skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't "adequate" the key word there, though?

We do have an alternative that works in theory - if everyone wore an N95 (or knockoff, even!) mask at all times in public, indoors and outdoors, and if all restaurants did takeout only, the risk of transmission would be extraordinarily low. And it's not zero even with the vaccine. The vaccine does different things from masks, though.

I think money-grubbing Big Pharma execs who were recently regulators on the other side of the revolving door would easily be able to argue that ivermectin (or vitamin D, or whatever), useful as it may be, is not an adequate alternative to the vaccine, just (as you put it) another facet in a multifaceted approach, and the vaccine still needs an EUA.
Books, articles, podcasts and interviews have all helped me improve my general knowledge of the technology world.

However, the only thing that has helped me improve my raw programming ability is reading and writing code. Especially when working on new or difficult tasks.
Why use postgre instead of sqlite?
> fell to the propaganda because no one nipped it in the bud while it was still possible

That's quite the assumption you're making.

Many were already against vaccines. Many others already distrusted the government to an extreme degree. Then suddenly vaccination became a matter of political allegiance as well.

I don't see how curtailing freedom of speech would have made things any better.
I dislike Mozilla's politics and don't use Firefox, but I have been using Thunderbird since at least 15 years. So yes, donated money for this project, hoping that they don't come up with some "revolutionary" UI ideas.
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This is a combination of management not asking for input, pulling a deadline out of their asses, and engineers chronically low-balling their own estimates (while the managers think it's the opposite).

My pet peeve is when a deadline is a "round" date. 1st of the month, 1st of the year. WHY? Your users don't give a shit. If you are not publicly committed to a launch date, which you should never be, until your product is ready.

That said, internal deadlines are a moronic thing to have. These should be goals.
Yes. People have been convicted for possession of hand-drawn and computer-generated images. Editing a child's image to make it pornographic is also illegal. So some "deepfake" videos using faces from young celebs are in all likelihood very illegal in many jurisdictions.

Images can be illegal if all people are of age, but are portrayed as underage. Many historical dramas take legal advice about this when they have adult actors portraying people who historically married while underage by modern standards. (Ie the rape scene in BBC's The White Princess series.) This is why American porn companies shy away from cheerleader outfits, or any other suggestion of highschools.
> As long as the winds blow and the Earth spins, we will have a Gulf Stream

I don't think this is true. Didn't the Gulf Stream shut off during the Ice Ages? At least that's what I learned at college in the early 90s
Try scanning finer features or complex setups, you will hit the limits of photogrammetry fast.

3d scanners and photogrammetry didn’t solve hair scanning yet, to name one example. And I am not talking up to each strands, just ending up with somewhat of a model without having to postprod based on hair type, etc. that’s just one example of many.
I just use brew and `brew services start postgresql` but who cares
Fundamentally there is a difference between scanning files on your servers and scanning files stored on someone else's device, without their consent.
While I agree it shouldn't have been slowed down when it did, Nuclear Power Plants are not going to save us now.

"Nuclear energy is being outcompeted by renewable energy sources and is an inefficient solution to carbon emissions, according to the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) published on 24 September 2019."

"The report estimates that the average construction time for reactors worldwide was ten years, significantly longer than the World Nuclear Association’s estimated construction time of between five and eight years. Nuclear reactors are also slow to start and a number have closed, with nine units closing over 2018 and a further five units expected to close over 2019."

"The report also states that nuclear power is more expensive than renewables. Nuclear energy costs around $112-189 per megawatt hour (MWh) compared to $26-56MWh for onshore wind and $36-44MWh for solar power. Levelised cost estimates for solar and wind also dropped by 88% and 69% respectively, while they increased by 23% for nuclear power."

https://www.power-technology.com/news/nuclear-energy-report-...
For the Love of God, Entrepreneurs, Just Keep It Simple
It's done locally now. Hardly the same thing. And sounds extremely illegal to me
It's great if it stops at dialogue and they don't force you to stay on the no-code platform.

It kinda sucks we need to develop products to convince people that hired us that we might know a thing or two about building software
> Say she’s doing a great job of maximizing her gene pool’s potential for aesthetic presentation in the context of a romantic setting?

If she goes for that, she's a keeper.
Right, but these dates should be intrinsically motivational, and not induce negative stress.
>I am seeing all sorts of funky hacks and workarounds in our CI pipelines in my new job

please list some of those, will be helpful .
I love the different angle you've taken!

Let's assume that it only works with thin walls, so it has limited archaeology use. Firefighting is a very fair point.

Would you, reader, trust the firefighters to not abuse such a power by mistake? Would you trust the chance of it being abused for the chance of being rescued during a serious fire? Not an easy question.
"You know, now that you ask, it's wonderful here and everyone is outstanding. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure I've made the right decision."
I wonder how the elite will approach climate change when it really starts to bite? If I wanted to survive a dystopia I'd be making friends with the common people and using my considerable personal resources to help address their concerns and earn their loyalty, not elevating myself stratospherically above them then trying to hide when shit hits the fan.
I see the argument, but the counterargument is that by you doing that, you could possibly be nurturing and perpetuating abuse.

In effect, possessing such material may incentivize further production (and abuse), "macroeconomically" speaking. And I hate that evidently, yes, there is an economy of such content.
Another perspective: Because if you don't they will later be inclined to take it by force.
Many people share photos of child pornography via the mail. There has been criticism that the USPS does not open all mail and scan them for child pornography.

I would really like to hear from people who do not sign this letter how they think about that.
> Doc: From what I can tell, it only starts looking in the rooms and looking at individual people if they are reported for something.

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/93/

If I were Kik, I would also write a blog post about using something like this. Many, many things point at Kik only doing the bare minimum though. (If you're the type who supports moderation, apparently they're already doing too much according to much of HN.)
The structure is pretty similar. If you could encode array structures into categories (part of my problem is I don't know how to do this effectively: are the structures objects, or categories?), then my take is that a structural function that extracts some part of an array should give a functor G. Then a right adjoint ⌾G puts the omitted structure back. But I don't think this can work, because the definition of an adjoint says morphisms in the target of G exactly correspond to morphisms in its source, when ⌾G is used to find the codomain. This doesn't match up: if G extracts structure, then it should collapse some functions together, when they only differ in what they do to the parts of the array that get left out.

Most of my problem seems to be that the definition of Under really depends on applying functions to particular arguments. So it's hard to see how to set up categories to capture the necessary properties. But I don't know if it's actually hard to do or just confusing.
LOL

It was completely my bad for not being prepared for a surge in traffic. Should be less slow now since I added a boost to the site. But, yeah, it's definitely not perfect I'll admit.

If you do try again, check it out on desktop not mobile, and let me know.

Maybe it could also be a result of a bunch of people using the test acct, so feel free to create your own test acct.

Thanks for at least giving it a shot :)
Sigh, the “gotcha” routine when you clearly didn’t read my entire comment is a tiring and sad thing. I called out the waiver thing, you didn’t read until the end before replying.

> That or you signed a lot of waivers and forgot, but that’s a different claim.

Oh the irony of you telling me to read the text more clearly.

Frankly, given that you’ve apparently forgotten all this, I do not believe that there’s no record of you getting vaccinated. Unless if you come from an anti-vaxx family, I think you probably got vaccinated and simply forgot about it.
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You should maybe read about the work [0], or just read the rest of what I said. Surrealism has nothing to do with the argument I made, so why do you bring it up?

CSAM databases can by necessity not contain novel abuses, because they are novel. In fact, filtering by CSAM databases even indirectly /encourage/ novel abuses because these would not be caught by said filter.

Catching CP hoarders does little to help the children being exploited in the first place, and does a lot to harm our integrity and privacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
> this is necessarily going to happen gradually

That depends on what you mean by "gradually". Climate is a non-linear system. It can change radically in a very small number of years. Within a single generation, for example, much of the world's current farmland could become desert. That is going to be very hard to adapt to.
Yikes, do not engage in a defense of child pornography in these types of arguments. The opposition is gunning for that.
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What in the world? I thought maybe their original statement would make more sense, but no:

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/

We received a lot of donations from the community, so we're going to shift to a for-profit footing? That does not make a lot of sense to me.

One of the things I really like about Thunderbird is that it's from a not-for-profit entity. It makes it easier to trust them with so much of my most personal data.

It's still wholly owned by a non-profit, which means I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. But especially given the vagueness of that statement, I'm definitely concerned.
The first mover advantage is huge. Once users have already chosen to use your software it will take something substantially better over an extended period of time for most to move over to a competitor that has solved it better. The risk of that happening when you are already making money and solving the problem and have most of the market is small. If you keep irritating your customers and they have a better alternative then you will slowly loose share of the market.

The cultures that tend to ship buggy software also tend to be the sort of cultures where the quality doesn't improve in response to a competitor however. But so far almost every software business has ultimately failed so being on top for a decade because you shipped some of the solution earlier works better. Customers are more than happy to buy exceptionally buggy software and games.
Yes, this is what I'm currently doing (or using WSL directly together with Clion)
A picture of child abuse is child abuse in that the abuse of a child was necessary to take the picture in the first place.

If the picture had no grounds to spread, it would likely not have been made—no incentive. As such, the fact that the picture is able to spread indirectly incentivises further physical abuse to children.
My personal opinion is if we could spy on all citizens all the time we could stop all or most of the crimes, do we want this? If you say Yes then stop reading here. Else if you say 100% surveillance is too much then what do you have against people discussing where the line should be drawn?

Some person that would sign that letter might be fine with video cameras in say a bank or some company building entrance but he is probably not fine with his own phone/laptop recording him and sending data to soem company or government without his consent.

So let's discuss where should the line be drawn, also if competent people in this domain are present let's discuss better ideas on preventing or catching criminals, or even for this method let's discuss if it can be done better to fix all the concerns.

What I am sure is that clever criminals will not be affected by this, so I would like to know if any future victim would be saved (I admit I might be wrong, so I would like to see more data from different countries that would imply the impact of this surveilance)
Same here; all six versions saved at https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://mhd-aboelez.medium.com...

I'm guessing that's why people have tried to save it six times; because this happened.
> We’re talking about actual material in real life, being shared by users and abusers.

And, more importantly, material that has been and will be produced through the actual abuse of real children. The spreading of which encourages the production of more of it.

GP's counter is absurd.
Actually someone already built a twitter clone in Bubble. Worth checking that out too :)

https://notrealtwitter.com/

But as for this site, I've added a boost to the site which should help somewhat with the surge in traffic. My bad for not being prepared for that
> moderating people's personal computers

This is done client side because your data is encrypted in their cloud. It won't be done if you disable cloud sync. If you just keep your cp out of the cloud, you're fine.
Does it matter that they are only doing this for images uploaded to iCloud?
It can be very difficult to determine from which country the attack originates. For example, we know that North Korea does a lot of hacking, but has almost no internet connections. Clever hackers will always try to route their attack through some other country.
That does simply not follow from logic. Child abuse existed before cameras.

Edit: People are unhappy with this refutation, so a second one then. The claim, specifically, is that CP is CA because CP requires CA to happen. So a photo of theft is theft. A recording of genocide is genocide. Clearly absurd. Never mind the context that the pornography in my question is drawn, thus no actual child was hurt.

Edit 2: The point was made somewhere that CP is hurtful to the child that it depicts, and this is obviously true - but only if spread. Therefore, distributing CP should be illegal, but that does not mean that it's justified to scan every phone in the world for such images.
Another mode of transport will still be state-subsidised. That is what states do since Antiquity. Already the Romans invested huge money into ports and their famous road network.

Criticizing cars is fine, but "state-subsidized" is just superfluous there. This is not somehow unique to cars.
I think it's very easy to get people to hate things that gross them out. It's always interesting to me how casually people joke about Epsteins death while simultaneously never talking about cp without a gross look on their face.

I'm not sure I fully understand how society can be more relaxed with actual pedophiles than they are with cp material.

Personally it bothers me to see the focus around things that gross people out rather than the actual child abuse.
I agree with all of what you wrote (I also had insufferable personality in my past, and I'm really sorry for that). It's just that most of these people are lost in their bad habits (video gaming / drinking / getting overweight). But they are usually not violent people (except of the few people with grave mental illnesses who started shooting other people because of their frustration, and people who were cheering for it...that was very sad).

BTW: for controlling weight, I'm right now using Dexcom G6 continuous blood glucose meter with a High setting of 9.0 mmol/L. It worked wonders for my parents (they are losing 1.5kg / month using it, both are 70 years old).
Apple are proposing to do it on your phone. There is no possible way they are not going to do it to everything on your phone.

That's a big policy change, since they're circumventing their own E2EE using their super-admin powers to do it.

The barrier when uploading to unencrypted services is that you are at least aware you're granting access. This is invading the phone to do it anyway - that's quite different.

But more importantly: when flagged this is going to send the results to human reviewers. Which has not been elaborated on: there's no way human reviewers can screen things without being sent a copy of the image in question. Which means, a neural network system is going to randomly send your personal images to human reviewers - and it will, largely, be false positives.

Note that Apple are not discussing anything about the reliability of this system: have they run it against a sample set of normal images? How many did it flag? Because, if they give a number, it'll be pretty easy for people to realize that some % multiplied by the number of phones and average number of images per phone, and I'm willing to bet what you get is: the system will false positive at least (and probably more then 1) personal photo per iPhone user, and send it to human reviewers.

And that might get people's attention: certainly more then just, unfortunately, us techies.

EDIT:

And let's talk about these human reviewers: these are not random citizens seeing something and wondering if they should be concerned. The context these people are going to be given is possible child abuse image. This is not a neutral review process - at all.
After looking for a text generator for grammars I found this https://github.com/dmbaturin/bnfgen and then to try understand the underlying algorithm I came out with a C simple program for a simple expr grammar see it here https://github.com/dmbaturin/bnfgen/issues/2#issuecomment-89... and also a thread on sqlite forum here https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/6885cf9e21
Apple is just being innovative. Scan phones for porn, then sell it for profit and use it for blackmail. Epstein on steroids.
Chrome Knowns Your Every Download (2020)
Censorship by Apple
The solution, in this case, would be to come home and face the grand jury before arguing infront of the supreme court.

To be honest, that path does hold a certain academic interest, despite it being impractical. It would surely 'make a difference', is clearly not what the prosecution would like to happen.
What do I even do with this information? Something I haven’t seen articles or research about is how to psychologically cope with the slow collapse of our ecology.

EDIT: To the people saying to get a house where climate change will be as minimal as possible: As a young person, I probably will never be able to own a house. I rent. If I’m living in a place where climate change has less effect, landlords will raise the price of rent dramatically and I won’t be able to live there anymore.
You're disgusting.
So if your Apple ID/icloud gets compromised, and somebody save an album of CP to your icloud photos, it is then only a question of time until the police comes knocking?
Sorry, the spyware engine is considered "essential" for regulatory compliance reasons.

You have no idea the inherent power of being the "setter of definitions" in a legal context.
Judging by how Apple has handled the App Store you'll certainly be reported.
> Catching CP hoarders does little to help the children being exploited in the first place

If there is no market for it, there might be less incentive to produce any more of it.

Not that I believe we should all be continuously spied by people who merely pinky sweared to do it right and not abuse it.
Actually, that is exactly what they are doing.
This reminds me that a two OS market isn’t a healthy one for consumers. We could use more diversity.
Very cool that you built this in such a short time!

It makes me wonder if there will be a new segment of programmers that specialize in superfast no-code app creation.
It's really good for debters though, which is pretty much everybody these days. That 30 year mortgage you just got will mostly be inflated away.
One of the reasons I want the Xperia 10 II is because of the TOF sensor and the camera array.
Does the Sailfish OS offer software which utilises those?
The concern is I bought an iPhone based on the promise of privacy of my device. Now there is a monitoring tool on my phone looking at photos for child porn. I get a false positive and some rando from Apple is now looking at my personal photos. Why?

Normalisation of this invasive behaviour is not okay. Apple specifically argued they are not Google and do not invade your privacy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28085342
So you’re going to get the vaccine, and purposefully exclude yourself from restaurants you think it’s safe to go to in order to make a point on behalf of people protesting the vaccine for reasons you don’t believe.

There’s a reason why I decided you weren’t making serious arguments worth debating. This is performative nonsense.
I believe something like this will be a great gateway for others to start using Haskell. Thanks NRI!
What's wrong with it?
It seems reasonable to protect yourself from header-injections allowed by a downgrade?

Am I misunderstanding?
If your consumer hardware auto-updates, it's "their" hardware where "their" is the set of all software vendors with keys allowing them to auto-update anything on your computer.
Not sure how that impacts car usage?
This is my question too. I feel a sense of despair, uncertainty, and powerlessness reading these. Yes, awareness is important, but... what the actual hell am I supposed to do with this information?
TBH it doesn't matter at all why they're doing it, they've crossed a line here.
That definition of Spyware Engine has existed for a while. Every browser checks sites and downloads using Google's Safe Browsing [1]. Firefox constantly phones home to googleusercontent and AWS. Apple sends hashes of every application you run on MacOS to its Akamai hosted service -- try blocking Akamai on your firewall while still connected to the internet and the OS becomes unresponsive. The OS features to scan and report home have been around for a long time.

I think Apple checking photos before they uploaded to its own servers is their way around the Fourth Amendment while using relatively similar methods that they already use for malware.

Devil's advocacy aside, I buy the slippery slope argument and I find these methods reprehensible and open to abuse. I agree with all of it. I think this new addition is a step on the downward slope. I don't use MacOS, nor Windows, nor any cloud services personally. I keep an iPhone 7 around to chat with "iMessage" friends -- and this is the straw that stops me from using for that. I have never used iCloud for photos even when I was using an iPhone regularly.

I used to have an Android phone, which I also never sync'd with Google's cloud/drive. Then after an update, the sync-to-cloud option was automagically turned on again and my photos started to upload. I deleted them from the cloud and swore off ever using an Android phone again.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...

Addendum: That Mozilla support link is also interesting in terms of privacy. It's flagged as a privileged page for me so it loads Google Analytics that would otherwise be blocked by browser extensions.