something to keep in mind I suppose.
My iCloud Photo Library is full of pictures saved from the Web and screenshots.

That is just the way it works on iOS and it is really annoying to have random cute dog pictures saved from Reddit crop up in "Your Furry Friends"-Compilations.
What did you expect the SEC to do, not publish their names because they are Korean?
Is 3.0 a hard requirement, or can 2.0 also work?
DNS is DNS. You should be able to talk to the NS with DNS over UDP, TCP, or HTTP(s). The protocol used should not matter. The information received should be always the same.
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If it's socialism in name only, then it isn't socialism. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
> 2. A lot of people evidently use iCloud Photo Library to store images of things other than pictures they took themselves

Not in the context of CSAM, but this is iOS’s “appliance” user interface coming back to bite it. The iOS photos app doesn’t appear to have a way to show the user only the photos they took.

Apps like Twitter, browsers, chat apps, screenshots all get to save their photos in the photo library. I believe iOS 15 has a way to filter photos by originating app, but for most users currently, it’s hard not to use iCloud Photo Library for photos I didn’t take myself.

Interestingly, users save chat history including images, from apps like iMessage and WhatsApp, on iCloud too. I’m not sure what happens to e2e encryption for backed up data.
I like the Q&A summary.

1. It answers the clickbait like title question and in that way saved me a click.

2. It’s very clear, concise, easy to read and understand.
And we wonder why inequality is so bad.

Bankers & insiders have all the valuable info/data streams.
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Typoed the “r”!

I remembered almost correctly then - something about it having unix roots. :)
When someone says that they used this and that technique to increase their research productivity, I always think about TRIZ and the fact that so few ppl know about it.
Police and secret services are notably very good at ignoring existing laws protecting the rights of the people, so i don't think a law expiring changes much for those psychopaths.
Heat water to produce steam, use steam to turn turbine. :P
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I’ve seen that promoted but never implemented or used successfully.

As for data exfiltration I’ve worked in the defence sector in IT which has pretty stringent security controls in place. At the same time it’s very easy to do without much effort.

The key thing with this technology is box ticking to say you have a policy in place and to avoid liability, not to solve the problem effectively. This is only done through picking ethical, rigorous and professional staff. But that doesn’t scale because they are the 1% which is the real problem. So back to liability box ticking.
Imagine being a (former?) billionaire and going to prison over avoiding a $45,000 loss. I don't know what she was thinking.
> '3,500 year rainwater harvesting techniques in India'

Although this would work in monsoon areas, it would not work in all parts of USA. There is law passed that rain water collection is "forbidden" (should be limited in some areas) as, as people collect water on the north, there is even less water on the South - increasing droughts and draining rivers.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/states-wher...
Just tried it again, now it works like magic. Don't know what was wrong.
The energy requirements to make a useful one are ..well.. astronomical. One interesting concept is to build a dyson swarm out of Mercury [1]. No, not the element, Mercury the entire planet. Then use that swarm to generate Kugelblitzes for interstellar travel.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW55cViXu6s
So when do we start the protest? Everyone could generate plant a bunch ofthese false positives on their devices. If enough people did it, it'd cost them.
It'd be hilarious to learn that the bottom N floors are actually a giant holding tank, and that some engineer calculated they'd have 20 years to figure out how to empty it all.
Even looking back I don’t see why you would care. The fox runs away. The fact that it doesn’t run away to a perfect radius away is probably better.
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Even better: We know energy is not conserved on cosmic scales. [1] This isn't really a surprise to anyone who understands Noether's theorem and Einstein's field equations of general relativity.

[1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-...
Do you understand that anyone can take absolutely legal porn and make it match CSAM hash? And no one except NCMEC can know the difference because they all only compare hashes and not actual images.

And whoever going to check images for Apple will see that yeah, there is porn on picture. Flag it. Then you'll have unlimited amount of time to explain to FBI why some porn on your device match CSAM hash.
The main concern seems to be that people are afraid that other governments can use this technology to have iPhones scan for other types of images. (The "Tank Man" photo is often given as an example)

Apple say they won't do that, but it's perfectly healthy to not trust Apple on that aspect.

But the fact that they're scanning for CSAM images doesn't change the above in any way. If they back down and stop scanning for CSAM images, that won't have any effect on the above. The governments can still pressure them to add this to their phones. Or even worse. Maybe they have.

It's like people disabling exposure notifications because they don't trust Apple. If that's the case, why do you trust the toggle to actually do anything?

You either trust Apple that they won't bow down to pressure, or you don't, in which case, buy a phone from a company that you trust more.

As someone said on a podcast recently, this isn't a technological problem, it's a government problem. The solution is to vote, not to change your mobile phone.
> It goes against everything open source stands for

Sorry, that's not correct. It goes against your opinion of what open source should stands for, and many projects run in a way where everyone can contribute. But, it's not the only way.

The license determines how the code comes, that's the only rule. There's no rules about how a community must run. It's for the code creator (maintainer) to determine how or even IF they want a community of contributors. There's lots of ways of doing open source!

And saying it's not "open source' if you don't do X outside the license is just a No true Scotsman.
Can you imagine the low traceability info they gave family/friends (e.g. with different last name) to trade on?

3M RIO under their name. How bout under others' names
I believe it is their new rule. But it shows up only if you are using twitter for a while as logged out. Clear data from browser and it goes away, but will eventually show up again.
Whatsapp messages are e2e encrypted so no.
Should be? In life you have to take, nothing is given freely.