skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It'll start with protecting children. We all want to protect children, don't we? Why do you want children abused? Are you a child abuser, what do you have to hide?

To be clear, this is continued enforcement for years-old regulation. The feature is only enabled in the US where it is required.

The implementation is changing from cloud-based matching (which requires photos to be readable by their cloud infrastructure) to local based matching with threshold tokens (which would allow them potentially to be in compliance while making the system E2E encrypted w two additional key release mechanisms (key escrow via separate audited HSM systems, the given threshold disclosure of the image encryption key)
camelcamelcamel would probably be helpful for this
There are some people and organisations you can never keep out. It doesn't matter what software you use.

You may stand a good chance of keeping the average snooper out, and for that you need to trust the software provider. So it ultimately comes down to who you trust more to keep your stuff moderately secure.

If you don't want anyone (but yourself) to have access to your information then don't store it digitally.

So who do you trust more, Google or random people on the Internet? Neither are an ideal choice, because there isn't one.
Thanks for mentioning clerk.dev but I don't see it having any billing features which IMO is foundational for something like this. Arengu has subscription payments.
Is making false claims to law enforcement not illegal?
commenting here as I share the same exact sentiment. I guess I am going to look into LineageOS which falls in the de-googled category but im not sure I am in love with that idea.

edit: Whoa, 2K for that purism phone. fuckin' a.
It depends on the system, I’m not familiar enough with climate science to state anything about the particular case at hand, but chaotic systems can be deterministic.
It’s not, though. It is genuinely a nice break. The very first road trip I took on mine was with my three teenage children. It was a moderately lengthy trip, from Texas to Colorado. After we got back home I asked them which they preferred, and their answers were surprisingly unanimous: electric. And given that they had taken many road trips with their mother and her ICE vehicle, they had something to compare it against.
In my experience the percentage of homeless that have serious addiction issue (alcohol, meth or heroin) approaches 100%
Where do you get the copper ore in this scenario? Existing natural easy-to-access ores have been mined out already. Would it be possible to mine the detritus of our civilization to get these ores?
Aha, the garlic spray explains why the place is crawling with children but relatively few adults in sight. :)
With the exception of Keychain and Biometric auth, everything you mentioned ultimately benefits the party that controls the trust root on the device (apple) significantly more than the user of the device.

At least with the right Android device I can flash my own keys to the trust root.
How do you do package (version) management for LaTeX? There's more than a few documents I've come across that won't build on my system, giving often-indecipherable compilation errors. Overleaf at least ensures everyone involved is using the same environment without needing to ship a Docker container or the like, or try to pin down versions.
I am not sure how systemless root interacts with verified boot. I've never tried it myself.
I interpreted it exactly that way. It's phrased that way.
First, yes human trafficking is on the rise. It is a horrible blight affecting millions of people globally. Most people are not aware of how pervasive it is.

Second, what is different today is that pervasive tech has made it possible for people to communicate over distance in a shielded way. Before modern tech, people had to physically stand next to each other to have a truly private conversation. That is new. I think that makes legislators feel that since tech has enabled this capability, tech should be enabling a way to "fix" the issue. The argument isn't completely without merit. Along with all the positive benefits of tech, there are of course some downsides. The question is what role should tech have in mitigating the downsides. This is an attempt by Apple to provide a mitigation. Time will tell if this attempt was a good idea. It could provide some benefit, but will the cost be too high?
Two of the headlines when you look it up on Google are "Why Are There No Mosquitoes at Disney World?" and "This Is Why You Never See Mosquitoes at Disney World."

"No mosquitoes" and "never" are pretty definitive.
> You can choose not to be affected by the virus by taking the vaccine. That's the whole point of the vaccine.

Vaccine isn't 100% protection from being affected by the virus. Even if you take it, you can still get the virus and you can still get bad COVID. With much less probability, but the probability is low already without the vaccine, with vaccine you do make it substantially lower, but not zero. So I was right, you can't choose to not get the virus, unless you self-isolate till the end of life.

> Since there are no reasons to think that there will be long term effects with the vaccine, and at worst, no more reasons than with the virus

There are reasons. Vaccine brings in risk: from long-term effects of modified spike protein and vaccine components, from vaccine breakthrough cases which put selection pressure on the virus, and possibly other mechanisms which are unknown. Yes, I do not trust pharma scientists to have all the answers about future effects of their vaccines. Their owners required and got immunity from prosecution and that tells me a lot.

> one has to look at the short term and this clearly favors the vaccine.

Independent doctors without conflict of interest say that for some people yes (simplistically old, unhealthy), for others not (young, healthy). This is also highly individual.
In the US, the majority of homeless people are homeless for economic reasons[1], and not because of mental illness or addiction.

[1] https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Homeless_Stats_...
I work in a related industry. The article makes good points about the cost of tunneling and I think the boring company has some great ideas.

That said:
* It's incorrect to think that there's nothing underground and this space is empty especially in urban areas. In Manhattan it's extremely difficult to find locations for new tunnels with the existing subway system, buildings, water supply, storm drains, power, things that aren't even on a map. Yes you could go deeper and deeper at great expense, but you still at some point need to tunnel to the surface.

* The proposal is to start the tunnel from the surface instead of from an open pit. Why are open pits needed for projects like the Purple Line in LA? Because even getting that pit built and opened is a major project, and you simply can't start it a thousand feet to the east, north, south, or west. The idea of not drilling in a pit is great if you can do it, but you can't ignore the advantages of drilling in a pit.

* Tunneling with a surface level entrance needed for cars will take more above ground infrastructure than a subway entrance. Once more, you'll need to allow cars to exit, so this will be repeated all along the tunnel. Subway stations are expensive, but the alternative is dismantling skyscrapers. It could be argued that all roads should be moved underground, Boston big-dig style, to free up space, but if you do that, you're spending lots of money on the surface as well.

* Tunnels need to stay dry and they can't make extreme angles and turns.

* Tunnels need to allow for evacuation and ventilation for the possibility of a fire. You can't get away from this with EVs.

* The "only" advantage of trains is not their low rolling resistance. The air resistance per passenger is also obviously much lower. You also reduce the amount of air and space between vehicles which increases your passenger capacity in terms of passengers per hour that can be carried in your tunnel during rush hour. Contrary to popular belief the space between cars cannot go away with FSD - the cars still need a safety margin to provide a safe braking distance from the car ahead.
* In terms of safety, trains are much safer than automobiles per passenger mile traveled. It hardly even shows up in 2019 and they're only getting safer. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...

* Trains have many downsides, but they're mostly related to being constrained to a fixed infrastructure. By putting cars in a tunnel you get many of the same downsides - freedom to change route, reverse, skip locations, avoid obstacles, etc.

In terms of future far-out infrastructure, I'd argue that "flying cars"/VTOL are a more likely solution that tunnels everywhere full of automobiles.
The point of the article is that the homeless need homes. It is encouraging the city to spend money on that, which seems to address your main point.
> You just have to be interested in video content that is unapologetically centered in Black culture, and that isn't burning any of its narrative fuel trying to make that cultural background feel familiar or especially palatable to other cultures.

Yes, I am. I’m not asking for content that caters to me. You don’t have to white wash your content in order to be inclusive. You don’t have to burn any narrative fuel on fragile whites. That would be awful.

I’m asking to be invited to participate. Not on my terms.. on theirs. For me it’s a subtle but significant and important difference.
This is consistent with a comment I left a few months ago: CA has been underbuilding housing for close to 50 years (https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/) and now has a severe housing shortage, to the point where a parodic response, like "California will try absolutely anything to reduce homelessness, except build more housing" (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en...) is the only reasonable one.

I've worked on Prop HHH and other proposals designed to reduce homelessness in California: https://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-..., but none of them work, or can work, without making housing easier to build.

Edit to add: before someone mentions "mental illness" and "drugs" and other contributors to homelessness, yes those are real factors: that said, the lower the cost of housing, the easier it is for someone on the margin of being housed or being homeless to stay housed. The lower the cost, the easier it is for family, SSDI, Section 8, and other income supports to keep a person housed. As the cost of housing goes up, the number of people who fall from the margins of "housed" to "homeless" goes up with it. So yes, mental illness and drug abuse are factors, but they're factors exacerbated by housing costs. They're really red herrings relative to overall housing costs.

The homelessness problem is intractable without zoning reform, and the removal of barriers to new housing, whether those barriers are height maximums, parking space minimums, or "neighborhood input" or "community input," both of which are functionally barriers to building anything, anywhere.
It only scans images in your iCloud Photo Library. Not paying for iCloud? No scanning. Not in your photo library? No scanning. And even then, only for known content, not new content.
I, too, have worked on similar detection technology using state of the art neural networks. There is no way there won't be false positives, I suspect many, many more than true positives.

It is very likely that as a result of this, thousands of innocent people will have their most private of images viewed by unaccountable strangers, will be wrongly suspected or even tried and sentenced. This includes children, teenagers, transsexuals, parents and other groups this is allegedly supposed to protect.

The willful ignorance and even pride by the politicians and managers who directed and voted for these measures to be taken disgusts me to the core. They have no idea what they are doing and if they do they are simply plain evil.

It's a (in my mind entirely unconstitutional) slippery slope that can lead to further telecommunications privacy and human rights abuses and limits freedom of expression by its chilling effect.

Devices should exclusively act in the interest of their owners.
the most bizzare transition IMO was between the most beautiful Monkey Island 3 (comic look!) and Monkey Island 4 (3D - although they did their best to make it charming), granted this was a few years after the SNES/N64 transition but all the more disappointing. Actually, worse than the graphics was the controls.
What is the advantage of plain text? Other than that Emacs is bad at editing other file types.
WhatsApp still works on a 9 year old Android I still have. Remember that a large part of the world doesn't have fancy phones, and WhatsApp needs to work on all kinds.

In fact, it's easier to install WhatsApp with severely limited permissions, while I just couldn't install the supposedly much more private Signal without giving it SMS access.
I spent nearly six years homeless. I have never used meth or heroin and I don't typically drink alcohol.

I'm not an addict. I never have been.
If you take photos, then yes?
I purchased this several years ago. I don't regret it because I was buying to support the Calyx mission and not for the access point, but it worked reliably for about a month and then it got QoSed into unusability.
Microsoft GCToolkit
Like a kid with a new drivers permit needs a new garage.
Do you have data showing that every hurricane, tornado, fire and monsoon season is “getting worse and worse”?
There is no good spec. There are several conventions that are almost always IdP specific.

That said, you hit on the main point: The best way to handle Single Log Out is to not handle single log out. If I log out of a federated AWS session, I am not logged out of Okta. If I log out of Okta, I am not logged out AWS.

Unfortunately, someone saw SLO was a feature and ordered us to enable it and provide support to the SPs to implement it against my recommendations to do otherwise and here we are.
Yeah not sure about that one: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/07/30/water-par...
I didn’t either. Your phrasing suggest that it’s mostly violent and sexual.
This is wrong - the iCloud check is against known CSAM hashes, the false positive rate is essentially zero.
The paradox of the situation is that population levels is mostly correlated with consumption levels. Which means that lowering population by natural means implies much higher emissions in total. Population levels are tied to economic conditions, and it's a false hope to try to control it through policy alone, which can affect it somewhat in the short term but not at all in the long term.

Population control is a misguided concept, and has a grim history, ranging from mass sterilisation in India to the "lebensraum" idea of the Nazis. It's not a sensible path, and is mostly tied to extreme ideologies and Malthusian pseudo-science.

Pointing to Uganda, whose citizens represents probably about 1% of emissions per capita compared to the west is is crazy to me. How can one even excuse ones own high consumption levels while blaming Ugandans for reproducing, when one represents the same amount emissions as that of a small village in some places?
It may not be sexy, but it works! I love simple solutions like this when they're actually practical. Even at partial capacity it's still a way lower carbon footprint than any normal sized personal car.
Makes perfect sense when Arizona is 20F warmer on average than TX during the summer and yet people seem to live there fine.
Congrats on the launch! We may try this on our WordPress sites that use multiple plugins to provide paid membership, social login and other member functionality.

On the pricing page (/pricing), could you support USD? Also, what are "Gold Integrations"? There doesn't appear to be an explanation but it's listed for every pricing tier.
Because science fiction never becomes science fact?
Amen to that. Actually getting it done is a big hairy problem I'm afraid though :(
For many people around the world the distance is not the issue, it is actually the overnight charging. In many countries people mostly live in apartment buildings and have to park in the street or if they have a parking spot it usually doesn't have any dedicated electricity near by, especially not something that can be charged per resident.
TL;DR – drainage ditches, carbon dioxide traps, roofs that don’t collect rainwater and chickens that eat mosquitoes.
Interesting post. I'm ~6 mo into using emacs, but I'm a long time vim user. I use emacs for org mode and org-roam, and for personal finance[0]. And sometimes, magit for git. And honestly... I may never use it for much more beyond this, and that's totally fine with me. Which I suppose is the point of flexibility -- people can use a flexible tool in the way that works best for them. My contribution here is to note that its _also_ ok to decide a tool, even an impressive tool, is something you only want in a few specific contexts without feeling bad about not adopting it everywhere.

I think its working out that way for me because I'm not actually much of a tinkerer. I very much like the straightforwardness of plain text, and I like all tools that empower me to put that in the center of my workflows. I can take or leave emacs, but I love org-*. Actually not too different from how I got into programming in the first place -- being able to write a plain text file in a certain format, point my browser to it, and boom it's a web page, was magic. And from there into actual programs -- use a certain format and boom it does stuff... The tools themselves - eh. Keep it simpler and I'm happier, but I'm not much for customizing them.

I can see how for the tinkering personality one can really get into emacs. That's not me, but emacs works for me for some things, and I've been happy to learn it for those.

[0]https://github.com/beancount/beancount-mode
CalyxOS includes microG, which solves the compatibility issue for some of Google Play Services' most essential features, including push notifications, better geolocation, and map rendering. microG also keeps Google's in-app ads disabled.

Implementation status: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status
I imagine it would be used for shipping primarily.
> the shells available in emacs. They feel slow

Emacs' eshell is the fastest shell out there according to one metric.

https://danluu.com/term-latency/
The larvae hatch in water, then molt at the surface which takes a while (during which they can not yet fly). That's probably where the chickens find them.
Yikes I thought this was going to be about why Walt Disney "World" (so TV productions) have mosquitoes and I already started imagining something along "it was too annoying to draw/animate mosquitos by hand" in my mind.

Reading about the actual article definitively makes much more sense. I think it is important to also acknowledge the history and importance of eradicating mosquitos for the sake of public health. For example, Italy had to deal with malaria at least until Mussolini. Eventually fully eradicating malaria with a combination of draining wetlands and use of insecticides such as the toxic, child-defect-causing DDT.

It's quite funny to see that they are using chickens as a canary method.
Strengths and weakness only matter in the context of a problem.

If surviving in a desert is the problem a cactus wins. But that strength has no value when the problem cbanges. It becomes a weakness. A cactus cannot turn into a coconut tree if its moved to a beach and has to survive huricane force winds.
The problem of hash or NN based matching is, the authority can avoid explaining the mismatch.

Suppose the authority want to false-arrest you. They prepare a hash that matches to an innocent image they knew the target has in his Apple product. They hand that hash to the Apple, claiming it's a hash from a child abuse image and demand privacy-invasive searching for the greater good.

Then, Apple report you have a file that match the hash to the authority. The authority use that report for a convenient reason to false-arrest you.

Now what happens if you sue the authority for the intentional false-arrest? Demand the original intended file for the hash? "No. We won't reveal the original file because it's child abusing image, also we don't keep the original file for moral reason"

But come to think of it, we already have tons of such bogus pseudo-science technology like the dogs which conveniently bark at police's secret hand sign, polygraph, and the drug test kit which detect illegal drugs from thin air.
One battery fire and everyone dies. Tesla PR is a helluva drug.
Two things I've found that help cut down insect bites in general are to use unscented soap and shampoo, and to wear natural colors (greens, browns, etc, but nothing very bright and not white). Certainly isn't 100% but it seems to help.
Show HN: FingerPaint – draw using your touchpad to Sign PDFs, etc. on Linux
One in one trillion chance per year, per the paper on the Apple site.
So is this like an animal archeological site
This blog post reads like and advertisment because it claims there's no mosquitoes when of course there is and also no mention of pesticides, when you can be sure there is.
This seems naive, there are always false positives
There's no point in using LineageOS after they dropped PrivacyGuard instead of expanding it. You start going down this road and suddenly you'll have a phone that doesn't pass SafetyNet anymore. You have to use 3rd-party applications and probably a ROM made by a random internet user not affiliated with LineageOS because they drop support for devices all the time. The phone manufacturers bribe ROM developers to do that or they just move on quickly.

MicroG is another really unstable experience. Google bought KaiOS and will buy the next KaiOS too. They moved and continue moving features to their proprietary castle. There's just no way you can win this fight against Google.

Long term the only solution is by some miracle a FOSS phone gets enough popularity for developers to want to make apps for it. I doubt it. My solution is unfortunately using two separates phones. Android and a FOSS one.
This is not true. The check is only against known CSAM hashes.
To the downvoters, I'm sorry the truth bother you. You should visit, is a great place. Just make sure you bring your insect repellent spray.
Not just zoning reform, we need to make actual free housing for people. We have an economy that can't provide enough jobs. We have a surplus of goods. We don't need people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, we just need to give people a place to live and some food to eat so they can contribute and potentially dig themselves out of any hole they have found themselves in.
In many places outside urban cores in the US, the rules are such that the amount of parking created is far in excess of demand.
You could try and rent your spot, but it would be pointless. Inside urban cores the parking is frequently underground and gated off so that it makes it hard to rent out without breaking the security rules for your building.

At the last place I lived in Vancouver, BC there was 2 levels of underground parking for 3 stories of living space. It is absolutely wild to think that a building along a major transit corridor was required to reserve 2/5 of their building for private vehicles in a city that is famously progressive with transit (for north america)
One of my favorite plays is "Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play" -- it retells one of The Simpsons episodes at various points after the apocalypse, and somewhat highlights how stories can morph with retellings... you might find it interesting. There are some community theatre productions of the show on YouTube, or else a general description on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Burns,_a_Post-Electric_Pla...
Yeah, that’s essentially zero.