skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You answered yourself : remember Apple’s implementation of CSAM detection.

We don’t own our devices anymore and we now have very limited control of what is executed or not so there is nothing stopping developers to run those legal spywares on the device since our only option if we don’t like what an app does is to not use it.
I worry about future use of my data. If it’s not e2e encrypted, future despots (or, less extreme, insurance companies, which tend to be only slightly less evil than despots anyway) can mine it (with not very good AI) to see if I am a good servant to the state , even though my remarks might be from 15 years ago and not related.
It's easy to get a bad rep in niche industries in a small area because we tend to know each other. I had a guy who was our worst hire ever list me as a reference. Unfortunately, the hiring manager at the next job he tried to get was a friend and former co-worker of mine.
The twenty-first century did not invent cheap goods of dubious quality.
Thanks. So short-term: annoying spam and phishing calls/sms

Long-term: hard to say.

Makes sense
BTW - if you ever find yourself in a situation like this - do the physio work, own doing it, no one's going to tell you to do it more than you, and a good physio will give you a plan to follow - in my case having access to a hot physio pool was the big thing, an hour a day every day effectively I crawled in and eventually walked away to the gym
I find it worrying when news outlets publish articles that simply repeat politicians talking points. We all know of laws that say one thing on the tin but are much more draconian in practice.

This article fails to analyse the wording of the law, or cover any dissenting opinions. It’s taking the Australian government at face value.
Yes, I know how the EU works.

These heads of states also got elected in their respective countries. You don't want to see "chat control" proposals coming from the council of Europe? Then don't elect the likes of Orban/Melonie/Geert Wilders!

Next week we're voting for the EU Parliament where MEPs are responsible for discussing and accepting/rejecting proposals from the EU Council.
I am sorry, but the late socialist Soviet Union is a really bad example here - you want to compare 2 democracies with different economic attitudes, like the US and Germany (today).

The Soviet Union had a lot of problems that prevented the people there from the life they deserved. There were many monkey businesses from the US side, too.

Gorbachev tried to fix it and steer the system from a shitty corrupted communism to a more western socialism. Unfortunately for him the russians and honestly the rest of the world, he failed.

Remember it's never either this or that. The best system takes the good part from every attitude. The rigid, dichotomic attitude of the last century is the root of the problem, not communism or capitalism.
That one's easy, he just gives all his passwords to Apple Inc.
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Role skills mean that the interviewer checks a box. Social skills mean that the interviewer thinks he'll like working with you.

Which one do you think has more impact?
Right of first sale still applies. Nothing obligates a company to continue selling you goods if they don't want to.
Yes please. Then leave the rest of the world. Too bad Merkel is not in charge anymore. She would make herring from such bullies
It originally comes from the Commission, not the council:

https://fortune.com/europe/2023/10/26/eu-chat-control-csam-e...

Back in May last year, the European Commission proposed what security maven Matthew Green described as “the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen”—a law that would force everyone from Facebook to Signal to scan everyone’s messages
He spent $1100 CAD getting his sofa reupholstered, and the sofa itself cost over $3,000 CAD in 1999 according to the article (so about $5,000 today).

Cheap things are cheaply made isn't news. But being able to have them at all, is for a lot of people, very valuable.

What is not in the article is what would $5,000 buy him today? He doesn't know because he didn't go looking. The linked article in the article is someone talking about reupholstering a $1,000 sofa.

EDIT: I mean hell, that article wants to talk about a $300 1965 Sears Sofa... In 2024 USD that's almost $3,000.
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Authorities compel tech companies to hand over data and place backdoors. They typically abuse secrecy laws to avoid public backlash, but their public demands have gotten bolder since the Snowden disclosures.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments...

https://www.techdirt.com/2016/02/16/no-judge-did-not-just-or...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-02/juniper-m...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1241YV/

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/micros...

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=encryption%20ban

They even also do it without the companies' knowledge too.

https://archive.is/2023.10.31-203648/https://www.washingtonp...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/its-no-secret-governme...

Have you been living under a rock this past decade?
A simple pencil mark on the door frame usually works best.

My adult kids love to look back to see how tall they were when they were 10 years old.

Instead of measuring schools how about we pay teachers more and demand decent education.

All this measuring! Measuring, measuring, measuring.

What a waste of time and money.
People are acting as if it wasn't possible to create realistic looking fake pornography featuring real people before diffusion models.

Photoshop's been around for a while.
The irony being that this very site's boosting of that store, in a modern web-driven sense, is likely to see all sorts of increased business for said store. Not that it's a bad thing, I'd like to see them getting all business they can handle. But there's a spectrum between the lifestyle capitalism stores like this and the VC-backed unicorns.
I kinda feel most Americans should be trying to walk more... but also if the schedules and stops were improved people would use it far more. I'd like to take a tram or bus I just don't want to spend an extra 40+/- mins getting there to arrive with no protection from the weather. I don't particularly like taxis much but at least they figure out where you need to go without too much effort, I do drive though way more then I taxi. Taxis are more rare trips for traveling in places I don't know or can't drive. I wish we had high speed trains where I lived in my capital city, just an easy way to travel to the major cities by train would make my day. I'd travel far more often if I could then. Trains to me are the best of all worlds.
This is great. u/optimalsolver's comment deserves to be un-flagged for this and u/kibwen's comment alone.
I did the overclocking and overvolting thing (with a pencil) for a bit, but then I became obsessed with silent computers and went the other way: undervolting. Trying to keep it running at the lowest possible voltage without reducing the clock speed too much. Those were fun experiments. Could do passive air cooling when the overclockers were getting into water cooling.

Aside from undervolting to reduce cooling needs and thus fan noise, suspending disks on sturby rubber bands greatly reduced vibration noises, same with mounting fans with plastic plugs instead of metal screws. Getting bigger, slower fans also helped a lot.

PCs now tend to be pretty quiet these days, but loud fans and rattling still bug me from time to time.
But the only reason meta exists is to spy on people.
I worked for several small projects and startups. All of them became shitter for employees when MBA people took over.
It can also happen for Flatpak not to work on some distros.
It isn't about being afraid. The interaction between two people is nobody's business except the two people.
Of course the wording isn't given:

The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, is expected to introduce legislation on Wednesday to create a new criminal offence of sharing, without consent, sexually explicit images that have been digitally created using artificial intelligence or other forms of technology.

it will be available to all (reporters and the general public alike) once tabled to be considered on Wednesday.

After that it will be debated, modified, and have to pass through two houses of government before it becomes "Law" and even then it will still have to pass through the "live testing" of actual charges and a non trivial court case on a real world application.
I am not sure about this, but this new feature requires a dedicated AI chip (or maybe even a decent enough GPU), so,… here’s to hoping the guys behind shutup10 can integrate a patch to disable this.
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Wire. Open source, self hostable
I once saw a documentary on a haptic compass, built from some rumble packs. It allowed people to improve their way-finding skills, and if I recall correctly, people accustomed to the idea of having this extra sense after about a week or so.

I can’t easily find the original research (somewhere in the 1990s), but several hackers and artists have rebuilt or rediscovered the idea.

See for example https://blinry.org/compass-belt/
“Use layers of regex, semantic embeddings, and scoring enrichments to identify report rows (pivots on aggregates) worth attention, running on a schedule”

This is really interesting, is there any architecture documentation/articles that you can recommend?
I didn’t… is because of Windows Nein?
The wonderful thing about the free market is that consumers have choice. There is indeed a large market for high quality products at a higher price. Old brands become shitty, and new brands pop up.

Bernie Sanders, a famous modern-day socialist, is famous for saying we don’t need so many brands of deodorant: https://fortune.com/2024/02/12/too-many-products-bernie-sand...

This is where I fundamentally disagree. Only the market, where consumers put their hard-earned dollars at work, can tell us how many brands of deodorant are needed. From skin sensitivity to smell to the chemical makeup, I don’t want a government bureaucrat deciding the “correct” number of deodorant brands. I want as many as the market sees fit.

Extending that principle outwards, the market will decide the type of sofas that can be made, and at what price.
We shouldn't count on that though.
You can vote at embassy? I need to travel back to the actual country.
Will my email client using SMIME have to implement this? Seems kind of ridiculous.

Seems to be targeting platforms. Will it be illegal to send encrypted texts, what is keeping anyone from using crypto on top of existing messaging?

While I do not want to dive into any details on adverse effects of such stupidities, the EU seems to be actually taking a strange road to tech dependent overengineered regulation. It seems that this mostly driven by lobbyists that want to sell compliance services. Also it seems that there is more value in creating regulation rather than making sure it is enforcible.
Ok understood, so a vague fear of being punished for what you said today in the future by governments or insurance companies.

I can see that happening in the future albeit with a low probability in the Western World at least. Of course you never know
You’re telling us that buses must be empty, because people won’t take buses, because there aren’t enough buses, because buses would be empty if there are enough buses. Can you spot where the logic breaks down?
Yes. There are people with problems. Instead of helping them fix their problems it's just easier to prevent nice things from everybody.

Strange times indeed.
I probably wouldn't mind spending 30% of my workday walking home with either Gödel or Einstein, even if it meant I was only getting paid 70% of my normal salary.
> this new feature requires a dedicated AI chip

It literally does not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40543584
Some secrets are worthless without communications. Think of the poor extortionists. They took a compromising pictures, they would have to sent it via mail without proper encryption. How retrograde.

I’m joking around but I did get your point. I just think secrets cannot be categorised simply in “stuff I don’t want anyone ever to learn about” (why would someone use signal for that though) and “stuff I don’t care if anyone learns about”. 99% of the information I send over signal is actually neither, it’s in-between. I don’t want the whole world to see pictures and names of my family. I do want other members of my family to have them. Hence I use Signal for this, because I trust them most (or I distrust them least, depending on the point of view).

It’s all about trade-offs, as you said.
I am sorry, but I think most of what you wrote is plain wrong. Yes, I agree, the total amount of energy used by humanity is going up. Especially as there are so many nations on earth which so far only use little energy. On the other side, it will somewhat go down from the current state for many leading industrial nations.

However, the bigger change will be how we use energy. In the last century the whole grid was optimized for a mostly constant load because that is what the then-used technologies, nuclear and coal, could do best. There were even big incentives given to customers to have a mostly constant draw of power. But now this changes. We have energy sources which produce electricity very cheaply, but not at a constant rate. And the experience shows, if the end customer is charged by availability, the consumption patterns change to optimize costs. This will be a big factor in the rollout of renewables.

As the article shows, cost-wise the SMRs can't compete. Renewables are getting ridiculously cheap. And even more: every one can set up renewables. You can go and buy yourself solar panels and put them onto your house or into your garden. The same advantage applies to industry-scale deployments. Same with wind. The only disadvantage with wind are the permits, as wind generators are quite big. But those are still trivial compared to nuclear, as the wind generators are not dangerous in any other sense.

Because they are cheap, the electricity markes are going to be flooded by renewables. That is basic economy. So the question is, how can we complement renewables best, especially to cover the gaps in their production. It won't be one thing, but a combination of several options as they are non-exclusive. Local conditions will put a stronger emphasis on one technology vs. the other. But one thing is clear: it won't be nuclear. Because even in the most optimistic szenarios, nuclear is a bad counterpart, as it is not good at providing varying output. Even if that is technically possible (usually it is not), economically it doesn't make any sense at all. For a transition time, it will be gas, as gas plants are relatively cheap and fast. Gas is expensive, so running the plants infrequently makes sense. The gas can later be provided out of renewable production. Most likely, battery storage will kill that too. But if not, the gas power plants can still be used.

And in all of that I haven't even touched the operational safety, nuclear waste, and of course giving nuclear technology to countries we don't trust.
These laws, as required by the EU constitution, do not come from the people who are elected, so changing who gets voted in will have zero impact on whether such laws appear or not.

Moreover the EU Parliament is controlled by social democrat (left) parties. There currently a bunch of stories in the press freaking out over the possibility that the EU Parliament might actually become majority right wing for the first time ever, example:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ecfr.eu/publication/a-sharp-rig...

So it's very unclear how you reached your conclusions about who people should stop electing and what effect that would have.
Mixing seems like a straw man, why would one?

I don't see what's wrong with Frequentist approach with alpha spending. The downside is one needs to understand alpha spending. But doing Bayesian without understanding it can be just as bad.
Doesn't Windows do the same when clicking a window titlebar?

Maybe it's so if you're going to start dragging the window/tab you can see what is in it.
Dr Pepper and Pepsi in second place as America's No. 2 reason why people are unhealthy and getting fatter.
Pre-Work for Setting OKRs
Matrix supports e2e encryption, so it would be a good candidate for self hosting. I already do.
Leveraging LLMs and tailored AI agents, you can receive personalized, actionable advice on health, behavior, nutrition, and well-being.

But what true service can it offer beyond a superficial digital vet or a general knowledge application that people might try and then abandon?
> why would you continue to use the service?

Is it slave labor or something? Why shouldn't I use the service?

> where quality is guaranteed to be minimal?

You think if I don't pay a tip I'll have minimal quality? I strongly disagree. Companies should just pay regular wages instead of random wages based on the generosity of strangers. If people stopped tipping, companies would have a hard time recruiting, they would raise wages to get enough employees and we would stop this farce.

> Putting it in a vehicle and driving it to you at home does not count?

No, that's the basics of the job. Attending to my needs would be something above that. To bring it back to the server: Taking my order and bringing the food is the basics. If you want a tip there needs to be something above and beyond that.

Are you planning on giving a tip to DMV agent who renews your drivers license? What about the checkout clerk? Do you tip your mailman?

This who business of tipping because food is involved is utterly pathetic. There's nothing actually different about the a food delivery driver vs a mailman.

> Have you ever delivered food for a living?

I have not, but as I said: bringing the food to the table if the basic job. Doing a lot of work means mental work, not physical. i.e. you paid special attention and anticipated needs, i.e. you are more than just acting as a glorified robot.

Put another way: If someone could automate your job with a computer to take orders, and a conveyor belt to deliver them, that's not tip-worthy.

If your job is performed by tons of other people who do not get a tip, you're also not getting a tip. (i.e. food delivery vs mailman)

A tip is for something extra. I had a mechanic who managed a very difficult tire patch repair for me - saved me on buying a new tire. I gave him a tip because he did something beyond the norm - normally they would not repair that tire.
Suggestion for Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) Detection
To whomever is interested, I guess...
I suggest that at night clear air turbulence might be detected using a telescope trained on an ahead star. I hypothesise that seeing (the term astronomers use) would be worse in conditions of CAT in the aircraft's path.
I agree, I worked from home and got pretty good mentoring programming-wise. Especially because I could also record everything he'd say or do.
Its not as hard to recognize good craftsmanship in furniture as in other types of products.

https://www.thosmoser.com/
Just because it happens all the time doesn't mean it's statistically correct. And, I don't see what the data being on a computer has to do with anything; that also "happens all the time," even in clinical trials.
Yeah... maybe, theoretically you could assess if the expensive furniture was crap or not but in practice it's problematic, so you pay for some expensive crap.

Also the thing is that IKEA hollowed out the middle market, there is only cheap crap, medium crap but still crap, expensive crap that masquerades as expensive quality, and expensive quality.

The sofa that the author bought was not expensive quality, it was medium quality. Medium quality is good enough for just about anything but it probably isn't beautiful and high quality. The stuff you are seeing around from the old days in that are more sturdy than modern things are generally not the expensive stuff, because that stuff is still expensive. It's the medium stuff.

There is no longer any more medium stuff.

Thanks, IKEA.

On edit: feelings on matter may be colored by living in Denmark, which may be more affected by IKEA than other countries (proximity to Sweden, Danish habit of everyone agreeing on one way of doing things and then there is no other way)
Are you even EU citizen? You seems to be posting mostly Russian POV.
I remind you Turings fate by his own government for being gay not 60 years ago. Today being gay or straight is a non issue in most countries, and Turing life would have been different.

My take is the following: we have governments because we tolerate them. Constitutions are nothing more than a social agreement, and they could be torn apart and remade at any point in time.

Politicians are our employees - we hire them, we pay them, we can fire them. Sadly in the past 80 years we have started seeing them as our saviors and forgot their power emanates from us.

I don’t want my employee (the government) telling me what to do and tracking me. It’s irrelevant whether I have or not something to hide.
I think it's about helping consumers at self-checkouts, and cashiers if there are several types of avocados or for speed, combined with a lack of trust.

Sometimes the scale/self-checkout till simply asks the consumer to select the type of produce on screen. No barcode or machine vision required...
Isn't this only issue when you allow referencing data in queue?

If queue only allows to copy out data you can increase reader pointer after data were copied to different buffer, therefore nothing can be at the place we are removing
Last I checked meson supports unit testing shared libraries just fine, as well as building both static and shared libraries "both_libraries()". This integrates fine with testing, though it modifies the binaries' rpath for library search instead of wrapping them in a script like libtool does.
The article focuses exclusively on women. Does this mean that men do not see the same benefits from a Mediterranean diet? Or did the authors decide to split the results into multiple articles for some other reason?
Did HN start allowing emojis or did that one slip through the cracks because it pre-dates the inclusion of Japanese emojis?
Buses are only bad because everyone else has cars. They get all downsides of car travel (plus more) with none of the upsides. It wouldn't be a "poverty tax" if the alternative was walking or cycling.
> It does give a "When all you have is a hammer..." vibe to me and begs the question: why not use a system that's designed for use-cases like this and do it reliably and securely ?

(disclaimer: blog post author)

A reason would be that you want to stick to pure Postgres, for example because you want to use Postgres extensions, or prefer the liberal Postgres license.

It can also be a matter of performance, distributed transactions are necessarily slower so if almost all the time you can avoid them by connecting to a single node, which has all the data that the transaction needs, that's going to get you better performance.
Anyone interested in this should also probably know https://frida.re/ exists
Can you give a concrete example of GNNs helping?
Let me take the other side here. The western world couldn't make it without sovereignty. I do realize that it sounds bad that few states would have such power. But make no mistake - if they won't do it, other actors would, I think that your interests reconcile with a democratic state much more than the other crooked actors.

It's just a matter of lesser evil in my humble opinion.
Majority of people only ever delete bad shots from a set of N identical photos or random stuff by accident or because they run out of space.
https://archive.ph/0lvw2
Dangling pointer. Case closed.
Period. Period period. :)