skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

Apple once refused the FBI to hack a terrorist's phone because it would lead to a loss of privacy for iPhone users. Now Apple has reversed that decision.
It's wild that someone has the gall to threaten the poster infront of the police and show him signs that he'll get shot. That would've seriously messed him up. So glad this guy recovered his bike and hope they identify the thief and crack down on these stores.
No, Apple made some changes to mitigate that problem.

> An AirTag will beep at a random time between eight and 24 hours if it is away from its owner's iPhone.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57351554
The problem is AirTag is only really viable because of the huge number of iPhone users. Anyone with a recent iPhone will pickup the AirTag signal and report the location to the owner.

Tile has somewhat similar functionality, but it doesn't really have the same ability to track the tile's location. And there are a comparatively tiny number of tile users.
Not just public policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp....
The horror memoir book I wrote made me realize that part of the reason I am where I am - mostly content - is because of my stepfather. I sort of recoiled off him and, in that way, while my peers are in mid-life crisis I think folks like us had a early life crisis that can, if we are lucky to build a non-blood family, make the second half of life smooth. Thank you too!
Seriously. Anyone that worked up about the events is obviously running a fence operation out of the shop.

As I commented on the Twitter thread, we used to have tons of break-ins in our area. Miraculously, when they closed down all the pawn shops in the area with a "relaxed" attitude to the provenance of where stuff came from, we saw almost an order of magnitude reduction in b-and-e and theft from vehicle type events.

For this type of crime, you can have about as much of it as you're willing to tolerate. And closing down the operations that make it profitable to steal stuff is way simpler than chasing around perps as it's much more centralized.
>Police should have arrested this man.

So, not so long back in the US, there was a car bombing (RV trailer I believe) in... Nashville I think?

Was a pretty big explosion.

Partner of the person who made and detonated said bomb went to the police some days (weeks?) back and literally tried to tell them "my partner made a bomb and is about to go detonate it at this place"

The police, IIRC, brushed it off as a woman being crazy.

The police have a history of not arresting or investigating people/things they should be.

But they don't, haven't, and won't. At this point, you just have to sit back and laugh at how horribly they botch shit on a regular basis, otherwise you'll probably get quite depressed at the reality.
The Bełchatów Power Station in Poland has a capacity of 5102 MW, that doesn't even put it in the top 20 largest power stations worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations
Also if Apple did enable E2EE backups then law enforcement would put tremendous pressure on them to expand what they're scanning for in this new client side CSAM layer.
I love this guy's blog. I've been learning so much about modern CSS from it. I highly suggest anyone who wants to get up to speed on this to check out his mailing list.
Dollar store spray bottle for staying cool when camping on hot days.
Some people like Tile, I have found them to be unusable myself. (The app was horrible and it never actually worked.)
A viable alternative is multiple LUKS-style key slots, one per registered device that can be unlocked with a device keys, and one that is by default encrypted with a key derived from your iCloud password. If you lose all your iDevices _and_ your password at the same time, you lose your data.

They could also make this opt in (add another escrow key slot by default, but allow you to promise that you've written down a recovery key and then destroy the escrow key slot).

Online browsing would use the iCloud password to decrypt the images client side. Thumbnails could be generated client side and stored alongside the images under the same key.

You can make this pretty transparent.
Not forgetting.
"Now, it’s been possible up until today to block this sort of stuff on your Mac using a program called Little Snitch (really, the only thing keeping me using macOS at this point)."

I use Little Snitch from version 2. The last MacOs on our company (and personal) computers is Catalina 10.15.7.
Switching production to Linux is planned for the near future. We don't care about "how powerful and beautiful is M1" or how "iPhone 13 will break sells records".

The normalization of digital surveillance and digital police state is everywhere. As people that create consumer technologies we take a stance and inform our customers about this and help them make rational decisions for the future.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter have historically unprecedented power over people.

Governments are caring more about using this power over people instead of protecting human rights.
Yep. This guy's lucky he has a considerable Twitter following and can get a replacement, not everyone has that kind of privilege.
Want to see how far we can get messenger pigeons to fly?

Jokes aside it sounds like the gemini protocol is trying to fulfill what you're mentioning here

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
> Just to be clear, users flagged it, not moderators.

I understand this. In this case "they" did not mean YC. Maybe I should have clarified.
But not on your own device.
Probably gonna hide 2 or 3 in my car. Given how bad things are these days with theft.
Scientists reverse a key hallmark of motor neurone disease in the laboratory
Personally theorize that orcas have recognized they are in direct conflict with humans for resources (food supply) and reacting. Decades ago a pod might have recognized a shipping trolley as a nuisance and avoided it. But in modern times, with many more vessels in the waters, it doesn't make sense to single out one. Any vessel is now a threat.

Alternatively the pod could have witnessed/experienced a traumatic event that impacted them. Now they are retaliating.

I'm no expert in the field but have a huge respect for other animals.

PS. Previous HN discussions about this topic:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=orcas
> No, I'm saying stop being a nerd.

That seems like a pretty empty thing to say at the best of times. It’s not clear how it helps.

> I do understand the technology just fine -- but that's entirely beside the point.

Do you? That remains to be seen. A shallow understanding is only sufficient if it is correct and supports your other ideas.

As for Kyllo v US, that doesn’t obviously explain anything about lumping this in with biased facial rec. We seem to have moved away from that remark.

It’s unclear what you mean when you say Apple has ‘guaranteed’ privacy.

Do you mean, they have said they will only use this technology to check for CSAM, and they won’t use it for anything else?

If so, then I agree. Now that this has been publicized, and Apple has released detailed answers to the privacy concerns, people can reasonably expect it to be used for only the purpose of preventing CSAM being uploaded to iCloud, and not for anything else. That is a publicly documented committment and seems like would stand up well in court.

By your reasoning, there is no slippery slope, and this feature is exactly what Apple says it is, because they have made such public commitments. You say it isn’t privacy on its face but why do you think that?

If the system only reports already publicly known CSAM, and is well known to do so, and is part of an opt-in service, how is that a privacy violation?

If on the other hand you are claiming that Apple has made some other blanket ‘guarantee’ of privacy and this new feature contradicts that, I’d be curious to know what guarantee you are referring to.

It’s worth noting that once detected, CSAM must be reported by statute, and other cloud providers report tens of millions of images per year. I don’t know what the status of these reports are in the courts, of whether they have been tested.

I am not a lawyer, but perhaps you are.
I'm expecting commenters to contribute to topics when they have something relevant to say, rather than make guesses in the dark in fields they're not familiar with. If someone's comfortable making guesses about whether something will turn out to be struck down by NAFTA, but doesn't know anything about NAFTA other than the fact that it's a trade deal... well, aren't the details of NAFTA explicitly what's important to answering the question here?

And wouldn't someone with a passing familiarity with NAFTA at least know about the "tantamount to appropriation" clause? I know this much, and that's just from a half-remembered required social studies class I took in public high school in the US, some twenty-odd years ago.
If there is some upcoming change that has not been announced, Apple would try to be careful not to make any mention of it in the public betas.
This is only really an issue with Helium. When Hydrogen is your lifting gas, you can use it with fuel cells to power the cranes, producing water as a further ballast.
I feel like it should be obvious that I'm describing a system where they don't add this code.

And depending on what's in the database, signatures and thumbnails can be really bad.
This is neat but I suspect its practical value isn't that high. The type of people who want permanent access to incoming snaps just run screen recorder software.
I'm actually curious, are they allowed to encrypt backups if FBI requested them not to? I thought as American company you have to comply with the law as well. Not sure though

Edit: damn downvotes, is this reddit? I'm literally asking because I don't know. nothing is controversial here
Read the actual quote from Apple;
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.*
End please, don't be naive. We all are guilty of projecting emotions over corporate marketing tricks and behaving like a children when given a shiny toys.
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I suspect that many recently posted articles appear to be upvoted heavily because they externalize the blame for emissions. This feels a lot like a bargaining phase, in which we are grasping at the notion that the impending sacrifice should be anyone else's but our own.
Thanks for pointing that out. I added the email to the about box.

BTW, I sent you a connection request on LinkedIn.
If the world made sense then we’d launch missile strikes and destroy them.
I would be fascinated to see the relative amount of crime that would be solved if police 1. didn't bother to start any independent investigations based on their own suspicions, but instead 2. dedicated 100% of their resources to investigating inbound leads like these.
Impact of Aliasing on Generalization in Deep Convolutional Networks
Or, get the contentious part out of the way so that your E2EE announcement isn’t overshadowed.

I don’t know how much I believe that, though.
First, I did not admit anything, I asked a question.

Second, the issue is the presence of EU influence in my country: Whereas before joining the EU the local parliament would have a nuanced discussion and vote, often with results very different from partisan membership, now the party that won 4 years ago (that does NOT mean >50%) decides all by itself how it's going to vote in the council, and only the biggest issues of all can be helped, but breaking the government for every smaller thing is not feasible.
I bought a new 2021 Honda CRV less than six months ago. As far as I know it doesn't have one.
As I've mentioned in another thread, Apple has been marketing itself so strongly as the leader in privacy that it now speaks about how it now treats privacy as a "fundamental human right". Their executives started using this phrasing when discussing privacy.

It is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary commitment and action. To me, at least, that means privacy without compromise - and for everyone. ("Fundamental human rights" apply to all of us, right?)

Privacy with a bunch of disclaimers attached to it indicating all of the conditions under which your privacy will be abridged is not privacy. And it's certainly not the behaviour of a company that treats privacy as a "fundamental human right".

Apple needs to get a grip when it comes to dealing with and living up to this self-stated core value. I think that given the waves created by this CSAM on-device hash checking announcement and the questions many have about how to square this with their privacy talk, Apple's executives should say something and they should be unequivocal in what they say.
> That happens when you throw away 30 years of work to reinvent the wheel because you like variable names before types or something.

That's an extremely ignorant and incorrect take on Rust, and your phrasing makes me believe that you're doing this intentionally.
Challenges and Opportunities to Dramatically Reduce the Cost of Uber’s Big Data
You already know the answers, though. It's either "OMG terrorists!" or "OMG child porn!".
These are delta-v numbers. How much do you need to change your velocity by to get there, basically.

I think your comment misunderstands inertia and orbital dynamics, but it's hard to follow what you propose doing differently than your basic earth escape + transfer.
That ‘anti-stalker’ feature sounds like it’s a burden to recovering items that are stolen . …what’s a bigger issue theft or stalking ? Aren’t sure tags more about theft prevention than stalking prevention?
yes it does seem like the intimidator was guilty of a crime
https://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._penal_law_section_215.1...
The FBI can request until they’re blue in the face. They don’t make laws. And so far, there aren’t any laws preventing Apple from encrypting backups.
We've been pretty happy with Vue 2.6 and haven't had the motivation to take the leap.

I did try it and even though it's advertised as somewhat backward compatible it did break lots of things, which was totally expected and it's a major release.

Also we couldn't figure out a lot of things, like how can I access the $children like before, why does everything show Object proxy in console, etc. Posting on SO and forums also didn't yeild much help since everyone is still discovering it too I guess.

So in the end we decided why fix something which ain't broken for now. Vue 2 still kicks ass performance wise and is really easy to use.
Do e-scooters not have security features built-in? If you really want to steal it you can, but if you need to replace the main board to actually use it then it's going to put off a whole lot of people.
I’d agree with you, but at one point the PowerShell for Mac/Linux binaries were actually named “posh”.
How do you get the particle out of a vacuum area into a non-vacuum area?
Apple is not planning to scan SMS messages with this (that’s a completely separate feature, not related to CSAM fingerprints, and never involves law enforcement), and SMS photos are not automatically added to your iCloud Photo Library.
>What does this mean?

A 3x + 1 program is a positive integer N. "Running" this program would be iterating 3x + 1 until it gets stuck in a loop (this would be the "halting condition"). The "output" would be a fixed function of the numbers in the loop (e.g. the loop itself; like 4, 2, 1).

As far as we know, all "programs" in 3x + 1 output 4, 2, 1. This makes for a very boring language (essentially, one you can only make "Hello World!" in). But we don't have a proof that that's all there is to it.

>Isn't having a catalog essentially precomputing a function for every possible input?

Specifically, that means that given a Turing machine T and input X, we can compute a number N = N(T, X) such that the "output" of running our "language" on N is the same as the output of T on X.

Which is what they do in FRACTRAN: they show how to encode an arbitrary program and its input as a number N, and how to read the output from the iteration.
Did the cops give the scooter shop a citation for failing to record the source of the stolen article on https://www.leadsonline.com/? (This post from last month recounted how a laptop repair man in New York City got in trouble for this law https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27810019 specifically Administrative Code §20-273 https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYC... (electronics record required for each purchase AND sale of second-hand articles) and Rules Title 28 §21-07 https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYC... (electronics record must be at a designated website leadsonline.com)). The previous post was about the unintended consequence of the law on law-abiding shops, but here we should see the intended consequence that it should shut down shops that fence stolen goods.
But doing anything else might result in damage to businesses, to the economy and to growth. Morals and ethics can be damned if they result in monetary loss.

This is might be too cynical, but it characterises my country’s relationships with totalitarianism.
Not currently but I still use the car once a week, we have an all year driving season so I just inspect the lines occasionally and I haven't seen any erosion yet. I think I would run unleaded through it if I had to store it for 6+ months though.
yes, it shows the degree to which criminals are allowed to run free while the government focuses increasing resources on telling the non-criminals what to do
If you mean that uses the AirTag network, there's also the Chipolo which has the advantage that it has a hole for a key ring (although the silicone ring thing my wife bought me for the one she gave me isn't too bulky. I had zero interest in the gigantic leather things). It has the disadvantage that it can't do the AR thing that AirTags can for finding your lost item when it's fallen between the sofa cushions, although it's apparently plenty loud.
I have to wonder just how big the kickbacks must be to not only be worth the shitstorm for years now about the ice-cream machines never working, but the actual lost sales of the ice-cream itself.

So not only is Taylor getting paid, but the machines stay broke so no ice-cream or mcflurries are ever sold, I legit forgot about mcflurries and I used to love them.

Someone, surely, is getting rich enough off this non-sensical deal to be noticed?
If I can follow up, what is a common use case for an array with heterogeneous units?
At this point, with Apple introducing a feature for law enforcement the general public had no opinion on or interest in, I'd argue Apple is more likely to expand what the new system does than improve E2EE.
If they didn't have that feature, they'd be vilified. It's a necessary compromise to make a useful thing socially acceptable.
Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (2015)
>Airships just don't work in strong winds

Citation needed, my friend.

Reality check: do you think that the airships which regularly crossed the Atlantic ocean never experienced strong winds? Perhaps a trip to an ocean beach is in order, eh?
Where do you look online for minivans like you describe?
You're assuming that the cops actually care about solving or preventing crimes. Look how much effort it took to get them to manage what should have been an open and shut case. There have been plenty of similar cases.

I have little doubt that one or more police officers are well aware of the nature of the shop and get their own cut of the profits.
China. Specifically, gradual capitulation to China.

"Apple's earnings for Greater China in Q2 2021 were up 87.5% from this time last year, to $17.7 billion. During its latest earnings call, Apple has announced dramatically increased revenues from Greater China for the three months ending March, 2021."

China has cracked down hard on domestic Internet companies over the past few weeks (deliberately crushing their tech stock market to rein in these companies and enforce governmental data surveillance/control). They're not going to leave Apple out.

Apple literally cannot lose that market. Its market cap would be halved. Saying they're going after child abuse in the US using a new algorithm is the perfect cover for gradual entry into enabling mass surveillance for China. No one can argue with the child abuse use case, but there will be plenty of consternation when this is used to scan for messages critical of Xi and the boys.
Who cares if the machine understands wug? Maybe the issue is more to do with trying to teach language learning as a end on its own. Nobody studies language without purpose, there’s always a next step.

If you’re friend is telling you about their cat and what a wug it is, the goal is to conversate, make the other feel heard, entertain them, kill time until something next happens, impress them, and so on.

Most of these don’t require even picking up on “wug”, they require understanding the other’s state of mind: “my new cat is so cute - I love them!”. Getting caught on solving wug seems like an uneccessary triviality, more important is the tone they say it with, they body language, your past interactions with them. You could form a proper reaction if you only heard every other word and had those other details.

Humans don’t rely on deciphering “wug” - they don’t need to. The whole interaction is just negotiating mental states, intentions, and actions. Deciphering “wug” is unnecessary.
That's the beauty of it, we don't know!

Though honestly, I really wouldn't bet on ever getting anything other than the 4 - 2 - 1 loop out of it in the end.
Cops don't care about solving or preventing crime.
I only briefly looked at Guix. I think there is an arguement that it has a better language. Besides that I'm not sure what one gains compared to NixOS.

Overall Guix looked nice but it is very opinionated on the free-software issue which really hurts its adoptability. It is also a niche sibling of an already niche distro so I doubt it would be used in (real) production any time soon.

The community & related projects around NixOS are also very compelling. Structured flakes like devos [1] and developer tools like direnv/nix-shell make getting started very easy. I'm not sure if the same can be said about Guix (I'll admit I having been keeping a close eye on it). The darwin (MacOS) compatability is also a huge selling point since a lot of MacOS developers already need tools like Homebrew.

[1] https://github.com/divnix/devos
Yep. E.g. many celebrities have had to stop accepting fan gifts - a talent agency did an experiment with their own staff, most Apple users weren't alerted until they got home and the Android user never even noticed anything.
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That’s not how this system works - a random nude photo is no more likely to match a hash than a photo of my pool brush.
You can escape earth's orbit going barely faster, or barely slower than earth relative to the sun, depending on where you're going. This stuff can be confusing, because you're mixing two different reference frames (earth and the sun).
Throwing the term privilege at every occasion you can will ruin any chance we have at removing real privilege from our society.
> So the solution is to ban growing high yielding strains domestically? I'm not sure how that's going to work.

The answer is in the headline: it's a decree from a populist. It might sound good to voters, but might even be harmful when it faces economic realities.
Misleading title ? Its Global emissions caused by “electricity generation”. Power generation is 25% of overall global emissions.. so this is about 73% of the 25%.