skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't mind more walkable if it didn't come at the cost of being around many more people.

Every walkable city I've been to is either filthy, cramped, loud, over run, and/or very very expensive. I don't want to live so close to people to hear them, smell them, or be bothered by them or their pets.
This doesn't break end-to-end encryption.

If you're going to comment on this topic you need to be technically aware of how it works. You're just spreading nonsense.
They can decrypt iCloud content currently, so it wouldn't be a step back.

On the topic of backdoors, automatic update systems could be used as backdoors.
> on the command of a Republican President to hang government officials and overturn an election

Literally never happened. The fact that you're parroting this lie shows how deeply media bubbles have disconnected people from reality.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-s...

https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/202...
This is Rust's approach, too: realistically recoverable errors are handled with Result<T, E>, and other are handled through panics. (Panics are generally implemented as exceptions, i.e. they unwind the stack, but the compiler can also be configured to make them just abort.)
I've considered that, but was concerned about copyright issues.
I completely do not understand why the author thinks Rust is a C replacement. I can understand Rust as a C++ replacement.

If he was looking for a better C, Zig definitely fits the bill.
It's reasonable but it misses some omissions. Specifically:

1. What if the NSA/FBI, through the Patriot Act, demand Apple provide bulk interception safety vouchers ('metadata') for "counter-terrorism" purposes? Much like we learned from Snowden that this happens for all cell phone records for decades?

This is not a strawman argument: it is a question concerning applications of laws in force today, that have been applied for mass surveillance already in other contexts.

2. The whole on-device spyware is a single feature toggle away from working on local files too. We're software engineers. We know that "if (iCloudPhotosEnabled) {" is a simple boolean comparison.

Combine the two, and you realise Apple has just built the most intrusive mass surveillance tool in history, disguised as child safety.

Apple's choice of announcing all 3 features together isn't a mistake. This is one of the best PR department in the world. Logic requires us to dig deeper.
Are there communities on Discord/Reddit for what you're doing? I'm interested in dabbling with home automation during my free time.
I have a follow-up question. How do you convince publishers to use what you're comfortable with. I tried editing / writing for Apress and I gave up because they wanted me to use MS Word. Not even Libreol Office. I wanted to use vim and RestructuredText with Sphinx.

It's a hard problem.
I had lots of luck with https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki on Mi Max 3. In general any recent phone should work with these ROMs.

On Mi Max 3 it works perfectly with only a few tweaks after flashing.

https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/issues/1...

This one, and one more for Bluetooth audio
https://reason.com/2021/05/13/the-police-dog-who-cried-drugs...

> Similar patterns abound nationwide, suggesting that Karma's career was not unusual. Lex, a drug detection dog in Illinois, alerted for narcotics 93 percent of the time during roadside sniffs, but was wrong in more than 40 percent of cases. Sella, a drug detection dog in Florida, gave false alerts 53 percent of the time. Bono, a drug detection dog in Virginia, incorrectly indicated the presence of drugs 74 percent of the time.
I remember hearing a joke that Americans like vacationing in Paris (or Rome, London, etc) because it reproduces the walkable life they only ever had in college.
New Zealand is actually a logical place to hole up. Small population and low population density, plenty of fresh water straight from the sky, fertile soils and it's a long, long way from everywhere. Stockpiling a bunch of tractors you can't get diesel for doesn't strike me as being a particularly good move when what you really want in a feudal society is a defensible castle and enough dependent serfs for an irregular defence force. New Zealand may be the last place on the planet where those are easily constructed and organised.
It's not a fork, just a regular LOVE project.
Thanks. I am looking for free software. I think Camtasia becomes paid after the 30 days trial.
You got that right—this is a bullshit back door. That's my favourite kind of back door. Because it does one thing incredibly well: it starves of oxygen the one remotely tractable argument politicians have found to break real E2E encryption with real, non-bullshit back doors.

With this technology in place, never again will the Government be able to wail "think of the children" when claiming E2E needs a back door in order to protect the the children.

Give me the bullshit back door any day.
My MacBook Pro is overdue for an upgrade, and I literally ordered a Framework laptop (on which I plan to run Debian) partially in response to this announcement.
Recommended reading prior to this one is the 2016 public letter from Apple [1] where Apple makes a similar slippery-slope argument on FBI's request.

1. https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

Regarding the slippery-slope argument in this context though, it isn't the same. if Apple really wanted to silently transition from CP to Gov/Politics surveillance, they could have just released this feature without any announcement. I mean, if they wanted to be evil. Shouldn't we have thought about this eventuality before putting all our pictures in the cloud?
I wouldn't really say it's a substantial lead, but Snapchat acquired Bitmoji for online avatars, and another map based location company. From what I understand, they are moving into their AR glasses and have plans to partner with game devs to incorporate your bitmoji avatar into the experience (kinda like Mii's) I don't know whether this will ultimately amount to anything since I don't use it, but they do have some semblance of a direction they seem to be taking the company towards.
usually, with friends, you can say "fuck you, i'm a nerd then" and they would be cool with that
Have you heard of the chilling effect?
I live in Portland city limits but not downtown. Where I live was built as a suburb but the city grew into it. Actually Portland has a lot of these downtowney areas and they're surrounded by blocks and blocks of single family homes and small apartments

But if you go farther out into newer developments, they just abandoned this lovely system and made awful cookie cutter burbs.

Before this I lived in San Rafael and larkspur in Marin county which also have nice downtowney areas surrounded by single family homes. Old Marin county had just this pattern of walkable enough neighborhoods with tiny downtowns. I don't see why this sort of thing isn't possible. When I lived there I walked everywhere
Probably has something to do with Rust being used in embedded and kernel operating systems due to it's high level of memory control and zero runtime capabilities.
RethinkDNS + Firewall: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app

TrackerControl has a tad better UX; is built on top of the super-stable NetGuard and hence inherits its flaws and merits.

For instance, it does not support DoH/DoT/DNSCrypt.

It also leaks DNS connections over TCP (this happens when a DNS question or answer payload is too big to fit in a single UDP packet). In fact, all userspace DNS clients on Android I have taken a look at, leak DNS queries over TCP.

TrackerControl does not trap all packets over port 53, which RethinkDNS does by default.

TrackerControl isn't geared towards bypassing censorship. RethinkDNS can bypass stateless firewalls employing a similar trick to GreenTunnel, and we plan to implement a couple more such mitigations.

Unimplemented but soon, RethinkDNS would let users block connections if apps don't resolve DNS with a resolver of their choosing.

RethinkDNS has open-sourced both its client app and a pi-hole like stub resolver: https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns

There's three of us working on RethinkDNS full-time, so it is likely to see feature development at a faster clip than TrackerControl and NetGuard (the latter's been put under maintanence mode by its original developer).
Someone's personal hygiene bears no relationship to their knowledge or opinions on technology.
Driving a car around SF is generally more than 20 minutes. Most areas downtown can be reached in the same or less time by bike, and it also removes any issues with parking/waiting for a car.
If we pretend for a minute, which may not be hard, that Apple isn't trying to "think of the children" - this feature seems like a good step to protect themselves from the legal implications of having CP on their servers. I don't know what all the ramifications would be, but I imagine that if a CP ring was discovered using iCloud as a storage medium, Apple could get in a some big trouble.
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Every time I read about Zig, I feel like I see a nice language that's only an incremental improvement to C mostly in terms of ergonomics. It's hard for me to imagine people giving up C for only incremental gain.
Thanks for this. I don't know when I will make the time to learn new languages, but I think I've decided that when I do, one of the array programming languages is where I'll focus. This page seems like as good a place to start as any.

The xkcd "light saber" thing made lisp seem appealing to me a few years ago, but after a brief intro to the array languages, now I think they're much more deserving of that comparison.
have you ever used a stackoverflow post AT ALL to figure out authentication, grep files, or set up a tool?

know how often each time they shower?
Road design has a huge part to play here. Places with very safe streets have very few lanes, lots of traffic calming, smarter signals, and design which makes drivers slow down and pay attention. The road in that picture is broad and open, so it’s no wonder cars feel like they’re the priority: the design promotes it.

I agree that cultural change is necessary too, but there are so many relatively cheap things we could do to improve streets for non-cars! And if we do, they’d end up being able to move more people anyways, because cars are incredibly space expensive.
Those are some interesting points. Its true, Dumbledore could do things with a wand that the examiner couldn't even dream possible. By Harry's time, students are lacklustre. But at the same time, they did not have even one normal school year. I wonder what they could have done if they had a normal year.
You can reveal your files and people can accuse you you deleted the incriminating ones.
Does iCloud automatically upload iMessage attachments?
Turn off iCloud Photos and it won't run the surveillance. Seems reasonable that if you want to store your photos on someone else's hardware, they should get some say whether their hardware is used to store child porn.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068741

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28079171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078115
>Apple could get in a some big trouble.

On what basis? Is there precedence for this?
It's a wonder why Mao always get mentioned in those sort of things. Mao is a problematic leader by today's standard, but would be a saint in pre-modern history. What happened was horrible, but those aren't atrocities. Mao was certain he was doing the right thing, which is exactly the issue at that time. It's radically different from the nobilities who do things to others because they think they are born superior, Mao was obviously not that.
While org-mode parsers are being written in many languages, what is the best currently available alternative to the org-element API in any other language than Emacs Lisp?
I think there is a corollary to the law of headlines. An article that claims to say “why” something is, only explains how. And an article which claims to say “how” something is, only states that it is.
The author is convinced that the couple’s life sucks.

He/she is writing from a point of view of superiority - “look, this is what they’re lacking, they can’t afford a Rs.8000 dinner”. To a billionaire, my software engineer life will look miserable - “They have to go eat at Panera and Olive Garden. For their employer, a nice dineout costs $5000.”

Can we stop looking down on people because they cannot afford what’s normal for us? I agree about the freedom and social parts here, so let’s focus on that. Most of the article seems to be written to evoke shock and awe from a middle-class person - look what they can’t afford! Lets focus on their social struggles instead of what they can or cannot afford.
> Will Apple actually flatly refuse any and all such demands? If they do, it’s all good.

I don't understand how he can write this when there is an established record of Apple folding to such demands for access to lucrative markets.
Do you have a source that this is being used on all photos on the device?

The EFF posts says it applies to 2 cases: photos being uploaded to iCloud, and photos through iMessage if the account holder is a child and the feature hasn't been disabled.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-diff...

You're right that only scanning photos uploaded to iCloud is currently pointless. But maybe Apple plans to do semi-end-to-end encryption on iCloud photos in the future, and then this feature would be useful.
Amazing book. I always recommend this book due its clear and concise explanations.

I look forward to reading the second edition.
Sort of like this https://i.redd.it/2ats89kd0ea41.jpg
It's still like this in India today. In Bangalore, seeing hundreds of wires in the open is not uncommon. Most of them are by ISPs.
Code Mmamammmmammamamaaamammma by John Carmack
Yeah, which is irrelevant to the discussion. This thread is about photos of law enforcement and politicians used to convict people on CP charges.

Let's stick to the topic of discovery and how courts work.
Completely serious, any university that allows this to happen should lose accreditation and all public funding.
In order to limit costs, everything is pulled from source on each build and there is nothing cached. This strategy takes advantage of the fact that AWS doesn't charge for ingress traffic and unfortunately puts additional load on Google's servers. I've attempted a few different strategies on caching AOSP and Chromium source trees, but since you have to incur the storage costs on an ongoing basis, it's just not very economical.
You could still have a mix in that area. A handful of apartment buildings or multi-family homes/lots at medium density could solve the density problem without going overkill
Your last point is a slippery slope that began the moment you allowed any software on any device to update itself. Literally any software that updates itself could be converted into a treacherous surveillance system at any time.

And literally any cloud storage service could betray you at any time without pushing new binaries to your hardware.

And nobody ever has to tell you shit.
Just to add, these are five-star restaurants we're talking about it. While I am privileged enough to be able to afford them, even I don't eat at such places more than 2-3 times an year if that. At very good non-five-star restaurants (where the food is arguably better if you ask me) you can have a meal for two for under Rs. 2000 including tax. One of my favourites in the NCR region is 21 Gun Salute in Gurgaon [0]. And at a chain like Haldiram's [1], which is where most Indians including me would go for a normal weekend outing, you can have a meal for 2 for under Rs. 500.

0. https://www.zomato.com/ncr/21-gun-salute-sector-29

1. https://www.haldiram.com/about
This client side scanning of local files can be easily extended to scan the whole device. That's why the eff was calling it a backdoor. All it takes is for the right govt to put the right preassure on apple. In a way it's kinda worse than a backdoor since your phone is actively reporting any suspicious looking files to the authority all the time on its own. The govt dosent need to actively look for it. Just add the appropriate has of what it wants discovered to the db and wait
yeah, but Hyenas aren't canines; they have their own family - the Hyaenidae.
Drained out of the cities? Nearly all of Texas is what most people would consider "suburb". Even the "urban" areas are mostly sprawl. Very little of Texas is walkable by any stretch.
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GLoVe to measure creativity: Divergent Association Task
Librem 5
This is wholly speculation, but their view could be that they have two bad options to choose from, and they chose the option that didn't involve congressional hearings and public pressure to make changes that could be even more anti-privacy.

Again, pure speculation and really the most generous means of explaining this controversial decision.
Any particular reason why you think so? Any particular field where you think R is going ahead of Python?

For Statistical methods, R was always ahead.
Let’s conveniently ignore all the facts that speak against the planned dystopia, and focus on the positives of having all facets of your life constrained and controlled by authorities.
Imagine CCP becoming world leader.
Here's the current page as seen by the API.

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/28060112.json?pri...

See also https://github.com/HackerNews/API
normally in the movie this is the moment of the big reveal when you figure out the characters you thought were really good have been killing for a long time and they probably have plans for you that you wouldn't like.
> This client side scanning of local files can be easily extended to scan the whole device

Correct, Apple can access unencrypted files stored on your device.

> That's why the eff was calling it a backdoor

Accessing unencrypted files on a device is not a backdoor

> actively reporting any suspicious looking files to the authority all the time on its own

Yep, that's a problem. Not a backdoor, though.
Do you use a GPU for Video editing? I have read online that Da Vinci needs a GPU .Thanks.
Let’s not confuse the 2 parts that Apple is implementing;

- one is parental control, it’s upon request, uses ML, it’s “local” (that is, it’s sent to the parent)

- the other one is plain hash matching, which does not “save the children” but rather is “catch the viewer” — exclusively. This has no impact on the abuse of the CSAM subjects because it only matches publicly-known content.

I don’t know why NCMEC is excited since stopping the viewer does not stop the abuse; This does not affect them.

Conspirationally speaking, it almost feels like things aren’t the way they’re described and Apple will in fact ML to detect new content and report that.

The threshold thing doesn’t even make sense otherwise. One known CSAM picture should be enough to trigger the report, but it sounds like they want better accuracy for ML detection.
The Four Noble Truths
It’s a massive backdoor.

Take any person’s set of photos that they have ever put online, anywhere (publicly, via email, etc.), feed it to this back door and you can have their identity and GPS coordinates in fractions of a second.

It’s a horrifying, dystopian tool that should not exist. In any form, for any reason. Nobody can be trusted to be a gatekeeper for something like this.
Are there large Ulam spirals? e.g. 100k x 100k, where each pixel is the density of prime numbers there. Do they show any interesting structure?
Needs another pair of rotor wings behind the first. You could lose the traditional prop then for pitch.
I'm happy to have that discussion, I think it's critical and we need to update laws to protect privacy.

You still don't get to be technically incorrect, though. You still need to know how courts work, if you want to participate in that discussion.
Before software development was the career the rich kids went to, instead of, say, Wall Street, I don't recall us computer nerds being called "high achievers".

I think it helps to think of "high achiever" as PR spin for the go-to status/prestige careers for children from affluent and connected families. Whatever that is at the time.

If we wanted to call someone in software a "high achiever", I suppose it could be used to describe someone who breaks the class barrier, to get the affluent go-to status career. Despite whatever affluence-biased gatekeeping the affluent established once they took it over.
The world in the 1900s:

Librarians: "It is unthinkable that we would ever share a patron's borrowing history!"

Post office employees: "Letters are private, only those commie countries open the mail their citizens send!"

Police officers: "A search warrant from a Judge or probable cause is required before we can search a premises or tap a single, specific phone line!"

The census: "Do you agree to share the full details of your record after 99 years have elapsed?"

The world in the 2000s:

FAANGs: "We know everything about you. Where you go. What you buy. What you read. What you say and to whom. What specific type of taboo pornography you prefer. We'll happily share it with used car salesmen and the hucksters that sell WiFi radiation blockers and healing magnets. Also: Cambridge Analytica, the government, foreign governments, and anyone who asks and can pony up the cash, really. Shh now, I have a quarterly earnings report to finish."

Device manufacturers: "We'll rifle through your photos on a weekly basis, just to see if you've got some banned propaganda. Did I say propaganda? I meant child porn, that's harder to argue with. The algorithm is the same though, and just how the Australian government put uncomfortable information leaks onto the banned CP list, so will your government. No, you can't check the list! You'll have to just trust us."

Search engines: "Tiananmen Square is located in Beijing China. Here's a cute tourist photo. No further information available."

Online Maps: "Tibet (China). Soon: Taiwan (China)."

Media distributors: "We'll go into your home, rifle through your albums, and take the ones we've stopped selling. Oh, not physically of course. No-no-no-no, nothing so barbaric! We'll simply remotely instruct your device to delete anything we no longer want you to watch or listen to. Even if you bought it from somewhere else and uploaded it yourself. It matches a hash, you see? It's got to go!"

Governments: "Scan a barcode so that we can keep a record of your every movement, for public health reasons. Sure, Google and Apple developed a secure, privacy-preserving method to track exposures. We prefer to use our method instead. Did we forget to mention the data retention period? Don't worry about that. Just assume... indefinite."
> In the United States too, a quarter of the country’s Confucius Institutes have been shut down in recent years. Universities no longer wanted to give legitimacy to an institution that defended fundamentally different values.

Well, that makes a statement about the purpose of a university.
Not to mention even if we could somehow trust them now, there is an infinite variables on the futures for this to change.
You have a lot of trust in your courts. Let’s hope it is not misplaced.