skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s not predictive policing or anything like it, and it is obviously very much against Apple’s interest for it to generate false positives.

It is not predictive policing. However it's a pretty close cousin. Automated policing. I'm also skeptical that a blurred image will be enough to confirm/deny CP. I'm pretty sure that it's a system similar to YouTube's content ID and will work out in a very similar fashion. Also they have a very good incentive to err on the side of false positives in order to reduce liability for hosting CP on their servers.

It worked for the DMCA, now law enforcement are trying something similar for CP.
This is where the transparency log comes in. The hash / signature and public key (by way of a signed x509 certificate) are hashed into an tamper resistant immutable merkle tree. This makes it hard to tamper with the hash. However a bad hash could still be put into the tree, but this is sort of a feature not a bug aspect of a transparency log, anyone can audit the log and see those bad entries. You as an individual are not susceptible to a targeted attack, you see what everyone else sees.

This is an idiom borrowed from certificate transparency. You kind of want the badly signed certs to be recorded, as they can be monitored and audited for. Everything is out in the open in the plain light of day.
> You must be fun at parties.

My favorite thing to do at parties is to poke fun of hobbies in Hacker News comments.
People have been brute forcing the Collatz problem for awhile (up to values around 2.95×10^20); just like computing Pi to set glory records, you have to be prepared to rent Amazon hardware. I think there was a proof that demonstrated that if the Collatz conjecture were false, then the cycle has to be immensely large.
> "I suspect," says Graham, "that there might be more carnivorous plants out there than we think"

This is a pretty interesting closing idea. From the article it seems they were originally flagged to this by a genomic commonality with other carnivorous plants. What percentage of plant genomes are sequenced that could be searched for this similar deletion?
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> With Financial Choice, we automatically sell your investments to cover your withdraws so you don't build up that margin debt.

If I withdraw $10,000 with that Charles Schwab margin debt, and let's say I repay it 3 months later, how much interest will I have paid to Charles Schwab? (Napkin calculation, I'm not quite sure what the interest rates is on those margin debt.)

With your product, indeed no margin debt, but if those 10k are obtained from an investment were originally a 5k investment from many years ago, then, assuming 20% ltcg + niit, I suddenly owe around $1200 to the IRS, and some other $$$ to the state maybe.

In which situations do you see this being a better money move than the margin debt way?

2 additional questions :

- when selling do you minimize tax (i.e. attempt to sell the lot with the least amount of gain)

- do you attempt to "cover" taxes? (i.e. withdraw actually ~$12k, so that i roughly have $10k actual cash, and the rest to pay the IRS bills - assuming your users can indicate which marginal tax bracket they fall in after W2s)
The person you're replying to is referring to making the files unrecoverable. The word most often used is "shred."

edit: The Snapchat app, like the vast majority of applications, asks the OS to delete files. It very probably doesn't have any direct access to I/O.
I'm not sure if this is a cause for successful democracy or rather a sign of a successful democracy.
I know so little about programming but this video absolutely left me up late trying to follow along:

$count = 1
do {
$count++
$i = $count
[string]$array = "$i"
$range = $i - 1
do {
if ($i % 2 -eq 0) {$i = $i / 2} else {$i = (3 \* $i) + 1}
$array = "$array" + ",$i"
if ($i - $count -gt $range) {$range = $i - $count}
if ($i -eq 2) {$i = "Break"}
} while ($i -ne "Break")
$array = "$array" + ",1"
$hits = (($array -split ",") | Measure-Object).count
Set-Content -Path "${count}_${hits}Hits_${range}MaxRange.txt" -Value "$array" -NoNewline -Force
} while ($count -lt 1000)

Does anyone know how to make this work with big numbers? At a certain point the value gets returned with something like 2.05891132094649E+44 at which point I can no longer simply add 1 to it.

Edit: Found it... $count = [bigint][math]::pow(10,44)
Awesome! I love code!
Plenty do know and care when news outlets' tech experts report on seemingly incomprehensible topics such as net neutrality or encryption. You can't white wash expert opinion. Again, the government has been asking for this for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
Volley (YC W18) is hiring engineers to build voice games
Start by taxing the big polluters, not individuals. Less than 1/3rd of pollution comes from individuals (and mostly from ICE cars, so incentivize EVs to tackle that), the rest comes from industry so go after the big piece of the pie first.

The industry will R&D ways to cut pollution since they'll be financially incentivized to do that, the resulting technology will be later adapted for other applications.
Is this verified? The outing of operatives and informants would seem to make this a huge deal. But I'm no expert on Lukashenko.
What is happening here is the same thing that happens with UFO's. There are multiple incidents for which there is no good explanation, and many people automatically assume that they have the same cause.

Just a few remarks.

The incidents occurred in foreign countries. These countries may have diseases to which US citizens have not been exposed.

The persons involved were mainly CIA. They are payed to be paranoid, but sometimes paranoid people are wrong.

What is the motive and who is the perpetrator? Russia is the obvious candidate, but why would they do it with some weird kind of radiation. They are perfectly capable of killing people with chemicals.
Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding
Ultimately the system will need to support signatures which represent not just "I made this" but "I reviewed this", and people will need to set policies for whose reviews they trust, and how many reviews they require for each component.

If reviewers can build up a reputation anonymously, that will make it harder to find the human who needs to be crowbarred, but I'm not sure how you prove you are a good reviewer in a way which isn't gameable.

Alternatively, the reviewers could be well known teams in multiple jurisdictions, such that an attacker would need to buy multiple crowbars and multiple plane tickets.
> I'd been an excessive drinker from my late teens through to my early 30s. "Alcoholic", I'm not sure about; I've seen others who were formally diagnosed alcoholic, including one friend who ultimately died of it, and I wasn't that bad, but I was at least very socially dependent.

Modern addiction specialists have mostly moved on from this kind of definition of an addict in favor of a view that says, more or less, that addiction is characterized primarily by repeated use in the face of adverse consequences.

I've noticed that I tend to get pushback on this whenever I mention it, so here are some sources.

Here's the American Psychiatric Association:

> Substance use disorder (SUD) is complex a condition in which there is uncontrolled use of a substance despite harmful consequence.

Here's the National Institute on Drug Use:

> Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking, continued use despite harmful consequences, and long-lasting changes in the brain.

Here's the American Society of Addiction Medicine:

> Addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual’s life experiences. People with addiction use substances or engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences.
You didn't really answer the above question (What evidence would convince you)
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Hmm... that is technically correct.
> JUST TURNING IT OFF

Or just apply image filters to the data, that will kill any neural network detection (since there is an infinite number of filters, specially the deep fake ones).
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> This is policy, not capability. The capability is each and every image can be scanned.

That capability is in every software/app that has access to your photos and to the internet, on any device.
The infrastructure for detecting files does not need to be that complex. We are talking something a single engineer can do in less than an hour.
Routers and Modems Running Arcadyan Firmware Are Under Attack
Ah, and: yes! You're right, it does fail to return any `result`. That was unintended, and as-written it won't complain, since `thing` is "used" (methods are called on it) and `result` does not need to be used: https://play.golang.org/p/iSU5YWyxODC
I'm not sure many of these businesses are bootstrappable, as they tend to require massive infusions of cash to make the economics work at start-up. See ride-sharing companies' years of multi-billion dollar losses.
I re-read the first two trilogies for the first time in a couple of decades or so, and started a few of the other books (couldn't finish any others).

I think that Dragons of Autumn Twilight still holds up reasonably well as a Tolkienesque derivative. I somewhat enjoyed reading the other two in that set and don't regret having re-read them. I enjoyed a few scenes from the Twins books, but otherwise I should probably have left those to my fond memories instead.

I still also have fond memories of a few other of the Dragonlance books, though now I hesitate to attempt them again.
Oh my. I'm not sure if there is any Open Source company which fell so low - to Break the Drivers... I'm also not sure what they are looking to reach with this step as Developers who want their applications to work both with Elastic and OpenSearch will not need to go right into AWS hands...
> This is because the west has outsourced our manufacturing and therefore our emissions to China.

For the US at least, there has not been a major drop in production-based emissions in the last thirty years:

* https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1424038327905230850
But you can just use the another one if you're in that special minority, can't you? I've heard of Tweetdeck being a Twitter application used by content creator type Twitter users.
Are you talking about the obesity epidemic? There was a recent paper discussed on HN talking about how it was probably an environmental change, but I don’t think they mentioned heavy metals. I think they mentioned plastics and lithium as possibilities. Was lead widespread in the environment before the 20th century? I don’t remember pre-20th century photographs showing widespread obesity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_mechanics explains the mathematics behind the delta-v calculations quite well.
Likely, "set in a D&D universe" kind of thing.
If someone from those times got as much pleasure and satisfaction from a sheep bone as I get today from my phone, or more even, what does that tell us about the nature of pleasure and satisfaction?
> DomainTools’ record for briansclub[.]com says the domain was abandoned or dormant for a period in 2019, only to be scooped up again by someone in May 2020 when it became a phishing site spoofing the real BriansClub.

Reminded me of the recent AskHN thread on the profitability of domain squatting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28106113

I wonder if we'll see more of such criminal-scamming operations after the government sting operation that leveraged a compromised app: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/08/fbi-app-arre...
This seems to be highly domain specific though. It’s reading to me like an example of what you can do when you have highly advanced knowledge of a domain to the point where you can do stuff that looks like magic, specifically because it apparently violates generalised principles established across domains.
That doesn't take into account the production footprint of a device capable to render today's web with all its transitions and glory, the environmental and geo-political toll on extracting lithium, rare earths, and other materials, plus the footprint of delivering devices into the hands of users, and disposal after typically only two years of usage.

Whereas had we been sticking to deliver just plain passive HTML markup users are after, we could've had solar-/light-powered devices with slow LCD displays and low-power RF transmission similar to old e-book readers by now (solar-powered pocket calculators were available in the 1970s already).

Would help with tracking, privacy, ad monopolies, and browser obsolescence as well.
Great news, but very expensive compared to a vaccine.
> It is not predictive policing. However it's a pretty close cousin. Automated policing.

It’s not policing. This is a mechanism to detect if people are uploading known child pornography images to Apple’s servers without giving Apple access to your photos. That is the only use case for this system.

Yes, if you try to upload such a collection, a police report may be filed, but only if you do this specific thing and it is verified by humans.

> I'm also skeptical that a blurred image will be enough to confirm/deny CP

It doesn’t have to confirm CP - it only has to confirm that the image matches the known CP from the database.
Sort of

$ cat lol.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include </dev/tty>
$ gcc lol.c
int main() { printf("lol\n"); } // hit Ctrl+D
$ ./a.out
lol
Hello Yarn 2, Goodbye node_modules
Here in Florida, prescribed burns are a common sight at the larger state parks. The burns are required to keep longleaf pine trees alive which support a lot of species of animals. Red-cockaded Woodpeckers in particular are very picky and prefer to live in these trees.

The burns kill all the competing vegetation and burns up some of the fuel in the area to prevent larger fires.
> Next, iOS and iPadOS will use new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online, while designing for user privacy. CSAM detection will help Apple provide valuable information to law enforcement on collections of CSAM in iCloud Photos.

The CSAM scanning is only getting added to iOS and iPadOS. If it does getting added to Mac at some point it will be part of Photos.app, not the general OS.
It's so confusing to understand what this means exactly, you'd think the market of crypto would crash on this news, and if anything, it went up a little right after the news broke?

A great example of how hard it is to trade.
This is where the transparency log comes in, certificate signing is openly auditable. It's the same as certificate transparency, malicious or mistakenly administered certificates are openly auditable (instead of being a transaction that occurs behind the doors of a commercial CA).
Doesn't seem much better on iOS. I just checked and I've got Twitter with 2.59GB, Instagram with 1.27GB, TikTok with 1.21GB, etc.
> The government cannot open letters without a warrant, but somehow Apple, Google, MS and co can sniff through electronic communication

This is no different than a private doctor testing for illicit drugs and reporting results to the DEA (they literally do this for ADHD patients.)
If your software is running on some micro, then another device being powered from the same supply may cause low-power problems on the micro. It seems fair to want to assess anything being connected to your hardware to see if it would cause a problem with your software.
> everything is emotional

I guess I “emotionally” choose the most precise tool for the task of telling time.
Apple’s website clearly states what components are e2e encrypted. iCloud photos is not one of them:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Now we just need to bio-engineer them to grow larger stems, so that they could catch larger flies. And voila - natural (and pretty) fly paper!
Fair enough, I will not try and persuade you. I am sure you can find people using the term burning in association with monopropellants.

For anyone reading this I will say Wikipedia and at no point is combustion or burning used do describe them. “Monopropellants[1] are propellants consisting of chemicals that release energy through exothermic chemical decomposition” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopropellant
They should have been doing this, but California is currently mis-governed.
As a Googler, I have this pain point. I was envisioning a product that sweeps the leftover income at the end of the month after all credit card bills and rent are paid, into a brokerage account. It would also automatically invest that amount into my choice of ETFs, which Vanguard bizarrely doesn't seem to support today. This seems to achieve the same goal with a simpler implementation, and then as you improve your cash flow predictions, you could start keeping a cash buffer and delaying investments to avoid some cash<>asset conversions.

Worrying about capital gains taxes is a head-fake - you're only paying tax on your gains, which would have otherwise been minimal interest, which btw is taxed higher than gains. The risk here is just that the amount of margin interest I pay is dependent on how quickly you're able to sell, although hopefully this shouldn't be a massive issue for VTI et al.

Your messaging on the website seems clear to me, I wouldn't worry about anyone living paycheck-to-paycheck mistaking your technical looking homepage for a regular checking account.

One of your mentioned use cases doesn't sound right though - if I'm saving up towards a short-term spending goal like a car or house downpayment, I probably want a predictable balance and not exposure to sudden price shocks.
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Please elaborate. If as others have stated that this will enable E2E encryption in the cloud, then it very well might be?
Can you kindly edit your comment to remove the accusation that people worried about nuclear power don't believe in the severity of climate change? These people are just looking at a different risk assessment.
It's actually the other way around. If takes more effort to lower yourself into a large gravity well than a small one.

Traveling anywhere outside of Earth's gravity means you are always going to fall into a well, so the smaller the better. The problem with Mercury is to get there you have to fall into the Sun's gravity well.

The sun has the biggest gravity well around, and Mercury is deep down inside of it. If Mercury was bigger it would actually be even harder to get there, since you'd then also have to fall down it's large well too.
Having a medical degree (for example) is inversely correlated with protected classes, so I'm not sure it is entirely up to industry gatekeepers to fix this. Having a college degree also is, so without a major overhaul of the way medical school works, there is only so much that can be done at that point either.

I agree it is something people need to think about more, and in the case of software engineering it is more feasible to directly address, as the degree is much less critical. I'm all for some companies introducing training programs to hire promising potential SWEs without much prior background. But just dropping all criteria that correlate with a protected class is not a feasible solution, and it is not always the case that people making these decisions are having a net negative impact.
I live near the centre of a very large city (London) so I feel like the best I have to look forward to in that kind of scenario is to set up some environmental storytelling in the form of wall graffiti and then die in some comical way like having a black cab fall on me
That tree was planted in the era of Classical Greece; if it could speak of the epochs and people it saw, it would have had many tales to tell.

This is as much a cultural loss as it is an economic loss. I have no connection to Greece or it’s people, but this saddens me.
A bunch of youtube, a strong mechanical sense, and the book "watch Repair for Beginners", which was not noted in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28116525

So I'm likely down the same path as you, eventual "failure", if looking at it as a career choice. But I'm also ~a year behind you, starting a similar path with no handholidng and likely no profit. I watch this guy on youtube, occasionally, and his paid series has been mentioned here and elsewhere, as being worthwhile, but I have not paid for those videos (yet). https://www.watchfix.com/ (formerly known as http://watchrepairlessons.com/ )
The question is why Apple implemented this feature in the first place. There was no reason for them to suddenly expand their image scanning to the devices themselves and risk their position as the self-proclaimed saviors of privacy - and still they did exactly that. There had to be some push from the government behind all of that, otherwise this debacle just doesn't make any sense.
It sounds like you're working in a different environment than the author. The environment they describe involves an ops _team_ rather than an ops _individual_ (what you've described). If you had to work with a team to resolve the incident, and had to do so on a fairly regular cadence, processes like this would likely be more useful.
Has Apple or someone at Apple commented on the whole thing following the outcry? Any chance of them reneging?
Yep, the projector approach is what I've used before. Here are some pics/write up: https://coursemaker.org/blog/create-affordable-lay-down-desk...
Were, things have gotten way less great since the 80s, it’s mostly coasted.

Too bad really: nuclear power was a way to gain independence (from the US and the oil) but then it kinda fell by the wayside as the country largely went with oil anyway (though the grid is both powerful and rather clean owing to the high ratio of nukes).

Would have been interesting for the country to ride the contrarian gallic spirit and decide to go all in on electricity and renewable way back then.

Maybe we’d have working large-scale SMR too.
It's really not that far between the Swiss border and the coast of the North Sea if you have enough soldiers to dig trench lines, either.
> Wars killed able-bodied men in their prime almost exclusively

Definitely not true and increasingly not. Civilians, especially old and vulnerable die due to violence of soldiers, general violence, lack of food, medicine, having to move without support and so on. Armies extract very much needed resources and destabilize places.

Plus, civilians are often targets - WWII notoriously killed more civilians then soldiers.

Being soldier of front line is massive risk factor. But they are not exclusively victims, as non soldiers people die due to their activity everywhere they go.