skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: OK I didn't read the article, that's my fault. But the original point stands: I don't want Apple run more scans on my phone. They can scan on Cloud, but not on my phone before it's loaded into Cloud.
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I want to add that this may be a serious issue for people with young kids. Imagine you shoot a video/photo of your kid with little dressed on. Now what happens? Are we supposed to fully dress kids because we have no idea what Apple will do after the scan?
It's funny how first item on your list of drawbacks (higher maintenance) was already there with first-wave of home automation, back in last century [0]. Current iteration not only fails to solve that problem, it also brings 3 additional problems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.10
> society won't just give up when it happens

It's happening right now.
True, but I think the parent comment was referring to less congestion. When it comes to bicycling, I always feel that it's my responsibility as a rider to look out for my own safety. Always regard all and any cars as being driven at 4AM by a drunk driver - regardless of time of day. In the middle of the day that means keeping track of multiple vehicles in different directions relative to my path.

During low traffic, there may be one vehicle to keep track of, and few pedestrians or other bikes.

That safe environment is quickly turned into an enabler for more aggressive and careless riding though. For fun and for getting from A to B faster.
Some public health agencies have retroactively revised the COVID-19 death count down so as to exclude people who died after a positive test but from a different primary cause. But I don't know how widespread that is.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/07/02/santa-clara-cou...
or if you're not up for going cold turkey, just drastically reduce your intake. If you eat meat only once a week rather than every day, this already reduces your footprint massively.
Your schemas only have to include types for things you use. Don't feel you have to type your entire schema.
With this precedent, there's no stopping Apple Big Mother from policing other areas, i.e., tax evasion, money laundering, prohibition drug crime, crypto, human rights lawyers, journalists, dissidents, refugees, and political targets. Offend the wrong political power, and they'll plant some kiddie porn on your phone and automatically report you to the authorities.
What about people with young children? I know my parents have a good number of 35mm shots of me in the bath with my brother and sister when we were babies.
Is it maybe due to FOSTA-SESTA? Maybe they're worried about being liable for crimes under that bill?
No, as I said most of these are absolutely trivial injection attacks from not validating untrusted inputs, being used to trigger a class of vulnerability that has been well-documented since at least 2005.
Quite funny: looking for some figures, it seems I wasn’t the first one to do so, and that finding anything even remotely reliable isn't easy at all. See

- https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114485422875624000

- https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/260...

- http://www.radosh.net/archive/001481.html

> I'm sure you're aware, but when CP collectors are busted, they often have terabytes upon terabytes of CP.

Always appalled me that there is so much of it out there. FFS.

For some reason, it reminds me of when the French government decided to spy on BitTorrent networks for copyright infringement (HADOPI).

Defense & Interior asked them not to, saying that it would only make their work harder.

That some geeks would create and democratise new tools not to be caught downloading some random blockbuster, or even just out of principle, and both child pornographers & terrorists would gladly adopt them in a heartbeat, because while they weren’t necessarily the type capable of creating such tools, they had historically been shown to be proficient enough to use them.

Quite hilarious, when you think of it. Some kind of reverse "Think of the Children".

We still got HADOPI however, and now any moron has access to and knows how to get a VPN.
Yeah, it's confusing. I should probably write a new paper just on this topic because there isn't really a good explanation anywhere.

> translate the experiment with polarizer to the experiment with the double slit

Best is not to get too hung up on the physical details. What matters is that a stream of particles can get separated along two separate paths and brought back together, and this can produce an interference pattern. The particular degree of freedom along with the separation takes place (position, polarization, spin, whatever), or the details of how they are split and brought back together (two-slit, half-silvered mirrors, Stern-Gehrlach apparatus, whatever) is mostly irrelevant. What matters is:

1. When unentangled particles are sent through one of these split-combine setups they produce an interference pattern.

2. When you "measure" the degree of freedom along which the particles are split in one of these split-combine setups, the interference pattern disappears and is replaced by a non-interference pattern. (This is just basic quantum mechanics 101.)

3. When you send entangled particles through a split-combine setup what you get is a non-interference pattern, exactly the same as the one you get when you "measure" an unentangled particle. But...

4. If you go through a rather elaborate process (see below) you can separate the entangled particles into two groups, each of which exhibits an interference pattern, and these two interference patterns will add up to make a non-interference pattern. (Even more interesting, there is more than one way that you can do this separation, each of which will produce a different pair of interference patterns, but any given pair will add up to the same non-interference pattern.)

The "elaborate process" involves making measurements on the complimentary observable for one member of each entangled pair, and classifying the other member of the pair into one of two groups based on the outcome of that measurement. This is where the physical details get really complicated for anything other than polarization, where the complimentary observable is just polarization along an axis rotated by 45 degrees to the original.

Note also that the reason that #3 above is true is that measurement and entanglement are actually the same physical phenomenon. The mathematical description of an entangled particle and a "measured" particle is exactly the same.
Probably because they want to catch all edge case before it totally replace the current profiler?
Jeepers good point, actually this went from an inconvenience to a total show stopper for me.

What will the job interview sound like for this job? “Do you have any experience in recognising child porn?”, “yes, many years, and great enthusiasm for the job”.

I’m looking for my old Huawei phone now.
Does Owl allow you to proprly respond (accept/reject) to meeting invites? I am using TBSync and Provider for Exchange ActiveSync and that cannot do so.
I still remember Scott McNealy's 1999 quote from when he was at Sun Microsystems: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
Just wanted to let you know that these are very good points and you've changed my mind about no code.
If you use an Apple phone as intended every photo you take is automatically uploaded to iCloud. It takes no usr action and does not imply an intent to share or distribute the photo.
>If you create a large pile of government giveaway money but keep energy cheap

Why would we keep energy cheap? The economics of that also needs to change. I agree that we should also raise carbon-intensive energy prices, and do our best to structure it to penalize disproportionate users (e.g. construction costs for massive houses and buildings). I also don't understand how you could "take the money" for improvements like insulation and then still use more energy, unless you just mean fraud in general.

Change also needs to happen at a societal level. We need to tax extreme amounts of wealth, because that wealth came from society, so the burden is on them to help. On a global level, we could also do more to help developing and industrializing nations. Imagine a green version of the Marshall Plan.
Later this year in the Monterey update.

“ These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.*”

— https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Driving a conversion-first keyword strategy for startups
EDIT: OK I didn't read the article, that's my fault and thanks for the clarification. But the original point stands: I don't want Apple run more scans on my phone. They can scan on Cloud, but not on my phone before it's loaded into Cloud.
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At least it's a lot more possible to mis classify a photo than a sms message. Plus as I mentioned in another post, what if you have a young kid and you happen to shoot a photo when he or she is not fully dressed?
> Please talk to non-tech people around you about this.

They were already sold into the Apple ecosystem with the iPhone 12's, M1 Macs and iPad Pros. They are going to have a hard time moving to another platform.

Best part? Apple is a huge customer of Google Cloud for storage so you can now tell Google about all the files on your iCloud account. [0]

'With privacy in mind.' /s

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/29/apple-is-now-goog...
For Enterprise software I take auditable, stable processes and performance over a polished UI every single time. Also talking as a long time user of the poster child, SAP. Enterprise software doesn't have to be pretty, it has to do its job. And that requires a lot effort, I'd argue more effort than developing a polished consumer facing app.
That gives me some motivation to power through them until I get used to the notation. Thanks.
> That isn't agreeing with me! My point was that both meanings are expressed by the phrase.

Apologies. I disagree with that then. I think it's quite safe to assume that if someone uses the phrase "greedy Frenchmen", that in almost all contexts they are trying to create or reinforce an association between being greedy and being French.

In that specific example, the technical meaning of the phrase has become irrelevant, as the juxtaposition of these two unrelated facts about the subject immediately raises questions about the motive of the speaker.

To understand your perspective better: I think you want people to stop using the term "toxic masculinity", out of a commendable sense of care and empathy. And I think we all intuitively feel that there's something wrong with phrases like "greedy Frenchmen". But do you think in the same vein that the phrase "fundamentalist Christians" is insensitive/offensive and to be avoided? What language would you use if you wanted to talk about the fundamentalist subset of Christians?

(From my PoV, "toxic masculinity" is like "fundamentalist Christians": there is no pressing reason (unlike with the phrase "greedy Frenchmen") to interpret it as an association, and I find it bewildering and unreasonable if a partner in conversation jumps to that conclusion, rather than interpreting it as subset selection. As such, I don't see a problem with either one. So I'm trying to figure out: do you think "toxic masculinity" should be avoided because you also believe that "fundamentalist Christians" should be avoided, or because you think it is more similar to "greedy Frenchmen"?)
Yeah the 'better' it gets the more layers of code, abstractions, and networked system are required to work in perfect harmony for my home to not start creating problems in my life.

Every extra feature is a regression.
Mobile Linux is here :
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Looks like that concludes my otherwise very nice time in the Apple ecosystem. Luckily Linux is coming along well both on phones and the new Macs.
The database and check is on your device, and triggered when you try to upload. There is not much point to moving scanning to the device-side, unless this technology is intended to be extended so that in the future it doesn't check for an iCloud upload trigger.
Yes, but all the small parts add up.
if it's full offline with no subscriptions or internet connectivity - I'm up for some.

If it needs any kind of connectivity or it comes as a service - no way in hell I'm exposing my family to the risk of not being able to flush a toiled one day because of a tweet or god know what.
Macron’s Vaccine Passport Gamble
I am not saying it’s easy to beat them, rather first movers also generally die or move on. Atari, Electronic Controls Company, Mosaic, etc simply aren’t around any more. Sure Yahoo isn’t dead, but it’s also moved on from it’s initial success.
The word terrorist didn't seem to have a definition that everybody agrees on. The important part for me is who is targeted. If you are targeting civilians, you are a terrorist. If you are attacking a legit military target you are not.
Theory of Vaccines is simple.
They want you to outsource all your immunity to big pharma. Just like when they took away your guns, and made you outsource your self defence to government. Just like when they outsourced your critical thinking to fact checkers.

You are no good on your own. Submit to us and pay us, and we will make you good.

You are nothing, your immune system is useless, your guns don't fire true, your logic is not sound, without us.
Can you elaborate on the list of problems with no-code? Of course I'm not denying there are problems with no-code, I'd like to learn about other developers' issues, particularly with larger, longer-term projects.
It is not the role of infrastructure providers to reach into private, on device content.

That is like the USPS opening every letter and scanning what is inside. Even if it's done with machine learning, that is absolutely not okay, no matter what it is for.
Afaik cheese might actually be worse than bacon, I think pig meat was about on par with cheese and only cow meat was worse (because cheese is so co2e-intensive, not because pig is so good), but I understand your general point.
Both of the announced features sound fine on their own — Apple has always been able to scan iCloud and send your data to police [0], and PhotoDNA is a decade old; whereas on-device machine learning on kid phones does not (according to Apple) involve sending anything to Apple reviewers and the govt.

But announcing both features in the same post makes it inevitable that they get conflated, e.g. “Apple’s machine learning will send suspected child porn-like images from your iMessages to iCloud, where it will be reviewed and possibly sent to the police”. Apple obviously knows this — so them being ok with that raises some serious eyebrows, as if they’re quietly setting the groundwork to make that a reality.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-fbi-icloud-investigati...
In all fairness, in theory, they could have all that data encrypted with keys that google doesn't have.
Jeez people downvoting this comment maybe we deserve to all collapse
Many people have mentioned the red-tape around immigration paperwork. One thing not mentioned yet is the emotional aspect. When you come here for an extended period of time you build your life and hopes here. You pray everything comes through and that one day you will get that green card and citizenship, and pray nothing happens with the legal process (loss of employment, deportation, visa issues, etc).

It’s the same as having credit card debt, it will keep you up at night. It takes tremendous coping mechanisms to power through.
And also with samples. If you take, say, a tuba the player must start blowing well before the beat so there is a natural breath you want to preserve. In midi there is no real way to preempt that except by playing the sample early as best as possible. I trained tuba player will just know instinctively.
> I can’t say sexy. In a dating app. With a woman I matched with.

Would you go into a Christian church and start preaching about Hindu gods? Some might, but nearly everyone would say it's disrespectful of a different culture.

So it seems to me like it'd be a cultural difference. In Western culture sex is prominent (America, Europe, etc) even if repressed (America). In Chinese culture... well I'm going to assume it's still very much repressed.
In addition to separation of church and state, we need separation of corporation and state
If it’s a fixed db, not an “artificial sort-of intelligence”.

But that’s a stupid way around it, surely. Child porn is surely, and tragically, in continuous production. And really, it’s the production that is the biggest issue, this is the continued abuse of children. And that’s the one bit the algo won’t match against?
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted, SQLite is a perfect companion for local adhoc data analysis, up to a few GB of data. It is even supported by OSS BI tools like Metabase, so its a no brainer compared to a full blown PG!
From BBC’s article:

> Apple says that it will manually review each report to confirm there is a match. It can then take steps to disable a user's account and report to law enforcement.

So at least it’s the last option.
Slippery slope...
Not all countryside have clean air. Air from more polluted areas can carry pretty far (like Wildfire smoke, Ozone).

For current air quality levels and maps, you can check AirNow[1] for US and Canada, or IQAir[2] for anywhere in the world.

It fluctuates every day (like today for me it's just under 50 or 'good', but just yesterday it was over 100) so it's better to look at trends. AirCompare EPA[3] can tell you how many poor air quality days over the past several years on a county by county basis, although not every county reports this (and probably generally the more rural counties don't).

[1]: https://www.airnow.gov/

[2]: https://www.iqair.com/us/earth

[3]: https://www3.epa.gov/aircompare/
I’m confused about why software engineers think these things only apply to them. What makes that field so much more special than the accountants, finance analysts, marketing managers, and support reps? These people all get deadlines and have managers who “don’t understand what they do.”
LOL, Russophobia doesn't even need proofs. You can open any western media (BBC, CNN, DW, whatever), type Russia in the search box, and get tons of results that regurgitate the same thoughts over and over: "Russia is guilty for everything bad that is happening now", "Russia is guilty for everything bad that happened in the past", "Russia is guilty for everything bad that will happen in the future", "Russians are dangerous villains", "Russians are savages".

If you open social network, like reddit.com/r/worldnews, it would be even more obvious. If you open comments under any news about Russia there, you'll find even direct appeals to kill Russians (BTW, always ignored by Reddit, Facebook and Twitter moderators, but try to write the same about any other nationality and you'll be immediately banned).

My comment was about a small part of russophobes - Russians that emigrated abroad. Most of the time they become the most zealous russophobes.

I don't really know the explanation, nor do I really care. I've just made a rule to avoid Russians abroad as most of them hate themselves to the point of schizophrenia.
I prefer restaurants where I pick up the food at the counter and bus my own dishes. Saves me time and hopefully some of the money saved by not having waiters goes towards reducing prices, better quality ingredients, and better paid cooks.
Yeah, but… We won't all do it today.

And this is really just blame-shifting and conscience-cleaning: we'll kind-of try to reduce our impact on Earth, feel better about ourselves, but the total impact will be minimal.

Also, if you look closely at meat production, by far the biggest problem is methane, and that's a problem that's been pretty much solved (seaweeds added to diet), except there is no incentive to implement the solution on an industrial scale. Instead of avoiding meat, we should make sure that the solution is actually used.

I believe the first step towards actually dealing with the problem is putting a significant price on carbon emissions (CO2 and CH4) and sticking to it worldwide. The current attempts, unfortunately, are half-assed. It should be really expensive to emit CO2, so expensive that everybody would immediately start looking for mitigations. Unfortunately, I also believe that humanity is too stupid and disorganized to do it, what with the local politicians pulling this and that way.

Personally, apart from trying not to do stupid things myself (e.g. avoid buying an SUV, ride an E-bike around the city, etc), there isn't much I can do. If I were young, I would look to join one of the companies trying to implement carbon capture, because that's the only thing that can save us.
How heavy is davmail on the system? I am always a little paranoid about java apps.

Can you accept/reject meeting invites with it? The Tbsync extension that I am using does not have this feature.
Pretty sure they predicted the collapse of another ocean current like 5 years ago, yet here we are.
Not sure where you get your advice from. Supreme court has ruled loli as legal. You can find it on 4chan in about 30 seconds.
How can one find “our best” estimates” about how locations will respond to climate change ? How can I know where I should be thinking of moving too besides things like stay away from the coasts, etc? I’d like to try and think about where I should buy a house and look for a job for the next 50 years.
> A high level of quality in software is not important unless you're entering an already well-served market.

Even then, it's not what's important. The core important thing in the product is that it does a job the customer needs done. If you write a program that provides complete feature parity with the incumbent with better engineering principles, you're going to lose because the engineering principles aren't the job the customer needs done.

Where it will make the difference is that your company will be able to respond to changing requirements better than the incumbent.

So solid software engineering is never the product for the customer. It might be the product for the company, depending if the company actually needs the improved developer efficiency and happiness it provides.
5.8 inch screen. :(

I’d like something like my 4 inch iPhone SE but I know that is impossible. How about 4.7 inch range like the new iPhone SE?

Edit: If anyone is ever reading this and looking, I went with a Pixel 2, has a 5 inch screen and a good camera. I'll see how it goes. Will be nice to not be locked into Apple anymore.
So would this make a good vector for black mailing? Also I guess many parents might have a lot of pictures of their small children playing around naked.. at least where I live.
I think there is some of that. But some of the people I use this on are well past 40. But my theory is some people never 'grow up'.
Is that so different than current weather in Canada?
Powerful corporations aligning interests with law enforcement by assuming certain LE roles seems a recipe for corporate dystopian oligarchy.

This opens, for Apple, a catalog of answers for "How can we make a buck," and none of the answers will be friendly to privacy or freedom.
Why would that photo match a list of hashes of known CSAM though?

This technology at Apple is very much about matching hashes.
If you use Paypal or a virtual card, request cancellation and immediately cancel the virtual card or the PayPal recurring payment.
>> The boundary should be what is on a user device should stay personal on a user device.

But how many apps only store the locally on the device versus sending data to the cloud, getting data from the cloud, or calling cloud APIs to get functionality that cannot be provided on device?

Having the power of a personal computing device is huge, but having a networked personal computing device is far greater.

Keeping everything on-device is a good ideal for privacy, but not very practical for networked computing.