skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The parts of it being uploaded to iCloud, not the whole thing, yes?

This is policy, not capability. The capability is each and every image can be scanned.

> As I understand it, the whole point is that the hashes are computed on-device and compared to the NCMEC database on-device. Is my understanding incorrect?

You are incorrect but also the concern is NCMEC’s database’s accuracy. Also, going by other NPO’s the government has taken an interest in, NCMEC is very exposed to government control. They can easily decide to allow the government to slip a few extra hashes in their database and tell no one. They can do this in exchange for protecting their NPO status, a national security letter, anything. We will never know and if we find out, we will have no way to hold them accountable. Ever.

Anyway, the NMEC database is NDA’ed and a secret. It’s not open to review or auditing. It’s also grossly inaccurate and nearly useless.

You are taking these points entirely out of context and in a vacuum. It reads a bit bad faith and win an Internet argument at any cost.
Yeah I hear you.

I started playing with computers in the early 80s. It was so much fun I made it my career. Computers and the internet were what was exciting and what I spent my time and energy with.

Now I’m retired, and the exciting promise of all this technology has taken such a dark turn that I’m honestly less and less involved with it all. Better to spend time in my garden, or in nature, or eating and drinking with friends.
Didn’t read the article, but I imagine it’s because Debian had gone straight to hell.
This isn't an article about CSS features, nor is the linked site. This is about how designers think about their design and how that doesn't translate well into CSS. Both articles are trying to bridge the gap between design and implementation based on the reality of web content and browsing.

Also from the article:

> Paradoxically, where CSS Grid shines is not only in building layouts that adhere to a strict design grid, but in baking flexibility into our components.
That is different. People who submit computer-generated papers submit them to hundreds of journals. A few of them are bound to have so lax editorial standards that they are let through. They also risk nothing, while the student who is caught computer-generating their thesis will be thrown out. Furthermore, the amount of peer review-like process a thesis or dissertation goes through is an order of magnitude greater than the amount of peer review an article gets.
Like almost everything else, Dwarf Fortress's geology is in a class of its own. There are about two dozen stone types that form layers, divided quasi-realistically into sedimentary, igneous intrusive, igneous extrusive, and metamorphic [1]. Then there are forty other types of stone that occur as veins and pockets [2]… and then there are about twenty types of metal ore and 130 different types of gem!

[1] http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Stone#Stones_f...

[2] http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Stone#Other_St...
This isn't just the privacy convo - it's 2A, it's helmet laws, it's CPS being called on "unattended kids", it's legalization.

Freedom means absorbing and managing risk in ways that acknowledge some level of harm is acceptable. That's the very difficult conversation you're running into. How to tell that person that the one attack prevented was not worth the privacy invaded for the million other instances. Crack that nut and you've figured something important out, rhetorically. Because socially, and in our education system, we're not doing a very good job coaching people about or taking pride in the idea of "acceptable risk".
Take care, though. The original NeXT keyboard and mouse were not using ADB, but a proprietary (and a bit strange) protocol. The keyboard and mouse controller were actually contained in the monitor (for mono systems) or soundbox (for color systems), the NeXT communicated with the processor in the soundbox using a high speed serial protocol that also transmitted audio data. Only the later Turbo Cubes and Stations used ADB.
perhaps the full manual, but the manual page (which is what I specifically mentioned) has quite the opposite:

$ man gm4 |sed -ne 119,121p
AUTHOR
Written by Rene' Seindal.
They are ramping up nuclear but it's not exactly easy. See this expert's twitter thread on what hurdles they're facing: https://twitter.com/pretentiouswhat/status/12939610958922792...
the title is a bit misleading:

> "23 Chinese cities - among them Shanghai, Beijing and Handan - along with Moscow and Tokyo accounted for 52% of the total [greenhouse gas emissions]"

but admits that

> "In per capita terms, however, emissions from cities in the richest parts of the world are still generally higher than those from urban centres in developing countries..."

not only could you draw the mistaken conclusion that cities are pollution machines, but that china is the problem child, a double-whammy of subtle sensationalism.

the west, and the US in particular, should be leading the fight against pollution, not just because it's the right thing to do for ourselves and future generations, but also because it's a geopolitical and economic lever. instead, our collective complacency and greed drives us to subtly blame developing countries stiving for parity with the west, rather than tackling the problem with economic might and wild abandon. instead it's another notch in the belt for capital misallocation.
This was pretty much my experience with Arch and long long ago, Gentoo (where I really started with Linux).

Then I adopted Fedora and never looked back for several years. Even more recently I have been using WSL inside of Windows... and it actually covers most of my use cases well enough.

I dont have the time or patience anymore to keep up with distro's like Arch, but I also get that some people love tinkering and figuring out how to make their system work like its some kind of puzzle.

Edit: One thing about Arch, its possible to dig yourself a real bad hole if you don't keep updating regularly and I get that's sort of the point, but it can cause a lot of issues if for example, you go on vacation for a few weeks.
This isn’t true unless you paid for additional storage in iCloud photos which you are under no obligation to do.

There are numerous competing storage photo storage services with both free and paid tiers.
You can find a ton of minecart tracks in old mines if you look around for them.

TNT is probably intentionally a bit difficult to get as it's a performance problem. The work the game has to do to simulate the explosion grows exponentially as long as there is more TNT to consume.
I hope it works for you - let me know if you find any cool adaptations :)
A lot of people have an irrational fear of Sid because it's called Unstable.

And yet the use "rolling" distributions that often contains exactly the same software.
RMS has been saying this stuff for decades, but people ignore him.
It's because CO2 is by far the largest contributor, accounting for 80% of warming emissions from human activities in the US:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases

Some gases containing sulfur and nitrogen are far more potent per molecule than CO2, but they are emitted in much smaller volumes. They collectively account for less than 10% of warming emissions.
> Finally, this is a tax nightmare.

I can maybe get past the risk since I invest a lot anyways, and cap gains since interest bearing accounts are also taxed as ordinary income, but if every withdrawal causes a reportable sale, how is this not a IRS paperwork nightmare?
It does because they control the entire os, ecosystem, now and in the future, and have demonstrated with PRISM and this they don't play for our team.
These are perceptual hashes though.

What if you take a picture of your naked baby in the bathtub or your child on the beach, and the picture is very similar to a known CSAM picture with a hash in the database, enough to pass the distance threshold they're using?

The picture would be sent for screening, the Apple screener would indeed say that's a naked baby/child, and soon enough you've got the FBI (or whatever is the equivalent in your country) knocking on your door and arresting you for pedophilia.
One of the most pernicious sins of the smartphone revolution was to rebrand the "computer". We'd evolved expectations as to what we were entitled to on our own machines - yes, even those with a proprietary OS - and then with one weird trick, it all went in the trash. Advertising, surveillance, inability to install whatever you want - before smartphones, this sort of thing used to be unequivocally malware.

The worst part is that now the dam's broken, it's all bleeding back into "computers".
Why I love Bandcamp: Waived-fee Fridays, solid app, no DRM, more
I agree that the 12 column grid system isn't great.

Our company uses the 8 point grid system, and it makes everything neater and visually consistent, and it looks great across all zoom levels.

https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/built-to-adapt/intro-to-the...
> the hard part is that sand isn't renewable

If you've opened The End, there's a way to use the End Portal to duplicate sand. In one of my worlds, I have that feeding into a 32 furnace super smelter with a tree farm nearby for fuel (although I could build a carpet duper for that, actually.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfeGyXJOCBw
Better title: "Extremely awful solar cell technology improved to be just really bad"
Aren't we as consumers in the West still addicted to cheap goods that this idealistic/extremist idea (immigration bans?!) will sadly not fly with the average consumer? And Tim Apple, etc, will just lobby the government to not implement your tariffs so those "2 years and they're junk" Airpods don't get more expensive...
> You know some late night comedian is going to do some jokes about pedo's having to switch to android. You think that is damaging to apples' brand?

No just the start of a whole stream of attacks from WhatsApp / Facebook:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/6/22613365/apple-icloud-csam...

Also just read the full range of comments.

The fact that you're saying elsewhere that everyone is misunderstanding and it's all overblown is sort of making my point that it's affecting the brand.

Plus you're saying other firms capture images so that's fine - no! Those other firms haven't made privacy a central feature of their brand.
Yes, WA has a defined security scope: it's right between the host and the WA program, and if you choose to sidestep it by eval-ing the output of a potentially malicious WA program, or simply handing it secrets, obviously you can get poor outcomes.

No, WA has not solved the halting problem and fixed all bugs in sandboxed programs.

Yes, it's important for people developing WA-based systems to acknowledge the above limitations.

You've been brandying about this paper for the last year as if it means something that it doesn't [1-12]. Every time someone actually reads it they come to the same conclusion that this paper says nothing about the WA-host memory barrier -- and "everyone" includes the authors themselves [13]. And every time you respond by moving the goal posts with "but but WA isn't magic security pixie dust that solves all security problems". If I sound annoyed it's because I've been pushing back on your FUD with nary a direct response that acknowledges these limitations to your narrative and I am annoyed. Also, it's been a year now, where are all these papers that break WA that you keep promising? Are you privy to WA-host memory barrier breaking results that have yet to be published (and aren't just repackaged CPU vulnerabilities)? I'm open to evaluating the claim of such a break being found in the future, but there's no evidence for it yet.

[1-12]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[13]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24223979
Agreed. Two kids here. The pediatrician is seen ~annually. (more during infancy) Not enough for what I'd call "monitoring".
> Open source doesn't guarantee we have any type of control over it if the hardware is locked down

It can though. See: GPLv3.

IMO the greatest failure of Linux was not upgrading from GPLv2.
That's not my experience, but Manjaro is even more tweak-free.

I suspect they will do like those Arch derivatives do: holding back updates for testing, which is easy when you target known hardware.
It's a global crisis and ly original comment was not limited to only the US. There are people refusing to wear msk every wear.
I don't think you really understand what cost means in this case. Or a compromise.

Thinking that cost just means paying more -> bad is a very simplistic way to look at things.

Cost, especially via taxation, means setting aside a part of our productivity as a planet towards making sure we don't destroy ourselves. Everybody should contribute because everyone has skin in the game. By taxing CO2 specifically, you force people towards choosing more sustainable choices automatically.

Understand that you can't have a completely free market and an environment in which you want to live.
> No one seems to yell at them for being irresponsible because a medical emergency may coincide with a market downturn.

It’s not just coincidence for a checking account, people often need access to cash during market downturns as unemployment generally increases.
Apples selling point is that they decide what should be running on your phone. From the various app store monopolization threads, people like that apple controls your iphone, and wouldn't buy one if the owner controlled it.
iOS did something a little similar through iOS6, with folders having a kind of visual physicality—tapping a folder would "slide" the screen "apart" to reveal it underneath, leaving a clear way out (tap any part of the outer Home Screen, which is still visible at the top and bottom) and making the folders feel like a place, with dimension and location. The down-side was that they were limited to only a few content apps, since scrolling would have ruined the whole effect. Then, iOS7 ditched the whole thing for more-traditional folders (if you've watched the quite-computer-"illiterate" use computers, you know this means they're always gonna feel lost when using folders, now—iOS6 and earlier was the only OS+platform I've ever seen that I'd enthusiastically recommend to my approaching-100 grandma, and expect that she'd do kinda OK at using it unassisted, maybe after some light config of the a11y features).

7 broke a bunch of other excellently-discoverable stuff. The replacement for the unlock slider was especially far into obviously-a-large-step-backwards territory.
I think this is one thing that frustrates me about these conversations, they are still very Americentric. What matters is that we reduce atmospheric CO2. Every major country has the technical and economic means to invest and innovate on clean technology and CCS systems (because honestly we need negative production of CO2, not zero). You can't just rely on America to save everyone on the planet. I don't care if it comes from China, Germany, France, Australia, India, or wherever. It just matters that it gets done. We already know who's to blame. It's like a fire that's started and we're arguing about who's job it is to put out. This isn't spilt milk. The longer we wait the more damage is done and with compounding interest. We can talk about blame and solve the issue but this can't just dominate the conversation. Everyone needs to fix the issue. Full stop. This is because everyone is in danger.
I recently got a new iPhone for the better camera. Did this rather than getting a camera. Now I'm wondering how long it'll be before cameras will also have CSAM scanning.

It also leads me to this question about CSAM. If it only recognizes existing photos, then it's of no use for photos that I take. So perhaps CSAM on a dedicated camera will never be a thing, and people will gravitate back to such cameras.

Also leads to this question. If Apple isn't scanning my photos ( for which there is no CSAM fingerprint), what photos are they scanning? Things that showed up in my browser?
You reckon I would know of a way to gather an exact evidence unless I work for Apple? (In which case I'll likely be convicted and thrown in jail as well.)

Obviously I can't know for a fact. I also thought they likely analyze photos and that's my chief suspect even now. But critical thinking demands to keep an open mind -- and that's how I suspect they might use fully-charged iDevices (that are expected to sit on the charger for several more hours) for unsolicited and non-advertised P2P computations.

I don't claim it, I merely suspect it.
He uses the words "slur", "bigotry and prejudice", "as inexcusable as racism", and "lacks self-awareness and empathy to the same degree as a racist".

Does that seem any more reasonable and rational than "as bad as racism"?

I could even get behind the basic idea that ad hominem attacks are always bad, except that he's already launched an ad hominem attack against what he assumes are "purple-haired Millennials with nose hoops and personal pronoun mood-rings" in the same article! I don't see how to read this as anything but "snarky insults are reprehensible when they happen to me and totally justified when I throw them at someone else."
You can make overly expensive unguided bombs by using TNT minecarts. They can be very effective for saturation bombing of areas. You can effectively eliminate the risk of Pillager outposts with a few of those configured around it. When they respawn you can trigger the system and have an on-demand air-raid. There's not much the mobs can do against an aerial bombardment.

You can also create land-mines with pressure plates.
Then why not just explain to people the predicted consequences of a 2°C temperature increase?
The spatial finder was really 2-3 promises:
• Every time you opened a given folder, it always opened in the same, physical place on the screen. Same size, same spot, same view options. Always.

• Only one instance of a folder could be open at once. If you tried to open more than one copy, it would bring the previous one to the front, instead.

• the act of opening a folder would always consistently draw an animation zooming from the icon you'd double-clicked on, to the final open copy of the folder.

Of these 3 promises, the first one was the insanely-great, "magical" one. It ends up tapping into a really powerful aspect of human memory. It has to be absolutely consistent on the OSes part to work (nobody can EVER move your cheese), but if it is consistent like that, then it feels like it unlocks a weird superpower, because you can always find things instantly based on where they are, physically. It's like going from O(log(n)) to find something to just O(1).

It's like having a "cluttered" (but personal) toolshed, where nobody else would have moved anything around. If you have that guarantee, you don't need to waste time "searching" for something, because you know exactly where you put it when you left it there.

Humans for some reason all have extremely good memories on this front; some are better than others, and there's probably some "learning differences" science on this, but as far as I can tell the floor for this capability is really, really high. Even those of us who are "bad" at this are really, really good.

--

The second item, "only one instance open" is the one that had genuine downsides. Opening multiple views of the same document is a very useful paradigm, which I do all the time in code editors, and in photoshop.

Something that could have been a great compromise, which I think apple really dropped the ball on, would have been having a much stronger separation between two concepts, that in OS X are (practically speaking) really blurry/similar: a "folder view", and a "file browser".

A folder view would have retained all the "spatial finder" behaviors, but a file browser would have looked dramatically different, and allowed you to have all the benefits of opening multiple document views, without the confusion.

The problem with multiple "actual folder view"s being open is you never can tell which one is the master copy for setting the position/view-settings/size. One of them is, but the OS doesn't give an indication. So it really screws with that positional memory thing - you'll have one on the right side of the screen, and have another on the left side, and your brain will "pin" both of those in your memory, but when you go looking for the one that was ephemeral, you can't find it, because the one that got stored was the other one.
Terrifying new theory: Fake news & conspiracy theories as evolutionary strategy
That's obviously completely untrue.

It doesn't matter anyway, end to end cryptography is meaningless if someone you don't trust owns one of the ends (and in this case, Apple owns both.)
>>GDP per capita is lagging badly behind the US.

Dont worry, our government (US) is trying its best to collapse our economy so it will not long before that trend reverses I am sure
> Only verified illegal photos should be in the database.

Considering PhotoDNA, the source code of Apple's implementation, a 30-year Ph.D. level in cryptographic knowledge, and the processes by which neuralMatch actually run are unavailable to the OP, I think OP is justified in the minor paranoia of not wanting to be falsely accused of owning CSAM.

That's precisely the problem with Apple's announcement here. You can't apply common sense to an algorithm and dragnet-style surveillance.

I doubt even Apple specifically knows precisely how things will turn out with this system.
As far as I know, Kawa is the oldest non-Java language still in use and development that compiles to the JVM. It dates from 1996. (NetRexx is from the same era, but as far as I know is basically an interpreter.)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jofi.12903

https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1424484871737692161?s...
Get fewer of his calories from animal products, for one thing
- not necessarily go vegetarian/vegan, but cutting down by 50-75%, and switching to grass-fed, organic meat (which doesn't require petrochemical derived fertiliser in its production) makes a significant difference.

But be mindful that not all plant calories are equal, especially those that are air freighted (more of a problem in NW Europe which airfreights a lot of fresh fruit and veg in from African countries than the US).

Take trains not planes wherever possible, and avoid long haul flights entirely if you can: one return long-haul flight can undo all the good of a year's worth of biking.
My apologies dang.

Within the LA startup and entertainment communities, we are less politic in our critiques; LA's funding system is quite different from SV's, and harsh truths are more valued here than polite nothings. A thick skin is required to survive in the film industry. (It is an aphorism here that a true friend is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.)

My intention was not to be mean but to be straightforward, but I currently work in-house in entertainment so my abrasiveness filter is much less refined than it used to be. The comments I made were the sanitized versions of the critiques from people in the Black film industry who were initially interested in possibly working with BlackOakTV.

Unfortunately, there are now concerns about the role of non-Black investors in what is ostensibly a Black platform. Due to the politicized nature of the ongoing discussion, I will not go into further details on HN as that is likely to trigger a flame war over non-technical issues.
To fight climate change, America must get better at electricity transmission