skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Biggest problem is "who govern the governors"

Child protection is an exception to all standards of due process in the US and Europe. There is NO organization that can interfere when people get mistreated based on these laws (the vast majority that fall victim to "side effects" are children, of course). Only generic "quality assurance" is done. There is no protection at all for individuals, whether children, parents, or third parties.

> Will Apple be considered as responsible? punished?

The EU court has judged just a few months ago that child protection authorities cannot be held responsible for the damage they cause, EVEN if it is shown that their actions were based on incomplete or wrong data.

> In this era it's hard, VERY hard to entrust our private properties to these giant tech companies.

Okay, well if you think this is a serious problem, then let me tell you what else social services data is being used for. In Belgium, social services, including homeless shelters, enter data into your medical records which you can't see, erase, or ... emergency departments will read this data, and use it to avoid the situation that they have to use the state insurance for non-insured persons, which is a polite wording for "refusing care to homeless persons".
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As an autistic, I can fully relate with the message.

I know these things can be tamed, but what about a large company (tech company in my case) asking a dev to be on top of a multitude of slack channels all day long? I take issues with even small distractions, either digital or in real life, not to mention a deluge of them such as in my current work situation.
and that's why "free speech" should never have meant "free reign to lie, fear monger and hate speech".
This law does not functionally outlaw the existence of cryptocurrency, it clarifies requirements to operators that they cannot escape AML.

I would expect a court to find that PoS is close enough to PoW as Congress intends this legislation, without digressing into the various types of PoS. While poorly written, it is likely that pure network operations will be ok long term.
Can we change title to reflect this?
Avoiding the question just makes me think you don’t have an answer.
I'm wondering the same. I suppose they will have to implement some way to scan the emails, or else they will be forced out of business.

That said, I wouldn't bet on it.
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I want to cry if is see such dangerous things.
Most European parties send unknown politicians to Strasbourg and let them vote on important topics with low media coverage. Later the local politicians - which act mostly in Bruessels - claim that they have no way but follow Strasbourgs/Bruessels decisions and write even worse state laws upon it.

I think we need a new Europe state with a actual parliament in charge, which means the people there are accountable and in power. Without the Commission, Council and Presidency of Council[1]. Instead one actual parliament and one actual government. The Europeans state are integrated part of it, like elsewhere. Next the stuff can be fixed: We just need one army. And one social-security system with one economic policy. And one state department (foreign politics).

Most politicians still think of Europe as a economy council but we people expect a sovereign country/state. The former "economy council" could solve economy related issues within Europe in the 1950s. But I think we have much bigger things to do.

[1] I don't know how somebody can seriously use something like a rolling presidency. You can do that with a mediator position or referee.
Including any secrets or confidential chats others have trusted them with.
Ask HN: What are the best options for global payments (to avoid high rejection)?
I'm trying to understand my options and seeing as some options have high rejection rates, trying to understand more.

This is from a business perspective
The * escape comes directly from BCPL
Sure, I'll take a crack at the first one, involving 'a few' Falcon Heavy launches. Falcon Heavy can get (very roughly) 16 tonnes to L1. Ignoring critical station-keeping and rigidity issues entirely for the sake of simplicity, and assuming the sail is a single sheet of aluminized mylar at 10 g/m^2, that's 1.6 square kilometers of coverage. To put the planet in shadow would require about 100 million such shades.

More importantly, people who won't do anything about the problem now while it's getting worse will not do anything if we had a temporary fix in place. This should be obvious from human nature, if it's not obvious, you can observe those temporary fixes permanently installed as infrastructure and business operations all over. We don't need more time to think about it, we just need to get started.
*Note not the original author. Just found the article incredibly helpful.
So as long as some KPIs are positive, let's ignore the loss of fundamental freedoms?
It would be great if they had a video of it in action. Also the ammo looks like you can make it yourself, that's cool.

(Does it bother anyone else that they say "Gauss" to rhyme with "paws' instead of "mouse"? It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but in my experience it's one of the names even physicists will pronounce properly.)
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That may have been true a decade ago, but today renewables provide the cheapest electricity.

We have a clear tech path that leads to cheaper and more abundant energy, we just need to choose it and stop listening to the fossil fuel interests that don't want the transition to happen.

Technology development accelerates the more we produce it. Accelerate the purchase of storage and renewable tech, and the quicker we will get to a future of abundant clean energy.
I chuckled when you said "the right people". Like, there's the right people, and then what's left. Get it? Right and left. Puns.
The scary thing about this is that many people have images that look like child porn at home: Family photos of naked grandchildren playing at the sea or in the mud, as well as sexting between consenting teenagers. There is no way automatic classification can distinguish these from real child porn, because they look almost identical and thus many private pictures will be shared with the government. This not only infringes the privacy of those people in the most drastic way possible, but might also lead to lawsuits that can tear families apart (think your father being accused of having CP only for it to turn out months later it was an old picture of yourself). The article mentions that 40% of CP investigations in Germany are started against minors (implied: through sexting), which shows that this concern is not purely theoretical at all.

This was not an issue with the old approach of comparing checksums against public CP images, but it will increasingly be if we use more AI algorithms for this.

EDIT: Probably Apples neural hashes that are currently in the news won't be vulnerable to this since they trained specifically to only detect changes in color/cropping/rotation. But we can't know for sure since the white paper is not that detailed and "naked kid on beach" photos all look really similar usually.
One of my coworkers ended up blocked because Amazon maintains a block list of bot like users and our WAF was subscribed to it. This coworker was using scrapers for find GTX 3080s.

Surprisingly, Amazon does not block customers they put on this list.
That is the probable reason why this is being pushed through.
And stop growing around there and fall after that.
The same reporting requirements as banks. So the amendment is basically saying that anything that looks bank-ish in cryptocurrency terms will actually be treated as a bank for KYC/AML requirements. The consternation is that the "anything that looks bank-ish" is too broadly defined, but from my reading, it really isn't.
I can see how you came to wanting this but I think it could lead to dangers for many.

For most people (this is not financial advice for any one person) money in checking and savings should have a low rate of return and therefore low volatility because they need or may need that money to actually be there to pay bills or in times of crisis (emergency savings). Once you have these two pools of money, then you should invest in retirement and finally extra taxable investments. Most people should automate the money going into retirement and investments I agree but turning your entire checking account into a volatile/uninsured pool of money I think is the wrong direction.
>> Governments need to tax CO2 emissions on the business side...

I'd say its easier to tax those who extract carbon from the ground (or import it). Far fewer companies.

(for this post I'm assuming the goal to reduce CO2 emissions is correct)
And what's making it go forward?
Can someone explain this to me like I'm 5 for me?
Could you please specify 'certain' instead of hinting?

Sources would be great too.
Don't forget scaring away most of her leftist supporters by getting too cozy with megachurches; At least it sounds like you're talking about Marina Silva lol
This type of cheeky criticism is probably fair when you have a startup claiming crazy numbers with no prototype, but this is reporting on a paper from a research institution. No need for snark.
Oh I think you will find that the "think of the children" model has been abused more than most emotional heart-string pulling for agenda.
Hopefully we have more natural disasters and they hit major cities.
There is the European Convention on Human Rights upheld by the European Court of Human Rights, but from my understanding these both predate the European Union, and they're not really directly associated.

Could someone more knowledgeable weigh in on what the EU has to show as far as a "human rights record" ?
My understanding of the problem is that you are entirely wrong as to the ratio of "accidental" underage photos vs. "evil" photos. CSAM is "Child Sexual Abuse Material" and the abuse part is apparently more widespread than the public knows or wants to know.

I have objections to this tool and have many of the same concerns expressed in these comments, but your example seems like a bit of a corner case compared to the broader "government panopticon" problem.
No, it’s light enough for the wind to start pushing it.
Everyone engages in motivated reasoning. Deniers underestimate risk, and their opponents often overestimate the risks.

Getting people on the same page means understanding their motives and framing the facts appropriately. Unfortunately, people just want to take sledgehammers to "the other side", as if that's ever really fixed anything.
here's a 3d print next case for raspberry pi:

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enjoy :)
As in "something that originates from something else"
WINNERS: Large corporations and financial institutions. They can afford the now-required overhead for all kinds of services, including transaction processing with fees and rewards, i.e., mining, and make a nice profit at high volumes.

LOSERS: Smaller service providers. They cannot afford the now-required overhead because they don't have sufficient economies of scale.
You didn’t address anything here.
Yes it bothers me. It should be "gowce" - rhymes with mouse. It's not gauze, obviously. This is not a Bunsen. ;p ;) xx
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Holy cow! Just to expand on my previous comment below, but a different use case. Exact search, you have to use quotes seems to be completely busted as well. The company I work for builds websites, we have thousands and we have a common phrase in the footer. I would use Google to help find example sites. Well, as of at least this morning, assuming this is as old as Google's July 1st update exact match no longer works.

I used to get 100's of great results. Now, I get less than 30 and over 70% are spam. You are correct that something is completely wrong. It is 100% broken in this case.

I just can not believe how horrible this is. Just to emphasis how bad it is, I even tried a combination of the phrase in the footer plus the name of the company. It would not return any results for that company/website. Just spam results.

What is going on here?
Video streaming is about 60% of the web. Not 99%.

But, in what sense in video streaming not part of the web?

Sustainable web design is just as applicable to streaming as e-commerce or a blog.

It’s also not at all the same as turning off a lightbulb.

It’s more like one action resulting in turning off millions of other peoples light bulbs.
The solution is not authoritarianism. We have plenty of that now and got here because of that. We have not just governmental authoritarianism, but also in business. In fact, business authoritarianism is arguably why we are here.
The wind.
This seems like a GREAT problem to suck kids into math and computer science. It’s simple enough to explain to an average 12yo, but has enough depth to still be vexing them after they complete their maths PhD. And it’s natural motivation for them wanting to learn basic programming so they can test billions of examples.
Ugh. Guess it will be time to switch password managers again.
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Systems don't become inaccessible from the EU because of GDPR, there's no great firewall of europe that would make that happen. But depending on circumstances, you could still get fined for violations even if you aren't situated in EU.
> Fine, then let’s talk about other countries.

I’ll let you change the subject, but let’s note that every time someone realizes privacy in China as a concern, it’s just bullshit.

> Does anyone seriously doubt that Germany will use this mechanism to ban Nazi imagery?

Yes.

> Then from there, it’s not a big leap to talk about controlling far right (or far left) memes in France or the UK.

This one is harder for me to argue against. Those countries could order such a mechanism, whether Apple had built this or not. Because those countries have hate speech laws and no constitutional mechanism protecting freedom of speech.

This is a real problem, but banning certain kinds of speech is popular in these societies. It is disturbingly popular in the US too. That is not Apple’s doing.
It's pretty, but Mogensen's self-evaluator

E = Y(\e m.m (\x.x) (\m n.(e m)(e n)) (\m v.e (m v)))

is probably easier to remember :) I thank Ben Lynn for introducing me to it on https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/lambda/

Just in case people mistakenly assume Lisp is in some way more practical, please checkout https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/compiler/
Yes, I do realize Switzerland doesn't actually use direct democracy for things that matter and when they do they often end up with xenophobic laws. I don't even want to talk about town assemblies voting on naturalisation decisions.
Hmm... I thinks this is what I used to learn C - on an Amiga.

Oh, the memories...

... most of them about waiting for the disk to finish reading just to run out of memory thanks to Intuitions.h being such a beast. I think one of my first real C programs was a pre-processor and minimiser for the amiga UI header files.
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I already mentioned that, and explained why it's not applicable to this case, suggesting that to some degree it's not a sufficient explanation.
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Yep, a counter-clockwise / left facing swastika. It can have a lot of meanings, both positive and negative [1], but its best to avoid such a similarity because of the recent, hijacked negative abuse of the symbol in first part of last century.

On a positive note the software is licensed MIT and source code is available at GitHub [2]. Its linked to in the article, but they use a tracking link by Facebook, sigh...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/droidlet
It's true about the industry, but that is because the industry has grown faster than the profession. There is a group of software engineers who care. They're just completely overshadowed by the mind-boggling amount being produced by university programs and coder bootcamps who don't care.
I've felt that too until I once decided to take a look at what would it be like to be in their shoes.

Now I have a huge admiration towards my PM and engineering manager.

Writing code by itself doesn't make money, and keeping people content and productive is not an accident either!

So yeah, different people do different things and usually better/smarter is kind of like comparing if an apple is better than a pen.

They are just different.
Exactly. Just like “terrorism” is used as an excuse to take control of oil fields.
> Would you rather they keep photos non-E2E forever and have even more unfettered access to them than a "backdoor" allows? It does NOT scan photos that are not uploaded to the cloud, despite being on-device.

Yes I'd rather they do this. The fact that they're implementing on device checks doesn't suggest to me that they will be deploying E2E encryption. It suggests to me that they will be expanding on device scanning to all content in the future.

If they were going to make iCloud E2E encrypted, it would be a clear win to announce this at the same time as deploying on device scanning.
However the Joules are tunable. You can dial up and down, I believe.
The wind, I think. My current impression is that when it is starting, the whole thing is basically just acting as a big sail. You could lock the propeller and prevent it from spinning and it would still move forward.

After that is where I start to get more fuzzy on the matter. On the one hand it makes sense that by using some of the speed from the wind to do other things, you can extract more total energy from the wind. And by doing propulsion as that "other thing" it makes sense you get up to a higher speed.

But then it seems to me like there would be a problem once you go faster than the wind, because it's no longer pushing you. I'm not sure if some other effect takes over, or if I'm thinking about the wind in an incorrect way, or if my whole line of thought about this is wrong.
Does the EU have some kind of firewall with ISPs to block domains and IP addresses?
Does surveillance make it easier, or harder, to change unjust law, or an unjust government? Or even learn there are injustices being carried out in the first place?

Suppose the people of Hong Kong followed your advice, and had allowed surveillance infrastructure to spread through their city, mapping out everyone's social graphs and political affiliations.

Now that a hostile government is in charge of their city, there is no reason to worry the govt. has inherited all the gathered information and knows exactly who to target - if they don't like it, they should fix the root issue and change the law.
I just tested an few exact matches myself and it seems like its completely broken, see my comment above. I am just floored at how bad it is now. Something is truly broken here.
I wouldn't be surprised if the UK government announced it would be re-applying to be in the EU just for this new law (I'm joking.. I hope).
> Now people are seriously arguing that continuous searching through your entire life without any warrant or justification by opaque algorithms is fine.

Where is anyone arguing that?
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On a website uniquely designed for photo upload and forensic analysis, CSAM makes up .06% of uploads. But I'd bet on a generic messaging app, the percentage of messages involving CSAM is much, much lower.
That or some designers are opinionated and more interested in making their mark on a design, compared with understanding and advocating for their userbase.

Honestly I've heard this line more from designers than any other field:

"We can't add that feature/button because it's too confusing"

Usually the above statement is conflicting with reality and the request to add the feature/button is to give the UI clarity (or worse, provide the feature the customer asked for!)
We might strongly suspect catastrophe, but we don't really know it.
Any wind that's strong enough to overcome static friction would do the trick, and I can't see why 10mph wouldn't be enough.

The small models that you can build at home (sorry, can't find the plans anymore; this was 10 years ago now) do not require a push to get started.
To this point - it is already happening to certain extent.

Amazon's share of product search is more than that of Google's [1]. And earlier Facebook started getting large chunk of ad money, which would have otherwise gone to Google.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-surpasses-10-of-u-s-digi...
We don't need to raise capital. We don't need taxes to pay for the renewable and adaptive work we need to do. Taxes are strictly punitive and saying we need to raise taxes to raise funds is not only wrong, but delays action.
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The suggestion I've seen is that key countries will put a price on carbon, and then add tariffs to imports from countries that lack a carbon price. That at least goes some way to removing the economic disadvantage.
As in send them an email that will trigger the system in a way to cause grief or induce further evasive exploration of the recipients life. Show me a guarantee that will never happen as that is the fear as we all know - any system can be gamed for good or bad.
Maybe you believe that the temperature is going to rise infinitely because of CO2 emissions, I believe it's going to top at 2.5C degrees and that we can not only manage it but benefit from it.
> there are only around 10,000,000 possible game-states after the first WBBWW

Do you have a source for that?
The rate of temperature change increases. Siberia thaws and releases massive amount of methane. The Gulf Stream slows down and throws a critical regulator of temperature in the Western world into disarray. (According to news reporting earlier this week, the first signs of it slowing down are starting to appear.)

Positive feedback loops are powerful things.
Until 2006, it was a hot dog stand - https://www.defense.gov/observe/photo-gallery/igphoto/200108... . "Cafe Ground Zero" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero#The_Pentagon .

Also a Reddit TIL 4 years ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6301fh/til_a...
I wonder if all of this (Apple, Chatcontrol, etc.) will spark a backlash against computing devices. The government can't rifle through your physical photos to search for [bad thing], at least for the moment. Will we see a resurgence of Instamatic cameras and other offline-first devices?

Depressingly, I'm sure most people won't care. But hey, I can hope.
It's somewhat off-topic for the article, but I'm curious as to why you retain images uploaded for analysis after the analysis is completed?

After all, surely 99% of uploaders don't hold the copyright for the image they're uploading, so retaining them is on shaky legal grounds to begin with, if you're the kind of person who wants to be in strict compliance with the law - and at the same time, it forces you and your moderators to handle child porn several times a day (not a job I'd envy) and you say you risk a felony conviction.

Wouldn't it be far simpler, and less legally risky, if you didn't retain the images?
If crypto does have a future it won,t be in the US.
I get what you are saying but just to clarify to some who may read that literally, the Zulu kingdom is nowhere near extinct. It's monarch and governing structures are still around too.

off-topic

I agree fully that a "modern" military will always win against one that depends on "old" doctrines exclusively. I have interesting tales of both English and Zulu officers on how the war proceeded, how the Zulu court knew their fate and had come to choose death, and the English officers who did not want war to begin with.