skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way I’ve found is to quote the thing I’m citing. Context and length dependent, of course. This also has the advantage of showing how the doc looked when you write the code, so the comment rots less slowly (and if something changes, you can see by comparing the excerpts)
This is akin to saying rich people have lots of money, so why not steal from them.
Technically it's "front door" since it _publicly exists_.
Looks like reddit, for sure.

OP: why did you build it? practice? hn points? hate on the nocode haters? work for bubble? consulting sales? all the above?

i think it's strange that folks are using the "but it's good for rapid/throwaway prototyping/design!" argument.

is it?

if rapid prototyping is the argument for no code, well i get it -- but it's not the marketing i've seen for at least 10 years.

outside of that, the biggest drawback is the cost, with the ever-looming threat that you're going to get pandora'd by the rent-seeking no-code platform (anything you potentially make will just be siphoned off).

i know there are successful no code businesses -- even ones that are not just landing pages for no-code lessons, or no-code consulting, or no-code marketing, or no-code no-coding -- no-code tools really are a blessing for helping to democratize technology a tiny bit.

but if you want to do something that no code tools _should_ be designed for, imo -- namely, prototyping ideas very quickly with an actual fair shot of beating out the big boys -- you can't do it without tons of expertise and money and influence and connections and all the stuff you usually need.

you can't do it, in part, because branding / functionality / performance / etc. is all severely limited.

want to try a new idea?

sure - please go ahead - learn our 'no code' stack, give us $50/mo for your 'hello, world', and if you want to try Idea II, that will be anotehr $50/mo, thanks.

working moms? poor/working class teens? 99% of the population?

getoutttaaheeeere.
This is a very reasonable assessment of the current controversy. It didn't change my mind (I'm with Snowden on this) but it is well written, clear and well-balanced. Recommended reading up to the very end.
They just pulled that number out of their ass.
Add hashes of police uniforms and now you cannot take pictures of law enforcement.

Add hashes of politicians. Businessmen in suits. Army uniforms.

At the end you have a weapon that can only shoot civilians.
do vs have
python vs c
interpreter vs compiler

but then who is the doer and haver
c vs asm
complier vs assembler
Half-joking: the person that will find an effective, low-cost method to repel mosquitoes will become a very rich person.

Nathan Myhrvold tried, but apparently failed [0].

[0]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/laser-shooting-mosqu...
It looks like you’ve copied and pasted some quotes from my comments into a jumble.

There is nothing to ‘hang’ anyone with. Just a series of quotes taken out of context which even then don’t look particularly nefarious.

Remind us again what you’re trying to prove with this?
If you want an introduction into the policy side, read:

Duany, et al.’s Suburban Nation. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780865477506

Kunstler‘s Geography of Nowhere. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Geography-Of-Nowhere/...

It is extremely dismal but also theoretically fixable for future development.
> If it doesn't plug into a supercharger it's pretty much defective on arrival.

Is it? Then why is it that these cars charge faster than a Tesla Model 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gxcukAhIAU

And why is it that Teslas charge faster on CCS chargers than on Tesla chargers:

https://insideevs.com/news/507489/tesla-model3-charging-fast...

And why is it that the fastest EV cannonball run was done with a CCS car:

https://insideevs.com/news/464763/porsche-taycan-beats-elect...

What would be best is if Tesla just went ahead and put a CCS inlet on their North American cars, like Tesla already does in Europe. The European Teslas are better cars purely because they support the open charging standard and can plug into more chargers with no need for an adapter.

Tesla's proprietary plug is a dead end. CCS Teslas in North America would gain access to an additional 4,566 charging locations with no need for an adapter:

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html
The upper middle class does not nearly make money comparable to most developed countries. If you make 200k USD a year in India you are strictly rich. I make 10x less than you and I'm still upper middle class. The average rent in a place like Anna Nagar in Chennai (which is probably one of the most expensive places to live) is about 50,000 INR a month or ~700$ for a 3 bhk apartment. In comparison, the average rent in Brooklyn for a 1 bedroom apartment is around 2000$ a month. Just wanted to clarify on the numbers, I do agree with everything else you've said.
This seems like it could be easily gamified with a Strava-ish interface. Why not?
That's really funny. It almost reads like The Onion.
Apologies for being a bit slow on following up.

First, it is quite disrespectful to answer an honest query with an insult. (I am referring to "WhatAboutism.") I am aware of the corn subsidies in the US and the problems that it causes with various state and local budgets, and how it influences consumer prices for all sorts of products. However, I know very little about the tax structures and political tradeoffs for gasoline taxes. Hence, my question.

Second, the responses do not address the tradeoffs, which is what I queried about. Society is not about raw numbers; people are not machines. Just as the US has not transitioned to the metric system for what may seem like irrational reasons, a transition from gas/diesel to EV involves many complex, often irrational, factors. One of those factors -- the one I queried about -- is what happens when the transition impacts a complex system of political budget factors.

To reiterate the first point, immediately responding with an insult is not only disrespectful, but also discourages others from asking honest questions. Educating is great, but hurling insults is not.
The main thing I want is to change the colour temperature and brightness of lights throughout the house based on the time of day. I live in Northern Europe, and find lighting has a noticeable effect on my mood in winter. I'll also have presence and motion sensors throughout the house, so won't need to touch a light switch.

So basically first world problems. And for sure you could try to do something similar with Philips Hue bulbs (I have in the apartment I live in now), and 80% of the time that works, but I'd like to solve the other 20% too.

I'll also have a heat pump for hot water, heating and cooling and solar PV, so I will tie those together to try to optimise my power usage to use as much solar as possible. I'd love to be able to do that with appliances too (e.g. load up the washing machine in the morning, and have it turn on when there is excess solar), but it seems that's a few years away yet. Now I can monitor power usage and know when the washing is done. And if nobody goes in the room for an hour (from motion sensor) I can send a push notification to remind someone to get the washing.
You can check the menu for Machan hotel from the Taj Palace here [0]. The most expensive item on the menu (a seafood grill, which is probably not a single-person dish) is around $30, and there are plenty of dishes in the sub-$20 range. I've eaten in several five-star hotels in India from various chains (Taj, ITC, Trident, etc) in various cities (Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata). Excluding drinks, I can't recall paying over Rs. 2500 before tax for 2. It helps that my SO and I are both vegetarian, but even non-vegetarian would only cost around 50% more. Drinks - especially hard liquor - are crazy expensive though, and will easily cost you Rs. 1000+ including tax for even a single large drink or cocktail.

0. https://www.eazydiner.com/delhi-ncr/machan-the-taj-mahal-hot...
You're right.

But I have a van that I converted to an RV and it has a 12V fridge, 12V fans, 12V pump (for the water), 12V chargers for my phones and of course 12V lighting.

I think a good deal of electronics in a home could be run on 12V DC.
Not joking. More desired than a better mousetrap almost everywhere.
> Housing is actually more expensive outside of San Francisco, at least suburbs close to the city.

Not per lot SQ feet
If the process of identifying the images is done on the device, then a jailbroken device will likely give an attacker access to the entire DB. I'm not sure how useful it would be, but if the attacker did have access to actual known CSAM images it probably wouldn't be hard for them to produce false positives and test it against the DB on the jailbroken device, without notifying the company.
"Nollywood" (Nigeria) film industry produces ~2,500 films per year.
It's not the same because before the hashing was done in the cloud, but now the model is accessible locally, you just need to take pictures. This means it's easier to hack.

If someone discovers a way to reliably generate adversarial images they can send such images to someone else to iSWAT them.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that device owners are the only customers of the Apple ecosystem.
or maybe Sparqa Legal:https://www.sparqa.com
I couldn't find, why are some people's names bolded?
What's the MTBF of a robotic defence permimiter vs. that of a maurauding horde?
Yes, and you can even handle some errors, and then capture an error whose type is the subset of unhandled errors, and return that, limiting the error set of the current function to not include the handled ones. Here are a couple examples: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/7d0de54ad44832589379a4bc...

You get compile errors if you try to handle an impossible error, or don't include an `else` prong (in which case the compiler tells you the full set of unhandled errors).
Pictures is just a pretense. Step #2 will be URLs of pictures that users send each other using the phone's keyboard. Step #3 will quietly expand the definition of a URL to any keyboard input. At that point, Apple will have a god's eye view into all communications of their users, be it over WhatsApp, Signal, SMS or an online forum. Imagine having a dashboard that shows in realtime with gps coordinates how many text messages contain the word "enough"! The same scanner module can detect certain words in phone calls. What dictator wouldn't want that?
Ask HN: Are there any web/text scrapers that work with Facebook Groups?
Given the rather fragile existence of any content on Facebook it would be nice to have the ability to preserve the content on a Facebook Group I have led for many years now.

There are lots of gems and goodies hidden in there.

The search system for Facebook Groups is dismal.

I have so far found no solution that works.

This is not just a wish for me or the other admins but a big wish from the community as well.

a) Various products / systems based on scraping groups but only to (maliciously) scrape names, emails and whatever other contact information can be had.

That does not help me at all.

I do need to know the nick of the user, but I want is the actual content of discussions.

Further these products seem somewhat shady to me.

I dont really want some 3rd party to run it from their end either.

b) I have not been able to find enough of a an example of writing one. I have found useful content on Python but I am missing some crucial pieces.

Like how do I run it in the context of my logged in browser (?)

I would like to do this as close a regular person browsing as possible to avoid FB taking offense.

c) I have tried some Macro plug ins for Firefox
but I cant get it to understand the recursive nature of threads.

Find the next thread is not hard, getting the first content is not hard,. but telling it to "keep clicking" all the way down is not something I have mastered yet.

d) I have tried doing it myself, little by little, copy and pasting, but it is soul crushing work and the body of content is huge.

I would prefer something I can run myself.
I would prefer it to be slow.
Presumably robot fast descent into every thread my wakeup FB bots?

I really wish FB would allow admins (with users voting for it) to download the content of their group to keep as a backup.

Are there any seasoned scrapers out there who can help me?
A decent Canadian-based smoke forecast that I've been using for the past year or two:
http://firesmoke.ca

Having compared a bunch of different smoke forecasts over this time period, its hard to say which ones are better than the others.
With many more images, many more false positives. One has as a consequence a message or account being deleted, the other - being reported to the police. Very different!
I've never dealt with a city in my region that didn't have variance procedures for building and land development permits. In my own experience, these committees are nearly a rubber stamp unless an adjacent property owner expects to be inconvenienced. You're observing what's called realized preferences.

Coffee-table planners seem content to frame everything as a political problem, as if developers are an extended civil service or some kind of unthinking machines. There is also an unsurprising lack of investigation into places in the world where zoning free-for-alls actually do exist. Most are not like Martha's Vinyard. Many people don't actually want to live in a favela, and they vote and spend their dollars accordingly.

The east coast built walkable neighborhoods because they were built before cars existed. Several of these states have a net negative domestic migration, which does not suggest that people want to live there.
Just because the slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy doesn’t mean we can’t use our minds to foresee possible next steps.
You did understand it correctly. That's a really nice feature.
Well, I prefer to think of this as redistribution rather than theft. When the government pass laws to tax rich people more I think that’s good!
One point that seems to be missing from this discussion is climate.

Walkable cities: NYC, Chicago, SF, Boston, Seattle

Urban hellscapes: LA, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix

Simple explanation -- people don't want to walk around in the heat.
If I'm reading this right? Apple is saying they are going to flag CSAM they find on their servers. This article talks about finding a match for photos by comparing a hash of a photo you're testing with a hash you have, from a photo you have.

Does this mean Apple had/has CSAM available to generate the hashes?
For most woodworkers, I'd say the analogy is closest to making "plugins" for existing tools. They require a little knowledge (which easily obtained on YouTube), and can greatly increase your ability to use the base tool.

One example is a table saw sled, which helps you make clean, repeatable, 90º cuts. It's one of the most useful "plugins" you can have for your table saw, and relatively easy to make. Making the actual table saw, on the other hand, would be expensive and very difficult, and would require knowledge of many fields (metal working, electrical systems, etc.).
is somewhere it's easy to walk and drive

This exhibit from 1940 might be interesting:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Street_i...
Same here with Police Quest: SWAT.
To get this quashed would be easy. Use a Pegasus-like software and throw some known CP images onto their phone.

After Cook and co have this happened, they'll rethink this program real quick.
This isn't the argument you think it is.

If you need to replace words and change the context of the discussion, I'm going to assume you don't have any valid criticism.

I would refrain from posting, as arguments like this only trivialize the problem.
Xiaomi makes great hardware for the price but the software is simply terrible. I would not recommend buying their hardware if you come from a high end Samsung or iPhone and expect to be able to debloat it easily without wiping the entire thing and installing something like LineageOS.

I've bought a Mi 9 which had a similar price to features ratio in the hope the it'd become popular with the LineageOS community so I could run the latest and greatest open source ROM (it didn't) and the phone is pretty great.. . except for the terrible Xiaomi software. Nothing quite makes a premium piece of hardware feel cheap like a shitty "storage cleaner" application and ads (which you can disable, luckily) built right into the OS.

I'll probably buy Xiaomi again because of the hardware value for money, but this time I'll probably wait until LineageOS support is there officially instead if just hoping someone will add it eventually.
If you have worked on perceptual hashing, you know this just isn't true. It's like someone saying TLS prevents all eavesdropping. No, it doesn't!

On a population level scale, everyday people will have their photos analysed by a human working for Apple, and potentially arrested and charged for false positives.

And on a world scale, this will be a tool mandated by governments via legislation to silence dissents, trace the origins of leaks, and can even make possession of things like the Snowden documents illegal.

The NSA is probably thinking about how they give hashes of their top secret documents so they arrest the next Snowden before he/she gets the word out.
Zepto complained that it was out of context. Here are entire comments.

“ As far as I can see:
1. This is a serious attempt to build a privacy preserving solution to child pornography.
2. The complaints are all slippery slope arguments that governments will force Apple to abuse the mechanism. These are clearly real concerns and even Tim Cook admits that if you build a back door, bad people will use it.
However:
Child pornography and the related abuse is widely thought of as a massive problem, that is facilitated by encrypted communication and digital photography. People do care about this issue.
‘Think of the children’ is a great pretext for increasing surveillance, because it isn’t an irrational fear.
So: where are the proposals for a better solution?
I see here people who themselves are afraid of the real consequences of government/corporate surveillance, and whose fear prevents them from empathizing with the people who are afraid of the equally real consequences of organized child sexual exploitation.
‘My fear is more important than your fear’, is the root of ordinary political polarization.
What would be a hacker alternative would be to come up with a technical solution that solves for both fears at the same time.
This is what Apple has attempted, but the wisdom here is that they have failed.
Can anyone propose anything better, or are we stuck with just politics as usual?
Edit: added ‘widely thought of as’ to make it clear that I am referring to a widely held position, not that I am arguing for it.”

> The more sophisticated child molesters out there will find out about what Apple is doing and quickly avoid it.
I think this is exactly what Apple wants to he the result of their their iMessage scanning.
They are not in this to make arrests. They just want parents to feel safe letting children use their products. Driving predators to use different tools is fine with them.
As far as the FBI goes, this is presumably not their preference, but it’s still good for them if it makes predation a little harder.
It’s not a “hidden upload mechanism”. It’s a hash-and-flag system on top of the extant “upload to iCloud” function.

Apple will already have the data. You’re already consenting to that when you enable iCloud Photo Library (the only place this is being implemented).
For anyone that has read “The Circle”, this should feel like life imitating art. The antagonist company in that book repeatedly “finds” child pornography on inconvenient people to exert ever-growing control over society.
https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street
I'm incredibly amused by the number of supposedly deeply technical and informed people on this site who seem to be unaware of CSAM scanning and its existing use on cloud services.
Ask HN: What are the best cloud-based low-code development tools?
Or, just call someone that looks different than you “friend” or “colleague”.
That's called "drive until you qualify."
"Typically in criminal law, the defendant's awareness of what he is doing would not negate a strict liability mens rea (for example, being in possession of drugs will typically result in criminal liability, regardless of whether the defendant knows that he is in possession of the drugs)."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/strict_liability
Inside The Reddit Forum That Wants to See Bitcoin Die
I mean, I’m a native Spanish speaker and probably after a year I would be able to pick portuguese.
That's why we start our own companies, or join small startups.
@dang, rule violation. Starting flame wars against china
No more cash, so government can track your spend and where you spend. And govt/court can halt your account.
Is any of the build cached?
> people misunderstand how it works

You can literally read any thread on HN or Reddit to see this is the case. Thousands of comments about facial recognition and AI, completely misunderstanding how it works. The EFF article itself was FUD.

The EFF article starts right off claiming a backdoor, which is completely incorrect. Taking hashes of client-side content is not a backdoor, and the EFF should be embarrassed for not understanding that.
It's still end-to-end for non-CSAM-matching content. Sounds fair, as long as it's strictly for CSAM check purposes.
> some people's private and intimate photos will be false positives and be exposed to a man looking at it

and deciding who gets reported to police based on their cultural views on nudity
Their CEO has a track record of doing just that. Funnily enough the NCMEC started bringing in serious cash after some such statements and the CEO’s compensation is firmly in the six figures.
> to record the time something was created.

I don't think that was the downside mentioned, I think it was because of the lack of standardization on how to parse the timestamp.
There must be an uncanny valley effect going on because quite old movies don't take me out of the scene with the lighting techniques because they're so far off you don't get to thinking "well this is unrealistic" because of course it is. The actors seem to fit into the scenes.

I think that's what the issue is, newer films especially HDR, high frame rate... the actors don't seem immersed, everything is being done to hide the fact that it isn't reality and "everything" doesn't work very well. Like mediocre practical effects would lead to a better experience than advanced CGI.
Do you know how discovery works in court? I'm guessing not.

Once a hash matches, law enforcement would need a subpoena to access the raw image. If a person were to be arrested, that evidence would be turned over to the defense.

It would be very obvious that a picture of a police officer was not child pornography.

Are you under the impression people are jailed for hash collisions? Because that's not the case at all....
It's not the case. Dupont poisoned thousands in WV and it took decades to punish them. Currently thousands of people are poisoned by pig feces, and there are no repercussions.
Great work!

Some other feature recommendations:

1. A daily RSS feed - perhaps it could compile them into a 'single' podcast.

2. Human voice uploads - allow readers to upload their own voice (would require moderation - but would solve most pronunciation issues caused by TTS). You could randomly assign some number of articles to each moderator to read.

Again, great work - this has given me some ideas!
They will make this into a yearly subscription, like a flu shot.
To some degree if you really needed the client, it would be almost trivial to import libcurl "as it is" into zig.
Or you know, anyone who wants to plant material on a device and has physical access. Say a disgruntled employee before leaving, or ex, or criminal or...

Or anyone who can just text you since imessage backs up to icloud automatically...