skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like that idea, actually. Have a blanket "no safety checks whatsoever" flag, but in the ToS it invalidates all warranty and support requirements if in use. This would also make it really obvious in court who was negligent in case of a security breach, since something like "running as root is bad practice" is a lot less clear to a non-technical judge than "they explicitly enabled a flag called --i-know-this-is-insecure-do-it-anyways", even though the issue (running as root) was the same.
What initially drove you to Calyx vs Lineage? I'm new to the Android fork landscape. I gravitate to /e/os because I like that it's prepackaged, but have no qualms about rooting a phone myself if the OS is good. My main concern is privacy and with Lineage I didn't trust myself to set it up properly - it seems as much oriented toward people wanting to just upgrade their Android phones or add features as people interested in privacy. So I worried about defaults. Calyx looks a little more explicitly pro privacy?
Facebook says it wants a ‘fair shot’ in the crypto payments sphere
Nice. Makes sense, thanks for the explanation
That probably varies by country.

I'm familiar with US laws because I live under them.
Even if everything you say is true, it's true the first time. Then I make a change to the code. Now if I have unit tests, I have to fix a test (maybe minutes, maybe an hour) and re-run the tests (minutes). Or I have to re-run the formal verification (a day).
Yes, hangovers are hell when you do keto. Even worse if you get drunk and eat a ton of junk.
No, SQLite's dynamic data types would silently coerce data just like opening a CSV directly with Excel does.

The advantage of CSV is that it's as accurate as your plain text representation of your data can be. Since binary data can be represented by character data, that's 100% accurate. As soon as you introduce a storage format that has made assumptions about the type of data being stored, you've lost flexibility.

SQLite is not intended for data serialization. It's intended for data storage to be read back by essentially the same application in the same environment.
Then we shall continue on the road we have been on, consuming enough fossil fuels to affect climate change. Hence the conclusion one comes to is to live it up while we can.
A low res copy is available to the reviewer on Apple's end to verify.
I think this is due to the self-reported nature of Glassdoor, and it exposes how this is a flawed methodology. The original point of salary disparity still stands, but any single datapoint here is likely not reliable.
What if it is legal pornography of 21 year olds but disturbed to collide with CSAM? You are aware even defence lawyers are not allowed to look at alleged CSAM material in court right?
I appreciate that I am biased because of my background, but I've met precisely one person who's used Elm while just about every dev I know has worked with WordPress at some point. For most enterprises I work with, 10 years in production is about close as they're willing to get to the bleeding edge. They don't really care about code quality or features. They want to be safe, secure and future-proof for as low a price as possible.

That said, I know very little about Elm and would love to understand more about what it offers that's so exciting. I skim-read the article, will read in more detail later.
"Maras’s lawsuit accuses Dominion of slander because it “cannot disprove” that her conspiracy theories, listing her in its $1.30 billion lawsuit against Powell as a crew member of “wholly unreliable sources.”"

It sounds like she's saying that not being able to prove a negative is slander. Regardless of one's political beliefs, I can't imagine someone seeing this as anything more than a desperate attempt to stay relevant by someone who doesn't deserve even the smallest amount of it.
But they have a theory of a conspiracy, no? Would that not make them a conspiracy theorist of their own volition?
You shouldnt have to feel bad for calling people low IQ. I work at FAANG and feel the exact same way. Completely underwhelmed by the talent.
Validating CSV syntax is kind of hard - in the worst case you would have to read the entire CSV file.
Tesla Driver Pulled over for Sitting in the Back Seat
> Yan Chernikov

His content is non-existent to bad.
Superchargers are almost always next to a restaurant. I've never seen one near a convenience store.
The Waning Sport of Japanese Keirin Bicycle Racing
It's no big deal to you. It's a big deal to the person who's life was just ruined!
> While many programs can’t read or write Excel spreadsheets, almost anything can read and write CSVs, and a human can open a CSV file in any text editor and understand roughly what it contains.

Libra Office works in Windows.

Google Sheets does a great job too, no?
They aren't.

Apple could have saved themselves so much backlash and not have caused the outrage to be focused exclusively on them if they hadn't tried to be novel with their method of hashing, and had just announced that they were about to do exactly what all the other tech companies had already been doing for years - server side scanning.

Apple would still be accused of walking back on its claims of protecting users' privacy, but for a different reason - by trying to conform. Instead of wasting all the debate on how Apple and only Apple is violating everyone's privacy with its on-device scanning mechanism, which was without precedent, this could have been an educational experience for many people about how little privacy is valued in the cloud in general, no matter who you choose to give your data to, because there is precedent for such privacy violations that take place on the server.

Apple could have been just one of the companies in a long line of others whose data management policies would have received significant renewed attention as a result of this. Instead, everyone is focused on criticizing Apple.

There is a significant problem with people's perception of "privacy" in tech if merely moving the scan on-device causes this much backlash while those same people stayed silent during the times that Google and Facebook and the rest adopted the very same technique on the server in the past decade. Maybe if Apple had done the same, they would have been able to get away with it.
Live electricity production/consumption CO2 map
Its an interesting math problem that i'd like to turn into something more real with feedback.

Vaccine supply issues are hugely complicated and one could model numerous things, including last mile. I focused on the long-haul optimization, but could have focused on last-mile as instead (or as well.) One could also focus on the hand-offs, delays, capacities along the way, etc. I can probably do all these, but curious what the core problems are -- from a total outsider's perspective.

I'm not an expert at graph optimization, so the entire effort was a way to force myself to learn some of the approaches and setups possible.

Most of the issues are bureaucracy and political, but I ignore that aspect of course.
This is so freakin cool
Andrea, I know personally how frustrating this can be. I've dealt with something similar with a relative's Knowledge Panel, and dealt with this over and over with multiple people who've asked me to help them fix and update their Knowledge Panel.

The first thing that needs to be done is that YOU need to claim the KP. It appears that it's not claimed right now, and you can have control over what appears there (and suggest edits/changes/updates). If you haven't claimed the KP, then you can just leave feedback that seems to just go into a "black hole" and it's never addressed.

I know there are ways legally to deal with this, but the best way to deal with it is to claim the Knowledge Panel.

Then, there are ways to increase the knowledge that is in the Knowledge Graph so that the information there is not confusing--they're reaching for a photo, for example, and there are ways to overcome that. For example, you can use other photos (even they're not photos of yourself) to get them to populate on the KG and of someone else.

The issue here is the Knowledge Graph doesn't have enough information about you, so it's just taking the next most "prominent" data that it has. You can help define the information in the Knowledge Graph by feeding it information. You don't need to be "fighting" the KG, you should be doing quite the opposite: give it the right information so it's correct.

The Knowledge Graph is not all controlled by Google--other search engines use it, such as Bing. The issue appears to be with Google's Knowledge Panel, but the issue is actually with the Knowledge Graph itself, and not Google.

The Knowledge Graph is made up of sources (see the list here: https://kalicube.pro/trusted-sources) and by working on your own KG entry and feeding it more information, you'll be strengthening your own KG entry for your name, and all these issues with confusion and the wrong information being displayed will go away.

There's really no need to do anything legally around this, it's just a case that the KG doesn't have enough information about to make the right decisions on what to display. I don't see the FTC, BBB or IC3 helping in any way. Fastest way to correct this is to feed the KG the right information.
I hope these people are obliterated in court and forced to pay Dominion billions. Garnish their wages aggressively until the end of their days. Usually I am very much against extreme rulings against individuals especially when the amount is pretty much unpayable. This time I am for it as these people have done huge harm to our democracy and continue to do so. I hope they lose and are punished every time they tell their lies in the future.
but this is definitely a "conspiracy". She is alleging that Dominion conspired with others to alter the results of the election.

Whether any of us agree or disagree with it is immaterial. It is (by definition) a conspiracy theory. And therefore she is (by definition) a conspiracy theorist.
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

-Sagan
I was among that fringe in the 80s; and even then the free speech extremists had unspoken limits I transgressed. By the 90s I had a viable nonprofit hosting company for little grassroots groups that were too weird for other service providers. Usually they were too "kooky crunchy Christian" but I helped lots of people say crazy things they believed were worth saying.

Up until about 2003 there was at least tolerance, but somewhere around then, with the metastasis of the New Atheists (see Scott Alexander on that), and the maturation of a generation who had had "Politically Correct" normalized on them in schools, that faded.

I've asked a lot of your questions too. I dont have answers.
I've been in two FAANG companies and I can tell you know - go back to startups. I came from startups and couldn't wrap my head around how slow things are.
In FAANG everything is promotion driven so people spend most of their energy reverse engineering the system and choosing work that will help them get promoted. It's a never ending, beautifully designed rat race. You will spend weeks on performance reviews, evaluations and other HR corporate mambo jumbo. If you spend more than 50% of your time on actual work you are lucky.

If you have a startup mindset you should go back to startups. You will be more productive, happy and grow faster.
Is me being completely aware of something the linchpin around which we are going to judge if somebody is interacting ethically with me? Because I can see how that would complicate things. Ethically speaking.

Also I am 100% certain I am not completely aware of what a clerk knows about my actions when I enter their shop. Unless I pessimistically assume "potentially everything", including my exact identity because I live around there somewhere.
I had a lot of fun experimenting with VQGAN+CLIP a couple of weeks ago too; it feels kind of like you're prodding into the mind of an alien species to extract its ideas. My findings: https://blog.roboflow.com/ai-generated-art/

Have you played around with the (unofficial) DALLE-mini yet to compare? https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini
I read it as a proxy for "am I going to learn from them."
I never thought of Sqlite as a data transfer format before. I know it is frequenly used as application storage format. But to use as data transfer format is a really interesting use case. How much is it used like that in practise?
Cool! Could also be nice with a A3 color printer and paper shredder. Banksy-style.

This would make it less tv-isih
> then that’s a government problem and maybe we should try fixing that.

But why even give governments hints that people are generally OK with their devices being scanned?

We can argue about the technicalities of how abusable or resilient the current implementation is. But we can agree that it's a step towards losing privacy, yes? We didn't have scanning of iDevices before, now we do.

Because in my mind it's not a long shot to argue that once it becomes normalized that Apple can scan people's phones for CSAM when uploading to iCloud, it's just a small extra step to scan all pictures. The capability is basically in place already, it's literally removing a filter.

And then the next small step is not just CSAM but any fingerprint submitted by LE. And so it goes.

Governments can't legally compel Apple to implement this capability. But if the capability is already there, Apple can be compelled to turn over the information collected. Again, they can't do that if the capability and information doesn't exist.

E.g. if Apple can't decrypt data on your phone because they designed it such, then they can't be forced, even with a warrant, to backdoor your phone. They can legally refuse to add such capabilities.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChernoProject

He goes by "The Cherno" on YouTube. :)
Probably would be easier to feed Google a placeholder or AI generated image to fill the spot, rather than trying to keep all images that match a certain keyword off the internet
> Such a goal could only be accomplished by removing the Taliban from power.

It could be a achieved by creating a sufficient perception of cost to attacking, or supporting attacks on, the US to discourage the Taliban from repeating its past bad acts with regard toward the US (other bad acts are explicitly out of scope of the authorization.) Specific deterrence is a widely recognized mechanism to prevent recurrence of bad acts.
I don't think there was an overt election fraud. Certainly there were some people who filled in mail in ballots for their dead spouses or things like that (as there is every single year), but it's minor, and not enough to have changed anything.

But I completely and whole heartedly support any audits, lawsuits, investigations, whatever that anybody wants to do. I say audit and go through discovery as many times as people want.

Suppressing this stuff just entrenches the people who think there is a conspiracy. Just let them look at it.

I hope this case proceeds, and goes through a lengthy discovery process.

And also, as a person who grew up as a hacker in the 90s and early 00s: i want no voting machines of any kind at all. Paper and pen only. If that's not possible, then the machines and their hardware should be 100% open source and Stallman should be in charge of it.
it's okay as it is -- IF, and only IF, the artist says so !

Rauschenberg too, as well as Lichtenstein and many others, wouldn't have liked it a bit being turned into some hotair egomaniac 0-creative wraped in plastic in some fin-groupies Schnabel'oesque or Koons'ian gallery spot
If someone tries to drive while impaired, they should never be able to drive again. If someone drives their car at dangerous speeds, they should never be able to drive again. If someone overdraws their account, they should never be able to bank again. If someone is caught on their bicycle without a helmet, they should never be able to ride a bike again …
I have always wondered why there is so little use of the separators in ASCII (the file, group, record and unit separators with codes 28-31). They seem perfect for the job and it would be easy to forbid inclusion of those characters in fields.
You don't owe them anything beyond your best effort during the time you work there.

There's nothing wrong with leaving a broken work situation.
working in the online advertisment mines is not that glamorous? shocking

I'm really impressed how faangs managed to make "showing targeted penis enlargement ads" sound like a hard and interesting problem though
Of possible interest to you:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
They have a theory that there was a massive conspiracy to defraud hundreds of millions of voters. By its very nature that is a conspiracy theory.
> So someone might forward you your personal pics from your meeting with them and its pixels might get edited by the messenger app you use to save the picture into your photos to specifically collide its hash with a csam image, while to you the image will look perfectly normal

Ok, but then that image is already not private, if I've been sending it to someone that could do that.

> This is one example , lets say you 100% trust every developer of every app that you download on apple’s phone.

I don't have to, they have to ask me before storing images in my photo library. I'm not going to give some fart generator app access to my library.

> Do you now trust every single image which might get auto downloaded to your gallery by a malicious actor , what if a random anon person messages you with 100 such colliding images , enough to cross threshold to get the authorities knocking your door

Beyond the fact that nothing writes images to my library automatically. If they sent me 100 images that are grey blobs or slightly manipulated normal images they dont get past the check anyway so no police. If they send me 100 CSAM images I'll be on the phone to the police anyway.
This sounds interesting. You sound like you work in nuclear physics. Please can you explain, or link to an explanation of, divertor (sic?) and strike point materials?
I guarantee you out of millions of alleged CSAM images hapzardly added by local police and intetnet reports, thousands are legal porn of consenting adults.
Unless better alternatives are actually provided to airline staff the idea of banning one option over another risks just making more dangerous options more likely. All just for optics.

What are the realistic other options here?

Ultimately restraint is going to be the only last resort + least violent option. Whether to the seat or somewhere else.

Are they going to provide restraint belts? Plastic ties? And for what, both hands and legs assuming they don’t try to kick or slam into things? Attachable to seats or wrapped around?

None of these sound nice. But providing these other restraint tools also makes people think they will be more liable to use them, before exploring other options. There’s no easy solution if there is going to be one regulated by the airline.
You'd be happy to learn that it's not so unconventional a request among Flow Club members. Everyone comes to Flow Club primarily to get work done, so people want the software to find ways to keep them even more accountable. We want to offer more "intense" experiences like that for sure.
Yes let me go breath air with strangers instead of watching netflix in the AC in a chair optimized for long durations
Apple's warrant canary disappeared in 2014.
I don't want to write a validator and litter calls to it throughout my code base.

I want the "validator" to be the constructor of a type (or a refinement mechanism, etc).

Then every function in my code base can have a clear contract via its type signature. What good is a function that says it accepts a string and returns a string if it actually just explodes when given some strings? That's not the same thing as returning a string...

I want to do three-ish things:

1. Make my function's type signature be correct. It is NOT correct to say that you accept an "int" but actually crash if you're given `0`.

2. Push bug catching to compile time instead of runtime. Calling a validation function inside a function is a runtime check. In the meantime I can write 100 calls to a function that I know will cause a crash and the compiler will say nothing.

3. Push type requirements to the callers of functions. Everyone preaches "validate at the edges", but if your function signatures had very precise types, that would happen "automatically." Your code won't compile unless you pipe the correct types all the way from the top function call down to the bottom one.
I have the 7550 (15 inch version of the 7750), also with 20.04 on it (Dell shipped it with 18.04 though) and am also very happy with it, so +1 there.

I also have an Android tablet and Android phone running LineageOS without Google Play Services, and piggy-back off the SO's Google Maps when we're going places. F-Droid is fantastic here and, where needed, proprietary apps (Slack, Discord etc) can be installed via Aurora with various limited functionality (e.g. no notifications from either of those apps).
This^

For me it boils down to ecosystem and integration. I can have a fragmented set of devices and tools, or I can deal with CSAM having literally zero impact on me.

I also have an M1 laptop, it's insane that this little MacBook Air with 16GB ram is walking all over a 16'inch Macbook Pro with 64GB ram.
But seriously now... Why is her name misspelled (repeatedly) in the PDF included with this article? Is this a real document?
Tri Alpha certainly looks promising and I hope they will succeed, but the article itself severely lacks any detail about the developed technology. It does not even mention FRC[0], which is foundation of the TAE reactors.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-reversed_configuration
I used to visit giz quite a lot until they started tainting their articles with political bias.
Try clicking on the articles about any of the current or former leaders and see what they were up to in the 1980s.

Just because the organization called the Taliban was officially formed later does not mean that it’s not the same folks who fought the Soviets.
And how many of those billions will Apple hash and check for?
I’m looking at building a system based on a Victron Multiplus II inverter/charger - first an off-grid system for a friend who has bought a large property with no power line hookup, and then my own system at home. It’ll just hook into my existing wiring.

They have an automatic transfer switch built in for anti-islanding (your mains entry goes through it), so it disconnects you from the grid if it goes down but your local side still operates. I think it can also have two AC outputs, one for loads powered by either grid or battery, and one that is only on when the grid is present (if you have a grid). You can use any type of battery so you’re not locked in (LiFePO4 are some of the best at the moment).

I have an AC solar inverter and 5kW of panels on my roof, which would be about enough, but I’m going to add another four panels (bit less than 1.5kW) that are DC-coupled through an MPPT charter (Victron SmartSolar MPPT) to solve the bootstrap problem for prolonged outages (which are very rare here, but still). Not sure if that’s the normal term, but I mean where the batteries run out, so without the grid to put some charge in them, the inverter/charger can’t produce an AC waveform for the PV inverter to lock to, so the PV inverter won’t switch on. Having some solar on the DC charger lets that work.