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Yes, it is further enroachment.

1. Software running on Apple's cloud scanning for content.

2. Software running on local devices scanning for content uploaded to the cloud.

3. Software running on local devices scanning for local and cloud content.

These must happen gradually to shift the overton window. Apple is progressing this.
A retracted, un-peer-reviewed article published by an economist and a medical doctor, neither of whom have any experience in public health.

Might as well be written by Andrew Wakefield.
I'm stifling the urge, because the article does the typical thing where they categorize his douchiness as 'misbehavior' and then immediately pivot to talking about that sexual harassment walkout, using the term 'misconduct'. The fuck does 'misbehavior' even mean?

I'm automatically suspicious of people playing word-association games like that.

Sounds like the guy has poor emotional control and is only in his position due to right place, right time. Fortune passes everywhere.
When I was there the power operated until 10pm at night. From that time homes would either run from personal generators, or batteries - to power refrigerators, lights, routers, etc. These days the homes have or are getting solar panels.

Internet was terrible at the time. I wrote about it here: https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2012/05/29/pitcairn-island-and-slo...

It has improved but is still relatively slow and expensive.
I think the harmful opoids were created due to heroin being illegal. The pharmaceutical version is purified and more potent in general, helping enshrine it as the go to for smuggling due to its smaller size/volume and then cut once it's imported to its destination. Just an opinion tho.
This is very easy to fix. Just taper off over a long period of time. I’ve quit coffee temporarily (reset) many times this way.

I’ll benchmark my current consumption on a scale. Then I’ll make a spreadsheet that reduces it over a period of two weeks gradually, until hitting zero.

You can adjust the duration to a month or whatever you feel comfortable with.
>I definitely think the space treaty has to go and be replaced by a reasonable treaty that allows militarization of space.

It's hilarious how you and MichaelZuo (and every one of the idiots who denounced the US Space Force before its creation) don't actually know what the Outer Space Treaty says.

The treaty does not ban "militarization of space". As gpm said, it only bans weapons of mass destruction in space. Space has been heavily miltarized for 60 years; for the entirety of the space age, military and intelligence agencies have been far, far larger users of space than civilians.
It is truly amazing that this extremely remote island can actually be explored via Google street view: https://goo.gl/maps/Jq2nguTrabm84sKB8
Pedophiles will just simply move to another platform now that this is public knowledge. Why knowingly expose themselves to the risk of using Apple devices when Windows, Android, Linux, etc. exist?

Unfortunately, I doubt the (obviously) good parts of this will really have much impact. But the rest of us will be stuck with the inevitable false positives, increased security attack surface, and potential for govt abuse.
Because it isn’t Apple’s device or data. It’s mine. And I don’t want this on my computer.
I didn’t say it wasn’t important. It is important. I was trying to say that there is a tendency in the tech industry to value new projects over maintenance. And this list was partly in jest.
One benefit is the time zone of Pitcairn is very close to North American Pacific time. Right now it's one hour earlier. Get your Starlink account and you're set.
So your solution for an expensive surface vessel is an even more expensive subsurface vessel that does the same thing?
> His domain has also been excluded from the internet archive for some reason.

Because Byuu, who later went by "Near", tried to scrub as much personal information from the internet in the hopes of staying ahead of constant doxing attacks by an awful internet community called KiwiFarms. It didn't work. In the end, Near/Byuu committed suicide months ago to escape the constant harassment.
It is, in fact, not complicated, and there is a clear answer.

That's the reason we have the damn Constitution.

If you want to look through people's private stuff, you have to get a warrant. There is nothing more to see here.
In many states the cashier can face a $500-$1000 fine for selling to someone underage, risking being fired. The company pays a similar or larger fine. With a few of these fines that location can have alcohol sales suspended for 6-12 months. So many companies require ID for all sales regardless of age. Losing a few sales here and there from people without ID isn't worth risking it
I’ve experienced the same thing.
I can think of a semi-charitable possible explanation but after this much time I must conclude it’s on purpose.
It's signed. However, all it actually says is that "there exists a person called Joe Bloggs who has this vaccine on this date". The restaurant is then supposed to check this against photo ID. In practice, this rarely happens.
License has been changed to MIT.
Know a few “pot lawyers” and retail operators. The real money is in gaining a license for a dispensary. Growing is a race to the bottom. From humboldt era $5k lbs to $800 lbs
Reminds me of this from the 90s! http://www.adamauton.com/warp/
They lost my trust years ago when their software detected “me” in a photo. Why is their software analyzing and detecting things like that? It’s ludicrous.
I mean, if we're just going to start saying "you know what I meant", then why use words that have meaning for anything?

Honestly, as a driver, when I see a bicycle, I make sure to provide as much room around them as possible. When I see a motorcycle from behind, I have no idea what the thought processes of the rider will be and just continue on in a straight line and allow them to make a decision. A bicycle in my rearview mirror poses no threat as they cannot keep up. A motorcycle can easily overtake in way ordinary cars cannot (between lanes, etc). They are much more difficult to predict. (not even taking into consideration the tendancy of motorcycle drivers being less risk averse).

So, if you want to teach the AI that a bicycle and a motorcycle are the same thing, then yes, you might inadvertantly lead to an AI making the wrong decision leading to a death. I wouldn't necessarily blame you for picking the wrong image in a captcha, but I'd definitely blame the devs for not sanitizing user input.
It's not ideal and pisses me off it took this long, but the technical implementation and UX is not at all bad now that we're here. The big 3 American carriers are in on this standard now, and Ma Bell's RCS-capable messaging app that is preinstalled on Android phones is basically indistinguishable from Google Messages even down to the logo. What I mean is that the UX isn't that "carrier-y" and more dumb-utility esque. Lastly, Google may not install their APK version as default on OEM phones- but the binary is readily available on the Play Store and Android has a myriad default app settings, including for messaging.

Look, Google fucked up for years and it's actually my biggest gripe with them (ceding messaging to the loonies in Cupertino in the US) but at least we're now at the point where all American Android users will have an interoperable standard, and since iMessage is a cancer in America particularly, well, it's okay if RCS takes longer to reach critical mass elsewhere.
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> I dispute your words that the island is a "rather sad place"

I certainly meant no disrespect to you or your family. Maybe it has improved since the court cases? If the people, especially the woman, there are happy I am very glad to hear it. I edited my comment out of respect.

> Many administration aspects are managed from New Zealand

The police are New Zealand police.
Because it actually cleared up my long covid. Had it for three months with no help or options from my doctor. Got the horse paste from a rancher buddy and felt improvement in a few hours and complete recovery in a few days of one dose per day. Except for lung inflammation which prednisone was able to resolve.
The graphs are preposterous. This looks like an exercise in finding what you want to see in noise. I’m horrified at the thought of this paper being disseminated to the general populace that won’t understand that.

Hungary by far has the highest “excess mortality” but the lowest vaccination rate in the three (!) mass vaccination countries used for the whole paper and in Table A-1. In fact remove Hungary and there isn’t even an effect I assume. They are just averaging the three countries together! Israel and UK aren’t even high it’s just that Hungary is super high and doesn’t have lots of other countries to average out its variance. Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland have vastly higher excess mortality than Israel and UK but are in the low vaccination category. It’s nonsense.
F-22s aren't carrier capable.

You're confusing the Air Force and the Navy.
Yes, polling.
From stories I've heard from a sample of the hundreds of millions of people vaccinated, combined with reports form health authorities about the side effects, and various studies. Many people I've talked to said that the vaccines (AstraZeneca and Pfizer in Australia) was more intense than most.

This study is saying there might be a 20% increase in risk of death in young people from being vaccinated and that seems pretty plausible. 120% of nearly 0 is still nearly 0 and that could easily be missed in the phase I-III trials.
Without addressing any other points you’re making, NCMEC wrote the email to Apple that contained the “screeching minority” phrase. It was not something Apple wrote.
>a misalignment between their leadership and human values seems pretty concerning

I mean this is what it boils down to. Does your self assessment of your value align with your bosses assessment, and if not, then who's wrong?

I've been guilty of assigning tasks to employees just to keep their hands off of another area of a project.

At that point in time, their best value to me was being busy with something else.
I spent the weekend (well, saturday) trying to get rid of an ant problem in the kitchen. They were coming up to the work-surfaces through cracks in the grouting.

So I re-grouted the backsplash, and the joins in the worksurface etc.

Of course, they started coming up through gaps in between the floor tiles, so I patched those. Then through the window sills. And I noticed they pushed out some of the new grout to make a couple of new runs.

You will never completely stop this problem.

And monitoring every. single. thing. is not the way to tackle it.

Professionals need to target the source of the problem. Who is being abused? Why? Who are the abusers? Why? How and where are the two meeting?

This is the work to traditional policing, improved social services and society in general, not mass-surveillance.
> If you want to look through people's private stuff, you have to get a warrant.

The "you" in the Fourth Amendment context does not apply to Apple.
Because I don't want to deal with tide-mode, rjsx-mode, web-mode, ts2-mode, lsp, etc. etc. just to read a typescript file.

I'll make it work, eventually, but I'm not too invested in it. I want to be helpful to my team too, and I can't do that if I ignore their setups. That's why I've got VS Code open at the same time.
> I was deep into the CSGO cheating scene

No judging, but why?
I feel like a broken record, but just because things are different doesn't make it "sad". Sure, it doesn't have the mod cons of modern city life, but it has a lifestyle of growing your own food, fishing, building what you need and living in the country.

People have applied for the ability to live there but the reality is that there are many people dreaming of an idyllic lifestyle but when faced with the realisation of how hard they have to work to survive on a remote island and having to integrate into an established community they don't progress further.
You don’t need a captcha if you’re willing to put some engineering resources at it. Check the IP reputation. Fingerprint the browser, they never bot from mobile devices. It’s always zombie windows boxes. Whitelist all your marketing traffic because that traffic is clean.
You can argue it's unethical but it's not illegal. The police can often obtain a warrant with just a private tip from an anonymous line. I'm sure a neural network match with access logs proving image upload AND a human reviewer confirming it matches CSAM is more than enough for a search & seizure.
I'm excited to adopt these new categories.

Discussing pain with my care providers is very suboptimal.

The 9 categories from this OC are far superior to our respective current vocabularies.
I found this just as fascinating as the ancient fish traps.
Do you have any problems with the substance of the article?
It is an anti-parasitic but also effective antiviral and blunts the replication rate.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01663...
I find it ironic that everything listed on that options screen of "features" that RCS enables are things I'd turn off

- Read receipts - no thank you

- Typing indicators - no thank you

When I want the person I'm txting with to know something, I'll send a reply txt.
This is a valid criticism of the studies but realize it is difficult to fund large ones given ivermectin's patents are long expired. It has billions of doses of decent safety history at least.

Lot of great anecdotal reports on various forums for whatever that's worth, including yours truly.
It's not a matter of belief of disbelief, and there's no strict separation between anti-parasitic versus anti-viral drugs. Ivermectin is a small molecule drug with a variety of effects, one of which might impact SARS-CoV-2 replication. This paper explains the suspected mechanism of action.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422...
Except for the highly manueverable and stealth (no emission) ones.

However, a huge amount of mass (for dropping) invalidates the former of those.
A quicker way might be to use the work profile thst modt ,odern android devices support. An easy and flexible way tomdo this is to install "island" to set it up and then clone discord into it. Only supports two setups then but it's really easy to do out of the box. Editing the apk to allow multiple installs though would then let you do more but it's also more work to do.
> They lost my trust years ago when their software detected “me” in a photo.

I don't understand. Their software, running on your phone, without interacting with any servers outside your phone, identified you for your convenience.

What's harmful about that?
I have some genuine questions regarding Apple's new CSAM detection.

From what I have read

1) Most cloud providers including Apple already scans uploaded photos for child abuse. Photos are scanned server-side.
2) Apple wants to do this on-device instead of server-side so that,
1) photos are not looked up and scanned on the server.
2) the device can generate a cryptographic safety voucher to prevent leaking information about images that do not match the CSAM database.
3) threshold secret sharing can be used to prevent match results and encrypted data about the images from being accessed unless the account exceeds a threshold of matches.
3) Photos that are not uploaded to iCloud Photos are not affected.
4) Matching is done against *already known* database of CSAM images.
5) Data is manually reviewed before reporting to NCMEC.

Isn't this better than what Apple and other companies(Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc.) have been doing on the server-side? Server-side and on-device CSAM detection both perform scan > match > manual review > report process. As far as I can see, the difference is that on-device detection adds more restrictions to Apple and third-parties.

There are many claims focused on Apple's decision to move away from server-side to on-device CSAM detection that,

1) it is worse for privacy. (How is it worse than server-side detection? It is worse than no detection, but then there is no point of focusing on Apple's decision to move away from server-side detection.)
2) it is bad that other companies will follow this path. (Why is it bad if other companies replace server-side detection to on-device detection?)
3) it will let false positives to be triggered. (If it lets, were false positives previously(server-side) impossible to be triggered?)

I'm all in for ceasing personal data scanning, both server-side and on-device, altogether. But based on what I have read, I think on-device detection is at least better than server-side detection. On the other hand, the amount of backlash laser-focused on Apple's decision to move away from server-side to on-device CSAM detection has led me to believe that I might be missing something. Am I?
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> There has been a long sad history of sexual abuse, with one third of the island's male population being convicted and imprisoned in the early 2000s.

This sounds really bad, until you realise one-third of the male population is 7 people.

You are correct, but its not an accurate use of statistics.
> The turn off icloud argument also does not work.

Doesn't it? It worked on Android for the past seven years. Haven't heard anyone complain about the fact that Google has being doing pretty much the exact same thing to all photos uploaded to their cloud.

> So the solution is: stop using Apple.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and probably a dozen other major companies who didn't even consider it necessary to tell us.
With cloudfront it's not just one IP, it's potentially one at every edge node. But yeah, every time I see that pricing I get a little chuckle because it's so obviously deterrent pricing - it's not how much the IP address costs, it's the minimum amount Amazon wants for dealing with your bullshit.
I was in Virginia with a California drivers license and they wouldn’t let me use my California ID. Workers are paranoid about getting busted for selling booze to a minor. I guess no one ever gets fired for blocking an alcohol sale, but if they cause the store to loose their license they might be out of a job.
To make it worse, a lot of times it's actually high fructose syrup instead of cane sugar in food.
I was a little jealous of people who had Duck Hunt with theirs since we had gotten ours earlier.
How do I get in on this? What have you heard?
You can at least look at the same data they did.
Because when the Apple employee who reviews the flagged accounts sees pictures of Tank Man and not CSAM, they won't forward them on.
Just stay home for two weeks to slow the spread, just don't wear masks they aren't effective, wear masks to stay safe, if you take the vaccine you don't need the mask, if you want to stay safe wear the mask and get the booster, your phone is secure, we only will use the backdoor to find people who have images of children, we will only use the back door to find criminals, your memes indicate you are a danger to society please report to a re-education camp, you are far too dangerous to be reintroduced here is your labor assignment, you no longer are of value to society your organs will go to those who contribute the most. That nuanced enough? Never allow a back door, because anyone can and will use it for nefarious purposes.
Yes! I remember seeing photos of the person doing the google photography. Especially going down an area called "Down Rope" where some pre-european petroglyphs are. You basically have to cling to the side of a rock wall down the cliff to get there - dangerous and tiring! It's safe as long as you stick to the trail, and helpful to have a guide, but sometimes things go wrong https://jimmyaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/life-and-de...
I've had Captcha insist that I have to misidentify a mailbox as a parking meter before it would let me proceed.
I can quickly identify some potential issues with statistical controls and low numbers of samples, but a dismissal based on credentials is a weak logical fallacy called credentialism. I see it everywhere, especially on forums of people who are likely to have and value credentials (HN). The authors' credentials (which are really not lacking anyway) have nothing to do with the merits of their argument. Especially on an internet forum, where there is no shortage of people with free time to analyze arguments.
Tell me, is your country one where loosing your job would be considered a relatively trivial or benign punishment for mouthing off? Because in my parents' country they would have been thrown off an airplane for what this kid did.

But I didn't grow up in my parent's country. I grew up in the West. And I cherish very jealously my rights and refuse to trivialize cancel culture, blasphemy laws etc. And if we in the West had taken our rights seriously this kid wouldn't have been fired.
The difference for the dishwasher we had was minimal, but due to being commercial, it wasn’t certified with the right rating. It would have likely been a great option due to durability and the overall quality.
>And make no mistake: The consequences for the accused are very tangible.

A promotion and a raise? The horror.

> democracy cannot exist without a rule of law. When we violate those basic legal principles, we risk destabilizing our society at large.

It's weird, Hacker News is usually extreme in its defense of absolute freedom of speech and the press, especially the freedom of the press to report negatively on people in positions of power. But when someone writes an article on a Google employee that they don't like, it's "destabilizing our society at large" and violates "basic legal principles."

Where did all the Friends of Voltaire go, I wonder? Where was all of this sympathy and assumption of good faith for Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell? Why does HN only ever go to the mat for sociopaths, bigots and assholes?

>In some jurisdictions, defamation is illegal irrespective of the claims' veracity in order to ensure the right to due process and avoid non-sactioned punishments.

What defamation?

What punishment? He got a promotion. He was punished with money and power and being in line for CEO.

> cannot help but feel legalization in other countries, including the US and UK, have not yet caught up with the forces enabled by today's social media climate.

Are you trying to make this "cancel culture" now? This has nothing to do with "today's social media climate." There was no Twitter mob calling for Mustafa Suleyman's head, there were internal complaints made by employees.
My personal experience, not in Israel, echos this.

Everyone I know who restricted their lives in 2020 went out, post-vaccination, and tried to pack everything they missed into the following months. People did the things they postponed, like dentist appointments, but also things that they wouldn't have done otherwise, like travel.
I think more some people put a value on the external experience of 'winning' over the internal experience of the game or being true to themselves. That somewhat combined with cultural or enviromental attitudes and expectations towards cheating.

I suspect these more than age group.
This is a shame. I used that process quite a few times to pick up abandoned package and organization names. NPM really needs a plan to mitigate zombie packages if we can no longer petition for them.

I can't tell from this Twitter thread lacking nuance if there was a support rep screwup, if the package owner had bad contact info on the package, or what exactly happened.