skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said you were jealous. I said you sound like you're envious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhrTOg1RUk - maybe watch this (it is quite enjoyable!) and it could change your mind about how you think of envy.

Heat pumps just move heat around... They do not create heat. If they did - we'd have some violations of laws. All they're doing is going to transfer geothermal, solar, wind, etc. power into heat transfer - which is transferring heat from outdoors into your home... Which then goes back outdoors at some point. There isn't any "heat" creation here.

What model are you speaking of where they claim electric cars are not viable for the future? (Assuming renewable energy sources and sustainable use of natural resources, etc.)
And don’t forget, it’s way more than just money:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A

You must report to them and only them.

For the GP to claim they’re not government “owned” is a rhetorical trick at best and outright ignorant absurdity at worst.
Well, your ARM-powered chip will need some analog-to-digital converters since the feedback signals are analog. And you'll need a high-current output driver to control the switching transistor. And some sort of startup circuit to provide power before the processor starts running. And an undervoltage lockout circuit to prevent the processor from malfunctioning if the voltage drops. So you still have a bunch of analog circuitry but you've added an analog-to-digital converter and a microcontroller. There are some applications where this tradeoff makes sense, but in a lot of cases it would just be excess complexity.
So not the one the uk used to track covid infections, sigh.
I misread 'to the' as just 'the' and was very intrigued.
That's the point: catching the bad guy foolish enough to keep known CSAM images on their phone, while not technically invading the privacy of any good guys. Anyway, if apple wanted to covertly invade their users' privacy, they'd have no technical problems to do so.

What it takes to accept is the "nothing to hide" mentality: your files are safe to scan (locally) because they can't be known CSAM files. You have to trust the scanner. You allow the scanner to touch your sensitive files because you're not the bad guy, and you want the bad guy be caught (or at least forced off the platform).

And this is, to my mind, the part Apple wasn't very successful at communicating. The whole thing should have started with an educational campaign well ahead of time. The privacy advantage should have been explained again and again: "unlike every other vendor, we won't siphon your files unecrypted for checking; we do everything locally and are unable to compromise your sensitive bits". Getting one's files scanned should have become a badge of honor among the users.

But, for some reason, they tried to do it in a low-key and somehow hasty manner.
The reliance on KDE components is a non-starter for me. It is just too bloated compared to some of the other options.
Linux is already, in my view, by far the best operating system! Complete freedom to do what you want, with high quality software.

So I continue to enjoy various wonderful Linux flavors!

I hope my iPhone deprecates faster than usual so that I can soon ditch it for a de-googled phone! (Or possibly a Linux/Pinephone, once batteries get good enough).
> This is a new mechanism for scanning private pictures on the device.

No it isn’t. It’s a mechanism for scanning pictures as they are uploaded to iCloud Photo Library.

Private pictures on the device are not scanned.
> They don't control the database used

They control what goes into the on-device database that is used.

>The on-device encrypted child abuse database contains only data independently submitted by two or more child safety organizations, located in separate jurisdictions, and thus not under the control of the same government

https://www.techwarrant.com/apple-will-only-scan-abuse-image...
So it's political? And Covid is just another excuse to shit all over freedom lovers and destroy any bastion of liberty left alive.

Now it makes sense that people feel heroic by taking the burden of disease upon themselves to protect their Liberty ;)
Mapeo: Map from the Middle of Anywhere
This is a great idea! Good luck
Until one day a box pops up. It says "We've updated our terms. See this 10,000 line document here. Please accept to continue using your device." Then your clause is gone.
War is a racket. As explained by a US Army general: [https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html]
Translation: "Pewresearch wants us to think that Americans support censorship. The claim is backed by a bogus questionnaire given to 0.003% of Americans."
The Fairness Doctrine never covered print -- only radio and TV, which were using "public" airwaves.

It would be a big -- and likely unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds -- stretch to bring the doctrine back and expand it to print or online media.
> We were immediately told that we could not discuss an ongoing court case in the AMP advisory committee. That’s fair enough. But will it go both ways? Or will lawyers acting on Google’s behalf be allowed to point to the AMP advisory committee and say, “But AMP is an open source project! Look, it even resides under the banner of the OpenJS Foundation.”

Google's lawyers will most likely do something like that, though . But there's nothing stopping you from contacting the prosecution and offering testimony against the claim that AMP is open source. Unless the AMP advisory committee is somehow considered a party in the lawsuit? Though even then, depending on how the committee works, I don't think they could ban you from communicating with the prosecution.

Actually I'd expect members of the advisory committee to be deposed. The prosecution explicitly mentions the AMP committee in their suit: "Although Google claims that AMP was developed as an open-source collaboration,
AMP is actually a Google-controlled initiative. Google originally registered and still owns AMP’s
domain, ampproject.org. In addition, until the end of 2018, Google controlled all AMP decision-
making. AMP relied on a governance model called “Benevolent Dictator For Life” that vested
ultimate decision-making authority in a single Google engineer. Since then, Google has transferred
control of AMP to a foundation, but the transfer was superficial. Google controls the foundation’s
board and debates internally" . Both Google and the prosecution will likely depose members of the committee to get testimony regarding those facts.
I doubt this adds up to more than a billion dollars, which is not a huge amount for a country. The Taliban will still be in trouble and might want to diversify.

What is astounding is that the US spent 2 trillion USD over 20 years or about a 100 billion USD per year. This is 5 times more than the estimated 2020 GDP of Afghanistan and most of it went to the US economy (last year it was just shy of 5 billion USD in aid to Afghanistan, most of it security aid - "paying their salaries" as Biden terms it).

The issue is the Afghan government. It can't be bypassed, as Afghanistan is a sovereign state. There is little incentive to give more in aid, when you know that corruption might be an issue. So endless occupation it is, instead of a Marshall plan.
The State of Broadband in America, Q2 2021
> used in the first place in order to replace a 6-cycle division by a 1-cycle multiplication

Look a generation or two back and you'll see that the division is a LOT slower than 6 cycles, too.

But it should be noted that if the modulus is a compile time constant the compiler will turn the % into a multiply and add.

The riscv bitmanip instruction set has permutes that can reverse the bits in a word (along with other useful permutations). ... still doesn't exist in an actual asic yet. Maybe some time in my life we'll get it on common platforms.
You might want to check out RescueTime's slack integration. It can sort of do what you're asking for. You can configure it to update your Slack status with whatever category of app you're spending time in.

Unless they've changed something in the last year since I used it.

https://www.rescuetime.com/integrations/slack
Apple is using a private perceptual hash on the backend, likely to further filter out bad/spam tickets.

https://twitter.com/fayfiftynine/status/1427899951120490497?...

Given neuralhash is a hash of a hash, I imagine they’re running photodna and not some custom solution which would require Apple ingesting and hasing all of the images themselves using another custom perceptual hash system.

> . Instead of scanning images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child-safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes, which is securely stored on users’ devices.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
We've got at least a few dozen customer integrations that parse CSV-ish files, and they all have a custom parser. Many of these have been chugging for over a decade, sending "mission critical" data back and forth.

It's dead simple to whip up, and we can easily tweak it to whatever the customers software spits out, like one field suddenly being UTF-8 encoded in an otherwise Windows-1252 file.
Disagree. A baker makes bread. Milkman does some physical work to produce and provide a real product. What does Govly do? Get in the middle of a transaction you can complete without them and take a fee for filing some forms for you. Theyre maybe a secretary or something less at the very most.
I remember I had to watch "The Long Goodbye" with Elliot Gould three times to figure out exactly what was going on [0]. A detective job in itself.

A good movie nonetheless.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Long_Goodbye_(film)#A...
CSV isn't going away any time soon. It is the only format that is supported by all data-oriented tools. Getting all those tools to agree on an alternative isn't going to happen, especially given that that there are all these old tools that are no longer being updated, that produce and consume CSV.

Instead of finding a replacement for CSV it might be easier to standardize it and enhance it. Excel's version of CSV is the de-facto standard. If you want a written-down spec that is available too [1]. To this we need to add enhancements such as a way to specify metadata (i.e., data type of each field). No need to find an alternative to CSV!

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180
What technology are you referring to as already deployed?
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Until you DDoS the inspection framework. turns out the material is pretty cheap! Heck, I can pay for you to return the lead foil wrapping to be "environmentally conscious by taking on the onus for packaging recycling!" Doubling my in-flight noise ratio, and generating good press.

You have to think big. You need people to open a package, inspect, and reseal it.

I can make a dropshipping business, turn a profit, and swamp your unboxers to the point you stop trying. I'm not out to do that, so I wouldn't bother, but there are ways, and you'll be surprised the hijinks you can get up to when adversarial attack of infrastructure or process is done right. Quite a lot of modern systems that just werk do so because on the whole, people don't spend much time being dicks. Unfortunately, my brain seems to have a part that enjoys the challenge in its idle time.

Measuring is hard. Especially when someone has their hand on the "noise" dial.
> people incompetent enough to have years old (otherwise how would it end up at NCMEC?) CSAM on their iPhones

Who do you think has 30 or more CSAM images on their phone?
I wonder if you could write a small native app for the presence component that launches the main electron app when needed.
> I can guarantee nobody will see the inside of a courtroom

This wasn't the question I asked.
> what kind of encryption can't be decrypted until some threshold has been crossed?

The kind Apple has built. You should read the docs. This is literally how it works.
Creator Tokens Are About to Explode
honestly this is kind of hilarious as the Tether company still has $33 million Tether frozen

and now the new Chief Security Officer acting on behalf of the official Poly Network organization will be the one that requests Tether inc to unfreeze the stolen coins. By the guy that stole them

this ridiculous story reminds me of how crypto used to be 10 years ago lol
con map = ...

let rec = ...
Why do you think it's highly regarded by critics?

Final season's got a relatively low rating on rotten tomatoes.

It's referenced as a joke series in my circles, if you want to refer to something pointlessly convoluted with no pay-off.

Personally, I stopped at the beginning of season 3 when I realized the writers didn't have a clue where to go with the plot.
1. Cops on the street
2. Cops in your house

Which one is more invasive?

I don't think there is much to not understand. Apple is proposing putting a cop in your house. On device scanning is vastly vastly different than server side scanning. One is over apples property, the other is over YOUR property. Its a big deal, and a huge change in policy. And as myself and others have indicated from years of observation, it will grow and grow...
Keep your mouth shut.

You're going to see things that they're doing that you think are stupid, with no possible justification. Don't say anything... yet. Give it time for you to learn whether or not there actually are decent reasons for what they're doing.
Sounds interesting, thanks for sharing.

How is the quality compared to RealSense? Do I understand correctly that OAK-D camera requires two cables (USB-C and barrel jack power), not just one?
Because it isn’t about the CSAM scanning. Apple keeps reframing the argument back to that. most people expect that google and Microsoft to scan files on their servers for CSAM, people object to Apple turning your phone against its owner, and once building out the capability to do this only policy prevents it from being abused.
Hyperbole, admittedly. Both east and west coast have vaccine mandates for some indoor public places now. Poor choice of words on my part.
The draft regulation is similar to other existing regulations there, for example the "Electronic Money Providers Regulation".

Even with the similarities, I would be surprised that an existing entity could come up with an app so fast as to have something workable by September 7 when Bitcoin becomes legal tender.

It also inherits some defects of other Electronic Money and Banking regulations, the main one IMHO is exluding everyone who is under 18 y/o.

Others are difficult to implement, like logging the IMEI, which is not provided by every smart phone manufacturer.
We all know that, but it seems management didn’t get the message.
> It seems to have worked for them over the past 3000 years.

One interesting question is: where did vegetarians get adequate vitamin b12 before the age of supplements?

Perhaps fermented foods, contaminated water, soil on vegetables, use of manure fertilizer, or maybe animal products like eggs and cheese?
Just for those who want to support the project, Krita have also launched a Development Fund (based on the success of Blenders Development Fund).

https://fund.krita.org/

They currently only have $4244 monthly contributions, and their aim is $17000 a month (to support 5 developers)
This is the terrorism watch list, not the no fly list. Any of us could be on that list and it would take a while for us to know.

The no fly list is much smaller, and far less ambiguous in its impact. You’re on that, you’ll find out the first time you try and fly.
I would also recommend itch.io which I believe is independent and you can set the percentage that itch gets (which is extremely generous).
There are ways to mitigate it for future dams.
No, they aren't all emitted, it takes decades for trees to break down in an aerobic environment. Anaerobic is 4 times longer. Most trees in the BC/Quebec areas that were flooded take at minimum 40 years to decay in an aerobic environment.

Here's one about the Curuá-Una dam in Brazil:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11027-005-7303-7

Key phrase:
In 1990 (13 years after filling), the Curuá-Una Dam emitted 3.6 times more greenhouse gases than would have been emitted by generating the same amount of electricity from oil.
For a private pool with a few users, sure, one person could skew the results with a diet coke big-gulp, but for a busy public pool with thousands of users, then I'd think that some assumptions about average intake would give reasonable results.
Funny, this describes the immigrant experience pretty well too. First generations struggle to fit in and are forced to build strong communities, but after one or two generations, they are comfortable and accepted in the mainstream culture (sometimes).

I had never thought of LGBT as immigrants to their own country.
At the size of these companies, it's more like several companies that happen to be under the same roof.
No one considers Amazon engineers "subhuman" - if that is your perception then all I can say is I think you need to seek therapy for your depression because no one should have to feel like that.
You can setup username and pass auth in newer versions of Elastic without paying for xpack (I think at version 6 or up?)
> They scan everything that exists on my device

I get to select the issue and it was in response to the previous claim that 'they' are scanning everything that exists on the device right now.

A year ago this was a possible 'future development'. 10 years from now I could be living on Mars. This is all hypothetical.
He seems disappointed but it sounds about what I’d expect from an “advisory committee.” I would expect giving advice to be a form of influence rather than power. You’re only as good as your persuasive skills and their willingness to listen.
"Sung Mo Jun, Joon Jun, and Chon allegedly used encrypted messaging applications to discuss their trading in an attempt to evade detection. According to the complaint, Sung Mo Jun, Joon Jun, and Chon made approximately $3 million in total profits from the illegal scheme. The SEC Market Abuse Unit's Analysis and Detection Center uncovered the trading ring by using data analysis tools to identify the traders' improbably successful trading over time."

I'm curious which messaging app they used. I also wonder if someone tipped off the SEC or they just uncovered this in their own analysis work - it doesn't seem like making $3m off Netflix stock trades over a couple of years is particularly alarming on the surface, but idk I'm not an expert... maybe the timing of the buy orders and also looking into what other trades they were making (if any) was easy to spot.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Just going to respond to every post on here with these absurd points? K apple guy.
Do any of the other companies control the database of hashes they use? A government could have already done what you’re suggesting but I can’t find a source where this has been the case.
Years, plural?? Maybe Elm is just way less mature, but I was on a team that shipped Haskell software with millions of users in about a year of dev time..and this included huge investments in many missing libraries..all on top of using GHCJS which required investments to the toolchain itself (Elm is definitely more mature now than GHCJS was at the time.)

But that was Haskell I guess. It's obviously not a "niche language trend" by now, so it was pretty clear it had staying power.

Definitely has paid off for me personally. My side projects move a lot faster and more stably now that I cut my teeth in production Haskell. A real free 10xer to my skills personally. And I gained the skills by getting my employer to finance my learning lmao.
I just started, today, to see if I could replace using Tabs Outliner, with Emacs, and came across BrainTool as well. So I will soon be putting it through the paces. I am happy to see that that other Tabs Outliner users have successfully made the switch already.
great write up.
> Porting a modern browser like Firefox or Chromium to an entirely new operating system is arguably as difficult as writing one from scratch

Sadly this sounds quite obvious. But, out of curiosity, does it have to be? Let's imagine we actually write a modern web browser from scratch. Can't we design it the way it would be easy to port to other OSes because it would implement all the actual HTML and CSS features in a platform-independent logic layer on top of a portable renderer layer?

Remember how many platforms did the original Opera support back in the days. I remember running it natively on QNX. And it was the most modern and standard-compliant browser.
Do products like Beyond meat and the impossible burger attempt to address these issues? I know the FDA adding nutrients to cereal/milk/salt/etc had huge impacts on public health. It is weird those companies don’t focus more on nutritionally replacing meat vs flavor & protein.

For my own anecdote my health has skyrocketed since I started eating more meat, but not things like sausages, hamburgers and chicken breasts. Instead I take an entire chicken and break it down and eat everything: skin, sinew, and make broth from the carcass. I swear I recover from exercise like I’m 20 again.
Citations follow some power-law type of distribution, so the 10% (or whatever) of useful ones are basically the high impact papers, anyway. It would be more surprising if citations and usefulness were anti-correlated in some way.

Back to the “gradient” analogy, in this case, papers have a feedback mechanism to suppress less useful papers. Science is not a random flurry of results mashed together.
As if we are capable of determining who is doing the top 10% best science and are not glued to the 10% most shining project according to the fad of the day.
As Bevy Engine's lead developer (which uses wgpu), this release excites me for a number of reasons:

* A smaller (and less abstracted) codebase means that we can more easily extend wgpu with the features we need now and in the future. (ex: XR, ray tracing, exposing raw backend apis). The barrier to entry is so much lower.

* It shows that the wgpu team is receptive to our feedback. There was a point during our "new renderer experiments" where we were considering other "flatter" gpu abstractions for our new renderer. They immediately took this into account and kicked off this re-architecture. There were other people with similar feedback so I can't take full credit here, but the timing was perfect.

* A pure rust stack means that our builds are even simpler. Combine that with Naga for shader reflection and compilation and we can remove a lot of the "build quirks" in our pipeline that come from non-rust dependencies. Windows especially suffers from this type of build weirdness and I'm excited to not need to deal with that anymore.

* The "risk" of treating wgpu as our "main gpu abstraction layer" has gone way down thanks to the last few points. As a result, we have decided to completely remove our old "abstract render layer" in favor of wgpu. This means that wgpu is no longer a "bevy_render backend". It is now bevy_render's core gpu abstraction. This makes our code smaller, simpler, and more compatible with the wider wgpu ecosystem.

* There is a work-in-progress WebGL2 backend for the new wgpu. This will hopefully ultimately remove the need for the third party bevy_webgl2 backend (which has served us well, but it has its own quirks and complexities).
This is now fixed, thanks for the heads up!