skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other issue with these hashes is non-robustness to adversarial attacks. Simply rotating the image by a few degrees, or slightly translating/shearing it will move the hash well outside the threshold. The only way to combat this would be to use a face bounding box algorithm to somehow manually realign the image.
Wasn't this a big part of An Inconvenient Truth, how global warming could actually usher in a new ice age or something like that?
Early Quora was remarkable by how many high profile people were answering. That was a big part of its early appeal.

An example I still remember. Someone asked How much it cost for AOL to distribute all those CDs in the 90s... and Steve Case answered!

https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-it-cost-AOL-to-distribute...
But it takes the plumbing the depths of the human condition to realize that we're not actually a that different, and that the fundamentals are the SAME. Airy eloquent prose may not have the same effect on the data driven as hard metrics, but comparing $20,000 (US) a year to the equivalent of $1 US a day, without capturing, in prose, that person in the US below the poverty line may be going hungry more days a week, and is more exposed to the elements, and more likely to be harrassed by police/others and more likely to die, is superficial.

Prose is what's needed to communicate effectively. Tables and charts simply can't do that by themselves. Even they need a legend and labels to be useful.
The thing is, and the article correctly mentions it, that defunctionalization sacrifices composability. This is not just a technical matter, mind you. If you design your distributed system around defunctionalized higher-order functions, you have to ensure that client and server have the same understanding of valid parameters. That's a non-trivial problem.

So while this might be a cool technique for whole-program compilers, I think it doesn't really fit into anything that has an API boundary.
> a deep belief that Apple

In the context of software, beliefs are meaningless, religious issues. You do not need trust when you can have proof (i.e. source code that you can compile and modify yourself).
But I don't want Google Play stuff. I'm just using microG for location services in /e/.
This one is annoying to me. I'm pretty sure Apple literally paid for that reputation. They just started marketing themselves as privacy focused a few years ago and everyone slurped it up. What's annoying about it? Well beyond them milking the privacy wave, I do believe that at a hardware and system software level Apple did outplay the competition for a very long time. Keychain, Secure enclave, biometric auth, secure boot, signed binaries, pointer auth, etc. They've pushed the state of the art in regards to those technologies making it into consumer hands and did it better than anybody else. So it's somewhat justified. But then they milked it and because the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing, are now taking a complete 180 "for the kids".
From having been involved in more than a few projects at more than a few places, some of which were as a firefighter on dumpster fire projects in otherwise OK companies: lots of developers only cost their companies money (only work on marginal projects that don’t get traction and are sunsetted, or just never reach production).

Being able to work on something actually valuable has better odds than any sperm fertilizing an egg, but you could spend a full career just costing your employer money. Don’t sweat it.

Do find a different place to work ASAP. This place sounds like a 0 or 1 on the Spolsky scale.
The article in video form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNwukfhsOME
Buy a subcompact camera. Never upload such photos to any cloud. Use your local NAS / external disk / your Linux laptop's encrypted hard drive.

Unless you prefer to live dangerously, of course.
> This is detecting illegal material that they can’t use to test against.

But they can because they're matching the hashes to the ones provided by NCMEC, not directly against CSAM itself (which presumably stays under some kind of lock and key at NCMEC.)

Same as you can test whether you get false positives against a bunch of MD5 hashes that Fred provides without knowing the contents of his documents.
del.icio.us was a social bookmarking site, i was a user back then for a while. While there were similarities, it didn't aggregate content per se. and was solving a rather different problem.
i guess these really are for a subset of apps, that you know wont grow a lot!

Internal apps in companies around processes, etc.
We can no longer see it as it is “flagged”.
> Really, the appeal being made by people objecting to this site is that Black people shouldn't have sites that nurture that kind of content, because it somehow squicks white people out.

At least some people are arguing that it should exist, but should not be marketed to the demographic it is designed to appeal to, because it squicks white people out not that black content exists, but that people marketing it acknowledge that it is designed to appeal to the unmet needs of black consumers, because white people want to buy it but not if the marketing says it was designed to meet black interests.
Working for Apple, I can say that privacy pervades every discussion of every feature. It’s not just fluff.
In a somewhat judo move, it could end up protecting user security going forward if the FBI has no leverage with pedophile content in iCloud, there’s no argument for a backdoor. I won’t play total corporate shill here but it seems people are jumping to this being the end of times vs a) a way to catch severe abusers of child pornography and b) removing a trump card for future security org strawman arguments
If you're vaccinated you're at less risk, not zero risk.
I remember politicians where I live congratulating themselves on meeting some set of CO2 targets a few years ago. The reality is, we lost most of our manufacturing sector, so energy and fuel use went down naturally. This chart has no meaning without some kind of supply chain adjustment to account for where people get the stuff they consume.
either way there marketing is truly amazing if people are still willing to write something like this after PRISM
> This is why I don't bother with emacs, I just don't have the time to sink in the first place

I use Emacs specifically because it's a huge time saver for me. Pretty much almost every day, I find something repetitive that I don't want to do manually.

- Need a link on GitHub for the current line in code?

- What if the same line but in a different branch?

- What if you're already browsing code on GitHub and want to check out this specific file (in specific commit) but in your IDE?

- I want to send a YouTube link to my colleague, but I don't want to separately copy and paste, first the link, and then its description; Emacs helps me do that instantly.

- I have two pieces of code or text. I want to diff these snippets quickly.

- I am not a native English speaker; how can I quickly translate any word or a phrase and even hear its pronunciation?

- How can I quickly find a definition of a word or its synonyms?

- I use and love Grammarly, but I don't want to use their stupid editor. And I don't want to copy and paste the text all the time; I perform Grammarly checks while in Emacs.

- I want to find packages on npm, maven, clojars, etc, without opening the browser and typing.

- I want to select a piece of code and search for it on GitHub, and Emacs would make sure the language is properly set.

- I want to convert between different units quickly, or generate UUIDs, or validate JSON. Even when I'm offline.

- I want to find (recursively) all the files that e.g., bigger than a certain size and were created between April and June and rename them all or delete them.

- I'm going through my notes and see that ticket #1346 is done, and I want to trigger the state change without ever going to Jira, GitHub, etc.

And there are many, many examples of things like that. And sometimes it's not even about the time. It is far more enjoyable that way. It feels empowering. You don't have to think about some trivial things and can focus on what's important.

There's not a single [other] tool that makes me feel like I'm in so much control. And for a software developer is very important to feel being in control. Or it starts slipping into a burnout.
As if an app should have any say about if it can be backupped or not. 'Muhh security model'. If your security model includes letting apps randomly deprives me as a user of backups of my own phone , it's just another creepy google-bigbrother-wannabe.
Sure, if we narrow our scope of concerns to “the human condition” we can say that.
This is, frankly, the legacy of the Trump administration. This story of blatant corruption to favor businesses was common throughout the federal government.

The Trump admin went out of it's way to both install the worst of the worst and to push out as many competent federal employees as possible.

Prime examples of Trump swamp creatures include such hits as Ajit Pai, Scott Pruitt (Who likely started the policies of the article), and Louis DeJoy.
Are you suggesting that this diverse team of leading scientists from the biggest institutes in the world, and all of the famous researchers who have agreed with their message on Twitter etc, have somehow jumped to the wrong conclusion, when you yourself find the answer obvious?
Emacs comes with everything you need to learn emacs-lisp. Take some time to familiarize yourself with the help facilities* and then jump over to info, start with "Emacs Lisp Intro" and eventually continue with "Emacs" and "Emacs Lisp".

* At the very least, familiarize yourself with "C-h f (describe-function)", "C-h v (describe-variable)" and how to read info pages. To view what other help facilities emacs provides glance over "C-h ? (help-for-help)".
> ask law enforcement to run Apple’s algorithm on data sets Apple themselves don’t have access to

Sounds like that's what they did since they say they're matching against hashes provided by NCMEC generated from their 200k CSAM corpus.

[edit: Ah, in the PDF someone else linked, "First, Apple receives the NeuralHashes corresponding to known CSAM from the above child-safety organizations."]
(We have 225 million more people now than in 1918)
If you're used to it, I'd guess you can read [EDIT: was five; thought more] two to four symbols in the time you can read a short name. And you can use the higher-level pattern-recognition skills that would otherwise be applied to reading names to understand combinations of symbols. At least for me it's much easier to visually manipulate symbols in my head.

You've written as though using symbols instead of names comes at an extraordinary cost. Having used both I don't think this is the case (and it's the conventional languages that force you to use words; you're free to define reverse ← ⌽ in APL but usually not the other way around). If you want to read more about this perspective, you could check out my page "What is a primitive?" discussed on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28060423
Unencrypted backups are bad, but this is arguably even worse:
https://jorislacance.fr/blog/2021/04/16/whatsapp-tracking-2

(Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26889139)
Thank you for this comment!

I was not aware of the _why_ for creating a c corp over an LLC for a new company
I'm sure thats the dream position for most pedophiles, watching child porn fully legally and being paid for it, plus on the record being someone who helps destroy it; and given that CP will exist for as long as human beings do there will be no shortage no matter how much they help capturing other pedophiles.
OT but related: a reverse-sorted UUID format seems especially useful for IoT and event data where typically we want to read newest to oldest lexicographically (eg. rowscans starting at now). Is there such a standard or OSS that does this?
If you dig through legislation it begins to look like a Git repository, with patches adding and removing parts of the content and branches that if successful generate their own patches as well.

Legal documents aren't code, but they do share many of the same principles and constraints - GIGO applies to both programs and contracts...
I find it difficult to believe that those learning javascript to build sites wouldn't realise that html could be edited in a text editor.
Doesn't take into account transportation and heating with fossil fuels.

This gets posted fairly regularly, but I'm not sure what the take-away is supposed to be. I think if you post something like this, you should at least prompt the discussion to start in some way, so that it isn't just a blank graph.

Yes, coal is dying as far as electricity generation goes. Has been for a decade.
> it was because of the pump and dump style of Andreesen Horrowitz and the silicon valley obsession with being an early adopter.

Just look at the hype at the peak of the mania: [0]

They orchestrated and they (a16z) got others to hype the app that raised $1B and they don't even explain why it is that valuable.

They tried to exit to Twitter and it fell through. Now the hype squad panics and immediately injects billions into Clubhouse totalling it to $4B valuation, which I do not understand and they start spamming the notifications in the app.

This is what they do. This is what the hype squad does and they did it well with Clubhouse. Well played; Except I saw all through the hype.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/jasonfried/status/135741388036900...
But it could have worked. At some point the hype cycle could have become self-sustaining. What you are calling pump and dump could be seen as starting an internal combustion engine. It's just that Clubhouse sputtered instead of firing up.

Come to think of it, isn't all celebrity news like this? People who are famous because they are famous?
>by blocking technological improvements before actually investigating their risk

How is not doing this not an obvious recipe for doom. The only ridiculous thing here is you have stated this as a binary instead of a continuum.
> Are you falling into their trap knowingly or not?

This is a false dichotomy and a false assumption.

> There is a child molestation problem everywhere in the world, including online.

Agreed.

> I have seen nothing explaining it is getting bigger / worse. I have read that most of the cases are family members, in the real world.

Have you listened to Sam Harris, or heard the FBI? They have a very different view.

It could be that both are true: there is a child porn problem and governments are using it as an excuse.

The only thing you seem to be going on is a story you once heard, that may have been true at the time, but may not be now.

> So when I hear Apple and Government explain "because of the children" they want to monitor our phones more, in the context of growing assumed dictatorships, Pegasus, Snowden reveleation, do you really think that solving the child pornography issue will help refrain them, or slow them down?

That would misleading sense given that you are assuming child porn is not a growing problem.

Porn in general is growing hugely why wouldn’t child porn also be growing?

Generally Apple has resisted overreach, but I agree that they are slowly moving in the wrong direction.

Apple is not the government.

> Open source hardware,

> political pressure, consumer pressure, and regulation, possibly monopoly break-ups. In the US, it starts with the people.

You contradict yourself here. You seem to think the government can’t be slowed and yet political pressure will work. Which is it?

> But doing better with child pornography won't change anything there,

I agree - it won’t eliminate the forces that want to weaken encryption etc.

But a more privacy respecting solution would still help.

> it juts moves the discussion to some other topic. Distraction. That is my point all along.

> There is no data that shows that all of a sudden child pronography has progressed leaps and bounds. So people suddenly concerned by that are

Isn’t there? The FBI claims it is growing.

> most likely not truthful,

Ok, we know you don’t trust the FBI.

But enough people do that we can’t ignore them. Even if the problem isn’t growing as Sam Harris claims it is, trying to persuade people that the problem doesn’t need to be solved seems like a good way to undermine the causes you support.

> a dn they have a very strong agenda. That's what we need to focus on, not their "look at the children"

As I say, I agree there are people trying to exploit ‘look at the children’ in support of their own agenda.

I just don’t think that means there isn’t a real problem with child porn. Denying that there is a problem seems equally agenda driven.
Presumably she wasn’t his wife then. But also people have various arrangements so I’m not here to shame.
> They were the one large tech player that had begun to build their brand on taking privacy seriously.

"Brand" is right, because it always was, and always will be marketing and nothing more (unless maybe laws are changed and/or regulators get off their lazy asses).
> Not unless they're matching the perceptual hashes of the CSAM provided by NCMEC and in that case, sorry, my sympathy does not extend that far.

You trust automated systems more than I do.
I got a Pinephone.

I like the idea, but it's a deeply frustrating experience right now. Basic table-stakes features I have come to assume from both Android and iOS platforms just aren't there yet.

It's a frustrating chicken egg problem... I want the thing to succeed, but my smartphone is so critical to my day-to-day that I can either wait for it to get better or invest the time into having it suck on toast while I improve it.
MIT and Ericsson research the next generation of mobile networks
Synthetic brain cells that store 'memories' are possible, new model reveals
Here in France you have places where women who walk in sorry dresses are whistled on or insulted. There are bars they cannot enter.

These places are in areas with a large Muslim population.

Now go to Versailles and you will not see that.

I am not sure what kind of evidence you are looking for but just thinking about your sister or wife walking in normal, civilized clothes in one of these places, and ordering it to be Versailles is enough.
> A good first step would be to stand aside and let ICC prosecute, which even actual pardons would not block.

Who would they prosecute? Obama or Bush?

It seems like the implication people have when talking about this is that the CIA agents or CIA directors should be charged.

From my perspective, would they have done any of these illegal activities if they hadn't been given the green-light from the top?

If Bush/Obama said we will let the ICC prosecute, would any CIA agent/director have done it? Probably not.

I'm not disagreeing about prosecution, I'm just wondering where the buck stops and where the true responsibility lies.
Planting false evidence is getting a new twist here. The attacker doesn't even have to make a report! The victim's computer does it for him. Disk encryption malware may have new successor. Effective and scalable extortion as a service.
A couple gigabytes is a lot of photos... and they'd all be showing up in your camera roll. Maybe possible but stretching the bounds of plausibility.
> But we should be clear about what is and isn't happening.

The situation is anything but clear.
Adding your friend as a "friend" on discord should disable the filter.
I like PurpleAir's crowdsourced air quality map[1]. Their sensors are one of the few that get down to the .3 micrometer level.

[1]https://www.purpleair.com/map
They are options that almost nobody can or will use, so they won’t have any impact.

If your goal is to inform a small minority of expert users that they should protect themselves against corporate/government encroachment, by the looks of the comments here, I’d say you’ve already succeeded.
> about to be uploaded to the cloud

it's scanning ON your device. This means Apple now has the capability to scan and find files on your device. Which means they have opened the pandoras box of over-reaching government requests.
Yeah it totally lost its way by the end where the analogy to biology is thrown out the window:

> [...] And we need coop-cop regulations of selfishness at every level to avoid parts harming their needed wholes. Otherwise, harsh karma awaits as our co-fate for allowing a plague of parasitic plutocratic plundering.
From Amazon's info about the movie:

> Twentieth Century Fox invited a group of scientists to preview this movie, to test their reactions to the "science" used in it. None of the scientists were impressed with what they say, although most conceded that the movie was enjoyable nonsense.

> The consultation by N.A.S.A. scientists was requested before the filming of this movie, but N.A.S.A. stated that the events in this movie were too ridiculous to actually occur, and denied the request.
The alcoholic will definitely take a sip.

... But they are also heavily incentivized to know where your booze is, care for your booze, and make sure it doesn't get stolen or poisoned. Because if something happens to you, where are they going to get the sip?
That would not be a good way to arrive at an accurate estimate. Would you not need dozens of trillions of photos to begin with in order to get an accurate estimate when the occurrence rate is so small?
I have family and friends in Israel; also, about a dozen close colleagues. Israel has used a fairly sophisticated version of mask+distancing+vaccines since day one. This has flattened their infection curve, admirably.

Or … just to make sure we’re on the same page: do you think these prophylaxes permanently prevent infection? That’s a misunderstanding of what these prophylaxis are for.
> yet someone posessing an action movie is not considered a murderer.

I think it is more similar to drugs, possesing one doesn't mean you are consuming it, yet it is an illegal substance and production, transportation and distribution are understandably not allowed.
> Apple has long needed to do something about CSAM

This statement gives away the true motive behind those tweets. They just wanted to get back at Apple. They could have at least left that tweet out.
They don't go hand in hand in real life. Can imagine that happening in digital world too.
Alternative title: US per capita emissions at lowest levels since 1964.

I'm not sure which is more accurate but I believe the one I proposed is.

It is still a good sign that we're decreasing but I do not think the title accurately indicates the state of things and I think people assumed it as a smooth curve up then down between 1918 and now and not a low and chaotic period between 1918 and 1960. My fear is that people often respond to the title and not the content. While I'd rather have the latter I think we should make title as accurate as possible and understand what assumptions people will make.
I think you guys really did a good job with something that's hard to do well. Kudos
You can disable automatic backups, this way your photos won’t ever be uploaded to iCloud.
Can you describe the middle ground that I have ignored?

What disingenuous argument have I made?

The only thing I have argued for is for hackers to attempt technical solutions that are more to their liking than Apple’s, because arguments are not preventing the slide.
If it is cloud based and requires a connection to the outside world then it is not going in most peoples homes.

These places have to start offering a DIY level of service where they just sell the physical device and software and then are no longer in contact with the customer.
> company A is using WordPress to deliver the website OP is talking about. PHP and HTML. I have heard that was very used in the 2000s, but I don’t see any company out there hiring for such skills.

They exist, but the Wordpress API looks horrendous and you probably won’t be getting the sort of salaries people tend to talk about when it comes to web/software development. These jobs are normally at digital design/marketing agencies or even at large non-tech orgs and separate from other developers. At least, this is my experience.