skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am saying OP decided to take a risk. A calculated risk and now OP is letting others feel the negative consequences of OP's calculated risk.

You are laying blame for Googles action on OP. Google associated an innocents image with the OP, not OP. Google then demanded that OP take an action to undo Googles action, and demands that OP take new actions to undo thing they did not do.

>because a search engine behaves the way search engines do.

What utter nonsense. Some engineer somewhere did the work to create a system that autogenerated the knowledge panel. Now people are upset because Google demands that we do free labor for them to undo the mistakes of their system.

Googles obsession with being the authoritative source of knowledge and that we fix their mess is so clearly the unjustifiable behavior here that I'm baffled at how you can imagine that their practice here is reasonable.
The problem occurs when, after training that 40k a year developer, they BECOME a 100k a year developer. Unless you can lock them in with an amoral non-compete or some other form of illegal method, they will find out that they are worth that much and leave for someone who will pay them.
Yup I agree. The US failed to filter, but there's only so much that can be done. Maybe they should've turned the money spigot off earlier.
Oil is largely a red herring, in this case anyway.

Julian Assange in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war"

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1427929346262642688

US veteran that oversaw training of Afghan forces, 2021: "I would sit in on staff meetings, because part of my position there was with a Joint Command that was building the Afghan military and police force — the division that I worked with was about training and policy for the Afghan police. And that also included arming and funding them. I don’t think I could overstate that this was a system just basically designed for funneling money and wasting or losing equipment."

https://mtracey.substack.com/p/a-big-money-funneling-operati...

And now said equipment is confirmed lost or in the hands of the Taliban: "A U.S. defense official on Monday confirmed the Taliban’s sudden accumulation of U.S.-supplied Afghan equipment is enormous."

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-army-taliban-185017ba29...
Spy agencies could add CSAM images adversarially modified to match legit content they want to find. Then they need to have someone in Apple's team to intercept the reports. This way they can scan for any image.
And you're completely aware of that and you know what the person selling to you knows about your actions just like you do in a shop?

No? Ok then. It's one example of many of secret and deceptive surveillance. If you want to be angrier about worse ones please feel free...

As an aside, there have been plenty of things from which we defend ourselves from salesmen. Both ethical and not dating from well before Berners-Lee thought "I can use markup to make a documentation system with this new-fangled tcp/ip thing on unix machines right here at CERN!" Some of us are naturally better equipped to defend against all the techniques than others. Arming con-people grifting from the gullible with additional personal information to use as secret ammunition along side psychological manipulation seems wrong to me. The continuum goes all the way from "no such thing as a bad sale" through all selling is wrong. That's where I sit on that continuum. YMMV.
I haven’t ever said this is a good thing and that we should like it.

I’m saying if the concern is that a government orders Apple to change it and do something different, then that’s a government problem and maybe we should try fixing that.
Just an FYI, JSON and XML both have characters that need to be escaped properly.
I assume it is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQUO1DSwYN0

This was painful to watch.
> People are less concerned about the Chinese government's reach vs. the NSA

Wait what? You’re 180 degrees wrong.
I'm already using Emacs, so that's alright :D

I noticed a couple of comments where people were wondering what the alternatives were. With this thread, we can possibly save people some research time, as I've spent quite a few hours in the past week or so.
I actually like the idea. One small thing, I wish you added pricing on your homepage.

And one of the reasons I am not 100% excited about it, is I can kinda see it being helpful, but I think there is no real accountability (I can imagine pathological procrastinator might lie that their session went well, when in reality they browsed FB).

Any ideas how to fix it? I guess showing proof of work might be too intrusive for some, but maybe 10% of flow session could be in accountability mode (so the user selects accountability/no accountability)? Then I guess faking real work might make people decide fuck it it's too much work, I am going to do a real thing and make them really productive.
I'm not aware that SCO ever owned patents, just claimed to have copyrights, and Motif has been open source for years.
Says who? Apple? How much is that worth?
Phone: Google Pixel 5 plus CalyxOS at the moment. Probably will switch to pure LineageOS due to call recording support. The bootloader is locked so the phone is secure and does not call home. Highly recommend. Some apps and in-app purchases doesn't work well on microG, also there are some issues with paid apps. And Android UX sucks but it's a reasonable price to pay for privacy. In fact I've been suprised - with this phone I don't feel as bad as I expected.

I really hope that Pixel 6 will have better camera and bigger screen and also would be supported by Lineage.

PC: I have an AMD desktop with Gentoo and going to buy Purism laptop later.

Watch: I don't use them. Actually was going to buy next Apple Watch but...

Apple Pay: no good replacement, though contactless cards aren't THAT bad.

Apple Carplay: phone+organic maps.
Having experienced both, I'd prefer to have COVID. The only reason why I'd take SSRI's for COVID is to prevent the multi month recovery of symptoms.
Video shows Taliban executing unarmed Afghan special forces soldiers
Given that they have already stated they'll protect women's rights "within the limits of Islam" - I wouldn't hold your breath. The "limits of Islam" was the excuse for the abhorrent treatment of women the first time they were in power.
It's easier to outsource to smaller cities and towns. There's talented workers all over the US. They are in a closer time zone and are native speakers.
They complain about the loss of metadata, but never get into specifics. I'm surprised they didn't mention the biggest example of this. Excel is forced to guess the type of input data it's reading, and sometimes it guesses wrong and messes up your data. A number of genes had to be renamed because too many genetic markers were being interpreted as dates: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
> Manjaro

- https://github.com/arindas/manjarno

- https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/

There are only 3 distros worth using. Fedora KDE Plasma upgrading after stabl-er point releases, Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Everything else is very unprofessional or full of technical or human issues. I'm not trying to gatekeep newbies, like, if you use elementaryOS or Linux Mint you're still using Linux. No elitism intended I'm just giving you my opinion.

For exploration or self inflicted harm you can also use NixOS or weird small distros. Although I like Nix' concepts I don't like their implementation or approach to users.
Elm is awesome, its compiler is awesome, but its ecosystem is kinda stalling, isn't it?

I mean, a lot of libraries aren't updated to the last lang version, debugging JS-Elm interactions been a real challenge for years, yadda yadda. Overall I'd say Elm ecosystem doesn't receive enough attention to survive.

I'm not complaining, I'm just sad about that and kinda surprised I didn't found a mention of that in the OP article.
Sidney Powell’s 'Intelligence Contractor' Witness Sues Dominion for $3.4B
in france it is 42% not 60
More likely the opposite, acknowledging sugar is majorly implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, chiefly alzheimer's.
>> The necessary implication would be that waste from patients on certain drugs should be treated as hazardous, or even radioactive. That's pandora's box.

So here's the bit that I don't get. When my friend had to get her cat a medical scan, the cat had to have radiactive contrast ingested/injected. She was then told to carefully, without touching it, collect all poop made by the cat in the next 7 days, put it in this special container, then bring it back to the vet for safe disposal.

However, when humans have the same procedure done....no one cares? You drink radioactive contrast, then pee and poop as normal, it all goes down our drains. How does that make any sense?
exactly the crew in that situation should ductape the choker and let the other go on with his kicking since its harmless. oh yeah i forgot you never said you suggest anyone should be taped. apologies for the strawman.
> Charging station availability is a bit of a red herring though.

How is it a red herring? It's a real need that has to be addressed to make EVs viable.

On Saturday we drove to a popular destination just 70 kilometres away from Stockholm (that is, 140 kilometres both ways). That popular destination has a total of 6 charging places with may be three of them with 22kW chargers, and the rest of them 7kW and 3kW.

To ensure we wouldn't get stuck, on Saturday morning I drove into the city to one of the 50kW chargers hoping they wouldn't be occupied, and spent an hour waiting at a cafe while the car was charging.

On Sunday we went for a longer trip. An unimaginable 135 km from Stockholm. I hoped to once again charge the car in the morning, but the 50kW charging spot was taken, so I had to contend with a 43kW one. It didn't charge as fast. We only had 260 km worth of charge in the car, and had to make a 1-hour-long stop at a McDonalds on the highway that had a total of 4 quick chargers that were miraculously unoccupied.

> For those people, EVs provide a better overall experience.

Somehow you assume that's the only experience "those people" are ever going to have.

> just charging at home is a viable option.

Ah yes. "Just". It's simple. Just charge at home. You only have to provide charging infrastructure at home. And provide that infrastructure for all homes (because the end goal is to make all cars electric, isn't it?).

Right now I live in an apartment complex with 154 apartments. It's one of the Stockholm's suburbs that is basically a village with a commuter train passing through it. Surely, you can get to the city, and public transportation is still excellent, but you do end up driving significantly more than you would in a city (if for the sole reason that all distances are increased compared to the city).

So, you need to provide electric outlets to all ~154 parking places near the complex. And to ~200 outlets to the neighboring complex. And to the next one. And to the next one... Who is going to pay for that, I wonder? Though I know. The "revolution" will happen at the expense of people who are told they will benefit from it.
There isn't always an open-source alternative to what you need. Especially for people who use their computers for work.
> But I can't accept this. It's a step too far.

So turn off iCloud photos?
> Exactly, I think people are just getting a little too worked up over this whole thing. Apple computes a hash of each image you upload to iCloud then check it against a list of CP hashes.

If that is what is supposed to happen, then it makes no sense for any new code to run on the device!

> Of all the things in the world to get worked up over, this is ridiculous.

Well, it is not crazy to get worked up over Apple saying they will check uploads to iCloud by checking what's on your phone - instead of simply adding code to iCloud. That seems obvious not ridiculous.
Right now, even if you only ever travel short distances and an electric car would be totally suitable for you, the path of least resistance is to buy a gas car. It seems smart to try and shift that calculus.
Use Lineage without microG then.
250 TC is what the best returning interns made straight out of college when I was at a FAANG. A senior engineer with some big wins and a little stock price appreciation is looking around when his or her TC falls below 1MM.
Not really sure if economics is solving these sorts of crimes.
LibTLS is our own original code [1], it has nothing to do with OpenBSD (or any other library that happens to share the name.) :)

1. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...
Because then you have to officially incorporate physical combat into the job profile of cabin crew.
HDF5 is efficient for large datasets and has its use cases but being a binary (and fairly easy to corrupt) it isn't a reasonable general replacement for CSV. It also has limitations such as it cannot be read while it is being written.
I guess the problem is expectations. It can be useful to have information summarized in that manner but I would never take it as authoritative.
So my affection for set-screw marrs is misguided? Hard to admit.
Land at the nearest safe airport and have them removed by law enforcement. Tolerate the noise until then. It won't hurt anyone.
Yeah, getting a headache because one didn't eat that day isn't normal. It means you're addicted to cheap carbs. Our ancestors on the Serengeti didn't have this luxury of eating 3 times every day.
I hope those restraints include a gag to stop them from screaming for hours, then duct tape would be truly unneeded.
Interesting. It's up spectacularly even from 2018. It looks like the Taliban have had control over this: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/22/taliban-afghanistan-min...
I wonder if the Prophet supports a sovereign wealth fund.
I purposefully didn't include details around this as I didn't want to exclude any options or drive the discussion toward US politics.

I can say my #1 goal is long term security and stability for her. That might be accomplished by amassing a pile of money here, yes. Looking for alternatives for her to use on her own accord, if she desires.
See https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Switzerlan... for the very top.

For a more meaningful view of the Swiss market (there's almost only Google on this site for Switzerland), I would have a look at https://swissdevjobs.ch/. There's not a lot above 150k.
You're looking directly at an example of Apple not caring about privacy and you still can't see it. Apple does not care about your privacy. They care about your money.
Social studies law prompts school officials to cancel Youth and Government class
It's only a matter of time before Google starts doing the same thing. I can't imagine Google wont do it eventually.
Sure, there are always cases - but was their photo of a grey blob that matched a hash but is clearly a grey blob or of a naked child?

If the photo was a grey blob and they had to go through a judicial review for someone to look at the photo and confirm 'yes that is a grey blob' then color me wrong.
Ex-Navy & programmer here: It feels like I am pointing out the obvious, but FAANGs have big problems, way bigger than a startup, and I'm not referring to only the technology. They have big organizational problems, like managing an aircraft carrier. They need to hire the smartest people and pay them a lot of money to manage those problems. Not every problem is sexy and many people are needed in the engine room to keep the fresh water distillery running and the ship sewage system from clogging.

The U.S.'s $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier Has a Toilet Problem

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a319296...
They have found evidence of brain damage with MRIs. Can't fake that.

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2019/july/ad...
> "CSAM backdoor plans"
Comparing hashes is not a backdoor.
On laptop I moved to Qubes a few years ago, on a ThinkPad X1 carbon which is an amazing machine. I keep a c2014 MacBook around for miscellaneous things (e.g. syncing Spotify local songs to my phone over local WiFi, which I have not figured out how to do in the Linux client).

For phone I’m very interested in /e/os and the one phone you can get new with it preinstalled, the Teracube 2 (wired has a Teracube review of the very similar previous model).

I am looking at photoprism running on a home server (intel nuc) synced via PhotoSync (can sync photos via sftp). It actually looks really cool and uses tensorflow to do some sort of AI photo sorting locally.

By the way, while there’s a learning curve to this stuff, it feels very empowering and educational once you’ve put in the work. It feels like the future. Compute and storage is cheap. I think hosting things on your own server is the inevitable future. Once you’re set up it just hums along. This stuff will eventually be sold in appliance form (see Helm email server for the model).
From a manager point of view:

In your shoes I would make a decision to either fix/improve the situation or leave immediately.

If you decide for the former then make sure you have support from your management and own that decision. Be the one who turned the subpar division around. If it is as bad as you say you can hardly screw it up any worse. That's a privileged position to start from - difficult to fail.

I doubt your colleagues are really below average IQ - but perhaps their skills could be better. So teach them. Be the leader and mentor they likely never had. Have patience and build a team.

Fix the high impact, low effort problems first. Get some fast successes - they inspire and breed appetite for more. Don't exhaust your resources. Chip away one small problem at a time. It adds up faster than you think.

Create a vision for where you want to be in one year. Communicate that goal at every opportunity. Believe in it and other people will believe as well. It doesn't matter if you reach it within an arbitrary deadline - it matters that it exists in the first place.

Whatever you do, don't coast.
Its astonishing ,
How society went from keeping personal photos private , to thinking its ok , to let a random apple employee scan their photos for suspicion and debate on how human reviewers from a faceless corporation can easily stop these mistakes there.

I’d trust the algorithm more than the human reviewing it , considering the algorithm already shows flaws and loopholes , the human part of it does not bring any confidence.

This isnt facebook , this is your private photos , it shouldnt have reached till this stage , in the first place
I stopped at M.S., but I know many Ph.D.'s.

The horror stories of things they endure would fill hundreds of volumes. One told me another prof just stole her dissertation topic, and she lost two years. Innumerable others get caught in academic politics because another prof doesn't like theirs.

As many people say below, being a whistleblower brings a heavy personal cost, and no one should say "you should publicize this" without being aware of that.
Not them, but this is the one place where that attitude seems reasonable: I am not a crypto expert, and therefore can't audit their crypto code, and the refrain is "don't roll your own crypto (unless you really know what you're doing)", so unless one of the devs is a crypto expert then it is 100% reasonable to both be rather worried that they're rolling their own and also unable to do anything about it.
With Apple you lease the product. Because you don't own anything about it.
Right on. And with the inclusion of a JSON-schema header, it makes data parsing a breeze:

{ "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#", "type": "array", "items": {"type":"array","items": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "string" }, { "enum": ["Street", "Avenue", "Boulevard"] },{ "enum": ["NW", "NE", "SW", "SE"] } ]} }
[[3,"some", "Street", "NE"],
[4,"other", "Avenue", "SE"],
[5,"some", "Boulevard", "SW"]]
been thinking about the same the last week+, and for phone I can't help but want to go back to a Nokia feature phone. Email has been off my phone for a year and a half, no notifications. Trying to quit WhatsApp as well so not having it is a feature. The models available now aren't quite there yet but I am hopeful. Really, my ideal would be:

- Good/great camera, 8+ MP; Front facing optional. Dedicated shutter button/quick access from sleep
- GPS and HERE maps
- Simple, native "apps" - Phone, Alarm, Calendar, Contacts, threaded SMS/MMS, weather, podcasts, flashlight. Email optional
- High quality screen (3", OLED, high PPI)
- 4G connectivity, 5G optional
- Tethering/Hotspot capability
- USB-C
- Candybar form factor with number pad would work, but would prefer an E71/72 reboot

Thats basically it. Given how inexpensive something like the just released 6310 is (~50 EUR), it would be nice to have a "high end" feature phone around the 250 EUR/$300 price point. Long battery a nice side benefit as well.
Oh missed that. Thanks!
Why on earth are we providing free labor to fix googles mistake though?

I get why we might to help the various Ms Vassell's who are caught up in this though, but why are we pretending that Google is being reasonable here?
1. I wouldn't bet Avro, Parquet, Arrow, or other formats that require a library to parse are going to _entirely_ replace CSV. Those are broader in scope, but can't say are "replacements" if they don't share the simplicity of plain text data following a few conventions – much like how PDF is not a "replacement" for Markdown, but enables higher-fidelity content.

2. I would feel safer storing longer-term data in CSV than in a binary format w/ a complicated spec. Having to make sense of compressed, columnar padded data sounds worse than parsing CSV.

3. Although it's easy to point at corner cases, I don't remember the last time I couldn't figure out how to parse a file because of inconsistent quoting or exotic char encoding – and I've spent a good amount of the past 13 years exchanging CSVs and TSVs w/ 3rd parties full of horrible legacy. Asking those 3rd parties to send me an Avro/Parquet/whatever file would've made the project fail or take 10x longer.

There's a reason why CSV stuck around so long, and the alternatives make different trade-offs but miss the pros.
Don’t people have data caps where they’d notice if a ridiculous amount of audio was sent to a server?
There are two main reasons for using DC for long distance power lines:

1) The line connects two synchronized grids. It's much easier to convert electricity to DC and back to AC on receiving end, than to synchronize grids or to implement something similar with AC.

2) The line runs under sea water for a significant distance. Due to the conductivity losses DC is more efficient in such contexts that AC.
Are you saying a 13 year old is incapable of kicking out a window or incapable of understand that kicking out a window is going to cause catastrophic consequences and therefore should be treated differently?

What about this being a 13 year old is mitigating in your mind vs a middle-aged person?
Scanning people's on-phone photos clearly has nothing to do with being a precursor to e2e encryption. The photos get transferred either way, so one has nothing to do with the other.
I agree with you and do not intend to represent them. Rather I mean it's "unimaginable" to the complainers who are ready to shoot holes in absolutely everything but don't have any plan of their own to address the problem.