skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you unable to answer any of the questions I asked? I'm seriously interested in hearing, from people who think Apple is in the wrong, where the border of acceptability is.

Would you prefer iOS submitted the photo's to their cloud unencrypted and Apple scanned them there? Because that's what the others are doing.
Talking about this with non-tech people might make the distrust in anything they don’t understand worse. Think vaccines.
I see this as a very US centric view. I remember ecological issues were huge in Germany as early as the 80s.
The pandemic has been well managed by a number of countries across the globe.

Especially about global warming, it is not a specie problem. It is possible to fix, and some countries / groups of people are better than others at it.
Are there any drawbacks that you have experienced? Seems a lot more simple than using most game engines...
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It's free to register with just only the username/password, email not required!

When creating a thread feel free to invite me as "admin" in the creating thread in case you have some feedback right away.
It's a sensitive topic, as it involves colonialism. Our former PM once said we need our "VOC mentality" back. He obviously meant the entrepreneurial spirit, but it was taken the wrong way.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Then this unified MMIO NVMe is "just" emulated inside ANS.
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The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in Finland. It’s a new type of reactor and one of the only nuclear projects in the West.

Construction started in 2005 and the plant was supposed to be online in 2010. Eleven years later it’s still not operational.

Original budget was 3 billion euros. Current estimate is over 11 billion.
Not that I wholly agree with Apple's move due to other implications, but it has to be said that only photos that you have chosen to upload to iCloud will be scanned.

So, in a sense, you do consent to having those photos scanned by using iCloud. Maybe it's time for Apple to drop the marketing charade on privacy with iCloud, since iCloud backups aren't even encrypted anyway.
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As we have seen with the recent heat wave in Canada, some global circulation patterns are surprisingly sensitive to disruption.
If we don't own the phone, we have no basis to insist on a search warrant before a search. So moves to make it obvious that Apple really owns the phone and we're just pushing buttons on it, undermines any efforts to establish legal precedents around searches and seizures.
"”Apple sells iPhones without FaceTime in Saudi Arabia, because local regulation prohibits encrypted phone calls. That's just one example of many where Apple's bent to local pressure. What happens when local regulations in Saudi Arabia mandate that messages be scanned not for child sexual abuse, but for homosexuality or for offenses against the monarchy?”"

Good question. Companies have to follow laws. The naive, early 2000s notion that the internet was unstoppable and ungovernable was mistaken. Apple, Google and the other internet bottlenecks were, it turned out, the pathway to a governable internet. That fight is lost.

Now that it's governable, attention needs to be on those governing... governments, parliaments, etc.

The old version of freedom of speech and such didn't come from the divine. They were created and codified and now we have them. We need to do that again. Declare new, big, hairy freedoms that come with a cost that we have agreed to pay.

There are dichotomies here, and if we deal with them one droplet at a time, they'll be compromised away. "Keep your private messages private" and "Prevent child pornography and terrorism in private messages" are incompatible. But, no one is going to admit that they are choosing between them... not unless there's an absolut-ish principle to defer to.

Once you're scanning email for ad targeting, it's hard to justify not scanning it for child abuse.
I've someone has gone so far like Apple already did, I doubt that a open letter will change their thinking. Maybe they step a little back and bring the next similar thing which looks less invasive some time later?

Thinks like this must to be stopped! Customers shall not buy anything from companies which are hostile. And laws against these usage need passed. As far as it looks, the laws in Europe are in place and prevent this currently. But just currently, we've seen how companies like Apple push the boundaries. We as humans behave totally irrational, we complain about inhumane working conditions at Amazon and then we order the next item. We complain about a golden prison from Apple and buy the next iPhone. We should change?
Sure, some child abuse isn't perpetrated for the purpose of being filmed and sold/distributed. But a large percentage is.

That large percentage is disincentivized when technology that makes it more difficult to spread and/or makes it easier for LE to apprehend owners is implemented.

I never said that there would no longer be any child abuse with these steps, just less of it.
Keynote.app does this already if you have multiple items stacked on top of each other or an item made of several smaller items (like charts). It’s a really hand way to “drill down” to edit stuff in your presentation.

Here is an example where I slowly push down on the trackpad to edit data in a chart: https://gfycat.com/vapidfinishedbarebirdbat-technology-60fps...
The big reason I don't want someone else scanning my phone (and a year later, my laptop) is that last I checked, software is not perfect, and I don't need the FBI getting called on me cause my browser cache smelled funny to some Apple PhD's machine-learning decision.

It's the same reason I don't want police having any opportunistic information about me - both of these have an agenda, and so innocent people get pulled into scenarios they shouldn't be when that information becomes the unlucky best-fit of the day.

That Apple has even suggested this is disturbing because I have to fully expect this is their vision for every device I am using.

And then I expect from there, it's a race to the bottom until we treat our laptops like they are all live microphones.
except that the boundary between device and service is steadily eroding. A screen is a device and netflix is a service, but a smart tv that won't function without an internrt connection? A nokia was a device you owned, but any Apple device is more like a service than a device really, as you don't control what OS can run on it, which unsigned software you run etc. So if you are ok with moderation on services and your device turns into a service... Perhaps we need laws to fully separate hardware and software but actually the integration between hardware and software is becoming stronger and stronger every year
postmarketos.org
US Government: We suspect the person in this photo of committing a crime. Here is your subpoena, Apple. You are directed to scan all iPhone and iCloud storage for any pictures matching this NeuralHash and report to us where you find them.

Chinese Government: Here is the NeuralHash for Tienanmen square. Delete all photos you find matching this or we will bar you from China.

Apple has at this point already admitted this is within is capability. So regardless of what they do now, the battle is already lost. Glad I don't use iThings.
What no code platform was used?
Also clicking post on my android doesn't work.
There are electric planes out there, but they're pretty small. You're not likely going to see any electric 747s anytime soon, if ever.

"A battery's efficiency, or ability to hold power, is measured in specific energy. Right now, even the best batteries have a specific energy of only 250 watt-hours per kilogram, but we have to get closer to 800 to really start flying, and that is still nothing compared to jet fuel's specific energy, which is nearly 12,000 watt-hours per kilogram."

"So if you want to add more power to a plane, you need to get a bigger battery, and to get that plane airborne despite the weight, you'll need even bigger battery that's more powerful, but that means more weight. And then you'll need an even bigger battery to offset that weight."

https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-planes-future-of-av...
Great point. There's certainly much more that goes into building a site like Reddit than what goes into building a clone in two weeks. The purpose of this is to show the potential of what can be done in no-code.

No-code is still in it's very early days, and I think that a lot of its capabilities will improve over time. Also, it's very possible that a lot of the inefficiencies in no-code apps are a result of the builder not the platform (i.e. me in this case). I've been building with Bubble only for a few months, and this is only the second app I've built. I'm sure there are a number of inefficiencies in my workflows, but I'll also improve on that over time as well.
I don't think market forces are what drive the production of CSAM. Rather, it's some weird fetish of child abusers to share their conquests. I'm sure you're aware, but when CP collectors are busted, they often have terabytes upon terabytes of CP.

But that's, I think, tangential - I don't understand pedophilia well enough to say something meaningful here.
You tend to get the government that you deserve in a democracy.
> this sort of opinion is not welcomed in society and you will get punished for it. And it is also a message to democratic people: democracy is worth fighting for, fighting against those that threaten its existence.

That sounds an awful lot like China's new security law. Only patriotic people can run for office - we need to send a clear message that non-patriotic opinions are "not welcomed in society and you will get punished for it". After all, "democracy is worth fighting for" just as you said.
> Child abuse existed before cameras.

Therefore we shouldn't do anything about it.

While your comment is true, it does nothing to refute anything the previous commenter said. They are completely right. Also the spread of child porn increases the impact on the victim and should just for that reason be minimized.
Maybe join or build a company or some kind of activity to help us survive.
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Are you sure?

Here is a true story for you:

Company X claimed users voice commands never left their devices. Then someone leaked recordings of people having sex, commiting crimes, etc recorded from X devices. This was brought up by media. For every concerned user there were ten apologist trying to justify this behaviour and a week later everyone forgot this ever happened.
> Should the internet be a free for all place without moderation?

The better question would be: do you want an arbitrary person (like me) to decide whether you have a right to send an arbitrary pack of bytes?

Neither "society" nor "voters" nor "corporations" make these decisions. It is always an arbitrary person who does. Should one person surrender his agency into the hands of another?
I read your blog post. I agree with most of it. But...

> resource-depleted hellhole within a century or two

I wish I could be as optimistic as you are. We're seeing extreme, unpredictable weather _right now_. This could lead to reduced food production a few years from now.
Apple can decrypt data stored on iCloud, and they scan it already it seems:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-...

Which it what makes adding the client side functionality even more problematic. They can easily extend this to scanning all offline content.
I still fail to see the reasoning here. Most other young professionals are in the same boat: debt out of college, smallish starting salaries, renting, HCOL areas.

Lawyers have higher salaries than most other professions, though. They are 10% better paid than software developers. We have a huge amount of really well paid developers in SF, Seattle and NYC, and lawyers still have a higher median salary.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/legal/mobile/lawyers.htm

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
>Price /weight or volume on labels.

That's already a thing in the supermarkets I go to
Is Shopify the most lucrative market for freelancers?
Howdy,

Been noticing that you don’t need to know only iOS to make bank. You can learn JavaScript and work as consultant for a Shopify app. Especially if you want to make 0-150$ per hour. Big plus since you don’t need a Mac or a developer account. Any other places?

Cheers,
Alex
FWIW Microsoft already does this for photos you store on OneDrive: https://www.theregister.com/2014/08/07/ms_tip_off_child_abus...
And atmospheric carbon dioxide has been creeping up very slowly for the last few thousand years until the industrial revolution where the chart really took off as both carbon-per-capita and population started growing quickly: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/CO2_40k....
That depends. Coastal cities are going to be fine for many years to come whereas inland areas where the height differences are more pronounced are going to see lots of flooding. Keep in mind that the coastal plain is just that: a plain, there is a lot of space for water to be routed to, whereas in a more accentuated terrain it can only stream through the valleys.
Librem 5 you mean.
> A vegan, car free, childless, software engineer in a big city has the carbon output of 100 Ugandan farmers.

citation needed
> Catching CP hoarders does little to help the children being exploited in the first place

This is completely untrue, since hoarders tend to often also be part of groups where images of still unknown abuse circulate. Those images help identify both victims and suspects and in the end help stop abuse.
Fixed:

Chinese Government: Here is the NeuralHash for some child abuse imagery, please scan this user's phone and tell us if it's found.

Apple: Sure we found it.

Chinese Government: this user has unpermitted winnie the pooh memes. Send them to an internment camp.
I think you'll be hard pressed to show this with any kind of evidence. What happens when you effectively ban some expression? People hide that expression. Likewise, if you are successful in this CSAM pursuit, you'll mostly drive pedophiles to reduce evidence sharing. I bet you dollars to donuts, the people who fuck kids, will still fuck kids.
I didn't specify on the original post, so sorry about that. It's a web-first platform. It does not work on mobile. Try viewing from desktop.

And the platform I used to build it is bubble.io
Summer heatwaves, freezing cold winters, decreased crop yields, permafrost further south... The list goes on. If this actually happens, then the situation in the Nordic countries are going to be quite interesting in 10-20 years. I suspect the climate goals will be thrown out the window unless the rest of Europe manages to find homes for 25 million Nordic climate refugees.

It's a good thing I like buckwheat and beetroots.
> "It is not clear how this impacts privacy."

It is pretty clear to me.
Out of interest what happens if an image gets flagged client side? If it's a CSAM scanner online that can presumably have a human do a sanity check before informing the authorities. But will Apple have the ability to pull the file from your phone or does get reported directly.

Both quite concerning options TBH.
Innocent until proven guilty implies no false positives. What happens if I get arrested because of a false positive? What happens to my life because there will always be that doubt from everyone?

My social life is crippled for the rest of my life because of a false positive. Which can happen to anyone. Which means everyone should worry.
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Yes, most people are not good at persuasion, and a generic mention of the fact may be harmful as you say.
It's old news but

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

If we all did it today we would make a huge difference to a collpasing system.

https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Acc...
I'm an undergraduate student and in no financial position to start or join a company.

This just further illustrates that a large segment of society is powerless against things like this. The headlines don't help, they just actively worsen my mental health.
My 10 year old Garmin still works and I can get updated maps on it if I ever need it.
Regarding the OFAC story on the front, Paypal's implementation of this is stunningly brain-dead. They do naive string matching for any field in the transaction, including some rather short OFAC listed aliases. So you can have a situation where a very short string, like "JONAS" in a non-payee-name field, like a "note" or "memo", causes the transaction to be held. Then they won't release the funds until you produce scanned identifications, detailed write-ups, etc.
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This looks awesome..

I would ideally like a solution that builds it all out, and then allows me to download a docker container etc to deploy on my own...

Essentially a builder that i can then deploy on my own (cloud or local) infrastructure.

If I need to make code changes, I would come back to the website, make changes (version them with git) and build an updated docker container to roll out...
It's easy to become a bit immature and egotistical when you've collected a bunch of smart grads and you're competing with sad, inferior, last-gen competitors (like MySpace).

And tech companies have a long history of immature pranks [1].

But yeah, the investment firms, not so much. They're detached from the petty brand rivalries. The bottom-line is what matters there. It's a detachment we should all try to learn a little bit from.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Microsoft-Pulls-Pran...
Right, my question is of course a rhetorical one. If I similarly draw other crimes being committed, the same does not apply. Why is that?

And to address your explicit question, it is far too complex and specific to a given community to answer in any meaningful way here. I can tell you what isn't the answer though: deploying spyware on phones worldwide.
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We may have to do a lot better than that for a while to stop the clock, there are some nice positive feedback loops in there.
I would argue, moreover, that conspiracy is the very definition of capitalism: everyone competing against each other and making alliances to crush competition.

It's not disconnected from reality to consider some groups of people to have too much power and to conspire against the best interests of society at large for their own benefits. What is delusional is to link that to reptiles or illuminatis, when the people pulling the strings are the same ones we see smiling on TV: multinationals and their lobbyists, bosses unions (eg. MEDEF in France), political parties.

Some of these interest groups tend to be more secretive (eg. Bildeberg, Dîners du siècle) but they are comprised of well-known figures whose interests align, and there's certainly not a single group of people controlling the entire planet's fate. It just so happens the rich and powerful have strong incentives to unite in order to screw the rest of us.
You may want to stop frying things in oil, perhaps?
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Many? You sure about that? Also, "opinions about sexuality are being presented as fact in contrary to the principles they want to raise their child with". How do you think things like that help? We want a tolerant and inclusive society, thank-you. I know gay Muslims in the UK. Can you imagine what life is like for them?
Apparently buying shitloads of toilet paper is the best coping mechanism for anything.
Using an OS with memory protection between processes doesn't make it impossible to use shared memory regions to pass messages between processes efficiently. Around twenty years ago, I worked on a project that built support for various telephony protocols on AIX. Amongst other things, we used System V IPC and shared memory to send signalling information and voice data between processes. We were able to achieve fairly low latencies using this approach; I don't remember the precise numbers but this was the sort of system where a few 10s of ms of latency would give the user a noticeably worse experience. Admittedly, this was on much more powerful hardware than the original Amiga (by this time, we had PowerPC CPUs running at hundreds of MHz) but I don't see why it couldn't have worked on older hardware.
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> they are too low density

This is by choice and can be changed.
I won't use a service that performs dragnet surveillance on my communication. The US Postal service does not open every single letter to check if it contains illegal material. If I rent a storage unit, the storage company does not open up my boxes to see if I have albums of child pornography. This move by Apple is equivalent.

I'm going to turn this around and say that those in favor of Apple's move: "Should the internet be a place where your every move is surveilled?" given that we have some expectation of privacy in real life.
Someone stole my Aunt's laptop a while ago, but she managed to hunt the person down and get it back only to find the bloody thing had it's password reset, accounts wiped, etc...

She gave it to me to get back in working order, and I had to ask her if she was interested in pressing charges, because handing it to me may compromise chain of custody of any investigation. She decided not to proceed with filing charges, but just wanted me to investigate and restore the bloody thing.

The person in question sync's their mobile content to that laptop. I had more than enough evidence of phone use while driving, who they were associating with, where they were hanging out, what they were doing, etc.... I didn't even have to try digging.

Do not underestimate the level of mindless information spillage by modern devices, nor the level of exposure guaranteed always on, officially acknowledged hooks into your device sensor or input feeds offers.
Clearly you are not a parent.

Well, as a parent, I can tell you that some 16/17 year olds are responsible and worthy of the trust that comes with full independence. Others have more social/mental maturing to do yet and need some extra guidance. That's just how it goes.
That's great but irrelevant. This discussion is about scanning them locally on your device.
Often you will need the person to bottom out if they are stubborn. Your job is to control what that bottom is (not death, not financial ruin). Does he/she know that you can possibly leave? They are not valuing things properly anymore, so you have to jump start that.

I will speak out against professional help since I know many cases (anecdotal) where such help doesn’t work or reinforces the problem.

My own depression came out of entitlement. I didn’t know I could actually get sadder (which inevitably happened), and it bumped everything back into perspective. It’s a perception issue imho. You think this is as sad as you can get, well let me show you. Guide him/her through the shadow of the valley of death, and let them see the bottom.

Scared straight works.
I don't use Stripe; assuming you still had access, how hard would exporting that data be?

I'm also curious how rough the translation and reimport would be if you had an alternative, ready to go solution. "The customer DB" is sacred and untouchable to many businesses, and capturing that "as a service" is certainly a danger to the continued operation of a shop.