skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft ending Chromebook support for Office Android apps in September
At this point, I don't take any of the press releases at face value beyond the immediate effects they describe - all I know is they announced a future ban on adult content and then reversed course.

> “We’re already fully compliant with the new Mastercard rules, so that had no bearing on the decision,”

Reading between the lines, that could easily mean "We're already fully compliant with MC's rules but they still won't let the banks do business with us, so we needed to put publish pressure on MC"
It's easy to imagine innocuous photos with nude coloring being altered to match CSAM hashes. Having a few will flag your account for human review. The low res visual derivative[0][1] that the human moderators see will look credible enough to be CP[2] and alert the authorities.

[0] It's federally illegal for anyone to have CP on their system, or to view it.

[1] So the workaround is displaying a distorted low-res version instead https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...

[2] You can replace CP with anything your oppressive regime is trying to snuff out.
Have you read Ray's books? I recommend 2005's The Singularity is Near. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near
I really dislike the animated gif. Let me stare at what it says as long as I want/need to. Not allowing the user to move at their own pace is bad UX.
Who do you think had funded Britain's fight against Germany in WW-1 and WW-2?
No, it's not laziness. Nothing about the internal design of the Mac is due to "laziness". Apple has clearly decided that the battery is better held in place by adhesive than by a "system of tabs". This could easily be for durability or safety reasons. It's a big, big problem if a battery gets damaged.

If your argument is that the replacement process has too many steps, this argument fails: you'd save at most one step (out of your claimed 50) if the adhesive were not there. Because the battery is not terribly accessible.
It's hard to reply to your post in the spirit of HN in assuming best intentions.

But please suppose most of the readers here do understand how the system works, and most of them don't approve how it works.
Tyson Offers $10k a Week Lotto for Vaccinations
Sounds like The Society of Mind - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind
DO they really want the opinions of developers for anything non-technical?

My current startup hired me partially on account of product experience. I’ve been an exclusively technical resource.
Have you tried Perl?
You don't need to check email on Android, Google Play Services triggers its own notification. Others here say Apple does similar.
/r/gonewild is actually one of the few subreddits that prohibits posts from sellers. But every subreddit that doesn't outright prohibit sellers is flooded with them. The OF girls all got kicked off of Facebook, Instagram, Snapshot, etc... Reddit is comparatively more friendly to sex workers as far as site wide policy goes.
Exact same situation. Couldn’t upgrade macOS whatsoever and it was slow as anything. Whacked Ubuntu on there and it’s running as good as new, outside of slow disk reads.
There is no reason we know that brain emulation is not possible. Even if one second takes 100 years in processing now, there is no reason to think that there is fundamental limit in how many processor you could connect. And for superhuman it just needs to do one thing well(which computers already does) than human and match humans in everything. I am not saying it would be done but I haven't seen any argument on why this exact argument is "impossible".
He could use something like peertube or funkwhale.
Presently the fashion appears to be none.

Worse: the scrollbars which do exist are indicator-only, they cannot be used to actually navigate on the page.

On the four mobile devices I routinely have access to, none has an actual grabbable persistent scrollbar for navigation.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/0hgfswmoti3fi5zgftjecq

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21356511
"Manual Review" of what? My private photos, including all my legal but unpopular sexual and political activity? Including my wrongly-illegal private herbal activity?
Make's me wonder how in many circle's the narrative can take hold of peoples mind so effectively that it's all free market accredited (and the opposite in other circles). Why (rhetorical question) is it that either capitalism or socialism are optimal (depending on which information fountain one drinks from) is the dominate narrative rather than a more healthy view that tries to optimize a hybrid of these two or a more complex alternative formulation.
I built a fully automated YouTube channel, 10 months later, I've made $0.17
TSP solver wins $100k prize at Amazon's “Last Mile” ML Challenge (using no ML)
It was quite a few years ago now, so I don't remember the details exactly. It might have been something specific about it being a battery issue. In any case, I remembering spoking to both customer support in Sweden and Japan and was informed that I couldn't get it repaired in Japan.
I guess I interpreted tech-historian's post a little differently than you.

Likewise, I don't support dismissing Kelly's article out-of-hand, based on Kurzweil's position. But I do think it's fair to raise the issue in terms of "why should one take Kevin Kelly seriously on this?"
Seems like an authoritarian government wanting to quash Winnie the Pooh memes would be better suited to using ML to detect them rather than having to rely on a list of known memes.
You might not have to make a SQL engine immediately.

- S3 Select: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_SelectOb...

- Athena: https://towardsdatascience.com/query-data-from-s3-files-usin...
> if you think that Epic is going to drop their prices 30% in lockstep with a hypothetical elimination of app store fees, I have a bridge to sell you.

While not 30%, they did drop 20% when switching to their own payment processing [0]. And even if they didn't, more money to them allows them to hire more developers to make their games better for their customers.

[0]: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-m...
You mean let Apple slide here?
A government-funded “NGO” with special legal powers is the government.
The whole point is that there's a difference between saying that the popularity of a product can be caused by the lack of what would be a viable alternative (like your example of public transportation versus cars), and saying that the popularity of one feature of a product is caused by the lack of alternatives that do not have that feature. The latter is more like saying "the popularity of 4-wheeled personal automobiles is caused by the lack of 3-wheeled personal automobiles on the market" or "the popularity of touchscreen smart phones is caused by the lack of smartphones with physical keyboards on the market."
Navigating Boundaries
You are basically saying “Let’s just wait and let them scan our phones.”
There is only 'no danger' if you trust every level of bureaucracy to act intelligently and with good faith... which is an incredibly naive and historically improbable position to have.
How to Improve Public Speaking for Developers
The site shows you could easily receive an innocent image that would collide with child porn which could raise some questions.
>having multiple devices for different things.

That's my take, although I don't own $1000 worth of computers all added together.

I'm always surprised when people use laptops for professional work as I've always had great honkin' company-supplied desktop machines. Generally, if something breaks (which is super rare) the main cost is the time to rebuild an environment.
But it is true that the word "taboo" came from a foreigner talking about Tongan peoples beliefs, which is important when the topic we're trying to talk about is Maori beliefs. Even if Maori and Tonga people are closely related in culture, they are not the same culture and Tonga people do not have the same co-sovereignity agreements over New Zealand that Maori do.
https://pgslot.global/
Pointing out that someone is intelligent is useful, in this case, as a general "well, this can happen to anyone" kind of comment, and to break stereotypes about how sex workers all fit some narrow stereotype.

That is important to point out, as sometimes people generalize or attack people, unfairly, based on these things.

Also, don't be so mad. It comes off as bad faith.
Many NFTs are promoted using blackhat techniques
this makes more sense for Stern because his audience is much narrower than Rogan's. Stern moving from terrestrial radio gave him more "freedom," whereas the same can't be said for Rogan. also, Stern took the deal when he had been established voice in radio for decades, whereas Rogan was (to my understanding) just reaching his height of popularity before the exclusivity deal began.
You plant it to catch problem people that you already know about, you detect it to catch problem people that you don't know about.
I've had a Lenovo X1 Carbon for the past 3 years, and it's been the best computer I've ever used. It's ridiculously light, rock solid physically, and still performs fast enough to handle most of the work I throw at it.

I am getting a MBP, and while I'm looking forward to the change, I plan to hold onto my Lenovo.
I understand how the system works so I know that hash collisions are not dangerous because they have to be manually reviewed by multiple humans. Since you understand how the system works, please explain the danger of hash collisions instead of meta-commenting.
This new addition to the schedule pairs developers and publishers with monetisation companies to discuss how to make (more) money from your game.
https://pgslot.global/
> For example, if a content creator says "check out my OnlyFans for subscriber-only content" versus "check out my Patreon for subscriber-only content", I would expect that they are selling completely different things.

So, OF without p0rn is basically Patreon
Well, everything.

But it starts with a flavorful crust with just the right amount of char, good cheese, good sauce…

The best I’ve had personally was 2 Amy’s in DC. The Settobello location in SLC running a pretty close second.
And you can modify the userChrome.css file to change the UI - https://www.howtogeek.com/334716/how-to-customize-firefoxs-u...

I remember doing this on an old version because the font size in the tabs was off and it couldn't be adjusted from the settings.
Unfortunate they dropped to only 4 slots per board too. The value goes up with each slot.
Work paid.
No it doesn’t. There is a second hash that has to also be matched even before human review, and this doesn’t demonstrate an image even getting that far.

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 possibility that the match threshold was exceeded due to non-CSAM images that were adversarially perturbed to cause false NeuralHash matches against the on-device encrypted 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...
For the best criminals, you wouldn't even know that there's an unsolved mystery to be solved.
I assume apple does this intentionally :)
He is dead now. RIP
If it's so easy to produce collisions, it's only a matter of time before someone submits illegal material that intentionally collides with the most common images, resulting in insane number of collisions and rendering the system useless.
30 years later, the baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind cover is suing for damages
Other commenters have mentioned that these particular points have been refuted elsewhere, so I won't rehash that. But I do think it's interesting that the author frames the "orthodox" position as the one taking AI alignment seriously. That's pretty big progress and I think the folks who have been sounding the alarm[0] about AGI should give themselves a pat on the back that the zeitgeist has shifted so much.

The arguments from the anti-alarmism camp have been so consistently weak, I think the best explanation for their motivation is still something like "All this AGI stuff sounds so sci-fi. It can't be a real concern". It just goes to show how strongly we bias our expectations of the future on our what we've personally experienced. You really have to try hard to escape that default mode of thinking.

[0] By sounding the alarm I mean saying things like "This is at least a possible scenario with huge error bars on when it might happen, maybe at least some people should be thinking hard about this, rather than nobody"
If age is a predictor then the incentives are there. The right way to combat inherent incentives is a legal framework which can direct society against natural tides, not by asking harder.

The question then is whether age is a predictor.
Yeah. All you need is an intelligence that's human level but faster, and you have something that is, to some extent, superhuman. If you can get to human intelligence levels you can just crank up the clock speed a bit and give it a better working memory, and now you have something like a super-Einstein in a box.

It could be that there's no way to do that in silica without outstripping plausible bounds on hardware size or power use, I don't know...
Why was this garbage even published?
You can now renew your AppleCare+ on eligible iPhones, iPads and Macs at a monthly/yearly rate after the 2-3 year coverage period expires as long as you do it within 30 days of expiration: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210580

Would highly recommend extending for a laptop needing this many repairs.
No, they do not, and that's an outrageous, silly, completely unsupported accusation.

Apple also does not "intentionally throttle" older iPhones as a "feature of the update" for some sort of nefarious bullshit "planned obsolescence" reason. The opposite is true: Apple reduces the clock speed very very slightly on older iPhones, so that they can be used LONGER and have a LONGER service life. The alternative would be, when the battery is starting to lose capacity, just having the iPhone randomly shut down. This would quite obviously be an inferior outcome for the user, so Apple thoughtfully checks for reduced battery performance in aging devices and reduces clock speed slightly to save power if necessary.

Apple's reward for this? Literally YEARS of bullshit, bad-faith, poorly-researched lying stories in the tech media about how they are supposedly "forcing" users to buy new devices, when in fact, they are enabling iPhones to last even longer. Anyone with any clue knows, of course, that iPhones receive many years more software updates than competing products, and are also in service for years longer than competing products, but somehow, this BS narrative has still taken hold, likely because many folks are lazy, desperate for any excuse to slam Apple, credulous, and don't really care what the truth is.
>There's a reason that no civilization with such concepts of tribal ownership has developed into anything worthwhile

Which civilizations are "worthwhile" and which are not?
I think the idea was to have it be a watch-once rental, so it could only be rewound by the store you rented it from.
This is nothing to do with bureaucracy. Hash collisions like this are simply insufficient to trigger a match.
Which is in itself a kind of prejudice, assuming I'm going to demand more money.
The photo specifically flagged by a hash that you purposefully saved that was going to sync to your iCloud photo library.
1. See all of the other arguments in this thread about "contrived rules"

> You have repeatedly claimed "only for one language".

How many languages are in practice prevented from using pre-allocation? How big is the cohort? Does it matter if it's exactly one or if it's two or three? Why are you fixating on this relatively irrelevant point rather than the more substantial point that has been reiterated a dozen times?

> Apparently that is your opinion.

In the same sense that "the sky is blue" is merely my opinion.
As a general question, why would someone write age/birth date in a CV? Maybe it's different per region, but I never saw this as a strict requirement. Profile pictures may be skipped as well (although a good quality image is hardly telling much). As a personal experience, hiring personnel sometimes asked about it, some even told this is required by employer/customer, I told them they can drop my application then - it never turned out to be a problem after all.

To note, the problem goes both ways, a teenager can have an impressive portfolio/knowledge and be rejected regardless.
Apple's review has no access to the matched images in the database, just a 'derivative' of your image. Hopefully the prosecutors will check against the real images. But by that point your privacy has been damaged and your reputation might be trashed.
I have, and I quite like it! That doesn't seem to be the way most people feel about it though.

I need to build things that pass the bus audit: other people also have to understand them and work on them and, for better or for worse, Bash is a very popular lowest common denominator for many devs.
I am relaying my direct experiences with the Soviet system for whose propaganda I have a near-lethal dose of skepticism.

The mid-80s military spending figures represent a state that knows it is in a struggle and may soon start to destabilize. The US never had to use military presence to keep the states together - the USSR did do so for its constituent republics.

I am referring to the mid-50s to late 70s. Certainly where a technology had a military application it received greater funding, the technological milestones were not made in personal home creature comforts. But Soviet mathematical and scientific prowess was world-renown. The educational system greatly succeeded in that regard, as I can attest.

A few examples are having achieved the only unmanned landing of Venus, and the only unmanned traversal of the Lunar surface whose distance record still stands. These engineering breakthroughs were done in the name of science, yes, but they were milked for all their propaganda value. I am proposing that such a directive with something like renewables should be tantalizing to a country like China.
You need to stop, man. It's a different word.
See "contrived rules" conversations elsewhere.
Video explanation by the very entertaining Bill Cook from the winning team:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vQMFVLa7yYQ

One peculiarity of the winning submission is that, in an ML challenge, they did not use ML at all:

https://mobile.twitter.com/alexkontorovich/status/1423259110...
Building a Trivia Game with OpenTriviaDB API
Pretty landing page, but I'm going to be honest, it took me a while to understand what this project does and the gif did not help unfortunately.
Well, maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. Literally every manufacturer of anything complex is going to have customers whose whole experience goes sideways for whatever reason. You can't take away from this story that "gee, Apple has a quality problem" if the broad market doesn't experience the same kinds of failures. Honestly, with this sequence of events one wonders if there's just something about this GUY.

My experience is that Apple makes the best laptops I've ever used short of glory-days-of-IBM Thinkpads. Observed reliability in our org is that they perform DRASTICALLY better than equivalently high-end Dells or whatever.
In 1991, the year "Nevermind" was released, the band Nirvana was not yet nationally known, and nowhere close in popularity to the internationally known super-legendary band they are viewed as now. Who knows if Nirvana would have even reached such levels of fame if Kurt Cobain were still alive today?

Nirvana, before the release of "Nevermind", their first major label release ever, was just a local garage band from Aberdeen, WA (not even from Seattle). Nobody cared about them except some high school kids from Washington state who had seen them live. There was no internet, smart phones, or social media shaping our values and popular culture. People still listened to the radio and bought cassette tapes and CDs at local record stores. The majority of the social standards we are discussing here and now likely didn't even exist as widely shared common values in 1991, over 30 years ago.

Dude wasn't the "Nirvana baby" - he was just the neighbor/ baby of friend of the family who happened to be there at the time. If they didn't use him, any other baby would have been fine. The idea of the photo/ album cover design would have been made into reality either way with or without him as the specific baby.
I don't think the odds of a replacement or repair are that high. 20% means one-in-five chance of total replacement.
I think they may stick around because it has the user base and why not, they are already making money so no point giving that up.

But now models will diversify across multiple platforms because the writing is on the wall. They may lose their income at any point so they are going to have backups.
The Great Masturbation Delusion
Why do you think that the "pervy" elements of anime are disliked? Most American teen shows and movies have plenty of innuendo and women with tiny bikinis in compromising situations. Sex comedies like American Pie, National Lampoon, and the Hangover series aren't so different in the kind of humor that one finds in fan service moments.
This has always been the case when uploading something to the cloud unencrypted. You never had any privacy in the first place.
A friend who torrents these things just checked for me and saw well over a 100,000 'snatches' for that Avengers flick on just one private torrent tracker.

So yeah, not 2,890. Think millions.
I want an electrician to inspect the circuits you’re plugging into. Sometimes it’s not the electronics.
What non-Apple smartphone were you getting in 2010 that received 4 years of updates? My experience at the time was essentially no updates, or relying on custom ROMs for that sort of thing.
Best practices are a great source of shared tech debt.
Everything in the above comment is wrong.

In AlphaZero for example, there were 44 million training games total for 700,000 steps of training for the full 9 hours.

Turning that to human-scale numbers, 44million games with on average 60 moves, at 1 second thinking time per move,

> 44000000*60/60/60/24/365 = 83,7138508371 years of training experience in 9 hours

The whole field of Reinforcement learning has agents training and playing games for many orders of magnitude more time than a human ever will. In-fact, we can scale this to over 100k of actions per second, in a single machine:

https://github.com/alex-petrenko/sample-factory

Then, there is also distributed Reinforcement Learning, where hundreds of agents can play at different machines and share experience, see AlphaZero, LeelaZero, R2D2 agent, R2D3 agent, Apex, Acer, Asynchronous PPO.

> but the data isn't useful without the context of experience

The experience is the data in Reinforcement Learning.

> and all processing power can do it overfit model without experience.

That is wrong, the agents perform what is called exploration to avoid getting stuck in simple strategies.

> Even if we put AI into an army of robots running around and experiencing things, there are still scaling limits to encoding and communicating knowledge and understanding.

True, but machines scale better because they speak the same language, or they can learn to tune their language to get their message across.

> Human organizations are a great example of the scaling limits of intelligence.

Human organization is a testament to how far we can get with something as limiting as the commonly used language. The language that we use to communicate is subject to misinterpretation due to our subjective experiences, this limitation is not shared by machines.