skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like a solution, a bit annoying to introduce an extra block.
Apple Reportedly Sent Team of Employees to South Korea to Discuss Apple Car Dev
Apple,

That winnie the pooh with text over it sure does look like a problem. Can I haz alert to whoever has that?

k. thx.

— Xi Jinping
Cameras in the future are not immune to what we may see on upcoming smartphones. For example, Sony revealed an image processing sensor with compute capabilities built-in. It's able to not only send photon measurements but send metadata on what's being captured in the image. https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/sony-shows-off-first-combi...
Yes, the constraint here is 1ms.
Wasn't the casing out of magnesia... I always thought if I get one I will be worried it will go down in a blaze on new years eve if somebody touches it with a sparkler. (I have somehow very specific counter factual worries, since I do not own one)
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Lift isn't really a part of how this gets started. Regular old pushing works on airfoils, too.
If I may be so bold, scrolling around the Netherlands and what is covered of Germany, it seems pretty useless.

- The resolution is so low, it's really hard to tell if there might be missing roads/routes or if this concerns water/rail.

- There are so many water/rail mistakes, there is red everywhere also in areas where I know every road in existence is on there. You have to evaluate each tile manually for all of the covered landmass.

- Just taking out air/rail/water might not solve the problem. Looking in residential areas with no water or rail nearby, there are still yellow tiles popping up at random with no indication as to why. Having the offending trace(s) would be really helpful here, but those are of course not shareable for privacy reasons. Perhaps short cutouts could be shared that are between 25 and 75% of the route (so not near the source or destination)? That would make it very clear if the person is on a bus (that obviously won't follow the shortest path in most cases) because the trace would go past the bus stops and often linger there, or if it was a cyclist for example.

As a frequent OSM contributor I love such initiatives and I'm very happy to see TomTom getting more involved. TomTom's map quality is so far behind OSM (globally), I was wondering who'd even still considering buying from them so it makes a lot of sense to combine forces instead. User data is the main advantage Google has over OSM, for both live traffic and purposes like these, so I'm very happy to see innovation here! I'll definitely be checking out updates to the site.
Best way to wrap your mind around wealth.

1 thousand seconds = 16.6 minutes

1 million seconds = 11 days, 13 hours

1 billion seconds = 32 years

1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years
> which virtually guarantees more-onerous rules than would have been necessary.

I see this as a good thing™, since more onerous rules will probably negatively affect a lot more people who may not even care about cryptocurrency just because they may be doing something that could be used for interacting with them.

The more invasive the better!
Which is exactly what was asked for.
Photonix Photo Manager
why is the main focus on CO2 and not sulphides and nitrogenous gasses that cause a helluvalot more greenhouse effect than CO2 and are released by industries all around? am I missing something or is this fact ignored?( not saying that nothing should be done about CO2 tho)
Thank you! It still doesn't feel real yet, but I am very excited to start.
Why does everyone use ":wq" instead of "ZZ", is the latter not everywhere or one more thing to learn?
There's no magic in iPhone's batteries, they are basically identical to all others.

The secret sauce ingredient is the idle battery life. The Android devices I used -- all 13 of them, without exception -- routinely lost anywhere from 15% to 40% battery when I was out and about without me picking them up even once. We're talking anywhere from 2 to 5 hours with them being in my pocket or a backpack, in the middle of a big city, with excellent 4G coverage, so it should not be a constant radio antenna activity (although if their antennas were of lower quality that might just be it).

I installed all sorts of root apps to try and pinpoint the culprit and inevitably hit a brick wall when all the apps can do is point at a system service without any way to drill down further.

In contrast, the iPhones that I've used -- 6S Plus, 8 Plus and 12 Pro Max -- are all extremely frugal on using battery when the device is idle. I've grown used to picking the phone from my bed at 100% battery in the morning on days where I had to do a lot of stuff outside, be out and about for 4-5 hours and only pick up the phone once or twice, and then get back home and find the phone at 98% battery.
>Western democracy is clearly weak when it comes to dealing with crisis of any kind.

Sounds like a feature to me. They're also "rather effective" at setting up reeducation camps in xijiang to deal with the "crisis" of "extremism and terrorism by Uygurs"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
blank page with “ An unexpected error has occurred.” on latest iphone/ios/safari?
I've been persuaded on this over the past few days.

Initially, I saw the controversy as overblown: It's the exact same content scan that already occurs when uploading images to iCloud; it will still only occur when uploading, and the only change is where it takes place.

I now see that as a reductionist take. Where it takes place does matter. The lines between client and server have been slowly blurred over the past decade to the point where a move like this may seem trivial to many, but ultimately, it is not. It becomes a foothold for so much more, and despite Apple's detailed assurances of all the friction they've installed onto this particular slippery slope, to step onto it at all is a step too far.
Analyzing NFTs as Social Networks Using the Status-as-a-Service Framework
What you seem to be referring to is D&D's tactical miniatures combat, which is indeed a form of miniatures gaming (and famously derived from Chainmail and its fantasy supplement.)

Unlike miniatures games, however, D&D as a whole usually shifts its primary focus to collaborative storytelling, exploration, and character progression, and its tactical miniatures combat is 1) small-scale with a 1:1 relationship between players and protagonists (though large-scale battles can be added as appropriate) and 2) optional (though it can be a large part of the game if players desire.) D&D is also usually played over multiple sessions with a contiguous game world, further enhancing the storytelling and character progression possibilities, and usually has no fixed objective or victory condition.

There are D&D-derived board games and tactical miniatures games (such as the 4E board games or the D&D miniatures games) that adopt D&D's tactical miniatures combat rules, but they largely remove the collaborative storytelling, acting/role-playing, multi-session character progression, and open-ended nature that are core to tabletop RPGs.

On the computer gaing side, a game like StarCraft is interesting because the single-player campaign includes wargame-like levels (with many units as well as resource gathering, building, and unit production) and RPG-like/dungeon-crawling levels (where you primarily control one or more hero units that gain experience and treasure and level up as they explore the level.) Even though they use the same game engine and combat system, these are fairly different game experiences.
The thing is Apple uses some custom hash thing with parameters generated by AIs. As some other article shows you can get conflicting hashes if some color patterns and shadows match. Also the threshold they mentioned is secret so it could be 1 or 2 or it could change in future.
I think it will be more feasible to decarbonize the heating instead. If feasible heat storage technology can mature and lower the cost of electric heating then it becomes financially viable.

Out of interest, what work are you getting done?
> it ended up betraying the fulcrum of user control: being able to trust that your device is truly yours.

The more opaque proprietary services a device runs, the less yours it can be. I'm surprised it took this long to remember this concept.
It might be because:
>replacing formulas with die rolls

makes no sense, as D&D still has formulas, and most wargames had die rolls.
> . Yes, you can turn off iCloud Photos to disable Apple’s scanning,

so, Apple now has the ability to reach into every law abiding citizens personal phone - report them to the FBI when the algorithm makes mistakes (and it will - nothing is 100%, particular in image recognition), AND THEN THE PERPETRATORS CAN STILL GET AWAY BY JUST TURNING IT OFF??!??!?!

My goodness, I couldn't imagine a stupider way to fight CSAM.

> Facebook made 20.3 million reports of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) in 2020.

Were there 20.3 million arrests of offenders? I don't think so. I doubt they caught 20 perps from that data. While it may be a better algorithm, it should be a good warning of how often your' very legitimate and non-CSAM data will be leaked to a "verifier", and worse, to the authorities.

Take a look at how often YouTube channels are taken down by "auto triggers" that are then "reviewed" and you will get a good idea of how often the government is going to screw law abiding citizens. It's not zero, and imho, it will be well above a range of "acceptable fallout".
Really, hashes are sufficiently unique? The objections I saw for this news were along the lines that random images could be manipulated to have hashes that match the flagged cases, in a way that was undetectable by the naked eye.
So there is really no need to be this aggressive.

In my comment history it clearly shows that there's an effort to parse through the information and seek clarity.

And its worth noting that iMessage data is and can be backed up to iCloud, and not just using backups. For many with multiple devices this is specifically useful.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208532

Further, as to this

>And of course the scope could change tomorrow. Just like the scope of Android could change tomorrow. They could even have changed the scope without doing an announcement!

I am pointing out that there is a specific history of this already on record and documented. And their technical documents specifically state their intentions.

Page 3 : https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...

"This program is ambitious, and protecting children is an important responsibility. Our efforts will evolve and expand over time"

I don't understand why you find such an observation so offensive. Its pretty clear Apple sees this as a first step into what will eventually be a much larger program.
What percentage of your computer's storage are you willing to rent out to storing CSAM?
Man, I would love a self-hosted version of this. I've worked at a lot of tiny startups and it often goes like this:

1. Sam needs to send some sensitive credentials to Alex

2. Well, we know we shouldn't use slack or email

3. We should probably use a shared password manager, but that'd be a much larger conversation with the whole dev team

4. There are a ton of options if I search "share secrets securely," but I'd have to dig into a few to figure out if I trust A. that company and B. their security model

5. Fuck it, just share it on slack, delete the message later, and hope for the best. We'll figure out a better solution "next time."

I'd love something simple and self-hosted that I could throw onto heroku, or deploy as a ready-made container, that'd provide one-time-use urls like this. It'd be a great way to have slightly better secret delivery over insecure channels (like slack) in the early days of an eng team before we get around to setting up a unified system for secret sharing. And easy self-hosting means we don't have to solve the trust problem every time.
I recently read the phrase "the most ergonomic position is the next one" somewhere, and thought it was very memorable.
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I am a mid level programmer but still I face issue with writing clean code.
I think the real test would be the sales of the upcoming iPhone 13 . If Apple sees a material difference in their sales, they might consider changing that policy.

However as things stand now, with Apple trying to move more of their revenue to services and the general stickiness of the Apple's platform, this change would be palatable to most users.
> 1988-1991 - The Robotics Years

My dad was a project manager at JPL during this time and I was in jr high or high school. I remember visiting during a JPL Open House and seeing a Mac IIcx or IIcx (the smaller Mac II box) mounted on a small RC-car-sized rover-like chassis autonomously roaming the grounds. I suspect the author of this piece had a hand in that
> best thing you can do there is try to keep notes every day so that you can look back

This is key. My doc had me start keeping a log my mood twice daily. I was surprised at how low my accuracy was for self-assessment beyond the last couple of weeks. It really help codify the effects of changes to treatment.
It was a magnesium alloy that turned out to be devilishly difficult to get going in practice.

See this article that adolph linked in another comment: https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html
I keep on reading that taking steps to prevent CASM is doing "huge damage" to their brand. Or that blocking minors from sending nudes if they are on a child account under their parent is doing huge damage.

Really?

You know some late night comedian is going to do some jokes about pedo's having to switch to android. You think that is damaging to apples' brand?

My guess is some android folks do a follow eventually (as usual).

I'm a parent. Even for those of us who are into privacy etc (yes, I did the early PGP key signing parties, EFF / ACLU stuff etc) I'm having a hard time seeing how this damages Apple's brand. I don't want this crap being sent to my children - PERIOD. If they are on a child account PLEASE screen it.

Folks - pay attention to the kind of laws that will get passed and do get passed. Most folks will throw away a lot of civil rights for these types of issues.

I found the arguments against this surprisingly uncompelling. I saw an HN article about how apple is committing felonies etc - it just didn't seem well founded. And everything is over hyperbolic over the top its insane.
It is, yes. Don't take it outside on holidays :)
You'd think they would be even capable of journalism that notified people before shit like this turns into legislation

Instead I see storywriting
How does the tax system work for financial instruments implemented by pen-and-paper contracts? Seems to me very similar to owning shares in Special Purpose Vehicles, with the (perhaps important) difference that a judge can't overrule the contract.. but they can still bind the owners right?

Part of me wonders if you could create a contractual "shim" that judges can read, which mirrors what the smart contract does and dictates behavior of the parties for matters outside the contract itself. Sort of like the template contracts used for mortgage-backed securities.
Once the policy decision is made that it can run some kind of scanning, it opens the doors for any kind of scanning. Today it's that "neural hash", tomorrow it's going to do something even more invasive.
just graduated high school in india
I never thought about it this way, that's interesting.
when did "beautiful" become synonymous with "spilled coffee on my keyboard and it barfed out a bunch of parentheses"
The right to secret communication. The right of not being under surveillance. The government cannot open letters without a warrant, but somehow Apple, Google, MS and co can sniff through electronic communication as they see fit because of a clause in an EULA. No idea how came there, but maybe the days when Stasi surveillance was the poster child of government intrusion into private life are too long gone to be remembered. Or they aren't and certain people choose to make shit load of money from the thing.
> Okay, so how many years would it take to halve the world population through natural death rate

If the natural death rate is 0.9%, the population would decline by about 9% each decade.

The drop doesn’t have to go to 50% - just down to whatever the sustainable limit is.

> how do you stop all people on earth from having children without a world war?

I’m not sure that even a world war would achieve that. And again, it’s not necessary or desirable to go to that extreme. If the goal is sustainability, we just need to rightsize the population for sustainability. The actual population depends on the prevailing per capita emissions from whatever energy technologies we are using at any given time. The more carbon neutral the technology, the higher the population can be sustained, at least with respect to greenhouse gases.

To reduce the birth rate, rather than force everyone to stop, we could just reward those who are willing with tax breaks. X% tax break for zero children. Y% tax break for 1 child. 0% tax break for 2 children. And extra taxes for >2 children.
Of course! I guess my point is-- we should be doing any and all of these things, and the west should be investing as much as it takes, because the long-term payoff is worth it ten times over.
In Apple's defense here, there seems to be a reason they're using the longer acronym CSAM. It means not just pictures of people without clothes on, but actual images/video of children being abused. Stuff that would likely provoke you or me or other normal people into acts of extreme violence against the perpetrators if we ever got the chance.

The real danger with Apple's system is that there's zero accountability in the list of "bad" hashes. So there's no way to know whether it's really all CSAM, or if it also includes rare Pepes, Bernie memes, or pictures of politicians doing embarrassing things.
Actually the first use of the term "killer application" (not even "killer app" yet) in print was 1988, in PC Week. See Wikipedia. NeXT's first computers were 1987.

"App" however dates from at least 1981.

https://www.osnews.com/story/24882/the-history-of-app-and-th...
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Facebook_AI-Assisted_Roa...
> I'd say we get police or health care to talk to people who think perfectly normal images are sexual in nature, but until we get laws changed at least then keep us safe.

Personally I don't find anecdotes convincing compared to the very real amount of CSAM (and actual child abuse) we already know exists and circulates in the wild, but I do get your point. That said personally I don't think changing the laws would really achieve what you want anyway - I don't think a random Walmart employee is up-to-date on the legal definitions of CSAM, they're going to potentially report it regardless of what the law is (and the question of whether this is a wider trend is debatable, again this is an anecdote).

With that, they were eventually found innocent, so the law already agrees what they did was perfectly fine, which was my original point. No it should not have taken that long, but then again we don't know much about the background of those who took them, so I'm not entirely sure we can easily determine how appropriate the response was. I'm certainly not trying to claim our system is perfect, but I'm also not convinced rolling back protections for abused children is a great idea without some solid evidence that it really isn't working.

> Another thing that comes up is that a lot of things that are legal might be in that database because criminal might have a somewhat varied history.

That didn't really answer my question :P

I agree the database is suspect but I don't see how that has anything to do with the definition of CSAM. The legal definition of CSAM is not "anything in that database", and if we're already suggesting that there's stuff in there that's known to not be CSAM then how would changing the definition of CSAM help?
> This invasive capability on the device level is a massive intrusion on everyone's privacy

I am a user uploading a photo to the cloud.

Google's servers scan photos after they are uploaded to the cloud, and have done so for the past decade.

>a man [was] arrested on child pornography charges, after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect's Gmail account

https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/why-the-gmail-scan-that-le...

Apple wants the device to scan the photo before it is uploaded to the cloud.

Both are equally invasive and both can only be avoided by refusing to use the cloud.
> Everyone expects that the government THEY elect have the worst for them in mind.

In basically every election, almost half of the voters voted for the loser.
Belarusian dissidents fear the regime will put them into detention camps
And i think if you're working on these systems, then it's all too easy to only think about the happy scenario.

But time has shown that an initial good concept will transform into something worse.

We have a very recent example with Corona contact-tracing apps, that law enforcement in multiple democratic countries are now using for other purposes.

So no, we should not allow this client-side scanning to go through, it will not end well.
The official report the original BBC article is based on is available here: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6.... Definitions are inside, but the big ones he mentions are Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), AR6 (Annual Report 6), and WGI (Working Group I).

Essentially what he's saying is that the conclusions in the report are based heavily on the more-extreme, though less-likely outcomes (i.e., exaggerating the truth of the impact of climate change based on observational data by using extreme models/predictions). The report also ignores his (Roger's) own heavily-cited research in favor of a less-cited resource that confirms their biases.

Edit: this is problematic because it generates headlines like the one this article is using and sends people into a panic spiral (as opposed to focusing on long-term solutions and actual science).
why are you only calling out BILL's - coincidence I don't think so. You have a Bills only bias. :)
The vast majority of US exports aren't particularly carbon intensive.

Only 23% of Carbon is on industry: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis... - only a small fraction of that is exports.

We don't export a lot of electricity. We do export a decent amount of agriculture, but my understanding is we don't export a ton of meat - which is where the majority of the carbon comes from.
No, they wouldn't. It's only scanning photos you're uploading to iCloud Photo Library via Apple's Photos app.
I see this take a lot, and it’s kind of misinformed. The primary drawbacks of nuclear are:
1) incredible slow to build. A typical plant takes ~20 years from decision to productionized
2) extremely expensive, with a massively frontloaded cost. By contrast, solar and wind are fast to install and now cheaper.

> wind power can be zero at some parts of the day

There are a few solutions to this actually. First, having a more nationalized grid can amortize variant weather conditions (very unlikely it’s not windy everywhere, for example). Second, there actually are long-duration battery solutions coming out. Look up “energy tower” for a very weird one, and “form energy” for a more traditional model.

Finally — I will agree that nuclear is probably some piece of the pie in the future. But analysts think we can get to 80% renewables with currently existing tech: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/2012/0...
> Nope. The comparison is done on the device and the threshold is set there as well.

As I understand it the fingerprinting and comparison is done on device, but it only happens as part of the upload-to-iCloud process. So the grandparent's phrasing isn't unreasonable.