skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as Cook became CEO, he let the NSA's Prism program into Apple. Everything since then has been a fucking lie.

> Andrew Stone, who worked with Jobs for nearly 25 years, told the site Cult of Mac last week that Steve Jobs resisted letting Apple be part of PRISM, a surveillance program that gives the NSA access to records of major Internet companies. His comments come amid speculation that Jobs resisted cooperating. “Steve Jobs would’ve rather died than give into that,” Stone told the site.

> According to leaked NSA slides about PRISM, Apple was the last tech behemoth to join the secret program — in October 2012, a year after Jobs died. Apple has said that it first heard about PRISM on June 6 of this year, when asked about it by reporters.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-nsa-steve-jobs_n_346132...

I mean, maybe they didn't call it "PRISM" when talking about it with Cook, so it could technically be true that they didn't hear of PRISM until media stories. Everyone knows the spy agency goes around telling all of their project code names to companies they're trying to compromise. Hello, sir. We're here to talk to you about our top secret surveillance program we like to call PRISM where we intercept and store communications of everyone. Would you like to join? MS did. So did Google. Don't you want to be in our select cool club?
Indeed it is still possible to get a Pinephone, Librem 5, or an Android phone with an unlockable bootloader such as Fairphone (in Europe), Teracube, and lots of Samsung Galaxy phones and put LineageOS on it.

The issue is that "the masses" just "go with the flow" and act like if everybody else is jumping off a cliff then it's ok to jump off a cliff too, and it is these mobs that move the markets and determine which products and services become the most popular.

However, in relatively free countries it is still possible to live one's life on one's own terms and not be in the same herd with the sheeple. It is definitely possible to live life without an iPhone and to have an Android phone with F-Droid rather than the Google Play Store as one's primary phone.
Trying to figure out why the hn post screen didn’t flag this for me, I’m usually pretty religious about amplifying existing posts and not reposting.
The answer they were given was "Two weeks to flatten the curve".
> in their fight for privacy as a right

I kept the lineage phone in my back pocket, confident that it would be a good 4-5 years before they shipped something that violated their claims. I figured, the alternatives would be stable and widespread.

My timing was off.
On my Macbook, bizarrely, it's Safari that freaks out when watching videos at 2x speed, whereas Firefox handles them fine.
Argument by slippery slope is a type of logical fallacy, but it is commonly used as an actual argument by extremists. It’s sad how many people these days are so poorly educated and so bad at critical thought that they mistake fallacies for actual arguments.
I used to work there. There was one screw up, but later on company fixed the mistakes.
I thought you meant in the US.
This is already happening:
https://www.gov.uk/types-of-british-nationality/british-nati...

My friend moved on that visa this week. Before Hong Kongers could get a BNO passport and it wasn’t particularly useful. The British government changed the conditions a year ago, and now it’s an open residence permit with a direct path to full citizenship.

There are at least a million people eligible for a BNO passport.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear, I don't ever use the services they provide and I won't because they are provided by the other country I am a national of. I have no links to the US. Zero.

I guess to fit in your analogy I live underwater?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28081184 The NCMEC already had it's problems. But, this takes it to a whole new level.
The question that should be asked is if you think it's ok if the U.S. gov't looks at every picture you take and have taken and store and will store. The U.S. gov't will access, store, and track that information on you for your whole life. Past pictures. Present pictures. Future pictures.

I don't use apple products, but if I found out google was scanning my photos on photos.google.com on behalf of the government I would drop them. I'm not saying it wouldn't hurt, because it definitely would, but in a capitalistic country this is the only way to fight back.
So they should do that scanning server side at their boundary instead of pushing software to run on phones with potential to extend scope later if no push back.
Oh well… it always starts with “protect the children”. Then “protect us from terrorists”, then “terrorist sympathizers“, …

And I bet that Saudis and other oppressive regimes will use this to detect other “crimes”.
Stevia is not sugar. It is a sweetener.

The consequences of the difference are in the metabolic system.
Champagne moment as supernova captured in detail for the first time
If you use TeX or any related system (latex, texinfo, cweb, metapost, etc.), please consider becoming a TUG (TeX User Group) member. They rely on membership and donations to keep going (and there are some tangible benefits to being a member, too).

(Disclosure: a friend who is active there told me they are not doing so well.)

https://tug.org/join.html
Have you tried using the profiler? It will give you a lot of detail. It's under the "performance" tab on the dev tools.
Your argument was wrong, though, because those vaccines aren't being given to children anyway.
Like Teracube and Light Phone. For ppl in Europe I recommend Fairphone -- probably the best phone there is right now.
> Instead, they just lie to you with a non-functional window rather than lying to you by pretending that your system is doing nothing.

> Moved back to Chrome today btw.

I find this amusing, as Chrome was the pioneer of this trick.
Moving the scanning to the client side is clearly an attempt to move towards scanning content which is about to be posted on encrypted services, otherwise they could do it on the server-side, which is "not categorically unprecedented".
I hate this bug so much. Do the devs/designers not use the product?
We've only run out of room until we start seriously exploring space. Just in the solar system there's a near infinity of mining, manufacturing and building to be done and problems to be solved.

There's also a large segment of the population who yearn for the safety valve society had before we filled the planet: if you don't like it, go into the wilderness.
For me that seems to be new behavior. I used to be able to keep it open for weeks without issue, but within the past month or two I've started having to restart it all the time (MacOS).
You should search their Common Lisp apps. There are about 10 apps that are all the same online tutorial website turned into a pager app, and a bunch more that aren't far off from that.

Thankfully there actually is a Lisp REPL. But you have to scroll like mad to find it.
Perceptual hashing has a very specific meaning. It’s for verifying one file is directly related to a different file not an overall classification.

“Perceptual hashing is the use of an algorithm that produces a snippet or fingerprint of various forms of multimedia.[1][2] A perceptual hash is a type of locality-sensitive hash, which is analogous if features of the multimedia are similar.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing

The goal is to verify a black and white copy of an image is identical to a colored original. Search algorithms want a similar thing so they can validate an image contains a blue car. However, a perceptual hashing algorithm must differentiate between different images containing a blue car while matching a photoshopped copy of the same image.
> Thanks for the further background information. I have to say it doesn't really make it better for me. The "angry people" are of course correct that you can also create bias in other ways than data sets. But are they implying that people generally deliberately introduce such biases to uphold discrimination? That seems like a very serious and offensive claim to make, and not very helpful either.

No.

I think Isbell's Neurips Keynote (https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/public/invited_16166.html), titled "You Can’t Escape Hyperparameters and Latent Variables" does a good job of explaining this.

The humans who ultimately validate the model (and who decide on the dataset) are a hyperparameter. Often ignored, yes, but they are still part of the training loop. They decide what the other hyperparams are, when to stop training and publish, etc.

To use a question I've asked on HN before: say you're training a model to detect criminality based on facial structure. This has come up as a real world example, papers have been published on this topic. What does a "good" dataset look like? Or similarly, for a system that decides on bail or sentence length. Do you use historical data on bail or sentencing? We have very well documented examples of bias in both of those things, even in the ground truth. So how do you decide to mitigate that bias? Or do you choose not to, and to continue enforcing said biases in your model?

> But overall, such misclassifications are simply "bugs" that should get a ticket and be fixed, not trigger huge debates

But when such "bugs" aren't prioritized because people don't think they are bugs, you have to debate whether or not they are bugs at all! The hyperparameter here is "who decides what is or isn't a bug"
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it's scanning cloud hosted images, correct?

> allow Apple to detect known CSAM images stored in iCloud Photos. ... Apple only learns about users’ photos if they have a collection of known CSAM in their iCloud Photos account.

The only non-cloud hosted scan is for child accounts, with Apple getting no access, just transferring the warning to the parent.
I wouldn't call it better because CPUs have a similar "sum and multiply" instruction, and GPUs are pretty much made of such units.

The problem with bitshifting is that it's just a special case of multiplication and division. So if you want your hardware utilized, you don't scale bitshifts, that'd be largely useless. You scale multiplication and division, and this is what modern hardware does.

Bitshifting is very simple in terms of hardware, but scale beats simplicity.
They rehired the guy that intentionally exposed himself in a sexual manner via zoom conference. It is such a hilariously broken organization.
To be fair, even if Blackberry was still a viable platform, RIM is no better and in some ways even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649963
Cost and weight make it uneconomic.

Besides, the pilots would want to save the plane as a whole (as well as themselves) and wouldn't probably release the container at a workable height before the crash becomes unavoidable.
> I think 3-D visualizations of 1-D languages (all our current programming languages are 1-D) will not be so helpful, as you will be looking at transformations, not the actual code as it exists.

This is the part that I disagree with. The source code is linear, sure, but the structure that ties the different components in a codebase together is high-dimensional. For example, the symbol usage graph is really useful to visualize in 3D, as is the general package structure.

And most of these visualizations we see don't even touch on runtime analysis like I was working on! There, seeing different types of data arranged either by where the data is coming from in the source code or where the data is coming from at runtime (analogous to lexical vs. dynamic scoping) is a visualization that benefits from 3D.
Can I automate with their service? I don't care about their spreadsheet templates, I just want to have a CSV to play with in a local directory that I can update with a cron job.
Valve only allows non-commercial use [1], and selling items not on steam marketplace is clearly against it.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/ (2 A)
Show HN: Ups. We broke the web again. Sorry
I'd wager that most SAML implementations are a rich, bountiful source of severe security bugs. If I ever decided to get into bug bounty programs I'd absolutely start here.

FWIW, yep. It has no knowledge of AudienceRestriction:

$ grep -i AudienceRestriction Saml.cs
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That's because Verizon doesn't want you using a discounted phone with another carrier. If they let you unlock your phone, you could flash a stock radio and ditch Verizon for Google Fi or AT&T. Different issue at play.

As long as you buy a Pixel directly from Google or one of a few authorized resellers, it is unlockable. (I recommend B&H, they help you legally evade the sales tax.) You can also use a Pixel you buy from Google with Verizon.
I give it a month before every Pooh Bear meme ends up part of the hash DB.
I do the same thing. I use Emacs solely for org-mode (that includes org-roam and org-journal)
> For the recovered? No

The scientific literature supports your position, see [1][2]. In fact there is no benefit to vaccinating these individuals, at least nothing published in the literature yet (please share links if anyone has evidence otherwise).

> Is there a significant chance that the vaccine will apply selective pressure to the virus leading to an escape variant? It's an interesting topic, I recommend exploring some of the lit and the current trends with Delta

Here are some great resources to learn about this topic [3][4][5][6][7][8]. If you're new to this topic try starting with [6]. Otherwise [3] is an accessible paper to jump into. [8] gives you an idea how this could play out, with evidence from chickens.

> Is it plausible that the vaccine industry is applying financial incentives to folks at [BIG MEDIA] to promote max vaccination?

I have no peer-reviewed references for this (yet), but to those reading please share if you do!

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...

[3] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

[4] SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427/B.1.429 variant of concern
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/scie...

[5] mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03324-6

[6] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[7] The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

[8] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fj...
Url changed from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01097-4, which is hardwalled, to a third-party article suggested by nerdponx here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28079667 (thanks!)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat_algorithm
I agree, I like how JS bundle analyzers do it: https://twitter.com/XCSme/status/1410608222872891399
You do not need to be a US citizen to be eligible to collect US Social Security benefits.

https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-an...
> generation

species
> ... a thoroughly documented, carefully thought-out, and narrowly-scoped backdoor is still a backdoor.
The perceptual hashes are specifically designed to correlate images that are visually similar while not being exactly alike, even when the colors are altered. See:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-csam-scanning-tool/
I’ve been thinking about switching my main email to Fastmail from Apple, for portability in case the anti-power-user trend crosses my personal pain threshold.

But if your worry is governments reading your mail, is an email company any safer? I’m sure FM doesn’t want to scan your mail for the NSA or its Australian proxy, but do they have a choice? And if they were compelled, would they not be prevented from telling you?

“We respect your privacy” is exactly what Apple has been saying.
I'd love to see Org to be picked up as a universal format. The overlap with LaTeX is probably too big though.
Valve only allow non-commercial use of virtual items, you can only sell items through steam marketplace
> Why in the hell would big Pharma pay any media to promote the vaccines?

To make more money. Do you know there is clear and abundant data that giving the recovered the vaccine provides zero benefit? Not only theoretically, but empirically too, in all countries, across the vaccine trial data and real world data. But if 1/3 of Americans are recovered, that would drop vaccine sales by 33%. Even worse, it would make the vaccine look less effective, as by giving the vax to the recovered it juices the numbers so that a smaller % of people get COVID post vax. A 33% drop in vaccine sales would amount to tens of billions of dollars in lost profits. So a rational actor would easily spend more than $10B in PR costs to promote max-vax.

This is just how the publishing/media industry works. Even when industries aren't explicitly buying ads, they are paying PR firms to inconspicuously plant Op-Eds and nudge editorial. Not unique to Big Pharma or vaccines. Moderna or Pfizer themselves don't even have to be involved! Outside shareholders can indepdently pay for the PR dirty work.

What's interesting with vaccines is how blatant it is. Caused me to reevaluate the importance to abolishing copyrights, giving everyone the right to be a publisher, and removing the monopoly power of our current media. It's disgusting how true knowledge is stifled and lies are propped up. It's much harder to propagate lies when there are millions of capable publishers, not just 10.
Lots of people/businesses have a need to know if they’ll be able to meet their future expenditures with current savings. The issue is the generic basket of goods isn’t relevant for all people. For example, a condo with a reserve fund only really cares about construction costs in a single city. A retiree cares a lot about the price of nursing homes and in home care but may not even realize it.

I expect if you can help people/financial advisors understand their future expenditure needs there is a lot of value in it.
100% cpu for me, browser tab uses 3+ GB ram, chromium hangs then crashes
If non-PC thoughts are against the rules, post those rules in the acceptable use policy. I don't think it's hateful to critically discuss BLM. I do think it's hateful to say "x group is bad", but that's not what I read.

I believe BLM to be led by Marxists and that is backed up by objective evidence. I'm not sure why that's controversial. It's also objectively true that George Floyd had a criminal record. Again, I'm not sure why that's controversial. One can be very socially aware and also recognize those two facts. It is indeed problematic that Floyd pointed a gun at the abdomen of a woman whom he thought was pregnant during a home invasion robbery, or that he had significant amounts of narcotics in his system when he died. That doesn't make his death justifiable, it's just the real life complications of a real life case (which tend not to be overly clean). When did we get afraid of objective facts?

EDIT: Downvoters: explain why. Simple Q. What is it about facts you don't like?
Do we know that they are using perceptual hashing? I am curious about the details of the hash database they are comparing against, but I assumed perceptual hashing would be pretty fraught with edge cases and false positives.

e: It is definitely not a strict/cryptographic hash algorithm: "Apple says NeuralHash tries to ensure that identical and visually similar images — such as cropped or edited images — result in the same hash." They are calling it "NeuralHash" -- https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/05/apple-icloud-photos-scanni...
> That aside, some of the early research in climate change actually pointed out that the result of this climate instability may in fact be another glacial period rather than a period of extremely high temperatures. Just as damaging to people and ecosystems but not what a lot of people think about when they think "climate change."

I'm afraid you are the victim of another popular climate denial myth that continues to spread like a virus.

* The 1970s Global Cooling Zombie Myth and the Tricks Some People Use to Keep it Alive, Part I
https://skepticalscience.com/70s-cooling-myth-tricks-part-I....
I feel like the "boring" part of the web app (setup, configuration, routing, etc.) could benefit from using a more strictly typed language like kotlin, and https://jooby.io/ explicitely supports it.

Once you have the skeleton, I can see how lisp and ABCL could be used to implement some interesting business logic or even template rendering. So kind of like using lisp a callable scripting language as opposed to doing everything in lisp that is a bit more tedious imho.
Thanks for pointing this out. Actually NeuralBlender.com was not to be released to the public yet, but the topic in this thread kind of invited it. I will clarify that and improve the UX.
Not really. This only applies to photos uploaded to iCloud. And photos uploaded to iCloud (and Google drive etc.) are already scanned on server for CP.

Apple is moving that process from on server to on phone in a way that protects your privacy better than current standards.

In the current system, all your photos are available to Apple unencrypted. In the new system, nothing will be visible to apple unless you upload N images with database hits. From those N tokens, Apple is then able to decrypt your content.

So when this feature lands, it improves your privacy relative to today.
What you're saying: "In practice good modern API design prefers explicit intent over low-level details like exposing bitshifting for flags"

What people are saying to you: "You say bitshifting is complex, so if I say bitshifting is simple, it means I'm smarter than you"
It's pretty crazy. One thing that people don't realise about type 1 diabetes is that your effectiveness at blood sugar regulation basically translates into years of lifespan: the damaging effects of high blood sugar are cumulative and complications are inevitable, you can only hope to delay them as long as possible (low blood sugar is more immediately life threatening). Insulin pumps were already a huge step change in the level of regulation you could achieve, and openaps is yet another level again, which you can't get anywhere else. I don't fault anyone who uses or develops it, even in the face of the risks or legal penalties.
> all of the features that matter within Android, especially if you're going to de-Google yourself, are still there

Except, uh, GPS. Even for third party navigation apps.

Yes, I know about microG, but the fact that there had to be a third party reimplementation of what should be a standard system API is still a problem.
Why would we have an inflation dashboard if the theory is that seeing the inflation causes it?

I don't get it, why cause inflation purposely?

That said, I'm all for this because it would be cool.
> 'what if you wanted to only sign part of a document' and 'what if, after signing, the document was processed by something that reordered the attributes'

Those use cases are valid. The second one is actually the reason why JSON can't be used for a similarly usage (there is not canonization standard, and reading then writing a file could reorder the elements order).