skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hook's file links are adaptive
macOS file:// URLs are hard to obtain, and they are brittle (they break when you move the file.) Instead: popup Hook in Finder (or even while editing the file in an app), use Hook’s Copy Link (⌘C) and you’ll get a properly formatted link that works even if you move or rename the file.

> Hook’s file links are like Finder aliases, but more robust, well formatted (URL & name) and shareable!

Are you using hashes and then falling back to heuristics? How else could you track files between systems?
Japan manages it pretty well. The mass transit system of Tokyo is well known. But the city is also zoned such that walking or biking from an apartment/house/hotel to a restaurant, supermarket, or even a major park or museum is easy and fairly safe. The roads are clean and well-maintained, and traffic really isn't that bad. Street parking is rarely allowed, but small parking lots are numerous albeit expensive.

Biking and public transit moves most commuters off of the streets, leaving the roads to the owners of luxury cars and driving aficionados who don't mind paying the tax premium to subsidize their vehicular access. I pay $450/yr in road taxes, kei car drivers pay maybe $75, and someone with a big-displacement engine like a Lexus IS-F or a Mercedes AMG probably pays $800-$1000 every year. I'm totally ok with this system.

I spent 3 weeks in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia and HATED how I couldn't walk to anything....but the roads are also of absolutely terrible quality (potholes everywhere) and are mostly straight and boring highway travel, so they aren't even fun to drive. Then I quarantined in Tokyo for 2 weeks and everything was a convenient 5-minute walk away. If I LIVED in Tokyo, I would still own my sports cars there, as I love the freedom of being able to travel longer distances, at any time, with privacy and storage capacity.

I'm in another region of Japan where the public transit is almost non-existent but the walking-friendly zoning helps to compensate. I don't NEED a car to get to the convenience store or the supermarket, but they definitely make life 100x easier, especially since the weather here is terrible more often than not.

So I'd say Japan is proof that walkability and driveability are not in "irresolvable conflict".
Thanks for this clarification. This, I think, is an important aspect that seems to often get overlooked.

Apple's explanation:

<quote>
Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos, an on-device matching process is performed for that image against the known CSAM hashes. This matching process is powered by a cryptographic technology called private set intersection, which determines if there is a match without revealing the result. The device creates a cryptographic safety voucher that encodes the match result along with additional encrypted data about the image. This voucher is uploaded to iCloud Photos along with the image.

Using another technology called threshold secret sharing, the system ensures the contents of the safety vouchers cannot be interpreted by Apple unless the iCloud Photos account crosses a threshold of known CSAM content. The threshold is set to provide an extremely high level of accuracy and ensures less than a one in one trillion chance per year of incorrectly flagging a given account.
</quote>

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Solar Car Completes Cross Country Trip (1984)
None of the 'larger' more affluent people.. sure.
Singapore Startup – Need Advice
If I'm not supposed to post here regarding advice - please do direct me to the right forum - apologies for any inconvenience caused

Hi all,

I'm a founder at a Singaporean startup - we are a semi-technical team that is trying to change the way benefits and employment works.

In a short one liner - We are building a B2B platform for insurance and pension benefits for the Gig-Economy.

We're trying to deploy this asap so that contingent and platform workers (Grab/GoJek/Deliveroo/UpWork) can recieve platform benefits and have a safety net to build savings/insurance coverage and a whole host of portable benefits - keeping them safe, secure and most of all satisfied.

Our biggest hurdle now is building a tech team without funding... I understand that funding is not the be all/end all of the company, however, currently all we have are state sponsored grants and they're running out quick. Moreover, most bulge brackets and startups have kind of a monopoly on tech teams at this point and inticing someone without cash here is next to impossible.

We were considering applying for specific incubators within pension-tech and insuretech in order to build the team and resources, however, Singapore is quite limited in that space. We could also consider partnering with larger firms at the cost of giving up a lot of the company (which we are ok with) as the first and last thing we want is to give these platform workers peace of mind.Tldr - we're in a bit of a predicament.

What are your thoughts - any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Practical Doomsday
I think people need to wise up extreamly quickly to what we are facing here. I cannot overstate the importance of being extreamly sceptical of the motives of tech giants at this point in time.
* enter RISC-V *
Exactly. It's the same argument when Corona contact-tracing was discussed and later implemented.

First using paper forms and later using apps.

Why would you object to limiting the spread of the Coronavirus ?

Fast forward to the present where law enforcement in Germany, Australia and Singapore have used contact-tracing for other purposes.

So no to this plan from Apple, they must discard all plans of client-side scanning and instead increase their privacy stance.
Do you still have a link to said source code?
Most of the people see the adversary in Apple (or governments), I think there is something else:
What about Adversarial Attacks.
Let’s assume someone is going to spread regular memes modified as Adversarial examples to generate the same neural hash as the true bad images.
Thinking back at the political campaigns, these could spread very easily among some voters for some party.
Suddenly you have a pretty serious attack on people of some political spectrum (or whatever group you can target with this)…
I seriously think this wasn’t fully thought through.
NPM silently suspended package adoption after mistakenly transferring one to me
My point exactly. What is privacy in the face of CSAM, after all.

/s (if not already clear enough)
I don’t think Disney is paying for these. It’s content marketing for greenmatters so they are the ones paying these bloggers.
Totally agree - he is studying china, lived in china, has a chinese girlfriend in china who advised him to stop the critical tweets…and he just kept doing it anyway???

“His girlfriend was shocked when she saw some of the tweets. Talking with him on the telephone, she begged him to stop. Not because she necessarily disagreed with anything. But because she was worried about retaliation by the Chinese government. «I'm in Switzerland, not China,» Gerber replied. «I can say what I want here.»

Sorry to sound harsh, but I would argue that level of naivety / ignorance pretty much should disqualify him from a PhD in anything related to modern day China.
> He's talking about the motion detector things that are a drop in replacement for switches.

No I'm not, but those work too.

This is what I bought: https://www.ebay.com/itm/153285261299

It is described as a radar sensor because it uses a high frequency oscillator and monitors the change in the signal due to things moving in the electromagnetic field. Imagine the effect of waving your hand near the aerial of a radio receiver when the signal is weak.
Looks like Syncthing doesn’t have support/client for iOS though?
It's arbitrary but considered safe by most authorities where such things are monitored, professional drivers are given a bit more leeway,

https://blog.orbcomm.com/tachograph-rules-european-drivers-h...

but when they are caught exceeding the limits they are hit very hard (possibly including confiscation of the vehicle & cargo, as well as massive fines and possibly loss of drivers license). And that's good for everybody, the lorry drivers included, it gives them the expectations of a reasonable work day as well as the improved safety for everybody else and a level playing field. Fraud with these devices used to be rampant, it is getting a bit better now with the digital generation which is more tamper proof.
Consuming GraphQL APIs in React
very cool project - assuming by de-bloating all this google-ware the battery performance might be better?
I don’t use Windows Defender nor Google Photos nor other cloud service providers to scan my photos. I barely use gmail. I knew that Google was terrible so I have already minimized my use of Google services. Same with Facebook. But Apple!? I guess the dominos have finally gotten to me.
Never pay list. Leasehackr forums broker price: $4700 up front / out the door for 36 mo, CA $2K rebate, Costco member discount, competitive lease discount, local buyer discount, clearing ’21s before new model.

Broker sources online leads for lower price, because buyer’s knowledgeable and ready to sign.
But you cannot know that a-priori so it’s either an attack vector for image manipulation or straight up false positives.

Assume we had this perfect hash knowledge. I’d create a compression algorithm to uniquely map between images and the 256 bit hash space, which we probably agree is similarly improbable. It’s on the order of 1000x to 10000x more efficient than JPEG and isn’t even lossy.
This is the sort of reasoning that got us into all this crap in the first place, and it certainly won't get us out of it.
Doesn't sound that good for the back IMO, as someone who can squat indefinitely it's not that comfortable leaning forwards like I do on a desk. You end up hunching up even more, and your knees are just in the way of your arms.

Kneeling is pain though. I'd rather sit cross legged than kneel for any length of time. A cross legged desk would work, as well. It would just be about a foot high.
Lessons from the Moonshot for fixing global problems
You made me ponder about "Microsoft Github account" vs "Github account", or large corporation vs smaller corporation. So many smaller corporations end up getting acquired by larger corporations anyways. It's all kind of a broken system huh?
If you work for Apple, you have provided a non-zero amount of support to them and their actions. Even if you're just the janitor that cleans the offices in the evening, you are providing material support. That gives you a non-zero liability for their actions. There are no generals without the soldiers.

Yes, maybe for some of their employees its a choice between starving or working for Apple. I bet for the vast majority of Apples direct employees, they would be able to find another job to support them. And even for the ones that would starve, I'm sorry, but I put the well-being of the entirety of society and our collective future over their lives. If they go destitute or broke, the world will move on. If Apple gets their way..it might just not.
Fun fact Japan homelessness peaked during their asset bubble in the 90s and has been declining since.

Also in so many parts of America the “lowest rung” of housing is extremely expensive relative to incomes, which is not something that is true in many cities around the world. Add in the American rejection of urbanism and the services that come with it…
that should tear through it. the linux kernel for instance compiles much better with higher number of cores
> database updates take an iOS update

macOS already supports silent database updates, for example for Gatekeeper and MRT signatures.

Why wouldn’t Apple use this feature on iOS, too?
and Microsoft since 2009:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna

Which, in turn, is used by FaceBook, Twitter, etc.
I liked driving too, but I lived in a larger German city for the past decade and didn't need a car. If I want groceries I walk across the street. If I want to go to work I cycle there (which is faster than taking the car or the subway at that time of the day, additionally you are more awake at work and get a little movement).

The few times a year where I need to transport something bigger, I just rent a car or get one from a car sharing service, or I transport it in the subway/S-Bahn.

I grew up on the countryside, where cars were a necessity and give you freedom, but living here not having a car gives me freedom. I don't have to think about my car, where to park it, where I parked it, how to maintain it etc.
A replacement SIM card will only be delivered to your registered address. I'm not sure that SIM swapping would even be an effective attack vector because the user will have to register that SIM card with the bank or other institution before it will work. I think, but I;m not sure, that all SIM cards have unique IDs.
Yes, I agree that this is a significant risk.
And whatever would make us believe that as users we should expect a difference between a company's servers and the same company's devices?

Would the device belong to us, or be covered by some misguided sense of ownership and privacy?

The garden was already walled, and the name on the gate wasn't the user's to begin with.

Now, where's my rusty yet trusty Nokia? Oh, wait, it doesn't have VoLTE...
> Kind of a big deal.

That the fingerprint reader doesn't work is a feature, not a bug. Fingerprints are the worst passwords, as they are easily obtained/faked and cannot be changed.

This tendency to embed biometric sensors in consumer devices is hurting users and hurting security. Only cops and psychopaths find any sort of advantage in that.
Everything you do on Facebook is hosted on Facebook’s server. You can assume that it's already happening there via PhotoDNA.
> Wealthy countries are struggling with the impact of teen moms, single mothers & alcoholic/druggie parents.

Are they, really? Do you have a source? I'm willing to bet the suffering these social restrictions put on young women and men in general is several times that faced by the outliers you're conveniently pointing to. Also willing to bet these cases of teen moms and alcoholic parents will be much more prevalent among the poorer classes in India than in the west in general.
Yes, a large team of highly paid engineers at Google produced better libraries than that one guy working on Zig as a passion project.

And yet that one guy still managed to build in useful features to his language that the Google "geniuses" couldn't think of despite (or because?) decades of experience.
Create a Telegram channel and send message to this channel through Bot API. I tried this and it's free, flexible and reliable.

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33862907
don't you have a project manager that acts as an intermediary between the customer and the coder?
Model 3 killed GM’s leverage, and now they’re trying to dump them as compliance cars to make their margin on trucks.

Lease explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28096813

Seats are bad, but you can add aftermarket pad. Quick for its class (6 sec 0-60), fun to drive, virtually free with solar panels.
Who would a company hire: the candidate with a trial for CP due to a false positive or the candidate without ?

And this is just to address the original concept of this scanning.

As many others have pointed out there is too much evidence pointing to other uses in the future.
Gotras are purely patrilineal, the mothers gotra doesn’t get passed down to the child.

There are other “rules” as well. But it really depends on the region and community.

There are some communities (for eg. Nairs) who traditionally have matrilineal systems.

So no generic rules for all of India.

This is all gradually breaking down with urbanization. So it’s not some sort of static thing either.
Why are you comparing blatantly racist actions with mild, indirect criticism of a government?
>One thought: is it because over 10, 20, 30+ years the police have been de-funded everywhere

Police funding has shot up in America. It's everything else thats been cut.

>what’s the problem.

There's no problem. It's just a drawn out power grab with a weak pretext.
Larry Page applied for $10m NZ residency three months before medevac flight
Previous related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073586

"A statement attributed to Immigration NZ border and visa operations general manager, Nicola Hogg, said because Page was offshore at the time of his application, it was unable to be processed because of Covid-19 restrictions.

Page's application was approved after he arrived in the country...Once Mr Page entered New Zealand his application was able to be processed and it was approved on 4 February 2021,” Hogg said...His application included the appropriate documentation necessary and was assessed as meeting immigration requirements.”

"Larry Page: Billionaire's entourage requested MIQ hotel upgrade"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/30037566...

"However, sources told Stuff that during Page’s managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) stay, there was pressure on officials for the billionaire to receive preferential treatment.Staff employed by Page, who were based in New Zealand and not in MIQ, asked for him to be moved to one of the higher-grade isolation facilities in downtown Auckland.
It is understood this request was strongly resisted by MIQ officials within MBIE and the billionaire was not afforded special treatment in isolation."

"Five wealthy investors granted border exemptions, then residency"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/immigration/300292469/five-...

"NZTE won't say why it helped top Google exec come to NZ to work remotely"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125740195/nzte-wont-say-why...
I can’t overstate how poor quality and lacking in amenities American condos are when one compares them to ones in Asia. Upper middle class condos in most of Asia are the equivalent of 1%er condos in America.

And the best part is often you buy a condo unfinished and literally get to build it out to your specifications and choose materials. Have never seen that in the US for non yacht owning individuals.
There may be 3rd party apps like https://www.mobiussync.com
The armed forces is a bad comparison. They have a fundamentally different mission than any given corporation. There are different moral tradeoffs to be made there.

Not to say I agree with the US armed forces' actions -- but comparing the US armed forces to Apple is a bit disingenuous.
So all 12 people in the world who know how to read, modify and install and OS can run their paranoid versions of iOS?
"tu quoque" detected, argument is invalid

There are countries in the world who do not have a patriot act or similar. They can argue in place of the USA that the government of the country discussed in the article is totalitarian.
Horrible. Apple has every right not to facilitate child exploitation, your rights be damned. Don’t like it? Don’t buy an iPhone.

end of story.
Too quickly, there's not enough enough details. So the DVD is gone, but isn't streaming making up for it?
Like stated below, I’m seriously worried about Adversarial examples that fool the network into
A) hiding bad pictures being not recognized
B) triggering false positives on harmless pictures to discredit people.

Opening up the network would mate it even easier to create the adversarials…
Im not sure there is a winning position in the approach they used
It is a very idealistic stance. And precisely because most people can't engage in militant activism, those that can should be.
The concern is less about outing people with CSAM and more about Apple building a powerful tool for government surveillance that will most certainly be abused by countries like China and Saudi Arabia when they request that politically dangerous images be added to the database if Apple wants to continue business in their country.

It is incredibly myopic of Apple to implement this feature. You must consider, as an engineer, how your constructions will be abused and used for bad as well as good.
Would love to learn more about actual algorithms that could be used to do something like this (private set intersection with approximate matching) if they exist.
Just checked on haveibeenpwned correcthorsebatterystaple has been seen 130 times.

It seems a lot of people took the xkcd at face value.
> Even though the poor and lower middle class make abjectly low amounts of money, the upper middle class and the rich actually make money comparable to most developed countries. This is reflected in the real estate prices (Chennai, the fourth largest city, has prices comparable to Brooklyn). I can make 200k UsD a year and call myself upper middle class and no one will bat an eye.

So true. People have very wrong expectation when "hiring poor Indians." India been a player in software development field for decades. People there know well how do they pay people in the US, not to say that most higher education in India automatically assumes some passable English.

The upper part of India society lives with one leg in the Western world, others not so much.

Mumbai may pass some times to a glass skyscraper city of the West, but drive 100km out of the city, and the reality will hit you like a truck.
> The answer is not right now.

Fixed it for you. Every answer is temporary. Apple also said they wouldn't install backdoors and here we are.
And then they switch to using Akamai or AWS IP space (like Microsoft does), so you start blocking those as well?
Calva on vscode is probably the most beginner-friendly way to start doing Clojure, and has a lot of features thanks to the use of clojure-lsp.

It even includes a quick interactive tutorial for Clojure and structural editing (which is something mandatory to really give lisps a try, IMO).
So, those squatting Slavs are actually doing it for their health?
Firefox for mobile is a good choice, but Tor Browser is even better (like on desktop), because it has built-in fingerprinting prevention.

> Some think that a local evil dude is less evil than a foreign evil dude.

Some people think that, although like you i'm less afraid of chinese secret police than french/US secret police, but what would be even better is when no "evil dude" is involved at all :)
A very long article of technical details skipping over the obvious fundamental principal that it’s not ok for apple to scan files on your device and trying to be part of the normalization of that abomination of a concept.
What are you even talking about? Posting racist cartoon depicting stereotypes about Chinese is exactly what the Chinese studies PhD student did, so this is an exact parallel.
wow really cool - I've never used a PWA before, is it possible to clone it so you can run it locally with no internet? or once it is in memory you dont need www?
I can remember still attending an IBM planning meeting in 1984 when APL was being touted as 'the future'. Cue lots of eye rolling from the sales teams who were not entirely convinced.

Many years later I came across it again in a financial modelling application where it worked well. Only problem was that there were (I think) only three people in the company who understood it. So it didn't last long as the risks / costs were just too great. Which I guess would be a typical scenario for many APL applications.
Hm. Forgettable for me. But the intro sequence was great. Where a pale flat disc appears in space, and is then bent forward by the emerging ship, which races onward to the planet, while the disc vanishes.
For the purposes of this they only have the hashes, which they receive from third parties.

> on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

(Now, I do wonder how secure those third parties are.)