skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, have been assaulted with my children, by a guy they took a year to hopefully catch and put in jail, where he currently stays, I even have videos of the guy on youtube if you want to see him, he really looks like a nazi except without the teeth which he lost consuming crack.

I hope this won't be your case, living in fear with your children for a year is a bad experience, not to mention the hospital and sequels. I wish "hope" was more that we could do, this new security systems are an answer.

If you don't thrust your government with this, perhaps you should apply to work on it in defense - surely, this will create quite some tech jobs - so that you be in charge. Actually, if you have experience working in defense, you might already know that there's plenty of work catching criminals, there's definitely no time for anything less critical, despite whatever grounds you build fear of dystopia on.

We are not in a George Orwell dystopia but actually have real lives to save and really dangerous criminals to stop despite what you may think. And I'm really glad that you live in a place where you feel safe and I hope this stays this way, and I'm really happy for you that you have not lost a child to criminality, or a friend to terrorism, but keep in mind it's not the case of everyone.

We can't all be like famous french leftist Mathieu Kassovitz and look at a mother in the eyes and tell her that the event of the death of her child is just "a miscellaneous event" and that there's nothing to do about it, that's it's the way it's supposed to be. I mean, go ahead and be my guest, explain to her that mass surveillance will put her into more danger than not. Her dystopia is probably very different than yours, and much more real. I'm sorry, but I'm siding with the victims here, from CP to whatever.

If we can save even just 1 child, shouldn't we because you are scared that a government employee would be reading your flirts? I don't understand how you people not only can just be against more security, but also willing to sacrifice children to protect your "privacy" (flirts, dickpics) which nobody working in defense actually gives a flying f** about.

And Patrick Breyer, if you're reading me, next time you want to make an argument about "minors sexting", I would suggest you find a way that does not make you look like a pervert who wants to keep it easy for minors to send him nudes, cause it kind of looks like that from where I'm standing.

What kind of congressman in their sane mind would vote against this? None. Does that mean it is perfect? No, but it's a start, and I believe we will improve from our mistakes, we have to start somewhere. This is the start of new era of security, which many of us pay taxes for, we deserve this, and hopefully it's not some "pirate party", or "pedo party", or "criminal party", or "human rights defender party" who is going to stop us from getting there.
That is indeed what the article does, does it not? It makes the case that storing online with a decryption key that can be used with a search warrant is probably the right trade off, and the way other companies sometimes implement this.

Then you get to choose whether to push your data to the third party or not, given the risks involved.

The author even notes they were opposed to Facebook's end-to-end encryption previously, I assume because as for defaults it sets a precedent and makes it unsearchable, but I'm not sure the specific tradeoffs they weigh and points they consider since it's behind a paywall (and I'm not sure I agree).

> discuss the government/citizen tradeoffs in that light. I.e., holistically, not per company.

Right now the differences are essentially per-company, since we've let our experiences be controlled almost entirely by a small subset of companies. To abstract the implementation from the primary implementer is to obfuscate some of the cause and effect here. We should discuss this as a societal tradeoff, as you note, but we should not ignore that this was spurred by a company running out in front of what was required of it and implementing this system which many see as at the expense of their users privacy.
you can make a creeper farm to automate gunpowder, that part is easy. the hard part is that sand isn't renewable. a lot of tech servers (scicraft being the biggest) just use tnt duping to do it until mojang makes sand renewable. i think that's the only "cheating" they do and it's kinda understandable cause otherwise it's impossible to get a lot of tnt.
A mechanical watch is a piece of jewelry that happens to tell time. It’s more like a film camera or record player, things people still actually use.
Light sensor outlet covers! They're pretty handy for walking around the house at night and not stubbing a toe.
It’s an article about Apple so I only mentioned Apple lol. While we’re at it we should mention Microsoft probably does this too. Probably Snap as well.
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Very true. There are people in the US actively fighting for a right to not be offended at the cost of society's freedom of speech. What a devil's bargain!
You can also turn the logic around with this. Many of the globalist institutions promoting climate apocalypse have a historical background in 'population control'. Globalists do openly discuss limiting population growth. What is difficult to discuss is the link between eugenicist population control schemes and the climate scare.
My expectations from Apple would be scaled way back if they weren't preaching fairly consistently that they treat privacy as a "fundamental human right". They've marketed this as not only a competitive difference but also a moral imperative.

To claim that you treat privacy as a fundamental human right is an extraordinary claim that requires significant effort and action to back up. To me, "fundamental human rights" apply to everyone - all humans - including children.

Their commitment to this was already called into question for several reasons, including their partial commitment to E2E as well as their actions in other countries (i.e. China).

When you give your users privacy with numerous conditions attached indicating all the times they don't have it, you aren't giving them privacy. Full stop.

It's like going to someone's home, having them tell you that they are champions for privacy and then going to the bathroom and seeing a damn camera attached to the wall. "Oh, that, don't worry. I only look at the footage if something gets stolen."
I can promise to keep their information anonymous, just like the government never unreasonably 'unmasks' anyone.
> If someone was about to destroy the world, wouldn't your main focus be on preventing that to happen rather than Monday morning quarterbacking the last 100 years of industrialization?

You have more responsibility for what you have agency to actually do. We have more ability to lower our emissions than to lower China's.

Beyond that, per-capita they still emit much less and may naturally level off to a level similar to ours depending on coal/gas mix in generation, etc. We don't need to focus only on right handed people's emissions just because left-handed people only emit 10% as much carbon in aggregate. Can you imagine a big campaign saying left-handed people should do anything they want, dump CFCs into the air etc., until right-handed people get their act together and achieve less or equal overall impact as left-handed people, and that only then it is ok to consider left-handed people?
How do we know this isn't a three letter government org silently pressuring apple into compliance?

I see Apple getting a lot of flak but I'm surprised as anyone that they have decided to suddenly buck their trend/perception of being pro privacy quite so dramatically.
Analog vs digital! I feel similar to you. There's a certain feeling with analog/mechanical instruments that is hard to replicate.

That being said, I think there is something fascinating about eco-drive movements, or just plain quartz movements in general. In the eco-drive case, you're harnessing the raw energy of the sun! Right there on your wrist! And they're using piezoelectricity to accurately keep time!

It's so simple nowadays that we all take it for granted, but centuries of scientific improvements have gone into making that relatively inexpensive and accurate wristwatch accessible to everybody.
poor/developing => low energy use

rich/developed => high energy use

Wealth is not gobs of gold that Western countries sit on. Wealth is the ability to produce energy and turn it into creature's comforts, on a massive scale.

There is no development without massive growth in energy consumption. Please point to a single developed country on this Earth that has CO2 emissions per capita smaller than what Paris accords call for, which, depending on the source, is somewhere between 1.5-2.5 CO2 t/year/capita.

To limit emissions all countries must converge to a low energy lifestyle. There is no more developing for poor countries, and there is harsh un-developing for erst rich countries.
Thanks for the correction, updated.
I did not know this, and I really appreciate the link. However, since Echelon -- the instantiation of the technology to do so in the first place -- the NSA has been intercepting and logging ANY AND ALL "signals" it can, foreign and domestic, the 4th Amendment (and whatever related laws) be damned. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A, and the law that retroactively made it legal, discussed on HN previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5847166. The Patriot Act was a piece of paper, just thin enough that the courts could point to it if cornered, in order to excuse anything the government did, in the name of terrorism. I don't know what they'll point to now, but I'm sure they'll find something. Meanwhile, the unrestrained wiretapping continues as it ever has. If you aren't using end-to-end encryption, your information is in a database at the NSA. Snowden proved it, and there has been little but gestures since his revelations.
This entire scheme introduces privacy risk.

There is no technical reason why they could not push individual hashes to individual phones, only policy ones.
> Of course, removing children from danger is often removing them from their parents / legal guardians, which comes with its own set of risks.

What number of false positives would you tolerate?
They don’t have to scan by US law. They only have to report detections, so if you have a content moderation team, they must report.

The EU and UK are in the process of passing laws requiring scanning.
> Meh. Dropbox and Google Drive can run arbitrary queries over your files stored there.

However, unlike with Apple's invasive on-device scanning, you can encrypt files before storing them at Dropbox or Google Drive. There are even simple turnkey solutions like Sookasa:

"Sookasa acts as a transparent layer over Google Drive to encrypt your sensitive files on the cloud and across connected devices..." https://www.sookasa.com/GD

"Sookasa protects data both on devices and in the cloud, and decouples the data from the encryption keys, meaning your data stays secure no matter where it goes." https://www.sookasa.com/dropbox-security/
I agree with you. Ultimately though, we can’t rely on Technology companies to make the right decisions. Businesses exist to make profits, if there aren’t regulations against doing this someone was ultimately going to come up with a way to do it. Even with regulations many corporations fail to be compliant.

I feel like we almost need a “Constitution for the Digital Age”, which would eg guarantee privacy rights.
For the file extension. I did a quick search and all of the GEM ads and articles I could find call them "applications", "software applications", and even "executables".
Thanks, I'll definitively give it a go.
If you have accounts one thing to do is to set a (unknown to users) daily comment quota. Set it to like 20 or something you consider very high and make an alert fire if someone reaches the quota. At this point the user shouldn't be able to comment and you should review manually case by case.
In an era with so many people screaming, "Defund the police!" I can't see how reporting more stuff to the police automatically is going to go over well PR-wise.

Even before that phrase, we were already in era of "Don't talk to the cops without your lawyer, especially if you're innocent." Giving those same cops more information is not in your own best interest.
Notes on the Perfidy of Dashboards
Golden goals and silver goals have all been tried, to disappointing effect. The Champions League still uses two-legged ties. Where's the unwillingness?

'the problem with soccer' implies that there's a fundamental problem preventing it from working rather than the reality of it being the most successful sport in the world, regardless of what fans of American sports enjoy and in spite of corrupt leadership and perverse financial incentives.
Will a neural hash of every picture be uploaded to Apple?

If so, any abusive pictures that are discovered during pedophile ring arrests could be traced back to the phone that took them.
For example, even if the greens get majority in Germany, they'll be in a very tough spot. Their core electorate will think they're underdelivering. But their proposed measures won't be accepted by others.
Ran Windowmaker for a long time on my laptop in the early and mid 00s, on Gentoo. It's entirely fine when you're not going to be able to run more than 3-4 things at a time anyway, and manage all your system stuff like wifi from the command line, because the GUI tools are unreliable or absent. Very light, and tiny on disk.

Eventually switched to XFCE near the end of my time with Gentoo, and kept that when I changed distro to Ubuntu.
I think I disagree. Current move was improvement for user privacy, compared to what it used to be. Abuse is only on speculation, not on what has actually been done.
Makes sense to me. If the results are great, user spends t-minus 3 seconds on Google. If the results are crap, user spends t-minus however long it takes to weed through crap. Longer is better, therefore crap is better. That only works up to a point, the point at which everyone starts to notice, like they are noticing now.
As I understand it from people who played it and from interviews with Gygax, the primary difference is that OD&D was far more free-form than than later editions - so free-form that it placed a tremendous burden on the dungeon master to fill in the gaps and limited its audience to hardcore gamers.

Again, based on what I've read, part of Dave Arneson's original innovation that became OD&D [1] was that your character continued from game to game, giving the player a personal interest in the character and also engagement in developing them. That would seem to disagree with the parent's description.

[1] Like all innovations, Arneson's was a product of earlier ones such as Braunstein by Dave Wesely.
traffic moved to domestic, but that doesnt mean there is no travel
yeah, I was expecting some hardware hacking of some sort, not setting up a regular virtual machine in a PC. At least they documented the process of building an ADB to USB adapter for the keyboard/mouse.
“Unreasonable search and seizure” in the US has traditionally meant you needed a warrant from a judge stating specifically where you are going to search and what you are searching for. We now seem to be just tossing that out of the window. The government can’t do it, but it can deputize a private organization to do it and that makes it now ok?
The history of humanity is filled with stories where technologies require a full adherence to a set of rules to avoid externaliies. And since this cannot be done, it explains much of what's happening in the world today.
I don't think any of your links remotely substantiate what you claimed ("the single biggest user of UKs camera system originally intended for serious crimes are housing councils checking to see who didn't clean up after their dog.").

What even is the "camera system originally intended for serious crimes"?
But I'm not a "fervent mask wearer." It covers my mouth and nose for 10 minutes while I grocery shop once or twice a week. Because that's basically the only indoor exposure I routinely have to the crowd of people who are both unvaccinated and "fervently don't wear a mask." I don't wear it when I'm with friends or family who are like-minded. I don't wear it when I'm outdoors, including places with medium-sized crowds like the beach this past weekend. Etc.

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For me Snowden’s take says it all:

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say”[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36ru89/comment/crglgh...
Unsurprisingly, 23 out of 25 are in China.

When you look at who's polluting and who's emissions are on an upward trajectory, there's one obvious country that's actively working against the environment. China's emissions aren't slowing down. Coal is incredibly cheap when there's no carbon tax or emission standards. One of the many reasons it's cheaper to manufacture in China and why North Americans and Europeans can't compete [0].
Comparing the US[1] and China[2], the US has:

- Decreasing per capita emissions in the US starting in 1973 (-27%)

- A decrease in the countries emission starting in 2007 (-13%)

Meanwhile for the same period China has had

- a 7x increase per capita since 1973 (+532%)

- 48% increase for its global emissions since 2007

So it is possible to drastically reduce our carbon footprint thanks to innovation and smarter power generation.

Time to add tariffs on goods produced by states who made the decision of going all-in on polluting power generation, and potentially apply immigration quotas to citizens of these countries.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/us-leads-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china
How do you know Sookasa isn’t doing the same thing? It doesn’t appear to be open source.
Do police departments pay for public display of music?

Do they pay for an ASCAP license?
Ok - but we're talking about the US?
A change in policy regarding the pictures that are scanned is a change of NCMEC policy, which would be the same kind of high-level court dispute.

I’m not knowledgeable enough to comment about other countries’ policies, but the fact remains that no one has a law enforcement iBoot, as far as we know; and if one exists, CSAM filtering was never the opportunity that repressive regimes were waiting for.
Elasticsearch is a tool aimed at software developers. A number pretty close to 100% of its userbase should care about licenses.
No, they represent themselves.
What about terrorism, hate speech, etc?

Most people would agree these are very bad things. Problem is there is no objective definition of what constitutes it.
Curious why they didn't go with sid. Maybe because Arch is intended to be rolling release, so it's less likely that regressions are overlooked as "well that's what sid is for, catching regressions"

(I use Arch on my desktop & WSL w/ Debian testing at work)
> A website that lets people order their groceries online and then pick them up at a central location.

Side note, there was one time I "sold an idea" to a website unrefundable for $99 that was hilarious, in the process I overdrafted my bank account too, ahh. Props to the person that made that site.
I mean, define “should”. It’s not exactly their decision to not contribute back, and it’s often not their decision to use the software either.
I like this fairly subtle take (which I agree with the author that Apple's cloud product is essentially a betrayal of their privacy stance).

The subtle take I got is that devices should be completely private... given that is what you pay for. This drives Apple's phone system into that "unremovable bloatware" which I pretty much want to escape from on Android devices without necessarily setting up all the control myself. I wanted to trust Apple's hardware for privacy (and already understood the limits of their privacy in their cloud), but now I feel betrayed as this product can be eventually used for more sinister practices should a government pass laws necessitating it, as highlighted in many other comments.
Purely noise related. The compressor based ones are much noisier.
As somebody who just began using grids in their designs, I can say that grids can have a really nice effect on a lot of layouts. Fundamentally, it’s just about creating order and alignment among various elements in a view, both in positioning and spacing/sizing.

It’s really hard to pull off fancier grid layouts on the web due to device shapes and scrolling, but the basic principle still applies: line things up, create order, don’t pick sizes willy-nilly (off topic: Willy Nilly must have been the Leroy Jenkins of his day)
Is the server component running at api.ots.sniptt.com open source? I looked through the org's repositories and wasn't able to find it.
Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?
It depends what your style/preferences are.

I've got two boxes of watches, one contains old soviet pieces from the 60s onwards. Each of those watches probably cost no more than €100, and usually they're far cheaper than that. (I buy them used.)

If you want to look at that kind of thing I wrote a comment here showing the process I use, roughly, to find them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27167654

Sure my second watch box has a few more expensive pieces in it, but you don't need to spend money if you like the form, history, and utility of the other pieces.
One of the best protections against invasion of privacy and feature creep is to require an independently obtained warrant that is served to the person in question.

Firstly, this allows the general public to get an idea of how much governments or police are interfering in people's lives but secondly, the enforcers have to convince someone (usually a judge) that their case has merit before they start defaming someone or taking away their liberty.

We shouldn't be as scared about lacking privacy as we should be about the fact that our privacy can be invaded with little oversight and sometimes without us even knowing about it!

Also, we need to speak up for those who are much more likely to be affected by privacy invasions (black, Muslim, other minorities etc.) even if we are white and don't think it will be a problem for us personally.
Again, the only thing different here is that when you upload a photo to the cloud, Apple scans it on device before the file is uploaded, while Google scans it on their server after it is uploaded.

Nothing is happening to files you don't attempt to upload to the cloud.

Also, if Google is selling everyone's data to third party data brokers, it's news to me.
If you add "being effective" to "guerilla warfare" it works, I think that's what was meant.
In the United States there exists a slim majority for much of the country's legislative houses. That indicates at least that there's a good chance if you don't have to right now that in your lifetime you will have to treat the government as adversarial.

In all honesty I think everyone should treat the government as an adversarial force when it comes to respecting your privacy or rights. Much of bill of rights was introduced as a response to the concerns of the government's overreach. Built in protections to impede totalitarianism.

In that regard, you can't simply rely on the government to legislate towards your interests and assuming that they will is foolish. Creating tools to secure your privacy is essential, not arbitrary.
The Seiko 5 movement is reasonably thin but often packaged into a large case. You might not have the thinnest Seiko 5.