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I'm gonna re-post the rant I posted last time this came up:

> As a mobile user, I hate it.

> I hate that every fucking google search result on mobile web has its stupid little icon

> I hate that there is no way for me to disable it as a user

> I hate that it has muddied the waters in what the url bar means

> I hate that it has trained users to not question fake url bars.

> I hate that cloudflare so thoroughly jumped on its dick

> I hate that we invented a way to fake the address in the url bar just for this stupid fucking feature.

> I hate that we now have a system where somebody can share a page url with a friend, and that friend can view it on the same device model using the same browser with the same settings, and will get a different page because one was viewing an amp page but shared it's real url.

> I hate that every fucking amp page is lower featured in some way, and almost never works in desktop mode.

> And most of all, I hate that it leads to everybody offloading shit onto google's servers.

> AMP is not fast because it's served from google's CDN. AMP is fast because it's incompatible with 99% of the bullshit client cpu heavy tracking and ad libraries, so they don't get included inside AMP pages.
I'm very confused by your question. I don't think FAT or FAT32 was ever a performance-oriented filesystem.

Back then, we were just happy having a personal computer. I'm sure there was better tech being used somewhere. But MS-DOS / Windows was just your cheap $99 OS in an age when other compilers and OSes cost you something like $1000 to $10,000.

You formatted your hard-drive in FAT because MS-DOS used FAT. You used MS-DOS because that's what PCs and PC-clones came with. There was no alternative, and PCs were already considered a pretty luxury / nerd item. (I know people brag about their DEC Alphas, Unix copies or OS/2... but you got enough "nerd cred" back then if you simply had a PC at all)

Its just how computers worked back then. Every PC was using FAT, and every few months of regular use the disk reads/writes would get so slow that performance was unbearable.

At that point, you spent an hour defragmenting the hard drive, and everything worked great again.

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Eventually 4GB hard drives were made, and you upgraded your computer to FAT32. Soon after that, Windows promised an end to defragmenting with its next-generation NTFS filesystem (based off of the B-trees discussed in this article) and we never looked back.
The thing is, you profit more from a trade route when more trade flows. This happens with the rule of law, and with infrastructure development. The Taliban could grow this golden goose, or they could strangle it. I'm leaning toward predicting "strangle".
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> Proving the claims of rapid progress would be inordinately difficult and beyond the scope of this contribution.

That seems like it's an important part of this issue. If we know that there are massive problems with irreproducibility and we just have to go on an assumption that there has been "rapid progress" then it seems like the most obvious solution to the "paradox" is to question that progress as well.

This is similar to how in the 90s everything was labeled "healthy and fat free!" which we know resulted in food filled with sugar, then making the claim "the paradox of healthy food despite high sugar". It might be worth calling into question the claims of healthiness given the fundamental conditions that produce health aren't present.

Certainly there are places that everyone will agree we've seen progress, but all of these places seem to be where scientific progress is closely tied to commercial application.

One of the best examples that I think everyone will agree has been remarkable has been the storage capacity of batteries. While much of this progress surely starts in the labs, the true measure of progress isn't in papers it's commercial applications. It frankly doesn't matter at all if the academic research behind battery technology was good or not, because we know these batteries work and are in fact smaller. If you cellphone weighed 10 lbs and ran out of energy in 45 minutes you wouldn't care either way what the research said.

However the answer to this "paradox" isn't just that the market is some force for testing what is real. Anyone who has worked long enough in machine learning knows a fair amount of bullshit not only exists in papers but in products as well.

A better explanation for me is that we live in an age of unprecedented economic and high energy intensity activity. You generate 160,000 TWh of power you're going to see a lot of wonderful things that look like progress. Some real, some illusions, but assuming that science is really the basis for all of this is a fairly large, and unchecked in this article, assumption. Lots of the scientific progress we've made in the last few decades has happened outside of an academic research lab, and assuming "science" is the cause might be a bit naive.
You're trading securities in the United States on a registered exchange through a registered broker, it is all heavily monitored and regulated, to assume there would be any sort of anonymity on a trade is delusional.
But does the Foveon sensor use RGB filters or does it work with different frequency bands? That's a major issue with science data - it doesn't contain RGB data for the most part, because that's not what scientists are interested in.

What's the correct colour channel to use for for near UV (yes, I know that some people - mainly women - can perceive that, but the vast majority of people can't)? What matches near IR or even X-rays? How would you colourise the frequency bands that match different elements (those include very narrow bandpass filters) but don't really make sense in terms of RGB?

That's the difference right there. If you have a picture that uses channels of different filter bands that correspond to hydrogen bands, organic molecules or UV radiation, none of that data correlates to human colour perception. So someone just chose shades of green for hydrogen or shades of blue for organics.

So what I'm trying to say is that the underlying mechanism is irrelevant - the data simply isn't colour data as seen by humans.
> Total Eclipse of the Sun. I personally enjoy Trouvelot’s added artistic flair (or flare, if you want to be punny) on this one.

The sketch there is actually more accurate than the photo! The flare (corona) is real. Cameras have a hard time picking up the corona (UV filters?). Here is an example of what it looks like to the eye:

https://visitidaho.org/content/uploads/2016/12/Eclipse.png
It’s part of their new “EPS Initiative” where they use an analytics tool called ARTEMIS (I forget what the acronym stands for) to assign a risk score to certain transactions and traders. It’s interesting because although the SEC has been pretty tight-lipped about the data inputs it appears there is some degree of “who-you-know” factored into the risk score. So two people can make the exact same trade at the exact same time but if I have a close friend or family member affiliated with Netflix and you don’t then my trade will receive a higher risk score.

It’s part of a broader change in the way the SEC approaches insider trading. Previously they took an “issuer based” approach where a big pop or loss in $ABC triggered a look at all the trades in the right direction prior to the announcement. Now they take a “trader based” approach where they look at person’s pattern of activity over time.

So if your spouse or sibling works in M&A and tips you off to potential deals so you can make (relatively) small investments on the inside information the scheme will be flagged and investigated much more quickly.
>but rather the fact that they are one push of a button away from being deleted forever

but how is that expressed or communicated through the installation? Why should anyone value random patterns generated by a machine that had no intention?

I find andy goldsworthy's art incredible, and he bases his work almost entirely on this idea of impermanent art (although his is usually found materials). I'm not sure its communicated by what you've presented.

I think the impermanence of random patterns that don't communicate anything is something you can find interesting rather than something thats communicated by the video screen, or the intention of the installation.

It's a cool project, but ya, still not sold on this being art per se.
Presumably, there will be a parallel track to stay on iOS 14 with security updates, at least for some time.
Yeah, because the article is about "Selling the story of disinformation" - that's the subtitle. It's about lefty groups crying foul.

I think I understand where we read things differently, if you viewed it as being about disinformation. I viewed it as about the stories around disinformation that the NYT and co. like to publish.
Google is open about the fact they scan and track everything, they even make it a point of convenience "hey, we looked at your email and found a plane ticket, based on where you are, you should leave in 2 hours if you want to be at the airport on time".

Facebook, even more so, they are explicitly anti-privacy to the point of being insulting.

Microsoft will happily show you everything they may send when you install Windows, you can sometimes refuse, but not always. They are a bit less explicit than Google, but privacy is rarely on the menu.

As for Amazon, their cloud offers are mostly for businesses, different market, but still, for consumers, they don't really insist on privacy either.

So that if any of these company scan your pictures for child porn, it won't shock anyone, because we know it is what they do.

But Apple claims privacy as a core value, half of their ads are along the lines of "we are not like the others, we respect your privacy, everything on your device stays on your device, etc...", they announce every (often legitimate) privacy feature with great fanfare, etc... So much that people start to believe it. But with that, people realize that Apple is not so different from the others after all, and if they bought an overpriced device based on that promise, I understand why they are pissed off.
got it, thanks for the clarification. Any speculation as to why the CSAM scanning isn't added to MacOS already?
Should have used Kakao. Guessing they used something based in the US.
I'm fine with that. Apple is a big company and changing its TOS will be instantly reported on. It will act as a canary of sorts to know when they turn evil and we know to stop using their products.
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Snitching is wrong.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
What great idea has ever been universally accepted at inception?

Lets go with the theory of evolution. At inception, how would the theory of evolution not be labeled misinformation in this context?

This is an utterly moronic view of the infallibility of our current state of knowledge about the world.
This is very much my experience of those novels. Not quite as opaque as Conrad's "Heart of darkness" but I get the idea that you are supposed to be as much in the dark about what is happening to Marlowe as Marlowe is himself. It helps with the immersion.
> where it's encrypted in a way that Apple can't read

This doesn't matter because Apple can read iCloud data, including iCloud Photos. They hold the encryption keys, and they hand over customers' data for about 150,000 users/accounts a year in response to requests from the government[1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
No, they really do. But 99% isn't 100%. Compare Python's csv parser with Go's. The former will prefer a parse for any input, and this is done in a fairly consistent way that at least gives one the opportunity to deal with "malformed" csv. The latter is a strict parser and coughs up an error upon almost any deviation from RFC 4180. I couldn't use the latter in practice because of it. It would just choke on too many csv files I had.
I'm not even sure where to start here.

FedEx knows that CSAM is sent using its services in the same way that Apple does. That is to say that both companies know that CSAM has been sent historically and both know that is possible to send that type of material using its services, and one could argue that they should assume that their services are used to transfer that data.

Why does one of these companies have to go to such great depths to search out and report these materials and the other does not? If we suggest that Apple "knows" about CSAM on their network, we must also accept that Apple "knows" about many other crimes in which the devices they are sell are used in the planning and execution of those crimes. Why are they only focused on CSAM if they'd also have legal exposure in these other crimes simply for being a hardware and service provider?

Lastly, to suggest that Apple "conspires" to transmit this content is wholly inaccurate. Conspiracy implies two or more parties are in explicit agreement to commit a crime.
> The product that I miss for little SMB projects is Access. It was the best option for building single-user CRUD apps with a really thoughtful bundle of features.

Try Gupta Team Developer. It's an SQL-centric binding-driven visual RAD tool where you draw the controls visually and basically bind them to SQL queries. It was pleasure and fun to use the last time I tried. To me it felt way better than Access.
Primer has got to be the most baffling movie ever made, impossible to keep track of the timelines! Still an awesome movie!
Until seeing that, I never understood why people go through such effort to see it from the path of totality strip. It's a religious experience.
Brownian motion means molecules inside your body move at ~10000kph (and because it’s random they don’t go anywhere). They’re bouncing around at that speed inside a 30 cubic micrometer ball.

At that speed they meet every other molecule. Not just meet, but touch them everywhere, at every angle, in every configuration.
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Yes.

But hey, you don't want to miss what's happening, do you? People on Twitter are the first to know!
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Windows 2000 was my personal favorite. Modern (for its time), lightweight, stable, and the UI didn't get in your way. It took the good things learned since the Windows 95 and pruned the not-so-good ones. I think that was peak Windows.
> Obviously, people shouldn't do that.

I'm not sure this is obvious or even particularly well-publicized.

The "official recommendation" in the U.S. for many meds is that they be flushed down the toilet, especially scheduled/controlled substances. The FDA maintains a "flush list" [1] of medications that you are specifically instructed to dispose of by flushing. However, even for medications not on the official flush list, it's common to be informed by reasonable authorities that you should dispose of them by flushing -- e.g. I had to sign paperwork at my doctor's office affirming that I'd responsibly dispose of my unused ADHD meds by flushing them down the toilet before my dr would write the prescription. This was seconded by the drug/alcohol training I was given as a condition of attending college, which stated that you should flush all unused medication.

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/disposal-unused-medicines-what-you...
Yeah, none of these logos, human- or AI-made look usable (unless you don't care about logos, in which case why even bother).
A passport and SSN are national IDs. Birth certificates and DMV docs are State IDs only.
Is there a better more-recent book to start reading or is this still a good place to start?
why use lines when you can use trigonometry? aren't we all made of waves anyway?
There are concerns without the images needing to make it all the way through their CSAM process. Apple is a US company with obligations to report certain crimes they become aware of, and NCMEC is a US government-tied organisation that dismissed privacy concerns as "the screeching voices of the minority".

Consider if the honeypot images (manipulated to match CSAM hashes) are terrorist recruitment material for example.
Putting some extra hashes into a database - especially one tucked away in a corner of the product - is a lot easier than compromising kernel code or a driver. And in this case the database is not exclusively the work of Apple, so third parties have the ability to insert hashes.
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> This means that wgpu is no longer a "bevy_render backend". It is now bevy_render's core gpu abstraction.

Experience has shown me that you will eventually regret this decision
> Some of these guys just buy weekly options ahead of an earnings call,

Obviously working for the company in question makes it different, but this doesn't seem crazy or unusual.

I've worked placed where it was very easy to predict the stock movements ahead of earnings call since the company's success/failure is in public eye a lot (same true for netflix?).

The top 5 companies in terms of market cap get lots of attention and analysis. I bet most people could review that data before the earnings call and guess the movement of the stock enough to make money.

Again, i would never touch my companies stock on the market but it doesn't seem like you need insider knowledge at a lot of big companies.
> And also in my experience, by the time you've invested the years of effort required to fill in gaps in the public package ecosystem, it's time to move on to the next niche language trend.

This probably depends on the complexity of what you need to do, as well as how well you want to do it.

I've seen people writing their own packages and pieces of systems in months, to typically pretty underwhelming results. However when writing code with tests, proper documentation, getting started guides etc., then what you're saying does sound way more plausible, especially if scope creep of any sorts is also present.

Would you care to comment on what sorts of systems take years to properly develop, though? Because in my experience that could be applicable to very few software projects out there.
That's great insight about Lynch.

I was totally puzzled by Mulholland Drive, then I read an explanation in a IMDB review, watch it again, and I was amazed that everything made sense. It was encrypted and somebody gave me the keys. That's really an artistic experience.
> The people who get CAUGHT doing it are complete idiots

and/or greedy.

Even if you're "smart" about it, you can only hit so many lottery tickets before you come under suspicion.

I'd bet the best way to get away with insider trading is to do it once, make under $1 million, then walk the hell away and never speak of it.
>It seems wrong that my personal info is being given out by my brokerage, in a way that lets them identify my personal trades.

Unlikely.

More likely is that the brokerages and/or exchanges submit transactional order-book trade data to the SEC (i.e. anonymous numbers .... timestamps, quantity traded, direction).

If the SEC then spot something, its just a case of picking up the phone to the brokerage and asking to ID the client for the transaction at a given timestamp.
I agree with the article that not only are implementation problems a potential threat, but it also sets a dangerous precedent. I also understand that Apple is attempting to compromise with governments that are still pressuring it to create an encryption back door or hand over keys (which it did in China by having another company operate iCloud there). Governments have often used the pursuit and prosecution of child abusers and terrorists as a scapegoat for eroding privacy for all its citizens. Privacy and liberty versus the lawful pursuit of criminals are challenging problems to balance, especially when governments and law enforcement want a free pass searching for whatever content they deem illegal. Governments decide what photos, communications, and even thoughts (if they could) are legal and which one are illegal. Who knows what some (new) governments may decree new obscenity laws? They could legislate that some pictures once considered lawful and innocent are now unlawful and obscene, retroactively, and ask or attempt to force Apple to search for those newly criminal images.

Apple’s new image scanning technology is almost as much of a backdoor to individuals' privacy as handing out their device decryption keys on demand. Except with this new tech, finding criminal activity is even easier for law enforcement, as Apple will attempt to locate criminals for them.

That said, there are better privacy tools available for those that need as much privacy as possible, but they are nowhere near as user-friendly as Apple's devices. For instance, if this new search tool only searches images uploaded to iCloud, as claimed, what stops a pedophile or a journalist from disabling iCloud photo storage and synchronizing photos manually? It is extra work, but not difficult. Keeping average everyday things and activities, such as web browsing history, mostly private requires more effort and expertise than manually copying photos between a phone and a computer.
> Apple genuinely believe this is a novel and unique method to catch CSAM without invading people's privacy

What’s novel about this? The technique and issues with it are fairly obvious to anyone with experience in computer vision. It seems not too different from research from 1993 https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/1993/file/288cc0ff02287...

The issues are also well known and encompass the whole subfield of adversarial examples.
What's the penalty for this? If the total profits were 3M over several years and at least 3 Netflix engineers were involved (who combined would have made that much anyway over that period), it seems awfully risky unless the penalty is trivial.
No, probably wouldnt even get to the desk of the police. End of the road would be NCMEC, to whom apple would refer hash matching images that pass human verification that are close enough to porn.

If your 30 or so hash matching images matched their corresponding known CSAM then that goes on to the police and then they knock on your door.
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I was actually looking into that this week due to chip shortages... it is not cost effective, but if the alternative is sitting and waiting a year for the specialized switch controller to become available again, that NRE doesn't look too bad.
Not if you have opted to have them uploaded.
Known CSAM detection was one of three features they announced under the banner of child safety. Certainly they understand it is by itself an incomplete intervention for a much larger problem.
If they lie they get the Martha Stewart special which is apparently harsher than an attempted coup.
In case you're from the U.S. and wondering why you've never heard of this particular sweetener, I looked it up. It appears to be one of the ingredients in Equal, along with aspartame.