skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> collective action isn't something we can rely on and is a lot more wishful thinking about the state of humanity rather than a sober look at the reality

I understand that is a popular worry these days (and I understand why some might feel that way, given how troubling recent history is) but I think the news from history is much better than that - it's actually very good: In just the last half-century: Civil rights, women's rights, the overthrow of non-democratic regimes worldwide (E. Europe, S. Africa, S. Korea, etc. etc.), etc. In fact, the current reactionary (for lack of a better word) movement - the one that obstructs progress on Covid and climate change, among other things - is collective action to a significant extent.

It's interesting to me that as the tools for collective action have improved by orders of magnitude (i.e., the Internet and its applications), those tools are instead used to spread a message to depress action. More interesting is that the message only spreads on one side of the political world - the reactionaries aren't telling each other how useless and impossible their goals are.

Whatever the reason, it's very convenient for the status quo, for the people in power, that the public disavows their own ability to challenge them.

> The greatest hope I see for the future of humanity is the incentive for a brilliant mind/leader to become the next Bezos/Musk

From my perspective, what a depressing and self-demeaning outlook. We don't need some 'great person' to do it for us; we can do it. We can do it, right now, which means to first stop telling each other that we can't. Nothing can stop us, literally, except us not trying.

For centuries, the American story has been that we can accomplish anything together, that any person can make a difference. It's the faith behind Silicon Valley startups too. We've revolutionized politics, government, freedom, prosperity, technology ...
How do you know this damages Apple's brand? The HN community is very very different from the public regarding to privacy.

Maybe most of the public do not understand privacy in this absolute sense? Maybe even the public support scanning photoes to find child sex abusers?

It could be a fact that the outrage is only among a very small number of individuals. I won't be suprised if the number is small even among tech persons.
I'm a boss (founder & CTO) and I consider my reportees often equal or superior to me on many aspects of our work. The main reason i'm in my possition is willingness and confidence to take the risk and start a business living of savings.
There are many photos one could take without uploading or saving them in the cloud. The question is can I safely store things locally on my device without a multi-national corporation being able to set the policy of what's allowed there. The article cites examples of banned memes/images by the Chinese government.

There is also the risk of algorithm mistakes. Without the trust + safety team or any cloud verification, does this just get immediately forward to the FBI?

What is the process to be made non-guilty if the Apple algorithm thinks you have something illegal and you don't if there is no human in the loop involved before it's forwarded to authorities?

At least if you upload to a service someone on the trust + safety team can verify the algo worked properly. I would be very nervous building this kind of system of the risk of false positives! Maybe even so nervous to introduce many more false negatives - which is in itself terrible in the case of something like CSAM.
I didn’t imply only Apple is doing it either
> A pediatrician that helps you monitor your kid's health.

I think that idea exists. It's called a pediatrician.
Tiny Footprint Concurrent UI Library for Fiber
* some of these ideas may actually exist.

See also https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/

Also, I think the literal HN audience may be missing the point that this is an ideation tool. A starting place.
They never managed to cultivate it, and apparently it refused to grow anywhere else but that region in modern-day Tunisia.
What changed is Apple just signaled to the governments of the world what it's willing to do toward abusing user privacy and exactly how it can work. And hey, Apple, if you're willing to do that, why not just go a bit further and do this, because we're asking you to or else (and now we know you're obviously even more morally flexible than what you used to present yourself as).

Before that, Apple put up a front that they would fight for user privacy at every turn. They pitched that over and over and over again as a corporate ethos, a selling point. That was the facade at least, even if one is cynical and wants to pretend it was a lie. Now they're not even presenting the facade, which will open the flood gates dramatically. They went from a supposedly resisting agent, to a morally gray and willing agent at a minimum. Apple dumped an enormous vat of blood into the shark infested waters.
Do not clear-cut forests. You will obliterate the biome that is the understory. It's like giving yourself a haircut and removing your scalp down to the skull.
I've seen this once before. A company was using a travel agency to book corporate travel. Only, the "special pricing" was 2x that of Expedia. With only some basic digging, one of the Exec VPs was married to the owner of the travel agency.

I wonder who in the McDonalds corporate tree is related to Taylor or the parent company.
Tip #1 — don't try to write clean code.
Try to solve the task with best quality possible.

The quality of outcome (how reliable, performant and stable to edge cases your feature is).

Clean code will eventually and naturally come.
Don't waste your energy starting from wrong side.
That ship has sailed.

iCloud in China is controlled de facto by the CCP.

Apple is taking something from its users in the West which its users in China never had.

I walk by an iPhone billboard fairly frequently, all it says is "Privacy".

I can come to only one conclusion as to why Apple is doing this, and it isn't because they're acting on their own free will in the interest of their business and users.
Do you regard asking questions as FUD?
Looking at the places I'm familiar with, there's also a pattern of places like high traffic intersections (probably lots of people avoiding those?) and places with lots of foot/bike traffic, where people don't travel along the shortest path but along the most beautiful or the one with the slowest elevation change.

I guess there's lots of useful information for improving routing algorithms in the raw data. I too am skeptical about its usefulness for mapping.
> Do you mean this would apply to Macs too?

From [0]

'These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.'

So yes.

Also by the OP:

> iMessage encrypts messages end-to-end by default; however, if you have iCloud backup turned on, your messages can be accessed by Apple (who has the keys for iCloud backups) and, by extension, law enforcement with a warrant.

So if you use iMessage and iCloud Photos then they will be scanned by Apple. Won't be surprised to see the on-device scanning feature more prevalent on M1/M1X Macs.

[0] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
They professed unfamiliarity with the details of the situation, so they could not have known that the emotional appeal was the full extent of the argument.
And now it's flagged again.
As far as I know Android devices do not implement the scheme that Apple is considering.

But you're right that some users absolutely do not care (or can only use Apple devices), they will now give up their right to privacy.

But you don't have to look that far to see that a lot of users disagree with what Apple is doing here.
LOL! That hammock setup is impressive! I've never owned a laptop that can get bright enough for me to comfortably see the screen outside though :(

Am I the only one here who lays around on their bed in various positions while typing on my laptop?

I switch from laying on my back/front/side every 15 minutes or so, to prevent my body from getting to kinked up. I also practice Ashtanga every morning before I start work.

Sometimes I prop it up on my bent legs when laying down with no pillow, sometimes I prop my head up with a few pillows and leave the laptop on my flat legs.

Been doing this for years now and I absolutely love it.

Doesn't seem to bother my sleep either. I know when I'm done work for the day (usually after a few hours of programming), put the laptop away, and get on with my day.
They overreached a tiny bit in reaction, but they were responding to someone who seemed to be proposing solar sails inside the atmosphere.
Almost all of the nonexistent ideas I saw have companies that service them…

For example, it thinks there’s no website which, given available ingredients, suggests recipes.
If you really believe that, then I have a bridge to sell you. The exact same safety argument can and will be applied to ALL data whether on your device or Apple's servers.

Why limit to iMessage and photos? Why not Signal on your device?

Why not your backups on Apple servers? Oh wait, already happens.
I didn't elect anyone. There is not a single politician in power right now that represents me. I'm not even american to begin with so it's not like I have any influence over american administration.

In any case, there's no reason why politics and democracy ought to be the only way to bring about change. We have a far more powerful tool: technology.

Governments make their laws. People make technology that neutralizes their laws. They make new laws. People make new technology. And so on. With every iteration, the government must become ever more tyrannical in order to maintain the same level of control over the population it previously enjoyed. If this loop continues long enough, we'll either end up with an uncontrollable population or with an oppressive totalitarian state. Hopefully limits will be found along the way.

> Your wikipedia link doesn't show anything regarding abuse of the governing body ALL of the examples are from private persons.

A government employee abused his access to the USA's warrantless surveillance apparatus in order to spy on his loved ones. If this isn't abuse of power, I don't know what is.

Honestly, it's just human nature. No person should ever be given such powers to begin with. I wouldn't trust myself with such power. It should be impossible to spy on everyone.
Can current physics simulation software or library fast enough to simulate such watch in real time ?
Read a Paper: Programming Modern FPGAs
Wow. Is there any way to avoid commenting on each line or at every function?
30-foot wingspan 'dragon' was Australia's largest flying reptile
> It’s truly disappointing that Apple got so hung up on its particular vision of privacy that it ended up betraying the fulcrum of user control: being able to trust that your device is truly yours.

These devices haven’t been “truly yours” for a decade. Hence, jail-breaking. Maybe this is just the first time you‘ve encountered friction against the walled garden and become widely aware of its existence, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there before.
Yes, that’s a very good idea. Tell your manager you’ll need a lab(even if just an empty space) for you to continue working if hot desking is introduced.

Might be just my anecdotal data, but a lot of these things come down to does your manager have a way to present whatever you're asking as a decent expense to his superiors. And not so much wanting to make your (work) life worse.
As someone with an iPhone 12 Pro and a Galaxy S21 Ultra, swapping my SIM between each every ~two months; this situation has absolutely changed sometime in the past couple years.

Android's idle power draw, at least on the S21 Ultra, is fantastic. I'll sometimes leave this phone on, with no SIM in it but connected to WiFi, sitting on my desk, using it every once in a while for Tik Tok or whatever, and it'll last a week or more. The iPhone is pretty similar.

But display-on time, apples to apples; the iPhone has fallen behind. With the 12 Pro, most days I'll end at 5-10%. At least once every couple weeks, the day will end with the iPhone having already shut down. In comparison, on the S21 Ultra: I give it ~20-40 minutes of charge every day while I'm working, just unplug my USB-C laptop and plug it into the phone, and that's it. I don't charge it at night. Its battery life is ungodly; by the time I go to bed, its at 50-60%. Wake up, plug it in while I'm showering and making coffee, good to go.
People do care about privacy, but not in that absolute sense. You think privacy is 100% or 0%, but vast majority of the public don't think so.
If it was actually code red, we would waive literally all safety regulations and environmental policy reviews, and break ground on new plants tomorrow. And cost would be no object.
“A website that helps you sell used items.”

Yea, I think that has been done.
Can't see how 'we test all your photos' on your phone works with the whole iPhone protects your privacy message but we'll see.
Child pornographers love this guy ^ ; that's the way to right-think consumer, carry on :)
So you’re saying Scandinavia is ok with subsidizing the salary of certain people to make it a “living salary”?

That’s a yes/no question. Not sure why you’re struggling to answer it.
Not only is this possible there is actual spectrum dedicated to this kind of purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Broadband_Radio_Servi... though there are a lot of other rules around it (e.g. some slices can be allocated in a given region to a licensed user but not all of the slices in a region).
That is quite a far fetch you are making there, from implementing a financial penalty for not taking responsibility for ones actions (getting more than one child) to "slavery". I think you are mispainting or misinterpreting the picture in an extreme way. No one is suggesting slavery here. That's a strawman,

And yes, people should think before putting a child into this world. I don't know how that is even debatable.
Thanks for the reply. In my case I have (hobby) problems that fall well into scikit-learn capabilities.
Is there a performance penalty for this?
You didn't see "make a site that claims to provide endless new tech ideas" on it though did you
If Twitter Existed in the 1800s
A 1000x improvement on a baseline 1000000x worse makes sense. I was wondering for a bit how a PV cell could break conservation of energy. The article has quite a clickbait title.
You may be conflating two features. 1 - Messages fix. 2 - scanning your entire Photos library and sending hashes to an unaccountable, no oversight nonprofit (NCMEC) to be compared with CSAM hashes - with no way to contest what you send.

1 is arguably a good feature (though it's very intrusive - it has a benefit).

2 is a monstrous invasion of privacy. It has no benefit to you, the user, only a massive potential threat.

Finally, the NCMEC is founded by someone who admitted, if he was judged by the own law he helped pass, he'd be considered a sex offender when he was dating his then-girlfriend.
> If you assume that the rich always figure out ways to avoid progressive taxes, why would you not also assume they would figure out ways to avoid paying a flat tax as well?

Every modern economy in the world has already solved this issue. VAT. A VAT is a consumption tax, there is no way to avoid a VAT, even with the resources of a super wealthy individual. A VAT is progressive because the more you spend the more you end up paying. A VAT can also be scaled on types of goods (so a higher VAT on Yacht's for example).

Income taxes, in general, flat or not, are abhorrent, hostile to freedom, and generally should be abolished.
Sailboats are one I struggled with, especially sailing into the wind.

I think my intuition there came from a boat going the same direction as the wind, say, north at 1 meter/sec. now the boat can't go faster than 1 m/sec, but if you turn 45 degrees to the east you can travel sqrt(2) m/sec, because you're still going north at 1/ms and the boat gets pushed along to the east as well.

the closer you get to perpendicular to wind, the faster you can go.

I still don't quite get sailing into the wind, but I'd imagine this wheel and propeller system works the same way. The vehicle motion restricts moving to just a line, the wind pushes along the x axis, so the vehicle can sort of zoom along in the y direction, much faster than moving along x.

__edit__

oh, I see, it's the difference between ground and wind. a sailboat couldn't do this but something clever with propellers and linkages probably could
And that's by design...
I take my 2 year old swimming weekly and last week one of the lifeguards didn't wear his mask and he was smiling, laughing and making facial play expressions with the kids. The kids LOVED it. Prior to that when he wore his mask, he looked really scary and pissed off all the time. Sure other culture may cover their faces (I am from Asia myself so it's common to wear them due to air pollution) but coming from that to a Western country where emotions and feelings are valid and starting to be recognized, it's a lot more liberating than what I grew up in.
I clicked through 15 of them and they all exist.
This is something that was briefly touched upon in The Smug Style in American Liberalism where Knowledge and Knowing aren’t the same, but in general people are incredibly uncomfortable in hearing this - on HN and elsewhere. Too many confuse Knowing with Knowledge. Knowing isn’t a metric of intelligence, merely conformism without any critical thinking.
I got one of those bribery cards with a purchase.

The item wasn't good.

I posted a 1 star review of the product with a photo of the card to warn others.

Amazon didn't approve the review because it didn't comply with its standards or whatever.

Amazon is complicit in all of this.
Looks to be completely overfitted on the training set. 10/10 "ideas" displayed to me do exist.
I try to achieve the same but my manager always forces me to write code cleaner so that it doesn't affect the other person who is reviewing it. I am kinda feel like hell when he say so.
Yeah, I am pretty certain if I asked my friends what they thought of Apple's new photo scanning privacy concern they'd be like "What? Not heard about that" and that would be about it, move on continue loving their iPhone.
That math doesn't pan out. We're at ~410ppm now. -47% puts us at 220ppm, a level hasn't existed for > 10,000 years.

https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2/
Most of the comments ignore that this is likely to be well received by many consumers, because it sounds good on the surface: Apple is using tech magic to fight bad guys. Hooray!

Worse, it’s nearly impossible for a competitor to market against without risking the general population believing you tacitly approve CSAM. How does Google market Android without coming across like a safe haven for pedophilia?
Let's not argue over this all day. :)

The fact that you only mentioned Apple makes it a safe assumption that you only meant Apple. I chimed in to specify that I believe everyone is doing it, and let's stop at that. There's no prize to fight over here.
> You can now do everything you could do in Flash, with CSS.

AND JavaScript.

With Flash, you just needed to know Flash. With HTML5, you need to know a whole lot more about DOM manipulation. If you're animating SVGs, that has its own markup and learning curve.

Flash could also do 3D animation, which CSS cannot. You need to know WebGL and a library like three.js for that to be workable.

By far the best WYSIWIG animation tool I've used is Tumult Hype for Mac. It handles the creation of all the JS-based animation triggers through the GUI. I hope there will be a WebGL version of this that is as easy to use.
Holy shit these topics really show how delusional most of Hackernews is. If you think technology can change the world arbitrary from your government you are living in a dream that will falter fast.
How about Organic Maps? https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps
But wouldn't the error rate be the same for both legitimate and plagiarized texts? How do these errors distinguish between the two cases?
Remember they said the odds of an account being falsely reported were "1 in a trillion."

We have no math to back that, some have called it BS. However... that would mean that one person could easily review only a few photos a week even if it was way off.
It’s funny that WhatsApp, who themselves do the very same thing (in a much less transparent and privacy minded way) would call out Apple.
Those examples are more conventionally considered "engineering" or "forest management." They are smaller-scale projects typically involving regional adaptation to adverse weather/climate.

Geoengineering is a bit different, typically on a larger scale:

> Climate engineering or commonly geoengineering, is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system.[1] The main categories of climate engineering are solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering
It could be, I agree. A bit like the "Flub programmer" paradox - you don't know something would be better for you because you don't know it exists.

On the other hand, it could also be that some people prefer the old way because they've got used to it. Any change to is uncomfortable for them simply because it's different. Every time Facebook has updated its timeline, my sister complains saying "the current one is perfect", forgetting that she'd previously said it was so bad she was closing her account.

To what extent it's one rather than the other is extremely subjective. If Facebook had not updated its UI (and the apps mentioned by the OP had not changed theirs), then they may well have gone out of business. Always saying "the old version was better" is just a form of nostalgia, a sentimental view on which most corporations in a modern capitalist economy cannot thrive.
Meh. Dropbox and Google Drive can run arbitrary queries over your files stored there. iCloud (assuming they finish e2ee transition) will have to push the same hashes to everyone. It's not transparent and we don't have a way to inspect what exactly are they searching for, but at least there's a way in principle to reverse engineer the algorithm and to monitor how often hash database gets updated.

In my book that's a step in the direction of privacy, compared to old status quo.
full circle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
Right, this is what all the articles on this matter are getting wrong, unknowingly or otherwise. It’ll be one flag switch to change from scanning uploaded images to scanning local images.

This is an erosion of fundamental human rights under the guise of “think of the children“ so that anyone who stands up against this tyranny can be labelled a “pedophile”. 1984 wasn’t like 1984 but 2021 is surely looking that way.
Fair point. The sad part is that all the bad things need to happen for the populace to revolt.

Most will forget about this intrusion and move on with their lives. And yet, i cant help but shed a tear for the liberity we all, in the good countries, are losing.

bit by bit. rung by rung.

but at least the phones keep getting better…
What is going on with people - why on earth are people overreacting to this. Apple is doing something unconditionally good, and people are posting about how it is bad? I mean the people writing the opposition to this change just sound pants-on-head stupid, and obviously suffer from sort of mental health problem (such as this[0]). Imagine the poor NSA having to know this evil and doing nothing, and Apple is doing it's small bit to help. It sounds a lot better than the useless HUMINT divisions.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/p0i9vb/bought_my_fir...
I'm hoping to avoid a tedious quagmire about gun classification here.

A rifle might be appropriate in some situations, like defending against bears or big cats in a rural environment, but not necessarily an urban setting. An RPG would be inappropriate for both.

But my point is that self-defense doesn't require access to arbitrary firepower.