skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Apple would rather put this CSAM-scanning system in place (which allows them to implement end-to-end encryption for iCloud in the future) than deal with the EARN-IT Act or similar becoming law, which could effectively make all e2e-encrypted services illegal (require a government backdoor).

>The bill also crafts two addition changes to Section 230(c)(2)'s liability, allows any state to bring a lawsuit to service providers if they fail to deal with child sexual abuse material on their service, or if they allow end-to-end encryption on their service and do not provide means to enforcement officials to decrypt the material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act_of_2020
I think only an Indian would make thar association.
>like sales and use taxes, and user fees, are all regressive

Under no circumstances are consumption taxes "regressive". Consumption taxes are the only tax any free people should tolerate. The poor will never pay more in outright dollars, or in percentage. It's only "regressive" if you you stupidly count money that isn't spent, which is entirely pointless because of course money not spent won't get hit with a consumption tax (it will once it DOES get spent, the more you spend the more you pay, which means consumption taxes are PROGRESSIVE). Furthermore, any good implementation of a consumption (VAT, etc.) tax is going to tax luxury goods at much higher rate than consumer staples.
What I wonder is-- are child pornographers really by and large storing these materials on iCloud or on their phones at all?

I think you're correct, this is the thin end of the wedge for something else entirely.
I think the idea is not that the design is without a grid, but more on how it handles being resized. The video in the article does a good job of explaining it.
Am I the only person who read this comment in Kevin O’Leary’s voice?
> This is incredibly handy when we want an element to sit just outside another one

Nice! I've been using `position: absolute` + `bottom: 100%` for this. I'll be adding this trick to my toolbox.
Most of the major tech co's have already adapted to China's requests.

That in general means hosting data about chinese nationals in china, usually using state govt controlled datacenters, and making sure the keys to decrypt content are also local and accessible to those state controlled employees.

You should have little to no privacy expectation in china as an example.

For example AWS is careful to use this language about it's china regions: "Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD"

They used to block KMS services in China as well.

Apple has said it will (generally) follow the law in the countries it operates in. Until we say apple can make its own laws that is probably what it'll have to do.
The reasonable inference is that corporate is getting kickbacks from Taylor for all the service calls.
If anyone is curious like I was, here's a quick review of what the linked code does:

- Reads plaintext input from stdin

- Symmetrically encrypts the plaintext using a 32-byte [cryptographically] random generated key (AES-256 GCM)

- POSTs the ciphertext and expiry (default 24h) to https://api.ots.sniptt.com/secrets

- The server responds with a URL to view the secret via a response header

- Query string "?ref=cli&v=<version>" are appended to the secret URL

- The decryption key is base64 encoded and appended to the secret URL as a Fragment, "#<key>"

- The secret URL is printed to stdout
I think there's a reasonable chance of that. We'll figure out different crops to grow, we'll move away from deserts, etc. It may be hard, life expectancy may fall steeply, but we'll adapt largely intact, and then we'll eventually run out of fossil fuels anyway.

But if you look at what's happening in the Great Barrier Reef. It's dying. The ecosystem is dying from the bottom, and nothing on top can survive either. I think this is a very real possibility too.
Nothing changed. The issue is the same for both situations: possible communication with remote servers.

If the scanning here was happening and merely notifying the user, there wouldn't be a problem. Or course, it would be completely useless to catch criminals.
Common sense definitions are useless in philosophy.
It‘s easy enough to believe, but newer research says that the mere presence of a smartphone does not have a measurable effect on cognitive function.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...
Hopper minecarts pickup items really quickly, and hoppers can pull stuff out of them

For tnt, there's a duplication glitch that lets them rain down
> but Apple has said that the scanning is done on-device

Yes, but only for images being uploaded to iCloud.

> meaning whether or not you upload your photo library to iCloud, your local photos will be scanned

Not in the currently proposed implementation, if I understand correctly.

Disclaimer: All my information about this thing is from news articles; I might be misunderstanding the details.
Ask HN: What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?
What cheap yet very useful things have made a substantial change and improvement to your life?

For me it has always been USB flash drives. I'm scared of getting ransomware'd one day, but I am safe in the knowledge that I'd have to have every thumbdrive I own plugged into my PC for some real damage to happen. They are a lifesaver, and they get cheaper every year too!
I honestly wonder if the privacy/intrusion backlash wasn't even considered because they were focused on this from the perspective of "isn't this great that these phones now have enough power to do this computation on-device", the same way they were proud to be able to announce that Siri processing would begin to happen on-device.
>A handful of corporations are responsible for the vast majority of warming. It's not our fault, it's theirs. They did it, and they knew they were doing it.

Consumers want oil. Drilling for oil is legal. BP drills for oil. Why is BP's fault?

Or, to switch around the entities a bit. America likes widgets. Making widgets generates pollution. Prior to the 90s it was mostly made in America, so that's where all the pollution is emitted. It's clear that America is to blame. Now it's the 2000s. Thanks to globalization it's now cheaper to make in China rather than the US. Now all the pollution is being emitted in china. Who's fault is it? Is America suddenly off the hook?
> And it would be news to me, that it is now completely free of binary blobs and their claims always felt a little bit dishonest to me.

It's the only phone running FSF-endorsed OS without binary blobs, PureOS. It's recommended by the FSF [0]. More details here [1].

[0] https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/

[1] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
> I’ve come to assume all major cloud hosting providers implement something like this

They have, for the past decade.

>The system that scans cloud drives for illegal images was created by Microsoft and Dartmouth College and donated to NCMEC. The organization creates signatures of the worst known images of child pornography, approximately 16,000 files at present. These file signatures are given to service providers who then try to match them to user files in order to prevent further distribution of the images themselves, a Microsoft spokesperson told NBC News. (Microsoft implemented image-matching technology in its own services, such as Bing and SkyDrive.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/your-cloud-drive-really-pr...
Terrible headline.

to create a business, perhaps.

to create an "app", you literally just need a developer
No, it really isn't a 'surefire' messaging system if it doesn't work on any device without a SIM card and a carrier subscription...
I never had a good experience with my Joby GorillaPod. All the plastic cup pieces developed cracks and the friction just wasn't there. The structural contraption holding up the propeller looks shotty as well. I'm pretty sure Joby Energy and Joby Photographic equipment are separate entities but that name Joby doesn't instill any confidence.
exactly. This seems a pretty low intrusion way to deal with a somewhat important issue to a lot of folks. They already had access to these icloud photos on icloud, this was in a way something to keep the scanning OFF their servers.

I really continue to doubt this is going to have huge damage to apple's brand. More likely - others will rush to copy this (or be forced to by govts elected by people who want this).
It's not a pendulum. To imagine such a thing is a very indulgent way of thinking. The liberties experienced in the United States are quite exceptional as human societies go. In the history of human civilization, the tendency is towards the feudalistic, the imperial, the totalitarian. So the natural course is for liberties to erode. It took bloodshed and great will to carve out freedoms enjoyed by the United States.

It's less the dynamic of a pendulum and more the dynamic of oxidation.

We luxuriate in thinking that these "Western-style democracies" are a norm, when in fact on the planet today the best of them are very few and I think the case could be made that all of them are showing signs of withering principles in the face of threats and greed. So you find people arguing whether this or that style of loss is rational today because of some set of de jure reasons, but in the long scope of history it's simply a question of maintaining liberty or lessening of liberty - is the fruit rotting? Are we falling back towards the illiberal norm and how fast? The reasons of the day are irrelevant. The bargain is known - de-risk at the cost of liberty. The dynamic is known - the powerful seek to consolidate more power. The rest is filler.
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This is the fundamental observation that the Zig language is built on, and it proves to be an extremely powerful way of understanding your system when taken to its logical extreme.
From organization. They can rely on the police to arrest you, you cannot rely that your arrest will be what sparks the revolution that overthrows them. Assuming many people even learn about your arrest - they might be able to find out in theory, but it's probably not going to be on the front page of major newspapers.
This is dealt with. The domain is no longer blocked. Thanks for reporting it!
I don't think so. This is a case by case reasoning. There is no straight logic leads to jumping from scanning iCloud photos to installing cameras in homes.
see for yourself:

https://godbolt.org/z/Mj9T7vP44
And, they referred to us as the "screeching minority".
How is this a win for right to repair? It sounds like the company making the original equipment has been barred from obtaining the modification device, so they can't even verify that it's safe. Is this what we want? If I make a medical x-ray machine, and someone makes a device that modifies it, is barring me from obtaining said device to check it's safety a win for right to repair? It just sounds like the company making the modification is latching on to the right to repair movement to win their case.
It's the same as with parents photographing their naked babies in the bathtub. Those images won't be flagged because they aren't in the database provided to Apple. Only verified illegal photos should be in the database. So you and your girlfriend will be fine.
Apple new ad strategy: "Either buy and use Apple iPhone, or you are predator."
As I said, they made sense in the past. We’ve also moved on from social constructs before. Our biology pushes us to forget the past innately; we need to update our cognitive software.

Economics is a meta-analysis of natural human behavior. It’ll be true that we behave that way without the analysis. The value in that analysis is for behavioral management, not people.

We need not empower “economists” politically, or enable protectionism as a result of their insights, which enriches a minority unfairly, and provides them means of to participate in political corruption (see Yellen getting money from banks and being all anti crypto).

We absolutely have no natural or legal obligation to capitalism, as we’re actually a socialist system, where negotiations make the decisions; it’s just they’re gated and flow to industrialists.

We moved on from rotary phones and horse n buggy as science and technical discovery enabled it. We can certainly move on from favoring ephemeral currency being our economic motivator.

This forum is all “disrupt!” and I keep seeing the same few coming out on top. Keep disrupting.
Thanks for all of your classes and tutorials, Josh, they really help me understand how to use CSS to get stuff done.
A carbon tax with dividends would solve that problem. It would be a net positive for the first 6 or 7 decile of the population while still sending a strong signal to the markets to switch to greener alternatives to stay competitive.

Regarding moving production abroad, the carbon tax should work hand in hand with a border adjustment mechanism.

You can look at how it has been implemented in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_pricing_in_Canada
Oh, like national security letters [1] ? GTFO.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
In Rust you can tag a function with arbitrary configuration parameters, it's common to write

#[cfg(unix)]

but you could equally write

#[cfg(linux)]

It's just that you're much less likely to need to say this. For example OSStr (borrowed reference to the Operating System specific string type) has #[cfg(unix)] reflecting APIs that make sense for a Unix-style string while #[cfg(windows)] wraps APIs that make sense if your operating system once thought characters are a u16. But the ordinary str and String don't have such APIs, you have to explicitly tell the language "I need this gross non-portable stuff" before you have to start using macros to get to the specific platform dependant elements.

I suspect you could do a similar trick in C++ but it may not be standardised anywhere.
This could actually have some very serious consequences. Quote from the apple announcement:

> Apple then manually reviews each report to confirm there is a match, disables the user’s account, and sends a report to NCMEC.

So a match doesn't just get you reported to the authorities, it disables your account. Even if the feds do investigate you and find you innocent due to being swatted or whatever, you still need to file an appeal with Apple and hope they give you back your digital life.

This could also lead to large spam campaigns of CP being sent to random people, either to just fuck with them, or to undermine the system/overwhelm investigators with a bunch of false positives.
Minecraft provides surprisingly many opportunities for automation. Most of them are pretty unintuitive though. A good source on how things can be automated are technical Minecraft Youtubers like ilmango.

TNT is used in farm designs, which generate blocks needing breaking, e.g. wood farms, cobble stone farms, dirt farms. There are two ways to get a lot of TNT for this: a) duping b) building a farm yielding gun powder (generic mob farm, creeper farm, witch farm) and duping or gathering sand

Hopper minecarts can collect items from below a magma block, which allows for easy killing zones in mob farms. Normal minecarts are sometimes used as gondolas for slime block bouncing lifts as the position of a player in a minecart is more accurate on servers. Minecarts can also be used to kill creatures via entity cramming. If there are more than 24 entitities within a block, creatures receive damage until the entity count drops. Once you have an iron farm, the minecarts and tracks become cheap.
> phone's are just phones

> But computers are another story.

Librem 5 and Pinephone smartphones are computers running GNU/Linux.
You can't realistically reverse engineer a hash to source image.
The government will have to overcome the same issues compelling NCMEC to add pictures to its data set that it would have to overcome with Apple.

Additionally, by compelling the NCMEC, the government cannot increase the scope of searching or lower the match threshold.
That is entirely up to you.
Yeah, Peterson's books are required reading for anyone who wants to understand where D&D came from. I think understanding the history of D&D is pretty crucial to understanding why and how to play D&D even today, half a century later. Peterson's "The Elusive Shift" gos into some theory of role-playing games from the 80's which is still as true today as it was then.
Tried on two Macs:

- Firefox 90.0.2 (64-bit) (Intel) and macOS 11.5

- Firefox 90.0.2 (64-bit) (Apple Silicon) and macOS 11.5.1

Tried private window with no extensions as well and still no dice. All interactive demos. Nothing happens when I manipulate the sliders.

Interestingly this works fine when I click around the options [0]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/transform
> > A company that lets you rent out your car's battery when you aren't using it.

> I don't see that one happening. Ever.

It is happening, e.g. https://www.octopusev.com/powerloop
Remember when scanners would allow you to scan banknotes, even those with a Eurion code?

I suspect we'll be seeing more of this kind of thing in digital stand-alone cameras. GPS-enabled? You just lost the ability to photograph demonstrations. Trademarked logos i the background? Maybe the shutter won't click.
Gygax had a habit of erasing some other major influences from history, including co-developer of D&D Dave Arneson, and JRR Tolkien's works.

Regarding Arneson, you can find documentaries online and books. Here are some other sources:

Rules for Middle Earth by Leonard Patt (~late 1970):
https://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-precursor-t...

Tolkien was reportedly mentioned in versions of Chainmail (Gygax's precursor to D&D) and OD&D (the rare, staple-bound ~prototype/MVP version predating the breakthrough editions, Basic and Advanced D&D), but after an IP dispute the Tolkien references were removed and Gygax repeatedly disclaimed any interest in or influence by Tolkien, despite obvious similarities. There are also articles Gygax wrote for late-1960s fanzine, Thangorodrim, where he openly adopts Tolkien material:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=thangorodrim
It's blatant.
Same here. 91.9b9 and Win 10. I'm not sure any of them are.
Since I am GP: I really hope I'd not fall for anything so stupid :-)

That said I am also a conservative and I think I know a bit about conservatives; if one want conservatives to change as fast as possible phrase it in a way that sounds reasonable to the conservative mind:

- it is economically smart on individual level

- "repairing things is the traditional thing to do" and "it feels good to be in control"

- "industry should look for ways to save resources to stay competitive and increase yield on investment for shareholders" (sorry, English is not my first language, if this reads as a parody it is not meant as)

- "take advantage of the green wave". Competitive advantage: Point out that wealthy consumers will, on average, choose the greener product if they are otherwise equal. (Maybe poor ones will too, but we are here to sell this idea, aren't we ;-)

- On a national level: we need to get independence from China

- "reach individual monetary independence faster by making smart choices"

Doing this instead of continuing to make a partisan issue about it should go a long way I think. That is, if getting the results is more important than "being right".

People are already making money this way: just yesterday I heard a close friend explaining enthusiastically (I'll translate it on the fly from my native language as well as adding my explanation of why I think this was potent):

- a US jeans company had gotten hold of "the last real loom that wasn't sent to China" (local business argument)

- "hired the old operators to teach the how to use it" (traditional argument),

- "picked it apart - about a million pieces - and restored it" (self sufficient etc argument)

- and are now selling expensive pants - but it is real jeans (the actual sales argument)
> Not a single mention of Dave Arneson in it, which pains me. I can forgive the omission of fiction that was inspired by D&D (really, Quag Keep and its greatly lagged sequel are terrible by almost any standard of fiction), but leaving out Arneson verges on the Downright Peculiar

Definitely – Dave Arneson being the co-creator of D&D, via his legendary Blackmoor game/campaign. The original D&D rules, the Blackmoor supplement and setting, and the Temple of the Frog dungeon were all derived from Arneson's game.

Arneson was brilliant and his work is inspiring; I can only imagine how amazing it would have been to take a game design course from him when he taught at Full Sail in the 2000s.
No, but every proposal so far hand waves the specifics of both what the tax will go to along with all the other technical details that would actually make the tax work. We could have a utopian world where the true value of carbon is consistently taxed equally across all industries and then distributed efficiently to those unfairly affected by it. We could also have an unholy bureaucrtic nightmare where the actual tax varies violently depending on which party in power, has exemptions for every industry big enough to have lobbyist, and instead completely burdens the middle class while all profits go towards filling the desert with enough tanks to fight WWII sixteen times over while still having enough left over to think really, really hard about building high speed rail in a place that isn't useless.

Don't forget that the people that would be implementing this are the same people who are currently voting to criminalize every element of the cryptocurrency ecosystem (including development of more efficient standards) while still leaving an exception for PoW miners.
I’m sure they will try, but I don’t see how this mechanism will help them.
Is there any mechanical watch like the Seiko 5, but thinner and hopefully not much more expensive? I have a 5 and like it, it does feel a bit chunky at times.
Should maybe have thumbs up/down and use that to maybe better 'train' the algorithm... on whether it exists/doesn't exist.
In Canada our so called environmentalist parties BC/AB NDP and Fed Liberals are still insisting we can meet our climate goals while expanding the oil sands and developing liquified natural gas for export.

It's like they're conducting the train, saying that only they can stop it, while continuing to shovel coal in the furnace.

We need someone that has the strength to pull that emergency brake instead.
Because CSAM is bad, copyrights are important, etc.
> What scares me is that there doesn't even seem to be a constituency for bold action on climate. I used to at least be comforted by the political left carrying the torch, but the most recent iteration of the party has a "climate policy" that just dresses up the same old unrelated economic wishlist in climate rhetoric like a skinsuit

The left != the party (by which I assume you mean the Democrats)

A sizeable fraction of the population understands that climate change is an enormous problem and when polled has said solving it should be a priority (no numbers or poll link offhand, sorry). They are also routinely told that they are terrible people if they don't support the party that at least acknowledges climate change in their rhetoric over the one that for all I can tell is 100% committed to turning the planet into one big oil spill.

Don't confuse the actions of the politicians with what the populace actually cares about. Something like 70% wants universal government-run healthcare (yeah, even the people who watch Fox news[1]) but even with Democratic majorities in congress the politicians can't seem to scrounge the two craps to even pretend like they want to make it happen.

[1] https://youtu.be/zmlL8SRrImQ