skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fairly certain, based on things I've see while under NDA at other vendors with cloud offerings for media files, that other companies are running CSAM scanners, at the Government's request, on their servers. (The one's I've seen searched for known CSAM based on signatures and didn't try to use AI to guess if an image contained it.)

I think this Wired article is referring to scanning on the User's device. Apple may have wanted to do this so they could enable end-to-end encryption and still be able to comply with "secret" government requests.

I'm not sure why companies agree to do this scanning in the first place. Somehow our government applies pressure to the companies to add these scanners. And it's hard for be to believe that "CSAM" is all they're looking for.
Just spitballing here, maybe the lesson is to not make business plans assuming "stonks always go up" and also take into account a recession.
> The Julia correctness issues are things like basic math functions, called in simple normal ways, returning wrong numbers.

If you have an example of this, I'd be interested in tracking it down. I didn't see this in Yuri's blog post, nor am I aware of any egregious examples of this right now.
Depending on whether you believe in creationism, you are a living testament to what’s possible for molecular self assembly.
The point of my text was to flip what it is to be "socially acceptable" in the modern era on its head. Grotesque manliness at football events to many people is so off-putting they won't be near those events or people. Same can be said for these new internet subcultures.

Point is, I think if we zoom out this is just normal human behavior. To be something to talk about, to perceive yourself as someone, to have a common language, to have quirks and oddities. It's more about what you fit in with that describes what you find "weird". This author doesn't fit into this culture, but probably fits in to another culture that others on this post would find "weird".
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HN is increasingly not the best source for technical discussion due to the bias you're noting here. It's unfortunate given the general level of discussion that's historically been happening here.

I find Matthew Green's take more useful than just about anything in this thread - someone who's very critical of Apple but able to articulate why this is overall net good:

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/16005676040154972...
In India many places still have the dowry system. When two people get married, the girls father gives money, gold and land to the new family. If the guy is a software engineer this can be worth $100k-$200k !
It's supposed to be illegal, but very common.
No he's just a nutcase
Yes. In a few decades they will have power. Over the next one, they have very little.
No, there are pre-streams answers, but streams are now fashionable.
Who knows? Maybe we will find a bug in current universe implementation and we will be able to breakout from the simulation in different form.
I read through a few of those issues, and they're mostly (all?) bugs in the standard library, not faults of the language itself.
Technically, but you need to copy and maintain that modifier for all objects. Even if you did that, usability is non-existent. Just to turn it off for a moment you'd have to select the objects with the right modifier and disable them using an obscure shortcut (holding Alt) and even then it's notoriously slow and finicky anyways--not even in the same universe as SketchUp's section tool.
>They want to vacation internationally instead of domestically.

For Americans, vacationing internationally is cheaper than domestic travel, as long as you do it cheaply. To vacation in America, hotel rooms cost an absolute fortune now, eating out costs a fortune (plus the 25% tips now expected), and you need a rental car to go just about anywhere, and those cost a fortune now too (and if you get it from Hertz, you might get arrested).

Instead, you can buy airfare to Europe: eating out is much cheaper, hotel rooms can be had for far, far less money in most places (just don't go to the American-style hotels), and you don't need a car since you can just take public transit for cheap. Plus there's far more interesting stuff to do in cities in Europe; in America, it's all the same boring chain stores everywhere and there's no culture outside of places like NYC (which are horribly expensive to vacation in, even by American standards).

The only way to vacation cheaply in America is basically to go camping in a national forest for 2 weeks, though this still doesn't get around the need for a rental car unless you can get a ride somehow.
Because of this I moved my email to my own domain hosted by Proton mail (many providers out there). Can't risk your livelihood on an error on their part or yours. I can just switch my DNS to another provider in minutes if they ban me.
I think the author doesn't get GitHub stars. They don't mean "I use this and like it", they are simply bookmarks. A way to find something interesting again. I don't think I actively use anything I starred. Or am I the odd one out?
This is literally not true; DePalma is a coauthor on the other paper.
Cool! What technologies does this use?
I feel like we're going to end up moving towards hydroponics and the like before/instead of resolving the topsoil problem
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Not seeing the anti-trans/gay angle here at all. He's doing the kid a favour, teaching him that jokes shouldn't be repeated if he wants to be a good entertainer.
> only ever

No, usually.

It's not like it's impossible to work with semantic tabs on an editor that doesn't distinguish, it's just slightly more of a pain to debug.

And it's still much less of an issue than common fonts making 0 and O or l and I and 1 look alike.
It sounds like you're reading that as a margin of error. Some places they measured a factor of 10, other places they measured a factor of 1000.
Genuine question, not trying to be dismissive - but why should something like a pretty printer be part of the JVM?

It looks like something I'd expect to either be an external tool (like VisualVM) or part of an IDE
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Serious question, what's left after that?

The technology involved in food production, medicine, and weapons are very diverse and complex, if you need to keep all the supporting industries, whats left to globalize?
We made the (bad?) choice to move everything to AMP based on suggestion from SEMRush. This appears to have helped because everything loads very very fast (definitely achievable without AMP, but we wanted to test the migration effort and impact on indexing). The immediate impact was a 20% bump in indexed pages.

I use SEMRush, GSC, GA and Mouseflow religiously. That is, regularly and with faith. I don't think they necessarily point me in the right direction.

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> but the hole under discussion here is not one of those.

That’s not correct: It’s a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy; the tidal forces will be weak at the event horizon.
It should be common knowledge by now, as the problem has been documented for decades and discussed here many times.[1][2][3][4]

As far as an actual citation: "Studies from Kjølseth et al. (2009), and our own findings (Szücs et al., 2020), suggest that older adults who die by suicide or have late-onset (mostly high-medical lethality) suicide attempts are often high-functioning throughout most of their life, and characterized as controlling, rigid, high-achievers, also high on orderliness (a conscientiousness subcomponent)."[5]

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/01/us/higher-suicide-risk-fo...
[2]https://www.deseret.com/1988/9/13/18777827/30-percent-of-tee...
[3]https://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/scholarly-messenger/2016/...
[4]https://everymindatwork.com/high-achievers-and-mental-health...
[5]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7655527/
You can't disentangle nature from nurture with some sets of twins as they are both in play. That's part of why it's fascinating to see both with strong simultaneous reinforcement, and similarly when the "nurture" part is removed and the chances of similarities is higher than normal.
> “Outdoors, the situation is depressingly similar. After New York replaced the sodium-vapor lights in the city’s 250,000 streetlamps with shiny new LEDs in 2017, the experience of walking through the city at night transformed, almost . . . overnight. Forgiving, romantic, shadowy orange gave way to cold, all-seeing bluish white.”

It's not so humans can see better — it's so our computers can
My Dad (rest his soul) turned me onto Bond books. I'm surprised by the lack of appreciation in these comments - wondering if many people are going off the films rather than the books.

The thing I love is the detail he uses. Mundane objects - his watch, his meal, his car are intensely described in a way that adds to the narrative. And Bond is human - he's sometimes petty, vengeful, lustful, lazy, but appealing - our heart feels for him when his wife is killed.
This would lead to massive lifestyle differences between rich and poor countries, which would continue to expand the wage gap between rich and poor countries, which would continue to incentivize sending low skill jobs to poor countries. Globalization is inevitable unless countries are able to ban trade.
I agree with this; we’ve only been recently witnessing the awakening.

My view entirely: (some) people will start to see themselves as the true commodity of value and either move to where they are valued or work remotely.
This is already starting to happen. The more enlightened nation states will get on the bus and compete for people resources. Those more backward thinking will seek to lock the door and regress and live increasingly in tyranny.

Just my view.
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But you can have multiple lines running at once. McDonald's already does this at busy locations. I find it dubious to say that they get your order out more efficiently. For one, having a massive line is a potential sign of inefficiency. Also, there's no technical reason I can see why asking your name from a second person to order your queue would be faster than handling this through an automated system. People like to say they get you through fast, but I personally have experienced long "absolute" wait times, even if it seems like the line is going quickly, to the point of I rarely like to go there unless I have time to kill. This almost never happens to the same extent in a McDonald's line, which is shorter, maybe slower moving at times, but lower total wait times.
Perhaps you're thinking about empires that were primarily held together by military force. Those are inherently unstable. As it pertains to globalization, the more relevant trend over time is the formation of nation states that primarily exist for any other reason.
container ships are cheap and efficient
The US is notoriously bad for fast internet in general though. Here in Asia 5G is mostly rolled out in some places, I was getting 100Mbps on my phone the other day.
Unless you are doing something super trivial, like making http/https requests to pre-defined URLs, your platform libraries will not help you.

Your network servers need two explicit bind() calls for two different protocols, and some logic to select which ones to call, and your main accept() code needs to be able to handle two listening sockets... Theoretically you could create IPv6 socket only and accept both addresses but.. (1) apparently it is disabled on many BSD's by default and (2) even on Linux bind() will fail if you have no IPv6 addresses assigned at all.

Your network client would be better, as there are some libraries which let you connect to ipv4 or ipv6 address, but then IPv6 colon-separated format will trip you. How many clients split on ":" to get port number? Or concatenate (IP, ":", PORT) in the logs / settings? All of those would break.

The really annoying part is that all of these problems were 100% predictable from day 1, and yet someone decided to go ahead with this implementation.
> why has the previous state of the world never globalized?

it absolutely has. as you indicated in your follow up question.

for their time periods, many times throughout history we’ve had their version of globalization.

globalization is the natural state of society. obstacles are put in the way for various reasons; power, fear, etc… but it’s artificial roadblocks that temporarily stop it.

we trade with other humans. it’s pretty normal. it’s far more abnormal for someone to say, “you’re not allowed to trade stuff with Jim because he lives on the wrong side of that tree over there.”
the details of exactly what they were disputing matters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

in this case it could have set a dangerous (and expensive) precedent for them.

that does not mean they will fight any and all requests.
Normally I wouldn't do this, but this is so hyperbolic it has to be either sarcasm or troll food surely?
That's just the problem though, isn't it? Because the leetcode format is known, unless the person tells you, how would you know they studied for months to pass it?

Brilliant person A does leetcode for a week to get the hang of the format, then interviews and gets a job offer. Person B who just isn't brilliant but is highly motivated, studies leetcode for months, interviews, and also gets the job.

You might have fantasies of outlawing "studying for months for the test" but be real. Person whos "is just not cut out to be a high level programmer, and should consider a career path more suited to their abilities", it turns out, is doing just fine with their career path having studied for the test.

I also think calendar time is the wrong way to measure it, since there's a huge difference between studied leetcode for 40 hours a week like it's your job or being in school; and studied leetcode for 4 hours on Friday nights instead of going out, for months.
globalization requires cheap and efficient transportation and communication, which we have not had until recently. As soon as we did globalization began.
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Hey, thanks for creating helix. IMO it is a big improvement to neovim and it is so much easier to get started with it. I was really sceptical at first, but its now my main editor.

FYI your github link in your opencollective [0] profile seems to be wrong?

[0] https://opencollective.com/blaz-hrastnik
DePalma is up to something. This will not end well for all parties
Ok preferring to support local agriculture is one thing, and probably admirable in many cases, but how much of an idiot does someone have to be to stop eating produce because it comes from Mexico :facepalm:. Being less healthy is really showing them!
From my understanding of that abstract, it's the _pre-agricultural_ erosion rates are lower than assumed, so the tolerance value for agricultural land has been set too high.

From the conclusion:

> We find that pre-agricultural erosion rates in the midwestern United States are on the order of 0.0001–0.1 mm yr–1. Soil loss tolerance values of 1 mm yr–1 are one to four orders of magnitude higher than pre-agricultural erosion rates. Similarly, the agricultural erosion rates are 10–1000 times greater than the preagricultural erosion rates. Our results indicate that tolerable soil erosion, as currently defined, will lead to the depletion of midwestern soils.
The better choice would be to onshore/keep key and strategic industries and skills in-country and other non-critical aspects of the economy can seek some labor arbitrage, but not so much to eviscerate the local workforce and economy that you end up with people in despair and then have to come up with ideas like UBI to shore up their purchasing power deficit. A bell-curve distribution means some people are only capable of low to mid-skill labor and you have to have a plan (other than physically export your low-skill labor --which is not a thing countries can do anyway)
I would say 30 years after he wrote Nanosystems there hasn’t been any progress on the tip of the assembler. I still use that book as a model though for how to talk about advanced automatic manufacturing systems. The example of life shows it is possible to construct linear structures with three different systems that can fold up in pretty arbitrary ways, but maybe you can’t make diamond that way.
I see where you're coming from, and it's a bit of an old school view of E2EE.
Wikipedia even has a section for the meaning of the term with a lot of citations requested, suggesting not everyone views the meaning of E2EE the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption#Etymolog...

I wonder how far you would take the separation of functions. If Signal started offering a service to scan your messages and attachments for spam/malware, sending them plaintext from the app to their server to do so, does that break their E2EE? If they recommended the feature, implied that not enabling it was reckless, and didn't explicitly explain the result being Signal servers reading your messages?
Article has exactly one image. I'd love to see some examples of what the author finds so terrible.
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vanilla vi handles this fine, no? search for tab and it highlights them all, creating a clear visual difference. I'm not sure about pico/nano, hopefully similar.
> My dad also used to bring home discarded punch cards

Reminds me of a story I heard about my grandfather. He was a meteorologist for the USAF. At the time, they distributed the day's weather forecast on these big paper maps. The maps are only good for one day, so at the end of the day, he would bring home the used maps to his kids so they could draw on the reverse side.
It seems like this rather indicates that the USDA erosion tolerance is too high to meaningfully slow the rate of erosion. 1mm is not a useful target given that the average pre-agricultural rate of erosion is 0.04mm--this paper says that the pre-agricultural erosion rate was much lower than expected and this means modern practices are still causing more damage than previously understood and tolerance should be lowered by an order of magnitude.
"Twenty-seven years have passed and [the semiconductor industry] witnessed a big change in the world, a big geopolitical situation change in the world," Chang said. "Globalization is almost dead and free trade is almost dead. A lot of people still wish they would come back, but I don't think they will be back."

> Globalization

Without the context of a video or transcript, this is almost meaningless. Presumably he is talking about TSMC only, which is politically all-in on globalisation and is motivated to undermine US hegemony in IC production. Could the US onshore the European supply chain for chip-making? There is doubt that China can do the same, so surely the same doubt holds for the US. Occasional supply-chain shocks show how interconnected the modern world is. The absolute simplest world commodities require years to replace - Neon is not a complicated substance.

New Zealand (my country) is a small country near the edge of the world, so we have no choice but globalisation. Most countries have no choice either.

A lot of US power comes from globalisation — witness the politics of denying China and Russia access to goods and services. Should the US become more disconnected, it would have less influence.

> free trade

I think the USA is becoming more protectionist, but that doesn’t mean that free trade agreements amongst the rest of the world stop. In 2008 New Zealand signed a free trade agreement with China.

One problem seems to be that the USA asks a lot and gives a little (see AUSFTA), so NZ is unlikely to be better off by “negotiating” with the USA. After the USA withdrew from the TPP[1] in 2017, the remaining 11 countries (edit Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam) ratified a new agreement called the CPTPP[2] in 2018. In the CPTPP: “22 measures favoured by the U.S. but contested by other signatories were suspended”. In New Zealand we care a lot about free trade: we wide-opened our market early and we still have one of the most open markets in the world.

[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

[2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_and_Progressive_Agr...
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Fall on the sword (i.e. resign, give money back) along with these folks being fired.
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Postel's law, I suppose, is the right way to look at it.
You dont need more than odd movements for the invigilator to suspect them of something weird going on and remove them from the test. They could have just retested them later.

The calculation was done only after the invigilator noticed strange movements and noted them so that the tests were looked into more.
It's a little weird that you consider bringing up an application on bare metal something for a beginner. :) I think manually handling the nitty-gritty of an OPS setup is a more senior task than clicking you way into setting up some AWS infrastructure.
I had so many positive experiences in China, Zhong Shan, Ningbo and many other places.... People/food experiences so wonderful, fun and unique. I keep in touch with many of the folks I worked with in China. But pollution was the common denominator in my supply chain management aspects that shocked me. I have so many sad stories in that category. Just my observations ........
That’s fair.

I also know which of the two could resist the FBI more than the other.
This information is irrelevant without knowing the current size of top soil.

Also important is whether the erosion is accelerating, constant or decelerating.
Agree.

To say it’s “dead” when Apple is shifting their manufacturing from China to India says the exact opposite.

I think the author has blinders on and seems to think “China” = “world”.
I generally find Zeihan to be a quack. He's certainly got some interesting ideas, but his thoughts on china seem to be misguided and his american nationalism distracts him from the truth.
Absolutely agreed. There are so many things and old practices that could deal with this but people seem to completely ignore it all. Or maybe they just don't know.

We had a farmer around here who seems to have learned. He somehow figured out that hedgerows help break the wind and are home to beneficial birds and other animals, even if also probably harboring not so beneficial ones such as rabbits ;)

He subdivided his fields by "planting" hedgerows again but he did it on the cheap. He threw a bunch of old branches/cutoffs around his fields and just left it there for a few years. Over time, birds and other animals probably that used the branches for shelter would drop seeds and over time an actual hedge grew all by itself. FWIW he also built a little pond in the middle of some fields, simply by digging out a hole and piling up the dug out soil around it on 3 1/2 sides.
Fixed:

Your apartment complex decides they don’t want to be party to anything illegal. Just in case, they set up a police precinct in the lobby. They set up hidden cameras in the lobby, the hallway leading to your apartment, and the balcony of your apartment. "All public spaces of course" the crowd consents. And if their AI model detects anything suspicious, they send the video to the detective. Because you aren’t doing anything illegal, you have nothing to worry about, right?
I think you’re jumping to take offence. This ain’t anti trans. Kids pretend to be lions and cats and trucks and stuff all the time. There’s a time for fun and sometimes that fun is over.