skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true. We don't know how the fuzzy hash is working. It's very likely a lot of nudes would fall in the threshold Apple has set.
> Solar and wind can be built out faster

The sheer number of wind power plants that is required to replace a single nuclear reactor has significant impact on nature, wild birds and more. One wind power plant isn't much but what happens to wildlife when you need to place 2000 of them? For one reactor, that is.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-933/wind-nuclear-infographi...
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> Seriously asking... what's the benefit of getting them on the tool if the tool can't be monetized? What's the angle here for Unity as a business model? Some kind of revenue sharing arrangement or something for if/when a game ends up successful?

First to answer your question, luring in devs to the unity ecosystem is very good for unity because it creates a supply of unity devs who go on to create demand for the engine at studios. People don't like to switch tooling. It's sticky, like microsoft office.

But second, that's sort of my point. Unity is already fairly heavily monetized. You must already buy this license if you're making $200k or more on their engine.

But what if you're a solo dev who wants to publish something fun, small, and non-lucrative? Or something you think could be lucrative but is kind of a shot in the dark? $1,800 (per year) is a hefty price tag to take that shot. It doesn't move the needle on business revenue but it does scare away indies. Others are saying this is to get the console vendors to pay for it but honestly that sounds like its still adding a lot of friction.
Many, many genes can contribute in some (usually very small) way to depression/addiction/other psychiatric disorders, and a single gene can contribute risk to a variety of disorders. So it's not as clear cut of a thing to identify as whether a gene is involved in the immune system. In fact immune system genes have come up towards the top of genome wide association studies for conditions like Schizophrenia. So it doesn't even have a clean relationship with "genes expressed in the brain".

All that is just to say that there is evidence that some Neanderthal mutations are linked to depression risk, but I wouldn't go so far as to characterize any of the involved genes as depression-related. Maybe that's just semantics though.

More specifically here is a relevant snippet from a study summary [1]:
"These analyses supported links to traits such as mood disorders, depression, obesity and different types of keratosis. The most significant associations were for mood disorders and depression, for which Neanderthal SNPs can explain up to ~1% of the risk."

IIRC there was also a (less strong) association with nicotine addiction. Not sure about addiction more generally.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2016.26
Until all of these old-ass systems that finally got to SAML move to a new SSO architecture this could largely be mitigated by using the HTTP artifact binding instead of POST or redirect.

Getting rid of SAML will be like getting rid of SMS 2FA.
According to you. And we should all take you at your word because this is the hill on which you have chosen to die? Got it.
You do realize you could get this message across without the needlessly arrogant tone, yeah? All it does is make me roll my eyes.

Anyway, that wasn't my stated position. I simply pointed out that this is done for a subset of users (where there's already existing reasons to do so, sub-13 and all) and that on syncing to iCloud this _already happens anyway_.

I would gladly take this if it removes a barrier to making iCloud E2E encrypted; they are likely bound to do this type of detection, but doing it client-side before syncing feels like a sane way to do it.
First they built a walled garden beautiful on the inside and excoriated competitors [1] for their lack of privacy. Now that the frogs have walked into the walled garden, they have started to boil the pot [2] . I don’t think the frogs will ever find out when to get off the pot.

[1] https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/6/4/18652228/apple-sign-i...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
> Why don’t we use TAI or GPS time for generic world wide coordinated computer time?

I think that is valid as long as systems are talking to systems, but the interface with the world (when things are happening in the world) is where the solar day or year is still relevant.

I'm sort of joking, but watching Interstellar made me kinda cringe about what interstellar gravity wells is going to do to time-keeping, even if we use something like an atomic clock to keep time.

We will slowly get better at this until we discover something new, but the switch doesn't mean anything until the costs outweigh the change.

And the leap second is going look like 46-45 BCE[1].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD-R35DSSZY
Isn't the feeling mutual? I was under the impression that Asahi didn't really want Corellium's contributions because they considered Corellium's looks at proprietary Apple code to be an existential threat to the project's need for clean room RE.
Liberal arts students at UT Austin would, on occasion, have to talk to Alan Kline (undergrad ombudsman for natural sciences). In the late 90s Alan shared a ‘pod’ with Dijkstra; Dijkstra had moved his desk right into the ‘foyer’ of his office such that he could stare out his door at students “loitering” in the pod common space. As an English major all I knew him as was the evil old fuck who tried to kill us with looks. As a 20-year programmer, I wish I’d’ve at least introduced myself.
CNN Fires Three Employees for Coming into the Office Unvaccinated
"A good thing about truths is that there are so many to choose from!"
Sure we can. Nature already does it endlessly. Your claim presupposes idea that there's some sort of conscious natural order that's ideally aligned, and that we humans only muck it up with ignorance. The reality (unless ever proven otherwise) is that nature's own balanced world is nothing more than the transient product of constant and highly random destructive processes finally settling into something stable at times. Nothing we do sits outside of that and nature itself has brought far more equilibrium-destroying events to bear upon itself than we have.
I've always been convinced that Apple cared about privacy as a way of competitive advantage. I don't need them to be committed morally or ethically, I just need them to be serious about it because I will give them my money if they are.
I agree- I think this is a bad decision on Apple's part. It really undercuts a lot of their statements about privacy by doing any kind of on device scanning of your content, even in such a narrow context.

I guess the point I am making is that as of now, this only applies if you're using their cloud services. I'm not sure if Apple would announce if they were compelled to use this functionality through a court order.
The die was cast with the 2020 elections when Apple decided get into the fray. Much of tech also got into the fray. Once they openly decided to use their power, they couldn’t get back out.
What makes you think that child porn is such an important problem, apart from rag articles on vague “Darknet”? Shouldn't all the phones get scanned for the evidence of tax evasion, a much more widespread crime? All those rich people dealing with offshore businesses have iPhones™, it's only natural to make Apple do their part as a honest member of society… I mean, honest corporation of society.

If you allow me to guesstimate wildly, most “child porn” these days, in a technical sense, is made by kids themselves having access to an internet-connected device with a camera. Sometimes it is extorted by despicable abusers, sometimes it is done for no one in particular, just for the perceived fame/popularity/likes on social services/etc. Big services have an army of moderating grunts to keep Victorian purity of blissfully ignorant common public intact, things are a bit different in poorer parts on the Net and on the Globe. Should we expect the naked selfie of a teenager sent to their significant other to automatically cause a police interrogation of the same teenager? What if the device is shared with older members of the family? Another man-made dystopia enabled by people who enjoy to express outrage over the racy stories in the media, and people who are too afraid to speak up.

In essence, Apple has introduced a software agent to signal whether you have files that belong the list someone provides. If I recall the scandal correctly, this is what Kaspersky allegedly (ab)used, and what other antivirus tools (including Microsoft's built-in and enabled-by-default Windows scanner that for some seemingly important reason nags all the time if uploading of files to Microsoft is disabled) surely enjoy offering to various agencies around the world.

I don't think you should worry about “China, Australia, and Saudi Arabia” so much, there's elephant in the room you don't like to notice.
This article is irresponsible hand-waving.

“ When Apple releases these “client-side scanning” functionalities, users of iCloud Photos, child users of iMessage, and anyone who talks to a minor through iMessage will have to carefully consider their privacy and security priorities in light of the changes, and possibly be unable to safely use what until this development is one of the preeminent encrypted messengers.”

People sending messages to minors that trigger a hash match have more fundamental things to consider, as they are sending known photos of child exploitation to a minor.

The EFF writer knows this, as they describe the feature in the article. They should be ashamed of publishing this crap.
I guess in theory you could poison the well by widely sharing many false positives?
Leaf blowers should be outright banned in cities as their main effect is to blow dirt onto everyone else. Maybe now that so many people are working from home, we'll get some pushback on such "affluenza" that otherwise went unnoticed by commuters.
A lot of people will want to push to consoles to begin with, not to PCs. It's still a good deal if you're successful. But it's $1,800 lost if you're not. That's a big number to some hopeful newbie.
Um, these distros are normally used to run like half the Internet, they are very valuable targets today and I don't think putting them on a phone changes the threat environment so much.
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Seems like these types of devs go to PC first anyway, since the cost of getting started there is so much less than consoles. I doubt anyone in the industry will be too broken up about it.
I'm working on 'SpookyLoop'. The goal is to make it easier to see progress on long-running jobs/renders while on the go. I use it frequently when I compute big simulations but would like to see if it's useful for other projects. It can compute the completion time with a time-prediction, plus or minus a risk margin, and you can also set it to send you a message if your process crashes.
The Mac menubar app is a little buggy but the code versions seem reliable so far.
working demo, totally free, no login required
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Organic Maps on Fdroid is a really clean osm based map.
I’m not sure how your comment relates to my earlier comment exactly.

One thing to point out however - EVERY time is a (genuinely!) unique time, and for those in it, there is always the press of things to be concerned about, or tackle things or avoid things or whatever. Our current challenges are definitely unique, but the existential threat of Mutually Assured Destruction of the Cold War was no less a unique, serious, and pressing matter for those living it than anything going on today. And it could have been an apocalypse. It just happened not to be.

Same with being in Europe pretty much anytime over the last couple hundred years (longer?) with constant wars, disease, plagues, etc.

It’s important to recognize, because it can help give perspective and balance to what can otherwise be a profoundly easy to manipulate state of mind.

Would it make sense to sell all your assets, move the middle of nowhere, and live in a bomb shelter in the 70’s? Well the Soviets didn’t nuke the US, so no, clearly you would have been an idiot. If they had, then you would clearly have been a genius with incredible foresight.

In the end, we do what we can based on the best of our ability to understand the world and our options. Because fundamentally a lot of these things integrate with other people and societies, this also means they influence decisions others make, and can result in huge shifts - or resistance to shifts - and sometimes really unexpected or bizarre behavior.

One thing that may be happening for instance with a lot of the discussions today is people getting overwhelmed and defaulting to their ‘overwhelmed’ state - and not being aware of it.

For instance, common overwhelmed behavior includes running away/avoidance (this isn’t happening), fighting (fuck you, you can’t tell me what to do), or freezing (just ignoring things or locking up).

These can easily escalate over time to full on and very persistent delusion, and the threat to someone if someone starts to challenge their delusion is very real - and they need to defend it.

Trying to deal with someone in this state by treating the way they are acting at face value (oh, this guy is anti mask so I’ll give him facts!) often not only doesn’t work, but causes more resistance because it isn’t really about the mask or the facts.

They are in a messed up emotional place, and doing the best they can to try to keep themselves feeling safe. It just so happens that they picked something that is dangerous to others and there is some facts that could ACTUALLY keep them safer. But they can’t handle that, right now. And trying to tell them that is likely to just make them feel unsafe talking to you, because you’re essentially trying to rip away their safety blanket AND make them feel dumb.

When people feel unsafe around someone, they either avoid them, fight them, don’t do anything and try to pretend they don’t exist.

It’s a hard problem.
My big issue is what it opens up. As the EFF points out, it's really not a big leap for oppressive governments to ask Apple to use the same tech (as demoed by using MS's tech to scan for "terrorist" content) to remove content they don't like from their citizens' devices.
That’s only the first part of what was announced and addressed in the article.

The other part is on-device scanning for nude pics a child is intending to send using machine learning and securely notifying the child, and then parents within the family account. The alert that the kids get by itself will probably be enough to stop a lot of them from sending the pic in the first place.
Have you found any decent google maps alternatives? I'd love to find something but nothing comes close as far as I've found. Directions that take into account traffic is the big thing that I feel like nobody (other than Apple, MS, etc.) will be able to replicate.

Have you tried using the website? I've had some luck with that on postmarketOS, and it means you don't need to install Play services to use it.
> The global response to Covid-19 is much better than could reasonably have been expected before the event.

We're going to have to disagree on that. I read a couple of books on the subject pre-pandemic and I thought we were in good shape because the science was well understood. I had not calculated in politics, my bad.

> We don't have 10% of the world's population dead, collapsed major cities due to core services failing, or any disasters at similar scale, and a raging pandemic with 20 or more virulent variants sweeping through repeatedly.

Well, this is where some hindsight would come in handy, but for that we'll have to wait until this is all over, which so far it isn't. And this is exactly the kind of thinking which makes me believe strongly that we will not be able to effectively address climate change. It takes place on a time scale too slow for people to give a care. The things we're good at are earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions and floodings: they are there, immediately and you can do something about it using emergency response. The kind of problem that would effectively require 8 billion people to cooperate for a change is something that we simply have not mastered and my never master.

But thank you for illustrating my point in a very effective way.
> I really don’t understand why Apple is doing this.

My guess is that this is a PR campaign to show that they're doing self-regulation. Perhaps related to the EU push against end-to-end encryption.
> At 200m you can barely even see them.

But you can certainly still hear them.
One workaround is to use the mobile web app, which is surprisingly pretty decent for a web app. And because it's a web app, you can even disable things like sharing your location if you want to
The fact that teens are children means that if, say a 16-yo sends a nude selfie to their s.o., they've just committed a felony (distributing child pornography) that can have lifelong consequences (thanks to hysterical laws about sex offender registries, both kids could end up having to register as sex offenders for the rest of their life and will be identified as having committed a crime that involved a minor. Few if any of the registries would say more than this and anyone who looks in the registry will be led to believe that they molested a child and not shared a selfie or had one shared with them). The laws may not be just or correct, but they are the current state of the world. Parents need to talk to their kids about this sort of thing, and this seems one of the less intrusive way for them to discover that there's an issue. If it were automatically shared with law enforcement? That would be a big problem (and a guarantee that my kids don't get access to a device until they're 18), but I'm not ready¹ to be up in arms about this yet.

1. I reserve the right to change my mind as things are revealed/developed.
So Bangladesh will not reduce emissions until it hits developed world status. Not one bit. Can trees absorb all of Bangladesh’s growing emissions over the next 50 years? Same for India, Nigeria, etc?
I think it depends how you see the political divide.

Some people see the divide as a class divide between people with money and power, and those without.

From that point of view, there is a sense that people with money are trying to retain power through recruiting a portion of people without money to be on their side in order to market the policies that benefit them.

They'll see this "recruiting" being done by the rich generally using an appeal to emotion, scape goating, group endoctrination, religious endoctrination, propaganda, and fear mongering techniques.

This example with the tea party is seen as another such attempt, where the rich pays non-rich people to recruit others to their cause, making the others believe this isn't driven by a rich person, but instead from their own peers, which is kind of what grassroots is.

So from that point of view, if a rich person is donating to a conservative movement it does seem to be against the non-rich populace. It looks like scheming from the rich in order to uphold their class.

This also isn't without historical precedent, conservatism actually comes from the old aristocracy, they invented conservatism, the idea that hereditary power and inheritance are the way of life, and thus those traditions should remain, as a way to keep clinging on their riches and power they were fearful of losing while the various revolutions in the United States and France were happening.

Nowadays, there's more to conservatism then just that, but some people still see that aspect of it as the continued class war, as every rich powerful person fears losing their power and riches and thus constantly try to protect themselves through conservatism.
There are tons of devices compatible with LineageOS. I suggest taking a look there. https://lineageos.org/
For me it’s their extensive selection of foreign data wrappers and extensions which allow for it to be incredibly integrated and work with novel paradigms. It was the first by several years to support JSON fields and window functions, but I was pleased to see those in MySQL 8. For extremely write-heavy use cases I think MySQL wins as Postgres tends to want every materialized view current before completing an insert. It’s license has never been in question, where MySQL, Percona, and MariaDb have been a source of concern/confusion over the years.

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IMAP, GitHub, BigQuery, Faker and CSV have been awesome for me, but don’t tend to be 100% supported by public cloud managed DB services. I’ve heard some can be flaky.

INSERT INTO public.people SELECT ssn, name, phone_number FROM faker.people;

That is a way to generate a ton of fake records for integration and load testing. Very elegant!
Improved swatting, it's going to all make for a badass october surprise next election
Some of them have strong and funny personalities. I was at an animal rescue place in harare, zimbabwe. Not many tourists go there and they thought I was crazy for being there, alone.

Anyways, it was evening and getting dark. They served food and I was sitting there alone eating my food. When suddenly, one of the giraffes snuck up behind me and licked the side of my face! I turned and saw it very close to me and it scared the living hell out of me.

I think he was being a pig and wanted my food but it was pretty funny.

Later in the evening he was bugging one of the families and wanted food. This huge animal was basically like a giant dog.

Sadly, some people take on African animals as pets. Then they get old and give them up. Then they go to the rescue center.

The wildebeest also was confused and thought he was a family dog.
You may have mis-read my comment as suggesting that climate change is no threat to future generations?
I've used most of the SPARC stations during the late 90s. 4, 5 and 20. They were a lot better than the Pentiums in use. Moved up to the UltraSPARCs, my last one was a Blade 2000. Linux was a champ on those architectures. But I don't miss the blasted bus errors not one bit. AMD is where it's at nowadays, ARM will be next within the next few years.
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Your data should be encrypted on Apple's servers and unreadable by them; rather, this is my desire from Apple. They are likely bound to scan and detect for this kind of abusive content.

This handles that client-side instead of server side, and if you don't use iCloud photos, it doesn't even affect you. If syncing? Sure, decrypt it on device and check it before uploading - it's going to their servers after all.

Don't want to even go near this? Don't use Message or iCloud, I guess. Very possible to use iOS/iDevices in a contained manner.
> That is a luxury, whether you consider it one or not is irrelevant. When you emigrate there are certain consequences.

Interesting. Why are you (or your political affiliates) the ones who get to decide what is a luxury and what is “essential”?

Were you ordained with some divine moral authority?

I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but that kind of authoritarian thinking will thankfully never be allowed to prevail in the United States.