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Ask HN: How can you provide complete anonymity and identity on the internet?
Nowadays you always have to add some kind of personal information to use a service or browsing the internet in general. This creates the potential threat to be identified, tracked, spied and so on.

Is there a way/study that proposed a model for complete anonymity in the internet that would still make you able to identify yourself (e.g. a kind of ID card that would not make the previous issues possible)?
Why wouldn't they show a pop-up on the phone highlighting which images may be problematic and that report is being sent to the government? I might change my mind on uploading these things to my iCloud. Can't wait for all examples of false positives that will surface.

Why wouldn't they delete them directly, but rather send report to the government?

Why wouldn't they go even further and if image detected on the webpage that is problematic => It doesn't allow it to get to my filesystem either, so that I don't get into trouble if for some reason police decides to search my laptop.

All relevant questions. Answer is the only one: so that when police knocks on your door you were blissfully unaware.

Quite honestly this is all too sad. Again this argument about CP that everyone will buy, but which doesn't work in the wild. There are some bad people out there, but if these people are into buying or creating CP => they will rarely upload it into iCloud. Especially now, when everyone knows Apple is looking for it. So they will go even deeper into hiding, while everyone else will have to live with devices that are spying on them...
Maybe I’m missing something, but at the bottom there are these two statements:

7×3 ⍝ Dyadic × is multiplication
×¯7 ⍝ Monadic × is 'direction', or signum (the sign, in our case). Thanks.

And looking at the output I can see:

21
¯1

Is it a typo or really -7 is becoming -1 for some esoteric reason that escapes my comprehension?
Good to know. Do you have further reading material on this?
entirely network driven for the ones with high conversion imo
Google working to bring the full Chrome browser to Fuchsia OS
You have repeatedly misrepresented other people's viewpoints in order to win this argument. Maybe you have completely misunderstood what the discussion is about, but since you're doing it repeatedly and have been called on it multiple times, it is fair for others to assume bad faith.
Disingenuous false equivalence for anyone who knows the difference between server side and client side
To introduce such invasive technology just a few weeks after the Pegasus scandal shows me that Apple has lost its ability to read the room.
Yeah. If I had a car here in London, I'd keep it on the street (prefer to use the garage as a workshop). There's a public charging point within a minute's walk. However, the parking space it's next to isn't reserved for EVs and so there's always some non-electric car parked there, rendering the charger useless.

I suppose I could run a charging cable from the house onto the street (across the pavement), but that doesn't seem like an ideal long-term solution.

There's a process for an EV owner to ask the council to install a public charging point close to their house, but I've no idea how well that process works. And again, if they don't reserve the adjacent parking space for EVs, it'll likely also be quite useless.
My evidence is having seen boards operate. I wouldn't quite use the word "inept," but I would say the in most companies, at least 10% of the workforce would do a better job than the board members.

You live in a democracy. If your municipal politicians were corrupt, why didn't you vote them out?

The answer is that information is that the efficient market hypothesis isn't correct. Every so often, I receive a list of board members to vote for on the few stocks I hold. The list is as long as the number of seats. I know nothing about them except for at best a 1-paragraph description. If there were more, it would not worth my time as an individual shareholder to do more research.

That's a minority of my investments. Most are in index funds and mutual funds. There, someone votes on my behalf. I'm not sure who -- I know which company, but absolutely nothing about the person or process.

And yes, I've seen companies I've worked at or followed closely target 300 million person markets instead of 7 billion person markets.
This is basically like Apple putting a video camera in everyone's bedroom, and saying that the camera will only upload video if they detect a criminal's face.
I wish I would practically escape it. On personal projects, I’ve moved everything to Sourcehut and GitLab, but so many projects I want to contribute to are still on GitHub for legacy reasons and don’t feel it’s worth the effort to migrate (though everything heavy on the libre side have moved). Some projects, like Elm (programming language), use GitHub for both as the source of its package management and identity so it’s impossible to escape the lock-in.

But this is why Microsoft bought it: to get closer to monopoly (GitHub, Copilot, NPM, VS Code, Azure, etc.) making people buy into a platform they feel they cannot escape. I think it is important to tag the parent company when talking about GitHub so users understand who they are really dealing with by hosting their projects on this Git forge and what restrictions this puts on their contributors.
You misunderstand. I am not annoyed that it notifies me. I’m annoyed that it keeps notifying me about the same version and locks the ‘skip this version’ button behind a subscription.
Good article. When it comes to living standards, it is worth mentioning that there was a more equal wealth distribution after the fall of Rome which made it impossible for medieval nobles to finance large armies. This meant that wars in medieval times where shorter and less bloody then before and after. Also slavery disappeared from Europe, except for Spain. For an everyday normal person in western Europe living around the year 800-1300 was probably better then during antiquity. Early modernity was pretty bad compared to that period too. (witch trials, 30 year war…)
That's something I like about array languages too, and Lisp is similar from what I know of it. Essentially defining a DSL for the problem and then working with it.
Should have worn 2 masks, now millions will die from the Fauci-19 bioweapon all because of the monomaskers.
I can definitely sympathize with this. Typing in things has never been the bottleneck. Rather, deciding what needs to be typed in takes up the majority of the time. It probably helps that neither of my main two languages (Ruby for work/Haskell for fun) is all that verbose.
"If you're a hiring manager, throw the resumes of anyone that worked at Apple in the trash."

Well,... NO. Those are the very people trying to depart Apple, so surely the very ones we should try to support?

I'm not saying they should attract a more favourable review in the application/hiring process, just that the ones who should attract approbation are those staying behind to continue supporting Apple. (Assuming you go along with the entire proposition that pressuring developers will alter Apple's corporate misbehaviour in the first place.)
True. Got confused.
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...

Apple uses sophisticated cryptography to make absolutely certain that you cannot hold them accountable for abuses of this system against you, NONE of which are prevented by its complex construction.

The private set intersection is an alternative to sending you a list of bad-image hashes which uses significantly more bandwidth than simply sending you the list. This alternative is superior for Apple because if they distributed the hashes it would be possible for someone to prove that they had begun matching against innocent images (such as ones connected to targeted races or religions, or sought to out particular pseudonyms by targeted images connected to them). It is inferior for the user for precisely the same reasons.

Some might be fooled into thinking the "threshold" behavior, somehow is in their interest: But no, Apple (or parties that have compromised them) can simply register the same images multiple times and bypass it and the privacy (for apple, but not for you) makes it impossible to detect that they've done that.
I like to think this case will call for reform in these laws.

"Williams was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work and placed on the sex offender register for five years, which damages her chances of getting another job.

Williams completed her community service in a charity shop, and having finished the hours the court ordered her to do, returned to volunteer further."
The internet spent two decades being super niche driven (ie every music genre had its own forums and news sites, each blog had their own site, each porn category had their own sites, etc etc). Then it sort of converged into central platforms like YouTube, Netflix, Reddit, the giant porn streaming sites etc.
Google is heavily incentivized not to share the data with anyone else.
In a proper deep squat, your thighs and calves are touching and your feet are flat on the floor, so there's not a lot of stress on the tendons. It's a surprisingly relaxing position, but a lot of people can't do it, because they haven't really squatted since they were toddlers. It takes time to get that flexibility back, not least because a lot of people seem to think that squatting below 90 degrees is bad for your knees.

I've been doing weightlifting for many years, and I can do a full squat with my feet and knees together, which I certainly could not do when I started. Keeping flexible only gets more important as you age.
Seriously, the backdoor is in place.

Now all they have to do is keep adding hashes to the list and voila. Trump supporters = terrorists = you're in jail because of political games.
Looks like a useful table, but unless I've missed it you need to know how many people/cars are on each ship?
Linux on the desktop is pretty viable now, but yeah, still hard to convince the public without marketing shenanigans.
> Also, many people trust Apple to do ‘the right thing’.

Well that's silly of them, thats the motto Google switched to after they gave up on the whole not being evil thing.

(
https://www.engadget.com/2015-10-02-alphabet-do-the-right-th... )

:P
Agreed, the Indian squat is the one to go for. It's also the one small children naturally use, without even thinking about it.
Except that I can't do anything as a hiring manager to those that continue to stay at Apple. But I can help perpetuate the notion that if you work at Apple for any reason, you'll be un-hirable anywhere else.

The point of reasonable doubt passed a long time ago. If you didn't get out years ago, you're already part of the problem.
reading through Daring Fireball's technical discussion of it https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initia... I suppose does much to allay my worries though, although my natural distrust of authority and the powerful still makes me not like anything like this - no matter the spin.
If you have more than one ssh hop or a remote desktop in-between Tramp isn't an option.
Just look right here, 2.5 times less emissions in the USA in a life cycle analysis :

https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/Global-...

If you want to test with your own car, and custom data, this tool is great :

https://climobil.connecting-project.lu/
The term “Open Source” was coined by Christine Peterson in the context of a discussion about a source available project which did not meet RMS’ viral conditions for “free software.” Peterson suggested “open source” as an alternative phrase, and it spread from there.
I think cancel culture is much worse for people who are close to the community tgat cancels them than people far removed. This is sorta obvious if you consider how much effect a community can have on someone by cancelling them.

Sometimes cancel culture affects people outside the community. And then everyone is on the barricades. But I think the real damage is being done inside these communities. Essentially the communities lose the ability to be self critical. A lot of these communities are trying to improve the rights of certain people. But this lack of self criticism makes them much less effective at convincing outsiders.

This is especially bad for reaching the people who disagree quite strongly. I think this is part of why the American political centre seems to be empty.
Hands-On Tutorial on Performance Measure of Stratified K-Fold Cross-Validation
What you are saying isn't that depressing, I think it makes a lot of sense. But perceived abuses do take time for people to eventually take action that can actually effect companies/states bottom lines.

I can imagine at some point a 0day targeting iOS devices that when they connect to a public wifi network with a compromised router, it distributes CP malware/botnet on to their device and then everyone else that connects to that device in the future (muddying the waters).

Similar actions could also be taken against other companies and state entities systems.

And these actions don't need to rely on most of the population to take them.

The more these "kill chain" like systems become automated and cheap to deploy, the more incentive individuals will have to pursue these types of attacks.
What I don’t get is why Apple feels the need to dig through my or anyone’s photos for any reason whatsoever? Like, who is asking for this crap? Is there some legal obligation for Apple to do this? It feels like a “feature” that no one asked for or wants.
What about trolling. Assume 4chan figures out apples algorithm. What now happens when they start generating memes that happen to match known child pornography? Will anyone who saves those memes (or repost them to reddit/facebook) be flagged? What will apple do once flagged false positive photos go viral?
This is a wonderful dose of realism, mixed with slightly too much cynicism.
Those are great but the left in its current form pushes for larger and larger government. I believe that large government is incompatible with freedom. A hammer will always find a nail given enough time for bad actors to exploit the search space.

Marxism prescribes the atrophy of the state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state

The left as it stands in its current dominant form, is a hypocrisy of incompatibles.

True liberalism as you describe it, doesn't exist in any first world country. It's been bundled into larger and larger government creep which inevitably tramples on individual rights.
> "Can’t the police do good old fashioned police work to catch people doing these things?"

I'm a detective that works exclusively on online child sexual offences.

The short answer to this is "no", although the question doesn't make much sense to me. Policing has always been near the forefront of technology.

Perhaps you could expand more on what "good old fashioned police work" means, in this context?
3blue1brown had a good video on it on YouTube
There’s a nice SciFi book about this: one person got incredibly rich, because he invented artificial trees that capture a lot of CO2. Good book, unfortunately only available in German: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/38356981-hologrammati...
I had Fauci-19 and Ivermectin saved my life.
They wouldn't be falsely flagged. It doesn't detect naked photos, it detects photos matching real confirmed CSAM based on the NCMEC's database.
I'm not american, I'm just asking a simple question.
Ok but but what ends?
Oh I see, they're still on the streets, just at a much higher density. (I read "commuters" to mean people not cars.)
You are a 100% right and I feel so ashamed of myself to have fallen for that.
It's the sign of the number. -7 is negative so you get -1. 7 gives you 1 and 0 gives 0.

×-7
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×7
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Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit have all succeeded in creating social/thought bubbles and they aren’t even targeted at one niche. I don’t see how niche distribution sites adds to it either.

I just have some skepticism about juggling so many different pieces in order to get this to work.
>If you're going to write an open letter, this might be better worded.

>It does a check if it's being uploaded to iCloud Photos.

The letter has a perfect wording because it doesn't relay on things unknown or said by the interested side with agenda to push Spyware Engine using some BS cover story. Wording reflects the real danger of such step.

Your continuous attempts go into tiny little details of what Spyware Engine would do at the first stage and support this BS cover story about children is irrelevant to the problem. Besides, How do you know? Did you see the source code?

This cover story has nothing to do with the issue and invented to get emotional response from people and make them stop thinking about what is actually happening.

And what actually happening is an attempt to legalize Spyware Engine that will do completely other things that are claimed and who knows what it will do...

We are not that naive to believe for a second that this Spyware Engine is going to do what it is claimed to do. This attempt of it's legalization is done just to avoid future scandal once it detected.

Again, it doesn't matter what Spyware Engine would do at the moment of installation. What matter is it's existence on a personal device which should be prohibited completely. No one in healthy mind would believe that even if Apple would say that Spyware Engine would not be installed it would indeed not be installed. It should be checked very carefully. It very may be already installed. The fight now is more about legalization of it and values. Not about Apple. Not about what their specific version of Spyware Engine does.

>There is literally no privacy at all if you upload to iCloud currently.

This is exactly the reason why some people do not use iCloud and not going too. The whole idea of putting personal thoughts/ideas/photos into some cloud in open/de-codable format is completely idiotic. So I agree that this malicious practice is done for some time now by Apple . It is unacceptable. It was encouraging people to loose own privacy which is the opposite of what should be in a healthy free democratic society respecting human rights. It was bad long enough but now there is an attempt to make it even worse, because before at least people had a choice to avoid using iCloud and not participate in malicious Apple activity but now it is suggested to leave people without such choice because Spyware Engine is pushed to be installed in their personal devices.

The installation of Spyware Engine will have longing effect on free democratic society respecting human rights. I described such effect here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28084578
Most people have a limited vocabulary, in the order of 14 bits. They don't know how to come up with three random words either. That means < 52 bits, probably a lot less. So, these people would need a password generator. Which makes the point moot.

Edit: 3*14 = 42, not 52...
Question to tech savvy population of HN:

If I browse internet and accidentally load a page with all images from this CSAM database => are these images automatically saved somewhere on my filesystem on iOS? So if this software was scanning not only iCloud but all images on my phone I would be reported automatically?

Hypothetical question.
For the part about platforms, hasn't that ship already sailed? From what I understand the industry had settled on C, C++, Windows and UNIX. Some people are trying to replace some of these with different solutions, but that's about it. I think a new platform would have the same challenges as a new system programming language, but would be even harder to convert people to.
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Oh that would make sense.
That's including 20 million liability limit

This is the most noticeable difference between US and UK.

Cars here generally have perhaps $300,000 liability, perhaps $500,000. I have $1,000,000 but larger number is covered by an additional "umbrella" policy that includes liability for multiple cars and also my house.

I imagine there are much greater limits for the likes of Bill Gates. But not commonly for the ordinary 99%. Also, despite auto insurance being legally required, probably 10% or 20% don't have it. They don't care, they have no assets, so they're "judgement proof". There are never any serious criminal consequences for this.

Ordinary people can protect themselves against uninsured drivers by adding additional coverage for that to their own insurance policy. In effect, if you have an accident with an uninsured driver, your own policy pays out whatever liability that driver would owe you. This added coverage is not all that expensive.
The common, instinctive reaction in tech circles & HN seems to be some version of "consumer action," vote-with-your-dollar stuff. This isn't going to work. It almost never does. At most, it'll be affect a minor tweak or delay.

This is a political issue, IMO. A thousand people protesting outside Apple HQ and/or stores is worth more than 100 thousand consumer striking. IMO, the main non-political avenue here is alternatives, especially FOSS alternatives. It's hard to see a way to widely adopted FOSS phones from here, but if we had a viable alternative things would look different. That's producer action, rather than consumer action.

Make it an issue in elections. Stand outside Apple stores with a sign. Push for a Digital Freedom law. Etc. An Apple labour union, maybe. The conscious consumer game is a dead end. It usually is.
Density and rent are definitely correlated, but I think the causation mostly works the other way: in areas with high value (high rent), people will build more densely to take advantage of the high-value location.
Wow I’m actually looking at framework right now as well after this announcement- my 2015 pro has been great but the trade offs are just too high

I wonder if framework will have a mysterious bump in sales because of this
I didn’t intend to slight your work, so apologies if my comment came across too harsh. My concern is with no-code in general, which I think is a great toolset for some use cases but can quickly become too complex to handle. I’ve seen non-programmers get into all sorts of messes using no code applications as they didn’t want to go through IT (for understandable reasons) and ended up with applications being buggy, inefficient and, in one case, insecurely harvesting & storing credit card numbers. They then turn to IT to fix their mess, which is difficult as being a programmer and knowing a no-code ecosystem are very different skill sets.
I did the same but for some activation codes. I used a dictionary of swear words to keep it clean but still got interesting results. Had to make sure the word Jew did not appear as that came up in a phrase that would have not been well received!
Reclusive Linux founder opens up
echo 'I wrote a Bash book' &gt;&gt; /dev/world
My real name is quite awesome looking and looks like a spaceship.