skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The global super wealthy think they can survive a complete societal breakdown in bunkers in New Zealand. I don’t know why they they think they’ll be able to keep those bunkers when the people who build them decide to take them back with their Army buddies.

> By that logic, no medieval castle would have survived any period of tumult. But they often did, and I think a similar gameplan would apply. I think it would turn out some of the toughest “Army buddy” types would rather have themselves and their families inside the fortress with the lord (or equivalent) and would fight like hell against any wayward “Army buddies” who tried to storm the place.

I'm not so sure:

1. Medieval castles were basically owned and operated by the "army buddies." IIRC, you became a "lord" by being part of the last invading army or descending from someone who was, and you stayed a lord by providing military capability.

2. The people that lived in them were part of the permanent social structure of the area.

The global super wealthy who think they can parachute into a bunker in some remote location during a time of collapse, and proceed to become a local lord on account of their pre-breakdown social standing are probably going to be in for a rude awakening. The system that gave them their power and status will be gone or crippled, their skill-sets will be obsolete, and what little of their wealth that translates into the new order will be plunder for the people who are better adapted to the new circumstances.

IMHO, at best such a bunker is a ticket to merely survive. After that, the bunker holder will revert to being a regular Joe, and maybe a somewhat disadvantaged one at that, due to lack of social connections.
For the people in the back: intramuscular vaccines do not precent viral reproduction in your nose, meaning you can still spread a virus. Only nasal delivery prevents it. We need nasal boosters, not more intramuscular shots.
Not sure why you are telling me this, I don't know anything about Apple's internal development process. I assume they did run a lot of tests. But I recall at least one serious bug early on too[0].

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/16/apple_file_system_bug...
Why we don't waterbomb at night?
Why Companies Keep Folding to Copyright Pressure, Even If They Shouldn’t
Depending on where they lives they might have very well been forced to take it they were hoping to keep a semblance of normal life.

That’s why I got vaccinated at least (with the government forcing my hand).

What truly scared me was realising that if the requirement was ratting on my Jewish neighbours, I probably would have done it too.
As a German person fully immersed in an English-speaking country (the US) for close to a decade now, I agree that "tunnel vision" is at least close enough in meaning.
> Changing business, regulatory, and social pressures can cause WhatsApp to change direction tomorrow.

Yeah, WhatsApp might decide to spy on you in the future, so you might as well use iMessage which already spies on you?
Make Room for a New Arduino Competitor – With Native Brainfuck
It really all comes down to if Apple has and is willing to maintain the effort of human evaluations prior to taking action on the potentially false positives:

> According to Apple, a low number of positives (false or not) will not trigger an account to be flagged. But again, at these numbers, I believe you will still get too many situations where an account has multiple photos triggered as a false positive. (Apple says that probability is “1 in 1 trillion” but it is unclear how they arrived at such an estimate.) These cases will be manually reviewed.

At scale, even human classification which ought to be clear will fail, accidentally clicking 'not ok' when they saw something they thought was 'ok'. It will be interesting to see what happens then.
So you're asking if someone can help you create malware?
Or, all the people who did the work to make it possible to sell things over the internet made peoples lives better, and then a Hedge Fund manager figured out how he could take a 200 Billion dollar cut as a middleman.
Put like this defunctionalisation is just eval for a domain-specific-language that you hope doesn't do the things you don't want it to.
Twitter Is Turning a Blind Eye to Music Copyrights, Group of U.S. Reps Says
Every "progressive" who supports the intelligence community should be legally required to stand in a mirror and laugh at themselves every morning.
I'm not a filter pro, but I feel like there's a real difference between the ones on snapchat and the ones on instagram. Actually, so much that people use the snapchat filters and post them on instagram and tiktok. I figured that out when I wanted to try these crazy disney princess filters after seeing them everywhere on these platforms. It looks like this if you want to see why I was impressed seeing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zts4s2IbANo
> The housekeeper, being paid pretty well, had her own housekeeper so she could have time for all these housekeeping gigs.

Sounds like her housekeeper should get better customers.
i think it's lack of expressive power will turn off newbies
I like WET: "Write Everything Twice [before factoring it out]"
I think Apple sees the writing on the wall in terms of governments soon forcing this kind of oversight into platforms. They have tried to create a system that will not create false positives and will still protect the 99.99999% of their users that simply want privacy. Its a messy business and fraught with downstream implications, but I think Apple is trying to avoid a future where end-to-end encryption of communications is made illegal by a tech-ignorant congress.

I also think they are simply pissed off that their platforms are being used to shield these activities.

Is being preemptive to avoid imposed regs that might be much worse for their users the right approach? I don't know. Based on the tech papers linked at the end of their announcement, they are trying hard to thread a needle here.
I don't think facebook has earned the benefit of the doubt in any way, shape or form.

One would assume facebook already does all these things across, FB, Messenger and Whatsapp, its just amusing that anyone would believe anything out of the whatsapp team.
I know a bunch of people that can build web apps in react and they didn't know how to write html in a text editor. They all looked at me like I was some kind of wizard.

They all worked in marketing an their company had them do a react course.
I like his interviews because they're long, and it lets me see the the perspective on things outside of the normal boxes the guests get put into, like machine learning guest = talk of research from latest paper only. I can always find another podcast (often duplicates), or even a news interview, where the guests stay within, and quickly burn through, their area of expertise. I like understanding the guest just as much as their day job.
> Immigrant brown man living in Toronto here. I don't have any dating life. Because dating a brown man is stigmatized, thanks to racism and media representation. My upper-middle class white therapist couldn't believe that I am at the bottom tier in the dating market.

What did your therapist think was the real issue?
Was there any resource that help you get over the understanding hurdle?
My little girl was born with really rare heart disease and a genetic condition, a boy a few streets behind us developed a really rare cancer.

- https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-...

- https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/us/ben-watkins-masterchef/ind...

This comes a year or so after a ArcelorMittal spilled ammonia and cyanide into Lake Michigan, and didn't sound the alarm for a few days. My wife and I were swimming in it during those days, and not to mention we live down wind from many other steel processing plants, oil refineries, mills of other descriptions, etc. https://elpc.org/projects/suing-lake-michigan-polluter-arcel...

I think during the early pandemic, EPA reporting restrictions were lowered? Given the shoddy response from the 2019 spill, I lost hope that any future spill would be reported, unless many fish/wildlife were also killed and spotted.
https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/tracking-deregulation...

I run an air quality sensor: https://millerbeach.community and hoping to upgrade the sensor to track more pollutants. I'd love to test water quality of Lake Michigan, too. It's stuff like this that make me realise I'm doing a community service running my sensor.
James Burke was doing it 1989:

After the Warming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfE8wBReIxw
For sure, it also has to do with vertical integration. If you don't have that, then you need to ask every one of your suppliers to take the approach you do.

In a risky venture this is very hard to achieve.

SpaceX can just say 'we are gone do it this way' and they have almost everything required in house and can plan for mass manufacture from the beginning.
Actually it's not. Zuckerberg said they'll move into a privacy focused company.

Zuckerberg is the master of pivoting any size of company. This will be a turningpoint, yet again, of Facebook.
Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years
Nonproliferation agreements alone mean your scheme will never work. I prefer to solve problems with the available means rather than to fantasize about a world that could be, it tends to get more and faster results.

FWIW baseload is provided today by biomass augmented plants all over Europe (except for France, which does rely predominantly on nuclear. It's not yet the largest fraction but it is definitely moving the needle.

Smart control of appliances can be used to shift demand from peak, but it can also be used to shift demand away at times that baseload would have to be increased for baseload generators that are slow to ramp up (such as: nuclear).

As for storage not being optional, we are very far away from having excess power with such regularity that storing it is cheaper than reducing generating capacity. In other words we can safely ignore this problem until orders of magnitude more renewable energy generation capacity has been installed.

It looks to me like you are heavily personally invested in seeing nuclear (fission, presumably) based energy no matter the disadvantages, which are numerous and which leave us with a serious problem in terms of waste removal.

But you're the (anonymous) expert ;)
To me it means the following will follow: Echo variant, Foxtrot variant, Golf variant…

When technology allows for hyper tracking of cases and strains, the common cold suddenly vanishes and what emerges is something much more specific.
The issue is that many people are in a situation where the manager will either decide to just not listen and promise those dates or features anyway or they will be demoted,.fired or otherwise penalized for not going along with it.

That's a problem because many people do not have the luxury of quitting for another job easily.
> I'm sure I'm not the only person with naked pictures of my wife.

I'm not completely convinced that says what you want it to.
Apple’s documents said they require multiple hits before anything happens, as the article notes. They can (and have) adjusted that number to any desired balance of false positive to negatives.

How can they say it’s 1 in a trillion? You test the algorithm on a bunch of random negatives, see how many positives you get, and do one division and one multiplication. This isn’t rocket science.

So, while there are many arguments against this program, this isn’t it. It’s also somewhat strange to believe the idea of collisions in hashes of far smaller size than the images they are run on somehow escaped Apple and/or really anyone mildly competent.
I trust people with money as their motive about as much as I'd trust a serious alcoholic to hold on to a bottle of booze for me without taking a sip. Might not be a popular opinion but it is my 2 cents to spend.

Could a someone at an open source project slip in an obfuscated backdoor in some esoteric area of the OS? Of course. But the risks of being found out are so much higher, after the fact that all changes at an open source project are logged, diffed, and public (normally), even if only 10% of the userbase looks at the code, runs packet capture or an SSL bump on the network traffic, etc, that is 10% more than for products by Microsoft, Apple, Google, and unlike an insider with access who discovers something highly questionable at a massively powerful corporation, an open source project has almost no leverage to compel them to keep their mouth shut, meanwhile the risk for developers of an open source project that does something like that (even if they aren't in the know) is total loss of trust, forever.

Couple all of that with targeting a highly technical audience (drug kingpins looking for secure comms are more c-suite than engineers, they are still caught up on a good sales pitch more than hard technical details e.g. Anom ) and you'd be fairly stupid to try to pull the wool over their eyes and expect it to not eventually get discovered.
I worked under a director whose resume padding for the job was going to be switching from JIRA to Salesforce for tickets. JIRA worked well for engineers and QA, but management wasn’t getting the types of reports they wanted. Reportedly. Our JIRA implementation had evolved over several years and we had 50-100 people familiar with it and happy with it.

When we started down the path toward Salesforce-ification, it involved lots of bulleted feature lists. Maybe 1-2 wireframes. Then this was handed to contractors who implemented it exactly as written without an eye towards usability. Simple things like saving a ticket with some fields blank or unknown we’re not supported and made the entire ticketing process miserable.

I eventually stepped in as the voice of the “customer”, customer in this case being fellow engineers and support staff. I eventually left the company before the final implementation, but even by then no one prioritized usability and design.
Apple to roll out photo checking system on country-by-country basis
There are people who are paid to do that already, just generally not in corporate employment.
I can't share specifics about OP's account, but four humans reviewed the data (i.e. humans hit send on each of the above emails). This is no excuse, though—verifying the legitimacy of a business while protecting customers from fraudsters is something we don't take lightly. This was a rare case in which we were missing some info—but we want future cases to be increasingly rarer. We're reviewing what happened to prevent something similiar from happening again.
That's definitely still a thing in Michigan where I grew up. There are county departments dedicated to mosquito control.
Apple said it would make plans to expand the service based on the laws of each country where it operates.
The commenter merely corrected your incorrect understanding of the vaccine ingredients. Nothing more.

Neither he, nor I, made any comment about the whether the post author is right/wrong.

Settle down.
When a Quick Comment Is Worth $100M
When I was 13 and my parent made me use a content filter on the web I bypassed it and watched porn and they never found out.

On the other hand: Why would I ever want a piece of tech that reports me to the police (even if for legitimate reasons).

EDIT:

>Anonymous helplines and guidance exist for adults with at-risk thoughts and behaviour [https://www.apple.com/v/child-safety/a/images/guidance-img__...]

LOL NVM I TRIED BEING POLITE BUT NUKE SAN FRANCISCO AT THIS POINT TO BE HONEST

this horseshit is why i quit the software industry 10 years ago.

see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077491

this is the cancer you are creating
In previous project, we had Kotlin DSL based definitions, and even though I only read it, it seemed to make a lot of sense: static typing, and reuse of code e.g., between QA and production environment definitions.

I think it may have been this: https://github.com/fkorotkov/k8s-kotlin-dsl
> it kind of spoils you

I think in some way anyone's first language will spoil them for whatever that language is best suited for. My "first" language was Z80 assembly, because I wanted to make games for my calculator (I ended up writing just one[0], also "first" because technically my first was TI-BASIC of course). I've missed feeling like I directly was speaking "to the metal" ever since. Don't get me wrong, I'm super-happy with the high-level languages I've used since, but whenever I have to wrangle efficient code out of JavaScript there's some (probably misplaced) nostalgia for when I didn't have to worry about whether or not the JIT will kick in or not.

[0] https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/328/32817.htm...
Is this the new anti climate change meme? I saw nearly this exact post on the last climate change article about fires or something.
The problem of child molesters is a fixed quantity. The loss of privacy is ever increasing. When you see this dynamic, you know that a con is afoot.

The solution for child porn isn’t found in snooping on everyone. It is in infiltrating the networks. Go have the FBI infiltrate the rings. Here is an example of why the FBI is disingenuous. This child porn ring wasn’t using phones. Guess what they were using?

https://abc7.com/archive/7844451/

Computers in public libraries

Like I said, sophisticated actors aren’t the targets.

Another example. Osama bin Laden. He was air gapped. No cell phones or computers for him. No one even calling on a phone nearby. Osama bin Laden was found via an informant.

The next actor will be even more sophisticated. Probably single use dumb paired cell phones with call locations randomized. Probably plastic surgery. Locations that spy satellites cannot see.

Did snooping on cell phone data help find Osama? When that wasn’t enough, did grabbing all online data help? How about grabbing data straight from smart phones? Nope. Nope. Nope. Yet governments want more, more, more. Why do you think snooping helps against people who don’t even use phones for their most private communications?
What a messed up world we live in where money and power are the only things that matter to the people that get to make a difference. But has it not always been this way? The show must go on..
On one hand, there is more bloat. Browsers are the single biggest culprit of security vulnerabilities, and they increase their attack surface every day.

On the other hand, I see it's much better than even mozJPG, in this WASM implementation:

https://squoosh.app/
Apple, with all those Apple == Privacy billboards plastered everywhere, is going to have a full-time staff of people with the job of looking through it's customers' private photos.
It’s a gross exaggeration, if you tried to move the sort of volume that index or bond futures traders do on a daily basis, you’d run out of liquidity.
Right somebody has to approve to pay the bills
New chemicals save lives as well, they may be safer than existing alternatives or enable safer processes to be used or they may enable some new technology that saves lives (there is almost unlimited potential here, few areas of technological advancement are as wide impacting as improvements to materials).

It sounds like you are advocating for the precautionary principle, but what do you think about the counterargument that by blocking technological improvements before actually investigating their risk you could be doing more harm than you prevent.

> Strong formulations of the precautionary principle... when applied to the principle itself as a policy decision, beats its own purpose of reducing risk. The reason suggested is that preventing innovation from coming to market means that only current technology may be used, and current technology itself may cause harm or leave needs unmet; there is a risk of causing harm by blocking innovation. As Michael Crichton wrote in his novel State of Fear: "The 'precautionary principle', properly applied, forbids the precautionary principle."

> For example, forbidding nuclear power plants based on concerns about low-probability high-impact risks means continuing to rely on power plants that burn fossil fuels, which continue to release greenhouse gases and thousands of certain deaths from air pollution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle#Intern...
> Zuckerberg is the master of

I'm sure he's an intelligent executive but can we stop congratulating people solely for being at the top of the org chart? What has Zuckerberg, personally and without aid or advice, done to prove himself a "master of pivoting".
> People who increase other people's risk of acquiring a disease should face some type of cost for that.

And what if it is the opposite of what you think? Still in favor? There are increasing reports of the vaccinated being primary spreaders.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
The tech were the actor is surrounded by bright LED displays showing the virtual set works much better than green screen as the actor now gets somewhat correct lighting. It also allows for shinny clothing to have the scene correctly displayed on the costume.
If you think that random deflection and taunting is going to distract me, or anyone else here, from the fact that you failed to support your argument, you are mistaken.
> an Apple employee will then look at your (flagged) pictures.

Always fun when unknown strangers get to look at your potentially sensitive photos with probably no notice given to you.
I purchased a Pixel phone to test this stuff on.

I installed LineageOS and found I couldn't run some google apps. I reinstalled LineageOS with https://opengapps.org added during the install and made the mistake of transferring from my old phone which brought all the google services and everything back to the phone (mostly).

I then installed CalyxOS - much easier install process than lineage. Really liked the defaults. Could not get many apps that relied on google play services though. If I didn't need so many Google-tied apps I would pick this as my phone OS for basic stuff like messaging and browsing.

Installed LineageOS again, found there were a couple apps I could not get working after all (50 different apps installed).

In the end I gave up and re-flashed Google firmware back onto the phone. I spent about 10 hours on all this stuff and simply ran out of time for now. I though I could get away from Google but I didn't realize how much my apps needed Google.
He does not like the Howard Hughes comparison. He wants his inventions to actually change the way thins are done in everyday live.

Watch this interview with a former Astronaut who worked with SpaceX for Crew Dragon. He made this comparison on TV and talked about it with Musk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNG6ZzDh9C8

Quite a funny story.
WhatsApp's action are pretty bad, did you forget that terms of service change a few months ago?

They literally said that WhatsApp will start to share metadata, including your availability, status and the people you talk with, with Facebook companies.

Who are you trying to convince?
Did Facebook pay you to say this or something?
For more on this case see Episode 59 on Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/59/
Thanks, I hadn’t heard of /e/os until now.

I’m kind of surprised just how big this space of DeGoogled Android is right now. Far bigger than 6+ years ago when I last looked into it.
Precisely. This coin does not want to drop because people's addictions depend strongly on it continuing not to drop. It doesn't even enter consideration that there is a possible end to this bonanza because 'we wish it to be so'.
Apple's description of the training process (https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...) sounds like they're just training it to recognize some representative perturbations, not useful semantic categories.