skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your take is correct but doesn't answer the question about why this matching has to take place on the device, if it's only for photos that are going into iCloud, and the iCloud contents are already being stored unencrypted.

The only remotely plausible answer I've seen is that Apple wants to keep potentially-violating material out of their general storage, and flagged images are being sent to the review team instead of regular backup, but that's a pretty weak guess.
Exactly this. There needs to more understanding about the negative consequences of inflationary monetary system. Absolutely scarce money, i.e. bitcoin, is the only solution to this problem. Scarce money forces to innovate in order to grow.
This is similar to flying in air.

I suppose when your craft is big (or long) enough you could leverage differences in luminous flux (or intensity?) to generate some thrust. The differences will be tiny and the necessary craft size big. One would have to run the actual numbers, but it _could_ work in principle.

Compressing air by moving through it to leverage the resulting difference in velocities sadly won't work =( The steady state is then just the speed of air. I guess for light this also applies in a similar way.
Where's the "fire"?
Apple is good a normal PR and terrible at crisis PR. This is crisis PR, but unlike with bend and antenna gate this should have seen this one coming, since they caused it.
Here come "climate" lockdowns
No, it's not. https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1424712163281694725

This is more media fearmongering.

Edit: Threadreader link https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1424712163281694725.html
The diffraction limit is a well supported theoretical limit that is caused by the wave nature of light. There is ways to get around it in the near field (up to a few ten wavelength away from the source). But in the far field you can not get a perfectly divergence-free finite-width beam. [1] Nor can you focus a beam to a beam waist smaller than about the wavelength.

In practice the situation is even worse and you can't even get the performance that a perfect Gaussian beam would allow. We often express the performance of real beams by a thing called M^2 or beam quality parameter [2]. In some sense is measures how much wider the beam is than it needs to be, and this number is never less than one.

[1] Btw such a beam would have infinite brilliance.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_squared
How does that work in an era of email clients opening all contained links to check for viruses and whatnot?
This is despicable.

Trying to get people vaccinated aside, using gambling to try to do it is mafia tier tactics, and for the sake of all that is Holy can we stop preying on human vice? Just a bit?

Let me rephrase the plan in unspoken management/investorese.

We make a one time investment of what amounts to an insignificant sum to the company (read fiscal speedbump) and market it to workers to get them back on premises to make up that expenditure. A bunch will comply because "You can't win if you don't play" which is a certifiable dark pattern in human manipulation.

So Amazon wins out in the end; yes they pay out a handful of winning employees, but wins in that the all the "losers" now have no excuse but to get back in the warehouse and make up that lost profit they just expended on a labor relations move that frankly, strikes me as insulting in the highest order.
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Also data claims without a repo to reproduce.
Burning the Magnesium NeXT Cube
We’re not in a pandemic anymore.

The numbers are public. At some point, we have to treat this like other diseases we live with and go back to normal life.
I agree with you, and to add to your remarks, I suspect if most first world countries implemented a sufficiently strict border adjustment ("carbon tariff") for trade with China, etc it would probably do quite a lot to motivate developed nations to improve as well.

Anyway, I find the criticisms of the West to be both ignorant and tiring. Tiring because the "blame the West for everything" meme is so worn out and ignorant because there's a pretty stark difference between pioneering industrialization centuries before mature climate science and China's ratcheting up pollution knowing full-well the consequences.
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Another important characteristic is that one tribe has already enjoyed (and continues to enjoy) significant quality of life enhancements due to much higher consumption of fossil fuel per capita.

Politically, you’re simply not going to get anywhere with asking everyone to suffer “a little”.

Also, the whole detached single family house with 2 car garage on quarter acre lot has to go, but Americans are not going to give it up, and other countries’ people aspiring for it are certainly not going to give it up.
I have to remind again, that iOS is a blackbox, closed source system. All this speculation applies also for a moment before they added anything. They might have had this code ready for years already. All we have is what they say. It is already very trivial to scan everything on on your device and send that metadata. Few lines of code. At the moment when they say about scanning everything in phone publicly without opt-out, then we should be worried. Once again, there is no way telling what they are doing already.
The issue is that fossil fuels have ridiculous energy density for their cost. Nothing else comes close.
Xiaomi does not make Android One phones anymore, and there are some preinstalled apps from Xiaomi. Also, it's full of Google Apps that are spyware but from a different company...
Don't the phone companies have a veto over what they let attach to their networks?
Apparently you do "know about" all those things, at least on some level -- otherwise, how would you know to mention them?
This is what firefox send did. The code is still maintained here: https://github.com/timvisee/send
Poverty and hunger are downstream of climate shocks, not separate from it. Drought and other extreme weather events are powerful historical causes of war and famine.

The GP question is whether that dynamic is canceled out by the economic benefits of polluting energy technologies.
iirc, they stopped producing phones with Android One around a year ago. So if you want to buy a new one you will have to get one with miui. Which is, like i said, is packed with spyware.

When i bought my Redmi 4a, as a backup phone, i had to root it and flash with lineageos, because the amount of telemetry that phone was sending somewhere was straight up absurd. Same story with Mi 8.
Is there a rate limit ? Because the convenience the cli gives would make it really easy to create a FUSE driver for it and store abitrary files.
Note that Jack Ma, alibaba founder, romanticized 996 as a blessing of fortune [1,2]. 996 being another hallmark of toxic working culture in China, signaling the potential of more troublesome culture issue at alibaba and many other big corps.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-china/in...

[2] https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU#capitalists
Shake shack does this too. They opened one up nearby and simply changed the location of a well performing store across the country to where the new store was so they could open with thousands of positive reviews.
Strangely, crypto has gone up in spite of this news. This seems worse then China banning mining, which caused a pretty significant drop earlier this year.

Why would this not effect the market in a similar fashion. As far as I understand it, this effectively bans crypto mining in the US. Am I missing something?
In many jurisdictions they can be forced to accede to government requests and they have already done so many times to the detriment of their users' rights.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Everything starts off with "won't anyone think of the children?". Next thing you know, Apple is scanning your photos for faces of known "terrorists", etc.

I have children, and hate CP with a passion, but know that this is not the answer.
> There is no evidence we have reached runaway warming yet

There is evidence, which the various papers on the issue point to. It is not irrefutable evidence, but the nature of the question is such that there cannot be irrefutable evidence. For some reason, confusing “not irrefutable evidence” with “no evidence” is common on HN in both scientific and legal discussions.

> We have not accounted for all of them

Which ones, specifically, are not accounted for?
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Incredible how the ocean remains unexplored in some ways. One thing that wasn't quite clear to me from the articles was exactly how invasive species are one of the biggest threats. I don't doubt it, and certainly I get how an invasive species can disrupt, damage or even destroy a local ecology, but the article doesn't really get into the nature or scope of damage being caused. I'll have look into the lionfish, as it sounds like that one at least is well documented.
COVID-20 or COVID-19-rev-B would be great names for that.
What were Motorola, Samsung, HTC, and LG using as an OS at the time? Was it also some Java variant or did they use own OSs?

What company were you working for that gave you access to so many phones at once?

Did you ever work with Japanese phones models (NEC, Kyocera, etc.)?

While you've said quite a bit about how easy the Palm was to use, which was the best one to work with? Or, at least, which one would have been a hacker's choice.
It's mostly to limit the damage in case of compromise and to encourage automation.

Let's Encrypt explains their choice for 90day certificates here: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html

edit: With 3 year certificates there is also a greater risk for certificates expiring unexpectedly because the renewal process happens so infrequently. The person with the knowledge on the renewal process might not be at the company anymore by the time the certificate expires.
The "Nothing to Hide" people need to have government operatives come stay with them in their home and then they'll understand.
Never all three at once! There's always been a good reason they were my manager. But I never treat managers like they're the boss — always as an equal.
I doubt it, since those photos will likely be close to porn, ie. of naked people and Apple doesn't want people to know that the naked pictures they took of their 22 year old spouse is now floating around some random office in Bangladesh.
>>>> I think that cryptocurrency was a well-intentioned experiment trying to solve real problems...

I'm not so optimistic. I've seen too many technological experiments unleashed on humanity, such as Facebook, to where I am much more skeptical about the original intentions of their inventors.
Hence absent a miracle technology that had all the benefits of fossil fuels and more but none of the drawbacks was the only solution. But since that has not yet happened, the situation is kind of bleak.
Bucharest here. I'm fine at 25 but if you ask my wife she'll say that it's too cold. I do realize though that different people have different definition of comfort ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah guess you'd have to write your own client if you really wanted to be sure nobody could read the message in transit. But not sending the password to the server should at least remove the obvious

And credit to the Sniptt team, apparently they do actually put the password in the fragment in newer versions (and presumably you could build your own client for it using this repository if you're extra paranoid).
Hobby Lobby I know, but why not Carl's Jr?

Edit: Ah, I see the founder (who died in 2008) donated and supported anti-gay causes and anti-abortion
You're trying to turn a practical problem into a moral problem. Blaming the United States' (or anyone else's) past involvement is only useful insofar as it reduces CO2.
SPAC lawsuits jump in sign of suspect deal-making for the once red-hot space
Looks like Lets Encrypt R3 to me, with a very recent issuance time.

Resolved, probably?
Its actually the correct explanation tho.

This article sucked by the way. It said "Any sailor worth their salt can tell you that a boat can travel faster than the wind by cutting zigzag patterns; that's called tacking."

Any sailor worth their salt knows that is not true at all. This practically destroys any credibility on this topic by this author.
Remarkable. I didn't watch the whole 2 hours, or even properly skim it all, but it was incredibly white. Were they worried they wouldn't be marketable if they weren't almost 100% white?
Gravity? I guess something with enough mass to use gravity might be too large to use solar sails.
It's not really working for me, either. I'm thinking of taking a mental health break (6 months to a year) to try and figure things out.
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And in the case of letsencrypt to encourage the automation of the renewal process.
> vector instructions ... forgotten for a good while.

Not quite "forgotten" all of that time, though. Didn't x86 add them around the turn of the century? And probably other CISC architectures too, now and then over the decades. It's not like they went away totally, and only popped up again right now.
Long Covid and kids: Scientists race to find answers
Hi, yes we've got basic rate limits in place, as well as other protective measures as this is pretty much an open endpoint. Please let me know if you'd like to learn more about how we're protecting the API as this is indeed quite an interesting topic in itself. Thanks!
Why the McFlurry machine company just got hit with a restraining order
It's probably amazing to incorporate what we can do in Minecraft and convert it into a real-world object. Given that we will only use it for good purposes. It will drastically transform our world and imagine the countless possibility of the creative minds can do.
Who is the target audience?

People who want to hold 0% of their assets in dollar?

I often debate with my friend on what percentage of ones assets one should hold in dollars. 0% seems a rather radical choice. I don't know anyone personally who does that.

I am not saying it isn't a rational choice. Only that I don't know anyone who does it.
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> it's often women who don't want to have so many children, but men who decide whether or not to use birth control

This is a meme based on a study from one small state in Nigeria, and hasn't been shown to apply more generally across the developing world.
> Unless you have a gigantic yard or want wild roosters everywhere, you’ll end up killing a lot of them.

Exactly what I tried to say above.

It is a choice: you can keep them and as long as you feed them mostly with grass and kitchen scraps you still reduce environmental impact by not consuming eggs from grain-fed chicken - even when you feed some roosters.

Choose a quiet breed though or be prepared to make some significant peace offerings towards your neighbors if you want to keep every rooster around until they die from old age ;-)

Personally I'd rather (rot13, blunt speak): pubc fbzr puvpxra arpxf. V terj hc ba n snez naq juvyr V qba'g gbyrengr navzny nohfr gurve yvirf nera'g fnperq gb zr. V jnag gurz gb yvir unccl yvirf jura va zl phfgbql naq n fjvsg, harkcrpgrq naq cnvayrff qrngu nsgrejneqf.
You know, I can say the same thing about the government COVID vaccine lotteries by your logic:

So the governments wins out in the end; yes they pay out a handful of winning citizens, but wins in that the all the "losers" now have no excuse but to get back to work and make up that lost tax dollars they just expended on a PR move that frankly, strikes me as insulting in the highest order.
Define "very soon".
> China's ratcheting up pollution knowing full-well the consequences

That if they didn't their population would remain poor, and lacking access to healthcare, food, and water? And in an even worse situation when climate change finally hit? Are you suggesting that if China hadn't concentrated on development, the developed countries would be currently falling over themselves to fix the problem?
interesting diverse take, particularly about EMP, DRM and R2R. i appreciate the political/2nd-order effects perspective!
I don't know for the rest, but for letsencrypt you don't even have an option to set the expiration date, as far as I know. You have to make sure certificates generated there are regularly refreshed (every three months). So it might well be an imposition from the Certificate Authority.
This wasn't always a choice. Before electronic communication people exchanged letters sometimes very frequently (mail service in London peaked at 12x/day). The privacy of these letters was however protected by law, with a warrant being required for police to open and read them.

I don't quite see why our packets and devices shouldn't have the same protections.
Yes, the Microsoft Partner Program.
China is launching thorium-fueled molten-salt reactors starting with a 2-gigawatt prototype in September; they plan on building lots of smaller ones for production. I'm hoping this replaces coal pretty quickly.

https://newsforenergy.com/nuclear/china-to-activate-worlds-f...
What technology has the convenience and cheapness of fossil fuels? The versatility and strength of plastics, the power of diesel, and the portability and ease of use of all the fossil fuels?
> ability to scan all images is but a minor firmware update away

ios already does on-device ml-based photo categorisation for some time, afaik no way to turn it off.
B) has to be read with the "and which has any barrel with a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter" clause included, though; the projectiles in the video look narrower than that.

I fully expect the ATF to be able to find some definition to work with, though, as with bump stocks.
I suspect it's at least partially the 'giving a raise/increase while also firing people at the same time' optics which doesn't sit well with folks.

It doesn't actually strike me as 'reasonable rate' for a company which is losing market share with their main products, has a history of multiple failed product/service launches, and is having to fire people to cut costs. I (and many others) could get the same results for a mere $700k/year.
Google planning Silicon Valley campus, hardware lab
I would like to suggest "the history and mechanics of the self-winding mechanism" from the subtitle as a more informative title for this article.

Watches work in a lot of ways, after all; some are solar-powered quartz with a radio listening to the atomic broadcast!

Also, it appears "How Watches Work" is the name of the series, which would be awkward if another post from the series ended up on Hacker News.
Good point about the "checking account" phrasing. I agree we should be more careful here. In my mind, traditional checking accounts are characterized by two orthogonal features. 1) They offer money management features (debit cards, ATM, bill pay, check writing, scanning checks etc), and 2) they provide low volatility investing. Financial Choice offers 1) but gives you more choices with 2).
India and China are going to bear the brunt of their own pollution. Western countries will be impacted less, although it will be bad for everyone.
Maybe not the most beautiful, but certainly among the most impressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess
I hear that later another amendment was pushed forward by sensors that perviously had voiced support for the Wyden amendment. This new amendment supposedly provided no solutions to done of the problems, but immediately found support from the White House as well and is rumored to have been pushed by the Treasury who doesn't like crypto.
I guess I don’t understand what the amendment actually does. If you’re a crypto miner, you already have to report your own income from that activity to the government; failure to do so is already a crime, namely tax evasion. And if you’re not a custodian, by definition your own activity is the only activity that you have data on, right? What new reporting does this actually mandate?
lineage os is what I use. oneplus devices are simply superb.

but you are forewarned - you can blew through way more then a weekend de-oppressing you digital life.
Well, kind of. From their point of view, it sounds a bit like: "I got there first and I industrialized and got rich, oh, by the way, I made you give up resources I needed for that, for free or at reduced prices, through gunboat diplomacy or outright conquest. You don't get to do the same because you were slow (even better, actively stopped from doing so in many cases)".
The important question is: do you have a choice? Is your consent requested or respected?
The thing that is changing here is that the images are scanned on the device before being uploaded to the cloud, instead of being scanned on the server after they are uploaded to the cloud.

If it hasn't been a problem that Google has been scanning your cloud data for the last decade, it didn't suddenly become a problem now.
> This will just end up being another "I promise I'm not a US person" checkbox when you sign up for cryptocurrency services.

And that's only for centralized services… permissionless decentralized protocols with no articles of incorporation running on decentralized systems… this diktat is just the senate pissing in the wind…

Might as well be like clergy in the Ottoman Empire standing in the way of the printing press by saying it was a sin and it was invented by infidels…
You are firing a projectile.

The battery pack probably puts off a good amount of heat. If "flipping a light switch" is close enough to fire for Orthodox Jews, it's probably close enough for the ATF.
> Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don't know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.

A modern computer running the whole thing in emulation is not the same though.

Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”. Even though someone might say, that’s emulation too. And they’d be correct in a way. But like, do you see what I mean?
WordPress, out of the box, is quite secure, especially if it's not a high traffic site. And then most of the plugins that interact with services like social media either use tokens or one-time keys, so I wouldn't worry about these issues too much (depending on the plugin you choose).

Source: I've built, maintain, and use a number of WordPress plugins that interact with social media.
Even if your certificate expires after 3 years, the certificate renewal process should be automated. The long validity of 3 years leads many people to not consider this necessary.

If the certificate is only valid for three months however, many people will automate the renewal right away, because nobody wants to do this manually every couple weeks.

From a security POV, shorter lifetimes require more periodic checks for the server's identity. E. g. a Letsencrypt-issued certificate using the ACME protocol will validate the server really belongs to the given domain more often, which is a nice property I think.
The longer a certificate is valid for, the longer an attacker has to try compromise it somehow. Relying on certificate revocation instead of short-lived certificates is not an ideal solution. As systems have improved such that regular renewal can be easily done without human intervention (and if done properly, with no less, or in fact possibly more, assurance of security) it makes sense to take advantage of this by reducing certificate lifetimes. Like single-use credit cards, to give an analogy that a non-techie man-on-the-street can latch on to.