skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't anonymous microG accounts illegal though? (Or at least a violation of the TOS.)

Also you can't use any paid apps with this method.
Is it theoretically possible that photo filter effect could raise the false positive rate to make the 1 / a trillion number off by several order of magnitude?

Could be either malicious or accidental (less likely presumably).
This site smells like a cow pasture.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-941fc...

https://www.upworthy.com/covid-vaccine-hospitalization-stati...

Edit: didn't RTFA enough... stopped too soon. :P
Knowledge panels arguably add a layer of authoritativeness. But your beef is really with individual names being used as a web search key generally (whether on Google or something else). And the reality is if you have a less common but not unique name, you may end up confused with other people in situations where the searcher isn't really interested in putting in much effort to disambiguate the results.

The only real (imperfect) thing you can if it becomes a problem is to adopt some working name variant that is unique. But that only really helps if you do it up-front.

ADDED: You're probably reasonably safe with a common name. No one expects Joe Smith to be unique. The real problem is when you share a name with only one or two people and they have a big and negative Internet presence.
Automated Control of Problematic Individuals
Gambas exists and has regular updates still, is an open source Visual Basic clone.

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html
It's much easier to move teams than move companies, so worth having a look around at other adjacent teams you could move to.
Generally it's a normal thing to think about FAANG.

I've interviewed at a few and they were the hardest interviews I've had. So it stands to reason that the people making it through must be good.

Of course you could claim the people making it through just "leetcode" all day or whatever. But still we all know these companies because they're omnipresent in our lives, we use their products, we assume they've got smart talent internally.
No, but you can verify that only photos uploaded to iCloud are scanned, and can verify that photo metadata beyond the security voucher is not generated or sent to anyone but Apple.
"Instead, he is asking crews to use the items aboard flights designed to keep flyers at their seats"

Oh you mean like beating them over the head with this food tray? Sounds so much better.
> If I do want to stick this out and turn this team around, I'm going to be working nights and weekends for at least a year - there's just too much to fix.

Is it worth though? For whom are you fixing the issues? For the coworkers who will leave while you're still refactoring? For the charismatic boss? Your own personal pride? Also, is the work worth your overtime? If they staff "idiots", do they deserve your free time on the weekend?

I applaud you for being able to care so much in what you describe is a terrible team.
I find it funny how many people pick a random Chinese phone in their bid for privacy (???)
FAANGs are large. Find a team that sounds interesting, and ask to move.
Is it possible to cause structural damage on a passenger aircraft window without tools? Seems like it should have been a design a criteria that it shouldn't be, at least not in x minutes.
There are probably valid uses for CSV, but more often than not, it's the wrong choice.

As soon as data has any form of structure to it (and most data does). CSV complicates everything. Even for unstructured data, the problem of escape characters often shows it's ugly head. The moment your data contains a comma, tab, or space, you run into a nasty mess that, in the best case makes your system fail, and in the worst case silently adds corrupt data into the system.

Neither JSON nor XML suffer from that problem and both can easily be used in any scenario you'd use CSV. The only argument against either format is they are a bit more bulky than CSV.
Pinebook and pinephone, I hope. Debian and whatever pinephone is using. It's only the photos which are a bit annoying. But with a bit of js and my own server I'm fairly sure I can transition over to something fairly easily. I'll keep my icloud email address I think.
> As I remember it, Glade would output an XML document structure representing the UI which could then be loaded

QtDesigner does exactly this for Qt (and you have to run a command to generate the Python code from the XML then). Good enough, better than nothing but still not an actual IDE where you can just click on the button you drawn and jump to the code seamlessly or select a function you already wrote to be an event handler right in a control properties window.

This adds an extra step of actually "building" the UI which prevents you from changing things on the fly.

This may sound unimportant but when you have it the actually integrated way like in the VisualStudio WinForms Designer, building an app actually feels like painting with Bob Ross - satisfying and productive. And doing the UI and the code in different apps feels like having separate kitchens (rooms) for cutting the food and for roasting it.

In fact I imagine my ideal app dev tool as cross-platform VisualStudio WinForms with WPF-like bindings and programmed in F#. Oh boy that could be a pleasure I would pay some month salaries of mine to get.
You won't be able to change much, in my opinion. So you have to choose whether you stay and do it their way, or go.

There's a lot to be said about your situation, but I've found that oftentimes the only way to actually figure out if a job is for you is to try it out. I have had jobs in the past which looked really good from the outside, and I even got people recommending the employer and the team, and then when I started, it became painfully obvious that the place was nowhere near as good as expected. The opposite is actually less common in my experience - if if feels wrong and if people are telling you the company is not great, it probably isn't.

There's a reason why people like working at large and reputable companies. For anyone reading your CV in the years to come, a few years spent at such a company would look impressive. You do get the benefits you mentioned, like stability and salary, so that's a net positive in your current situation. Spending a bit of time there, maybe 1-2 years would definitely not set you back too far anyway, in terms of tech, experience, etc. so it might not be as bas as you imagine it.

Then, on the opposite side, if you really hate it now, maybe you won't start liking it down the line and it could be better if you throw in the towel sooner rather than later. I've had jobs where I was unpleasantly surprised at the start, then went through periods of liking my job and then hating it and then back to liking it, etc. All in all, when I look back, I tend to remember the better things, but I can also fully remember how awful it felt at times. If the primary reason for getting into the job was that you'd work on hard problems with top talent, and there's no way to get that in the near future, then why stay there at all? The current job market would probably allow you to find something very quickly.

It's really about how you feel about the job, I think. It won't probably hurt to start looking around for better opportunities, without rushing it. It does not sound like an emergency. Plus, this way you'd give it some chance at least. It's tough to be at a job which you don't like and it's all about figuring your priorities and sticking to them.
There are a lot of people at this company, and my news feed doesn't diverge enough to account for all of their varied google searches.
Every Line of You
> An xlsx file is just a bunch of XML files in a zip.

A bunch of XML files with opaque formats that MS constantly makes changes to to make its competitors have to keep chasing the format.
Visualizing Bay Area office rental prices for 2020-2021
Agree, but they've also done things like CarPlay. They obviously saw a problem to solve there; I think it wouldn't be hard at all to see them produce first-party CarPlay hardware.
> "All user data on device and in the cloud is not scannable for CSAM or retrievable with a warrant"
Who said anything about warrants? As far as I know the proposed system is proactive and requires no warrants at all.

More to the point, anyone remotely sophisticated can just encrypt CSAM into a binary blob and plaster it all over the cloud providers servers.

Ie, this system will possibly catch some small time perverts at the cost of even more potential of government misuse of the current technical landscape.

I consider it a similar situation to governments trying to legislate backdoors into encryption. A remotely sophisticated baddie will just ignore the laws, and all it does is add risks for innocents.

> And my point is that if the government wanted a dragnet they could just legislate or secretly order one. Just like they have done in various forms over the last 20 years. And Apple might not even be allowed to tell us it is happening.

I don't understand how is this an argument against the pushback at all. So just because it could be worse, we should just throw our hands in the air and say "Oh it's all fine, it could be worse so the (so far) mild intrusion into privacy is nothing to worry about."

The thing is, these things seem to happen step by step so the outrage is minimized. Insert your favorite "frog being boiled slowly" anecdote here. You don't push back on the mild stuff, and before you realize things have gotten so much worse.
Very cool project. Love the idea of "investing" in up and coming startups.
This always smells like the US Govt knows exactly what's going on, but it's too sensitive to come right out and say "The Chinese spy agency is microwaving our brains, but we've been microwaving them back". Better to drop a bit of news and hint at it to put some political pressure, but not get the US population upset enough to demand sanctions or something economically disastrous.
Steve Jobs would have implemented this in secret and never told us at all, same as they already did for iCloud photos so many years ago. That would have been a far better approach than today’s Apple is taking. Oh well.
Looking at history of dieting and health food advice, something of the sort is extremely likely.
That's just a checkbox that indicates further action is required. All hashing algorithms have potential collisions.

Now, the hashes' database is not public, AFAIK it is in the hands of the FBI.
Some of that is subjective, but as a non-American who has worked in a number of countries, the Bay Area ranks pretty fucking high.
Csv is only one form of delimited files. Tsv or Tab Separated Values is yet another. If you have either field delimiters or row delimiters (new line) in your data, change your delimiters and process appropriately.
> The parallel version of IPS⁴o requires 16-byte atomic compare-and-exchange instructions to run the fastest. Most CPUs and compilers support 16-byte compare-and-exchange instructions nowadays.

I was so thrilled when i got 4 byte CAS on Intel, Sparc, and Alpha (all i had were uniproc Alphas but it made the code feel cleaner). Then I wandered into other things and haven't been keeping up with this stuff. damn its got fancy.

Does memory latency still suck rocks with lots of handwave about "but we have so much width now"?
Given the infinity of CSV variants existing is the very reason why CSV blows goats, creating a spec compatible with that is

1. a fool's errand, CSV "variants" are not compatible with one another and regularly contradict one another (one needs not look any further than Excel's localised CSVs)

2. resulting in getting CSV anyway, which is a lot of efforts to do nothing
They weren't accessible because of the ongoing Taliban insurgency, which is now the sole existing government.
There is a middle ground between "working nights and weekends for at least a year" and "accept it as it is and coast". Why do you only consider the extremes? What's stopping you from improving things slowly without overworking yourself?
To form a collision here you basically use a partial image of the original. What it can do is leave some conclusion about the workings of their blackbox algorithm as the collision image ripped those parts that probably have no influence on the resulting hash. There will likely be more though. As long as you don't have the original images, it will be hard to create "fake" ones.
What is the point of sharing a gray blob? How is that going to prove anything?
A Godelian Argument for the Superiority of the Human Mind
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/how-afghanistans-pre...

We did.
for phone, I'll buy Sony Xperia 10 ii, and install Sailfish OS.

PC already on Pop!_OS
The article mentions that one patient has an unexplained brain injury comparable to that caused by the shockwave of an explosion. I'm sure the embassy isn't going to release this info to the press, but I'd really like to know what kind of injury we're talking about here, whether it's something that could just occur spontaneously (I mean, if we're talking intracerebral bleeding, that does just happen sometimes), and if it's been tested for or seen in anyone else complaining of these symptoms.

There's a HUGE difference between "some people are getting unexplained headaches and brainfog" (yeah, so are half my patients right now, during this time of unprecedented stress) and "some people are getting unexplained brain bleeds" (YIKES)
Poor programmers are worse than no programmer for most if not all projects.
It's plausible, but I still don't buy it because I don't see divergent things when I, say, sit next to a complete stranger in the break room cafeteria.
I've heard of London, Dublin, Berlin and Zurich, but I haven't heard that Munich has the highest salary.
Then you can't use the Play Store (legally at least) and can't use paid apps. You're still taking a massive usability hit.
Wasn't the old joke that the US only invaded countries where there was oil ?

(i.e. in answer to your question, the US would have "helped" if it was oil that was in the ground)
> staffed with below-average IQ people.

This comment doesn't reflect well on you.

I've recently joined a FAANG as well, and I've been disappointed with the code quality and the tooling. I expected better. Yet I feel there are tons of things to learn, and there are definitely bright people there. If anything, it reminds us that it's not easy to build software.
It's suspected to be microwaves so maybe a SDR that sweeps all wavebands with antennas placed aroud windows should be a good starting point?
The author seems to be advocating for something like ISO 20022.
Which is great if you actually need it. But also complete overkill if you aren’t doing the kind of things it’s made for (and even then, still a bit painful)
CSV is at the other extreme but this is also why it’s so useful.
*in the US
Then you didn’t really understand how Japan’s houses are built. They’re not built to last at all because new homebuyers buy the property and tear down the house and build a new one. Knowing that, home builders only build them to last 10-20 years and house maintenance is an after thought to most people. Contrast that with American homes, where you can homes in Detroit and Chicago and Boston and thousands of other towns that have been continually lived in for over 100 years. But feel free to keep ranting about things you don’t know about.

And to address your other anti-American points…the world’s rich come here for health care, and it’s the best in the world for cutting edge care. Our highway system is one of the best in the world and we don’t care about high speed rail because of that. Your heavy biases can’t really cover up the facts.
Apple is apparently still pursuing a copyright claim: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/17/apple-appeals-corellium...
>> Every AV (antivirus) software system

Mine doesn't. If Ubuntu or ClamAV is scanning all my photos and reporting the results to Canonical against my will then I will soon be having words with Mr. Linus.
There are many more than that one study cited in the article. It's informative to read a few of them, for example:

> Vitamin B12 Sources and Bioavailability

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3181/0703-MR-67

> Serum concentrations of vitamin B12 and folate in British male omnivores, vegetarians and vegans: results from a cross-sectional analysis of the EPIC-Oxford cohort study

https://www.nature.com/articles/ejcn2010142.?mod=article_inl...

> Subacute Combined Degeneration of the Spinal Cord in Vegetarians: Vegetarian's Myelopathy

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/internalmedicine/45/10/...

> Is vegetarianism healthy for children?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2018.1...

> Vitamin B12 deficiency is endemic in Indian population: A perspective from North India

https://www.ijem.in/article.asp?issn=2230-8210;year=2019;vol...

And more.
Quit and join a startup? Feel free to reach out, we're only hiring A+ players and solving hard problems.
Shouldn't we be placing the blame on people flushing meds down the toilet? Or are they leeching from peoples urine and waste?
> iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted

Yet. Have you considered that this might be a necessary precursor to making iCloud e2e?
Truly, that autistic kid and his disabled mother coulda brought down the entire plane by "kicking out the window." Those passengers are the heroic reincarnation of Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood, or would be if Clint Eastwood were dead. It takes a lot of courage to put "assholes" like that in their place!
>everyone there must be on top of their game

On top of their hoop jumping game.
I hate all the talk around ultra-processed food. It’s never defined in a way that’s usable by the rest of us, and then they just assume that all ultra-processed food is the same.
Unfortunately,nuanced evaluation of the data is not a requirement for being antivaxx.
What would they have to do to lose your business? Literally get you arrested?

You're financially supporting the creation of an Orwellian dystopia.
Of course when you say this you get a bunch of people saying "But think of the small businesses", as if exploitation is okay as long as your a small business.

Employee's have no right to an employer: Absolutely fine, no issues there, the way things should be

Employers have no right to an employee: Blasphemy! What a cruel, terrible world we live in
At least in Poland, the private health insure won’t cover serious procedures, eg they will cover cardiologists, but not a hospital stay, operations, etc. this means they are much cheaper because they don’t have this tail end, high value risk. You still rely on the national insurance and health care system for that.
"A+ players solving hard problems"

Eh. IMHO they are a group of super good test takers and white board ninjas.
Can someone help me figure out why this is such a big deal? Thanks
Excel definitely opens CSV files, and Windows file associations tend to set that up by default.
However, Excel then goes ahead with changing the content to often wrongly-assumed formats. My favourite hate is how it will convert mobile numbers from a string of digits to an unusable exponential-format number. Hey, it doesn't even set column widths to make the content visible!
We still want people to go to the doctor (or at least an NP) when they think they might be sick. Making this a big point of emphasis in a non-selective educational setting would probably harm overall public health. It could be discussed in psychology classes, because everyone attending is assumed to be capable of discussing that topic.
Even if it were true it wouldn't matter a whit to the production side of the format, which is what "produce CSVs using fprintf" is: excel can consume them all.
All I wanted was for them to stop placing the wrong images alongside my book, which they have finally done this morning thanks to Hacker News. Hopefully, the images won’t come back. Btw, there are authors who have knowledge panels with no images attached to them. So Google has written code/an algorithm that allows them to create panels without images.
Interesting point. I'd think the correlation skewed the other way -- that anyone at higher risk would be more likely to get a vaccine. There aren't many people (as a percentage) who are so ill that a vaccine might seriously harm them.
There's a good chance I'm wrong, but it certainly seems like that's what's going on. I haven't seen anyone's testing of this, but it is also possible their methodology is flawed.
Yeah, this is pretty much it. The author complains about CSVs being "notoriously inconsistent" as though switching to some other format would magically change that. They're only inconsistent because sometimes lazy programmers do ",".join(mylist) instead of using an RFC4180 compliant CSV writer. Lazy programmers will just use non-compliant methods of creating whatever magic format OP is dreaming about. Case in point: trailing commas in JSON objects, and other ridiculous things that people have come up with such as encoding a date in JSON like this: "\/Date(628318530718)\/" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dotnet/ar...

CSVs also are great because you can parse them one row at a time. This makes for a very scale-able and memory-efficient way of processing very large files containing millions of rows.

Let there be no mistake: Everyone reading this today will retire long before CSVs retire. And that's just fine by me.
> below-average IQ people.

..

> Any advice is appreciated.

Not shitting on your colleagues with this generation's phrenology would be a great start.

More generally, it sounds like you are starting with the idea that you're better and smarter than everyone you work with and only you can see the problems, as opposed to everyone you work with being (by and large) decent and hard working people who are making the best of a complicated situation. Learning about that situation, chesterton's fence etc, will be more productive that presuming everyone you work with is an idiot.
I can generate a CSV that can be read in excel, etc.. extremely easily in a terminal.

Just yesterday I was trying to add some metadata to a list of images that I handed off to a designer and I just piped a single "find . -fprintf" command into a file.

To "retire" something so simple and utilitarian makes no sense. There's plenty of formats that deal with all the issues described in this. It's like saying we need to retire plain text files because it's confusing to know how they should be displayed.
> Many lawyers are willing to work for something like 30% of whatever payout they manage to get,

30% of nothing is nothing.

Can you explain why the writer would get _any money at all_?

What financial losses have they suffered? Are they being defamed? Has it affected their reputation?

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Civil courts can't fix things like this! It will never be worth Google's time to correct these mistakes unless they are forced to by the government.

Searching the Internet finds thousands of cases against Google, 95%+ of which are settled in Google's favor. In fact, I only found one successful case like this, in 2012, but it was in Australia which has stronger rules on defamation, and Google had also implied that the plaintiff was a major figure in organized crime, not "simply" got the photo wrong.

https://slate.com/technology/2012/11/milorad-trkulja-austral...
Apple have said what they're going to do. If the number of hash hits reaches 30, then they'll scale the image down and send it off to their manual review team. If they confirm it's CP, then they call the police.
Elm looks interesting but when it pops up around here and other places it is usually about how the main dev does not work and play well with others.

It is a bit off putting.

It is nice to see a different perspective.
Every other cloud provider has scanned since 2013. We're already in the Orwellian dystopia.
That doesn't really contradict anything I said?