skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how I feel as well. I don’t use iCloud photos but if I did, sure scan them for CP, I don’t care. Maybe you will catch some bad guys that willingly gave you their photos. But scanning everyone’s phones is beyond creepy and feels like exactly what the fourth amendment is about. It’s British soldiers suddenly having the ability to search EVERY home in colonial America as often as they want.

> Amendment 4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I have moved away from Apple ecosystem, already purchased another phone yesterday. The Constitution is holy to me, it’s all we have protecting us from technological dystopia.
> Product serial number might be a better example.

Nope. The "serial number" is just whatever you printed on the box or maybe on the product itself. You may intend that to be unique but you've got no way to ensure that. 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.

I buy serial-numbered LED lamps, the manufacturer replaces them if they drop dead within a certain number of years and I have some applications (18 hours per day of lighting) where that's plausible, so I need to track those serial numbers. Except they once shipped me a lamp (one in a box purchased together with others) with no serial number. Completely blank, no manufacturer, no type identifier, no voltage, the entire label was just missing from the product as shipped. Emailed them. No problem, apologies for the defect, your warranty registration for a lamp with no serial number will be fine.
@pramodbiligiri, would you be willing to share a little bit more about how the thext-to-speech is utlized in your project?

What provider do you use, the costs related to it, is it a real-time text processing, or maybe you have a bulk processing routine, opinions on different TTS providers? You know, things like that for everyone who'd like to try TTS in their projects.

(We're talking about >3000 abstracts TTS-ed on the author's page, and that's not a trivial amount if one is for instance using external providers for the job).
This is a failure of politics, not of companies.
This will have only one effect, pedophiles will stop using ios and for all the rest of us our privacy will remain compromised.
That would be fine except an informed choice depends on accurate information, and this letter starts off saying things that are patently false.

“ Apple's proposed technology works by continuously monitoring photos saved or shared on the user's iPhone, iPad, or Mac. ”

No it doesn’t, photos just saved in the phone are never scanned by either of the systems Apple is implementing, and shared photos are only scanned in two very specific situations.

Also they avoid pointing out the iMessage aspect of this is opt in only, so it only applies to children and only if parents choose to enable it, and it's off by default.

You can completely avoid all scanning entirely by not opting in children for the iMesage scan, which is irrelevant to you if you don’t have children anyway, and not using iCloud Photo Library. Photos you keep on your phone or share using other services will not be scanned. Anyone just reading this letter wouldn't know any of that. How is this promoting informed choice?

Bear in mind the iCloud Photo Library scan is being implemented in order to meet a legal obligation. Apple is required by law to scan photos uploaded to their cloud service.

So really there are two issues here. One is the question of parental authority over optionally enabling the scan for their children’s use of iMessage. That's a legitimate concern over the privacy of children, no question.

The other is whether this is an appropriate way for Apple to comply with US law requiring scanning of uploaded images, and whether that law is appropriate. Again, entirely legitimate concerns that this letter obfuscates completely.
Could be true. Unlike in Germany and many other European countries university studies are not free of charge in Switzerland. No idea about PhD.
Maybe because they plan on enabling E2EE for iCloud. Of course that's not necessarily useful given that the set of images yours are being checked against is completely opaque.
I use the same setup with i3wm (Regolith desktop) and love it.
I don't get what the hate boner for crypto adds to this conversation?

The original wording in the bill and the Warner amendment are horrific overreaches that should be severely concerning. They would render anyone who hosts a validator node (aka a full cryptocurrency node regardless of if you are mining or running a stake pool or just using the network) as a traditional financial broker with all the regulatory oversight, KYC, and tax compliance responsibilities that comes with. Additionally, any developer who writes software for the cryptocurrency space would also be included in that.

The Warner amendment opens a whole new can of worms but on top of that it explicitly excludes PoW miners (but not validator nodes or SW devs) which would near guaranteed kill any alternative consensus protocol development in the US (and likely globally due to the tendency for other nations to follow the US's stance on financial decisions).

The complete infeasibility of this would put a defacto ban on anyone operating any decentralised software in the US as the wording includes anybody who develops or operates effectively any software that "facilitates financial transactions". If this was a reasonable move towards regulatory compliance that would be one thing but the wording here is mutually incompatible with the operation of effectively all cryptocurrency and a significant portion of federated or decentralised software.
Have fun watching your fiat lose value to inflation and the printing of trillions of dollars every year to keep the ponzi scheme going. Then have fun watching the ponzi scheme collapse and your fiat becoming worthless.
Does not come as surprise.
Simply too many unaccounted for scams, money laundering, extortion as a service incidents.
I think many other countries will follow the US steps, more or less willingly.
Will the U.S. Ever Go Metric? It Already Has, Sort Of
Funnily enough, this bill actually does more to quash next-gen green alternatives to bitcoin.

By misrepresenting validators as "brokers", cryptocurrencies such as Nano, which uses six million times less energy per transaction, are effectively outlawed in the US.

Miners, on the other hand, are not penalised by this bill whatsoever.
> Yes, I said PowerPoint. Set you're slides to 8.5x11 and it became a typesetting program.

That won't print sensibly on the paper in your printer, in most of the civilised world.
I think car-only cities sounded like such a good idea during urbanization. I wonder what current trendy ideas we'll look back on with regret.
Tipping point is considered 450ppmv CO2, a point at which no technology can reverse worst-case climate change scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climate_...
Because solar energy is not cheapest form of 24/7 energy source.

Baseload is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over some timespan. Providing that baseload with solar or wind is not as cheap as hydro, coal, natural gas or nuclear.
I guess a lot of owners of Apple devices are also making use of a lot of their services/features making it hard, or at least inconvenient, costly and time-consuming to switch out i.e. vendor lock-in with open alternatives. This is why it's good to try to avoid this situation occurring in the first place. But that's at odds with how you're 'supposed' to use their devices and ecosystem and you may as well have not chosen Apple in the first place. Most people have already gone 'all-in'. Too bad when they implement something (like this) that could be used to target innocent people at some point in the future. Apple obviously don't intend it to be used in this way. But a bit like the Pegasus debacle with it only targeting criminals, it's obviously a vulnerability waiting to be exploited.
> Overall the various Romans who contemplated reform were in a way hindered by the tendency of Roman elites to think in terms of the virtue of individuals rather than the tendency of systems.

I'm not convinced the two are separable. One important virtue in a republic is self-restraint, the ability to see an opportunity to enrich or empower yourself at the cost of the republic, and refrain from exploiting it. A self-indulgent people will find it hard to preserve the systems that comprise the republic.
What makes you think that the world won't survive? Or are you talking about how the world is now? Sure, the world will be different, but is that a bad thing? Do you want the entities/policies/etc that caused the problem to continue in perpetuity, or would you rather the world change to address the circumstances it will find itself in?

Clarification Edit: I'm not being facetious/snarky. Otherwise I don't understand the downvotes as they don't provide any meaningful feedback in this case. I would appreciate feedback, thanks.

(I do believe in taking care of the environment etc, my line of questioning is mere curiousity, not trying to imply a worsing environment is a good thing.)
The other answers are very good, but I want to add my not so good answer.

Ten years ago, there were no PDF editors available for normal people, so everyone treated PDF as read only files. Now PDF editors are common, but people still didn't notice the error.

Anecdote time: Las year during the pandemic I need to republish some old info, where the original doc files were lost or trapped inside the office while I was working from home. It was not necessary to have perfect formatting, so I just edited the PDF with an online editor. So, I realize last year how easy was to edit a PDF!
Apple's new policy will have only one effect - pedophiles will stop using ios. For the rest of us, our privacy will remain compromised.
i3 is probably the one thing I really miss when I moved from Linux to OSX.
Except politics failed mostly because of the sway those companies had over the government.
> I think it's hard to find because those two preferences are in direct, irresolvable conflict.

Plenty of places that were built pre-WW2 have people walking for groceries and such, cycling and taking transit to work, and yet still have cars (street parking and back yard garages) for other longer distance errands:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

Two go-to examples I use in these types of discussion in a particular neighbourhood I know; larger houses:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/150+Westminster+Ave,+Toron...

More modest:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+Geoffrey+St,+Toronto,+O...
I apologise if you you genuinely felt my questions were assuming bad faith. It was not my intention.

> "does the CP protection end justify any means?"

It's a style of argumentation. Not personal. When trying to find where to draw a line in the sand, one way is to draw a line that almost certainly encompasses us both. We are obliged to consider: if not this line (obviously) then what line?

My intent was to find your limit. Do you have any qualms with what you may do under the law? For you personally, how much erosion of innocents' liberties would be acceptable?

Based on your earlier comment, I was not asking Apple, I was asking a LEO who acts with some but limited justification. Legal and moral. And I would like to ask in good faith about how you see those limits.

>> This is the equivalent of "do you support the rape of children?

No need to make it black and white. Almost nobody supports this. I am sure you don't. Please assume good faith on my part too. There are always trade-offs. How far would you go?
Any exercise that strengthens the lower back muscles is likely to help.
How many users actually read? I don't trust the surveys on this, at all. But if they've read a book, many a passphrase will be "you're a wizard", or some other YA cliche. In book quotes, there will be extremely little diversity. And nobody is going to type 'it was ...', as long as 'hunter1234' suffices.

I don't think this is a problem with an easy solution. The low hanging fruit, enforced password rules, has been tried, further strengthening requires alternative solutions, such as 2FA, hardware keys, one-time pads, etc.
Good one, calling their paying customers that bought into the ecosystem on the promise of privacy the "screeching minority" :)

Was about to get an iPad Pro for work, will not get an iPad Pro ever.
You misunderstand, and should actually read the current amendment. Because it actually bans everything but miners. I.e. the electricity guzzling miners would keep running, but all the software devs trying to transition crypto networks to low resource usage consensus mechanisms would be made illegal.

If you feel that crypto is an environmental disaster, you should be vigorously opposed to the Portman-Warner amendment.
Do you use iCloud photos now? CSAM checking has already been used for years (on almost all photos services btw).
The things that I’ve pointed out are not less evil though, we can see the results in the past years
Lawsuit wasnt lost by default. Lawsuit was lost because infringement was willful and premeditated. Patent owner contacted Valve as soon as product was on the market. If you are a $10-20 billion corporation and someone contacts your legal department asking for a meeting concerning patent dispute then yes, you better respond instead of wishing really hard they go away.
Seems like quite a lot of bright lights on that roof, not that I expect being in Shanghai does much good to the prospect of seeing anything out of that glass ceiling...
Who exactly keeps a significant fraction of their savings in money? It’s function as a medium of exchange is largely independent of it’s fiction as a store of value.

Of course debt is different because that’s paying interest.
Not for a baseload needs.
Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information - except, in some cases it doesn't. To take the example of Bellingcat/Higgins, their site definitely has a certain political orientation that usually tends to align with NATO interests, for example when it comes to Syria or various Russian operations. Several of their employees have backgrounds in intelligence/military (Kaszeta, Biggers), some of their funding comes from state-linked sources (Such as the NED[0]). I also recall reading some Bellingcat article where the information was not open source, relying on some leaked database of russian passports instead [1], which is fair enough as journalism, but not open source.

I'm not saying the conclusions of Bellingcat et al are necessarily wrong (though personally i take some of what they are writing with a grain of salt), but I would doubt that open source intelligence groups are necessarily that anti systemic or a challenge to state directed information flows and embargos. Finally, here is a fairly interesting article with a critical view of the Bellingcat group [2], though the source, Mintpress, is quite biased so critical reading is advised.

[0] https://www.bellingcat.com/about/

[1] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/10/09/ful...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26772184
It's a setting, called "Save to camera roll". Default is on.
You are right, and there are also design speeds routinely imposed on new/“improved” U.S. roads that enable or even require (under govt safety standards) wide roads, which just encourage faster driving and worsen the problem. Even here in nyc we have some roads like this. Thankfully they are a smaller proportion than in the rest of the country. But mainly that’s because of the age of the streets — we are lucky to have old ones not ruined by our engineers and government.

https://www.strongtowns.org/slowthecars

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/10/20/taking-pedest...
I use GrapheneOS as my daily (no google apps).

Literally 0 issues. Previously LineageOS was my preference, but Graphene is 1. Closer to stock 2. Actually innovates security-wise.
Water is the next crisis.
Climate is so 1990's.
Get with the program, fool.
But the new ammendment explicitly exempts proof of work miners thereby only hindering the green creation of imaginary tokens.
Actually part of the issue is that the bill is worded such that effectively everyone involved in a cryptocurrency (including developers) would be treated as financial brokers and would be subject to all the regulations and tax compliance laws that go with that EXCEPT Proof of Work miners...

The base wording is untenable to a certain extent. The Wyden amendment is a reasonable compromise but the Warner amendment (which is the one with White House support) that came out at the last second includes absolutely everyone in the ecosystem except those that burn extraordinary amounts of power.
Beware of Kindle books infested with Malware
Comments are documentation.

I've never seen or heard of a team that keeps documentation for their complex algorithms. It's just not done.

And if it was, I'd bet that they get out of date very fast
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Mars isn’t a short term solution. The best we’ve had so far is a human in space for a year and he said it was hell. I can’t imagine mars would be any different, it will take a gigantic effort to construct a colony that is better than a climate-change-destroyed earth.

Not saying we won’t manage it eventually, I just don’t think it’s very likely in Elon Musks lifetime. Perhaps he should start with building a mars colony... here on Earth first. Some kind of habitat dome thing perhaps.
That would make a somewhat interesting testing strategy.

In a similar vein, React intentionally calls user-implemented functions which are meant to be pure twice in a row (even though that's technically unnecessary), just to ensure the programmer actually makes the function pure (so the application behaves reproducably in the future).
I mean, the fact that our world exists on the back of proprietary formats (thus locking us into software) should be a bigger deal.

"It should run microsoft office" is a difficult problem to solve and only serves to deeply entrench the big players.

I'm aware that I've had this same criteria myself for choosing a new device (because: pragmatism) but I've come to just "accept" it.

If I look a bit further away and remove my implicit acceptance of the status quo: I'm actually quite horrified that we're so tied to one company and what _it_ decides to support.

If the next versions of Microsoft Office didnt work on apple devices at all: what would the world do? Run Windows exclusively due to pragmatism is my initial assumption.
All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

- Mao Zedong
Probably the main issue is that every time a technology or regulation that starts like that (“you don’t need to worry if you’re not doing anything wrong”) is then inevitably expanded into repressive activities by governments around the world.
Are you aware of any modern alternatives to these old 30" 16:10 monitors? For me, these are the gold standard, the perfect size of monitor - but I wish they would create a modern version with slimmer or no bezels, as well as possibly updated display technologies and more energy efficiency.
That sounds really cool, I'll look for it on YouTube. Thanks for the recommendation. This play, in turn reminds me of a scene from a terrible (but at the same time fun) film Reign of Fire. Set in a post apocalyptic world, the adults are entertaining kids by staging a play version of Empire Strikes Back, based on their memories of seeing it when they themselves were children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCBA1wii70o

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0253556/
Clean renewable energy is becoming cheaper and more accessible. Miners are already being incentivized because of economics to move to green energy sources up to 50 percent of mining is done with clean energy.

I've never understood this narrative. There is no narrative about other industries like gold mining that also consume exorbitant amounts of power that you could deem useless. If you do not believe in the thesis of a decentralized currency and the freedom it brings it is easy to say things like this.
Not the person you asked, but my banking app works but occasionally will crash when I go to certain parts of the app. I'm not sure why.

Other than that Discord, MS Teams, and ProtonMail all work fine with the exception of push notifications (I disable those anyways, so this isn't a concern of mine).
The empowerment at the time was a honest and professional assessment of using MacOS X vs Windows. Apple embraced PC vs Mac marketing as I can remember.

The empowerment today is the same professional stance. Explaining the technical facts to my customers. Nobody will like the idea that their phone or personal computer will actively police on the behalf of big brother.

Serious business people don't have to "follow" tech closely.
That's why they pay us.
So you say only liars and cowards can get PhD today?
No, like many others commenting on the issue, you seem to only have a vague idea of how it works. Only photos being uploaded to iCloud are being scanned for CSAM.
Where are you hearing that cops are getting defunded? The curious should look up the budget of the NYPD and LAPD looking mighty funded to me!
This one clearly has a tendency to create asymmetric eyes slightly beyond what my brain perceives as average asymmetry.
I mean, you can also be a """true nerd""" and not really be too interested in competition and hard hitting jobs.

I found a really nice spot working in a developer enablement / platform engineering role. You can continue to be condescending to average developers and then steer them in the right direction!
The second paragraph of that page says "Climate scientists have identified over a dozen possible tipping points".
An article so vitally important to the survival of humanity that it had to be hidden behind a paywall.
Here I am, happily hacking away in vim on my 24inch 16:10 Dell UltraSharp 1920x1200.
If someone wants to buy linuxtablet.com HMU (anthony@chovy.com)
A: How long have you been doing this?

B: How old are you?

Not that you have to answer these questions in public, they’re just illustrative of at least two factors that may affect your experience.
Reading these comments, I think most people have only read Twitter outrage or the flat out wrong news articles conflating the new features. This is also on Apple as they had to know the CSAM on the client was a big deal and really needed it's own PR page.
I don't really see how it's unfalsifiable. If you predict a certain outcome in the future and this doesn't come true then your prediction was wrong.
The question is, are we really focusing on the right things here? Predicting trends is probably better than predicting outcomes.
As you correctly alluded to, expecting accurate predictions for complex systems is actually too much to ask for and that's why I think it's important to look at the general direction that the models point to. Are these predicted trends from the 70s different from the predicted trends now? If they aren't, what arguments do we have to reject 50 years of modelling?
why are they all naked?
And these prophecies are always of the 'worse than previously thought' kind. It really just makes me question how sophisticated climate modelling actually is/was.