skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a large part of this topic isn't about a team making a promise and not living up to it. It's about a business (management) wanting to make a promise and getting the team to accept responsibility for it. So let's assume the estimate is very accurate but the business wants it done in half the time. When the project runs past that date being able to point to a very accurate estimate and say I told you so isn't very productive. So we need strategies and techniques for dealing with the mismatch between the desires of the business and what can actually be delivered in a given amount of time.

TFA advocates for bargaining on scope, where I prefer to start the conversation by asking about both scope and timelines to understand which parts of the overall request are negotiable. This is also a great opportunity to make sure the business context is well understood so everyone understands what success means from the perspective of the business

You might then find every single feature really is necessary and the timeline can be relaxed. Audit compliance can be an example when it is something new to an org. You are either going to pass or fail the audit, so there isn't really room to reduce scope. But you may be able to negotiate on the timeline.
There are members of congress aware of the issues algorithms and false profiling can cause for people, and working on laws to hold big tech accountable. One is Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. Perhaps contacting his office would be helpful.

https://www.meritalk.com/articles/sen-wyden-to-reintroduce-a...
How about since 1947?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
I'm wondering why if this continues happening the US consulates have not put in some kind of detection hardware?
Seems like an easy solution
For me, it was well thought-out. Apple betrayed my trust as a consumer and the response in the past week was plain gaslighting. I thought about it for a couple of days and then decided that I don't want to support a company like that anymore.

(edit)I was planning to buy a new MBP/iPhone/Watch in Q4, so this made it easier to decide on those purchases earlier.(/edit)

It's correct that the CSAM scanning is currently only effective when iCloud is enabled - and for US customers only.
For me, this detail is irrelevant. The backdoor might be inactive for now, but there would still be a backdoor on my phone.
I think that, between the earlier articles about this effect happening in the mainland US[1] and now Germany, it's safe to say that at this point the hypothesis that this is some benign phenomenon (e.g. cricket noises[2]) has been sufficiently debunked.

Given that, the current interesting question is whether this effect is unintentional (e.g. two newly-deployed RF technologies that interact with each other in a harmful way) or whether it's flat-out a weapon. Given that almost exclusively US officials have acquired these symptoms, I would like to hear the arguments that one would give for it not being a weapon.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/mysterious-health-in...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18837561
>I am already beginning to wonder if the 2020s will be the story of the social transformation caused by mRNA vaccines. An effective and relatively cheap HIV vaccine will be huge.

In the 90s, sure. Between treatment so effective that you can't pass it on and PreP, the days of HIV is over anyway. Vactination might be a bigger deal in poor countries, but they are also the countries that can least afford it.

If they can cure HIV, that would be another thing.
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Aren't stoves unique among gas appliances in that people prefer them over their electric counterparts for reasons other than cost to operate? Couldn't we reduce residential natural gas use by like 90% just by replacing all of the gas water heaters, clothes dryers, and furnaces with electric equivalents?

(Note: I personally like induction stoves the best. I'm not arguing that gas stoves are a good thing, just that we can get 90% of the benefit for only like 10% of the whining by leaving them alone for now.)
Why is this so complicated, to me self-driving being solved is when I get into a car to get to work and don't have to touch any controls other than the AC maybe. Pretty well-defined, no?
I've never had a MacBook but I feel the LG Gram line of notebooks is top-notch. I have a 17" version and it's light, fast, and has a long battery life. It has a full keyboard and is easily upgradeable. I run Arch Linux with GNOME desktop. All the hardware works on Linux except the fingerprint reader .
What an ignorant and ironically completely uninformed statement of your own. Keep you biases, stereotypes, and outright bigotry off this site please. Travel to a favela, travel throughout Africa, even look at the building quality of houses in Japan…there’s no comparison.
There might be more data for levels.fyi in the US than EU.

600k$ is 480k EUR. I know SEs in Germany doing more than 400k EUR at FAANG.
Ok let me rephrase, they can't seize crypto from competent people.
How exactly do you suggest restraining someone to a seat who is trying to bite you?

Like imagine you’ve got them on the ground in the aisle and need to get them restrained in a seat… muzzling seems like a good plan to me.
Incorrect. It will use a generic model to warn children that they could be exposed to nudity, but that runs on-device and sends nothing to Apple. (It's just a generic nudity detection model).

On iOS and iPadOS, they will implement the iCloud Photos CSAM scanning, but Apple left out macOS as having that for now. Rumoredly according to GitHub reverse-engineers of the system, it's due to the mathematical precision of the NeuralHash algorithm being processor-dependent on ARM and not Intel.
>It's not nothing; so it isn't misinformation.

I could nitpick over your definition of "a very large amount of cobalt is used in petroleum refining", but the fact that an EV owner creates orders of magnitude more demand for cobalt than an ICE car owner speaks for itself.

>Ice vehicle recycling is mostly focused on extracting steel and aluminium however.

What other rare earths are present in an ICE car's engine? They are almost entirely comprised of alu and steel, which is why recycling them is so easy. Platinum is also very widely extracted from old catalytic converters.

Obviously modern cars also include a huge amount of (almost entirely un-necessary) electronics, but if you want to start talking about that, then we'll also have to include all of the other (almost entirely un-necessary) electronics we own.

Nice article on Tesla and battery recycling. Exactly which part supports your previous assertion that "Tesla recycles all of its batteries"?

>You need economies of scale for battery recycling to become more significant.

I get a feeling we'll be hearing this line for a long time.
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Back before I basically gave it up, I did crave it when I got out of bed. I'd be straight downstairs and eating Cereal with high sugar levels, or toast with jam on it.
I crave sugar. Sometimes i'm craving so much i go out on purpose to buy a 1L icecream or 1kg chocolate and eat it all in one go. At least once a week.
Yeah, but like most advances in efficiency, it's not used to take less, it's used to take more. Heat pumps could be used in combination with good insulation and good practices to keep houses more comfortable. A few degrees warmer in the winter, a few degrees cooler in the summer. But that's not what happens. Americans use air conditioning to keep their houses cold. People who aren't used to it end up wearing jumpers inside in the summer. No doubt in the winter the heat pump would be used to keep the house warm enough to be naked at all times. Add to that bad insulation and no amount of heat pump efficiency is going to stop the wasted energy.
Warrants are only part of the issue. The bigger issue is civil and criminal liability. If someone uploads child porn to iCloud and then shares it with someone else Apple is possessing and distributing child porn.

Today they aren't liable because there is a law that shields them. But that law comes with strings attached around assisting law enforcement. By doing an end run around those strings Apple is not holding up it's end of the bargain and runs the risk of lawmakers removing the liability shield.

If that happens then it's a whole new ball game.
In short term, how about using a AI generated face for her online profile picture, and let google assume that's her real picture? It's not the solution, but okay for time-being. In long term, I guess she could reach out to EFF or similar non-profit groups, or approach lawyers who had already fought similar cases against Google.
The law gets debatable here. The warrant can ultimately be served only to the owner/responsible party for the system. If apple decides that they own all iPhones, a claim they've loosely made for a long time re Flash etc. Then they could be served a warrant on the device.

If they just sold the device to someone, then the police would have to issue a warrant to that individual. My understanding is that as an individual your options are either to comply with the warrant or commit a separate crime destroying the evidence or refusing the warrant.
If Apple launches a system for comparing iCloud uploads to a third-party hash list, then adding the ability to do targeted scans for arbitrary additional law-enforcement-provided hashes would also be a form of creating capability.

The people getting pissed off about this have not, so far as I’ve seen, demonstrated why the law would require Apple to add the capability for targeted scans of arbitrary hashes.

Police can use a warrant to ask you for a video file they suspect you have. They can’t use a warrant to force you to videotape someone—even if you already own a video camera. The same principle applies to Apple.
I changed my phone to a Fairphone 3+ running LineageOS. I'm liking it so far. I think it's as ethical & private as I can get while still have a smartphone right now.

I also changed my photos to backup to Nextcloud, which I'm self-hosting.

I wrote about switching from Google Photos to Nextcloud here: https://blog.leavemealone.app/moving-from-google-photos-to-n...
This has been studied a fair amount, from memory gas is in the low to mid 40% range, induction & immersed coil are in the mid 80% range.

Gas stove is nominally competitive, but as soon as you start adding renewables to the power mix or considering indoor air quality & venting, electric seems like the path forward to me.
The Apple AirPower mat comes to mind although there are rumors they haven't abandoned the effort completely. Butterfly keyboard seems to finally be acknowledged as a bad idea and took several years to get there.

The next Macbook refresh will be interesting as there are rumors they are bring back several I/O ports that were removed when switching to all USB-C.

I agree with your overall point, just some things that came to mind when reading your question.
> No US Company will never "outsource" to europe to save 50% per full time worker

To a point this has already happened, there are tonnes of American tech companies hiring in London. The cultural difference between the US and the rest of the Anglosphere is fairly minimal, which makes us plus Canada obvious choices for "nearsourcing". And if the planned UK-US free trade agreement goes through, this is just gonna accelerate.
My sympathy is with the flight crew. They didn't sign up to be police. They have spent the last year having to enforce mask rules. Meanwhile people have been losing their minds and bad behavior has become more common and even encouraged by a segment of the population. Imagine being a flight attendant and having to restrain someone physically, that sounds horrible. They should be given training and tools, and a bonus if they have to go through that.
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You've never heard of feature flags?
I didn't mean to suggest a targeted attack. If the goal is to just overwhelm Apple's system, the attacker doesn't need to target a particular phone, they just need to distribute lots of colliding images to some phones. Even their own phones, since the colliding images wouldn't be illegal.
I also thought that wasn't "fair" since many of the comparison images are taken with long exposure times.

I have a very old astronomy book that includes similar drawings of Jupiter and they're much more detailed and realistic.
I've been down this road long before CSAM, the gist is:

Use FOSS when possible, minimize all other internet-connected devices when FOSS is not available.

I actually still plan to continue using iPhone as a necessary evil until PinePhone, Librem, or similar are production ready (as my use cases demand). But I don't trust the device, my world doesn't revolve around the device, and that's kind of the only way to live with having devices running proprietary, untrustworthy code.
For myself, that would be an rxvt (or xterm) and the Joe editor in WordStar emulation mode.
This is an interesting related article:

"What happened when I ate ultra-processed food for a month" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/van_tulleken
If we'd make cigarettes illegal tomorrow, we might see some nicotine related prostitution. If we'd do the same for coffee or sugar, I'd doubt we'd see it.
From https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ :

> These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.
Yes, we have tons of people who can code at a proficient level in one language. However, don't underestimate the difficulty of software engineering. The people who we need to build our applications are getting really hard to find and especially keep around.

Sure I can get someone who will code a basic Spring Boot application in a pinch. But do they have the excellent communication skills, knowledge of build systems, cloud knowledge, understanding of TCP and SSL, HTTP protocol, forwarding and reverse proxies, containerization, unit testing, and version control just to start. This isn't mentioning secure design and the hundreds of other small things they will need to learn and understand.

Then they have to be willing to get up to speed on new libraries and be able to read and understand software. Will they be able to set up remote configuration for our swarm? Will they be able to do the research if they don't know something? Do they have a firm base of computer science knowledge to make that learning stick?
Alternatively, what about just giving up the camera and pictures and getting a stand alone device for that? Not terribly convenient but neither are the other options.
If they're screaming at the top of their lungs solely to annoy I suspect that's quite reasonable. What's unfortunate here is that a tiny minority of people have ruined domestic travel with their behavior.

It's such a shame that there's no way we could impose some sort of requirement, a sort of passport if you will, on passengers that would eliminate just about all of this. But I can dream.
That was the only thing about the video that disturbed me. Duct taping the dude to the seat was fine, but putting duct tape over his mouth is super dangerous. He could easily have barfed and been in real trouble.
How is efficacy vs. severe disease strong if 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?
And what does this alternative look like?

I'm unconvinced. Duct tape visually shows that someone was being so bad they needed to be restrained. I'd argue this is great optics: we care about passengers.

And people who get duct taped are visibly restrained with no decorum. They are easily identified as having done something unacceptable and stupid.
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you can't wash with cold water because soap doesn't activate with cold water

Bunch of pseudoscience. I've never noticed any difference between washing with cold or not.

hot water also kills bacteria

Ultimately doesn't matter because they're all being washed away by the soap molecules anyway.

The act of standing and using our arms releases...

Lol, are you seriously trying to reason that what little energy you burn is more than a dishwasher?
I saw the same re-posting of bad data in the knowledge panel early on in its days.

I assume this is what happened: Google associated a local sports team with a stadium (old) that they used to play at, and then somehow associated the new stadium with the old stadium. The names of the stadiums were different, addresses different, they were miles away from each other, addresses on the team website were all at the new stadium... but the knowledge panel treated them as one and the same and the location ... the location of the old stadium, and the panel even swapped names here and there.

I used their feedback widget a number of times to notify them. Then for a day it would be fixed .... and somehow whatever script or 'ai' would takeover again and connect the wrong dots again and the address and names would be a jumble / wrong. I kept checking it as it was pretty amusing.

I assume someone at google had to eventually intervene, maybe many times to get things right, perhaps identify a wonky data set or something.

I assumed it only got fixed because it was a major location / sports team.

It is probably amazing tech behind the scenes but the associations / mistakes are just way too high to be left to the status quo of "no customer service, too bad for you if it is wrong". The human consequences in some cases is just too high.
This looks cool! I spend half the day in terraform and AWS and I’m looking forward to trying this out later today.

Regardless of how that goes, it’s really nice to see a project that addresses this specific area. Way to go!

The AWS console is (at least for the popular services and API endpoints) super effective.

That said, when you’re deploying a project that has components that span almost a dozen services in AWS that can quickly become a dozen tabs just to assess the state of the project. Not very fun - looking forward to seeing how this handles that.
Their never going to have a full years tritium on hand so that’s kind of an odd benchmark. Getting the cost of Tritium down to $10,000 per gram is somewhat optimistic, significant effort is going to be used to recover it.

As to the Mississippi River flow estimate that’s something like 6 orders of magnitude larger than what I am referring to. Still, the other way of looking at that statistic is if half of the Tritium used per day was dumped into the Missisippi every day it would be considered safe to drink when well mixed.
Same argument could be made about social media. Just because you don't see folks prostituting themselves for a minute of fame doesn't mean... wait a minute ... never mind.
Who cares that Bad Company XYZ already well known for not caring about customer privacy does it? Wouldn't you want to push back against even more increasing surveillance? Apply was beating the drum of privacy while it was convenient, wouldn't you want to hold their feet to the fire now that they seemed to do a U-turn?
I don't know what those companies do, hopefully someone who does know will chime in and answer.
Brain zaps? Still better than benzo withdrawal though!
I thought the captain has a taser available usually
I think this is an overly cynical take.
If the technology gets there, I think there will be massive uptake for in the urban commuter and taxi markets.

when pitting Actual safety + massive convenience VS. fear, I think the former will win out for a large part of the market.

I also think the majority of people would pay more for a self driven taxi than a person driven taxi. Some reasons might be personal space, privacy, safety, and reliability in terms of dispatch and cancelled rides.
>One of these passengers tried to kick out a window.

Right? If someone attempts to cause structural damage at 30k feet, I'm going to stop that person with any means necessary.
Let me assure you that not all European developers have such generous conditions.
Coffee doesn't imply a lack of sugar, not by a long shot.
Kid yourself not, smoking is an addiction.
Researchers can vet the client-side part of the tools, but per the Security Device program agreement they can’t discuss anything publicly without Apple giving them the go ahead.

And presumably the hash match database downloaded to the device is encrypted and unable to be examined.
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I saw 30 mentioned somewhere, and I think that’s a more likely guess than 5. When men have a porn collection, it rarely has less than a hundred images, and so the threshold for CSAM detections can be set quite high in quantity, and enjoy a near-zero false positive rate aside from malicious hackers.

(And yes, 90% of CSAM abusers are men, so y’all will have to find some other way to weaken my argument.)
>I've always been of the mind that this technology can only work 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. Pipe dream, I know.

That’s not the only way of reducing variables. I think the key is rethinking how self-driving cars can fit into a broader ecosystem of transportation, instead of narrowly thinking about self-driving cars as a one to one replacement for human driven cars.

Self-driving or not, cars are a terribly inefficient way to move people. 10 buses that are only a third full replaces 260 single commuter cars. A light rail running at 50% capacity carries more people per hour that 4 full lanes of highway [1]. Even if we build more and more roads, that just causes more traffic, not less [2]. The problem with public transport is the “first mile, last mile” problem. Unless you are in a dense well-designed environment, it is a huge pain getting from your house to the public transport, and from the public transport to your office/store/ballet recital. People don’t want to drive 3 miles and park their car at the light rail station, ride to the closest stop, take a bus 2.5 miles, and then walk the last half mile to the office. But if a self-driving car could pick you up at the curb and take you right to the lightrail, and another could pick you up from your stop and drop you right at the office, suddenly that changes the calculus. Why sit on the highway for 90 mins in your self-driving car, surrounded by 100,000 other people in self driving cars, when you could make the same trip in 40 mins using the light rail and a couple Uber-driverless.

In that situation, you can reduce variables by having self driving cars drive at lower speeds (in residential and urban areas) and by having a few dedicated lanes on strategic artery roads to move people to central locations for transport on bus/lightrail/train, much like we have dedicated lanes for buses in some places.

Once you have some basic infrastructure like that, then it makes more sense to reduce the massive amount of streets and parking wasting space in dense urban environments. If you want a car for your suburban life, fine, but you have to park it outside downtown and take the lightrail in and grab a little self-driving car to get where you want to go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail
[2] https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
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