skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what point does it become lossy enough that it's not protected, though? You can imagine a lossy compression algorithm that merely stores a 1 for images that are "more red" and a 0 for images that are "more blue." Such a compression algorithm would be storing some information about the thing it's compressing, but the closest reconstruction you could get from the compressed data is a red square or a blue square. Surely that's not copyright infringement? What about an algorithm that counts the fingers portrayed in an image and just reconstructs an image with the same amount of fingers? Where's the line?
There are so many things wrong with this article, but the most relevant thing: the EULA contains plenty of consent you give upon agreeing and so do the features with their own data exchange sheets that you have to act on before using the feature (at least the first time).

Besides that, same as posted elsewhere: mediaanalysisd has existed for a pretty long time and doesn't require iCloud, an AppleID or CSAM scanning to exist.

Fun fact: the binary in its many revisions still has an embedded plist with a copyright of 2015 in all currently supported OS releases.
No other general-purpose OS that runs on my laptop has the track record of OpenBSD: only 2 remotely exploitable security holes in the default installation since ~1996. And then the other mitigations let you control carefully what more attack surface to expose--those mitigations dramatically reduce it. I appreciate the general lack of privilege escalation 0-day exploits, as seen over time.
I worked in a temporary office for a summer next to a large overpass. It had no AC so we had the windows open most afternoons. The amount of particulate that would coat everything in just a single afternoon shocked me.
Hackers leak sensitive files after attack on San Francisco transit police
From the horse’s mouth:

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

TLDR:

- gifts are not tax deductible.

- gifts are taxable but only if above $17k per person.

- gifts for medical expenses are excluded from taxation.

I’m not a financial professional, this is not a financial advice.
"electrocatalysis-based artificial photosynthesis"

https://engr.udel.edu/news/2022/06/artificial-photosynthesis...

This should help out some.
This is a very nice theory. Does not work in practice.

Got into France, north of Troyes in Enyaq, last 20km in battery. Only chargers there in 30km perimeter are Freshmile 22kW chargers, which won't charge my car (can't start session, car refuses charger, tested 3 of them). Was able to save myself in local PSA dealership, which got their own charger and gave me 20km more so I can get to Troyes to Ionity charger.

What is extremely annoying is

* This is a large network, yet not compatible and there is no way to figure that out.

* The car was actually trying to lead me on those charger via its own internal navigation, so even somebody who was creating this map believed that those chargers are compatible, yet they aren't.

* I could never get into such situation with gas. In the most extreme case, I could have just use funnel to get the gas into the tank if hose would not be compatible with my car.

So the fact that there are chargers around you means nothing at all if you don't know if they are working and are compatible without your car.
I see no evidence in your post that mediaanalysisd reaching out to an Apple server is related to CSAM detection. Have you analyzed the traffic?
The rich own assets, they aren’t making massive amounts of income. Wealth taxes don’t work well. The game at the highest level is very complex.

In Europe, the middle class pays far more in tax. The left in America advocate for a European-style welfare state but pretend the middle class doesn’t have to pay a nickel in extra tax for it because they can get it all from the rich. The math doesn’t add up.
Indexed, but only returned if the search query was explicitly and unambiguously about porn.
Why not offer this as a universal binary? Seems like a bunch of extra work to generate two separate DMGs and try to point users to the right one...

Regardless, congrats to the team! Though, I'll note this blog post is from almost 6 weeks ago now.
That goes against what I thought the entire spirit and point of 230 was. That _some_ level of moderation or content policy, to any degree, did not imply full curation / approval of all the content period.

It allows a community or website the ability to enforce against the most obviously problematic content while not forcing it to over censor against what might be reasonable discourse or simply emotionally heated or slightly factually incorrect things. Nor do they need to E.G. investigate if something potentially libelous is true or not; that becomes something for the other parties involved to work out on their own via traditional channels.
Concretely, what discourages me from going Pixel is the Qualcomm integrated baseband/application chipsets.

Google Pixel hasn't used Qualcomm chipsets since the Pixel 5.
Does the basic research also reveal what information mediaanalysisd is sending to Apple, since when, and why? If so, could you link to it? I can't find much about it. (Also, just because it's existed for a long time doesn't mean it's behavior hasn't changed.)
Nope. I do recommend reading how the thread started before replying next time.

(hint: somebody mentioned the lump of labour fallacy, and somebody else replied by insisting that economics was a strange field full of fallacies that were actually true statements. He didn't offer any arguments for why economists were wrong to think the lump of labour fallacy was a fallacy, but to be fair to him, this might be because he was too bored to participate in debate rather than because he was desperate to continue the argument despite having no clue what he was arguing about...)
I know a lot of people like to bash on the Gimp and complain about features it's been missing for years (I might have even done some of the complaining myself!) but I really appreciate the work they're putting into it. This kind of low-level work with an ancient codebase can be pretty nontrivial and thankless work. Thanks, Gimp team!
They connect directly to the Stadia servers over WiFi.
I don't know how it would be possible to distinguish between an unaffiliated volunteer and a company. They'd have to sign a statement, I don't see it being feasible. What I think would be a great step forward is moderation transparency, of which there is none on sites like reddit (and it's much needed, their moderation in large communities is embarrassing, see the /r/art thing recently), but I guess that is also without issues due to privacy regulations. What it is not possible to get away with is no user-generated content moderation, it's only going to become more strict with less leniency for platforms, not the opposite, see: EU proposals on the matter pending.
Little Snitch was a must have when I used a Mac. Open Snitch for Linux is still being maintained.

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
Having lived in a few of those cities, I’d say NYC is very much the exception. It’d be great if every major city’s public transit was as good, but it’s inadequate or barely adequate for a large percentage of the area of those other cities.
Wouldn't it be more likely that medianalysisd (which is present in macOS since many years) does something like object recognition [1] and connects to Apple servers for updating the model or telemetry or something similar?

[1] https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/23/how-visual-look-up-works...
The important distinction is that the model does not contain a copy of a copyrighted material. It contains data trained on copyrighted material (like our brains).
Every time this happens I get angry. Whatever accounting rules are causing this to happen need to be changed pronto.
I've read a couple of commentators speculating that the cartoons will go to one of those "free ad-supported streaming television" (FAST) platforms like Tubi or Pluto. The ad model is supposedly more profitable for stuff where people will put it on and let it run for hours.
USA traffic engineers love stop lights which force idling. Fortunately some European tech to stop/start the engine is arriving in USA. In isolated cases, some USA intersections are being converted to traffic circles.
Installation of new stop lights should require a giant pollution fine paid by government.
It's a Scooby-Doo property...without Scooby-Doo (think the explanation for that is it's meant to be a "Velma origin story").

This is the kindof remake/re-imagining that gets made ostensibly for a different audience...but in the process alienates the traditional audience...which makes it end up with no audience.

Mindy Kaling was a big part of the success of the American Office and has other successes in a relatively short career, so it's not hard to see why it was green-lit...but frankly it's rating is probably about what it should expected to be.
The problem with this news feature is that it assumes a-priori that screening for colorectal cancer is effective, without good evidence.

Screenings result in false positives and in complications. One has to show rigorously that screening has net benefits.

I thought we have learned our lesson from the PSA fiasco.

Their main criticism of the study is this:

> If the compliance rate had been 100%, the researchers’ analysis showed, the test would have reduced cancer risk by 31% — from 1.22% to 0.84% — and it would have reduced the risk of death from colorectal cancer by 50% — from 0.3% to 0.15%.

But the study did no such thing. There's no way for the study to do such a thing.

What they describe is the comparing the results on the SELF SELECTED group of those who decided to go and get screened. This is no longer a randomized controlled trial.

We have no idea why those who decided to get screened did so, it might be that they had some symptoms, it might be that they had family members that got cancer, and so on. That introduces the biases that plague all other observational studies.
That is what attracted me to KDE. However, in recent years there design philosophy has become more aligned with Windows and mobile. It seems more difficult to create skeuomorphic themes, now. The trend seems to be for dizzying, translucent, psychedelic themes, where figuring out what I can and cannot interact with is like a point and click adventure game, only without the joy. But this seems to be in line with KDE's new stated design goals:

Make it easy to focus on what matters --- Remove or minimize elements not crucial to the primary or main task. Use spacing to keep things organized. Use color to draw attention. Reveal additional information or optional functions only when needed.
Make complex tasks simple. Make novices feel like experts. Create ways in which your users can naturally feel empowered by your software. [0]

To me, this feels like dumbing down, and this is disappointing for a powerful desktop. A desktop PC is such a vast and powerful utility that it's interface should be reasonably complex, like the cockpit of an airliner. I'm working with 14 to 30 inch screens, I don't need the same UI as a 5" phone. Instead, we are following Musk's lead and hiding everything behind an Android-like system, with burger menus, disappearing UI elements, brightly coloured icons, and bouncy window animations. And even though KDE is still infinitely customizable, the vast majority of themes out there follow this trend. If anyone knows of a good skeuomorphic theme that still works, I'd love to see it.

[0] https://develop.kde.org/hig/
I fired up the browser DevTools to see how this works. It submits the code directly to the OpenAI API (I like that it does this in the browser rather than forwarding my API key on to the useadrenaline.com server where it might end up logged) with the following options:

{
"model": "code-davinci-edit-001",
"input": "### Code goes here ###",
"instruction": "Identify and fix all bugs in this Python code."
}

Then the application itself has a nice implementation of client-side diff presentation.

That was for the "lint" button - I didn't run this experiment for the "debug" button.
very appealing syntax compared to lilypond. however, quite pricey personal license. so, sticking with lilypond for now.
no. the problem in this analogy would be the copying. i.e. making the drawing
little snitch has the ability to MITM and display the contents of transfers. I'd suggest you use it and amend the post with details.
Dead people are not known for their appetite, yet copyright lasts 70 years after death.

It's particularly egregious when copyright to some of the most popular works of all time is inherited by people who had nothing to do with the author in his/her lifetime or had not even been born then:

> The composer died unmarried and childless in 1937. His heir was his brother Edouard, who died in 1960, leaving the rights to his former masseuse, Jeanne Taverne, who died four years later. A tangled legal battle in following years saw the rights divided between a number of claimants, including Ms Taverne’s husband’s second wife Georgette. -- https://archive.ph/NOLb7
> let the readers draw their own conclusions

That's not how this works. A system-level background process is not going to be 'concluded upon' by random readers on the internet.

The only thing you should have written is: "a process made a connection, but I don't know what the process is for or what the connection is for, and I do not know how to investigate it". Your readers could then conclude a bunch:

- You use little snitch
- But you don't really know how noisy an OS can be
- Noise seems scary to you
- But you don't know why
- And you don't know how to find out

You could have made your position more credible by doing some extremely basic tests, like checking for strings inside the binary, or finding out what frameworks and libraries it is linked to. That's 2 built-in commands you can run as a normal user, with no arguments or ordering to think about. But if you did that, your position wouldn't be what it is.
I love driving as much as the next person but being on the roads at commuting time is hell on earth. Battling all of the other sleep deprived idiots to travel 3 miles in an hour. It's awful.
London has fantastic public transport.
If you preheat the battery I've noticed far better winter driving range. In fact, I only recently noticed because I always preheat the cabin which preheats the battery. Recently I didn't do that and was pretty surprised at how much energy it used while it warmed up.

If you typically plug in at home you should always be preheating the car before going out.
In general, it would be because they can skip "things" that are required by a standard to support a wide variety of use cases, yet unnecessary for their specific use case. Skipped steps plausibly leads to higher performance.
I only use one pedal in stop and go or city driving. Otherwise it's harder to maintain smooth speeds and is less efficient than just coasting.
Not for urlsessions with pinned keys, especially not on AMFI binaries you can't patch if you're not in development mode.
For sure. This will be very cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link

Edit: would have been. Looks like they lost funding. :(
Suave is really cool for this too.

Here is a hello world server that fetches all of its own dependencies - just 3 lines!

#r "nuget: Suave, 2.6.2"

open Suave

startWebServer defaultConfig (Successful.OK "Hello World!")
Really? Bar none? Better than evil?
More than likely, and knowing Google.. having it connect via WiFi meant that the controller can probably collect some form of telemetry on its users. Now that it's being shuttered, they can "remove" ('unlock') this feature.
The problem has, in my opinion, become opposite to what Section 230 was meant to solve. The majority of online communication platforms are, in my opinion, “over censoring” exactly as you described. If they can be trusted to over censor, why can’t they be trusted to censor to the extent required to avoid liability? It’s obvious to me that we shouldn’t be expecting any company to have 100% correct censorship against illegal content, so we shouldn’t allow them to police other content to such a great degree.
http://web.archive.org/web/20221225232639/https://ralphammer...
I don't know how the Firefox extension store is, but publishing the extensions in the chrome extension store was really torture. They unpublished a plugin I published years ago. When I contacted support later, they said it was removed by mistake and republished it. and this situation continued for 4 5 times. Finally, I said I can't deal with it and stopped caring. Does this kind of thing still happen?
Canadians are now stealing overpriced food from grocery stores with zero remorse
More and more of these are getting censored. Save them while you can. The Black maid in many of the Tom & Jerry cartoons is going to be a reason to cancel these. Funny, we don’t cancel books from the 19th century (eg Tom Sawyer), but we cancel cartoons from mid-20th.
Some very cursory googling suggests that `smoot.apple.com` is used for Spotlight. My guess is this is actually the "visual look up" feature recently added to iOS and macOS, where Quick Look and other system apps will perform OCR on images, and will also attempt to recognize animals/plants/landmarks/etc and offer to look them up for you.

Taking a look at System Settings, it seems the relevant part of the privacy information for Spotlight is here:

> When you use Siri Suggestions, Look Up, Visual Look Up, when you type in Search, Safari search, #images search in Messages, or when you invoke Spotlight, limited information will be sent to Apple to provide up-to-date suggestions. Any information sent to Apple does not identify you, and is associated with a 15-minute random, rotating device-generated identifier. This information may include location, topics of interest (for example, cooking or basketball), your search queries, including visual search queries, contextual information related to your search queries, suggestions you have selected, apps you use, and related device usage data to Apple. This information does not include search results that show files or content on your device. ...

> This information is used to process your request and provide more relevant suggestions and search results, and is not linked to your Apple ID, email address, or other data Apple may have from your use of other Apple services.

My understanding is that any actual image recognition is done on-device, so the image itself (or any compressed/hashed version of it) is not sent to Apple. At worst, I suppose Apple might receive a list of features identified by the local image recognizer (i.e., "siamese cat", "eiffel tower")

I'd be curious if disabling "Siri Suggestions" would disable this. It seems like it should.

I think it's reasonable for very privacy-conscious people to be concerned about behavior like this, but it comes off as paranoid when you wildly jump to conclusions without doing even 5 minutes of research.
Is it really about light vs. heavy though? I thought it was mostly about multiplexing notifications through a single app (usually through a single connection as well), so only one app has to consume resources constantly, and others might be activated as needed.
I'm crying from laughter - this is simply fantastic! Mucho thanks to author and OP for making my morning!!!
They only kind of support epub - you can now email a drm-free epub file to your "Send to Kindle" email address but it will be converted to a different format before being sent to your device.

You still can't load or read epubs directly on Kindles.
This could also have something to do with the new feature to detect duplicate photos (added in macOS Ventura) [0]

0: https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/remove-duplicates-pht...
There was no open format in place, it was pretty uncharted territory to have your console controller talk direct to a cloud game service
Most people also don't drive 400km+ in "daily usage." When they do they charge to 100%. Just like in a gas car you don't fill the tank 100% every day. But you do before a long trip. Can you imagine the article "well acshually, your gas car daily range is much lower because you don't usually start with a full tank!"
I’d love to see how these things are architected. Do you have them on GitHub? Are there any boilerplates or anything you recommend to get started?
Non-text only submission of the same article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391223 (1 lonely comment at present, but the linked version of TFA is richer and contains more information)
I second that. I almost switched from vim to Kate. I do use the undecorated/non-IDE Kate version called "KWrite" which is the only no nonsense totally usable basic GUI editor with a vim mode. I can quickly write my notes and edit them the vim way and have a regular copy paste experience in the same time. Love it.
The details of how battery storage systems currently work is pretty interesting. Modo Energy has a lot of great blog articles about it. Start here: https://platform.modo.energy/phase/article/3393/benchmarking...
While we're here, Dragonmount is a DRM-free ebook store for certain authors published by TOR: https://dragonmount.com/store/

But the vast majority of traditionally published books are not available (legally) DRM-free.
What’s the basis of the assertion that protectionism doesn’t work?
Poetry is one of the better options, but its nonstandard pyproject.toml is not ideal. PDM is basically Poetry, with the metadata standard in place, and with support for __pypackages__.
You can wire up a proxy and watch the traffic if you were so interested.

The fact the articles author didn't bother to and report back what they found, means this person didn't even do the bare minimum of technical research before posting an alarmist article.

They saw a thing happening they didn't understand and decided to post some nonsense online.
That’s all true, but I don’t see any evidence that it did change. There are any number of background processes that might have changed. There’s not a story unless it appears that one did.
Sounds good! I don't use either anymore so I wouldn't know.
Extremely simple rules and policies make for great sound bites but they rarely handle complex problems well.

The more dogmatically you apply a simple sound bite solution, the worse complex problems become.
That's not really amazing. That's a massive waste of time. I got 260km per charge in Enyaq iv80 going 130km/h on highway so cca same as you. That's 2 hours of driving and 1 hour of charging on 150kW+ charger.
And not to mention the epidemiological aspect, hello covid. A compromise situation could be individual transport but much smaller than current cars. Because EV's scale much more easily than ICE technology it's practical to have EV's with, say, a three person occupancy that take up half of a current car lane. This is the best of both worlds. Single occupancy vehicles and a city's transportation infrastructure doubles at zero cost.
FFS! This is not any kind of 'guide to drawing'. It's some crappy doodling exercises.
No way. Docker is not designed for security.
If only in the menu there was a description of what it does, written perhaps just under the name… oh… wait! THERE IS!
maybe because it's not about the 'flip', but the lack of 'smart'?

> Palozzolo wanted to use a flip phone during one high school summer because she thought it would be “cool.” “My parents said absolutely not, we need to be able to track you,” she said.

Will this be the generation that finally applies the Principle of Least Privilege?
well, sounds like he has his work cut out for him then.