skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm guessing..."

Your guess is incorrect. If you have visited twitter.com, then you, too, have used this token. It's yours as much as it is mine, or anyone else's. It's shared by the public.

Any user can see it simply by examining the requests she is sending from her computer when she visits twitter.com. There is nothing "secret" or "personal" about this token:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61140863/python-download...
We don’t really have that time. Solar and wind can be built out faster. But we should do it on the margins.
I'm going to contradict the rest of the commenters here: I strongly support this change. The ease of producing and profiting from child pornography has risen tremendously in recent years due to the advent of technology, and it's perfectly ethical for tech companies to account for their impact and attempt to mitigate it. There is no slippery slope from child porn prohibition to political censorship, as so many other commenters fear.
Thats a ton of money for something an indie dev won't even own or be able to possess once the subscription is up.

Indie dev is super saturated. It's hard to make money without a ton of promo and virality.

Yet another predatory subscription licensing model. Thank god Unreal Engine is open-source.
If you read the article, you'd understand that among ALL the issues, this is not one:

- Photos scanning in Messages is on-device only (no reporting to govt.) and doesn't turn on unless you're an adult who turns it on for a minor via Family Sharing controls.
- iCloud Photos scanning doesn't take effect unless you save the photo and it's already in a database of flagged photos. So in your scenario, you'd have to save the photo received from the unknown number to get flagged.
I find Designer a really good low-end CAD package. You can enter dimensions in whatever units, enter math (e.g., 12in - 3/8 in + 0.22mm).

It's great for simple designs to send to the laser-cutter or vinyl cutter for making physical products.
Right.
This feels like classic open floor plan extrovert "I could just grab & interrupt people whenever I needed them" lol.
This is why both sets of speaker cables to my amplifier are the same length.

It does make me curious about the recording process and effects if one microphone has lets say 50 feet of cable and another on a different musician has 100 feet of cable.
How are you finding the performance of LSP?

I dropped Emacs for NeoVim because Emacs would frequently lockup for a second or more due to LSP. NeoVim doesn't have this problem.

I would love to return to Emacs someday.
It would have been nice if the environmentalists hadn't stopped nuclear energy in it's tracks.
That's not really the issue. The issue is that for google maps to work properly, it requires that the Play services are installed. Play services are a massive semi-monolithic blob that requires tight integration with Google's backend, and deep, system-level permissions to operate correctly.

I'm not worried about my search history.
As much as I hate child abuse (and I really do) I don't like the privacy aspects of this. I feel like this could also be troubling in that people who send you unsolicited images / emails / texts with pictures that might be downloaded to your device could trip this up.

I'm already wondering how a hash collision attack could defeat this, although then I can already hear the judge saying "well, you had it there, but you deleted it, so now we'll also charge you with destruction of evidence."

This is going to get very interesting very quick as soon as this is first used in case law.
I'm pretty sure this is a non-tech way of saying "a machine learning model" or other parameters which is not a particularly useful form of this database.
There will always be a Gulf Stream as long as there are westerlies, a coastline, and Coriolis [0]

[0]
https://rwu.pressbooks.pub/webboceanography/chapter/9-4-west...
I have been using a Linux smartphone since 2010 an I certainly do enjoy it - first Nokia N900 & N9 followed by a series of Sailfish OS[0][1] devices, with Xperia 10 II with Sailfish X[2] being the latest one.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS

[1] https://sailfishos.org/

[2] https://shop.jolla.com/
> After seeing the global chaotic response to COVID I'm convinced that climate change will not receive a meaningful response until it is way too late. It apparently needs to hit the majority of the planet right in the gut (and then preferably the wealthy part) for people to get off their collective asses and do something about it.

And chances are the blow will be more like the proverbial frog slowly boiling in water than a sudden punch in the gut, so they'll probably only get off their asses and do something to adapt to the changes rather than prevent or reverse them.
I find discussions around this kind of stuff frustrating because often times what's actually happening always gets muddled by the hysteria, even here on Hacker News.

From the link: "Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos..."

This leads me to believe that only data that is going to get uploaded to their servers is going to be scanned. If anyone has a different interpretation or thinks I'm wrong, feel free to reply.

It's my understanding that all cloud services do this type of scanning, when they are technically able to.

But all data on iCloud is encrypted by default, so Apple can't scan for this kind of material once it is on their servers. Doing it on device before it gets encrypted and uploaded is the only place they even could do a scan like this.

Additionally, they make it clear in the article that there has to be more than one hit (they don't say the actual number) which would mitigate risk of hash collision false positives.

If this type of scanning makes you uncomfortable, you can just not use their cloud services.

I do agree that this is still not a good direction to go, even with all the precautions they've taken. But I had to do some digging to figure out what was actually going on, the comments/commentary made it seem like Apple is now routinely scanning all your photos/videos if you have an iPhone.

Once the code is there to do local scanning, it might make it easier for a zero day exploit to do phone scanning and grab data it might not otherwise have access to or for governments to force Apple to conduct scans of content on a phone when they ask.
Sexual predators and sex trafficking are trojan horse reasons for deeper momitoring and privacy violations. No one would argue against child pornograpy being bad and by transitive properties there is an attempt to make arguing against violations of your own privacy equally morally abhorrent.
The original commment I made was:

> Before there was Climate Change, there was Global Warming.

> Why was there a name change, a rebranding if you will? In some cases, there is conflation, but they mean very different things.

> When it comes to Climate, scientists say that climate is in 30 year intervals. Day to day that is just weather.

So, stay on topic.
Ahhh, gotcha. Did not realize that. Makes sense.
> No user receives any CSAM photo, not even in encrypted form. Users receive a data structure of blinded fingerprints of photos in the CSAM database. Users cannot recover these fingerprints and therefore cannot use them to identify which photos are in the CSAM database.

Source (PDF): https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Technical_Assessment_...
They could have picked Python or something even worse like C++. At least they back-tracked from the absolute worst option - JavaScript.
Nuclear plants in America are old enough that many need to be upgraded. Turns out upgrading is so expensive that many choose to close instead. Just this week two in Illinois closed when the state refused to subsidize the upgrade.

It's a pretty bad look, because people see these huge subsidies and balk, thinking that nuclear is a continually expensive form of energy, even though these are one time costs.
Not 100% sure, but: (1) the arrow caps look like some that are available in Inkscape and (2) the SVG's XML has a bunch of inkscape-namespaced tags, so it was probably drawn in Inkscape.

Edit: Cross-posted with uallo. Leaving it up anyway.
Quite thoughtful. Thank you!
Yeah, personally very upset about the policymaking that prevented the hundreds of vaccines/treatments ready on day 1 from hitting the market.

Or are we just talking about the ones that work?
A nice substitute might be begets. It is so similar, I wonder if that is where the confusion arose to begin with.
And it's the feature that sets Timescale apart from other, NoSQL, time-series databases. With Timescale you can have all your data in the same database and join regular tables against hypertables or do other useful stuff directly in the database.
So they have implemented the technology. Scanning for photos not being uploaded to iCloud and/or non-photo documents will be a matter of flipping a switch. I am willing to bet serious money that the switch will get flipped sooner rather than later. Perhaps with a facade of government forcing them to do so, so Apple won't look like a bad guy. But in any case, it will get flipped.
It is secure, as long as you have nothing to hide. If you have no offending photos, then the data won't be uploaded! See, it's not nefarious at all! /s
What is your home NAS setup like?
It doesn't matter.

If prices rise gradually, people will adapt. Remote villages might become ghost towns (hardly the first time in Canada, incidentally), or become more isolated. And the world isn't going to turn into some utopian egalitarian place either, so the hard reality is that many people won't lose anything by losing air travel, because they already do none, and thus those that have that luxurious habit now will not need to suddenly lose it; there's time to adapt. Most of the US certainly doesn't need air travel either, and train or even road travel can be quite emissions poor; it just means travel will take more time (and willingness to build infrastructure).

A more realistic scenario is one in which inequality does not change significantly - and then the reductions are less severe.

But seriously: losing most air travel (or just cheap air travel): if that's it, count yourself lucky!
Found the paedo.
This tool has nothing to do with child pornography. Youre reading the marketing paper.
Thanks for taking the trouble. Small syntax nitpick: in ANSI SQL, double quotes are used for identifiers (such as table or column names), single quotes for string literals ('01234'). Most databases (including sqlite) are a bit more permissive, but it's better to stick to the rules
(https://www.sqlite.org/lang_keywords.html)
The solution in the article is a bit of a mystery. To come up with that particular solution you already know what bits are, because the first step is formatting the number as bits. Everyone, even people clueless of computers, know that computers are "ones and zeroes" i.e. binary.

Keep in mind "The Daily WTF" is widely suspected to be making up most of its articles.
> because the CEO seemed to be sincere in his commitment to privacy.

The sincerity of a company officer, even the CEO, should not factor into your assessment. Officers change over time (and individuals can change their stance over time), after all.
> No one likes their house burned down.

Then trim vegetation from your house at least 30'/10m, and keep things tidy out to at least 100'/30m:

* https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-re...

* https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/...

Make sure there are no dries leaves or pine needles gathered in places, ensure that your attic vent is properly screened from embers, that flammable furniture (e.g., cushions) is not laying about too close to the house.

Lots of simple, preventative measures that people can do to increase their odds.
I really love the EFF, but I also believe the immediate backlash is (relatively) daft. There is a potential for abuse of this system, but consider the following too:

1. PhotoDNA is already scanning content from Google Photos and a whole host of other service providers.

2. Apple is obviously under pressure to follow suit, but they developed an on-device system, recruited mathematicians to analyze it, and published the results, as well as one in-house proof and one independent proof showing the cryptographic integrity of the system.

3. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is going to successfully convince the general public that a tool designed to stop the spread of CSAM is a "bad thing" unless they can show concrete examples of the abuse.

For one and two: given the two options, would you rather that Apple implement serverside scanning, in the clear, or go with the on-device route? If we assume a law was passed to require serverside scanning (which could very well happen), what would that do to privacy?

For three: It's an extremely common trope to say that people do things to "save the children." Well, that's still true. Arguing against a CSAM scanning tool, which is technically more privacy preserving than alternatives from other cloud providers, is an extremely uphill battle. The biggest claim here is that the detection tool could be abused against people. And that very well may be possible! But the whole existence of NCMEC is predicated on stopping the active and real danger of child sex exploitation. We know with certainty this is a problem. Compared to a certainty of child sex abuse, the hypothetical risk from such a system is practically laughable to most people.

So, I think again, the backlash is daft. It's been about two days of the announcement being public (leaks). The underlying mathematics behind the system has barely been published [0]. It looks like the EFF rushed to make a statement here, and in doing so, it doesn't look like they took the time to analyze the cryptography system, to consider the attacks against it, or to consider possible motivations and outcomes. Maybe they did, and they had advanced access to the material. But it doesn't look like it, and in the court of public opinion, optics are everything.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Alternative_Security_...
> Apple has no business checking if they send or receive nude pics. Let alone tell their parents.

Some people might disagree with you.

There are people out there who are revolted by the "obviously okay" case of 2 fully-consenting teenagers sending each other nude pics, without any coercion, social pressure, etc.

Not to mention all the gray areas and "obviously not okay" combinations of ages, circumstances, number of people involved, etc.
>lost like half the syntax coloring

Spacemacs's default theme works quite well in the terminal. Of course, when you are mapping a theme designed for a colorspace with millions of colors to one with 256 colors, there might some issues, but that is to be expected.

If even trying a different theme is too much of an effort for you, why in God's name are you wasting your time on an editor whose main USP is customizability?
It seems like none of your concerns are unaddressed. The following is all from the linked article:

1. Nobody new can see images sent over iMessage under the proposed changes.

2. A perverted employee cannot flag an account as suspicious; only a device can flag itself when a threshold number of photos matching the NCMEC database are found.

3. Accounts which meet the threshold and have the photo thumbnail verified as objectionable will be suspended with an opportunity to appeal.
Don't the Russians run nuclear-powered icebreakers?
The crazy thing is it _is_ hitting the wealthy parts, but that still hasn't galvanized sufficient response.

A very partial list of headline impacts in the first world off the top of my head:

- US West Coast droughts and fires

- Pacific Northwest heat dome

- Texas cold snap

- Epic floods in Germany

- Australian wild fires

- European heat waves

- <fill in your favorite recent hurricane here>

Even when rich SF techies were under a terrifying orange sky, our behavior mostly did not change.

I think we need to start mobilizing the other dysfunctional aspects of our society to apply more pressure.

- Some were upset when propublica released info about the tax-avoidance strategies of the very wealthy, claiming it to be a violation of their privacy. Should we not also find and leak information on extravagant emitters, to be named and shamed in the press?

- Companies that spent years pushing opiods in the US were sued and came to a settlement agreement. NYC has tried to sue oil companies for their emissions. They're now trying to sue them over their false statements and misinformation campaigns. Perhaps _every_ state, county and city should be filing lawsuits against large emitters.

- I think _someone_ needs to press absence of carbon taxes at the WTO as a form of dumping, wherein goods are being exported for less than their true cost, once we acknowledge the externalities.

- Everyone hates this take, but I think local jurisdictions in which people die from climate-related disasters should press involuntary manslaughter charges against companies with terrible emissions records. If the headlines were, "Exxon on trial for deaths of dozens", I think companies would begin to change their behavior.
We don’t really have that time. Solar and wind can be built out faster. But we should do new nuclear on the margins and preserve/enhance existing nuclear.

Battery-electric (and liquid hydrogen) for container ships works. If someone really tried.
You describe it as if Apple's got people in some room checking each photo. It's some code that notifies their parents in certain situations. ;P

I know several parents in just my extended circle alone that would welcome the feature, so... I just don't think I agree with this statement. These parents already resort to other methods to try and monitor their kids but it's increasingly (or already) impossible to do so.

I suppose we should also take issue with Apple letting parents watch their kids location...?
The author did a good job, but these were(are) known issues for quite a while. TLDR: implementation bugs with known countermeasures.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit... (from 2012)

We've implemented SAML for 10s of millions of users and devices. The spec is verbose, but the approach solves common business issues. My suggestion is to use SAML simply: federations and passing attributes between trusted parties, allowing to verify the payloads. SAML can do a lot, but keep it simple and use OOB services for more orchestration/metadata.
No, this hits the upper to middle professional class the hardest. One percenters are handled by a staff with white gloves as always.
Facebook Executive Helped Governor Cuomo Smear Accuser
Honestly, time is complicated. Even on Earth, where we rarely have to address synchronization errors due to relativistic effects.

Users care very much about time preserving ordering of events and synchronization of events at disparate locales. They get grumpy if, say, their alarms start going off at what the local restaurants think is 1PM instead of noon because the national government passed a law starting (or stopping) observance of Daylight Savings this year. Similarly (though it's a slower-rolling error), they get grumpy if their alarms start firing at 11:59 and 59 seconds, 11:59 and 58 seconds, etc. when they have them set for noon.

Time is, ultimately, a human construct and software management of it is beholden to the need to get it right from the user's point of view.
The number of dimensions along which we are destroying the habitat we depend on is staggering. Deforestation (killing off one of the most efficient carbon sinks, causing soil erosion, changing the albedo, habitat destruction, change in water management), CO2 emissions, methane emissions, a ridiculously high per-capita energy budget in the western world where the only cap is how much money you are willing to spend, killing off numerous species and so on. We are bad stewards. All of these are optional.

Technology can help to sustain life in space, I'm sure it will enable us to sustain life here on earth. But for how many, and with what quality of life?
Not OP, but a warrant, upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

In other words, you don't get to yell think of the children and randsack peoples homes. If you don't have specific evidence suggesting that I am a criminal, you assume that I am not _and_ let me be.
It depends on what you mean by "computer time".

We _do_ use it on some "computers":

> "The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) video/audio industry standards body selected TAI for deriving timestamps of media.[77] IEC/IEEE 60802 (Time sensitive networks) specifies TAI for all operations. Grid automation is planning to switch to TAI for global distribution of events in electrical grids. Bluetooth mesh networking also uses TAI.[78]"

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Workarounds_for_le... )
I don't disagree there, I'm just pointing out that there is a difference between the two cases.
That would be the Anti-Mask League of San Francisco - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Franci...

Mrs. E.C. Harrington was the leading name to be looked at. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q91q53r
This is not how the system works at all.
It got really awkward when the large minority of turkish Germans living in Germany with turkish citizenry overwhelmingly voted for Erdogan in the last elections. I'd really wish Germany was able to adopt an immigrant culture similar to the US, but the current situation is a semi-failure, but neither side of the political spectrum seems to be able to implement good policies to solve the issues.
"Right, it's outrageously absurd Moriarty asked, "How old was your daughter when you came in here?"

"Seven weeks old," he replied.

"So, you've missed watching her grow up?"

"Every bit of it."

"How old is she now?"

"She just turned 43."

But an apology, even from the prosecutor, is all he gets, Strickland is still in prison."

This is fucking terrible. It brought tears to my eyes as it's both horrific and so tragic. It's no wonder that much of the world looks on American Justice with much askance and suspicion in that its implementation of 'justice' is so hypocritically at odds with stated American values—and even the Constitution. One wonders why so many American citizens actually tolerate this situation and do so little about it.

For heaven's sake why aren't people on the streets protesting for change?
It might just be cultural with the customers I’ve integrated with, but we’ve had a policy of requesting OIDC and then only doing SAML if that causes hiccups, and of a handful of SSO integrations with customers on the Microsoft stack there has always been hiccups. There might be other correlations here, such as the IT departments at Microsoft shops in our cases being more driven by consultants and managers.
There are no "lines of evolution" like carcinization for modern policing. They were caused by the same social and political necessities and they serve the same function.
iCloud photos today. Anything which the state has issued a search warrant for tomorrow.
Getting billions of people to work together cooperatively to do something was always a complete pipe dream. It’s the fantasy that, this time central planning will work, because this thing is so important. We should have been throwing money at carbon capture technologies decades ago.
How long until a hacker uses ML to generate collisions against those hashes?
I think that would require all the water be the same temperature.
It's really weird how an obviously bad law that's been active for 11 years now and hurt so many people has not been fixed yet.
Wrong link :)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/new-google-nest-cams...
I'm actually more OK with unannounced inspections of my basement (within reason) than with some government agents reading through my files all the time.
That’s the thing. Growing food may be tough up there, but otherwise you can still have thriving cities if you have the capital to build appropriate infrastructure.