skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that these charging stations are even permitted to be built without restrooms.

No gas station built today would be exempt from that requirement. Although I can think of at least a few unattended gas pumps that also are without restrooms.

It's obviously an emerging market, but it seems like charging stations would be suited for bucee's or even truck stop style facilities, with areas to rest, eat, shower, etc. At least compared to consumer based gas stations. I'm not sure what the economics of building those would look like without selling hundreds of gallons of diesel at a time.
Echo chambers are real, but only a minority of app 5% of users inhabit them
Thanks. Smart one. :)
There were plenty of walkable places in the US. They were just bulldozed for the car.

https://strongtowns.org has a few good examples.
No, i'm sure people would still make a fuss. Perceptual hashes are required to prevent criminals from slightly changing pixels within CSAM photos to avoid detection.
Almost. Since the "Neue Züricher Zeitung" changed to their current editor-in-chief in - I wanna say 2015 - they have moved to towards a more politically right-wing, conservative position.

From how this position is expressed in germany-austria-switzerland, "china=bad, universities too liberal, someone think of my country!" is not an uncommon sentiment.
Again, a few of us changing our habits will not move the needle. It will make us feel better, but the situation will be much the same.

But introducing a high price on carbon emissions and sticking to it will force meaningful change.
Serfs were essentially slaves but because Christianity technically forbade slavery the church side-stepped the issue by narrowly defining slavery as only when someone is bought or sold. Serfs were bound to the land and lord they 'served' under and had no rights. Lords couldn't buy and sell serfs but they could lease them to other lords. So it wasn't slavery as long as you gave the serf back to the lord you got them from at some point.
Do you sincerely think these 70 year old politicians understand the technology and implications? There can be varying amounts of regulation and oversight for software, but the whole point of a decentralized crypto currency is it's ungovernable.

If you're for this increased regulation fine, just understand it will push innovation and capital elsewhere in the world. And despite what you may want, bitcoin will not die.
Isn't perceptual hashing necessary for this application to prevent simple modifications (e.g. resizing, filters) from changing the signature?
Oh I wasn't comparing coney and cunt. To me even cunny and cunt seems quite far apart, admittedly not familiar with the diminutive or adjective form. Thanks all for the education in the colorful English vernacular (I mean that with sincerity, I can well imagine getting into a tough spot by dropping the word 'coney')
Hi LoveMortuus,
I have started off with CS papers only, and that too only a small subset of that (that’s why the website’s tag line says CS Research). May come around to adding more in due course. Is BioArxiv a good source of papers?
AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test
IMHO the desk won't solve that, the computer should be redesigned. As a headset maybe?
I think this is highly unlikely, everything points to Apple ditching the idea altogether : https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51207744

Many foreign countries have also clearly stated that they do not want this (E2EE) to happen and would legislate against it (the UK comes to mind first).

I do believe that you are correct with the idea that this technology was initially developed as a compromise to E2EE. But while E2EE on iCloud was indefinitely shelved, somehow this was not.

And someone at Apple thought this could be repurposed as a privacy win anyway ?

The other way I can think of it is if the ultimate goal is to add those checks to iMessage. One could argue the tech would make a lot more sense there (it's mostly E2EE with caveats), and it would certainly catch many more positive hashes.

I think someone at Apple massively misjudged the global implications of this and opened the company to a (literal) world of upcoming legislative hurt.
It actually is. It's a fundamental human right under the European Convention on Human Rights (to which Switzerland is a party) , Art. 10:

"ARTICLE 10
Freedom of expression
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right
shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart
information and ideas without interference by public authority
and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States
from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema
enterprises.
2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it
duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities,
conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and
are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national
security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention
of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for
the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing
the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for
maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary."
It's probably timing that is limiting your responses. AFAIK downvotes won't do that. And I didn't down-vote you.

I accept your answer, and acknowledge that different perspectives are valuable.

My own opinion is far less relevant as I probably will not be implementing or executing systems that target information from large swathes of a population for inspection by my organisation.

Nevertheless, let me give it a shot. I asked you about the social cost of false-positives. You reciprocated by asking me about false-negatives. It's tough - on both sides of the equation.

I try to apply weighting. If the dragnet would be targeted to a limited number (say 100) then it could easily be justified, since the relative horror of one over the other is surely in that ball park. Maybe even 1,000.

The problem for me is that mass surveillance such as the subject of this discussion is not numerically constrained. It's trawling the entire ocean floor for the one or two species that may be legally caught.
I don't think zig is aiming in that category. I see it as a system language.

Although these days people want to apply their favorite language to everything, I don't think zig will be a main language for writing web backends or http services. it's place is game engines, computer graphics, kernels, drivers etc..
Would it be possible to generate a handful of pictures that match a few hashes (but not actually real matches) and just do a mass forward to everyone?

WhatsApp, signal, email, slack, everywhere.
Everyone would get flagged, mean that this tool is pointless.
Exactly, there's a reason the FBI takes over real criminal cases when they occur - the police are just there to settle petty, inconsequential local disputes.
Fortunately (?) reCAPTCHA v3 [1] does not seem to be covered by this patent. Instead of clicking endless traffic lights these sites will just share all your browsing activity with Google for automatic black box verification.

[1] https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3
I'd be interested to see if wingtip devices might improve things. The foils seem rather low aspect ratio for the speed they are spinning at, and you wouldn't want to spin it much faster because of the massive parasitic drag you'd get from the linkages.
It's fascinating, isn't it? It's also frustrating. You see a doctor because something hurts, they look at the something -- often in isolation -- and if they can't figure it out, you're pretty much on your own.

I had constant foot pain in one foot for nearly a year. Doctors told me to rest. I walk a lot, and walking less wasn't really an option. Saw an osteopath, with more than a healthy dose of skepticism. They gave me exercises which were both baffling and ridiculous, which basically taught me how to use my big toes, then graduated to strengthening those muscles. At some point during this process, the pain went away, and it hasn't come back. Why couldn't my doctor identify this apparent muscle weakness in my foot? I don't know. But I'm glad the osteopath did.
Uninstalling Applications from Your Mac Successfully
I can't have a phone or a computer that snoops on me to this degree. So for me I definitely won't change or forget in a week. Unless they solve it, there's no more Mac or iPhone for me.

(This may actually be a Good Thing)
> If you tell the people in manufacturing that if any duplicates occur it's a show stopper they will tell you to stop being stupid and design your IT systems to cope with the real world.

You've got a pretty low opinion of people in manufacturing there, buddy.

No manufacturer I've ever worked with would even blink at a requirement for unique serial numbers.
Writing Custom Software: In Defense of Inefficiency
In both cities you will find new developments in the city that are imminently walkable and highly desirable (more expensive than other parts). I think these cities are actually great examples of the shifting preferences indicated here. They were built to sprawl, but are finding large success when they improve pedestrian infrastructure.
As painful as it is, I think that with general/popular tech media this particular ship has sailed quite a while ago
That's the post-Malthusian world where there's effective birth control. Now, how exactly you get from Malthus to post-Malthus is a very tricky question.
The Nokia 3310 does not support 3G. It’s a 2G (GSM or TDMA) device.
However, people in many countries around the globe are having fewer children and not due to reaching "subsistence level". Some of the biggest impacts in birth rates are education, particularly for women, and birth control, both things are the product of technology raising living standards. Birth rates are not declining today because of Malthusian cycles.
Right, but is there is any evidence that any PhD student has ever found it hard to get a US visa because of criticizing the US or US policy?
Wouldn't asking for all your social media identities as part of the visa application create somewhat of a chilling effect?
As a fellow professional, I think this is kind of nonsense.

Apple (and all these companies) also operate in a world with a populace that WANTS surveillance for these areas, does not agree that it is a slippery slope, and has voted in governments where that eventually will force Apple to install an even worse back door.

The Linux and FOSS movement have never been up to the end user device challenge, and they too operate in a world with a populace that WANTS surveillance for this stuff.

The solution to true privacy is never going to be “switch to FOSS” for most users, as that’s sort of like saying “get a degree in math”. It will work for some, but it will be an unstable experience.

The solution has to be to a) ensuring democracy survives and b) convincing most people that the right to privacy is more important than finding child pornographers, and c) to vote for representatives that will uphold that right.
Do you produce most email attachment in your inbox yourself? Do you produce most photos on your iCloud yourself? The point is anti-virus (purposed) hash upload is different from your private iCloud content hash upload.
I think that the used technology described in CSAM Detection Technical Summary (the so called NeuralHash) is a really bad idea, basically it uses the output of a neural network (likely a CNN) trained using the now classical triplet loss (see page 5).
The problem with those methods that they are not always reliable, for instance the same type of networks and same training procedure is used in neural face recognition that proved to be vulnerable (A recent example is the 'Master Faces' That Can Bypass Over 40% Of Facial ID, etc).
No, the existence and non-existence of a spyware engine doesn't constitute a problem. These companies spend billions of dollars, paying thousands of engineers a year, to develop solutions to problems that often don't even exist. It's safe to say that the sheer scale of every one of these tech companies means that this isn't something that incrementally gets worse, within a 6 month sprint they could push an update overnight going from step 0 to step 5 of total spyware.
I would assume in the first case, like the previous example, you would lose the Ph.D. But the second example with bears (assuming Pooh) is not a fair comparison to hate speech.
I am quite aware of declaration of human rights.

It is not a fundamental law in scientific sense, i.e. it is not a natural property of any kind. You want freedom of speech, fine, but you have to fight to get it and keep it alive. Otherwise it becomes just another unenforceable legalistic quirk like beheading for insulting the Queen is today.
These companies are just pseudo-departments of governments. They are working together on this rubbish
I’m a former subscriber, not renewing because T-Mobile is supposedly shutting down Sprint’s old LTE equipment: https://www.lightreading.com/5g/t-mobile-to-shutter-sprints-...

If this is true, I’m not surprised there’s a pivot to an unlocked phone without a bundled subscription with Mobile Citizen/Calyx.
Lots of good commentary in this thread.

A different take, I moved from product development into Cybersecurity Application Security and it enhanced my entire mindset around application development and building products.

It brought things to top of mind while I code that were lesser on the totem pole when in AppDev. I do not mean secure coding and remediating vulnerabilities but more holistic around building a product; security requirements, patterns, practices, etc.

1) if possible, do a rotation in Cybersecurity; specifically Application Security. This somewhat depends on what AppSec does at your company.

2) If your company has a security champion program, check that out.
You're entirely correct. Academia is broken is so many ways. A lot of my colleagues are wastes of space and some are indeed harmful. I don't think I'm a great advisor either. No one teaches us how to advise students.

My take is based entirely on facts of the article interpreted through an advisor's lens rather than that of a journalist trying to get clicks.
I think the OP meant that it isn't a fundamental law like in physics, so it doesn't 'enforce' itself
> Ah yes, nobody will ever need to represent a date/time before 1970-01-01.

If only we had a way to represent numbers less than zero :)
Similar to the change in definition for the word 'literally', the common parlance has evolved and 'crypto' now means cryptocurrency.

A good test is to look at a sentence like "are you into crypto?". Absent any other context, the majority of the English speaking world will interpret that question as being about cryptocurrency, and most won't even try to disambiguate. Someone who wanted to ask if you are into cryptography would have disambiguated in the first place.
>>This meant that wars in medieval times where shorter and less bloody then(sic) before and after.

My brain short circuited a bit when reading this sentence. Just to clarify, you are saying that "wars in medieval times where shorter and less bloody then(sic) before and after" medieval times?
Then tell us. Because this is what apple says:

The Messages app will use on-device machine learning to warn about sensitive content, while keeping private communications unreadable by Apple.

Next, iOS and iPadOS will use new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online, while designing for user privacy.

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

There is no ambiguity here. Of course they will scan images in the cloud as well, but they are explicit in saying that it is (also) on the device itself.
I'm calling you on it. Yes I was wrong. But what is a more correct answer?

How many bones in a flight'ed bird. No chickens or mostly ground based birds.

Bonus points if it's a parrot, which I can't find.
There needs to be a land tax that is high enough to cover the cost of infrastructure.

This is currently not the case with single family homes.
Quote from the article: "The professor went on to explain that the relationship of trust had already been strained, because Gerber had «lost his temper» during a conversation a year earlier, and had told her that he no longer wanted to continue his doctorate at St. Gallen in any form, and no longer needed her as a doctoral supervisor."
Absolute.

Today, the U.S. collectively spends $100 billion a year on policing and a further $80 billion on incarceration.

Just the spending on policing is larger than what other countries spend on military. Actually, the only country that spends more on military is China [1], after taking in incarceration costs, it is 2.5 times the military expenditure of India.

[1] https://www.sipri.org/publications/2021/sipri-fact-sheets/tr...
> They talk a lot about complex crypto to protect privacy but the primary thing it's doing is hiding what apple is matching against, which shields them against accountability.

NCMEC partners are not allowed to share the raw hashes, and I imagine Apple's contract with NCMEC to create a photo-comparison tool that will have auditable code (well, compiled code, but still) includes such a provision to slow or stop CSAM sharing enterprises from completely reverse engineering and cheating the system.
Do you sincerely believe these 70 year old politicians write these amendments themselves, without any input from an army of underpaid graduates of Harvard Law and Caltech, or the ability to call Elon Musk whenever they are having trouble setting up their granddaughter’s bottle rocket?
It's not a precedent, it's a central part of patent law, right there in the statutes. You pretty much can't do anything with a patented invention unless you have permission. If you could get round it by saying "oh yeah I bought it off this other guy" then the entire system would collapse. Which would be no bad thing, but that's not how it works.
Just buy a device with it already installed, Calyx and Fairphone offer these for instance.
> virtually every story they read, TV show they watch or video game they play is essentially a story with two men (or male-identifying nonhuman creatures) pitted against each other in some form of combat, which inevitably ends with one crowned a hero and the other brutally defeated. [But these stories lack social, collaborative aspects]

I recently was suggested Deborah Tannen's "You Just Don't Understand", which presents the model that generally men will act in status-oriented way (with preference for independence, showing off, etc.), whereas generally women will act in a intimacy-oriented way (with preference for cooperation, supporting, etc.).

Further, given men and women behave as if from different cultures, it'd be a good idea to be aware of those differences so to fix conflicts which typically arise because of those differences. (The NYT piece sortof agrees with this).

But, while you can probably say "narrative of hero defeats monster" is a world away from the method of social interaction which seeks to be likeable and not offend.. but it's not so far from the method of social interaction which seeks to show who's one-up and who's one-down.
FreeCAD Is Fundamentally Broken – Now What Help Me Decide
Or if it's just a simple hash, change a single, impercetible pixel in the photo.
I mean, they said "might be", and they're entirely correct about SSN.

> Emailed them. No problem, apologies for the defect, your warranty registration for a lamp with no serial number will be fine.

Seems fine?
People have asked of this for Facebook employees for years, with little effect.
>Do you sincerely think these 70 year old politicians understand the technology and implications?

Politicians of any age aren't domain experts and don't appear to be any smarter than they have to be to get and hold office. Judging from reading the writings from politicians of yore, I do have to say that the better minds in Congress can't compare to their 19th C. equivalents. It could simply be that a classical education served as a sort of filter.

As far as implications, humans are notably bad at that generally, whether it's tax law or something that involves those computer things. The laws of unintended consequences continue on, but that never stopped the writing (by Congressional staff) of more and more rules for us all.
How about one of those sitting balls? Similar to squatting?

Edit: as noted by KozmoNau7 in another comment, "In a proper deep squat, your thighs and calves are touching and your feet are flat on the floor"
> What you suggest is not theoretical, it's reality today.

As others have stated, do you have proof? Inside knowledge of this supposed reality? Even some major news publication with no direct evidence would be credible enough to support this statement.
> this has been shown to be something of a myth

No, it hasn't.

The only thing that's _clear_ is that, despite a handful of likeminded folks perennially floating this claim here and being challenged on it, evidence overwhelmingly shows that the term "open source" was minted in 1998 exactly the way history says it was, and that some people on the wrong side of hubris and/or the Mandela effect refuse to accept it. It's like the software world's very own strain of truther conspiracy.

What _has_ been shown is that there exists a document predating 1998 in which the words "open" and "source" are incidentally adjacent—in a completely different grammatical context. It is telling, now just as it was the last time, that this slippery document (which has been perniciously retitled, no less) is The One that is always held up as proof—instead of a representative sample of the, you know, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of examples showing "open source" in casual use that would be expected to exist if the claim actually held any water.

> Linus's [and the BSDs'] disagreement with RMS's ideology is well
known, so if "open source" were really already a thing before 1998, then we
should expect that the number of times "open source" appears among his cohort
prior to 1998 would be [...] as common as it is today. For it not
to show up before that point and then to explode in use post-mozilla.org[...]
About what? Does 1gw base load capable renewable installation with grid storage that can work 24/7, 365 days per year even exist?

And this is fairly trivial to start with coal.
The govt will not learn any new information just put miners in legal gray area so the businesses move to other countries. People can still use tokens. Cracking down on crime is a different topic
This is classic western/European entitlement. How absolutely annoying.
after seeing recent events around mozilla, I suspect they would not allow disabling that if they could get away with it

(don't get me wrong, "everybody sucks")
See Article 261 of the Swiss penal code.
Not true. With the notable exception of malware and an ambiguous thin line on cracking software, these regulations only apply to operational facilitation, usually requiring financial participation in the activity. Of course when the activity is associated with terrorism, treason, or ‘crimes against humanity’, almost anything goes. Admittedly this could be a very wide net, as we saw with crypto regulation in the 90s, although I don’t know that any open source contributors were prosecuted.

But, reality check, it will not be a matter of laws once the threat becomes existential.
lol, what's that?
I wonder what image transformations would yield a different hash in the NeuralHash algorithm. Anyone know?

From Apple: “The neural network that generates the descriptor is trained through a self-supervised training scheme. Images are perturbed with transformations that keep them perceptually identical to the original, creating an original/perturbed pair.”
There is no real critique outside certain boundaries e.g., try to say something negative about military in US
Coding Classical Latin
This is not really the place for this sort of response.
https://archive.is/TVWEB
In Middle Ages Europe the Church had been trying to ban crosbows. It didn't work.