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> Blockchain and altcoins solve that (for payment processing consumer, protection is lesser of course)

> Illegal activities are only a problem if law enforcement makes it their problem

And now this is where AML kicks in. Now you're dealing with banks and not credit card processors as the source of the issue. No US bank is going to work with a company who is converting money from crypto to fiat at the level of billions of dollars.
Comments like these are always amusing after the latest HN "why you don't need Kubernetes" post - setting up cert-manager is a 5 minute affair.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428584131835748359.html
Similar story: my wife's male nurse during chemotherapy was a cardiologist in Eastern Europe, and at the time had chosen to be a nurse rather than go through medical school again.
Well I had a totally batshit-wild theory so feel free to dismiss this...

Remember those NSO iOS security revelations from a few weeks back? It might be quite possible that the government(s, specifically the US) are handling some information over in exchange for this. It would make sense for Apple to reach out to the government and get information about some of the vulnerabilities in exchange for brownie points, because this CSAM system is totally controllable by Apple while unknown security issues aren't.

Now whether Apple designed this only with CSAM and actually ignored/forgot its possible issues.. that's another question.
Article woo aside, underground water is not impossible to measure. Min well depth (or depth of dry wells) is a straightforward way to measure the aquifer level for a small area. It doesn’t tell you much but it tells you something. Combine with your neighbors taking the same measurement over time and you have a good data set. That is before you get to things like ‘geology’ which are known factors shaping underground water supplies.

Further, if water goes into a pit, you can measure or estimate how much is going in. If you can measure the shape of the pit you know how much is there. If you know surface area at a given level and temp/environmental conditions you can estimate evaporation. So you can say: X vol went in, Y evaporated, and Z is how much we now think is ground water based on current depth and evaporation (excluding animals and humans drinking).

It is much harder to associate the pit activity with a given well and obviously the scale here may be below the precision of any of the estimators.
I don't have an example training set. I don't have an example model.

My exact point is that if your test set isn't representative of the underlying distribution, then accuracy on the test set doesn't mean that your model isn't overfit.
I've since turned around on the intro and consider it to be the best one. Perhaps that's because I didn't know the song before, so it didn't have any prior associations for me. But still: the song alone doesn't work, but with the visuals, IMO it captures the spirit of Star Trek perfectly. The insatiable curiosity, the continuous efforts of hopeful individuals, the progress of science and technology, the dream to explore the Earth and then the Universe.

But it, like the show itself, only works in context of prior Star Treks. If this was the first show I've ever seen, I'd have balked at the intro and would probably be disappointed by the series.
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Even in the worst case scenario it's not an extinction event. Probably at least 50% will survive.
I’m not claiming a dichotomy in that family farms and food abundance cannot coexist; I’m saying you are using a metric (family farms) that is not the intended goal (national food security). So again, I’m asking what is the better alternative for implementing subsidies?

I don’t know if we’re just talking past each other, but it’s hard to make sense of your stance. If you think subsidies are a viable solution to some problems but the US govt can’t manage subsidies, are you implying the US should not use subsidies, even on the problems they would solve? If so, can you elaborate on govts that have used subsidies to solve similar problems by better implementation? When govt is, by definition, who wields subsidies these are difficult points to reconcile.

Pointing out less than perfect implementation isn’t really helpful unless you can figure out a way to improve it. Just saying “the govt is inept” isn’t helpful when they are literally the only organization who provides subsidies.

I don’t disagree with the problems you point out but they come across as flippant “see!? See how bad the govt is!?” Dogmatic axioms might make someone feel good without actually addressing the problem.

I’ll give an example. I think subsidies need to have clear metrics to measure effectiveness and sunset clauses. This would help prevent things like alpaca subsidies meant to assist in the Korean War somehow staying in place until the mid 1990s.

The point of the subsidies was national security, not “protecting the family farmer” or “minimizing food waste.” To that end, they worked.
> Apple is trying to stave off more heavy-handed gov intervention.

This is an interesting and charitable interpretation, but if so, then this tactic will fail.

As others here have pointed out: with this capability in place, the only thing stopping them from total intrusion is now merely policy. And that's scary and dangerous.
Love this framing, agreed 100%. I find it extremely frustrating when people try to murder ideas and shot down any attempt at building something new. I know that being a cynic is easier but come on, isn't it great that Musk is pushing us closer to the future? I have a lot of problems with many of his actions but it doesn't mean I can't recognize positive ones. /rant
> But like everybody has said, the desktop UI story is garbage.

Strange, I find WinForms very similar to Visual Basic 6.

The UI designers are very similar. The API is very similar. C# is just a much better language than VB 6.

I personally really like WinForms, but I haven't done anything in it in about a decade.
The real takeaway, for me at least, is the degree to which all culture is mass-produced by a small cabal. Books coming out simultaneously around the world due to work of nameless translators with timed bathroom breaks? Movie tie-in coming pre-packaged? Scouts looking for specific trendy protagonists? It's all junk really, the book equivalent of fast food. And apparently even the stuff that's packaged as high culture and wins prestigious awards is not immune.
I felt that Star Trek writing never got serious and real until Ronald D. Moore came to the scene. His TNG episodes set a new course for Trek; DS9 was full of phenomenal writing; and the premise of Voyager had tons of hope. Then, he moved on, and as many sci-fi fans know he threw himself into the BSG reboot and other excellent projects. The Moore years were Trek's best years.
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From my understanding S/MIME is pretty much enterprise PGP, so if you don't have your old certificates you can't access old emails that were encrypted using them
But until this year inflation didn't really increase over average[1], and we certainly can't blame this year all on the creation of new money, and it certainly didn't increase by 90%.

I'd be interested in where you think all that inflation is hiding. Because you're saying it has to be somewhere, right?

[1]https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1800?amount=1
Only thing that can compete with this is if pornhub decided to ban porn.
You're not wrong about there being substantive performance improvements in recent CPU generations, or that workloads matter.

However, the leaps in the 90's were great enough that you wouldn't have been able to run even the latest OS (or apps written for it) on mid-range 7-year-old hardware, at least not with any kind of comfort. I would have been almost outlandish to even try. Windows 95 should have theoretically run on a 386 from the early 90's, but I'm not sure it would have really been usable. In the late 80's you might have got a 286 -- not much luck running Windows 3.11 four or five years later on that. If you got a Pentium circa 1995, good luck running Windows XP or even Windows 2000 on it.

Looking at the charts in the Phoronix article, the overall performance (geometric mean) approximately doubled from Broadwell to 10th gen. That's more than I would have expected based on how incremental the generation-to-generation changes appear, and it's certainly substantial if your workload involves any kind of heavy lifting. However, in the 90's, performance would have doubled every couple of years or so. Within a time frame similar to Broadwell to 10th gen, it would probably have more than quadrupled.
you are comparing against the entire us military budget (which includes funding its own fusion research), an entire category of consumer spending (ie, money that the government can't spend to begin with), and an intelligence agency that employs tens of thousands of people. how are any of those valid comparisons against a single (albeit important) research project that may never bear fruit?
The user agent I saw looks like a normal client that a person might use:

74.51.221.37 - - [19/Aug/2021:22:05:16 +0000] "GET /validate/email/1d00a5c2648c211befd33f5a8a7cbfab HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36"

I suppose you could somehow block cache.google.com but I suspect Microsoft and others do similar things.
MasterCard doesn’t want to process payments for child pornography which only fans hosts.

The argument for payment processors having too much power was had over a decade ago when they everybody stopped allowing donations to Wikileaks.

No, they shouldn’t have that power, it should be the courts who shut down only fans by jailing the people who work there. But I’m also not going to shed any tears over some people who willfully exploit children losing their ability to make money from it.
That article adds `style="overflow-y: hidden; position: fixed"` to the main body tag when you scroll down (once); you'll need to delete that to reenable reading it.
I get the sense you and I would work very well together
> Showing longterm development

They moved in this direction a bit, particularly in S4, which was ultimately my favorite and makes me wish the show continued on. In particular, the evolution of Earth-Vulcan relationship was some deep worldbuilding.
Thanks! We will definitely keep your offer in mind. Our issue, though, is not the market. There is a lot of demand! And we just got nominated for a design excellence award by the Accessories Council.
Thank you for your comment, Kliment. I am currently trying to see my error in thinking and fix it.

> currently severely undertaxed

Is it because companies such as Amazon are good at avoiding taxes?

> they come from corporate wealth and income

Hmm... I think this is what I don't really understand. Aren't corporations owned by a few people? So at the end the owners are paying the taxes? Can companies exist without owners (people)? (They change, I know, but can they exist without people?) I am probably to fixated on people, and perhaps I need to see companies as an own entity.

> taxes on things we don't want like carbon emissions and other pollution

Okay, so somebody and a "company" is also a somebody here, needs to pay for that? (So it is the owner at the end?)

> direct wealth generation from nation-level investments (sovereign funds, resource funds)

Okay, that makes sense. A stock is bought and sold by people, and its value increases and decreases depending on the decisions of people. However, you are right, the government owns that stock. So it belongs to all of us.

Okay, so my question essentially boils down to: Why is the owner of a company like Jeff Bezos irrelevant here? I can see this for the sovereign funds, resource funds part. However, I have trouble with the CEO part. What am I missing here? My understanding of government and taxes is wrong, perhaps. That's why I cannot see it, probably.
I think you're referring to the city of Ur, the "capital" of Mesopotamia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

And the guy who rediscovered it (from a European perspective) was an Italian called Pietro Della Valle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Della_Valle
Ask HN: How would you solve carbon sequestration if you had 1T dollars?
If you get a Ninja Foodi, it has an air dryer mode that does make crispy things (like crispy chicken) in addition to the pressure cooking. There's even a model with Sous Vide.

12 functions: Pressure Cook, Air Fry/Air Crisp, Steam, Slow Cook, Yogurt, Sear/Sauté, Bake/Roast, Broil, Dehydrate, Sous Vide, Reheat, Keep Warm

https://m.ninjakitchen.com/exclusive-offer/FD402WBKT/ninja-f...
It is like questioning about backend using a spring boot in every single service even when it is only for a simple store and fetch json from mongoDB. If you have the know-how, why not? Jumping between Vanilla and React projects can be counterproductive. If things get more complex you are prepared, if not, nobody will mind.
There is big talk of a federal anti-trust against Apple. The rumors have been swirling for months. Apples CSAM initiative might be an attempt to cool things off at the justice department.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apples-hot-antitrust-autum...
Not to mention has less friction
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>> that one of the most sophisticated companies in the world

Microsoft Zune. The Super League. 47 Ronin. Wonder Woman 1984. Google+. Big companies make big mistakes. No matter how many focus groups you collect, no matter how many phone surveys you do, things can go wrong.
DS9 demonstrated that season-long and even multi-season-long major plot arcs can work in Star Trek setting. It's a matter of execution.
If you have listened to kittens they mew for the sake of it, essentially babbling ... think this is more widespread then the article illustrates
Jens Gustett's book [Modern C](https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr) recommends this. I follow it as well.
> I find exceedingly difficult to imagine that one of the most sophisticated companies in the world, with some of brightest minds out there, did not consider and calculate this precisely; that there is any way any of this has come as a surprise to Apple. Extending Apple the benefit of doubt does not seem possible in this case.

Why is that so difficult to imagine? Apple's security model has always been "just trust us and don't question it", questioning their own practices themselves just has never been done.

That's already what's happening with any other Apple software, their own services are off limit of their model, explicitly excluded & explicitly trusted. This opinion is also reflected in their security threat document they published, they never talk about themselves being in the list of potential threats.

That's just in the continuity on how they usually work.
I think you’re overestimating Apple’s forethought. Remember, they gave us the butterfly keyboard.
rijksroll is right there! (The .com is available)

(Nice work though :))
More than 80%, I get a lot of packages. Also, when there are sales people, I enjoy interrupting them and telling them I have better things to do. It makes me feel in control or something. So I guess I can go up to even 95%

Also, I think I should also think about what percentage of times I wouldn't feel happy answering the door and split it up in:

- % of times I have to go to the neighbours because I ignored the postman: 0% happy probably. Pretty rude to the neighbours to delegate my door opening to them

- % for when the person knows I am home and I ignore them: probably >10% happy in those cases depending on the person of course

- % for when the person doesn't know I am actually home: probably >50% happy then because of the paranoia of being discovered/having to sneak around/diving behind the couch and sneaking up stairs

All in all it feels like an awful amount of trouble to behave like a child. If you want to prevent having to behave like an adult, you'd be better off playing with DUPLO, which is great fun as well! "What percentage of times you feel happy you played with DUPLO?" probably 100%.
In this day and age, having nudes in any device connected to the cloud is irresponsible.
> Just one flight can emit as much CO2 as many people do in a year

It'd be really nice if the link in that sentence worked. I'd like to know what exactly "many people" means, and which "one flight" they picked. If "one flight" were a 13000km 16-hour flight with 600 passengers, then it'd be a lot less scary than it sounds.
Yes, his writings are very interesting. I believe his two main sites are

https://vividness.live/

https://meaningness.com/
Nobody's realistically expecting anyone to go from peasant to general. That's an obtuse red herring.

What does happen is that everyone worth a crap gets their career fast tracked. People go from machinist to plant operator or from junior officer to general in a year, etc, etc. People who would have been promoted because they know someone are passed over because when things are serious like in wartime people feel they cannot get away with forgoing more promising people for those kinds of people.

People who would have had to work a whole career to break between class levels can do it in a fraction of the time.
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and then there's "Android Automotive" which is installed directly on the car by the OEM.

Honestly the branding is just terrible.
I think a lot of people were just hungry for a new Trek.

Once the Entrerprise made it's first appearance (ughhhh), people were looking for nostalgia.

Ironically that really turned me off.

I mean, the Enterprise was enough. Even that I was disappointed to see make an appearance (although a wonderful homage to the original ship, it looked great!). Then the Guardian of Forever in S3 complete with a sound clip straight out of TOS? After that, I gave up.
If this helps reduce spam by caching unsubscribe urls, I’m all in.
> Much as with anti-vax, veganism is more about maintaining an illusion of personal control in a world where really we have very little, than actually saving animals.

Citation needed.
That's not a linear relationship that one can extrapolate indefinitely. These days, we're also seeing an increase in so-termed "grey" divorces (divorces for individuals aged 60+ or near/past retirement) among those same individuals. Your prescription may lengthen a marriage but it's not going to prevent a divorce. Instead, it is more economically sound to obtain a divorce at one's earliest financial low points than, despite efforts to the contrary, being served one at his/her most financially stable,but most emotionally and physically exhausted. The family courts incentivize robbing Peter to to pay Paulina. Peter's solution is to minimize ownership and financial security as much as possible when the Day of the Shakedown occurs or to make it so that Paulina suffers a greater economic loss in his place place..
Wouldn't this system have taken more than a few weeks to develop?
Colleges used to be finishing schools for the rich attached to educational institutions for geniuses (the geniuses keep the prestige level up, and the rich provide funding). Companies started demanding degrees to get people who are geniuses or well-connected, so new schools popped up to produce more graduates, and so on in a feedback loop. Eventually the degree became a requirement and not a signal of "eliteness" any more. The people getting the degrees still feel elite, even though many go on to become baristas and store clerks.

The problem is that college was never about the education (except for a small minority of students who were usually in the sciences), it was always about the signaling. The part that we think is good (the education) is just a side effect.
Aren't the payment processors not abusing their dominant position, like what happened a decade ago with Wikileaks? At least at that time they had the excuse they were pressured by the US government. What's motivating them this time? Do we need some sort of liability safe-harbor for payment processors?
I'm sorry, but blaming all this on a NYT opinion piece is idiotic.
FaceTime is a free part of Apple's software offerings, but you can't start a FaceTime call if you aren't an Apple user.
I thought S2 was at least tolerable. The character of Christopher Pike seemed far more stable and realistic than the rest, and made it enjoyable. Somehow Mount appeared to have brought the crew to the same, more even, level.

Then (ughh) they brought the Enterprise back for a 2 episode Star Wars wannabe. That should have been my clue things were going back down hill.

Season three was just intolerable, IMHO.
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it's a hard problem to crack. hence why there aren't many solutions/strategies to work around it. hell, tag management services like Google are on easy privacy lists used by most third party blocking software.

if analytics tracking is imperative to measurement of your site and there's little to no profiling (lean toward no profiling) you can typically get your endpoints/domains removed from blacklists by simply submitting a pr with your reasoning. if you have examples even better. if you're profiling a user and need real-time engagements to sell impressions/advertising to that user based on site behavior then i think you're just SOL.

a roundabout solution could be to store events on the client and attach them to some user entity. maybe some queue of action entities of time, type, and any sort of payload. at the end of the session or maybe when you're updating the user entity, you can process those queued events as you normally would.

idk if these are great solutions, but hope it sparks some ideas for you and your team.
I believe his argumentation that this is a push by Christian organizations might be correct, but I believe he's deluded in that he appears to think that he's speaking for the majority.

"65% of adults in the United States identified themselves as Christians."
I'm willing to agree, but I'm still pissed off about the Borg subplot (not spoiling much, IIRC even trailers mentioned Borg). It was one of those things that built anticipation and then got completely thrown away.
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There were good suggestions in other comments in this HN post.

One of them mentioned that you can continue keeping things as a 1 click solution with the token in the URL, but instead of doing the destructive action upon visiting the link -- instead you would get sent to a page with a form where the token is put into a hidden field that gets auto-submit as a POST request with Javascript.

This way from your POV it's a 1 click solution. You only waste a second waiting for the redirect and if the user doesn't have Javascript enabled you can <noscript> the field as being an input field which is pre-filled out based on the value from the URL (this can be done server side).

Now everyone is happy, unless gmail is going to go as far as auto-following redirects with JS enabled.
There is an easy way for Apple to handle this. During iPhone setup present the following screen:

"We here at Apple do not want our servers to host images of exploited children, but we also respect your privacy. So you're free to use your phone with the photos stored locally, but if you'd like to enable iCloud we need you to press the button below to *install* our CSAM detector."

Then the argument basically goes away. It's like a virus scanner that you voluntarily installed. But having it baked into the phone as it ships rubs me the wrong way.
>enterprise grade server os

We are talking about desktop operating systems here, so this is completely irrelevant.

>zfs

Not an OS.