skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Most customers opt to wait until the package arrives before they ask for the pictures."

Seems backwards. Photos ought to precede shipping. Sending the photos once the device is in hand makes it much easier for fake photos to be injected. With GPG signing and such it would still be nontrivial, but much easier. Am I missing something?
> Despite what the HN hivemind wants to think, this was a crystal clear act of piracy

I wasn't aware that the IA had any naval vessels.
You are correct. The same exact things about Russia. Even if something positive happens there, the anti-russian propaganda twists it to the point it is a negative
if you've been on any websites in the EU (or a country with similar DP laws) recently, you'll know this without even thinking

but here you are anyway:
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-is...
https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2022-07/ANNUAL%20REPORT%...

if you still don't believe me, try and use google maps, or youtube in incognito mode
Governments are capable of poisoning their own citizens and have done so in the past.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fac...
If Europe wants these regulations and US doesn't, could it be because global rent seeking by US corporations ultimately benefits the US economy at the expense of other countries' economies?
Spotify, Minecraft, Klarna and Skype are some from the top of my mind ..
You do understand that those popups indicate either malicious compliance, incompetence or unnecessary tracking? Do you think keeping any of those three hidden is in any way better?
I’d get a copy of Dash and download the Docksets you probably needed.

[1]: https://kapeli.com/dash
> What are the areas in consumer tech where Europe enjoys the worldwide advantage in sales and mindshare

Automobiles, video games off the top of my head. In any case, why does it matter? There are other things outside of consumer tech that are innovative and bring money.
Oxford dictionary:

decimate:
verb

- 1.kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.
"the inhabitants of the country had been decimated"
drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something).
"public transport has been decimated"
- 2.(historical)
kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group.
"the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers"

Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, I wanted to say: effort*=0.1. Thx for pointing this out.
Everyone is focused on work-life balance because so much of the article praises the idea that dedicating your life to work is what makes companies "incredible sources of community and self-actualization."

Imagine you are a young adult with a young child, and your partner also works. How is any of the following tenable?

"Everyone stayed for dinner every night [..] there was no way I was going home before my neighbor was."

What about a family?

"my manager asked me to reconsider the vacation I had been planning because my team needed me. “If you go, who will cover your work?” I looked around at my colleagues who were also regularly working 15-hour days and decided to stay put."

What about your family? What about your colleagues' families?

"Call me masochistic, but I have to admit that it felt good to care about anything that much."

But this only works if you don't have other pursuits in life that you care about that much.

"But I am still nostalgic for a time when the gravitational pull of work was strong. For me and everyone around me."

As a husband and a father, as a manager, I want to create a place that allows people to do their best work, and then go home and give their best to their families without feeling pulled constantly back to work.

"It’s more about missing that universal agreement that it’s really, really cool to devote yourself fully to your work."

10 years from now most of us are not going to be working for the same company. 10 years from now most of my kids will be grown and I'll have lost the opportunity to invest in their lives and our relationship. I'm devoted to my work, but not at the expense of my wife who I promised to share my life with, or my children who I literally brought into this world. If I'm not there for them, present in their lives, who will be? I want to build that community. I want children who take to me when I'm older. I want a family that shares values. That only happens if I surge enough time with them, over time, to know what they value, to show what I value, to grow together as they change.

How many of those coworkers will we be sharing and creating close community with ten years from now? Are we really building a lasting community around this mission?

You say:

Forget work -- think about a side project, a hobby, a sport -- anything that you've applied yourself to.

And I agree with you about the value of having a performance oriented community focused on a meaningful mission,
but if we work the way the author is advocating through her examples we won't have time/energy to apply yourself to any other pursuit.
Nobody ignores the billing statement :P
Started in 2007 and retired it (and me) in 2016. At the outset I reckoned that customers would grow linearly (I didn't expect any "buzz") and shrink proportionately. Mathematically that leads to it reaching a limit. I was right!

It remained a side project but brought in the equivalent of about a years earnings. A nice supplement.
Thinkpads and Elitebooks with Ryzen 6000 are starting to be available. They have best in class keyboards, CPU horsepower and efficiency in the same ballpark as M2 and user-serviceable parts. Most of them support linux without too much tweaking.
> It's also such an obvious question though, isn't it?

Is it? I’m genuinely asking as someone who works in audio production. Plenty of people create tools for us in the podcast space, AI transcriptions for spoken word (premiere has a good one), new ways to automate typically manual processes for mastering, you name it. The thing is it is not a given that the person creating a solution has an audio production background and properly weighs the needs.

Plenty of engineers do work for or work directly for hospitals. Are you going to tell me that they might not overlook something a nurse or doctor might need? Because I assure you it happens in every industry when people come up with new tools and solutions, often because many actually don’t come from a strong background in the industry they’re making tools for. I value an outside perspective, don’t get me wrong. But it has its issues too.

It’s not uncommon and it’s fair for us technicians, the people these solutions are designed for, to ask questions.
> if you need to use a particular app, you can only get it from a third-party store that you don't trust

This sounds like iPhone user argument.
In Android world you can have multiple app stores, but if you want your app to be used you must be on Google one, because it has the most eyes.
Facebook didn't create their own app store.

Custom App stores are fringe apps, with exceptions of f-droid which is source of open source apps and many prefer it to google play (and apps are frequently on both stores) and maybe samsung/amazon ones because they are preinstalled on some devices.
No, those instructions are a part of ARMv8.3 and used by many.
Then maybe Apple should release an iMessage app for Android officially. So you don't have to worry about random developers.
>> The attitude presented here is very fatalist and not aligned with reality.

No offense to you but Europe is in the middle of a heat wave currently and temperature records have been broken fairly recently. So no, I am not fatalist, I am a realist. I call a spade a spade. It is not debatable that all the issues that we are having now have been known for a least a few decades.

So this isn't a lack of foresight or that we were not warned. We knew and did nothing or almost nothing.

>> but the influence the act of recycling has on your own behavior and the behavior of others can bubble up to bring about real change.

Unless you can back up that claim, then there is nothing to say. Plastic recycling does not work because it is uneconomical. It is cheaper to produce plastic than to recycle it. Until that changes then plastic recycling is a waste of time and simply a feel good act that has been implemented to make people feel like they had an impact.

>> if you sincerely care about a cause, if something really matters to you, then you should be willing to expend some of your energy on it.

I care about the cause whether you think I am or not. What I don't care about is pretending to do something when we are not actually doing anything.

>> You can pick any example of human progress and apply your line of thinking to it. “Why should I bother washing my hands when nobody else is?"

I bother to wash my hands because it has an tangible effect on my quality of life by keeping me and my family safe from diseases.

Recycling a plastic bottle or taking a shorter shower is not going to save the world when governments around the world are dragging their feet and the biggest polluters out there can pollute as much as they want without consequences.

>> You’re choosing not to, so be it, but own that decision, don’t pretend that it’s the fault of someone else.

Give me a cheap electric car that I can buy second hand and make it easy to charge it at night and then I'll drive an EV. Unless you live in Norway or unless you own your own home, there is no way for someone who rents to charge their car on the street if they don't have a garage.

Force energy companies to sell a minimum at least 50% renewable energy and I'll be buying it.

Force the city councils around the world to improve the reliability and availability of public transport even on the country side, and I'll stop using my car.

This is a give and take situation. At the moment most citizens in the developed world are being hammered by inflation and a rising cost of living.
Yet according to you, it seems only fair that we should shoulder most of the cost of the energy transition.

I don't think that's fair. Not when the various governments around the world are still subsidizing petroleum products, not when shipping companies can use the dirtiest fuel around to power their ships.

If you want people to change and people to make better decisions for the planet, people need to have options. At the moment those options are few and far between and mostly onerous.

Not every one can afford a model 3!
Is there a was to remove this off Debian? Caused more problems than and I’ve never used it for what it was designed.
The most compelling climate engineering mega-project has to be the Qattara Depression project, which would create a super-saline inland sea, generate a few GW of electricity and dramatically increase water fall over large parts of the Sahara desert:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project
There are very real, very scary monopolies in Europe that are actually an issue that will never be dealt with. Whether or not iMessage can talk to Whatsapp has almost zero effect on my life.
My understanding is you need CAP_NET_ADMIN first right? Which is enabled by default for an interactive user on Ubuntu. But is it enabled for say www-data? If I pop a shell on wordpress for example, I would need to compromise another account with that capability right? Or is CAP_NET_ADMIN enabled for non-interactive system users or not required for this LPE?
Elon Musk says remote workers are just pretending to work. He’s (sort of) right
That's one penetration test that I would not want to participate in.
I think democracy has vastly more legitimacy than alternative forms which all rely on violence.

I also believe that democracy needs cool and considerate heads. A Trump here and there is for the fun. At least as a non-US citizen it was quite funny but perspectives might diverge here.
Stripe is an interesting place. It’s clearly a great business, but they’ve let that bleed over a bit into thinking their p95 people are Google p95, which is trivially silly.

It’s an awesome company, and they’ve got solid folks, but “Staff” at Stripe isn’t what makes Julia cool: Julia’s work with Recurse is way cooler.

I mean we’ve got Consul: https://stripe.com/blog/service-discovery-at-stripe

And then etcd: https://stripe.com/blog/operating-kubernetes

Both courtesy of Julia incidentally.

Chubby has worked since like 2003. We’re just talking a different level of ball game.
VBucks are the in-game currency of Epic Games.
I disagree with the implied assertion that playing modern video games is insufficient to class a device as general purpose computing. Video games are no less of a "general purpose" computing task as sending an email or doing your taxes.

I further disagree that the rules should vary based on customer expectations. If Apple isn't allowed to argue that most of their customers see their iPhone as a communications appliance and not a general purpose computer, Sony shouldn't be allowed to argue that most of their customers think of their PS5 as an games appliance.
Too many apologists keep totting the line that capitalism as practiced in the US is A-OK and then deflect with "what's the alternative?"

The alternative is to fix rampant abuses we see with highly concentrated capital accumulation that results in a proxy of many unchecked powers in private and increasingly public spaces. There's lots of paths being pursued to curb this.

Antitrust legislation and most business regulation exists because of abuses that naturally arise, I don't know why the narrative of continued deregulation solves these problems--regulation is pretty much the only way to leverage the benefits of capitalism without allowing it to become yet another oppressive system over the majority of society where the oppressors just become a class of the ultrawealthy. My opinion is that were well on our way down that path as we see increasingly less value add back to society and a lot more value capture strategies instead.
What an interesting article (and an insane job!) thanks for sharing.
Given that changing one pixel of an image changes its hash, then I doubt that the hash would be the sole criteria for flagging an image. The systems are much more likely to be availing of image-recognition software... ID young face or body... ID lack of clothing... ID adult present... <insert klaxxon sound effects>
Do people really think this is impossible? We're talking about Apple here.
Reminds me of my first ever Google check (of ads on a site I made) I received, what a joy!

And since I am based in Europe, cashing that was difficult so I framed it :)

Congrats on your journey.
^? = 0x7F
Better Deep Learning Models with Batch and Layer Normalization
And a lot of people died or suffered injuries due to lack of routine medical care.

The mental health problems for many have been enormous.

There are huge educational gaps that have been created due to missed school.

Inflation from overspending is ruining many peoples lives.
No. It doesn't really impact the company's bottom line if your software engineering org is 100 people making $20k a month and someone accidentally wastes $4k of EBS disk. It's nice if you don't waste it, of course, but "oops, filled up the disk with 'y' output" is better than "yeah actually all of those files are pretty important, I think team X is using them" because you can instantly delete it, rather than doing a multi-month project to see if team X really is using the files.
How they are made is not something I really want to get into. It was more about how some of us look at fault in everything and call it design thinking. I understand that it is frustrating when a product is an outright abomination in terms of design. But not everything needs to be 'designed' to the T. Be it mass production or craftsmanship. Not to mention, there is always added cost involved in the superior 'design' that people talk about.
It's not clear to me why you wouldn't just turn off your phone if you think you're being targeted by such an extreme attack.
This entire concept of AI learning using copyrighted works is going to be really tested in courts at some point, perhaps very soon, if not already.

However if the result is adequately different, I don't see how it is different from someone viewing other's work and then being "inspired" and creating something new. If you think about it the vast majority of things are built on top of existing ideas.
Okay, so why is the EU seemingly able to regulate big tech? It's a capitalist continent.
Here is something from the National Association of Realtors. Granted, it varies across states (TX leading with highest 28%)

> Institutional buyers made up 13% of the residential sales market in 2021, with the median purchase price of institutional buyers typically 26% lower than the states’ median purchase prices (Slides 6 – 15).

Source: https://cdn.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/2022-i...
I had a similar but less harsh experience -- just my alt got locked -- and it sounds like I was lucky. I'm sorry to hear that you're having a worse time of it.

I brought this up with our Discord contacts to suggest that there was a problem with their system (we integrated a bunch of stuff into our game so I had people I could talk to). It took about a about a month of polite follow-ups to finally get my alt account unlocked and get told that they were looking at what caused the problem.

I tried, as politely as possible, to explain that if you need a separate phone number for each account then their newly minted alt-account switcher was nearly useless and that they might want to rethink things.

It did motivate me to investigate what alternatives there were, and I was dismayed at the lack of options. I'd be happy to hear any suggestions I might have overlooked.
US democracy already died. What we are seeing here is the death of the illusion of democracy we have.

You can vote but oligarchies and monopolies control who gets elected.

The policies adopted by those who were elected serves a few purposes: transfer money from those who have less to those who have more, increase the amount of power they have over those who supposed elected them and finally oppress those who not agree with this arrangement.

It's not different from any kind of non democratization government out there.
I'd love to know if you can still use a third-party browser (e.g., Firefox) and if it would inherit lockdown settings per web page (given that all iOS browsers have to use webkit webview).
> I wonder what it means in practice

The requirements to provide data to business users and to advertisers are pretty interesting. Same for search engines having to sell all user data that they have.
that gameboy cartridge isn't working on a modern system either...
>> There's research that shows that people spend less money when spending cash (versus card) because it feels more real.

I have always suspected this. Would you have a link to the research? I would love to read more.
Surprised it's not Salesforce
> It’s their platform. If you don’t like it, there’s the door.

It's my phone, I should be able to do everything with it, if they don't like it they don't need to sell it in EU.
The Return of Candiru: Zero-Days in the Middle East
If a match to an existing image is required, wouldn't this easily be circumvented by the violators moving back to laptops and desktop machines? They could still use their phones for creation of new child pornography since it doesn't match anything already in the database. As long as it is transferred off the phone before someone gets caught with it and its hash entered into the database, they wouldn't be flagged.
Audacity isn’t a DAW. Powerful tool, been using it for ~15 years, but it isn’t a DAW and folks shouldn’t use it like one tbh.
this release is dated a month ago (2022-06-24)?
Salesforce stock is down with the rest of the market and not as appealing as an acquisition tool as a result (they also paid a lot for slack). They also already play in Zendesk's space (eg service cloud) and tend to buy what they don't already have.
This large impact was one outlier. So statistically, you can write it off as (hopefully) a fluke.

Unfortunately, there were also over a dozen smaller impacts that, according to NASAs model, would have been very unlikely.

Combining these data points clearly demonstrates that the micrometeor density model was wrong - which very sadly means that the projected lifetime of JWST is going to be reduced, maybe very significantly.

NASA is currently exploring permanently altering the orientation of JWST to minimize impacts, but this also comes at the cost of reducing viewable space - thus limiting which science studies get telescope time.

While NASA's PR department does a great job of telling everyone that everything is fine, and social media does its job of being an echo chamber for such glossy reporting, I hope that HN can take a more realistic view at this, very clearly, bad news.

...maybe even think outside the box about solutions or lessons to learn.
> Again, it's not a huge leap to imagine someone (in this case, banks or transit authorities) using that unfiltered access to do something gross, like giving your data to an entity you've never heard of.

So you would also approve government entity to control what you do in your house, just to make sure you don't do something gross? If not, why you want some private company to control a phone you bought and own?
> GDPR - while we all hated it

Speak for yourself. Most users don't hate the GDPR, they hate the way companies tried to game it (very incompetently, I might add) by adding obtuse banners and modal dialogs.

As for companies: mostly US companies hated it because they previously got away with extremely abusive business models whereas EU companies were already facing similar regulations in individual EU member states.
A childhood friend of mine developed schizophrenia at 25, so I am surely convinced of the existence of true mental illness. To me a mental illness is defined as a clear defect in the workings of the brain, such that you have uncontrollable hallucinations and mania. I am not as familiar with bipolar disorder, but my overall argument is not that mental illness is non-existent, it's that depression is either vastly over-diagnosed or should not be categorized in the same group as schizophrenia and the like. Where is the line between "I've abused my brain with the comforts and overstimulation of modernity and now I am not happy" with "I was born to be sad because I'm genetically broken"?

In the end psychology is just too political and too lacking in scientific rigor to handle these questions. the DSM is essentially a politically motivated group of academics voting on what is or isn't a mental illness. At one point homosexuality was a mental illness, seen as a deviance in brain function leading to the end of reproduction. But the political tides changed and now it is no longer classified that way. How can we drug people for a lifetime based on the changing tide of academic bureaucrats who vote on what is or isn't normal? Is it too cynical to believe that the pharmaceutical companies making massive profit off of the mental health drug industry are not backing the psychologists making DSM decisions?

A kid comes in saying he's depressed all the time. They ask him what's wrong, why he is unhappy? He complains about feeling sad all the time without reason. They give him anti-depressants. But what about the fact that he plays video games all day, watches porn constantly, is on booze and weed and stimulants, is constantly browsing novel media on his smartphone, constantly entertained with netflix, he's blasted with supernormal stimuli 24/7 and then wonder's why his brain chemistry is out of whack... yet the mental health industry would rather see him drugged up on profit making anti-depressants rather than struggle through the years of effort and therapy to change his lifestyle.