skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The links between Hollywood, the CIA and the Bond movies are pretty well-known and discussed, and it's hardly just the Bond movies. For example:

https://priceonomics.com/how-james-bond-introduced-the-cia-t...

> "The agency’s director at the time, Allen Dulles, loved the Bond novels. Despite the derision most agents held for the series, Moran notes that he had a signed copy of each and every novel. Dulles and Fleming struck up a relationship that at times seemed mutually beneficial. Dulles peppered his public remarks with references to Bond, while Fleming dropped positive mentions of Dulles into the mouths of his characters."

Given the climate of the era, anti-communist blacklisting in Hollywood and so on, it seems fairly obvious that the Bond movies were given a clandestine stamp of approval.
> On-device scanning is desirable

My own devices should not snitch on me to the government. Obviously this mandatory snooping of all private data is not going to stop at the single most politically salable application; that's just the starting point.
Identical twin here. My brother and I are/were completely different academically. I excelled in math/school - he struggled. I graduated with an engineering degree, he didn't and struggled in high school and college. He ultimately did earn his bachelors degree - but not until his late 30's. There are some area's where we share similar thoughts, and some where we drastically diverge. To this day when I look at baby pics from ages 0 to around 3 I have no clue which one is me unless the pic has been labeled.

I'm now the father of twin girls (fraternal) and they are basically two completely different human beings who happened to share the same womb and birthday. They are NOTHING alike.

I also have 2 other siblings, and though I communicate the least with my twin these days - I still feel and share a bond with him that I'll never have with my other siblings and I can't quite explain it.

All that said I can't wrap my head around this idea that twins "think alike because they're twins." I think the simple answer to this case is that both of those women are smart and studied hard. And if you're really worried about it - put them in different classrooms and make them re-take the test. Sure would have saved a bunch of time and legal fee's!
You give up location data in exchange for discounts, that’s the bargain you agree to by using the app, whether you realize it or not.

I refuse to play this game. When I go to McDonalds I pay in cash and don’t use the app, it’s insulting to be offered 20% off to allow McDonalds to track my precise location, no thanks.
Europeans like to visit the US because you have some pretty nice sights. The "no culture" can be pretty interesting as well. Matter of perspective, I suppose. Just try to not get shot.
Every Hacker dreams of sleepovers in their jammies.

Get off my lawn… actually, get off the raised access floor panels I slept on back in the day. Rite of passage, that was.
yup without the US trade route protection formalized during Bretton Woods, modern trade could not happen as snoothly as it has and the US is slowly backing out of that position
I think the disclaimer clarifies precisely the not-intended meaning.
It's also helped to slow nuclear proliferation.
I feel like we are living in a StarTrek future... It's just unevenly distributed, and the advances aren't always in the places we expect.
No he’s not: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04446-1

According to During, DePalma was supposed to be an author on the paper. According DePalma, they had brief discussions to collaborate, but ultimately decided not to.
He has spoken.
Case #1,209,096 of how when Americans do (or propose doing) something, it's somehow China's fault.
This is true in general, but not in Apple's CSAM detections that have been abandoned. They were only scanning for images that matched a know hash of CSAM. This did nothing to prevent new CSAM from being created, only possession of existing material.
That URL results in “bad things” after a moment. The link should be removed.

Edit: Might have just been a handful of nasty ads that I initially encountered that redirected me. YMMV
Admittedly I have not tried super hard, and I was on an HMO when I did and they just love to throw up arbitrary gates (same insurance wouldn't even give me a clear answer on how or whether I could get an echocardiogram my primary doc ordered for me). Next year I will try again on my new insurance which is a PPO. But I know my primary doc doesn't want to treat me for this.
The example argument is very weak, the fictional organization has a goal of "increasing revenues and profitability", isn't that a tautology? I mean are there any firms where that would not be the goal. Any reasonably competent leadership will go atleast a few levels deeper and have goals that have demonstrable product outcomes, which translate to increased profit or sales. At least that has been my experience. I'd like to understand if there are any orgs out there with such simplistic goals as stated in the article.
I'm big fan of using micro[1] instead of nano/vim as the default command line text editor.

[1] https://micro-editor.github.io/
One brief note from our experience, while we tried for years to put limitations on screen time for our kids, we found it to do some measure of harm. Our kids are naturally quiet and reserved. Social media and online friend contact turned out to be beneficial for them, I think. We let plenty go because both our kids would refer to the fact their friends were playing a game (with chat) or joining some online channel, or even doing homework together at a specific time. Knowing you as a parent are taking social time away from kids that are light-social to begin with, especially seeing the look of importance in their eyes, its a bit heartbreaking. We could have done some things better but based on their personality, I think having some discussions about the effect of too much social media and online consumption has done more than imposing strict limits. But I'm guessing here and I have the benefit of hindsight. Not to mention I recognize this was us trying to do what we thought was right for our kids and may not apply for other families.

To me it feels like if the majority of parents are onboard with limitations and timeline then it would be a lot easier. Ironic how the asynchronicity of tech doesn't help in this case.
A web form cannot track your precise location 24 hours a day, but an app can.
I don't think "long term soil health" on private lands is regulated by anybody.
For me, Julia lags in deep learning compared to Python and lacks many valuable packages like PyTorch and PyG. Another reason that stops me from adopting Julia is that it lacks good learning resources. I can grasp Python within an afternoon. But the same thing is pretty hard for Julia.
> If you let Make accept spaces then there’s no backwards compatible way for it to tell the difference.

"Rules start with non-whitespace"?
Some n amount is not required. Energy usage varies based on how many miners are running. It is a form of Sybil resistance, which may be understood better by reading white paper.

Mentioned elsewhere in this thread is the LN network which is cheap, fast, and low energy. LN allows spending coin pegged off the main chain.
Thanks, that was actually super interesting, never heard of a data diode before.

BRB, just setting up six new PCs so I can chat with my friend, lol.
False.

I've been operating as a high level programmer for over a decade and have a MsC in comp sci from a top school and a statistics/comp sci related Ph.D.

I was bored at my job and thought I'd apply at Meta. I've never really used python professionally (more of an R person, though I've solo dev'ed apps which have been in clinical usage for 3+ years with typescript front ends).

Did hours of leetcode over the course of 2 months to prep, because I was bored at my job and I thought it would be a fun way to improve my python skills.

Failed the coding section of the interview. Feedback was:

"The candidate clearly understands the problem and is an excellent communicator, but seems rusty with python."

No worries and no complaints, the story has a happy ending.
Yes! The Creating Sustainable American Mployment (CSAM) Act will create thousands of new jobs too.
Would be interesting to know if this is correct.

Please prove that the following problem is NP-hard, as if you were explaining it to a 5th grader. [...]

Pivot Scheduling is NP-hard, which means that it's really hard to solve. Imagine that you have a bunch of jobs, and you want to put them into two piles. You know that for each job, you can't put both parts in the same pile. In addition, you know that for some of the jobs, one of them must be put in a particular pile. To solve this problem, you have to try out all the different ways of putting the jobs into the two piles, and check whether they satisfy the constraints. And since there are so many different ways to try out, it would take forever to check all of them, so that's why this problem is NP-hard.
Sony had a camera with thermal, stopped selling it because it saw through people's clothes.

https://fossbytes.com/sony-accidentally-launched-camcorders-...
I never thought I'd live to see the day Academia would deliver UFC levels of spectacle, yet here I am after reading through countless threads of deep scientific knowledge I cannot begin to grasp, fuming with interconnected comment sections of high-end trash-talking [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33898789
Wrote a fairly complex optimization-based translational trajectory generator for a robot arm. Needed orientation as well. Implemented a simple quaternion type, implemented multiplication and addition for it, and fed it to the translational code. Worked off the bat.

If I wanted to use eg Euler angles or modified Rodriguez vectors or some other representation of rotation, the identical code pattern would work.
Can you explain what you mean by this? Japan, Taiwan and SK all moved up the value chain and are still US trade partners. I'm pretty sure it's the US that has "broken up" with china, not the other way around. Lastly, using the word slave to describe something other than slavery diminishes the value of the word. The US does not force China to make products for them.
Do you also use something like Google Analytics or Bing Webmaster Tools on your site?
I find it relevant since it’s at the intersection of parenting and algorithmic hyper-media. It’s one person’s experience, and we can agree or disagree, but all the same, it’s one real parent with real children trying to navigate around this monster we have all built, go us!
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Trans people given gender-affirming treatment also have a monumentally higher suicide rate than their peers: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/acps.13164
I lived across from a farm field, and noticed how dusty in the inside of my garage (and it's contents) got if I left the door open.

I didn't put two and two together and realize it was from the field until one spring when I noticed a fine layer of what smelled like manure on my bicycle.
Those ISPs are broken and not following the RFCs or RIR guidelines.

There's nothing stopping you from using NAT with IPv6, people just don't do it because the only benefit of NAT is conserving limited address space. NAT on IPv6 just brings all downsides and no benefit because you (should) have no shortage of address space. In any case v6 with nat is no worse than legacy ip with nat, its just stupid because they're forcing a newer and better protocol to run in a degraded mode.

Consumer oriented routers and firewalls do not allow arbitrary inbound IPv6 connections by default, you have to explicitly enable them.

I still don't get scanned over IPv6, despite having a static /56 range for more than 10 years. Everything that's reachable over legacy IP is also reachable over v6, and i have several v6-only devices because i simply don't have enough legacy addresses for everything. Scanning v6 is extremely difficult, while the legacy blocks get scanned continuously.

Modern operating systems are not sitting there with exposed services by default, you have to manually open them up if you want. Simply connecting a win11 box to an open IPv6 connection is not going to get you joined to a botnet like connecting a winxp machine directly to a legacy connection did.

Modern devices are often exposed to hostile networks/users - every time you connect a portable device to a public wifi network you are exposing your device to the operators and other users of the network. Depending how that network is configured, you might be exposed to the internet too. You don't have any separate device between you and the hostile network, you are relying on the configuration of your machine itself.

ISP supplied routers are limited and generally garbage, this is a problem for legacy ip just as much as v6.
Internet high five! I suspect they see information as power and as long as they gate keep it they seem to believe we'll keep coming back. All that behavior is doing for me is increasing my levels of distrust.
I'm not a lawyer, but my current theory is that code is speech, and the government cannot compel you to say something you don't want to say.

There is some case law on the saying something you don't want to say part: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/933/compelled-s...

And there is some case law on the whole "code is speech" thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

(Apple has cited Bernstein v. US as the reason they didn't have to write an app to unlock some mass shooter's phone for a fishing expedition, so that's why I think they agree with my didn't-go-to-law-school opinion there.)

(BTW, an aside aside. DJB represented himself in that case. Just some random number theory lover / C programmer that increased freedom for everyone in the country in his spare time. Super cool guy.)
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Yeah, I know that's what the news reports say, but I'm pretty sure they got it wrong. A galactic hole doesn't emit radiation (except perhaps Hawking radiation) because its tidal forces are too weak.
> My favorite part of android is how security patches go through a multi-tiered trickle-down system of testing to make sure they work with the dozens of custom flavors each manufacturer has so that by the time you get patched it's been in the wild for weeks or months.

This is not the reason for security patches taking too long to be released to certain phones; Google has a monthly cadence of releasing security patches and zero-days have rarely (I can't remember a case of that happening but maybe it has happened) missed do you have a source for it?

> Oooh, ooh, no that's not my favorite thing, my favorite thing is how each cellular company gets to put their own bloatware on top of the bloatware that each phone manufacturer gets to add to it.

There are unlocked phones available and honestly this problem is mostly a US problem. Rest of the world isn't in the iron fists of their carriers.

> Oh wait, maybe it's patch support ending for new phones 3 years after they were released.

You can vote with your wallet and choose vendors where this is not the case; Google, Samsung and Recently OnePlus offer 5 years of security updates.
That's unnecessary pedantry, in context. I am explaining an important con of spinlocks. Whether it is because mutexes are fair or because they behave fair is completely irrelevant. The point is that if you use spinlocks (which the article incorrectly calls mutexes), then you could see unintuitive behavior under load.
Not scanning for CSAM on your own servers isn't a realistic expectation.

What makes it not a realistic expectation? According to other references, the USA cannot compel companies to run scans on their own customers.
Did you lodge a bug, i'd like to weigh in on that.
Understanding tradeoffs is very important. I've seen driving hard on OKR's that seem to make sense from a business perspective not take into account the level of support we need to give existing products.
It's always been this way. Isaac Newton famously trashed Robert Hooke by calling him short and ugly, and suppressed his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Personality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke#Personality_and_d...
Moon dust. Regolith is pretty dark against the suit or skin.
On geological timescales the rate of erosion is almost instantaneous. We're talking about running out of topsoil in a single lifetime.
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This very well could have some truth.

This video popped up on youtube recommends a few weeks ago (Iran).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJe8wWFh_w0

I've never seen ground that naked, not a spec of green except for trees. (and this coming from someone who lives in a very arid region of the SouthWestern US). Even very arid land (in Nevada or Arizona for instance) has significant vegetation so I wondered what was going on.

Part of the way through the video (6:09) it becomes apparent (to me anyway). Goats and sheep. Somewhere in there they are actually beating tree leaves down for the critters to eat because there is simply nothing else.
> A final story to those that will say I am an ist or ism. A little more fuel for you.

Why would telling kids play time is over be fuel for -ists and -isms? It seems like the author is approaching this from an angle where that story is supposed to be inflammatory. But fair enough, maybe it's just unfortunate phrasing or bad writing (the whole article isn't really Pulitzer material).
Conservation of soil/water is a directive of the USDA [1], and they provide the guidelines mentioned in the article, but I don't know what actual legal power they wield in this regard.

1. https://www.usda.gov/directives/directives-categories
macOS does the same... The only difference is when you don't have a player open at all.
Those numbers are easy to find on google! Iowa 14-18" average topsoil depth in 1900, 6-8" in 2000. I'm not sure anyone could tell acceleration/deceleration over this timescale.
Newsweek got bought out a while back. Bunch of employees left/got kicked out. It’s been coasting on its reputation. Weird connections to a couple religious orgs now. Wouldn’t trust it any further than I could throw it.
> The future is multi planetary not self sufficiency

Even if there were a network of planets. They'd need to be self sufficient in key areas (food, air, water, shelter) as the time and energy needed to trade is likely too much for robust exchanges.
IPv6 drives lock sync AD personalization which represents trillions of dollars; it's no wonder there are so many social engineering attempts to try and herd the public into using it.
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"follow the science" you should kindly expand on the definition of the "science"

hand picked ---- by whom?

I recommend you watch the video....
So Iranian women voted in the govt who implemented the hijab law?
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For the SAT/ACT specifically, it's optional at a fair number of schools--elimination mostly started during COVID has been extended. (And not used at all at a few.) Of course, they still look at high school grades and class rank. I guess they'll have a better understanding in a few years how things turn out.

Of course, the process is still a far way from random.
> Scanning on-device is compatible with Apple never having access to your data in an unencrypted format.

Only if you exclude the following network transmission, which is the easy part that needs no special code. The privacy concern comes in with those two things together. So yeah if you take away one half of a bad thing such that the bad thing no longer becomes possible, it's not bad anymore. The concern is the whole process, on-device scanning being the key not-yet-implemented component.

> If Apple has a legal obligation to ensure that iCloud does not store CSAM/etc. then either you have to scan on device before upload _or_ you have to store iCloud data without E2E encryption.

Apple does not have that legal obligation. If they can't decrypt the content on their servers, then their only response to a government-issued warrant would be to hand over encrypted data.

Also, CSAM is not the concern. The concern is this would be used against dissidents in authoritarian countries. On-device scanning takes us a step towards becoming one and further empowering the existing ones.
It still is quite high value (btc/eth) though despite all negativity. That is what I don’t really get.
Clickable links

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/the-ventura-problem/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/raspberry-pi-pico-has-a-proble...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mac-ventura-raspberry-pi-p...

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/11/02/the-raspberry-pi-ventura-...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/10/31/uploading-uf2-files-wit...
I think we are rather going to have starvation and collapse.
What do people use on file systems where you have hundreds of TB of files? I always end up having to use the tools that come with the storage device (EMC InsightIQ for example)
One person I'm thinking of in particular said she didn't believe the water was safe to drink there, so how could the produce be safe to eat? She was elderly and had learned long ago not to drink the water when traveling in Mexico. But I'm sure there was a bunch of unstated racism underneath that, just based on who she was...

Personally I don't like consuming food grown in China because if the world has outsourced all its polluting industrial activities to China, it seems likely the food has more toxins in it. Just the air pollution there alone has to permeate the food grown outdoors and all the soil.
The amount of electricity is proportional to the price. Transaction rates are completely separate from the amount of electricity it takes to mine.

Every other cryptocurrency can handle far more transactions than bitcoin. Only bitcoin has a transaction rate of 1.1 kilobytes per second (lower than a 14.4 modem). Increasing throughput does not affect the electricity needed, but bitcoin refuses to do it to sell a second layer that no one wants or needs. A scammer name Craig Wright made a fork of bitcoin to exploit some people who recognized the need for more throughput.
A related question is why did they wait to cancel it until today?

Announcing end-to-end encryption the same day suggests this program was blocking end-to-end encryption from moving forward, too.
> "in the absence of a law that compels us to write software, which is unconstitutional btw"

This isn't really settled. Writing software is not always constitutionally protected speech, and Apple being compelled to write software would probably not constitute a violation of the First Amendment. Federal wiretap law can compel companies to make it easy for the government to get data via a warrant (which necessarily entails writing code to produce that data) and has been upheld in the past. Also companies are often liable for the code they write. Both of those are examples of when code is not considered speech.
and modern society owes to dinosaur juice
Ha! If you think that apple does not work with governments all around the world and that you can take their word at face value you're going to have a bad time.
Managed properly, yes. The soils of the Midwestern US were formed largely by herds of migratory bison for instance.

The problem comes in when you don't defer grazing or give things a chance to regrow (see video in sib comment below). That absolutely can lead to desertification.

As populations increase and nomadism becomes nonviable (so ground is not given a rest from grazing) it appears that's what happens.
That reminds me of a time when my brother and I were trying to clear space on our IBM PC. There were lots of programs installed that we didn’t use, including something called “DOS”.

We had something like an hour before our parents got home to figure out how to recover from the message, “Disk operating system not found”. We got it done, the parents never noticed, and we learned a few things very quickly.
It’s not that easy to buy dollars in large quantities. At least in my country, there is a cap on how much foreign currency you can buy.