skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're already scanning your photos to classify the images. That's how you can search for photos by descriptions. They also can OCR the text in images. Seems like a weird time to start getting angry about your privacy being invaded
But that's more out of a genuine concern to avoid the unnecessary crud that's accumulated in the curriculum. Of course, college imputes useful things, but it also has a tendency to teach abstract concepts, when what you need in the beginning is the concrete steps to see things working.
Boris Johnson is a Ted Cruz who knew the appeal of a Donald Trump.
No, the biggest obstacles has been the gross economic failure of nuclear. The claims it would be cheap were always lies, although the boosters increasingly desperately blame anyone else they can.
I could imagine an abusive partner enabling this to make sure their partner isn’t sexting other people. Given the pushback for AirTags I’m surprised people aren’t more concerned.
Make sure HW acceleration is working, I've noticed firefox on linux seems to have it disabled more often than it should.
I think it probably is age related because I feel the same way about the iMac G3. That machine was kicking around schools well beyond its actual useful life. Even when they upgraded them to OSX the OS9 login screen was still burned into the phospor.
I'd be surprised if this goes through as is since you can't just save this stuff indefinitely. Suppose a 14 year old sexts a 12 year old. That is technically child porn and so retention is often illegal.
He bought paypal stock privately when it was almost worthless, which the roth ira allowed, then the stock exploded.
I mean, sure, if you can tell the future you can do what Peter did.
Actaully, I don't think it will remove a barrier for iCloud E2E encryption at all. On the contrary. All it will remove, is the barrier for what we find acceptible for companoes like Apple to implement. I think Apple made a very intrusive move, one that we will come to accept over time. After that, a next move follows...and so on. That's the barrier being moved. A point will be reached when E2E encryption is nothing more than a hoax, a non-feature with no added value. A mirage of what it is supposed to be.
All of these things are implemented under the Child Protection flag. Sure, we need child protection, we need it badly, but the collateral is huge and quite handy too for most 3 letter agencies. I don't have the solution.
The other day my 3 year old son had a rash, I took pictures of it over the course of a few days. A nude little boy, pictures from multiple angles. I showed my dermatologist. What will happen in the future? Will my iPhone "flag" me as a potential child predator? Can I tell it I'm a worried dad? Do I even have to be thinking about these things?
Brain imaging before and after Covid [pdf]
That is true, but again humans.

Humans will be less bothered by you being off by 10s of seconds for "how many seconds until X" where X is multiple years in the future than they will be where X is a minute in the future. Any timestamp created today may be used far in the future, but durations are (by their very nature) transient. Even if you were to do a sleep(nominal seconds until 2038) the computer is likely to reboot before the interval expires, mooting any issues.
Those people were mostly old and infirm, not exactly the groups with the most political say.
Biomass for CO2 sequestration is garbage -- it uses far too much land and sequesters far too little CO2.
There’s so much to protest and so many are crushed that many Americans have resigned hope for change.
From the 'segment of a realistic episode of a crime program':

> “So it’s an inside job?!”

> “No, the hacker got in by guessing one of the clerks’ passwords.”

> “That’s not possible, we have a password security policy in place. Brute forcing that kind of thing would take hundreds of thousands of attempts.”

> “Well, normally, yes, but the clerk was using the same password for her email, and that server got hacked, and a file with all the usernames and plaintext passwords got dumped.”

> “But everyone knows user passwords need to be stored as one-way hashes so that getting the plaintext back out of them is impossible.”

> “They were hashed, but only md5! The hackers just used a rainbow table to do the lookups.”

A password security policy could have prevented that. ;p
No OP but I personally prefer the simplicity of VS Code's diff and conflict resolution point-and-click tooling to using ediff/smerge. I also work in a project with some very deep directory structures and like the VS Code sidebar much more.
Can't you run it on CPU? And looking at the code, it seems like they're using Numba to JIT their CUDA kernels, so I guess someone could come along and provide a compatibility shim to make the kernels run on a non-CUDA accelerator?
Authenticator apps require a physical device, but not a phone number. That's what I mean: They don't need your phone number for any reason, and any 2FA based on the number is insecure.
Definition of feral (from google): (especially of an animal) in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication.

There may have been inter-breeding involved with wild populations, but most, if not all, feral cats have their origins in domesticated, or captive (by humans), cat populations.

Also, have you ever noticed that feral cats tend to congregate near humans? That's because they find it easier to find food from dumpsters, handouts, garbage, etc. This is very similar to other species that rely on humans for their success (rats, corn, cockroaches, crows). This artificially increases their numbers. I say "artificially" because their food source comes indirectly or directly from humans.

So simply from the definition of the word "feral", and not even including the inter-species dynamics between humans and feral cats, humans have everything to do with feral cat populations.
More like the reverse, fool. The power loves right wing people and racists.

If anything, the left and progressive left will be prosecuted.

China? They even attacked Marxist demonstrations in universities. Current ideology in China is just Jingoism or "keep shit working no matter how".
I think it’s wise to first consider what the pros would be.
I'm looking forward to this platform being expanded to facially ID against more databases such as criminals, political dissenters, or anyone with an undesirable opinion so that SWAT teams can barge into the homes of false positive identifications to murder them and their dogs.
Fusion will neither be available soon, nor is it likely to be competitive if ever it does arrive.
From the actual article:
“Until 2000, giraffe were believed to have no social structure (Innis 1958, Foster & Dagg 1972, Dagg & Foster 1976, Leuthold 1979), largely because of the daily fluidity in their group composition (Foster & Dagg 1972, Pratt & Anderson 1982, Pellew 1984a, Pratt & Anderson 1985).”

That was quite interesting reasoning because applying that to humans would seem silly. A fair number of people when observed by a distant third party, such as bachelor salesmen, solo travel bloggers, single real estate agents, etc., have little to no social structure because of the daily fluidity in their group composition.

For the giraffe researchers to have actually believed that seems like an instance of anti-anthropomorphism, that another mammal in this case must operate in totally alien ways.
>plug a laptop into a customer beamer

I've had presentations where the Macbook couldn't sync and the Kubuntu Dell rescued me. Linux video is massively better than a few years ago thanks to AMD drivers being fully open source.
https://gez.la - Open Source Virtual Tour Database
I'm not sure when it happened, but in the past few months I started noticing slower responsiveness in Chrome. Which is weird, because historically that was the type of thing I tolerated in Firefox.

It looks like Firefox is the new speed champ on MacOS, at least among serious browsers. If Safari's WebExtension ecosystem actually progresses with Safari 15, that may be worth another shot, too.
Oatly makes a good product but disappointed to see them trademark bullying.

Their ice cream alternative is pretty good too.
In many cases, people are not willing to do the theoretically/physically best/most energy efficient solution because it’s much, much cheaper to not.

My house is ~100 years old structural brick. The insulation on most of the vertical walls is just the plaster, air gap, and 9” of brick. As we remodel (very slowly), we insulate with spray foam, but that remodeling is never driven by energy concerns. It’s vastly cheaper for me to keep heating the bulk of the house with natural gas than it ever would be to take money from investments and turn them into insulation and new plaster walls.

I’ve had insulation and HVAC contractors out. To totally redo just the vertical walls and change the HVAC to locally electric is a six-figure proposition and by the time it’s done, the first digit won’t be a “1”. The payback period on that is infinite if you charge yourself 2% interest (with energy priced as it is today).
Photos is just an app.

You can use another photo app, link it to another cloud provider, and be free of the burden.

If you use Photos, you're along for the ride, and you've consented to whatever it does.

You don't get a line-item veto on code you choose to run, that's never been how it works.

For what it's worth, I'm basically with the EFF on this: it looks like the thin end of a wedge, it sucks and I'm not happy about it.

But being histrionic doesn't help anything.
I am not exactly sure what this is, is it similar to Discourse?
Good news! It's not doing contextual analysis of content. It's comparing image hashes.
No insult. You actually don’t know that the Linux kernel has less security issues than Apple’s kernel.

But the kernel is only a tiny fraction of the system. There simply is no Linux system that even attempts to solve the problems Apple solves. There could be, but there isn’t - this is what we mean by the term ‘wishful thinking’.
“Apple just handles a target database” ==> apple in the loop
Candlepin bowling was pretty much the only bowling I found in massachusetts growing up. No holes in the the significantly smaller bowling balls, no removing fallen pins between bowls. Its different, but has fallen out of favor as a lot of the local bowling alleys have closed and large chains have moved in. It always seemed like an easier bowling to get started with...

I always thought those fancy curves of regular bowling were by crazy spins..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlepin_bowling
The other conclusion that is wrong in similar cases, and I'd have assumed here is closing and securing the gate.

You always need to be able to jump in a car, or run off site quickly with gas and dangerous works.
Agreed. When I installed a large battery backed PV installation I set it up with the batteries outside in a separate concrete underground bunker dug into the side of a (very convenient) hill.
What do you mean? You pay in the country you live/work in. You get back your pension wherever you are, from every country you've worked for in your life. Sounds pretty fair to me
Why do you not think that? As far as I understand, there is no procedure for reviewing the contents, it is simply a database that law enforcement vouches is full of bad images.
The US can’t be bothered to help its citizens living abroad with vaccinations even though it has expiring doses. Other countries have done so, AND without the tax compliance demands.

So let’s drop this extraterritorial benefits stuff. No benefit the US has provided has been worth the worry, anger, and tedium of trying to be tax compliant in a situation where it’s impossible to be truly compliant (thanks to how irreconcilable foreign arrangements often are to US tax law).

https://americanexpatfinance.com/news/item/782-state-dept-re...
It's not the device that's less secure or private in this context, it's the services. There's no reason you couldn't just continue using your NAS for photo backup and Signal for encrypted-communications completely unaffected by this.

Apple seems to not have interest in users devices, which makes sense -- they're not liable for them. They _do_ seem interested in protecting the data that they house, which makes sense, because they're liable for it and have a responsibility to remove/report CSAM that they're hosting.
if you use psql you will be way more productive than using any gui tool. also Sequel Ace is so barbones that using a cli is way way faster.
Yep. I am terrified for the people who are running open-source medical devices via community-based code and reversed-engineered medical devices. Something bad is bound to happen.

Specifications and details here:
https://openaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The code is hosted on GitHub, and is against Microsoft's Terms and Conditions, for obvious reasons. Still, nothing is done about it.
Try it in safe mode with your plugins disabled, it will at least show you if it is vanilla behaviour
You don't have to be a malicious actors. The same folks are pushing both issues and will not talk proactively / positively about anything?

Carbon capture? Hell no!

Micro nuclear? Hell no!

Ban straws? Yes!!

We did the whole glass bottle use thing for milk etc etc - but at some point you realize some of these high profile enviro actions are basic hot air - we'd be better off with getting rid of them entirely and doing things like

1) Carbon tax on all sources of carbon emissions that then pays for ANY solution (carbon capture, solar + battery, mini-nuclear) that folks want to try.

2)
The threat environment is utterly different between an individual person’s phone and an anonymous server behind a firewall on the internet.

It’s not even close.
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I have an 8' separation between the two and it's all brick, that gives me a pretty safe feeling.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a method for decrypting _if it's matching an already known or flagged item_. It's not enabling decrypting arbitrary payloads.

From your link:

>In particular, the server learns the associated payload data for matching images, but learns nothing for non-matching images.

Past this point I'll defer to actual cryptographers (who I'm sure will dissect and write about it), but to me this feels like a decently smart way to go about this.
They are broths, not milks. No teats? No milk.
We should not be too sanguine about a shrinking population
Based on their cartoon, looks like the problem is Windows' weird way of conflating applications and application windows.
In some countries Canada for example if you don't take a new residence they will treat your last residence as your residence.

India is the opposite. You can work on a boat get paid in India and owe no taxes.
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Processing data locally and maintaining information locally is wholly different from reading (supposedly encrypted) information from your device and reporting it back.
I'm confused - the article explicitly states this scenario - minus the swatting.

Ie unless you're replying to purely the swatting part, the article seems to support this. Specifically a prediction that governments will creep on legally requiring Apple to push custom classifiers:

> Apple’s changes would enable such screening, takedown, and reporting in its end-to-end messaging. The abuse cases are easy to imagine: governments that outlaw homosexuality might require the classifier to be trained to restrict apparent LGBTQ+ content, or an authoritarian regime might demand the classifier be able to spot popular satirical images or protest flyers.
I concur, thanks for helping folks stay informed.

GP's takeaway that "The vaccine results in more robust immunity" is completely unsupported by the provided source.
I'm not sure if it's a habit from a "good" writer, but most new academic writers are reluctant to make themselves the subject of sentences. This leads to passive voice and awkward sentences.

Who ran the experiments? We ran the experiments. The experiments were not run. Who proved the theorem? We proved the theorem. We present. We conclude. Our analysis. It not only leads to better, simpler sentences, it's more accurate. We, as human beings who exist in this world, did these things.

Also, and this is more of a pet-peeve and may only be a practice from my particular community, but references are not nouns. "Betty White [6] already proved a version of this result" is good. "[6] already proved a version of this result" drives me batty.
Y'know, I have no idea what I'd do in this situation and I really hope I'll never find out.

If a kilo of heroin just showed up in the back seat of my car, I'd throw it out the window and try not to think about it. I certainly wouldn't bring it to the police, because mere possession is a serious crime.

CP is the same way, except it comes with a nice audit trail which could sink me even if I delete it immediately. Do I risk that, or do I risk the FBI deciding I'm a Person of Interest because I reported the incident in good faith?

There are no good choices there.
I'm the opposite of someone who keeps tons of tabs open, I'm constantly closing and reopening the browser through out the day. One of main reasons why I started using Chrome in the first place all of those years ago was the start up speed. I know Firefox is much better today at this in the past but any improvement would help me switch full time to FireFox.
You may want to take some time to reflect on the issue you articulated in your second paragraph.

So you 'did a good job' and the company maybe indicated there was a future for you, but they couldn't fulfill it. That's not hugely nice.

But can you fathom for a minute that it seems your peers were doing 'An Even Better Job' and perhaps better suited for advancement? At least in the eyes of the company?

Put on your 'Management Hat' for a moment and understand that maybe it's unfortunate you thought there was an opportunity where there was not, but that those kinds of indications are fleeting anyhow.

Someone thought they were going to Lead the League in Scoring until it turns out they didn't.

At very least, despite the companies misrepresentation, a lack of professional maturity for young devs. to assume that 'hope' is a guarantee of anything. When you're a manager, you're a manager, before that, it's all talk.

This scenario isn't even a 2 out of 10 in terms of the mistreatment or misappropriation of employees - it's just a mostly normal thing that happens in noisy channels.

Maybe they were thinking of advancing you - someone else came along. That's life.

I'm glad you seem to want to 'Do A Good Job' regardless, but it should be noted that you're not comped for future prospects of advancement. So in this situation just 'Doing A Good Job' would be an expectation of the job. Not some thing you do on the condition of some future event.

If you are mistreated, obviously, that's not good, and it's the company leadership 'Not Doing a Good Job' but I don't see a strong indication of anything other than normal operations here.
> If you've worked in computer security long enough, you know that Apple could already have added a backdoor into every build of iOS that allows the government to read any material on your device they chose to read.

Yes. They could. However, getting caught doing that, from Apple, would be an absolute disaster for them, and they've both made the right statements and made the right actions in terms of things like physical device security (moving more and more into the secure enclave to protect against demonstrated attacks).

It's entirely possible they've done this for specific cases, with a gag order, and nobody knows. However, it cannot be widespread, or it would end up known.

This, however, is adding a blackbox image matching algorithm (we know it's not matching image file data based on statements about how it's robust against cropping/rotation/resizing/etc), and a blackbox database of "Stuff claimed to be Really Bad." There is no way to audit the database and see what's in it, because of the one way nature of hash functions, and there's almost certainly not a pile of the source material laying around for audit reasons (because that would be a really nasty legal problem). So you've got a "Trust us, this stuff is bad" database, and a "Trust us, it matches images accurately" hash function.

And, if those find enough matches (also unspecified), you get yourself reported directly to the various authorities.

It's guilt by algorithm, across every single Apple device (running the latest OS, etc... handwave as needed).

That's very, very different from a customized backdoor deployed to a small number of phones.
Arrested for social media comments in UK
I’m still waiting on iCloud backup encryption they promised a while back. There were reports that they scrapped those plans because the FBI told them to, but nothing official announced since 2019 on this.
Presumably by adding signatures for "populist/nationalist right" memes.
Sounds like it is a time to re-download FrostPunk from Steam.
There is no doubt that some people are more productive remotely. But employees should also realize that the company’s definition of “productivity” is different from their own. For example, some engineers are happy to avoid random interruptions by working remotely, but the company might see those interruptions as how junior engineers learn the build and dev toolchains. That doesn’t show up in your peformance review, so it might not be worth anything to you, but it is worth something to the company.

I don’t think the solution here is for every company to become “remote-friendly.” I think it’s for remote companies like Automattic, Gitlab, and Invision to exist, and for remote-desiring engineers to get jobs there.
Wow. In the last week we have seen the Prime Minister call in the Australia Defense Forces to enforce lockdown in Sydney[1]. We have seen the Police guarding apartment blocks to prevent residents from leaving[2] and now there's a ban on foreign residents leaving the country? As if these things weren't jarring enough, Hollywood celebrities seem to have been given great leeway in being able to to come and go as they please.[3]

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/defence-force-called-in-...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-27/blacktown-apartment-b...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55851074