skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of iCloud photo sync, and on hitting some threshold of matching pictures it would trigger human review.

There would also presumably be human review involved in the legal process, e.g. law enforcement getting a subpoena based on Apple notifying them, and then using gathered evidence for a warrant.

The system is based on known image hashes, not arbitrary ML detection.

As this system is used only for iCloud photo uploads, the evidence gathering should be similar to that done by LE with other cloud hosting providers for years
>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.

I don't know how old you are but for anyone over 30 the slippery slope isn't a logical fallacy, it's a law of nature. I've seen it happen again and again. The only way to win is to be so unreasonable that you defend literal child porn so you don't need to defend your right to own curtains.
I’m less pessimistic. I see a similar trend but think it will take longer and there will likely be push back, at least in the west. It will become a political issue and then will depend on how the argument plays out with the public. Start early to help set the agenda for pro privacy.
Yes! I thought it was implied in my comment. Thanks for making it clear
If macOS is any indication, I bet the next iteration will send your picture rehashes to Apple's servers. Then all they need to do is pass some location data (if they don't already) and checking against location-specific hash databases becomes trivial.
I think fractional reserve banking has done a pretty good job of fooling everyone.
I like the idea of using a web terminal to work on a remote, much more capable host. I found however Chromebooks (only tried the old Samsung ARM abased one and the original Pixel) lacking for this purpose. The Samsung ARM was clearly made for a price-point and while a good value at the the time, not worth further discussion today. But even on the (then) flagship Chromebook, the keyboard is just so-so (and lacks page up/down keys!), doesn't offer Ethernet and the screen is terribly reflective and a wee bit small (nice aspect ratio though). Not sure how current Chromebooks fare, but colour me skeptical.
Not sure if this was UK specific, but I distinctly remember UK stores full of signs like "7 for the price of 4", "11 for the price of 8", etc, probably to get around this. This was back when UK was still in the EU.
When I first read these reports, I got the impression that oil and gas was getting cash from the government or specific tax breaks. That 3T in tax dollars was collected and using a narrow definition of subsidy, paid to them or using a wider definition of it, fairly specific tax breaks.

My thinking was that the government was actively supporting oil and gas over solar.

Really what most of the 3T is consists of general business deductions that any business can get and negative externality calculations.
In France blacks don't really have a different culture, except when they carry their own from their country of origin, sometimes passed into french-born blacks. It's not like in the US where (it seems) there's a clear black-american culture with visible boundaries.

Blacks of different origin also have different cultures.

I mean, if one tried to start up a netflix for blacks in an european context, with the same leiv motiv as this one (political) it would be very difficult as different blacks come from different backgrounds.

They surely share stuff, to a same degree one would say white europeans share stuff too.

Also, I haven't discussed this issue with black people, but my gut feel given their reaction to other stuff is that the suggestion that they have a "different culture" to the country they live in may even be offensive to them.

Since the american worldview is always trying to get influence through media and the internet, this may be changing with newer generations.
In my experience, it’s very rare having to resort to XQuartz.
Everyone else has given you some good advice on your messaging, so I'll give you some business/technical advice as a former Netflix employee:

Try to negotiate your contracts with global streaming rights. It shouldn't cost too much more but will make your life a lot easier as you try to expand globally. That was one thing that slowed Netflix's global expansion -- a lot of the content was not globally licensed.

You will have to develop a very robust system for identifying a user's location based on IP address as well as advanced proxy detection. Maybe not at first, but as you move up into more "Hollywood" productions they will require you to show that you are protecting their content from theft. You will also have to show that you are encrypting everything with DRM, or they won't license content to you.

Don't try to stream your video from AWS. Netflix uses AWS as the control plane but built their own CDN, and some of how they build it is publicly available: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/. Before they built their own CDN, they used Akamai and Level 3.

Try to build your system for future white label resale. If you're successful, maybe some Asian or Hispanic filmmakers will be interested in a platform focused on their needs. If you build it for white labeling you could potentially resell it for them (this is how HBO started streaming, by buying what MLB had built).

Here are the Netflix black content categories that I know about, but there could be more:

https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/81299227

https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/81305957

Good luck! It's a hard space to compete in, and if Netflix starts to notice you I can see them trying to copy you, but hopefully you'll be big enough by then to fend them off!
I love how society is ignoring the bluntness of the situation.

If bees go down, we go down.

Simple as such. All of our food supply depends on flowering plants. Without the workforce to distribute pollen, no seeds will grow. Without seeds, no new plants will grow. Without new plants, we have nothing to eat. Nor does our meat stock.

If I was to go dark, I’d say every problem contains it’s own soliton…
I'm betting the climate apocalypse will come before the AI apocalypse, thus the latter isn't worth wasting any energy on.
the next phone? I will stop buying Apple products period.
On top of reasons given by others, if the data likely to be queried together tends to get stored together because of this, things will be much more cache efficient and queries potentially much faster since for db loads, cache efficiency (not just ram but CPU cache), alleviates some of the most important performance bottlenecks.
General Motors got strong armed by a black media group made up of billionaire media owners for not spending enough advertising dollars on TV companies owned by blacks. Make no mistake this kind of stuff is usually about the dollar bill more so than "representation".
Struggling to hear speech in noisy rooms links to dementia risk
Know about primary vs secondary indexes?

Generally 1 index contains the data, all the other indexes have pointers to that index in their leaf nodes. Usually the PK index contains the data

So loading 1000 consecutive rows in a created_at secondary index takes two steps: 1) created_at index B-Tree traversal (maybe 10 pages from disk, max?) 2) Potentially loading 1000 randomly sorted pages from disk, dereferencing pointers (EXPENSIVE!)

Whereas, if your primary key is sorted by time, loading 1000 rows is 1) slightly larger primary B-Tree traversal 2) no 2, you're done :)
Great story about going on the photo shoot with the pro. I too have done the bathroom darkroom, as well as a basement darkroom. Most will be surprised to learn that a darkroom for making prints doesn't need to be all that light tight. I've meant to build a darkroom in my current house complete with all of the bells and whistles of a darkroom sink and film changing room. The pandemic delayed my plans a little, but one of these days I'll get to it.

I think there were a lot of clues along the way that people would embrace the current world of smartphone cameras, but I don't think it was obvious at the time. The "selfie" has been around for ever. My first cell phone had a mirror on the front so you could properly compose your own selfie. MySpace (and others) really popularized sharing these images. Instagram found a niche popularizing the hyperreality of the digitally edited selfie.
So Chrome has had 92 fails and around 70% of the browser market. Guess I’m not failing enough then.

[edit] Yes, I missed the semver part of the tweet. This is why I’m not on twitter, and should stay out of these threads in the future.
I actually really appreciate that aspect of Conversations with Tyler. So many podcast are "bring on someone who just wrote a book and let them pontificate for an hour" which can be interesting if the topic is interesting but it often ends up sounding like a set piece as the guest just "reads their script." Cowen's style of asking really oblique questions and skipping around to topics really allows guests to demonstrate a dynamic range of intellect and often say things that are interesting and "off script." It doesn't always work but when it does it is brilliant.
‘A whole new attack surface’ – Researcher Orange Tsai documents ProxyLogon
Sure no company can completely defend me from my govt but atleast they can not build tools that make it easier. Also while it could be easy for a college graduate to build such a system, only Apple has the capability of rolling out this system to all of their phones. Otherwise we would have already seen such a system implemented in other countries
Any thoughts on Ruby? As someone who's worked with it a great deal of the time, I find it extremely simple and concise to write in.
XQuartz is not the primary MacOS compositor/renderer. It’s analogous to XWayland.
To anyone who think they disagree: The tweet is not really an opinion or a hot take, just a rephrasing of the semantics (you know, the sem in semver). Read “Fails” as verb and not plural noun and it makes sense.

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and
PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.

https://semver.org/

The idea is that users can get expectations right when assessing an upgrade and plan accordingly. If you don't follow this, you're not doing semver.
Have there been total addressable market numbers published for starlink in US / Canada?
Like lets say there are maybe 20% of people in US that starlink could address -- internet service typically services a household, so unclear what the math is there, but maybe 3 people per household, so total addressable market of say 350 M * 0.2 / 3 = 23 million households.. so a quick search on subscriber number for Hughesnet is 1M subs.. so maybe a target for SpaceX would be to get 10M subscribers? 10M of the access terminal things if they cost $500 each would be 5 billion just to pay for those.. $100 / mo for 10M people is 1B per month -- so seems like the target for subscribers world wide must be closer to 100M otherwise the economics don't seem too great...
It's not rocket science Well sort of it's, we're mocking NASA's API
Depends what you're looking to do - if you really value your privacy, yes, you're going to have to give up some convenience, but I can assure you, it's really not that bad if you put in a little work on an occasional basis, it's not the constant maintenance nightmare that some people seem to expect.

I fired up Syncthing on my phone and NAS and restic to perform encrypted backups nightly to B2, sure, you're not going to get some magical cloud image recognition stuff, but do you really need or even want it?

Everything can integrate quite nicely, but plan to do the connecting work yourself as a one-off with some occasional maintenance a few times a year.
Hi, Black SWE here. Grandparent isn't making a sensible argument by any means and is largely grasping for straws to code their outrage ("fine wine... but grape juice box" is particularly telling). Wish you all the best.
Stop immigration?

How do people moving around on the planet make a difference? Especially since immigration moves people from more impoverished places, where they are more likely to have more kids, to less impoverished places, where they are less likely?
Kustomize and Helm take different routes. Kustomize expects the user to know Kubernetes resources and their schemas. Helm and charts target the chart creator being being an expert in Kubernetes while the chart consumer (the Helm user) doesn't need to be an expert. They can have a simple interface to deploy an application.

One of the issues for those running applications in Kubernetes is the complexity. Kubernetes is complex. So much so that people like Kelsey Hightower have said Kubernetes is a platform for creating platforms. For most people to learn Kubernetes will slow down their velocity which is a negative.

Most people need a simpler system on top of Kubernetes to make them effective.
Apparently not sick enough to consider immediate flight extra 500 miles to Sydney, but instead wait an extra day. Oh and as a coincidental bonus he was able to complete his residency application and receive it right away.

“The day after the application was received, a New Zealand air ambulance staffed by a New Zealand ICU nurse-escort medevaced the child and an adult family member from Fiji to New Zealand,” https://apnews.com/article/technology-lifestyle-travel-new-z...
Chrome doesn't use SemVer.
So agrees every psychiatrist (and seemingly ever psychiatrist‘s spouse). Finding patients who agree could be somewhat more challenging.

Are you a pharmaceutical sales rep? Wouldn't that be sweet. One spouse a shrink, another a shrink's drug dealer, both in collusion to grow “the business”. I see a Netflix series in the near future.
This is probably a 50% clone at most that’s how far it will get you. It’s not even 80% feature wise. So the title is a bit of a click bait
A great discussion, now lets support this new enterprise.
Also see RFC 4122:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122
Does anyone have any opinion on how Firebase push keys compare to UUIDs? Firebase push keys are said to be unique and are sortable.
Here's a link to the push key generator: https://gist.github.com/mikelehen/3596a30bd69384624c11
Why does everyone mention they already did it on cloud like that has any relevance whatsoever?

I have never once in my life thought about activating an automatic back up to cloud feature on any phone I have ever owned, for a single second. So yes, it is hella different. This is for all the same reasons I backup personal data only to my NAS and use cloud accounts for generic shit like purchased music backups and nothing more.

I prefer losing all my photos if my phone is pickpocketed in between backups to having a public record of everything I ever photographed. Am I the 0.00000001% or something? I didn't even realize I was the odd man out, honestly.
In which case how is this a slippery slope? They didn’t do something and there was no legal mandate. Now they are required to do something to be able to operate in said company. Is the slippery slope that they can be in compliance faster?
> If bees go down, we go down.

The great majority of crops are wind pollinated, not insect pollinated. So this is not entirely clear.
What hipocrisy are you seeing?
Yes, getting your temperature checked by a yellow robot dog is much worse than getting it checked by a man with a mask and a gun. What the heck even is this complaint?
Got to love "news" reporting - always finding the most fair / neutral description of the situation :)

I might try putting in alternative titles

"Robot dog takes temperatures of homeless to help screen for Covid-19".

edited per suggestion to

"Police robot dog takes temperatures of homeless to help screen for Covid-19".
One would expect the education system to be much larger than the homeless system. There ought to be more kids in Denver than homeless. Consider all of the teachers and other staff who's salaries have to be paid.

FWIW, the rapidly growing homeless problem is one of the reasons I left Denver.
I have to say, I really love the back and forth between you and the various posters in this thread. Lots of good discussion and points being made, and reasonable compromises being agreed on - or even polite disagreement with thoughtful explanations why.
If you had the option of buying this hardware stack through an integrated third-party brand/storefront that offered support for the products and their integration would that make you feel differently?
> So the M1 has turned me off of Apple products because, quite frankly, I don't want to spend (more) of my time fixing shit a trillion dollar company broke and doesn't care to fix.

What is broken about the M1?
But that only proves that they've got enough sensors to allow a human to drive the car.

Until the car is actually self-driving they won't know for sure if there are enough sensors for self-driving.

They're making a statement of fact based on a leap of faith.
Please don't attack me personally, I'm just curious and love reading these sci-fi fantasy type things.

What would be the counter-arguments to these points that seem very reasonable for someone who never really looked into the landings at all.
This is why it's a problem - this is the most defensible usecase for it, and any upscaling later will just get seen as a natural progression.
this is a narrow way to look at it.

once they start doing this, it’s not going to stop at pictures and it’s not going to stop at hashes.

you will literally end up with the thought police combing everything you do (via Machine Learning!!!) and keep tabs on everything you do, see, write, read. the future is bright!
The combination of “largest ever”, unusual material, and enormous number of engines definitely evokes the spruce goose. I think the difference is that Elon is clearly building a starship factory instead of a single expensive prototype.
But you can do this with XWayland?
I agree it's not fascinating. But I actually was going to initially include an addendum about how I think it's not quite the same as pointing out the harms of something as fundamental as atoms or fermions or something. Carbon isn't necessary for matter and possibly not necessary for life; just necessary for our particular implementation of it.
A lawyer and doctor having time to raise 5 kids spanning 20 years in age in a house in NYC seems ridiculous to me too.
Fuck you.
Fuck your vaccine.
Fuck your Covid.
Fuck your Delta.
Fuck your Lambda.
Fuck your Fauci.

Fuck your fear-mongering.
Fuck China.
Fuck Biden.
Fuck all of you.
Show HN: DenseClus, clustering for categorical and numeric data
How's Fluvoxamine trial going?
In America, I'd expect "Black African sub-culture" to mean the culture of recently-arrived immigrants from Africa. That's a very different thing from black American culture, which evolved under an entirely different set of conditions over the last few centuries. Significant differences exist between native-born black Americans and recent African immigrants in terms of median income, educational attainment, family structure, and mainstream cultural assimilation. CNN wrote an account of these differences in 2009 which I couldn't imagine them publishing today:

https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/14/africans.in.america/index....

>Ezeamuzie recalled finding himself more confused by his experience with some African-Americans: Why were they so cliquish? Why did they mock students for being intelligent? Why were they homophobic and bent on using the n-word? Why did every conversation seem to involve drugs, girls or materialism?
It's almost like Brazil is switching from a crop (oxygen) which pays nothing to another (beef - or literally any other use of that land) which will.

If the richer nations cared about the Amazon rainforest, we'd pay rent on it.
Developers complain that Apple promotes scam apps on the App Store
For human readability, I've always prefered encoding UUIDs in base 64 and swapping a couple characters. If I'm going to have some ugly identifier in a URL, I might as well make it more concise.

I think youtube does something similar with their video IDs.
That's excellent! I have a friend in a very rural area served by only 5Mb/s download over CenturyLink DSL. This would be perfect for them.
I believe it's mandated in the EU/EEC?
Giving Up Our Shot: Dealing with the Unvaccinated
Talking of "honor" and "security" in the same breath reminds me of Ken Thompsons seminal Turing Award Lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [1]

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210
I see this most commonly with fruit:

Blueberries, $j/lb
Organic Blueberries, $k/pint

It seems very intentional to me.
Some other interesting tidbits about uses in other situations I hadn't heard about.

This was about New York - they returned theirs.

"The expensive machine arrived with little public notice or explanation, public officials said, and was deployed to already over-policed public housing. Use of the high-tech canine also clashed with Black Lives Matter calls to defund police operations and reinvest in other priorities."
Z-wave also has a backup system where switches can talk directly to other devices like dimmers in case the controller goes down.

This way you're not stuck with a useless home in case your controller lost power, is down for maintenance or whatever.
Thermostats, lights, entertainment center, cameras (kind of, working to update to a better system), presence via network awareness. Currently using a weather api as well.

Lights and entertainment center get the most usage of course, though thermostat control is nice. I do have humidity data from the thermostats but I'm not using it currently.

I built and did an alpha test of garden monitoring but haven't messed with it since.
A simple timer plugged into a wall outlet will. We've had those for decades.
Brazil is well within their rights to say, "Fuck you. Pay me."
Not even Spain is homogeneous (each Iberian region is highly prominent), just imagine all the Hispanic subcultures all over the Atlantic.
The problem is I never could verify the code of every Pop!_OS release - that’s why I'm a Mac user. I’d have to rely on other users to check if everything is okay. The good thing with Apple is that all eyes are put onto them and every minor step they’re doing is well commented around the world. The smaller the companies and projects, the quieter the voices if something turns bad.
The-Useless-Program
I've seen this interpreted by smart engineers in a counter-productive way, in that they believe their code is so good that none of it ever needs any comments and hence they never write them despite the fact that their code isn't all that clear. It's more hubris than anything.

Otherwise, there are many techniques you can use to make the code self-explanatory. I've taken a comment before and restructured the code to literally read like the comment.
Yellen is just evil the amendment is just made to avoid asking programmers and service providers that are not brokers, from having their privacy violated. There are good senators from both sides that are trying to stop this madness that would affect a lot of people , as this would avoid having to give client information if you are not a broker, but Biden and Yellen seem to have taken their mask off and it is obvious that they want no privacy in the crypto ecosystem, even for people that are clearly only doing legal things.
Congratulations, that's very cool! Do you intend to add new features to expand the scope (i.e. visitor personalization)?
I really hope Starlink gets big. I have no attachment to Musk or Starlink itself, but I hope to live more and more remotely as I get older and the prospect of having decent internet makes the dream feel more attainable (I want to be a hermit but still have reasonable amenities like access to information).