skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building luxury apartments helps because it keeps all the rich people out of the affordable apartments meant for the non rich.
The system is basically what you describe except the explicit report is precisely what Apple send to NCMEC.

By the time it gets to the police, there will be an identified crime.

This has been the case for many years. I don't have the numbers to hand but I believe NCMEC receives around the order of 100 million referrals a year.

EDIT: it's 20 million according to https://www.missingkids.org/ourwork/ncmecdata

https://www.missingkids.org/footer/media/keyfacts - around 99% are from tech company referrals, 1% from members of the public
It's like removing bounds checking (a runtime safety feature).

A manufacturing line is more analogous to software during use than it is to software during creation.
A Slackbot maybe?
No-one’s arguing a cliff edge other than media spinning drama for clicks.

The direction of travel has been clear, understood and consistent for decades, as has the messaging from the scientific community around it.
> "do you know of million+ cities in the western hemisphere without a large and growing homeless population?"

Well that’s convenient, because all the examples I want to emulate are in the eastern hemisphere.
Having dual monitor setup isn't the real issue. Also, turning your head occasionally can be a relaxing experience. The real problem is having a dual monitor setup and still using just one of them, which makes you keep your neck turned for a long time (assuming your monitors are positioned in an inverted V shape). If you have a dual monitor setup, keep the primary one straight in front of you, and place the secondary one away, dedicated for things that require less attention.
"We know that the days to come will be filled with the screeching voices of the minority."

Nice one Apple. Hopefully they're not referring to the minority that buy their products as a result of them being marketed with privacy and security as setting them aside from their competitors.

Here is a list [1] of at least some of the 'minority'

WhatsApp have also fired back at them [2].

[1] https://appleprivacyletter.com/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/6/22613365/apple-icloud-csam...
You don’t have to believe him; it’s clear on the face of it. Trump often spoke directly to the voters on Twitter and Youtube. That’s gone now.
I think the fact that Nim compiles to C is neat in that you can use it on any platform that has a C compiler.

Here is a recent project that uses nim for AVR platforms, for example: https://github.com/PMunch/badger
This looks like a messy dispute, so I'm not going to step in. The FOSS community is outnumbered by those who prefer closed source software, and it's a shame to see infighting between two projects that, despite their differences, both counter the Google/Apple duopoly on mobile device platforms. I hope the GrapheneOS and CalyxOS communities can find a way to reconcile.
Thanks a lot, TIL this about zig:

https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/
It's not as accurate or satisfactory in my experience. For example I get errors after running in python, which could be detected in statically typed languages while typing in IDE. Autocomplete is also less than optimal. As for autocomplete intellij IDEs > LSPs for typed languages > Untyped languages IME.
I find it weird how none of these links state the CPU frequency prominently (or at least I didn't notice it). Not even the product sheet has it.
> In light of that, I then imagine that other providers are already storing photos and data unencrypted and did not object to adding scanning on the server side, and also did not share anything about the scanning with the public.

It is well known that competitors scan on server side, I don't think that's any kind of a secret with Google Drive et al. Outrage is exactly about that -- client side scanning is seen as way more intrusive, for a good reason.
This video of sir David Attenborough crawling (himself!) into a termite's nest is absolutely epic

https://youtu.be/jbbLCgh6sso
Just a reminder that proprietary software that auto-updates does not serve you and should never have been treated as such. Sometimes it's most convenient / best to use proprietary, and that's fine, but please be aware that all vendors with root level access (google + android, microsoft + windows, etc) are just 1 update away from this situation.
Since he made up not only "an own definition" but pretty much the whole idea and concept of Free Software, I'd say that yes, the term actually does mean exactly what he says it means and nothing else.
Does such a thing exist for the EU?
Sure, I just meant you can’t rule out the theory because you talked to a Hindi speaker.
If you are talking about land prices, that's not wealth, that's the ability to extort wealth out of other people.
On the occasion of Wirth's 80th birthday, he did a show and tell of the most recent computer he'd designed and built. His excuse for this particular yak shave was that no mainstream machines had drivers for his favourite mouse, a souvenir from the early days of mice at PARC.
>A properly-tuned quadcopter is more stable than a helicopter and performs better in most situations

This is not correct. All quadcopters are fiendishly unstable and require computer control. Helicopters can get away without computer control, but a computer-controlled helicopter is just as stable. The performance of a helicopter is vastly better in every way - more efficient due to increased swept area, and more maneuverable due to variable pitch. You won't see a quad fly like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXSfFLGeVZA

What quadcopters are is mechanically simpler, and therefore cheaper. This is why they are popular, and also why efforts to scale them up to human size are misguided.
Sometimes I think Americans don’t know how badly they want this.

Americans will tell you how wonderful European cities are with their small streets and their public squares filled with great restaurants. They think we don’t have cities like that because we’re lacking some fundamental European-ness.

No. We just put cars everywhere. Cars ruin everything. Now you have wider streets. Louder streets. More dangerous streets. Far less foot traffic which means very low chances of discovering a new favorite place. You have lower business density which totally changes the economics of an entire neighborhood. Etc.

In this and so many other things Americans say they want what they see elsewhere but are uninterested in doing anything about it.
If it’s just a list or hashes, any possessor of CSAM could simply modify a few pixels to make it no-matching, no? How "flexible" is the matching?

And if it is flexible, what about false positives? What if I have a pictured of my naked son on my device and I get flagged? Will the picture of my son get uploaded to the cloud "for further analysis" even though I don’t have iCloud enabled and never signed up for this?

Edit: A sibling post has this link, which answers some of these questions: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
It's a marketing point, yes. I think it actually has no practical benefit and wrote about why here: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/kclaims.html#....
If Apple is to be believed (and doesn't change anything later) then they're doing the same thing. They're scanning the things that are being uploaded to iCloud. They're just doing it locally instead of doing it after they're on the iCloud servers.
The UK porn filter is already seeing works to extending to fighting against extremism on the Internet.
Currently Dollars only serve the Chinese government as a way to put pressure on the competition (USA). They are still eating their own food and living in their own technology based buildings built from their local resources by their local workforce. America doesn't help keep Chinese from poverty, because China isn't incapable of it in the first place. If anything, the political pressures just created perverse incentives there.
He still doesn't like it, he is just giving customers what they want, so they don't go to another bank
What scare me is that now that this capability will be out there, a court could compel Apple to go a lot farther
The EU can take action against China and it has recently took soft action by updating its customs code¹. However, Germany is not particulary keen on picking fights with China, because they export vehicles to the Chinese market. Let's just say there is not enough political will to do anything like this at this time. There's also the separate issue of banning Huawei 5G network carrier equipment in the EU due to data being leaked to China.

1. https://www.fonoa.com/blog/eu-imports-from-china-after-the-v...
As someone who is a basic vim editor and uses the occasional Idea IDE, would it be worthwhile to invest myself in an emacs environment?
Think about it this way. If there were enough good paying jobs around for everyone then recessions would be impossible because people always have the option to switch to a good job.
Good point. I don't doubt climate change or anything like that but the world seeming bleaker now than in previous times is, at least partly, a function of selection bias. In the past, even a news-hungry person would consume a daily news show and a daily newspaper at most. News consumption was very constrained even for the news fiends. Now we have realtime global news 24/7 coming at us from everywhere. Furthermore some of this tech is bi-directional so it amplifies the negative catastrophic stuff as it increases engagement / eyeballs and therefore money. It's a classic vicious circle (or a virtuous one if you're on the side making money from it!). It's an insane information environment out there if you choose to over indulge. If you're not careful you're constantly assaulted by an avalanche of negativity, and the world can start to feel very dark indeed. It's really not though.

People from my generation (old millenial / young gen X) often hark back to the 1990s as some sort of halcyon age, but imagine if we had today's tech then. Imagine the 90s refracted through today's tech / media landscape. I bet we'd have felt differently about it.
Not buying new stuff so often would be a start.
I don't find it hard to understand either, as I said behavioral science 101. I just find it disappointing.
And here's a video, "How the Dutch got their cycle paths" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
It's not true, solar is very cost effective, cheaper than coal. But there are industries build around extracting coal from the ground and they have an interest to continue to push coal.
I bought my kid an MP3 player so he could listen to podcasts without screens
I actually like Sun boxes. They look simple but stylish enough.

[Just in case] The box I dropped at that studio was, sadly, an HP. It may have been a Visualize X-Class [0], which was ugly but at least it was new and modern at the moment. But most probably it was just a Kayak XU [1]. Those things were ugly and they weighted a ton and we dumped them everywhere with some 3D card and a RAM upgrade.

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HP-PC-Workstations-X...

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/iGWCK5m
The bad process began before we even conceived a notion of a global climate, and continues only because we're used to it. But continuing it still will change the global environment forever
Big Tech Is Coming to Small-Town America, but There's a Catch
> they didn’t know.

Didn't know what a human hand looks like?
I'm not sure what the solution is.. Child abuse is an extremely severe problem. In the future encrypted-messaging may be used by terrorists developing some weapon of mass destruction like a virus. I'm concerned about privacy, but is it tenable to have true E2EE regardless of the harm? For better or worse it seems that human societies will prioritise physical safety over most things.

Even if we have true E2EE, a bad authoritarian regime in the future can simply make it illegal. It's more imperative than ever to prevent such a regime arising in the first place..
Tooling Talks Podcast
We don't eat pickled turnips. It's the herring, not the turnips we pickle. So we eat frozen turnips with pickled herring.
I was going to write almost very similar comment. A follow up question will be how badly they want it and are they willing to give up their cars to have a walkable City and you would immediately see how many are actually interested in it
>how is American insurance so stupidly expensive

It varies; you can't make a categorical statement like that based on random stuff you read on the Internet.

My insurance is the equivalent of £430 and I have nearly the maximum liability coverage and comprehensive on a current year model car.
I think the premise is flawed -- the idea that using our PC should be a static experience where we minimise movement of the body.

The same thing leads to keyboard fanatics trying to get all typing from the fingers without moving their wrists or arms; that seems likely to be a terrible recipe for RSI.

As a user of multiple large monitors for many years, I enjoy actually turning my neck, rotating my body and moving on the chair to orientate around different parts of the screen space. Probably I have to actually re-focus my eyes as well, as the screen edges are a little further away, too.

I heard this is similar to pianists, who say you should only play from the fingers if you can't move the wrist, and from the wrist if you can't move the arm.

Am I the only person who thinks a certain level of physical interaction when at the PC is actually a good thing?
At the time Covid lockdown started, my entire foot had become inflamed, and I couldn’t walk on it. It’s happened before, doctors, physiotherapists and immune specialists couldn’t find a disease or condition to blame it on. They could only offer pain killers and anti-inflammatory meds. It passed, as it has before. One thought was overuse, or some reinjury from the past.

I happened to find a personal trainer that was educated by osteopaths and the last year with him has been shocking. In my mind, I didn’t have any pain issues, though some areas were stiff, getting things from lower cabinets was becoming a chore, and the end of the day at work the back of my head and neck would get stiff. A cocktail or beer could solve the latter.

It has been over a year of discoveries. It turns out, muscles all over my body were very tight, for whatever reason, many major movements were no longer using the major muscle, but instead the brain had recruited minor muscles for the movement - perhaps a compensation for a past injury. I’ve learned that I have psoas muscles, and how to use them (though that journey continues) and that pinching feeling in my hip no longer happens when I am sitting.

I was already aware that so many things happen in our bodies that we aren’t conscious of, but the depth of it now astounds me. First, I did have pain and problems, but I had somehow shut off awareness. Second, all of those problems were being still having the effect of making me feel tired and worn down. Third, all of these compensatory movements that the brain does all by itself were probably great for simple survival because they allow us to keep going even though the best way to move is lost. Thing is, the brain doesn’t seem to have an automatic ‘service restoration to primary’. We have to do it consciously, intentionally, and with practice.

Pain is in the mind. There can be pain where there is no physical problem, and there can be no pain where there is a serious problem, but there can also be pain because we have lost awareness of our body and so pain manifests all over the place. There is an idea that the mind and body are separate, this is wrong and the idea needs to be burned with fire. Until then, people will continue fighting with these phantoms. We can group pain together, slice it apart, but I think that in many cases there isn’t much more to learn from pain, except that in many cases it is a symptom of a body trying to communicate to a mind that stopped paying attention.
Password of three random words better than complex variation, experts say
After skimming that report. They talks about "whitening" names. I know for a fact that a lot of my friends from Hong Kong would have a "English" name to make it easy for English people to pronounce their names.

Also the whole "whitening" (Whatever that means) of a CV/Resume sounds like something that is completely subjective.

Sorry but the different in applications could be again explained by something else e.g. simply being able to remember the name.

Racism is claimed for every disparity now between racial groups. While I doubt that it can a factor, I doubt it is the singular cause.

Also this says nothing about Youtube views.
I think the problem is that no one will ever be able to validate what's in that database. "I need to see that database so I can ensure that it's all CP" isn't going to go over well.
When Is the Right Time to Create a Pitch Deck
That law professor clearly never talked his way out of a speeding ticket.
> Boycotting products to change a company's mind won't work because:

In this case not buying the product is to avoid a viperous feature and protect house of from being spied on. Any boycott effects are tertiary.
Which one do you use?
New ‘Delta Plus’ Covid Variant Detected in San Francisco Bay Area
Most of the time, Apple seems to think through what bad actors will do with their stuff. Their scale and (perceived) reputation basically requires this.
You seem to be confusing a bunch of cherry-picked newspaper clippings with scientific research.
Exactly. Many people who are upset about having their images scanned before going to iCloud don't seem to realize all the big providers (Apple, Google, FB, Twitter, MS, etc...) have been scanning images with CSAM for years already.

The client side/server side also does not matter because iOS users have had to trust Apple implicitly since day 1. All the 'what ifs' existed whether or not Apple added this feature.

I speculate that Apple is going to announce an expansion of E2E to more services at the iPhone event this year, and this feature is getting in front of political complaints that could lead to real privacy destroying legislation/LEO complaints.
I use the Dell 49” Ultrawide [1]

Although, it must be noted, it is just two monitors stuck together, but without a middle frame getting in the way.

This does lead to a few issues with certain apps on Windows. For example, pop-up menus are designed to not span the middle, so things like auto-complete boxes either don’t appear or appear in weird places. This has been a bugbear of mine with Rider for example, which handles the middle of the screen very poorly.

Another thing is notifications. Which are usually to the right hand side of the desktop, they pop up right in your eye-line.

And finally, there’s the placement of windows in the middle - there’s no support in Windows for that. So I created an AutoHotKey script to place the current window to the left at 25% width when pressing Ctrl+1, the middle 50% when pressing Ctrl+2, and the right 25% when pressing Ctrl+3. This is super handy and allows me to maximise the use of the screen and easily tile. I have a few other keyboard shortcuts for other widths and placements.

Even with the issues, I’m not sure I’d ever go back to a multi monitor setup again. I love having my primary reading view centred in the monitor, with secondary stuff pushed to the sides, it’s much more ergonomic and natural imho

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/dell-ultrasharp-49-curved-mo...
Why do the interrupt service routines read both pins? At the time of call, don’t you already know the value of the interrupt-tied pin is 0, since the interrupt is triggered on its fall?
Thank you - yeah that confirms what I suspected - that at least for some people the insurance isn't $3000 a year.
Survival bias at work.
Correction: Dollars only serve the Chinese government as a way to put pressure on the competition, and means to buy microelectronics
Might be useful to other non-natives also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(social)
You are not alone. See my comment.
Which is why there should never be a "cannabis industry". We created a food industry that produces sub-standard food and much of it goes to waste. Applying the same obviously flawed principles to cannabis is another mistake. Pot should be legal to grow/possess/use, but not to buy or sell. There's no point. It's so easy to grow. Just plant some in your backyard and smoke it. Or give it away. That's what it's for.
I use two HD 21 inch monitors. I got them cheap and they work great. The real pain is when I put a laptop to the side of one of them and i have to move my head beyond say 10 degree's. Any length of time looking at the small screen is a killer.
This is very pseudo-scientific; and not just because of the unqualified health complaints.

So to meet psuedo-science with pseudo-science:

* I'm only talking about straight forwards adjacent alignment of screens.

* Having the head not-facing forwards causes physical accomodations, like twisting and side-slouching, which over time develop into pain and other problems.

* Any large screen is subdivided into multiple work areas, either user-intentionally by windowing, or unintentionally by formatting (ie. Hacker News' text box is on the upper left of the screen). These areas should be those considered, and not the whole screen, and henceforth shall be considered "screens" in their own right.

* It is OK to have some screen acreage outside the central FOV, so long as either: a. it is glanced at, and not worked on with the body facing another direction; or b. the user turns their entire setup to use the screen.

* An ultrawide monitor can be modelled as two, or three screens, depending on windowing modes.

* In a two screen setup, many people centre their body on the position between the screens. This causes all areas of interest to require rotations.

* In a three screen setup, there is a central "primary" screen and two "secondary" screens for glancing at. If the body position is able to be rotated it is possible to switch primary and secondary screens; the main concern is movement of keyboard and mouse.

* Rotating the body is hard, a traditional keyboard often results in one handed use that in turn results in side-slouching, whilst a split keyboard remedies the slouch by centering the body - preventing rotation, forcing the rotation to come from the desk area.

* In a two screen setup, if one screen is centred and the other screen is off centre then there is one primary work screen and one secondary screen. (ie. "missing third screen").

* An ultrawide monitor, modelled as two or three screens, needs accomocdations. Either off-centering the monitor or providing the ability to rotate the body.
I used to have three ~25" 1080p monitors side by side, but now switched to two monitors stacked vertically (1440p + 1080p). I think vertical stacking is probably better for my neck, also takes up less desk space.
That's the sweet spot I've settled on, too. Except two laptops because Reasons, one each side of the monitor, and a KVM switch to share the big screen between them.
I often have this thought. If only one could bioengineer some kind of device that replicates itself and captures CO2 using sunlight.

Oh right. We already have those. That’s a tree. We just need to stop cutting them down maybe.
Not only is there a free tier, but the iPhone defaults are cleverly configured so that you quickly fill it up with random junk on your phone, and feel pressured into paying for more iCloud storage, because the default sync behavior is so non-obvious, and the settings to disable it are buried.

I know multiple people (most of them in their 50s or older) who started paying for iCloud because they thought it was their only option.
It's non-trivial to unlock, root, and install a custom ROM - unless you are technical, very few people are going to be able to do this.

Also, it's been several years since I used a custom ROM, but I thought rooted devices were not permitted to use the official Google Play Store? (happy to be corrected if I've got this point wrong!)