skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0
The margins for 'breeding' tritium from lithium are slim, yes. I don't think fission reactors can help in the long term, but right now that is how we get tritium for our experiments.
- I don't want to be treated like a pedophile for a device that I should, in theory, own because I paid for it.

- I don't want the rules to change in the future for what will be scanned.

- I don't want to support Apple scanning for pictures of Tank Man for the CCP.

- I don't want an untested proprietary algorithm making decisions about me that could alter my life. It's already been shown that you can make innocent pictures that collide with CP hashes. This screams of future abuse.
America’s Smug Elite Is Harming Our Kids
This take might have some hindsight bias.

While a lot of industry seem obvious and worth the investment today, when they were nascent that wasn't the case. Would GPS exist if private companies had to fund the rocket and satellite research just to tell you where you are on the map? Or would the aircraft industry exist?

Most of those types of high-risk, nebulous reward (at least on short-to-near-term timescales) industries are predicated on government investment. SpaceX, as great as they are, probably wouldn't exist if they didn't have NASA as a customer.
Indeed, yet it holds these concepts hostage whenever someone suggests we eliminate entire classes of taxes.

The truth is the tax system has two primary objectives:

1) to prevent upper middle class from the type of long term wealth accumulation that allows the plebs to enter (and challenge) the elite

2) To fund a hyper scale bureaucracy that constantly seeks the lower bound on the efficiency curve
How does LLVM decide this loop is unbounded? Is any `while(true)` loop considered UB and therefore replaced with `return true` or is there more advanced introspection of the ast (some limited set of the halting problem)?
Wow, really great article. I think there is nuance to consumption as others have pointed out. Regardless, this article really resonated with me and I appreciate you bringing it into my perspective.
not bombing foreign countries and not giving other countries foreign aid so all we need to focus on is roads and such. Much cheaper to add a new lane to i-5 than it is to rebuild afganistan
Yes, you will never manage to run it everywhere where C runs.

But as a part of a wider C world, it's probably the most portable semblance of standardised package metadata system.
Funny how she's still staring at the central console display as she's doing the volume gestures...

IMO the physical volume knob is better than this replacement, but I can see the usefulness of other gestures..
Is social security and Medicare a “tax”?

Maybe Medicare since what you contribute is only partially linked to the benefit.

But social security is basically a public pension plan. What you contribute determines your benefit. You can even calculate the benefit yourself. No different than a private pension plan.
"Hate" seems a bit harsh. I started out by saying how much I love everything about the project.

If it's not intended to gain mass adoption, then that's fine. I see from some comments that it was started as a way to keep the original maker's mind busy during recovery. I respect that. It doesn't HAVE to be about gaining market share. But when I see a really cool project, it's hard not to immediately look at what would prevent me from using it or what might prevent it from gaining mass adoption.

To your point about being annoyed by seeing this on hacker news... you do realize this is a forum maintained by a VC firm, right? This is kinda the place for discussing how new ideas in tech can grow and be disruptive to the market. I'm not saying that's the only thing we can discuss, but it seems weird of you to hate it when this topic comes up. It's an underlying subtext to everything on HN. Am I wrong?
Not sure it needs to exist already to be broken
GitHub Actions are such a great tool, I use them to schedule tweets for me.
The infoboxes, which is what this guy is scraping, are much easier to scrape from the HTML than from the XML dumps.

The reason is that the dumps just have pointers to templates, and you need to understand quite a bit about Wikipedia's bespoke rendering system to know how to fully realize them (or use a constantly-evolving library like wtf_wikipedia [1] to parse them).

The rendered HTML, on the other hand, is designed for humans, and so what you see is what you get.

[1]: https://github.com/spencermountain/wtf_wikipedia
Visual Studio Code v1.59
iCloud != iMessage
I understand the lack of a blog, but even many blogs of late I have seen have adopted the frequent "meme interlude" style that I find ... unprofessional.

Okay, so I'm a snob.

I do have to laugh though when I open the HN comments and the top comment is not about the content of the link at all but is some orthogonal gripe.
I don't think it reports those links back to big brother though. Keen difference.
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This was the point I was trying to make. You made it better.
'Propositions as Types' by Philip Wadler (2015) [video]
(Author of original article here.)

That's the great thing about HtmlAgilityPack, extracting data from HTML is really easy. I might even say even easier than if I had the page in some table-based data system.
Sure, but you’re ignoring just how progressive the US federal tax system is.

And in fact, many of the state income taxes are too. A few states have flat taxes (but with healthy exemption), the other have brackets that steeply increase.
I don't think you read his post very closely. His first point was that the government has the ability to print money to pay for what it needs which is effectively "taxing" everyone equally across the board (which we feel as inflation).
Trying to attack me won't do a thing, remember comp.lang.c? Plenty of Usenet experience over here.

If you don't like it to be pointed out C's weaknesses, don't engage.

I can play language lawyer quite well, including security standards.

Yes compilers are free to do many things to fix C, except that many don't.
Reading Hayek in Holland
Permanent layoffs are an unlikely response to a temporary supply disruption, and unemployment aid covers any short term furlough
As well as harddisk space. The feeling of just taking the entire old disk and putting it in an "old hd" folder, taking up a tiny corner of the new disk was awesome!
>What you contribute is what you get out.

There's some correlation between in and out but the government isn't figuratively putting the money into a savings account for you.
We built a credit reporting engine on top of a traditional debit card. Traditional debit cards are meant to access your checking account directly.
> Need to let people raise prices to encourage slack in the system

You're assuming that increased profit margins will automatically increase supply chain buffers. But rather, the same incentive to hire too many financialists that "save the company money" will exist, and the extra profit margin will just go to increased dividends.

And increasing the supply chain buffers won't help much right now either, it has to be done during good times. In fact I'd say most of the shortage is from companies deciding to increase their buffers, in the same way as what happened to toilet paper. "Hoarders" and "speculators" are easy illustrations to point to, but the real demand comes from regular consumers silently buying twice as much as they usually do.
Is the chain open source with permission-less validators?
Yeah, everything here sounds great except for "We also have a patent-pending technology that reduces the cost of lithium-ion batteries by 50%." That's a huge claim, which would immediately be many times more valuable than your swapping business. Is this cost reduction perhaps just vs. small-volume retail prices, in India, for specific battery formats, or some other reasonable limitation?
> The proposal provides a way for them to comply with that requirement, but at the same time, allows them to completely lock themselves out of being able to decrypt your data in the cloud, except in this specific case, secured and controlled by your device.

If the CSAM detection were released with encrypted iCloud backups (or generally E2EE iCloud), then I think I'd probably be entirely less outraged. This narrative would make sense then.

Apple claims the on-device CSAM scanning only occurs on device if the photo in question is uploaded to iCloud. Apple is surely already scanning iCloud photos on their cloud, so without E2EE to iCloud, what's the point?

My ability to control a device I own, with Apple, was already suspect. Apple's use of on-device scanning is a slippery slope: it's not a question of if it will be used for nefarious means, but when. The claim that the scanning is only done for cloud-destination images is suspect and could be changed by gagged government coercion and a minor update.

The feature itself has little going for it in efficacy too: like most of the US's punishment bureaucracy / legal system / policing. Real child predators likely already avoid the cloud. These kind of slippery slope arguments against crime are often used by law enforcement to erode privacy rights: they don't actually catch more bad guys, but they do spy on more law abiding citizens.

Who's to say that in the future, law enforcement won't use this kind of technology for the war on drugs or other failed law enforcement initiatives? Law enforcement often uses violence or terrorism, for example, as justification for its own expansion and more privacy-invading initiatives, but terrorism is a very low threat, and only 4% of crimes in the US are violent (as defined by the FBI). CSAM has been used for decades as justification for the state to nose more in private citizens' business too. It's certainly an issue, but there have to be better ways to reduce child harm.
The US used to exchange gold for dollars which gave them inherent value.

That is no longer the policy and other currently existing currencies do posses the potential to compete with USD. Why would I choose to settle my debts in a rapidly-inflating currency that is backed by nothing?
Indeed. The goal is to not have the government pick industries. Politicizing who gets aid to any greater degree would only serve to further subdue innovation.
> What also went well at Google: Google avoided job categories that were, generally, likely to decrease accountability:

> Google avoided the job class of architect — which was both high status and low accountability, making it an easy place for pricey senior people to park and not have much impact (Sun Microsystems was notorious for having lots and lots of architects)

> Google avoided the category of project manager, which would have allowed engineering managers to avoid the grungy part of their job (and be out of touch with engineering realities)

Pretty forward thinking philosophy here and I can't lie I'm a bit jealous - these points hit a little too close to home.
You think it's good that people keep using gigantic GIF files rather than smaller videos? There's no technical reason to prefer the GIF format — it burns data transfer, requires more CPU, and has terrible quality.
Seems like the article and also comments here imply just that.

GitHub Actions aren't focused on CI, so they are much more useful.
Solution: stop reading the news. You may as well start now.
"If there was no taxation, there would be no "compelling" reason for anyone to keep using the currency ..."

This is correct.

Remember: no matter what you have and no matter how valuable it is - you cannot pay your taxes with anything but your local currency. This is not a coincidence.

You cannot pay your taxes with gold bricks or with diamonds or with the Mona Lisa. You cannot trade highly liquid stocks or valuable real estate. You must sell those things to buy dollars.

It will never be otherwise. The point of the dollars is to have something that you must buy in order to pay your tax dues.
There is nothing Patriotic about the Patriot Act and it needs to be fully rescinded. That law is a travesty in every way. It was knee jerk reactionary law that shouldn't have been in place more than a couple years.
Interesting, do you have a link to an example action for this?
Photos in Photos.app will get scanned if you have iCloud enabled (required to download the CSAM hash database).

Messages will be scanned for CSAM content if you are a child, then parents will get notified that they received a dickpick.
Yes and no. It's not 'hard' it's just friction that's not present at baseline (when iMessage was designed, and for the most part still today). Sometimes you send messages to someone who you haven't ever met in person, or you met but didn't think to exchange keys at the time. And when Dave drops his phone in the lake and buys a new one, he would have to sheepishly re-meetup with everyone he interacts with.

If iMessage had been designed to require a brokerless key exchange, its security would be superior (though in this case, Apple's interception software trumps everything). But iMessage would appear to be less convenient than alternatives like WhatsApp (brokered key exchange, re-keying).
You wouldn't need 30 of them or to upload them to iCloud.

If a nation state can demand Apple uses their existing function to scan your phone for political images, then they can likewise demand that 1 hit would be enough, and that there's no requirement for it to be uploaded to iCloud before the scanning can start.
That doesn’t fix undesired animated image autoplay, it breaks animated images completely, since you can’t trigger playback on demand like you can with videos.
This is a huge deal, imagine that the production of one Apple AirTag means one less vehicle produced.
I'd have expected them to be somewhat natural allies. They are the two largest majority Shiite countries in the world by a large margin. Worldwide only around 10% of Muslims are Shiite. Around 90% are Sunni.

My understanding is that Shiite vs Sunni is a big deal in Islam, akin to the Protestant vs Catholic split in Christianity. But not the Protestant vs Catholic split as it is now, but more like it was shortly after it happened when it was taken a lot more seriously.
Looks like https://crazymax.dev/diun/notif/script/ would be useful for that.

Personally, since I’m a big fan of RSS, I’d set up email in Diun and send it to an email generated by https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
Also somewhat relevant

https://xkcd.com/874/

Edit: Apparently not relevant (I still think it is), or someone spends their day doing just this and isn't happy that its being pointed out. Either way, they're not happy
But you're hopelessly wrong.

As another commenter said they also receive federal and other benefits and almost invariably take more than they contribute. They're takers.
They used to trust Apple, now they have learned they shouldn't trust Apple. This is progress.
I've noticed I can just hack out pretty complex stuff if I stick to APIs and languages I already know, often this is even faster than using other people's libraries for it.
Show HN: An Option Object for JavaScript and TypeScript
Hi HN. I wrote an Option object for javascript and typescript.

Lots of functional programming libraries already exist, in addition to several standalone JS/TS option packages. So why another?

I wanted to avoid a large library that has lots of other things in them. And I found some of the existing standalone packages to have slightly different behavior. And it's fun to write you own.

Benefits of this package

- Excellent TypeScript support. I wanted to ensure the development experience with TS would be exceptional and tried out several ways of defining types to figure out which way works best.

- Zero production dependencies. Even the dev dependency list is extremely small.

- Better implementation of flatten method. Some packages will throw an error if flatten is called on Nones or other types. Mine handles these cases better and will never throw.

- Better implementation of contains method - this package lets users pass in an equality function for when an Option contains an object so you can pass in an accurate object comparison. By default this is === which is suitable for primitive values.

- Static (aka curried) versions of map and flatMap. This allows for converting functions that work on non option values to their equivalent that work on Optionals and allows you to reuse your existing code as much as possible.

- Great documentation throughout. I added lots of examples to the README (all of which are runnable in a TS environment), there are tests demonstrating usage, and lots of TSDocs that show (some methods also have examples that pop up) when you're writing code.

The implementation is also extremely simple and makes for a great example to follow along for anyone learning about functional programming while giving them an easy way to get running working code.

I hope you take a look and find this interesting or useful!
I mean, that's one imaginary scenario. On the other hand, it's quite likely that upon a match the offending picture in full res is stored in an enclave on your device, and/or encrypted in the cloud, in such a way that it cannot be deleted by the user.

If they know this attack is possible, Apple, not being idiots, will cover their asses in court by saying that a match is merely strong evidence that the user may have had CSAM on their account, but that it cannot be said for certain unless the full image is obtained by the authorities, and that the full image should be where they say it is, with the voucher made by the device.

Because of that, prosecutors are unlikely to want to move forward without better evidence: Apple may very well testify for the defence if they do, and judges will ultimately chew them out. So yeah, I suppose rashness and incompetence in some parties may lead to a very uncomfortable situation, but ultimately it is likely that the police would be reprimanded for it and that it would be a lot more cautious afterwards.
> For example, I never thought about what are the strategic industries, when voting.

You're clearly not a dairy producer in Wisconsin, a military contractor in Virginia/Maryland, or a property owner in Southern Pines, NC.
Looks like both of those are using Codex, as far as I can tell?
I bought another house and am renting the old one out. The new house has an interest rate at 2.3% while inflation is over 5% with conservative estimates.
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I didn't take that into account, thanks
The stuff people actually care about has been rising faster than CPI. Cars, housing, meat, metals, lumber, etc. are all going through the roof. Inflation is a vector, and any reduction to a scalar involves taking the dot product of that vector with a weight vector. Under my personal weight vector, and I suspect most people’s weight vector, inflation is a lot higher than CPI.
The government did very little in managing vaccine production other than act as purchaser, how is this an example of them managing a market?
To properly compare the C standard with C++ in page count, you need to include POSIX as well.

Also you should be comparing ISO standard documents editions, not books.
> Every country props up its auto industry, so why worry about a domestic supply?

War. In the event a war breaks out, a running auto plant can be re-tooled relatively rapidly into a light and heavy armor plant. It's not even a question of whether allies could supply tanks and troop transports; it's about having domestic capacity to make them because enemies could execute blockades and disrupt allied resource supply.
Because the ad industry pays for the browser.
I agree, sadly. This prompted me to unsubscribe from them. In some ways it reminds me of the ACLU. Similar fixation on donations above all else, to the point of dark patterns. I still haven't managed to fully extricate myself from their pleas.
I used to do telephone support for Lotus 1-2-3 in that era. I've completely lost track of modern CPU naming conventions.
Can you please elaborate a bit? Such as, there was universal literacy (including women) and established law system in Afghanistan like it was early-20 century Germany and Japan?
the 'visual derivative' of photos on your device are sent to apple
They can't even manage a trivial task like maintaining roads and bridges properly.

You could have hardly picked a worse example than the government roads system (including our thousands of dilapidated bridges), which is in absolutely horrific condition and is a humiliating example for the government. It's the opposite of a good example.

That's all due to lack of funding, one might suggest? They're not lacking for funds. They spent our money on blowing up other countries and then (occasionally) attempting to rebuild them. Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Korea and 497 other cases of meddling and foreign adventurism. There rests $10 trillion in infrastructure money. No, they have had plenty of our money to spend, and they chose to squander it.

What ever would we do if we didn't have those hyper incompetent clowns to manage our roads.

GPS is trivial. If Russia can do it, various US private corporations could easily do it just the same.
> Key exchange would be easy in real life

We are over a year into a pandemic which involved wide-scale lockdowns. Physical key exchange is a nonstarter for broad adoption.
> You don't believe that an individual who robs the country of taxes on 300m of assets isn't abusing the other citizens of the society? Are you against prosecuting money launderers for some libertine reason?

There are no taxes due on the sale of illegal drugs, otherwise they'd not be illegal.

As a matter of practicality , given that the war on drugs is just a massive jobs program you might as well optimize for inefficiency and somebody in the chain of command should openly say that and thus focus on getting the drugs, not the money connected to the drugs. It's more inefficient and time consuming which in this case it's a good thing.

Everybody would be happier and more fulfilled (which again is the goal of the aforementioned jobs program) , except ,of course, big shot prosecutor making big announcements of seizes of millions of dollars, or in this case bitcoins
I doesn't do that with sexually explicit images on iMessage either.
Considering most people in UK or even in EU uses Debit Card, and Debit Card has very low rate. What exactly is the problem here?

What is excessive about it ?
The HTML is more volatile and subject to change than other sources though
I didn't edit any comments, though I can appreciate that a quick skim might leave you with a different impression, and returning might lead you to believe I must have edited it. But I didn't.

I really do think we've just been talking past each other. When something is as obviously "tongue-in-cheek" as the original post, I find it funny when people (a) get the joke, then (b) play it with a completely straight bat. It appears that doesn't cross cultural boundaries in the way I thought it would.

You're not alone ... some of my comments are getting significant numbers of downvotes.

<shrug> ... "Humour".

I'll go back to appearing humourless and commenting purely technically on purely technical things. Meanwhile ... nice to connect with you ... thanks for the responses.
"Who's gonna stop me" is kind of a crappy attitude to take with a cooperative project like Wikipedia.

I mean, sure, you can do a lot of things you shouldn't with freely available services. There's even an economics term that describes this: the Tragedy of the Commons.

Individual fish poachers' hauls are also, individually, de-minimis.
A just tax would be a consumption tax.

Rich people consume more, so it makes sense and is fair to pay more to a society you consume more from.

If you make a lot of money and live frugally why should you pay more?
Impact of Delta on viral burden and vaccine effectiveness against Covid [UK]