skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Would it help anything? Apple isn't using PhotoDNA, so proving PhotoDNA is bad would just be met with "we don't use that".

> I believe it would because other image systems will probably have to make similar implementations and trade offs that PhotoDNA did.

Even if that's the case, that's too subtle of a point to be very effective, and you'll have all kinds of PR people (Apple and otherwise) selling the "we don't use that [so those criticisms don't apply to us]" narrative.
For sure. It seems that every time a company redesigns their site, all old links are dead. In a particularly frustrating case, a local store just killed off all of the order receipt links and their emails did not contain the order details.

Archive.org does a good job at preserving things but they offer no discoverability so you can not search the archived web like you can the live web.
You can read a bit more about how it would work here:

https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initia...

(No, not arresting parents over bath time.)
Please stop spreading misinformation.

Apple has built the system to scan your entire phone, their claims about its limited scope are suspect.
On the other hand, theres YT which has remained pretty much the same UI-wise for as long as I can remember. And it is terrible.

I cannot search for videos about python that are longer than 1 hr. That is my pet peeve and regularly drives me up the wall. I have wanted this for years.

In addition to that, my feed is static. It's like I'm being told, "hey you, we know that you will like these and I won't show you aught else until you watch them first". Aarrrghhh.
> I think "Think of the kids" applies very well to the CREATORS of pornography. Per wikipedia, there isn't any conclusive causal relationship between viewing CP and assaulting children.

“Think of the Kids” damn well applies to the consumers of this content - by definition, there is a kid (or baby in some instances) involved in the CP. As a society, the United States draws the line at age 18 as the age of consent [the line has to be drawn somewhere and this is a fairly settled argument]. So by definition, in the United States, these are not consenting victims in the pictures.

Demand drives creation. Getting rid of it on one of the largest potential viewing and sharing platforms is a move in the right direction in addressing the problem.

What I haven’t seen from the tech community is the idea that this will be shut down if it goes too far or beyond this limited scope. Which I think it would be - people would get rid of iPhones if some of the other cases privacy advocates are talking about occur. And at that point they would have to scrap the program - so Apple is motivated to keep it limited in scope to something everyone can agree is abhorrent.
> Don’t put the future in jeopardy just to indulge in some frivolous nostalgia

Well the future for most people isnt too exciting. And most people have no clue what to do about it. Telling them to stay away from facebook, sex, food, alcohol, drugs, gambling, netflix, hn or whatever half baked shortlived reward they find is not enough.
They must be sold Faith and learn the ways of generating it.

Faith in what? Faith that tomorrow will be a better day.

This is only possible if you spend a lot of time reminding yourself of the moments in life that have generated such faith in you or when you have generated such faith in others. The more entries you have in that list the easier it gets.
Climate change: UN to reveal landmark IPCC report findings
Both kanas definitely have digraphs, they are called yōon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Don
unrelated but i love your kerbal space program stuff!
In Canada at least, primary residences are capital-gains exempt.

Mortgage payments are typically almost constant with respect to interest rates, because the monthly payment is what tends to climb to whatever value the market will bear. Instead, the home value itself goes up and down inversely with rates, such that the monthly payment remains approximately unaffected by a rate cut.
I have. Commuting is dangerous and expensive, and lowers my disposable income by half.

The office was also unproductive. It was loud, uncomfortable chairs, slow computers. We didn't really do agile either, meaning if it took 4 minutes to compile and can't hit the deadline, that's my problem. WFH actually covered a lot of the productivity loss from working in office, but not enough. My home office is a very productive place, with essential oils and a 4K monitor.

I think there's an element of disrespect. You're in the office not to work, but to bring up the prestige of the boss. It's not so much a problem with trust, but it's a problem when my role as a seat warmer takes priority over my role as a developer.
It's always sad to see someone get burnt by the internet, I wish him, and also those who criticised him, well.

On a brighter note, I appreciate the noob-friendly explanations. It made it really easy to follow along.

I'm also really curious about how Java achieves better stdout performance. I hope we get to apply the lessons to other environments too! I didn't read all of it, so perhaps there's a clue in @bugaevc's PR[1] mentioned in the article.

[1] https://github.com/renatoathaydes/prechelt-phone-number-enco...
The Dow was designed for easy calculation before computers. And it's pretty correlated to the S&P 500 anyway.

In theory, price weighting is a poor way to index, but look at it from the other side of the coin - if you choose 30 stocks, from all sectors, how likely is it that you'll get a different return from the market even if you try? Not very.

It's only relatively recently that it became popular to never split and let stock prices grow without limit, too. If the prices are mostly in a small range, then the index is similar to an equal weighted one.
Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews
I think his point was that you don't always get to decide for yourself, and voting was an example. Whether it be a majority, a dictator, or a corporation, someone, to a degree, has the power to tell you what's right and wrong, what's real and not.
> They could have done all that without telling you.

But in that case it would much more likely be a crime, it would certainly cost them a tremendous amount of good will.

Your personal computing device is a trusted agent. You cannot use the internet without it, and esp. in lockdown you likely can't realistically live your life without use of the internet. You share with it your most private information, more so even than you do with your other trusted agents like your doctor or lawyers (whom you likely communicate with using the device). Its operation is opaque to you: you're just forced to trust it. As such your device ethically owes you a duty to act in your best interest, to the greatest extent allowed by the law. -- not unlike your lawyers obligation to act in your interest.

Apple is reprogramming customer devices, against the will of many users (presumably at the cost of receiving necessary fixes and security updates if you decline) to make it betray that trust and compromise the confidentiality of the device's user/owner.

The fact that Apple is doing it openly makes it worse in the sense that it undermines your legal recourse for the betrayal. The only recourse people have is the one you see them exercising in this thread: Complaining about it in public and encouraging people to abandon apple products.

E2EE should have been standard a decade ago, certainly since the Snowden revelations. No doubt apple seeks to gain a commercial advantage by simultaneously improving their service while providing some pretextual dismissal of child abuse concerns. But this gain comes at the cost of deploying and normalizing an automated surveillance infrastructure, one which undermines their product's ethical duty to their customers, and one that could be undetectable retasked to enable genocide by being switched to match on images associated with various religions, ethniticities, or political ideologies.
> > Irony” is a term that everyone uses and seems to understand. It is also a concept that is notoriously difficult to define.

In information terms, the "understand" in that sentence is a false positive.

Q: Do you know what I mean?

A: Yes.

The response above is not a verification. To be valid as a verification, the response would have to contain a restatement of the proposition, ideally in different terms that have the same meaning.

e.g.

A: You are saying that when someone claims to understand something, they have to demonstrate that understanding by regurgitating the meaning they have in mind, so as to make their understanding transparent and verifiable.
The few animators I have known personally said the hours were grueling, the pay was so so, and they all wanted to move up to "Technical Director" or "Lighting Director" as soon as possible. (And I think most of them did.) Though I'm not sure if they quit the industry entirely after that.
MIT Researchers Devise a Way to Program Memories into Bacteria by Rewriting DNA
I’m not qualified to really discuss, but here’s a study I recently heard brought up. It would be interesting to hear an unbiased opinion of someone with a medical background

“Vaccines that let the hosts survive but do not prevent the spread of the pathogen relax this selection, allowing the evolution of hotter pathogens to occur. This type of vaccine is often called a leaky vaccine.”

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
You seem to be confused here.

1) Elastic never forked Lucene.

2) Elasticsearch is not a competitor to Lucene.

3) Elastic developers are PMC members and committers for the Lucene project.
Legally, a visual proxy of CP is CP
Talking is cheap, but the reality is that you can't even make one existing mRNA vaccine available in Africa.
> The main problem is that Apple has backdoored my device.

Isn't that the shtick with Apple though? That they own the devices you rent and you don't have to worry too much about it. They always had the backdoor in place, they used it for software updates. Now they will also use it for another thing.
Great summary. After the crash of 2008, when housing prices in places like Vegas were 50% of peak, condos in Miami went for $30k, the story was always doom and gloom.

I knew a few people who took a gamble and bought up real estate and made out like bandits. At the time people thought they were nuts.

Humans suffer a lot from recency bias - whatever has happened for the past 5 years will continue forever.
"Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks" might have some pointers:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/introduction-to-open-source-private-...

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27946947
I'm on a "wait and see"... if they force me to go back to fully onsite, I'm quitting.

If they make it flexible / hybrid, I'll stay for a bit more.

I was already on the fence due to the lack of career growth, it would be the final shove. OTOH I was looking forward to some low-stress time as I'm getting married and was going to use a lot of time off, I'm not looking forward to switching jobs just yet.
SpaceX launching satellite to display billboard ads in space
I guess it depends on how you define 'political'. Almost all censorship is related to politics in one way or another. The cycle is X minority is mad and gets a news article written and then there's a new wave of disappearances. Really anything at all controversial. Often it's something not child friendly, which ignores the mass of the internet that is also not taken down for this. If you have kids do you really want their content moderation farmed out to some megacorp?
I've been saying this since 2016. This is especially the case with Google apps, which across the board are decaying in usability and functionality. When I said that a few years ago, I was scorned. I think everyone is slowly coming to the same realization now.
I agree with your thesis in general with several nitpicks;

> Sure, there are true believers who think abusing trust and technical power to shape narratives is honest and necessary work

Narrative warfare exists and is not a single agent game. I am not saying this makes narrative shaping defendable, but in the absence of some meaning-making work opportunist opponents will happily fill in the vacuum. This is the slippery slope that escalates to being a true believer of power (ab)use.

In the past, opponent processes of meaning-making was between differing, well-paced journalistic outlets somewhat within consilience distance. Today a) the inter-narrative drift is impossibly larger and b) heavily clustered around partisan dimensions which are themselves pushed away and c) comes out of a 24hr infotainment firehose because finances favor that. We're denial-of-service'd out of thinking for ourselves and the narratives we're given are hopelessly irreconcilable.

> most objectively evil and mendacious organizations in the history of world

There is no such cabal of coordinated evil. In fact, this gnostic belief is part of the narrative that creates ressentiment and nihilism. Emergent foolishness can just be as evil. And it can be countered with emergent, distributed wisdom, not necessarily another billions of dollars worth of a "good" platform.

> Base reality is, they all make money on selling your attention to advertisers,

Selling your attention to advertisers is a relatively minor harm. We are actually pretty good at suppressing noise and get to the signal we want. But the shaping of your attention and emotions that maximize time on site is harmful in a much more durable way. Not only it directly attacks your noise-suppression and relevance-detection heuristics, the more you stay on site the more you're actively trained to be more foolish, reactive and receptive. This bleeds to the rest of your life. It is like an anti-mindfulness training that stupefies you.

The solution is bound to be in the form of a suite of counter-trainings that gives back each individual their agency to realize this is not good for us.
> Furthermore, only engineers believe most of the important issues in the world actually have an objective answer to them.

No true engineer believes that. All engineers must make compromises. Anyone that uses black and white thinking simply cannot engineer (unless you are using the term in a strictly legal sense).
Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

For example, inflation typically triggers interest rate increases. If your debt is fixed rate that's fine, but if it's not, it might get more expensive more quickly than you expected, and your wage increase might not cover it.
I have a good example of irony.

The right wing / conservative people in my country frequently call their political opponents "lemmings", to imply they're deluded, misinformed and mindlessly rushing towards their deaths.

The mass suicide of lemmings is a myth. The most notable perpetuator is Disney, which in a 1958 documentary movie "White Wilderness" staged a "suicide" scene, complete with pushing lemmings off a cliff. There were more cases of involving Disney.

So whenever right winged/conservative describe people with opposing views as "lemmings", they accuse them of being misinformed yet are proving themselves to be misinformed.

To top it off, the "documentary" movie won an Academy Award, which is also itself ironic, because misinformation has been rewarded as educational.
It’s not just thinking of the victims when they are kids - if they aren’t killed after the material is made, then they have issues for the rest of their life with a real cost to society.

We’re talking a life-long impact from being abused in that stuff…
You do realize that Amazon would have been happy selling hosting for the official Elastic code until Elastic forced them into a situation where the pull the rug out of all of their customers or fork?

Amazon is actually the more open company when it comes to Elastic at this point. Open source does best when it’s not the meal ticket of the company developing it.
The more settings you have, the more settings you won't care about. It's easy to get settings fatigue. And every setting you introduce adds complexity to both the code and the testing.
Thanks. I enjoyed reading up on that today. As for the federal role, I think a lawsuit is exactly how to solve this. Both parties are for big government, and neither has solved this when they could.
Black hatters abusing the Google Translation API -

https://www.seroundtable.com/auto-translated-content-spam-go...

Example-

Unknown Source -> stolen using Machine Translated English and Published -> Stolen again, Machine Translated language X -> Machine Translated English -> re-publish on another web site -

Result - https://m-eng.ru/en/plumbing/sinii-kit-vesit-150-tonn-zhivot...

So people are using machine translate to steal stolen machine translated articles.
Why would someone think the creator is imprisoned or killed? He is writing a software, not making a bomb.
That doesn't particularly sound right to me. Node also supports C/C++ extensions, and AFAICT the use of Wasm in Node for performance is still relatively uncommon.
That's not even news at this point. Privacy invading laws have been pushed for years under the guise of either CP or terrorism.
That's a PR fight you will lose.
BTW, this was the starting premise in Greg Bear's 1985 novel Blood Music.
This is a short sighted and naive viewpoint.

Apple did not build this entire system to only scan uploads hah.

This was built to scan the entire file system.
I think it's a good point, but... what information do we use to determine intent? And aren't they subject to the errors of normal information in addition to possible ill-intended misinformation?
> I built the initial FotoForensics service in a few days.

Why did you specify "In a few days"?
Is this a joke?

If password managers don't (or shouldn't) have an attack surface, what could (or should)?

I could also describe all the data that google stores as "just a password protected DB with a web GUI"
React Native XMRig – New Version
Ask HN: Privacy&security-respecting alternatives to iPhone, with VoLTE in mind?
Constitutional questions of Apple's move aside... I don't know whether we're going to see Swatting-like attacks using this mechanism, nor an activist/troll mass attack with it, and I don't want to find out firsthand.

Looking into US privacy-respecting alternatives to iPhone this weekend, both T-Mobile and Apple are imminently forcing VoLTE. I've not yet found reputable Android AOSP-derived ROMs or other open source firmware supporting that. (Also, carriers reportedly will allow/deny devices by IMEI model.) Looks like regulatory authorities are OK with all this.

Stock Android installs on devices carriers will permit are more respectful than iPhone in some regards, but are still very heavy on commercial privacy invasion and security vulnerabilities. They'll also probably get abandoned for security updates, etc., and alternative ROMs no longer mitigating that.

Librem 5 looks good in principle, but the only Librem 5 on eBay just now was a preproduction one for $700+, and dunno how long Purism will be wrangling carriers.

The few featurephones seem to be crap and/or include integrations with the most infamous social media services, which is a really bad sign.

None of the various Linux phone efforts seem ready even today, and carriers are a moving target.

I just spent the weekend trying to move from my iPhone. (And, when I tried a SIM in a stock Android phone, the carrier suspended my service, taking many hours of misery to get it restored in the iPhone it had been in.)

How do we keep even a minimal phone number (voice & SMS), without all these privacy&security regressions? (Practically, and solid, and through at least the 2021-2022 VoLTE switchover, and hopefully years after. A phone number is still required by some gov't and critical services. Wireless data would be nice, but we currently could survive with WiFi, etc.)
Consider getting a full-time job at a climate focused company. There are literally dozens of good ones. climate base.org is a good starting point.
The state of web development (and software development) is what it is because of the nature of many engineers. Ever piece of the code base is now a beautiful abstraction, that is scalable, extensible, configurable and... over-engineered.

There are probably a handful of sites that needs this level of engineering. But, for everyone else, that isn't running at a huge scale, it's hugely taxing.
An important distinction of Linux kernel development from most open source contributions is that the companies contributing code typically make their money off of selling hardware which must run or work with linux to be successful. These companies are all financially incentivized to keep the Linux collaboration successful.
Your neighbor's story deepens my disgusts to CIA.
For a lot of developers, there is no practical difference because they are not building a managed service around Elasticsearch (like Amazon is). They are using it for their own private, commercial purposes, whatever it may be.
>I think the actual idea, which the nuance is often lost (and let's be honest, some people aren't really aware of and are just jumping on the bandwagon), is that privacy is a right, and erosion of rights is extremely important because it has been shown many times in the past to have far reaching and poorly understood future effects.

The encryption everywhere mindset of a lot of the tech community is changing the nature of the right to privacy. 50 years ago all these images would have been physical objects. They could have been found by the person developing the photos or the person making copies. They could have been found with a warrant. Now they are all hidden behind E2EE and a secure enclave. To a certain extent the proliferation of technology means people can have an even stronger degree of privacy today than was practical in the past. It is only natural for people to wonder if that shift has changed where the line should be.
doesn't AWS Elasticsearch have the concept of UltraWarm? Isn't that like cold/warm?
This comment is refuted by the dozens of clean energy and clean XXX companies currently doing great work and hiring.
Well, I have given the Nihilism "meaninglessness" bit some thought and see no problem with it. So...no, not ironic at all?

The bit many people seem to skip over is that Nihilism's "meaninglessness" is in the context of long time frames.

So, actions have a timeframe of impact, with varying - but not infinite - length.

Knowing this, you can ascribe more relevant meaning to your actions, and hence better decide which actions to take.

It can also let you put past actions you regret into perspective. You will still regret those actions, but those actions, and associated regret, come with a timeframe.
Elastic has frozen tier, which is a step beyond what AWS is offering.
Use LOC
Yes, sometimes it is hard to distinguish between extremely dumb and dishonest behavior. Like, a few years ago in my native language someone made a news piece about some women that were working for Google suing the company for unfair wages (according to them, they were making less for the same work) and whoever edited the piece decided to include that according to glossdoor women in tech make less than men, but completely forgot that the same glossdoor said that google was a exemption (based on the information they got).