skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very weird statement.

The problem is not the Spanish language. The problem is a colonial peasant economy/society that turned into a post-colonial peasant society, with land-owning quasi-nobility ruling over disempowered (in this case, indigenous) laborers and freely exercising their power to steal, rape, kill, etc., without penalty; it is a situation more or less comparable to peasant societies around the world and throughout history, which are always very exploitative and often racist.

Working class Spanish speakers living in towns were in many ways also economically exploited, but considered “better than indigenous people” to be a core part of their identities, and also felt free to beat them, steal from them, etc. where they found the opportunity. It’s a situation broadly comparable to race relations in the US south, where poor whites considered “better than blacks” to be a defining part of their identity.

Perhaps counterintuitively, the history of exploitation of indigenous communities, and the way indigenous people were shut out of many social and economic activities, led to the preservation of native languages.
> In a press release, Lopez says "this is a move so perverse, so grotesque as to defy explanation. Preventing people from entering the country because their friends critiqued the U.S. on social media shows an astounding disregard for the principle of free speech. The idea that Ajjawi should be prevented from taking his place at Harvard because of his own political speech would be alarming; that he should be denied this opportunity based on the speech of others is downright lawless."

I would replace the terms used by Lopez, from "astounding disregard for the principle of free speech" to "astounding disregard for the principle of justice". (Which, I rant, has been devastated in many places in the past 18 months.)

Theoretically, though, I understand from some publications that there is an ongoing debate in national security agencies about the thresholds to be observed between false positives and false negatives. Meaning: not that the authorities believed such judgement sensible or fair, but they probably delegated their sense of fairness to a top-down mandate of "better safe than sorry". Which, in the encouraged alienation from good sense, creates these monstrosities.
These charge speeds are quite low. Are the chargers bad, or is the car just slow?

I feel like my XC40 P8 charges much faster
Actually it’s both without question.
The sticking point for me is that if I discover some functionality is missing, I can add it to Emacs on the fly with often just a few (1--25) lines of Lisp.

So there's several tiers to this convenience:

1. Does it do the obviously important things out of the box, or with easily installed add-ons? For most editors, this is yes.

2. Does it do the little things out of the box, or with easily installed add-ons? For some editors, this is yes.

3. If none of the above, can you create the thing you need as an add-on without breaking your step, almost as part of what you were already doing? To get to this point it takes a very dynamic system like Emacs.
It's exactly that though. Except instead of the "idiot" it's "completely dumb neural network".
Privacy Guard) I was the one who purposely removed it. I spent days ( if not weeks ) trying to get it working properly ( read, it never worked properly and causes many issues we still have tickets for ) futhermore Google basically rewrote the full stack once again, while introducing the, now publicly available in 12, permission hub that somehow gave a better view of permissions and easy access to remove them. We know it removed some more granular ops, but it wasn't worth the effort.

SafetyNet) Nothing can legally pass it unless Google certifies it, we can't do much, only Google can enforce it to be used only for security related reasons

Bribing) I wish I got a single cent from any of the OEM I worked on, name it, Motorola, Asus, Huawei, OnePlus, Xiaomi.
Not once they threatened us to stop working on their devices, and at the same time didn't help at all ( the only outsider is Asus that is willingly to help )
We simply can't continue supporting every device that enters the door, we don't have any real way to improve it, everyone is doing it voluntarily with no expectation, and so do we as project directors.

PS: I'm one of the directors.
"Fuck you, people like me built the world as it is now so people like you can spend all day playing video games".

Well, if they spend all day playing video games who exactly is or is not the nerdy one here.....?
Unvaccinated and unmasked are THE problems... opt-in = Tragedy of the Commons.

Mandate the two, we wouldn't even be seriously talking about nascent variants.
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> especially when the goal Apple announces appears to be for the greater good.

Not surprising at all.

In Russia, _every_ measure to limit internet freedom was introduced under the pretence of fighting child pornography and extremism.

Then, of course, it was used to block the websites of political opponents.
I would damned well hope so. That's sort of the point.
If I learned anything in my lifetime, it’s that “slippery slope” is not, in fact, a fallacy at all. Rather, it’s a rule of thumb.
When implementing a password strength checker lately I relied mainly on https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn (which is great) but added in a check for correct horse battery staple (and variants). Probably not that important in the big scheme of things but I thought it might get a chuckle and/or some respect if anyone happened to activate that code path.
Hmm. I wonder if a activism-based shopping platform could be something. Basically, a place where you shop, and as part of your purchase you state why you shopped that thing. Can be anything. "I liked the color". "Needed a bigger screen". "Don't want to use Apple any more".
Apple does the same with iCloud as Google does with Google Drive.

Apple just now moved it to scan on the device.
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I feel like, if I wasn't busy with about 5 other projects I would start submitting patents for programmable buttons for all kinds of devices that you hold.
My conspiracy theory is they're doing this to appeal to the right and all The Qanon believers.

Sadly, it's probably really to appeal to China or the US government.

I wouldn't be shocked to hear of some secret court order ordering them to add some kind of backdoor, and this legally meets the bare minimum.
If it were FOSS one person could build a paranoid version and everybody else could use it.
I think the best example is actually from my divorce. A friend basically called me "stupid" for "trusting" my ex to pay me my support payments while on the phone and I basically politely hung up on her.

She was probably just worried sick about me because the stats for civilian Americans is abysmal. I think it's something like one third of men don't pay at all and one third only make partial payments, which routinely leaves women and their children in a real pickle. It can take months or years to get legal remedy, garnish his wages and get back payments -- if you get them at all.

But it doesn't work that way in the military. If he had stiffed me, I would have written his commanding officer and his wages would have been garnished post haste, much more quickly than what you typically see in the civilian world.

My friend apparently thought I was some naive little ninny who just didn't understand the cold, cruel world because I had such a sheltered existence as a homemaker. And that wasn't it at all. The rules were just different for me and I was in no danger of being left out in the cold like she was likely imagining was about to happen to me given how common that is in the civilian version of America.
Personally I'm hugely in favour of phrasing it in terms of "Right to Repair". Most people don't know how to repair their car or John Deere tractor either: and that's where the experts come in who do it for you.

In this case, you or me might be the expert, who can provide solutions for other people such as an "installer" to do whatever.

I personally don't really have a problem with Apple's plan here by the way; I think the way they're doing it is actually quite balanced and reasonable. But other people should be free to make a different personal decision on this. What I would like is to modify some other aspects of my iPhone though, like some things on the keyboard that still bug me after several years.
Spotter planes, tankers, and more spotter planes flying NOE have to maintain visual air sep while also not CFITing. It's dangerous AF to run daytime ops at night because YCSS even with NVGs.
Well, the day has only 24 hours so every hour that you spend on dealing with people is an hour you do not spend on dealing with computers and vice versa. And one has a shot at getting good at what one does often.
This is likely how all Governments do it, including the UK with the help of their own 77th Brigade. Obviously the BBC won't be making any comparisons.

https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/formations-divisions-brig...
This isn't a powerful tool, it's more akin to a rudimentary hash check. It's not going to match photos that aren't already known to authorities. And any time a user is flagged, the material in question is sighted by an Apple employee before a decision is made whether to forward it onto the relevant authorities.
But for any serious charge you need indisputable evidence, and usually lots of it, usually the threshold is quite high.. But in the United States the system is insane so I could be wrong
Regardless of the merits of this case, I think it is interesting to also consider if the reverse could conceivably happen. Could a Chinese professor become worried about travel visa to the US because one of their students starts posting things critical of the US? I think for a Chinese professor the answer is perhaps not immediately obvious, but if you switch it to a professor from an Arabic country, I think the concern would definitely be valid. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if there is a lot of self-censorship like this going on already.

Edit: in fact, in a different thread, perihelions posted an instance of such a visa denial happening in the US.
Captain, did you move back to BD from the West?
Before any of that we need a heavy carbon tax. "We" being every developed country. A tall order... but absolutely vital.
Moreover, I’d expect DVD to have higher variable costs (physical, distribution, Blockbuster fees) that increase the time for breaking even.
But maybe the revenue from streaming is much lower to undo all the cost savings.
It's clearly a marketing exercise aimed to sell products to parents and other concerned citizens. It doesn't actually need to be effective to achieve this goal. (I am not saying whether it will or won't be, just that it doesn't need to be.)
> I had tried XEmacs for a while, but found it too aesthetically displeasing.

Why would you even bother with a fork whose last release was 12 years ago? :\
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Because the technology is not the point. I just don’t want Apple to search anything in my photos. Because those are my photos. Not theirs. My phone doesn’t need a program that search for abused child photography since there is not such material on it.

I don’t care if their thing is open or closed source : My iPhone is mine and I don’t want them to do anything on it that can get me arrested because of a false positive.

We must not accept those intrusions.

This thing is as serious as if IKEA regularly sent robots in your house to check all the photo albums on your IKEA shelf to check them against some database. Why does it sounds dumb when it’s IKEA but more acceptable when it’s your phone constructor ?
You can't complain without suggesting improvements, that's not constructive criticism. So what is the alternative here? All other brands have the same issue, not just phone manufacturers but other product and service providers too. I can provide a list ten times as long against using American products. So what do we do then? These types of "reason lists" are pointless. Right hand is different from the left hand, but they both grow from the same body.
Telling me what I already know is not really contributing much, either.
My own pet theory is that the new far left have gone full circle and have become as puritanical as those they despised. (Just look at social media talking about what outfits women wear in the olympics, thinking that they show too much skin. It's arguments from the early 1900s come back around.)
Unfortunately I have tried to use other applications to setup my company email and install another browser on my computer rahter than Chrome or Edge to have consistent browser experience. Unfortunately it wasn't possible, maybe I should have mentioned it :)
The point is that all these bogeymen distract from the actual issue, because they make government surveillance sound like something that only happens in other places... We need to wake up and realize it's happening right here at home and has been for decades
So I did the same recently, but in a PHEV, and I honestly think it's the best of both worlds. In my daily usage, I use zero fuel. Last time I filled up was in March, because I just charge it at home and nearly all of my daily driving is within the 30 mile EV-only range. But when we drove across Europe I could just carry on for about 600 miles per tank, only filling up once at a well stocked petrol station(with working bathrooms and a restaurant).

Anecdotally - tried to charge the car in Germany when we stopped for lunch, but found that it was impossible to start the session, the app wouldn't accept my non-german payment card so that was that. Would suck if I had to charge.
I think, at it's core and what drives most people to work there, is Apple is fundamentally about improving humanity's experience through computing.

I don't mean that as a buzzword soup either. They're the most valuable company in the world for a reason. It also means they're the spotlight for all the moral dilemmas we face as a global society more deeply integrating computing into our daily lives. So I have to disagree.

Apple is trying to take a stand saying, "We will be proactive about policing the one activity that nearly everyone considers morally reprehensible," and tacitly they're saying in that, "This is more important than our whole mission to bring privacy back to computing users."

Because what they're building completely invalidates that. They're effectively saying that -- as of August 5, 2021 -- Apple is privacy-hostile.

Then to connect that back to their true mission, or what anyone working for the most powerful computing company in the world ought to consider their true mission: they're about improving the human condition through computing. Working for Apple now signals that you believe humans are better off without privacy.

Buying from Apple now signals that you believe humans are better off without privacy. Apple is privacy-hostile.

It doesn't have to stay that way. There can still be some pride in making short the number of days from August 5, 2021 to the day that Apple makes a stand for the liberty of all humans to feel secure in their ability to use computers in all forms without an ever-watchful million unknown eyes over their shoulder.
I think it is our role to educate our relatives on this subject: any text that refer to child pornography or similar "save our children" shall immediately trigger the idea association: "written by a Nazi posing as a sheep to reduce out freedom". Shoot! Goldwin's law strikes again!
Any of these large services allowing user uploaded content can build such a database in a heartbeat. And with a list of known hashes it can even be automated.
Note that this message is substantially different from what communicated with "As it has to be".
We cater the normal user.

And what the hell? Root with verified boot? That's like having the most secure castle while leaving the door open for anyone, you can't have both worlds.

Note: our root implementation was apparently affected by some vulnerabilities ( never disclosed to us ), meaning I tried to lower the attack surface to minimum, but not knowing I did anything helpful we just couldn't leave it there.
Maybe we should ask for more leaktivism from morally inclined employees instead of trying to push water uphill.

Sunlight disinfects power.
It should be extremely easy for any group that has access to tools like NSO Group's to use the information on a device to convincingly add data to devices. What is generally missing is the question of why certain people's devices were selectively searched. Attacks by the west on journalists often rely on the excuse of border searches for example.
So we force Apple to migrate away from ARM? Or should the next iPhone have a swappable CPU?
> who would want to be in the business of reviewing reports of probably-illegal images?

I could think of a couple of companies this could be outsourced to, with strict business and privacy agreements in place, of course, and also conveniently on the lowest end of European minimum wage for the tier 1 reviewers.
Their CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a fraud a few years ago saying that it will not end well and that somebody is going to get killed.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/12/20/jp-morgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-in-2017-calls-bitcoin-a-fraud.html
Isn't this covered by the 4th Amendment? The fact that Apple is doing it and not US.GOV is irrelevant, because the explicit intent is to check for content-deemed-illegal on a personal device and Apple is clearly just a cutout.

Worse - unless the "perceptual hash" tech is better than anyone suspects, most of the images flagged will be personal images of consenting adults.

So Apple - and possibly US.GOV - ends up with a huge collection of intimate photos of many of its users. Plus everyone's porn stash.

I'm finding it very hard to understand why no one at Apple realised this would be a PR disaster.
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The kind of the article seems to be a smaller one, but anyone that it's in permanent warfare with lions is probably somebody you don't want to mess with.
I think the point is that yes, they have always had the power to do these things - but they haven't thus far. We rely on entities with power (companies, governments, people) to exercise restraint in how they exercise it. Those that DO exercise restraint gain trust since exercising restraint demonstrates an understanding of the consequences of not doing so.

What the Apple move is doing is showing that they are willing to relax their restraint. It gets tricky because everyone agrees that the specific goal here is honorable, but the manner by which they are using their power to achieve it is generalizable to areas that are less honorable. Once they are willing to use their power to accomplish one highly honorable goal, it's not a big ask for them to use it for a slightly less honorable goal in the future. Iterate that a few times and you can find yourself in a very bad place. It's the classic slippery slope argument - when you know there is a slope that leads to dangerous places, you need to not ever start down it no matter how righteous the motive is in starting down that path in the first place. There's a reason we have the old saying "the path to hell is paved with good intentions".

The existence of power isn't what matters: it's the intention and willingness to exercise it. Apple is now demonstrating that they have changed their stance in how they choose to exercise their extreme power. That's worthy of scrutiny.

For a concrete example of where I expect this to naturally lead to: instead of a database of child pornography being the source of the hashes to search for, the Chinese government provides a set of hashes of all known digital photos of the Tianenmen square protests of 1989. Does it really seem implausible for a government like China's to NOT use this kind of technology for that purpose? It's not hard to cook up similar examples all over the place.
That's only for iCloud Photos, if you send a photo to a phone on a parental account, you have no control whether the image is uploaded to Apple.
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> And even for the ones that would starve, I'm sorry, but I put the well-being of the entirety of society and our collective future over their lives.

God, just listen to yourself.

Personally I think their plans are fairly balanced and reasonable. Like it or not, there are legitimate interests here. It's a difficult trade-off and conversation. Ostracizing people and saying you would literally rather have people DIE is not adding to the conversation. The way you talk about it makes it sound like this is about the Nuremberg laws or something.
Definitely an indicator of bad design if you need this for development, but I can imagine it's sometimes useful for ops to play with different configurations.
>>$3700 per year for comprehensive insurance,

Bit of an aside - how is American insurance so stupidly expensive. Here in UK I have a brand new Volvo XC60 PHEV, £60k, 400bhp car, in one of the highest insurance groups(like group 45 out of 50), I'm 30 years old and my fully comprehensive insurance is £400 a year. That's including 20 million liability limit, legal cover, courtesy vehicle, key cover.....etc etc.

Yeah when I was 21 my insurance was £2000 a year on some crappy old econobox, but in general once you turn 25 the insurance falls down rapidly. On my previous Mercedes AMG I paid about £500 a year for fully comprehensive, aged 26.
> It's convenient to believe that your enemy is so fragile

There is ample evidence that they are butt-hurt by the tiniest criticism – intentioned or not, real or imagined, by inclusion or by omission – which would not even count as an affront under most other circumstances. The psychic trauma that is amenable to a degree for this response unfortunately is deeply seated and difficult to shake loose.
How did you work out the emissions of the ferry routes?
He didn’t study China just some environmental aspects of it. But point still stands.
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It really feels like our cities would be a lot better if we had some real central planning and didn’t leave everything as a patchwork. CA is starting to do that with mandating new housing but the dispersed system of government is basically at its worst here.
"So stop the circulating." Good idea. Any ideas how we could do that? Perhaps one thing that would help is to implement a system that hashes circulating images to ensure they aren't known images of child sexual abuse. Just a thought.