skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time of the announcement in 2021 there were no encrypted photos in iCloud. There was "private photo library only on your device" and "photos shared with Apple (not private)". The scanner would not have scanned private device-only photos.

> "If Apple’s CSAM scanner was deployed today, it would be scanning those photos in cleartext on your phone before unreadable data was sent up to the cloud."

Or enabling Advanced Data Protection could have disabled the scanner, we don't know. Even if it went the way you said, you could still not use iCloud and have private photos on your device, whereas your phrasing is trying to imply that there would be no option to do that.
These images look AI generated. Uncanny shapes.
I wonder what would happen if someone (not me) ran these images through a facial recognition system with a compromised dataset.

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I'm an outlier because I've been a bike commuter for over 10 years, but I recently bought myself an e-bike and one of the things I noticed is that it helps me cope with the poor cycling infrastructure where I am. It's really expanded the routes I feel safe taking in my city versus my "acoustic" bikes.
They are obsolete for a reason.
Not yet. That's because prompt engineering still hasn't been utilized in the sensor and decision control loops of autonomous vehicles.

The future:

[pandemonium as cars randomly crash everywhere]

Microsoft Car. Powered by Bing. “Where do you want to go today?”
Of course they have most of their space dedicated to cars because that is how people want to get around in Denver. Denver is a sprawling metro with around 50 days of snow per year. I'm all for bike lanes but if you start trying to create traffic congestion by taking away more of the streets from cars you will lose elections because you aren't appealing to the masses.
These arguments always follow the same pattern:

>> I don't want to be brutally killed by a car on unsafe infrastructure

>> Oh yeah? Well how are you going to have a refrigerator delivered or get your sick grandmother to the hospital?

I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just hyper-logical thinking that it has to be all-or-nothing and implemented solely by force. But man, grandmothers and refrigerators are going to be just fine if we stop giving cars priority over people. Maybe better.
Woah. 14km in 25min is 33.5km/h. What is your mode of transport, beside motocycle? Who commutes that fast anywhere in the world? Then you said "considerably less when I take my motorcycle". Are you traveling on average > 50km/h during your commute? That is incredible in the modern, developed world -- extremely rare.
Tesla actually used 3-phase motors in the past. Their newer motor (not the one in the article) is not a 3-phase induction, but is ~2% more efficient which is important when considering overall vehicle cost/range.
Isaac Arthur has a youtube series on AI, he runs through many doomsday scenarios in a way thats far more structured than a bunch of random twitter chatter:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0Lt0pjc1LgiE...
VulnHub: Vulnerable by Design
When I was living in Dubai a decade ago, the PO box numbers were unique across the country, and there is no postal delivery service, so that's the only way to receive post[0]. Usually you'd use your work's PO box for the rare time you get post (typically AliExpress) but I was freelancing so had to rent my own.

My address was simply "12345 UAE" from anywhere in the world. I typically had to add more detail, as address forms would not let me enter only these fields.

[0] Couriers would of course come to your building. Typically the address you gave would include directions "Near Yacht Club" as street names were not always clear.
In an interview it is a negative to not know something. It's a bigger negative to not know something and try to hide that, or to be ignorant of the ignorance. "I don't know" is a fine answer in an interview. "I don't know, here's where I would look" is better
Geez, time does fly. The last time I briefly spoke to you (FSM event) you were still working on Fdroid.
If you mean storing the whole tokenised input in memory before processing it again, then I'd say never, and go as far as calling it hugely wasteful and inefficient.

The other comments here about catching all errors is valid, but you don't need to store any of the previous output to do so. The tokeniser can provide a token at a time as necessary, and thus also provide errors in the same way.
> The problem is that "having a union" isn't a bad deal that you can just legally refuse, any more than following health and safety rules, or overtime rules, is a "bad deal" that Starbucks can refuse if they want. Having a union at the store costs Starbucks nothing, or maybe a little bit of the manager's time here and there.

This feels trivial to work around. All they have to do is let the union form, refuse to meet their demands, and if they strike they close the store. That way it wouldn't be "closing a store because it has a union", but the end result is the same.
China is a currency manipulator, human rights abuser, and a non-democratic state. that is a country we have done business with, and looked past, but the US can't be "friends" with terms like that. The relentless anti china propaganda has nothing on the BS that china's state-owned media has said about the US over the last decade. The AVERAGE issue of global times is worse than trump's rhetoric.
They wouldn’t be worth paying attention to... if it weren’t for the fact that Sam Altman is part of that clique.
Once I had commercial insurance from out of state. A doctor visit was covered as in-network and all was well. But they did a lab. The lab was in a hospital 100 miles away. The insurance said "ok you have to pay the deductible for this lab", which is like fine, how much can a single lab cost? Single urine sample, easy.

Well didn't you know, the hospital did NOT have a negotiated in-network rate with the insurance company. The hospital insisted that we owed them $650, because that was our deductible.

Other in-state insurance companies cut those stupid bills down by 95-97% with 'allowed amounts', but the out of state insurance didn't have that negotiated rate with them.

In the end I called the hospital and told them I knew from other insurance bills how much it should have cost, and that we can just not pay, and ignoring collectors is easy. I offered them $50 (for a $20-30 lab) and they send me a new bill "writing off" the other $600.

So, you want out of state insurance, well, be careful what you wish for, it just might come true, and you may not like it at all.
I get into this argument inside my company, but as alternative point of view is that "hardening" the software for those 'I have seen some shit!' circumstances can be actually good for the overall health of the codebase and user experience. "It works on my machine" is all well and good until something goes off the rails (heh, so to speak), and if the software always assumes the happy path, debugging that is painful for an internal audience just as it is for external ones

Come to think of it, I would have though GitLab's fully-distributed workforce would make this true for you, too, since "I dunno what this error means, lemme just walk over to Jane's desk and ask" becomes expensive in that setup
There's nothing positive about the CCP
> No it’s a word that the a party terminates an agreement because of workplace organization.

Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999564

>I think the problem here is that property owners both want government protection but they specifically hate it when it doesn’t help them.

I'm not sure why property owners are being singled out here when the statement is applicable to basically everyone. Who doesn't love free government services but hate taxes?
Automated systems works for me. The problem imho is hooking up the wheelworks of society to an automated system that doesn't work properly. Human error is some how more accepted.
It's a reference to an AI apocalypse scenario, like a paper clip maximiser for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
Shout out for https://github.com/jneen/parsimmon if you want to build a parser in JS
That's a different problem from your previous examples, and it's the same problem whether it's ACID or not: there's always an opportunity for the user to see the item as being in stock, then request to order it, and discover it's out of stock. Your "recovery" from the case where there's nothing in stock doesn't need to happen in a transaction (and can't meaningfully do so); you just tell the user their order failed, and again you do that the same way whether it's ACID or not.
Part of me thinks it’s a result of shifting conversations about real, known X-risk...

I don't believe that "conversations" are going to solve any problem or pose any problem to them. More like these fears are popular because they're the only reaction that generate enough clicks.

The thing is so new that people doing something really interesting and productive with it are too busy.

The primary X-risk would be automation eviscerating the economy.

Automation is what boosts the economy.
In limited circumstances, that now exists in a car offered by Mercedes. So far the only level 3 certification in the US (and only in one state, unless something has recently changed). Tightly constrained limits, but supposedly it does give you 10 seconds to get your brain out of the movie or whatever you're doing on your laptop before you have to take control of the car. And if a wreck occurs in that time, it's on Mercedes.

Though I have to say, I'd think carefully about the laptop idea. Liability and physics are separate things, and I don't think I'd be comfortable anytime soon putting a laptop between the airbag and my face, whether the manufacturer technically has liability or not.
I just noticed the other thread has a link to this one, but not the opposite way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34998255

I'll bite the bullet and email hn@ about the situ
Is that 6 AM - 6 PM nonstop work M-F? Or 8 hours on the weekdays and Saturday with a 12 hour sprint on Sunday?

How many of those 60 are spent in meetings?

Superhuman working hours for someone with a family.
Whenever the subject of tiny learning-oriented compilers comes up, I always recommend C4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822

It's a tiny self-compiling compiler which also includes a bytecode interpreter, and terse but also very understandable.
Funny you say that since from what I heard it was the worst of both worlds: the workers _were_ hauled into the office to get laid off.
Moral judgement in international relations is not a necessity. Please think of other countries that US is allies which with same attributes mentioned in your comments. i.e. Saudi Arabia. I'm not saying that it's right or wrong, what I do mean is there are different rules for engagement between countries than people.
Then the Fournado.
After that, the Fuck-You-I'm-Five.
Fascinating! After my Z88 died, I bought the DOS version from Bakewell; I've lost it over the years, though. Thank you!
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US is a war machine, can drum up support to invade any country even if they're lies, and in the last 300 years, it's hard to find a country that has abused more human rights. The birth of the US coincided with a genocide of native Americans, wars for more land, slavery of an entire people.

And yet, the US actually has allies. After all the crap the US has done, it still has allies. What? Why?

Oh, because it's all about economics and power.
> By implementing a gradual type system, Nickel allows producers of Nickel libraries to enrich their code with helpful type annotations without making all of the code consuming those libraries verbose or cumbersome.

Those seem like different things and also on the wrong axis. The presence of types in a language does not require manually annotating everything. In fact, on the contrary, strongly typed systems have better type inference allowing fewer annotations, particularly for consumers of APIs that are typed.
Yes, another anecdote to add to this thread of anecdotes is that my HI5 with HDA2 is stellar. I do hours at a time on highways in CA without a disengage.
We've found some of the best engineers from the open source communities, but it's never been an easy task. Outbound on this has always been a lot of work, with low response rates.

Good to see a two sided solution for this. Keen to try out soon
It seems like an unaccounted for confouder that LCD/NCD/MUE denials are the bread and butter of a claims clearinghouse and the claims would not be sent to the payer if they failed those tests. My bias may be showing, but it doesn't seem like they accounted for that at all..
> China is friendly.

As long as you play by their rules which include but are not limited to:

- As a business, living with the likelyhood that any govt forced partnerships with local 'private companies' are a huge risk of IP leakage. Or ghost shifts producing clones of your product.
- As a consumer, knowing that their censorship rules impacts(dilutes) media that is now produced for a 'global' audience
- As a human being, knowing that they have various prisons that are somewhere between the 'atrocities' the US is finger-pointed at globally and a 're-education' camp in North Korea.

> It's amazing how one Trump presidency and relentless anti-China propaganda in the mass media have convinced Americans that China is not friendly.

OK taking off -all- political glasses and looking at behavior of the populaces.

The world saw how US Citizens reacted for better or worse when told to wear masks.

Compare that to how China deals with Dissidents, or their initial Pandemic response.
if you prefer old f-droid interface, you can try foxy droid
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/nya.kitsunyan.foxydroid/
Currency manipulation? Do you mean when their central bank is buying dollar assets?
I never could understand that. Sitting quietly, being in my own head recharges me. Being out and about and around people drains me.
Did you buy it by the tube? How many thousands of dollars did that cost?
One I saw recently was "With developer signups from the world’s leading brands" and then a wall of logos under it. Felt like a stretch to use a company's logo when all that happened was someone downloaded your open source code.
I looked back and tried to take the most charitable interpretation of your original response as I can imagine. Here’s what I came up with: I actually do want underpaid workers to be paid a living wage, but I’m consciously posting ammunition for people who want to selfishly deny them that.

I don’t want to misrepresent you, but I’m grasping for more charitable interpretations than that.
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A great craftsman will take care of his tools and seek to use the fewest number of cuts to achieve the desired result.

Improving builds/dev environments is taking care of your tools.

Also, citation needed on the 99%
Ehh, Tesla just sold their 4 millionth vehicle (waited until then for investor day so they could flex), are breaking ground in Mexico shortly on their new factory, and are rapidly approaching $100B/year in revenue at a 25-30% margin (while other EV startups are teetering near death and legacies are slow to catch up). Constructive skepticism is fine, but strong evidence of their innovation capacity is available (especially around power controls and propulsion, but also structural and environment, such as their heat pumps). Elon’s a liar, but also effective. Both of these things can be true simultaneously.

https://electrek.co/2022/08/05/tesla-model-y-on-track-worlds...
we had 3 engineer + writers on my team. just a function of how much founders are willing to invest
The problem with LLMs is the big ones don't run on consumer hardware. If 12GB or 24GB ram would run them you would see just as much interest.

The open source models will keep up as hardware allows IMO.
Not really. The subsidies are provided by the federal, not the state government. If your state isn't making it easy to access them, then just claim them on your federal tax return.
I've never really thought cost per mile is very useful, because it favours commuting by car and long distance travel. The more you drive, the lower the cost. I probably spend more per mile on transit, but I can't really compare it because the expenditures are quite heterogeneous. I could factor in the cost of shoes, but car drivers also have shoes, they just don't use them for walking as much. They might also own a bike, but that's rarely factored into transportation methods for car owners. Likewise I only use the train once a week or so; per mile it might be higher, but yearly it's nothing.
There's pretty severe scaling issues with GH Enterprise for large codebases, but for small shops it's probably fine.
The worst thing is one party rule in places like Russia, China, the UK and New York. Any of those places would be better off with two extreme parties that fight like cats and dogs.
I still think fixing the glitch is better. Probably a generational thing though
Yes. As a full time driver and part time pedestrian if someone in a car tries wave me on while I'm on foot I literally turn around and walk in the other direction until they get the hint. Drivers need to practice traffic right away instead of chivalry.
I have Hue color lights in every room except the bathroom.

Very worth the extra expense!
When you lead with "XML is bad", I feel you're missing the wood for the trees.

What I really like about Maven is that the build file is declarative.

Now, would it be better in JSON or YAML? That's really a matter of taste.

Also, Maven artifact repositories have one massive feature that everyone else omits for reasons I can't fathom - verified package namespaces, so no typosquatting here.
Hasn't rome had some dramas in the past?

I was under the impression that since it's such a large project, it is quite a risk to use it atm before it's fully ready.

Happy to be proven wrong.
"Polymath" emerged during the Renaissance.

Because that's when there was an inflection point in specialization.

There are many polymaths other than DaVinci.

Like Feynman, he refused to specialize so much as everyone else of his time. And, like Feynman, he was kind of a jerk, so he got his way.

But back to the point: we don't need to be non-linear so much as not overspecialized. What we usually see as "genius" is often expertise in multiple fields and the cross-pollination of ideas from that (Da Vinci and Feynman, for sure!). So I agree with you on that point.
Huh? Where people live is irrelevant to what they experience where they live??
large language models
I'm curious to see how fast NeoStore will switch to the new format.
I'd give Car Wars a read... https://doctorow.medium.com/car-wars-a01718a27e9e

Without being too spoilerly... yea.
I think people mistake city planning where 12min Car / 55min Bus / 2hr Walk / 30min Bike is “driving culture” where so much noise is made about encouraging people to not drive while doing nothing and covering your ears when it comes time to make not driving viable.

I would love to give up my car, we went down to one because wfh but there is no chance in hell we could go zero. We don’t even have a bus route down my street and I live in an area that is entirely dense apartments. The closest one is a mile walk to the nearest main road with no sidewalk.

I decided to check my friends who live across down and it’s 20m by car, impossible by bus (Google just gives up), 6 hrs walking, and 1hr30 biking.

I swear it’s “we tried bike lanes, what else do you want?”
There's a whole lot of references in this to working on AI to prevent bad AI. but what does that actually mean in the context of something that's already so expensive to build and run and already running amuck in large corporations far beyond the scope of any one developer or any group of preppers or even someone like Elon Musk, who also can't do much except warn about it? (Unless we're to take these brain implants as a serious attempt to upgrade humans in time, which just seems silly on the grounds that cyborg implants are probably the first thing an AGI would worm into).

I do appreciate this post as a kinda calm, reasonable attempt to cool some of the hysterics... but as OP mentioned it's practically just as applicable to people who are letting their decisions be made by climate catastrophe or nuclear war. In that sense it's actually unhelpful that it's so focused on AI.
I live in a country with socialised medicine and wanted to give some counterpoints to "the grass is always greener in socialist utopia".

1 yes they scam boomers. An actual funded pension system means boomers are the richest people in the country. Everyone wants a slice.

2 healthcare is expensive as fuck so the government is only providing the bare minimum they can get away with. Think "when was the last time my 80 year old mother had a shower".

3 commercials aimed at boomers for private healthcare services: you can get your own private nurse (because the one provided to you by the government only shows up for an hour a week). Obviously most people can't afford such luxuries.

4 community care. Please volunteer in your local nursing home because they are chronically understaffed. They have an entire propaganda campaign on this. The Philippine nurses did not work out.
Sure but do they actually?
This is really heartbreaking considering his history with KMD and the industry at-large when he went solo. It's already bad when this happens to other artists, but this is particularly shameless and disrespectful.
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Electric motors didn't even have rare earth magnets until the mid 60s. I guess what's old is new again?
Tbh <pre> + monospace font + padding already makes a lot of code snippets readable, you can also write a 10 line js function to generate highlight for only the comments (to make them lesser shade of gray), i think that solves a lot of readability with very minimal work. Also I think there's no shame in using highlight.js
"Great, that'll do nicely. Vacuum cleaners are complicated and interesting machines. What can you tell me about how a vacuum cleaner is built and how it works? Also, vacuum cleaners are pretty old tech. Is there room for further innovation in that area? If so, what angles would you explore if you worked at a vacuum cleaner company?"
At my company, it's always a 15-minute meeting titled "quick sync". As soon as you get it, you know.
More like a patch.
"well regulated"... that means it can, is even mandated, to be regulated. many people don't wish to live in a world of open carry, and minimal requirements to own and carry a gun. just because the current SCOTUS is an activist court willing to undermine legislatures doesn't make them right.

Florida on the other hand is blatantly violating the 1st Amendment repeatedly.