skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built some similar capabilities by pulling from FedBizOpps back in the day. I made money simply by doing that processing, grouping by agency, category of the work, geography, and a few keywords and then emailing it to people. For some, I integrated with their CRM (Salesforce and SugarCRM at the time) to drop them in as new Opportunities for Discovery.

If you can start pulling historical data to identify "similar" (define that!) contracts and their bid history, that could be exceptionally useful for competitive intel, understanding who the players are (govt or private side), and how they've gone previously.

Beyond that, you start getting into bid management, including writing, review, and submission and there is HUGE money in that if you can wrap in tracking, compliance, reporting, etc. If you get into Exhibit 300s, may God have mercy on your soul.

Edit: One more useful thing here: If you can track the awards (usually on the individual agency's sites), you can further dig into the contracts and identify great opportunities to be subs and/or who to sell to in the Primes.

Excuse me, having flashbacks now..
> It seems like an outlandish claim to me.

Wonder if such claims aren't made for political motives instead of environmental ones.
That’s an oversimplified and misleading description of how the system works, but ok. I recommend reading the technical description, or even the paper linked from that: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
> It needs to go into the actual photo library.

iMessage photos received are automatically synced so no. Finding 30 photos take zero time at all on Tor. Hell finding a .onion site that doesn't have CP randomly spammed is harder.....
Excel trying to be helpful and silently converting data is a source of endless pain. In fact it is so bad, that geneticists have renamed some genes:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
It's not a user facing feature, and x86 macs are the past already - I doubt they'll bother porting it.
yup Github and Shopify are a big part of RoR
With GitHub we sync all the issues in real time. So all changes you make in Tara reflect on GitHub issues too. We make it easier for larger teams who run sprints and require a more accessible interface work better together i.e designers, PMs and EMs.

For the Gitlab for the time being we only allow connection of issue tickets to MRs and some organized views of commits and MRs in our progress mode.
"A civil court can render a ruling against a party if the party is not present, but it will typically go to great lengths to ensure that notice is given to parties before doing so"

In many types of cases, but not all. Protection from abuse order hearings generally happen without the knowledge of the target of the order.
They essentially do the same, just in the cloud meaning they access all images directly.
Ultimately the fact finder at trial, just as in cases of fraud or defamation. But preliminarily often an agency, as with false advertising statutes.

The government and courts decide truth and falsity all day, everyday. That isn't new. The real issue is the scope of speech and activities that are put under scrutiny.
many coal plants are peaker plants (at least in US ~250:1000), and I don't think nuclear can replace those as they produce a continual supply of electricity. Unless these small nuclear reactors operate differently?
I wouldn't say they're outlandish, but this story about the SNP and Scotland is printed both here and in the Daily Mail. Whenever I see such a coincidence in the British media, it's worth double and triple checking. Might be that Lord Rothemere and the Barclay Brothers have decided to do a number on someone. You have to remember the concentration of power in the British media is immense.

The Telegraph conducts no journalism I'm even aware of. They just print "news" which fit their agenda. Even The Times is incomparable, even though they both lean right The Times actually carries stuff that's worth reading. The Telegraph is just a political party paper that happens to have national outreach.
I mean, the FBI should 1000000% know better than to expose their unsecured Elasticsearch cluster to the internet. While Elasticsearch should be more secure by default, I'd say the blame is much more on the agency.
Those are examples of triggering false negatives (CSAM that gets missed by the system), this collision attack is about triggering false positives (non-CSAM that triggers human intervention).
Fantastic. Also a great, related, listen is the recent Corecursive Podcast with Richard Hipp as guest. He’s the man who created SQLite, with good technical stories to share.

“The Untold Story of SQLite” https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
Only you are claiming it’s only purpose is to make it more difficult to follow. There are a hundred valid reasons to have non-sequitur or ambiguity beyond the literal first-level surface analysis of just making it harder to understand.
Sadly the government already tracking you through credit-card, cell phone, face recognition and voice fingerprint. you just don’t know about it.
The only difference is that we would force business owner to enforce the law.
Take Dark City. I believe the studio forced a new opening that more or less explained everything rather than letting you puzzle it all out. I didn't find the movie too hard to work through, but I think Hollywood execs have a fairly low estimation of the audience's intellect.

Lynch is a bit harder. Lynch is atypical in two ways that play off of one another. First and most obviously, he has been developing as a film-maker (as one would hope over the decades), but he expects that his audience would have kept up with him, introducing a kind of filmic vocabulary. I would say that Mulholland Drive is much, much more comprehensible once you have understood what Lost Highway is on about. In turn, Lost Highway is an extended riff off of the dualism you would see in Twin Peaks and Fire Walk With Me. As to the second factor, Lynch is very heavy into TM and he would like to present images, sounds, and such to the viewer, and then find out what the viewer thinks of them. Not in a "this is up to you to puzzle out," rather he is pitching rocks and skipping stones off of what he likely believes is to be a collective unconscious or a shared cultural experience, then being excited about what might pop up. It's a genuine interest, I think.
Perception aside, Apple’s system is somewhat better for privacy, since Apple needs to access much less data server side.
Big +1 for this. Or maybe some sort of integration with RescueTime (not sure how, but why not)
This looks like a good way to get a package marked as suspicious, and suspicious packages have their contents searched.
Reminds me of the film War Dogs. Great idea. Hopefully you are successful, and can cut out some of the cronyism and result in improving government program quality a bit.
"Google used shady dark patterns to trick users to install Chrome for years, so we're just returning the favor" - MS product manager, possibly

The trick of it is, this did happen for a long time. Here's Avast's updater and Flash's installer trying to trick users into installing Google Chrome: https://imgur.com/gallery/WWZxj
The slope to totalitarianism is always slippery.
Magic Leap hopes health and design industries can make augmented reality pay
That unfortunately opens us up to the heckler's veto[1] it's a fine balance to screen content that will produce interesting discussions while also not excluding content that enrages a portion of the user base.

I do think it's quite fair that this article was flagged since the comment section quickly got mobbed by some pretty rabid commenters and HN doesn't want to deal with that - but it does have a chilling effect.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler%27s_veto
The PATRIOT act was largely the result of US foreign policy affecting domestic policy and erosion of civil liberties:

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=349

In an ideal world, we'd be constantly re-evaluating both foreign and domestic policies, but will we?

Remember this signed by Obama: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/president-obama-signs-in...

And he was not able to even close down Gitmo
This pretty much sums this entire drama up, I think.
It looks like it was "leaked", as in, publicly exposed server indexed by a few search engines. It's possible that this researcher was the only one to come across it, and reported it immediately. In which case it'll never see the light of day.
I loved Firewatch. Any recommendations for something similar?

Haven't tried Spiritfarer, but the others on that list don't seem similar.
Getting an IV is a dramatically more effective way of hydration than drinking a glass of orange juice. Yet life isn't an RPG where you minmax and pick the task that increases your stat the most.
I think I remember seeing this when it was screen and being a little confused why you were using daily.co if it’s your core business. Still using daily.co?
With no beds, hospitals ship patients to far-off cities
> But not mandatory.

Even state IDs aren’t generally mandatory in theory, they are mandatory for specific purposes. Like most proposed national IDs. Like Passports. Like Real ID. Like EDL. Like Military ID. Like…

> The question is whether the U.S. federal government can require all U.S. residents to get, carry, and provide a national form of identification.

No, its not. Literally no one is advocating that. Its actually pretty well established that even states, while they can require you to use ID for a whole lot of purposes, but can’t mandate that you carry and produce one generally.
Ha! Same :)
If you want to design yet another ‘better’ file format, go to it. But CSV files are fine the way they are, thanks. If I need to preserve metadata, there are many tried and true options available to me.
If I'm already feeding them animal flesh? No, not really.
Thanks for the feedback! You're right, we need to improve each of these significantly.

Reduce Power When Idle: decreases the frame rate from 30fps gradually down to 15fps when there's no user activity after a few seconds, and also drops frame rate due to CPU utilization. But you're right, we need to rethink this.

Resolutions: yes, it does scale down to 1x, and yes, selecting a resolution would be better.

Re: shortcuts, do you remember when it was that you experienced these issues? We had a few bugs around these that have been fixed. We're also working on a revamp of our keyboard handling code for all three platforms to address some of the remaining issues. If you're still running into a specific issue, let us know via hello@pop.com and we'll make sure it's fixed in our keyboard overhaul.
Kabul's equivalent to Citizen is struggling to keep its employees safe
I am vaccinated too, since January. HN is no longer able to understand nuance, thus we are both downvoted. I remember the HN of founders in 2010. Now it's HN of employees. Very different forum.
The Economic Case for Vaccine Passports
> A brute-force attack capable of testing 2^128 keys can break any AES-128 key with certainty.

One minor caveat: You have to be able to recognize when you've found the right key. If the message is short (less than the key size) then it is likely that there are multiple keys that can decode the ciphertext to a plausible message and you have no way to know which one was correct. This is why an ideal One-Time Pad is considered unbreakable even by brute force: For any possible message of size less than or equal to the ciphertext there exists a key which will decode the ciphertext into that message.
At least last time I looked at it, ElasticSearch is shockingly insecure by default (as are Mongo, Cassandra, Hadoop, and everything else that's popular in the relatively recent Java ecosystem).
If you have a Mac it will follow your Mac's dark/light setting. At least it does for me, maybe it's still rolling out.
There are also ToF cameras from Basler, we have their early model, and it works reasonably well, though hot and rather power-hungry. Based on that experience, their current models look promising: https://www.baslerweb.com/en/products/cameras/3d-cameras/
I don't see how a perfectly legal and normal explicit photograph of someone's 20-year-old wife would be indistinguishable to an Apple reviewer from CSAM, especially since some people look much younger or much older than their chronological age. So first, there would be the horrendous breach of privacy for an Apple goon to be looking at this picture in the first place, which the person in the photograph never consented to, and second, could put the couple in legal hot water for absolutely no reason.
And the Xbox app has been bugging me about an old credit card expiring when I’m paying for Game Pass with a different card.

I can only imagine the hellscape that is Microsoft’s account/login/billing system.
This is a bit embarrassing. You joined the committee when AMP was already dead in the water and even now it seems this has not been made to clear you.
Because everybody can draw their own menu in their window. Like Sublime and VSCode do.

Nevertheless, if you require that, why not make the place where the menu is displayed configurable? KDE does - it offers 3 options: the global Mac-style menu (which you can put anywhere, even in the middle of the screen if you want), classic Windows-style menus or "hamburger" menu buttons (utterly inconvenient but I'm still glad there is an option for those who like it).
I've seen 10+ year engineers grow at the same pace as 3-year engineers. I think this generalization is too broad.
> This is more about trying to implant scanning capabilities on client devices.

Did we think they didn't already have that ability?
I personally used to use Tetris for distraction -- or at least try to, until eventually realizing that I could do lines on autopilot without actually clearing my head in the first place.
Has Elasticsearch done anything to fix its ridiculously bad lack of access control?

People are fucking stupid, and expecting them not to fuck this up is a big ask. Too big, in fact.

Secure by default or GTFO
For me the covid showed that all plans to censor misinformation are very dangerous.

If not for Chinese censorship, maybe we would be given more time to stop the pandemic from spreading from China and they would have more time in Wuhan.

If we had censorship in the West, the anticonsensus (at the time) view that masks work might have never grew.

Similarly with lab leak hypothesis. We dont know the truth here yet, but would you hear about that?

I understand it in principle but the reality of that just doesnt work. It has been also debated for literally centuries by philosophers, but who reads philosophers?
Are you in the same space as Carahsoft?
The cost of queue architecture, and why upfront payment will pay dividends
WhatsApp for example automatically stores images you receive in your Photos library, so that removes a step, and those will thus be automatically uploaded to iCloud.

The one failsafe would be Apple's manual reviewers, but we haven't heard much about that process yet.
Some things were made permanent under subsequent laws (or at least extended). For example, financial reporting for people depositing "large" amounts of cash. I think it started out at $10k under the patriot act. Now I think it's $5k. That is a good bit of cash, but it could easily be made selling a used car or something.
How have they demonstrated that they will compromise your privacy? They compromise it less than the systems scanning on the cloud, since like this most of the match is only known to the device and not the cloud.

If you don’t trust Apple to not lie, then the entire discussion becomes a bit moot, I think, since then they could pretty much do anything, with or without this system.
Apple is selling being a government. Controlling a market, and by extension society. We do not get to vote on the representatives that decide the app store rules. We do not get the right to hold them accountable in the execution of such rules.

They play judge, jury and executioner, while hiding their internal discussions, goals and actions in secrecy.

A democratic and free state would be wise not allow a competing for profit government. It shouldn't share the right to regulate a market with other entities anymore than they should share the monopoly of violence.

I understand you are likely living in a country with a subpar government, but your mentality is short sighted and inconsistent.

If you like regulated markets so much why don't like you want the democratically elected government to regulate a market?

And if you like free markets so much why are you using an iPhone? And why don't you want the government to protect that free market from anti competitive undermining?

Companies shouldn't be allowed to regulate a market as they see fit, anymore than that a property owner can administer Sharia law.

Nobody is an island. All our actions affect others. The fact that your personal wellbeing or displeasure is the first thing that comes to your mind speaks to the quality of your character.
Story Time
There were a lot of areas, particularly with the more legacy systems, that were super painful to work with. But a lot of the newer, greenfield development was good stuff built on good technologies. I'm not sure how you could have this opinion unless you:
A) Happen to hate all of the technologies chosen
B) Only had the chance to work in the older, shittier systems.
Keeping in mind that Silverlight was cross-platform UI, staying away from cutting edge, cross-platform UI tech reduces yur chance of being "Silverlighted." Java has had these issues as well (does JavaFX even exist anymore?). Having been bitten by Xamarin I'm not keen to get into Blazor -- I'll stick to writing C# for cloud-native apps as that will be more stable long-term.
I prefer this over any static art.
No. Only pictures being uploaded to iCloud Photo Library are being scanned.
I take this as "We complied with the law/guidlines before being prosecuted".
Journey is pretty amazing.
Any idea why Apple had to be too cute by half and not just scan these files server-side? Or why it doesn't change their plan to do that, given the backlash?
More appropriately, you could ask which language did Karl Marx use to write fan mail to Abraham Lincoln? ;-)
>Couldn't tools that read CSV files scan them first and see which variant best matches the file?

Yes. And my software does that. But it is always going to be a guess which the user needs to be able to override.
I got denied from Amazon twice, which actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise because I am now the lead dev and architect at a normal older company and I have complete freedom to deliver whatever my users ask for. I literally still can't believe how easy the development process is when you remove all of the BS at FAANG and worse, BigCorp.

Nobody is stupid if they can pass Amazon's interview earnestly. But it is possible to lack motivation and professionalism. That's what I believe Amazon's SWE's are facing.
The real world and the computer world intersect. This is precisely typified by what is being discussed, surely?

Apple is trying to automate and computerise a process that was not automated previously, apply it to a huge number of people, and with disastrous potential consequences should their wonderful design be found lacking.

And within days, they have already utterly failed to provide one of their own self-stated and incredibly obvious requirements. What else could possibly go wrong?

Further, if you think that because the first pre-image failure found (in days...) was a grey blob, that this means all future possible cultivated collisions will only ever be grey blobs, well - good luck with that.
At the end of the day the purpose of software is to serve users, not satisfy developers’ sense of perfection.
Isn't the party line of the government-funded healthcare types "I don't mind paying for somebody else's healthcare"? This is a great chance for them to demonstrate that voluntary collectivism works.
> Shouldn’t these machines simply be able to get a new image written to them and be good to go?

If they can be trivially reimaged, that’s already a security problem.

They can go through the entire recertification process with any necessary rebuilding, but the cost of that when you have no certainty what might have been done is unlikely to be less than, and may be much more than (ad hoc diagnosis being much more expensive than production-line manufacturing) just buying a new certified machine.
> Yet life isn't an RPG where you minmax and pick the task that increases your stat the most.

Actually, that's basically how I try to organize my life...
> means that there's no way to parallelize CSV processing, because there's no way to read-ahead and "chunk" a CSV purely lexically.

There's a subset of CSV that forbids escapes that is super fast to parse. All fast CSV parsers I'm aware of take advantage of this subset. I try to never ever publish a CSV that has quotes, and always aim for a more restrictive grammar that is cleaner, better thought out data.
If that's your position, you cannot own a closed source device with binary updates. Because the device provider _could_ always do anything.

What they actually do is what is important. And what they actually do is publicly disclosed so you can make your choice appropriately.
With 1.9 million people,there must be plenty of people here whose data is in this list.

Any of you care to comment?
I think there's a big difference between improving your mental health and curing it.

Games, like sports, can help you a lot, but they alone won't simply make you happy/non-depressed.

I could use a food analogy. Kale can improve your health, but if you're sick it won't cure you, it'll just have a positive impact in your overall health.

I'd like also to add Minecraft to that list. The ability to get in and just start building your world as you imagine them can be very relaxing.

Games with small communities are pretty cool as well. Once you're in, there's that belonging feeling that you don't usually get on popular games. Small games communities exist because the people there really love the game and their attitude to any newcomer is warm and friendly. Unreal World is a roguelike that comes to my mind writing this.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter felt similar to me.
One example: What would progress in psychology even look like? More people than ever are medicated for mental illness, seems like the opposite of progress.
UTF32 is the way to go for internal storage, until you pack it back down to UTF-8 to store externally.
Am I the only one who finds no issue with this? Personally I’d prefer this than no encryption and scanning in the cloud, which is already possible.

All of the slippery slope arguments have already been possible for nearly a decade now with the cloud.

Can someone illustrate something wrong with this that’s not already possible today.

Fundamentally unless you audited the client and the server yourself either (client or backend) scanning is possible, and therefore this “problem”.

Where’s the issue?
Show HN: Atari “Adventure” clone with secret room (requires keyboard)
Please Don't Use GitHub Copilot
What would be amusing is gaze detection such that the art would change only when someone wasn't looking for a while, and then maybe only "advance the scroll" an inch or two.
So, that's an orthogonal problem. I was pointing to the direct advice and suggesting that people will look at this advice and their prejudices will lead them to hire a younger person over an older person because the older person will be mispercieved as having a "lower slope."
Non-mobile URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List
The genre is called a "walking simulator" (not the best name but the one that stuck).

Try: Return of the Obra Dinn, Gone Home, Dear Esther, The Stanley Parable, SOMA (with peaceful mode enabled). I've heard good things about What Remains of Edith Finch, That Dragon Cancer and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture but have not played them.