skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> scanning your entire Photos library

The parts of it being uploaded to iCloud, not the whole thing, yes?

> and sending hashes to an unaccountable, no oversight nonprofit (NCMEC)

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?
This is cool data! ...however, I must ask --- where does the data come from?

HN certainly has a side that loves open-source data, but it also has a privacy-loving side. Focusing on the privacy aspects, has TomTom given any consideration to how it respects the privacy of its users/does it allow for opt-out of storing and analyzing its users' GPS traces?
Should add to title (2018) - not current & not reflective of updates to API
My guess is that they're going to put it into the macOS Photos app. Those images are already scanned for people, animals and objects so it should be easy for them to implement the child protection database there.
Incorrect. The CDC numbers are a few clicks away so there is no excuse for ignorance here.

It's well known most people judge risk emotionally rather that rationally. We still need to get out of bed in the morning however.
SDEdit: Image Synthesis and Editing from Sketches
The McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit with a McRestraining Order
> Rights are paid for in blood. And sold for pennies.

Oh, if I could give you ten upvotes.

Very, very, very well put. Today you have made culture.

(Are you paraphrasing anyone? The formulation seems original.)
Depending on the scenario, but I'd want a rifle in a lot of self-defense scenarios against humans.

Attacker has a rifle? I want a rifle.

Multiple attackers? I want a rifle.

Attacker is extremely motivated to hurt me and won't quit until they're dead? I want a rifle.

One guy breaks in my house with a knife? I guess a handgun will do, or preferably a shotgun.

You interestingly just chose a rifle that is a semi-automatic rifle like most other long guns in the US (those that aren't bolt guns). An AK-47 is comparable to an AR15 is comparable to a Remington 742 Woodmaster, which is a nice deer rifle. It's unclear if you think the caliber is a problem, or if you've just decided they're all full-auto or something. I guess it sounded scarier.

More importantly, self-defense is not the reason for the amendment. Gun classification is not mentioned. At the time, the founders wanted the citizens to have equal access to arms as the government. I'm not sure they could foresee tanks and fighter jets, so it's hard to say where they would have drawn the line if we asked them.
Listen to the story of any former Facebook content filtering employee and you would not be surprised by that figure. They have horrific jobs that leave them with PTSD and drive some to suicide. Also it's worth mentioning that 20 million flagged images does not mean 20 million unique offenders.
> I believe that, for me, this (hardware keyboard smartphone) is going to be the ultimate usability dream, if the keys are large enough.

https://xnux.eu/log/#043
What do you mean by "placed in D&D"?
> I still fail to see why people are so vehemently opposed to masks.

Masks are a proxy, standing in for all the other ways non-pharmaceutical interventions are disrupting our lives.

After all, it'd be absurd for me to wear a mask while sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers in a packed theatre. A world in which I must wear a mask is a world in which I must not go to the theatre.

It's understandable that people are salty about the loss of concerts and music festivals and exercise classes and knitting groups and nightclubs and mass transit and dating and fine dining and protests and tourism and visiting friends and gyms and casual sex and theatre and nonessential flights and the entire college experience.
It's an insult, sure, but one which can be more or less true.

Calling someone ugly is also an insult, but that person might get binned right at the bottom of a Hot or Not style survey.

I'm not in love with the author's framing of what it really is, but I agree that 'stupidity' is something which intelligent people exhibit on a regular basis.

But the word itself is ambiguous, such that trying to pin down a definition has to wrestle with the fact that we would also call someone who is rather low intelligence "stupid" if we don't mind insulting that person in the process.
It’s much harder now because he’s been effectively banned from every relevant “public square”.
With skulk sensors doing sound based communications from a distance(next Minecraft release), you should be able to see that communication latency
So - first of all you're admitting that the issue is not the Council of the EU, it's that your own country's representative can't be held accountable for his vote in the Council by you.

Political activism is about making these "small issues" big and visible. It's not easy, it's not cheap and it doesn't always work. Yet it's something that can and should be done at the local level. And I really mean: local.

Your country's representative is of a political party that - I am guessing here - also runs in local elections. Your town, your province, your region - and that's how you start. You possibly can't talk to your ministers, but you can talk to your local politicians. Make sure they understand that their local power will see the consequences of national and EU politics, let them bubble up the issue.

Will it work for sure? Probably not, maybe yes. Is it better than taking ourselves out of the equation? Absolutely yes! Making sure that the local politicians understand that their national counterparts will affect their local success is a way of making them accountable.
I think the biggest thing you are missing (from my perspective) is that to make those other policy changes from the San Bernardino case would require large investment from the company employees and would be externally visible.

A change to the policy of what kinds of images are scanned is opaque by law, since none of the Apple employees involved can even have any access to the database of hashes they are using. There is also no realistic way for the consumer to understand the true false positive rate, no ability for a third party organization to distinguish false positives from true positives on non-csam images leaving the device.

Additionally, these are just problems in the US. Other governments can and will mandate the use of this tool for other kinds of media they find objectionable in their borders.

And there will be bugs that expose people to the results of these other governments, like the Taiwan flag emoji crashing case. https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-bug-iphon...

The large investment from this system is almost certainly the infrastructure to get it on phones, report the results, and run it in scenarios where it will minimize battery impact. What photos on device it is run on does not strike me as a technical challenge once the tool is built, only one with policy implications. And the easy answer to that will be just to check some flag if the phone is in a country that requires all pictures to be scanned.
Right. This mechanism doesn’t actually require wind. You get the same effect by placing the vehicle on a treadmill in a windless room: It will move forward on the treadmill.
This article predicts the shale oil revolution of the 2010s.

I spoke with a "roughneck" circa 2000 who told me that "the oil industry has vast reserves they are just sitting on" and he turned out to be right.
Perhaps LG leaving the smartphone market completely signals that they're in an increasing partnership with Apple.
> all we've seen in more environmental destruction, and accelerated GHG emissions

That is not all we have seen. US emissions are declining per capita:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...

Despite vigorous GDP growth, which is showing the decoupling of GDP and emissions. (Total US emissions have also dropped over the past 15 years, but I am having trouble finding a clean graph of that quickly)

I do not believe, and scientists do not believe, that we are past help, or that we have locked in so much change that everything is hopeless. See, for example, this interview:

https://www.cleaningup.live/ep49-johan-rockstrom-pushing-pla...

We know that RCP8.5 isn't going to happen. But we also know that our actions now have big big consequences.

We have a huge opportunity to change our future, right now. That window of opportunity is closing quickly.

Everything we do it reduce emissions now will make the future a much much better place. We really do have the opportunity to change our behavior and keep a planet that is as welcoming to us as it is today.

If you honestly don't believe this, I suggest skimming the (massive) SR15 report form the IPCC. It's getting out of date in terms of the technology available today that wasn't when it was written, but it should provide you with a lot of hope and a lot of reason to take action now:

https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
According to a video I watched, reforesting the sahara comes with its own huge problems. Dust clouds from the sahara travel the atlantic to the Amazon rain forest, where it allegedly plays an important role in sustaining the Amazon.

In short, green Sahara would turn the Amazon Rainforest in the new Sahara. And that will then have its own massive implications etc...
>government YOU are electing does something stupid

Is America the entire world to you? What should a Chinese citizen do? What should a Saudi citizen do? What should a Russian citizen do? Even if you ignore the fact that the chance of fascism in American is not zero, why should Apple make it easier for totalitarian regimes to spy on their citizens? Or do you expect a Saudi person to "just move to America"?
Things that explode in water don't do environment damage iirc
Can Apple include that promise in the EULA so that it is (at least potentially) legally binding? Otherwise their words are little comfort.
It's a private company. They can do whatever they want.

Something something "but we fought Nazis together!" forced justification
The fact that they're willing to openly make such a brazen statement is part of why I think they're unsalvageable.
Universal standardization to the “average” or most common is severely detrimental to everyone but is the default.
> iCloud [...] will have to push the same hashes to everyone

Why?

What's to prevent them from pushing specific hashes to a specific phone?
Yeah I think the distinction is more with OS than the form factor.

With a close garden and close sourced apps, there are basically nothing you can do (to make sure you're not being monitored). Completely at whim, true for regular computers too, but a lot more choices exist for the latter group.
The energy comes from the air. The air molecules in the wake of the propeller have lower kinetic energy than the rest of the air.
Landing a job offer through a side project
They haven’t announced this, but they invest a lot in encryption and privacy, and have stated that user privacy is a value of theirs. They have also expressed that they don’t want access to be able to be forced by law enforcement.
They look at how much it is actually happening and the impact to revenue, image, etc. and just don't care to fix the problem, or have identified that fixing the problem isn't worth the cost to fix the problem and decided how things are is fine by them. Machines already have downtime for maintenance + extra downtime for brokenness, reducing the brokenness rate perhaps just doesn't make sense for them or they have other priorities. Nothing is free and everything goes down from time to time. Perhaps the downtime coincides with very low sales so they just don't care.
It's a schlep standing long queues ro replace cards and licences.

But...

What outcome do we expect?
Well behaved, dignified, morally superior poor people?
The word "app" existed, sure. But as the "Trends" chart shows it because prominent as the preferred name for executables with smartphones in general (meaning, "small application"[0]), and the iPhone in particular. From my memory that was causation, but I grant that it could've been correlation.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/app#Etymology_1
iCloud photos always left your device.
> I would absolutely love a 2cm thick Pinephone if that allowed some more speed and serious battery life.

This is exactly what the keyboard mod is for. The keyboard has 6000 mHa battery (although it does not make Pinephone run faster).
> they can freely use it as a P2P computing device

Do you have any evidence of this, or are you just making up something that sounds good to you?

More likely it's doing the background on-device work that Apple has actively advertised for a long time, like analyzing photos to attach metadata to them. (There's a lot more to this than is obvious at first glance - I can text "penguin" or "sunset" in my Photos.app library and get a set of matching pictures back, for example.)
The earnings of the CO2 tax could be equally distributed to all citizens on a monthly basis. That way, while consumer prices would increase, all those citizens who contribute below average to the country's CO2 emissions (and those are the vast majority and especially includes people who are poor) would, in sum, have more money available than before.
https://archive.is/non91
My daughters love to play Minecraft with me.

My youngest one collects Pets. To the point I had to ban them from the house as 7 wolfs and a dozen cats in the room is a bit much. She has many stables around the house for them.

I have hitting turned off to reduce drama. So same one will leash a bunch of wolves and walk in front of older sister. Causing an accidental hit and wolves then proceed to eat the sister.

The older one loves diamonds.
She follows along my mining and rushes to grab them ahead everyone else. We are working on sharing.

She also loves to produce fancy houses, better then I can do.

It’s quite heart warming when I log And a new chest is there with a sign “for Dad” and it will have whatever oddball crafted items they want to leave for me; Last was a telescope.
That is the terminology used by AA and derived twelve step programs. I didn't say I endorsed their world view.
In my country most opposed to the vaccines are leftists, and most pro vaccines are right wing. I think the distrust is a better, more general cause that political orientation.
> Apple, … can sniff through electronic communication as they see fit

Except that they can’t and don’t.
Oh right, so if I stop using the thing I paid for, I can avoid giving my consent. I could also just not buy an iPhone for the same effect. (at least until Google gets around to copying Apple)
I understand that fear, but honestly this can not move me because I will unequivocally get worse or less candid photos of my kids if I switch to anything else. Apple has created the best portable camera I've ever used; it's not even close (this is coming from someone who used to make a living with photography). I really hate this situation but I'm clinging to the fact that I don't use iCloud and my kids are too young for iMessage.
What makes you think they didn't? (I don't know whether they did or not, but I would absolutely expect such lobbying to (1) be happening and (2) be kept very quiet because it's too easy to spin it as "Apple supports pedophilia" or some such.)
This is a PhotoDNA hash, not a file-content hash. It is a bit more powerful than a normal hash:

> In the same way that PhotoDNA can match an image that has been altered to avoid detection, PhotoDNA for Video can find child sexual exploitation content that’s been edited or spliced into a video that might otherwise appear harmless

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
I'm optimistic, but only because things are getting so bad, so quickly, that I expect catastrophic change before the decade is out.
But isn't apple just hashing the image and then matching it with the CSAN database on the cloud? Thats how the feature works no?
I wouldn’t think the government shares the images with NCMEC, wouldn’t they just say “we captured some hard drives, add these hashes to the list”?
Newspeak, not photos, just all kind of files on your device.
> Under no circumstances are consumption taxes "regressive".

They absolutely are “regressive” in the objective sense “progressive/
” and “regressive” are applied to taxation (which is distinct from normative uses of the pair, which are common in other areas of political discussion), in that they tend to tax a lesser (absolute and marginal) share of income with increasing income, due to declining marginal propensity to consume.

> Consumption taxes are the only tax any free people should tolerate.

There are obviously an infinite number of potential systems of moral axioms for which this is true (the most trivial being any in which it is taken as a moral axiom), and also an infinite number in which it is not. However, as you’ve provided neither the basic principles in which your belief in this is grounded or your reasoning connecting the conclusion to those principles, you’ve provided no reason for anyone who doesn't already hold this belief to adopt it.

> Furthermore, any good implementation of a consumption (VAT, etc.) tax is going to tax luxury goods at much higher rate than consumer staples.

That's an interesting “No True Scotsman”, but concrete consumption tax proposals (e.g., “FairTax”) often do not do this.
I have run into this problem as well, my webapp sends one-time login/unsubscribe/etc links via email and bots like Office365 click on them, and, yes, they execute JS as well.

A standard workaround is to serve a page with a submit button on HTTP GET, and actually perform the login/unsubscribe/whatever on HTTP POST.

In case of emails, one can also observe the email scanner bots run almost immediately after the email goes out. We can use this as a bot detection heuristic, and make life a little easier for human users:

* if the login link is clicked within 5 minutes of email being sent, treat it as a possible bot activity and require the extra button press

* otherwise, assume the visitor is human, and auto-click the button via JS on page load

More context in this StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59281750/strategies-to-p...
I love this. As a watch enthusiast myself, it's always great to see the history of watches and how their internals came to be.

For anybody interested, there's also an awesome video from Hamilton made in the late 40s that shows a lot of the information in this article!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0_vOw6eCc
I like the idea of doubling-down on UX patterns as a 'fashion' that we all have to adapt to each occasion and season.

We'd quickly branch into 'busines formal' UX patterns that change infrequently, only splashing a company color in places but largely uniform, all the way through to 'haute couture' UX patterns like the recent 'brutalist' trend, trusting they only appear on trendier sites and dropshipping fronts.
No - the amount of bad info in these discussions has gotten incredible. The more overblown the claims the more trashy the data it seems they are based on.

It's funny, it is literally in the first paragraph of the system overview in terms of how the database of hashes is stored - "which is securely stored on users’ devices"
Hi, I am one of the co-creators of Sniptt.

We faced this ourselves countless times, and it is exactly why we created both OTS and Snip (https://github.com/sniptt-official/snip - like OTS but with the ability to persist secrets and also create shared vaults etc.).

Pleased to say that self-hosted options for both OTS and Snip are currently top of our roadmap.

Keep an eye on the repos for updates! :)
I'm sorry, this is ridiculous. I don't even lose 15% of my battery life in 2 hours on my galaxy S3 without using it, and it is nearly a decade old at this point.
It's hard to predict what will consumers think.

It will be enough to have one big scandal with police crashing into innocent person house after they shared a photo of their child on the beach with their close relatives to change public opinion of this feature.

Even from business perspective Apple is playing very risky game here. It can backfire.

Also let's keep in mind that iPhones are usually owned by higher income more educated left-leaning people. And have a look how MSM (which is generally left-leaning) writes about this feature. For example, Guardian here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/07/week-i... "Privacy. That’s (no longer) iPhone." Such coverage of Apple may result in people switching away from iPhones, or for example, switching to Google for photo storage, and switching further away from iMessage.

It is very unclear how events will unfold.
The Energy Transition Show podcast is a resource that should receive more attention. It is subscription based, but a free-as-in-beer "best of" episode was released recently.

https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-151-best-of-ets/

I shared many of the attitudes popular on HN regarding technology and climate change. ETS has convinced me that:

1. We don’t need to utilize nuclear power to account for the intermittency of solar and wind.

2. Carbon capture and storage technology doesn't need to exist in order achieve decarbonization.

I used to despair about climate change. I'm still quite worried about displacing the centralized incumbent interests. This podcast and its associated resources has gotten me off the couch and thinking about how to apply myself to be part of the solution.
I used to think as you do about nuclear, but I've become convinced that old nuclear technology is too expensive to compete with renewables OR fossil fuels, and new nuclear technology cannot scale up enough to matter before 2050 (when the worst effects of climate change will either have been averted or made inevitable).

- https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/7/11/1755564...

- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201005112141.h...

I still absolutely believe it is worth investing in nuclear just in case I'm wrong, and it would be nice to explore the universe later using e.g. cold fusion if our civilization survives this crisis, but I do not think we should rely on or expect nuclear power to make any significant contribution to addressing the climate crisis on the very tight timeline necessary.
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I thought about that as well. They rushed to publish some unpolished PR pieces and FAQs right after the announcement and at very unusual times (3am in Cupertino) trying to damage control so my guess would be as well that they didn't even consider the backlash. Maybe they were really proud about the technology they implemented. It's a little bit sad if you think about it.
iPhone batteries are only rated for 500 cycles of 100% -> 0%. Or, to look at it differently: You can charge 1 percent of your battery 50,000 times on your iphone before Apple no longer guarantees under warrantee that your battery will hold 80% of its original capacity.

Caveat: every percent is not equivalent. Charging above 90% is harder on your battery than charging from 40-50%. Charging and even just using your battery while it is very hot (90 degrees or above) or very cold (below freezing) is also very hard on it. Apple defines operating temperatures as:

> Use iOS devices where the ambient temperature is between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F)

and claims that using the phone outside those temperature ranges can permanently shorten battery life. Bit silly when you live someplace like I do where 60% or more of days are outside of that operating range, but I guess Apple is really just designing for Cupertino temperatures.

Basically after just 365 days of phone ownership, you're probably already over 50% of your way through your battery and capacity might be reduced by over 10%, up to 19% is still OK under warrantee. I've had a 2016 iPhone SE for over 5 years now, and I've replaced the battery twice in that time. Seems to be essentially required once every two years.