skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked on our iphones. And its possible I am an edge case. With the restrictions I have on Siri, icloud (the only use for iCloud is some shared albums with family, in lieu of facebook, and find my) etc. My phone doesn't categorize photos by person or do those montages others routinely get within the photos app.

And the only reason I know about them is because my wife asked about them and why our iPhones dont do them.

But we don't put stuff on Facebook. Our photos are backed up to our NAS. Phones backup to a macmini only. Siri and search are basically disabled as much as possible (we have to somewhat enable it for carplay) but definitely no voice or anything.
> Also I think you may have to look and see how much journalists make. To be so entrenched in a mass conspiracy that takes down whole networks of industry, I’d negotiate a better salary then the equivalent of $20/hour.

This is like arguing that hooligans engaged in vandalism are virtuous because they're not millionaires.

You're failing to distinguish between journalists publishing a balanced truthful article in which the truth makes someone look bad, vs. "nice business you've got there, shame if someone were to publish a hit piece in a major media outlet."
I tend to agree, but in practice a lot of employees and media hate it.

Amazon caught a lot of bad press for their wages a while ago despite giving warehouse employees equity-based compensation. They got a lot of good press by ditching the stock-based comp and simply raising cash wages, because that’s what headlines wanted to see. The workers may have lost out in the process, but the wage number is higher now.
Many years ago, I had a colleague (in tech - dev and some ops) in a company of around 70 people... I wasn't working there, we just would share our experiences regularly. He worked with... a lot of subpar folks - they seemed to be the majority on the tech side. It was 'established', and the lights were on, but... - example - someone spent weeks writing a 'data importer' to bring in data. The data importer took 24-26 hours to bring in, say... 5000 records. "OK, it works" - first production customer had 27000 records - which wasn't unusual at all for the industry. "Oh, is that going to be normal? We'll have to tell people it will take a week".

My colleague regaled me with this, and how he'd rewritten it after learning how slow it was. Got it down to, IIRC, probably 15 minutes - all data imported, cleaned, logged, etc. This was normal, basic SQL stuff - nothing fancy. It was regarded as black magic, and "this can't be right, you're missing something, etc" that went on for more weeks.

This was one of a dozen stories like this. BUT... the company was established, and with enough people "doing" stuff, they would still grow (if only by brute force and adding people).

I suggested "perhaps if people had more motivation to improve their skills - like... maybe some profit sharing?"

"THEY HAVE THAT ALREADY!" he laughed back. It caused a lot of friction between the 2-3 competent engineers and the ... ~10-12 others - because the competent ones all just looked at the 'profits' being wasted by the others on the team. And, FWIW, it wasn't a lot anyway. I think an average 'profit sharing' for most rank and file was perhaps... $2-$3k/year. Might have been more had they been able to execute faster and grow market share with faster turnaround time, but... even $5k 'bonus' - it's nice, but for someone already making $80k+, this isn't really going to move the needle enough to motivate people to get remarkably better at their jobs.

It may (and possibly) does work in some situations, but that was the most recent one I had some connection with. It seemed a de-motivator for the few competent people on the team.
Shaun provides a nuanced overview of the topic here: https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go
It's dated 09.04.2021. Hidden away in a weird spot at the top right corner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...

> While the quote was not expressed as an order, it prompted four knights to travel from Normandy to Canterbury, where they killed Becket. The phrase is commonly used in modern-day contexts to express that a ruler's wish may be interpreted as a command by his or her subordinates.

"You will have an illegitimate president. That’s what you’ll have. And we can’t let that happen."
> it took us an embarrassingly long time to realize that we were leaking mailing list subscribers because of these one-click unsub links

It didn't take some companies long. They were just a bit more, uhhh, shady about the knowledge.
Activities that us, as engineers, should spend more time on
> if everyone makes more they will bid up the things they buy

Raising the minimum wage is unlikely to have much of that kind of effect, since most people make more than minimum wage. What it does do is reduce the buying power of people making $30/hour because they now have to compete more often for things with someone making $15 instead of $10/hour. But even then, that isn't enough to put pressure on cars, houses, or even rent.

But what raising the minimum wage really does is put people at the bottom on a more equal footing with people not at the bottom. The people on the bottom can buy more, the people not at the bottom can buy a bit less.
A related concept is the association fallacy [1], which is a more subtle form of the ad hominem fallacy.

It works like this:

A. You believe X.

B. A crazy person also believes/believed X.

C. Since you believe X and a crazy person also believed X, you are a crazy person.

D. Optionally: I won't consider your argument unless you tell me why being a crazy person is ok. Why do you support doing crazy people things like being a serial killer?

Example:

A. You are against cigarette smoking.

B. The Nazis were also against cigarette smoking[2].

C. Therefore you are a Nazi.

D. Optionally: I won't consider your argument unless you tell me why being a Nazi is ok. Why do you support anti-semitism?

The latest updated version of this is: What you believe is arbitrarily labeled a conspiracy theory. People that believe in conspiracy theories believe the earth is flat. Why do you believe the earth is flat?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Guilt_by_a...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251213.The_Nazi_War_on_C...
Sanctions can be effective without harming the people. You just need to apply them against the non-democratic government and its allies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28244670.
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If you take out credit, or don't want to pay security deposit, they ask for it
Couldn't they just build a DNS responder into the ACME client? That way you can put an NS record delegating _acme_challenge to your application server/web server, so it can reply during validation?
I am suggesting that innovation can occur both outside of facebook (see tiktok and thousands of other innovations on the internet) and that even inside facebook there may be development and innovation (react? open compute stuff?). Not I don't like or use facebook personally.

The idea that facebook has a monopoly on the internet or innovation seems a stretch to me.
> Sorry, this is not even wrong.

Probably a mistake to say things like this, when the public documentation contradicts you.

> The visual derivative is not matched against anything, and there is no "original" visual derivative to match against.

Bullshit.

Here is the relevant paragraph from Apple’s documentation:

“as an additional safeguard, the visual derivatives themselves are matched to the known CSAM database by a second, independent perceptual hash. This independent hash is chosen to reject the unlikely possi- bility that the match threshold was exceeded due to non-CSAM images that were ad- versarially perturbed to cause false NeuralHash matches against the on-device en- crypted CSAM database. If the CSAM finding is confirmed by this independent hash, the visual derivatives are provided to Apple human reviewers for final confirmation.”

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...
SQLite as an Application File Format By use the iOS platform
It is not a goal.

And it was not a goal that the unsecured boulder at the top of the hill should come tumbling down over the road and into the house, it just so happens that when an unsecured boulder lies on the top of a large hill where teenagers gather and it doesn't stay there for too long.

Same goes for liberties and certain politicians.

For this reason we secure boulders, teach teens about consequences, keep invasive tech out of reach from wanna be authoritarian politicians and teach history in school.
“Open market” yeah right
> In my experience, huge companies do not make changes like this purely on the basis of newspaper columns.

You'd think, but no. In my experience working at a large tech company, executives cared a lot about what the New York Times in particular thought. A piece published by them would have immediate attention from those executives, and it'd be our problem to respond, even if the original article wasn't well founded. Once I figured out how much leadership cared about NYT, I even justified one engineering decision based on "what would NYT say". And it worked.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that MasterCard cares so much about what the NYT prints.

> Political pressure? Regulatory pressure?

You're on the right track. If you think (correctly IMO) that politicians and regulators read NYT, then pressure from these groups is going to come soon after the NYT piece is published. Best take action before that happens.
>I stuck around for a while under the foolish thought that maybe management would see the exodus as a wake-up call and reverse course on some obviously bad decisions

I've never seen that happen. I find momentum almost always wins the day and few people really ever 'reverse course' at the same job. Just a human thing.

> These were largely junior employees who saw the exodus of senior employees as an opportunity to move up fill in the new vacancies.

That's absolutely true and a good opportunity. I know some folks who did that and it worked out great. When you're Jr. you can take chances like that (and IMO should) and it can pay off. If it doesn't, move on... no harm no foul.

Heck when I got my first job in a new industry I joined a small company, wasn't paid a lot, they had old tech / tech debt. It wasn't one of the larger / well known companies in town.

But at that place I could make real changes / whole applications from top to bottom that went into production. Pay went up fast.

Other folks I know who went to the big company and are doing well, but are also kind of amazed "you get to do all that". It's not hard to do, but they don't get those opportunities to do it all themself at big company.

I see a lot of folks who want to land at 'best company' but sometimes I think a variety of companies or even 'not best company' teaches you important things / opportunity.
> Also what kind of argument is "an intelligence agency that employs tens of thousands of people"?

my point is that, however you may feel about the NSA, you are comparing the budget of an entire government agency to that of a single research project. ITER is (AFAIK) the largest fusion research project, but it isn't the entire field. furthermore, fusion is an important piece of the sustainable energy puzzle, but it seems an exaggeration to call it the singular key. I just don't see how this comparison makes sense.

why not compare ITER against other research projects? I suspect it is because you know that $4 billion is already a huge budget for a single project, maybe not the largest ever, but among those.

> You seem to be encouraging the largest possible and least efficient bureocracy.

the only thing I am encouraging is a reasonable apples-to-apples comparison.
It is. If you think it isn't then you're missing something (like maybe calories excreted unmetabolized?) But it's also a bit of a reductio ad absurdum and isn't a very interesting take on the problem (and I say this as someone who also used to spout it.)

Within a pretty tight margin, calories in minus calories out DOES predict weight gain. The real question is why someone feels the need to eat more calories than they burn even when they already have ample stores of calories, and what they or others can do to change this. And THAT is a much more interesting question.
The Great Data Debate: Who owns it? banks? consumers? Gov?
My parents have been timeshare owners for years so I'm very familiar with the sales tactics resorts use. Regardless of how they spin it, all you really own is a block of time. With Ancana your purchase is a deeded right to the property. You are an actual home owner. Where the difference becomes clear is when you can use the property (fixed weeks vs. on-demand) and what happens when you want to sell the property. Resorts force you to sell your time back to them and they dictate the prices. With an Ancana home, we will help find a buyer from our network of qualified leads, or you are free to sell through an agent of your choosing or on your own. The market dictates what the property sells for, not Ancana. We retain no ownership stake in the property once all of the fractions are sold.

As for fees, we simply split the ongoing property costs amongst the co-owners with no markup. We do charge an annual management fee for administering and maintaining the property, but this is fixed and transparent.
> They haven't, though. They "only" made ~400 million last year and can't find investors (did you even read through the Axios report?). Porn is bad for business. I'm surprised people are surprised. Patreon literally did this exact same thing[1] (ditched explicit content after initially allowing it).

Yeah I'm not sure how to respond, since you don't seem to understand anything the same way I do. Like zero points agreement here, which is why I opened with we must be living in a different reality.

When you somebody says a "billion dollar unicorn" they are talking about valuation not revenue. Also the vast majority, effectively all of OF's revenue is related to the adult content they are going to be removing.
Computational Fluid Dynamics on AWS [pdf]
I've always suspected so. Many times I have had a card expire and be replaced, and recurring payments under the old expiration dates continue to charged to the account. I have at least one such payment that I probably have not updated payment information in over 10 years, so that expiration date is long expired.

At one time I suspected in such cases that the bank automatically provided the payee with the new information.

Last year I had a payment issue with E-ZPass. The payments were suddenly being rejected. I came to find it this was due to out of date expiration information. The card number had remained the same, but the expiration on record was June 2012.

Yes, it took over 8 years for the bank (Chase/Visa) to start rejecting payments.
Like this? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/06/oliver-schm...
I don't disagree with our premise against people being inherently good. I personally don't think that a universal basic income will solve all the problems that its proponents think it will solve.

But I don't think your example about rape in occupied Germany is a great example. The citizens of the Soviet Union suffered greatly, and it is estimated that about 26 million of them died during WW2. I have no doubt that the minds of those soldiers were filled with thoughts of rage and revenge, and probably felt that the perpetrators of the war somehow deserved it.
Pacaso allows you to purchase more than 1/8 of a residence, you can purchase as many 1/8 shares as you like. So in theory you could easily purchase 1/4 of a residence.

Pacaso is also purchasing homes that are not yet built, for instance they’ve purchased two homes in North Lake Tahoe that are actively being developed.

I am a 1/8 shareholder of a property in North Lake Tahoe through Pacaso and I love the model. Best of luck to you.
Exactly. Maybe the real story here is why some employees aren’t responding to market rate incentives.

If most people are making the obvious move to better compensated jobs with better working conditions, what’s driving some people to stay in the underpaid, overworked jobs? It’s not hard to switch jobs in 2021.
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> Political pressure?

Probably. Hunter Biden had a PornHub account where he uploaded incest porn with his underage niece: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/huge-breaking-exclu...
> They aren’t available whilst a call is in process
> They have vastly less capability or flexibility than the systems they replaced

I don't understand the first point because I can access my calendar, email, contact, etc all during a call on my phone without problem (Android 10).

The second makes sense if you look at it from the lens of you not having infinite markup possibilities in your digital calendar compared to writing whatever you want on a desk calendar, but my calendar is with me everywhere. You can get a lot done with plain text notes and the 'description' section of a calendar event.

I consider my phone an all in one productivity machine, not an entertainment machine, and I think that works well for me.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AbhishekLpd/status/13640184107079...

"In 2014 I was buying land in Lake Tahoe and I told the sales guy I'll buy this plot if you let me buy in bitcoin because I wanted to promote bitcoin as a transactional infrastructure. That was 2800 coins. That's worth $140-150M today"

- Chamath
I read another article which mentioned "overnight hike".
Thanks for clarifying that.
This sounds the same as claiming that biometric fingerprint devices don't match user's fingerprints, they just match vectors.
Neat! Thanks for sharing this.
Your testimonial section of "happy customers" are just the stock headshot photos from this wix template. It's probably safe to assume that the testimonials themselves are fake as well? I'd suggest removing this section entirely as it comes off as dishonest and misleading.
That is why the solution is to raise the wage per hour by greatly increasing the salary at which an employer can not pay overtime.

All there hotels and restaurants and service sector businesses used to paying bottom tier wages to desperate workers are now relying on their “managers” to fill in the gaps, and the pay their “managers” $36k per year to work more than 40 hours per week.

People accept it because it is a more reliable wage than hourly which can go up and down, but it usually means you are working 50, 60, 70 hours a week for extremely low pay.

If you bump that exempt min wage to $100k or $200k per year, then the employer is forced to hire more people and reduce reliance on these desperate “managers”.
This event here marks the end of privacy as a right. It’s over.
Looks like they acronym'd themselves into a corner, there.
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Outside of a few select people (mostly my parents and grandparents), if someone calls me I assume it is an emergency or something very important.

I actually get a surge of anxiety because of this lol.
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Did you mean little Si? Mt Si proper is a pretty tough hike with a scramble at the end that can be somewhat tough/dangerous depending on conditions.
AWS SQS Message Mover
And even then I'd argue kick off the urgent communication need with a text. They can call back if they realize synchronous communication is needed for the circumstance. They are more likely to receive the text than a phone call. If they are in a meeting or whatever, they would likely let the call go to voicemail, but a text they can discretely read.
Wouldn’t it have been obvious that they had no water with them? Did I miss that detail somewhere?
Like templating as a service?
The problem with US payment processors is you're subject to US laws and penalties, but for the most part my customers won't be in the US and I'd prefer to avoid the jurisdiction
> I definitely don't want Google logging in to my accounts.

Then don't use websites who provide links that provide insecure features.
Will the feature also be coming to older MacOS versions? The only Mac I have on hand runs Mojave, and I have no intentions of upgrading anytime soon.
That was also on my list, but at the time I was searching for it, I was only able to buy it in Asia. Seemed as if all stock in Europe somehow ”disappeared“
It doesn’t require a conspiracy, the parent postulates a single journalist at a prestigious publication.
I saw an interesting farmer presentation on YouTube[1] the other day where he eventually starts talking about how cover crops have improved his land's ability to absorb and retain water. He even includes photos contrasting his neighbor's monoculture fields with his during rain storms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yPjoh9YJMk
Nothing about those concerns seems specific to the end-to-end encryption compatible CSAM system they or Apple built...

Honestly if I were Apple I'd consider just scrapping the whole thing and doing server side CSAM testing on iCloud photos without rolling out E2E encryption for iCloud photos. It's just not worth the PR blowback.
Probably not. Mainly because most recruiters are using some sort of software to track every touchpoint with a candidate - so I don't think they'd be willing to fill it out.
It basically like having a responsive website that works with both mobile/desktop web. But in this case it's mobile/auto interface. Not really two different products, just maintaining two different UIs built using the same underlying language and core system.

They probably just measured how much people with new devices are using the phone version + projected 3-4yrs into the future and saw it declining even further (it'd probably take about ~2yrs for the release to hit mainstream).

Then evaluated whether it was worth slowing down product development and new releases to support two UI versions.

It could be better for customers in the end as the number of used cars without a screen dwindles each year and they can improve the product quicker.

The other question is what Apple is doing...
Intriguing idea. What does "property management" entail? Does Ancana take on the costs of major property failures, like a pipe bursting?
Technique reveals proteins moving as they work
What the platform incentivizes is not all there is to consider. Actual outcome must also be considered. Nike can go through all the motions of incentivizing the use of ethical labor in their factories, but if it turns out that despite their efforts, a significant portion of their sneakers are made by child slave labor, then I'm not going to go around claiming Nike is an ethical business. Maybe I'll buy a pair of Nike shoes anyway, because I don't see a better option, but I still won't claim that Nike is ethical. I'll leave extolling the virtue of Nike to the Nike PR department. Anyway, intentions do count for something I think, but outcome is more important.

Note that I am not claiming Onlyfans is unethical. I don't know if Onlyfans is ethical or not. I don't know what the rate of abuse content on Onlyfans is. That's information I simply don't have. Furthermore, I'm not even sure what rate of abuse content society should tolerate from a company. Probably if these are only isolated incidents that are swiftly recognized and rectified, it shouldn't damn the whole platform. Also, I think it probably matters whether that rate is trending up or down, but I don't have any information about either possible trend. I lack the information I need to support the claim that Onlyfans is ethical, and I think the rest of you do as well.
I don’t understand the point… journalists shouldn’t report on child trafficking content unless they catalogue every instance of child trafficking content on the internet?
+1.

And orgs (gov and private) will continue to just ask for completely unnecessary information because, why not? Throw it in some database with root:root as the pw and shrug when it gets breached. It really needs to stop. The only person that loses is the person that now has to potentially deal with identity theft or getting doxxed for the rest of their life...