skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, ok, try harder than a Reddit thread where supposedly authoritative commenters can’t even spell encrypt.

The idiot pmendes is wrong (if he was correct then no one knowledgeable on the subject would classify that system as E2EE - something more to read about). The encryption keys are not managed in iCloud which you can read yourself:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/how-imessage-sends-...

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/messages/#:~:tex....

iCloud backup is an opt in feature - you use it full well knowing it effectively damages the affordance of E2E regardless of locale if ADP is not available.

“Read more” did not mean social media.
>> How did you find out the closet partition stud was load bearing, in the end ?

> I tried to cut it and it started to bind the saw. I stopped and thought, and then did not cut anymore until I had shored up the upstairs.

https://www.jefftk.com/p/accidentally-load-bearing#fb-231219...
It's true, they merely have enough cash on hand to fund a small army, enough legal power to crush you in court with anything you attempt.

Make no mistake: if Apple needed to get someone killed, they would. They're not some miraculous pinnacles of good in a sea of evil. It's just that they merely need to flex the law at you to destroy your life forever. Apple is no different, they'll hire the Pinkertons and break your fingers should they find the need to. Carnegie Steel did it, Apple's not above it either.
They should just publicly publish all the messages from politicians' accounts.

If they want to see our messages we should be able to see theirs, fair is fair.
basically anyone that has gotten a check from me has my checking account number...
Just do the most basic Google search. Here, I'll start for you:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230345/#:~:text=This%2....

However, a majority of the newer studies show that welfare has a significantly negative effect on marriage or a positive effect on fertility rather than none at all. Because of this shift in findings, the current consensus is that the welfare system probably has some effect on these demographic outcomes.

Based on this review, it is clear that a simple majority of the studies that have been conducted to date show a significant correlation between welfare benefits and marriage and fertility, suggesting the presence of such behavioral incentive effects.

But it's also just obvious.

And then the effects of kids from single-mother homes:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-children-raised-with-....

This is all widely known and generally agreed on. That the outcomes of kids from single-mother homes are far worse than married coupled homes when you control for income, etc.
Pretty standard practice at this point right?
To make it worse, and to paraphrase Christopher Hitchens, it's your own cells, your own body killing you.
Learned helplessness. Teach the citizens that the only thing protecting them from the Big Scary Internet is their benevolent government. Meanwhile the politicians collect millions from the mass media companies that lobbied for the god-awful implementation of the law we all ended up with, and as everyone gets worn down into Accepting All always, they simultaneously forget that their User Agent holds all the cards (or in this case, cookies), and it can be instructed to do anything the User wants with them.
> That could be true? IIRC, PRISM was less about direct access, and more about abusing every potential method of gaining information.

Direct access to the data was mentioned in the Guardian and other newspapers
I’m not defending the behavior, just saying that it didn’t detract from the parts of the book that I enjoyed.

I did find the inclusion of so many details of his romantic life a bit odd. It’s not that they were graphic or anything, there was just a lot of it and it didn’t have anything to do with the subject of the book.
:)

This is for the lonely boring nights...
Just another result of the terrible Publish or Perish incentives in Academia.
> Filming police performing their duties is a constitutionally protected activity affirmed by the SCOTUS

For now.
Yeah, this is becoming more and more the case. I have friends who are associated with or in law enforcement and if you ever end up at a bar with them they will endlessly talk about the "threats to their safety" on the job.

I often hear stories where they're checking out a house that has supposed drug use (or similar) and they play it up like they're a marine in a war zone, going to have a man-down shoot out. In reality, they knock on the door, a very high college student answers, they provide the warrant, search through a house of strung out people, and they do their thing.

That being said, our area has a lot of rural patrols and we have had a few incidents where people fire back at the cops on their acreage and it turns into an incident. However, even when dealing with "crazy Billy with a shotgun", they're 2 people, who then call in backup, also have a shotgun, and are otherwise armed. The power dynamic still favours the cops even in that extreme situation.

I feel like there are a lot of rare incidents that get repeated over and over within the police force that keep the cops on edge and further the belief of a need for more and more budget increases for more and more military-style equipment.

For instance, our local city police force just bragged on twitter that they bought a modified troop carrier and a ramming tank for SWAT-like break and enter operations. I'm not sure I want my police owning a literal tank when they already have me outgunned with assault rifles, shot guns, sidearms, and sheer numbers.

By the way, this is in Canada. I'm not even talking about the more extreme stuff going on South of the border.
Today's software beats the hell out of the audio tapes I used in the 90s but the ideas are the same: Familiarization, recall, and recognition.

First you familiarize yourself with an interval, by just playing it all over your instrument, listening and singing it.

Then you test your recall: Play a note N, and try to sing N+I (where I is the interval).

Once you know more than one interval, you can also test recognition: Someone else plays an interval (N,N+I) and you try to identify I.

Once you've got the twelve intervals (you can go past the octave but that's pretty easy so basically there are only 12 to learn) you can do similarly for chords. Chords are also easy compared to intervals, though, because they are built up from intervals, so even before you can recognize them all at once, you'll already have the ability to pick them apart note by note to figure out what they are.
Sure, but that shouldnt preclude looking into it...

As you stated "*I need a lot of evidence*" - which is exactly what I am asking for. "Moar evidance"

And sulfates may not be the right metric...

So if we can fully identify dietary commonalities of pancreatic cancer patients, then we can get a little farther down this path to understanding...

What would be the most amazing use of "AI" would be to have a biological model of a pure human body (as far as nutrients and blah blah are concerned) - then cycle through feeding that biology various substances and seeing how it propogates through the system)
That's an apples / oranges comparison unless we agree on an actuarial calculus for the value of saving an entire life vs. the cost of shortening a million lives by a day.
One common argument was that bad state actors would get non-CSAM, but still "undesirable" (as defined by the state), material into the database and use it to target dissidents, badthink, etc.

(Personally, I think this was an overblown risk, since the plan was for the images to first be reviewed by Apple before being sent to the authorities. Presumably if an Apple employee/contractor saw a photo of, say, Tank Man, they wouldn't pass it on. But it's reasonable to be concerned.)
"Collision due to a radiofrequency interlock caused by an electrical perturbation" would make some excellent Star Trek technobabble.
Being a police officer is a privilege. The population grants you the authority to detain us, accuse us, and even kill us. Few professions should be subject to higher scrutiny.
What was that factor that made YC accept you into their batch then ? What differentiator did you guys bring ?
You can still add non-Steam programs to Steam to use them that way, so this doesn't even prevent that. This just means Valve is not distributing this over their store.

The Steam Deck community already has scripts for installing & adding to Steam emulators for basically everything in one shot, and Steam isn't doing the distribution of any of these.
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The way we crafted it is not clear. Our idea is straightforward: if you want to use the software, you can do so for free, whether for personal use or within an organization. However, if you aim to sell it for profit, you need to contribute to its creation in some way; this is why permission is required. At least, that's the case at this early stage.
>> Hyrum’s law

> It is Hyrums law.

No, it's "Hyrum's" not "Hyrums": https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
> fact that some of them disliked being filmed so much just bolsters the case that they need to be filed, IMO

Most of us would be furious about being filmed on the job. We just don’t render deadly force.
> There is also an argument RFK Jr. makes which is that the vaccine solutions contain many harmful components

.. and he started down that path by repeating, without checking, highly bogus discredited "science" about the harmful effects of thimerosal and a deliberate widespread conspiracy regarding its use.

When he jumped on that public bandwagon it had already been out of use for more than a decade after being used for some two decades prior in trace amounts that caused not great issues.

Everything he said was either false, 30 years out of date, or both.

He really hasn't improved much since.
In software, I would strongly disagree with this:

> you ought to understand what something is doing before fiddling with it

I think understanding before fiddling is one option. But I think a better option is often fiddling and seeing what happens. The trick is to make it so that fiddling is safe. E.g., on a project where I have good test coverage and find mystery code, I can just delete it and see what fails. Or I set up a big smoke test that runs a bunch of input and compares outputs to see what changes.

A lot of bad software is effectively incoherent, so it can't be understood as machinery. Instead it has to be understood in psychological, historical, or archaeological terms. "Well back then they were trying to achieve X, and the programmer doing it was not very experienced and was really interested in trendy approach Y so he tried using library Z, but it wasn't really suited for the problem at hand, so he misused it pretty severely."

That can be interesting, but it's often much more efficient to say, "Who cares how or why this got to be such a tangled mess. Let's solve for the actual current needs."
Do you think watching it could be quite triggering for someone who has experienced this sort of episode?
Thanks! In short, I'd say building in public on Twitter (https://twitter.com/JimDesignsCo) has been my primary way to get traction.
So then you just chose to respond with my final example:

“ An alternative explanation will be “well The writing wasn’t very good anyway, it was all a regurgitation of the same thing over and over anyways”, so “nothing of value has been lost.””

In fact something has been lost, which is a human being is now less able to feed themselves and their family and take a vacation and create something valuable.

The fact that you and others don’t care about that outcome is the problem.
Also the denouement to the Fawlty Towers "Builders" episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfBOIbjbLv0

(or, jump to https://youtu.be/jfBOIbjbLv0?t=1560)
Does the 10 foot rule apply if you are the one being spoken to by the police? E.g. if you are recording a traffic stop.
I'm interested in all kinds of astronomy.
Is anyone under the illusion that this will become a product?

No, it's just neat.

And I realized there's a way to make it available in more places.

If we can convince the mods to post a guideline, "please don't share ideas for others to implement", then that's fine. I'll try to abide.

Until then, I think it's stupid to complain about other people sharing their ideas.
Yes, Elon. We know.
I hate to bring it up for fears it gets taken down, but how does RetroArch survive on Steam in that case? It doesn't come with them, but you can download cores for Nintendo systems directly from RetroArch.
> with applications in medicine and beyond

Cybernetics? ;)
This is almost always true. But this is also how a new company inevidently sprung up and eat your lunch. Everyone knows photoshop is bloated and slow, they have all the money and industry knowledge in the world, why didn't they come up with figma. Maybe it's a bad example that adobe ended up buying figma, or it further proofs the point that don't bother rewriting, buy your competitor instead. If you can buy your competitor, then there is no innovator's dilemma
When I made a terminal based game for a gamejam Cool Retro Terminal served as quick and easy way to make the final demonstration look nicer.
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Agreed. And "by up to" is a poor metric. What about P90 or even average?
Kinda apropos, I’ve used international data roaming in mainland China and was (initially) astonished to find it totally bypassed the GFW and I could run IPsec and SSH unencumbered, none of the unabashed MITM fuckery I saw from using strong crypto over Chinese hotel wifi for more than a couple of seconds. That was a few years ago, I don’t know where their interception regime is at today, but it was a reminder that propaganda begins at home.
It's the most liberal state in the country so it would get voted down even harder everywhere else.
People should read actual documentation and expert or academic writing rather than a bunch of terminally online nerds on Reddit.
I’ve seen nothing credible that the E2E for iMessage and FaceTime isn’t as advertised. If you backup to the cloud you’re electing to disclose your data outside the boundaries of encryption.
I mean Apple didn't give two stones about security until it became a marketing/selling point as a counterpoint to the big G.
Agreed, tracking my LinkedIn search notifications I’ve seen the open positions for tech start to plummet, to where last week my specific job description (cyber engineer) has now had 0% new positions.
> And no, I am not going to post my personal medical history on HN

I understand. I hope my request to learn more came across as polite to you. The reason for asking was to understand more about the motivations and beliefs / experiences behind your comment.

> Everyone picks their own convenient opinion these days, all that can come out of this is that people publicly will doubt my personal experience, which is not useful for anyone.

I like to think HN is a forum where this is less likely, or where poor responses are flagged or downvoted, but of course I've seen it here too, and I understand your caution.
Wow dude. Way to bring that way out of left field into a discussion about vaccines. Preoccupied much?
I’m a believer in making a “Single Responsibility: ___” comment at the top of each class.
Connect my CRM to an internal system.

Let's for example say it's an AI power assistant for the sake of memeing Iron Man. I want to be able tell openai to generate a function calling method that takes a json schema and inserts the code into "Twenty.com" for data retrieval.

You can construct an alternative scenario with a bank's financial data retrieval.

It's too hard to think through the recursive cases through a network when it's considered "linking" in the GPL3 sense.
Yes you are right. It's not even open source...
Cathode was also more full-featured, e.g. I don’t think CRT has sound effects or the dying tube effect. It’s been a while and I’m not on my computer but I’m not sure it even has the bitrate modifier.
I suspect not...

BLS national semiconductor industry-specific occupational employment data[1] circa 2022 suggests there are roughly as many 15-1252 title-specific "Software Developers"[2] (13,220) as there are all positions categorized under 49-0000 "Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations"[3] (13,410)...never mind that what requires specialized handling is bleeding edge ASML EUV tech for which there is a single deeply backlogged global source of, substantially increasing risk to TSMC at what is clearly a critical phase.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_334400.htm

[2] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_334400.htm#15-0000

[3] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_334400.htm#49-0000
> But I think a better option is often fiddling and seeing what happens. The trick is to make it so that fiddling is safe. E.g., on a project where I have good test coverage and find mystery code, I can just delete it and see what fails. Or I set up a big smoke test that runs a bunch of input and compares outputs to see what changes.

There was a good discussion of this in the comments, starting at https://www.jefftk.com/p/accidentally-load-bearing#fb-109168...

In addition to tests, you can also add logging to your running system, or make the change behind a flag that you A/B test in production.
In the old days,hotmail used to have a rule that you had to log in every two months. Going to army training meant you most likely would lose access to your emails after boot camp.

Gmail made it a generous 6 months. I don’t know when it changed to two years.
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Spoken like someone who has never worked retail.
Thanks. Hopefully they continue to stick to their guns.
Monolith does not always equal “bad”
Yup, sorry - I conflated it with more recent systems due to the recently announced remakes for several Gamecube games.
It's a good point, and cuts at a deep tradeoff in musicianship (or, indeed, the labor market) -- general human capital vs. firm-specific human capital. Something I like about jazz is you can spend a couple decades investing in yourself and basically kick ass from then on. But to really shine, you need to have invested in your band too, which is a much riskier proposition.
Thanks, checking it.
When I was younger (hah, I'm only 26 now) I sure did do exactly what you say. If your statement is intended to say that "People should not" then you're absolutely correct, however it is a learned behavior that some people must adopt after being corrected by their peers.
That doesn't matter in the end.

1/ Technology has always disrupted labor market so I mean that's not even a question this will happen.

2/ It's not that sad: I've worked in journaism and the reality is that 80% of news article are already most of the time a sad copypasta of a single main source of info such as reuters / AFP in france. Most of journalism is already noise.

Maybe that will help recenter journalism on real investigative missions rather than this current low value state.
One of the few known modifiable risk factors is sun exposure, which reduces risk by 30-40%:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24075798/

Whether it would be too late to do anything after getting the diagnosis is another question. Studies that look at sun exposure over time and mortality (e.g. Lindqvist's studies) show that it takes decades of sun exposure to lower the mortality risk by this amount.
Well, I don't think my statements are extreme actually. I've given them a lot of thought and reasoned them out more fully elsewhere. I do sincerely believe AI has the capability to make society significantly worse and even destroy it through its isolating effects and through its removal of purpose from humanity. Of course, these comment boxes are a little small to have extended discussions but I'm perfectly willing to hear any serious arguments against what I have to say.
Wordpress is a versatile platform, that's for sure.
I've noticed that too and it is super annoying having family in the UK that will only communicate via Whatsapp. Is this because cell providers outside the US charge for SMS? Even the ones who have iPhones end up using it because it is too much of a pain to use separate messaging apps.
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I agree with this point. I hadn't meant to suggest that we should discard information received from others.

But I think it would be crazy to not to differentiate between immediate experience and what we've been told. Not even because immediate experience is always more accurate. Sometimes it is NOT, but it's a different source of information subject to different problems. Often more trustworthy but not always, though the "not always" can be ameliorated a bit by understanding some of the limits of personal experience.

I was really only taking issue with "interpretation is all we have" applying in the original story - that there is a difference between "my interpretation about something I experienced" and "my beliefs about a thing I did not experience".

Yes the author's story changed, but it changed because he found out that he was lied to by the police (or perhaps, if we want to be generous, "unintentionally misled") not because his memory was fallible.

To get back to the point I took issue with, in the story "the facts" mattered an awful lot. It was a lack of access to the facts that caused the problem not "an incorrect interpretation" of what the author experienced. The latter happens all the time, but interpreting our experience differently (e.g., reprocessing a traumatic memory with self-compassion and seeing it as unfortunate and something to learn from) is a different thing than finding out what we were told was a lie. Both change our story, but one is indeed a reinterpretation and the other is a change in belief or knowledge.

I think it's important to separate those two things. I think some want to treat them as the same. I think that can cause problems.
Ignoring the client side scanning ability that is built into the OS, which raises other suspicions.

It takes a lot of unearned trust to to assume that there isn't classified surveillance occurring.

If it is, public virtue signalling about not breaking encryption is theater. As the surveillance occurs prior to encryption.
> Or imagine every smartphone user is a local tour guide in the city he or she is visiting. Each user takes photos and provides details about significant landmarks, stores, products, and local cuisine.

WikiTravel?
The past also suffers from survivorship bias. Although there's a 1 in 8 chance of flipping 3 consecutive heads, in the future after flipping 3 consecutive heads you forget about the other possibilities. E.g., there was a 1 in 8 chance that Hitler, Stalin, and Mao could have all been born women before they were conceived.
Exactly. The difference is really the scale and speed at which information spreads. It's like a schoolyard with millions instead of hundreds.
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