skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From everything that I've read, iCloud Photo Library is currently encrypted on the server, with a key that Apple only uses when presented with a warrant. If I ran the company (disclaimer: I do not) I'd implement this with an airgapped system in a vault somewhere, where a very small number of people have access to bring encrypted images in on a CD-R under two-person control.

That being said, one of two things is true. Either Apple does exactly what they say, in which case they are not able to perform server-side content / fingerprint scanning, or Apple is outright lying about only using their key on behalf of law enforcement. This latter case would open them to all sorts of legal liabilities, like a suit from shareholders for false reports. It would also require the silence of every Apple engineer who has ever been involved in at least their iCloud Photo program, and probably a bunch of server infrastructure as well. Additionally, they'd be legally obligated to report their scan results to the NCMEC but would have to do so in a way that doesn't give away that they're lying about how their systems work.
> Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

Now I wonder how much that would apply early cars. Did you have to re-learn all the controls before? I'm sure they were not standardized from the beginning. In that sense, Windows is an early car and cannot really be blamed for trying new things (most likely they are referring to the 3.x -> 95 UI revamp).
> It’s not at all evident to me that pattern recognition is trainable to a high degree.

Wouldn't that mean that mathematicians do not actually improve during their careers outside of things like management and publishing?
> Additionally, what about Deaf people being stalked? They can't hear the Airtags.

I'm curious do you think strangers would notify you if an AirTag was beeping in your bag and you didn't notice, or would you have to rely on trusted people?
The thing that actually is surprising is how many researchers don't even mention why they've excluded the possibility of a reverse correlation in their studies.
The least believable part of that complaint is that you and your SO go on _walks_ that are more than 8 hours long.
> China and Singapore are at the very top. If you think what's described is brutality, you should watch tiger moms push their children.

There are a bunch of different approaches that can lead to top scores in that ranking. notably Finland does well with a non-brutal approach.

> a "brutal" system, very similar to whats described, although i wouldn't use that specific term.

the term was used by the parent, not by me. We just happened to assess its value differently.

> they'd only get harder and harder questions thrown at them during oral exams until they crumble, and harder and harder sets added to their homework.

It depends on what you think the purpose of school should be. If you want people to understand the world they live in, understand the "why" of things, think critically and creatively etc. then problem sets and ritualistic humiliation during oral exams won't take you very far.
If anyone is curious of what data Apple have on you, you can request it via their website.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/17/request-your-personal-data-fr...

Note that this won't include certain categories that are stored unencrypted on Apple servers, for example iCloud backups and other data in iCloud (files, photos, calendars, contacts, etc).

I was quite surprised to see that even excluding all the data they (often) have from peoples iCloud accounts, there is still a bunch of stuff they collect.

Aside: I really wish Apple would spend more time on end-to-end encryption, for example of iCloud calendar and contact data as well as (obviously) the backups.

They should also have developer guides for app developers, on how to build it into apps: common patterns (group E2E patterns, multi-device E2E, open-source data sync servers that apps could use to arbitrarily synchronize E2E encrypted data between devices, etc).
This is the experience of reading a serial as though it's a novel.

Some of us like that! I'll read Dickens and Dumas cover to cover, I even read Worm at a pretty steady pace.

But I read Unsong as it was being published and it was great. I would eagerly look forward to the next chapter, and each one left me wanting more.

I suggest that the next time you take on a serial, be it a modern web serial or one of the great serials of the Western canon (David Copperfield is excellent), slow your roll. Read a chapter a day, or a chapter a week.

They have an inherently different pacing and if it's frustrating you, slow down.
Interstellar explores this idea really well. Also see Andy Wiers' new book "Hail Mary", which I can thoroughly recommend. In Hail Mary he doesn't use cryogenics but a different mechanism.
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For a hard science fictional version of this, check out Poul Anderson’s “Tau Zero”, from 1970, according to Wikipedia. I read it a few years after that, and it’s stuck with me since. A ship with a Bussard ramjet runs into troubles and has to keep accelerating, into the far future.
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I'd guess that that monoculture, pesticides and fertiliser make up the bulk of the insect problem.

However, in terms of potential for unforeseen catastrophe, I'd leave GMO in the list. Our understanding of how small genetic changes can affect ecosystems in unintended ways is far, far from thorough. W don't even understand how small genetic changes affect us, never mind a biome filled with biomes.
wow! here they would say they can do nothing while eating some donuts
I posted more detail upthread but what I've found suggests that Apple does have a key to decrypt pictures but they claim to use it only to respond to a warrant. (They could of course be lying about that, but I don't believe they are.)
Also why stop at 1g? People could be trained to live in 1.2 or even 1.5g.
yes, quite a bit more long winded than K
Or they just create their own version https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-online-safe...
Well, exceptions shouldn't be the classic case here, because - as you say - they're typically not zero cost.

Zero-cost abstraction is what you get when your abstraction gets compiled away to nothing. Like properly written value wrappers in C++, or (presumably) newtype in Rust. These things disappear from final assembly.
Does that 30k number include iCloud Photo data? Do you have a citation for this?
CDU is still popular. Germany might have a prominent green party but that is about it. It's only been in the last few years that other parties started caring about climate change. It's probably because the greens managed to sneak in a CO2 tax.
The no-carbon and current lifestyle does not seem doable IMO. Electric planes are not happening any time soon due to weight of the batteries. Container ships still burn worst type of fuel even in 2021. Our lifestyle crucially depends on logistics of air and ship travel. And these are not catching up.

Roads won't be free of ICE cars for 30 more years at least and make that 50+ for the 3rd world countries.

Energy generation with solar panels and wind turbines is not stable. Only long-term solution is nuclear so that our children in 20 years breath less coal-burn exhausts.

It will probably happen eventually but we will live through a lot of weather related suffering until then. Thank you previous generations.
The rocket was called Orion. You would probably need more than 200 nukes for it.

Proxima Centauri is ~4 light years away, not a half of a light year.
Wouldn't it be just ordinary beetroot sugar? Why cane?
Very much this.

I've attempted (largely unsuccessfully) to try to use Pocket (also a Mozilla product) to address this. The problem with Pocket is that it gets worse the more you use it. From four years ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_...

A couple of those issues have been addressed. There's now "find in page" on the Android app, and editing tags is very slightly improved. But overall, Pocket remains a roach motel: articles check in but they never check out.

What I really want is a persistant, local, tagged, searchable, entirely-offline-usable archive of content. There seems to be little interest (or supreme obstacles) in providing this. (I've looked at Zotero, Calibre, and Mendalay, none really suit my workflow.)

I've utterly given up any hope of browser vendors delivering this.
Nah, just put a solar panel at the front of the ship. Free energy!!
Well, you'll need CO2 tariffs.
Feeding animals corn is terrible and in fact only happens due to US agribusiness lobbying and wasteful subsidies, all of which should end for human, animal and environmental health.
Didn‘t read it yet, but I certainly will. This was what i was thinking about when i read an introduction to the Kabbalah and about the hebrew letters. This book sounds very
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> Face it, Apple users have made their bed and now they have to lie in it.

Well said. They now finally realise that Apple Inc. was never their friends in the first place, like I have always said.

They cleverly used privacy as a marketing trick to lure them to buying into their ecosystem and to cover their suspicious acts under the reason of 'protecting the user's privacy'.

Given there are lots of Apple users buying M1 Macs, it is more likely that they would need to back up / restore from iCloud as they already do this on their iPhones.

So yes, they are so entrenched and locked in the Apple ecosystem, they won't move and will stay there for good, no matter how many times Apple screws them over. They are not your friends and only on the side of profit.
Whoa. That's a really cool thought; I had never considered that.
... what? It's been part of SF for decades.

The first three that come to mind are: Heinlein's "Time for the Stars", Haldeman's "The Forever War", and Anderson's "Tau Zero".

From those titles, a DDG search finds http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/relativity listing more, also containing the line "Very many sf stories use relativistic time dilation for one-way Time Travel into the future."
That's more than key-words in most languages, I think.
How beautiful can a nonstop running live Lisp evolve to for the duration of an unsigned 64bit clock count attached to a nuclear or solar or geothermal power source and accreting new hardware like spacelab plus Nauka lab?
You could try TinyGem
Bad news, buddy: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?la...

ETA: in short, about a month ago they did get the votes, at least in the EU, and it's now "allowed" for providers to scan all content. In a little while, they're going to have a vote to change "allowed" to "required", and we have no reason to think it'll go differently.
Even ignoring galaxies, there's also the cosmic microwave background.

It turns out that there is a rest frame in which this background looks the same in all directions. But if you keep accelerating in one direction, the CMB coming from there will keep blueshifting: from microwave to IR, to visible, and eventually hard gamma radiation.
I think its not that it has to, its just more challenging and rewarding. I’ve read a lot about bulling and social problems in USA schools, but so almost none of that myself i Eastern Europe.

I think the subjects where so hard that it forced kids to cooperate, smart kids where considered a resource that potential bullies didn’t like to harm, as they would help them in the future. Additionally there was this sense of … maybe “esprit de corps” as we all were going through the same tough training.

I think that those hard problems were actually very rewarding and I saw very little of the “teenage problems” that are so prominently displayed in American media.
Just to be clear, the EU already voted to allow snooping, the law "currently in the works" is to require it:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?la...
Yeah, ever since running into this little snippet eons ago, I've found the symbols are better argument for APL style languages quite weak: http://nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm

Since the arity of all the primitives are known there's less parens than lisp. That seems like the clear sweet spot to me.

And I think this is born out with K the product. One of the things they added with Q is a more text oriented syntax.

The big a-ha in APL style languages is shifting from thinking about loops and iterating over single elements to transforming tensor like objects. It's a powerful approach no matter what language and syntax you use.
Notice the "presently".
An obvious trick to speed up supervised learning is to label and import into the training set only the images for which the model makes wrong predictions. So for most of the images the human only needs to approve the automatic predictions - and from time to time he needs to label them.

Are there any libraries to facilitate a workflow like this?
Mickey Mouse would like to have a word with you. I guess the future is a world where we will pay for each page read in a library and our behaviour will be sold to advertisers.
Don't think about it as an invasion, think about it as a front.

There have been historical times when the US-- essentially strategically secure-- has had a front to fight with Canada (1812) or Mexico (1849). Most recently, the civil war in Mexico (1917) had a large number of US troops fighting along the border right before the start of the US entry in the First World War.

(the Germans realized this was the strategic weakness of the US, which prompted the Zimmerman telegram.)

In a similar way China can be dragged down by wars in Vietnam, Burma, Korea, or India / Himalayas. Will it lose? No. But like the US and Mexico, a war at your border can make projection of power infeasible.
You would never reach your destination and at some point you would be stranded in dark space. This kurzgesagt video has some info on this topic.[1]

[1] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzkD5SeuwzM>
As far as I understand - you'll come back to where you started.
Those interested in this topic may also like the extensive background materials and guidelines at Project Rho, eg, http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight3.ph... .
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How about they both are idiots?
Clicking the link takes me to a message board.
That would be an instant "Nope, here's my resignation" from me.
after the last year I imagine quite a few people would put their hand up for that.

but also, what about deceleration?

You gotta stop some time to smell the roses... so would you cut that acceleration time in half to decelerate?
I'd spend even more of my life in Excel...
There is a case to be made that this should count as predation.

The plant in the article is less ambiguous: they detected a digestive enzyme in the sticky stalks which is common to other carnivorous plants, and means the plant digests the insects directly.

A bramble consumes unlucky mammals with the help of mycorrhisae in the soil, rather doing so directly. Is this more like the bacteria which help ruminants digest cellulose (no one would say that cows don't eat grass!) or is it more like saying that vegans are carnivores because organic fertilizers have blood and fish meal in them?
I'm currently trying to solve this and more in an application called Cleave.

https://cleave.app

Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.

I started working on it because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources; Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

In the meantime, I've used various browser extensions to save and restore open tabs.
That’s actually relatively cheap, considering SMS prices used to be much higher than that until the EU enforced a hard limit of 10ct per SMS as maximum price.
my understanding is that a "reason to change" is entirely context dependent, so difficult to make concrete.

what are you seeking to understand as a result of knowing precisely what a "reasons to change" is?
We moved from Vue to React because it has much better static typing support. Properties are native Typescript values and templates are TSX which gives you proper Typescript type checking and also full IDE support (autocomplete, go to definition, etc.).

Also Vue's automatic reactivity system is fine for small websites but for large apps it turns into an impossible to follow spaghetti nightmare.
For the record:

- That's not what I meant by uniquely. By unique I was referring to Countdown, which was unique for its format, its popularity, and for its influence, which is why several of the world's biggest acts since the 70s-80s hold Countdown in such affection, and regard its host Molly Meldrum as a pioneer and a friend. Nobody else has mentioned any primetime shows that played a lot of music video clips, in the US or anywhere else in the world, any where near as early as Countdown. The earliest I can find in the US is Video Concert Hall from 1978/9, but that didn't seem to have great prominence. The Wikipedia page on Music Video [1], in the section "1974–1980: Beginnings of music television" names Countdown and its rival show, Sounds, in the very first sentence. (I wasn't thinking of Sounds as I'm not old enough to remember it well and it's not as widely reminisced about here, but it was part of the same ecosystem). You helpfully mention Russell Mulcahy - who got his start producing music videos for Sounds. So the very first song ever played on MTV has a direct link back to the music shows that started in Australia in 1974. None of this is to say that no other acts in the world were at all well-prepared, obviously. It was just a different kind of preparation. And yep it's boring/lame to fixate on a strict definition of single word used in an obviously hand-wavy comment at the start of the thread, but that notwithstanding, it's clearly an incorrect interpretation of what I meant, particularly given my later comments.

- We're at the point of debating the interpretation of the word "most", which is a sure sign it's time to walk away, but another commenter made the effort to go through the first twelve clips in this MTV video to compare styles and artist origins [2]. I have no problem conceding that UK acts were also doing more artistic video work, due to Top of the Pops running a long time, even if most of that program's content was live performances.

- INXS's Billboard hits from 1983 and 1985/86 are there for us all to see in the historical records [3]. But it's "propaganda" for the band to recount that airplay on MTV helped them get there? OK then. Let's hear from Alan Hunter [4], who was an MTV VJ at the time: 'Beginning in 1982, he recalls VJs “being called into meetings with executives, who told us there was an arrangement between Atlantic and the network. We were going to see if MTV could break a band.” INXS, he says, served as a guinea pig, and indeed, heavy video rotation of its debut U.S. single, “The One Thing,” in 1983, helped drive the song to No. 30 on the Hot 100.'

Finally, I have learned a huge amount from this discussion, so thanks for your part in that.

And you should look up some videos of Countdown on YouTube. It really was awesome :)

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

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28111528

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INXS_discography#Singles

[4] https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/800...
What is the value in keeping all this stuff around in tabs to look at later? If it is important, you will see it again and it is not necessary to put it on a todo list of tabs to read later. If it is not important it is just more busy work. I would also argue that reading all these random things on the internet does not build knowledge. We learn by doing or by repeating, not by reading something once. Isn’t keeping that many tabs around just an example of FOMO?

To be clear, I’m all for todo lists, but tabs are a terrible UI for having a todo list in. If you’re going to keep a todo list, use a proper todo software, and be mindful of what you put on the list.
In addition, something approacing from opposite direction might already be there when you decide to launch, digging away at the diamonds. Or a local star might have gone nova and vaporized the whole diamond field.
Or someone who invented a device that can fold space time.
That’s right let’s ask for the source of the extremely believable claim of only launched in US[0]. But no one sourcing the “China is pressuring Apple to do this”.

As stated in the article Apple have said it is US only and will be switched on country by country… so surely if this was “BeCAusE ChIna!!!” It’d be switched on there first right?

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/09/apple-csam-faq/?_gl=1*l17q2t*....
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If you believe this, then you don't understand what their system can do.
Copypaste it into your browser URL. jcs.org server is configured to redirect all clicks coming from Hacker News to Lobsters. Why? Ask the website owner.
You can take photos on your phone without using the Photos app.

You can use Photos without using iCloud.
Why did they leave the port at all?
The link target is correct. I think the owner of the target site redirects visitors from HN to lobste.rs which is an alterantive HN UI/client. Anyway, just copy the link and open it manually in a new tab to read the initial blog post.
This is JCS, so, as usual, you can't click the link directly. At least it's nothing obscene anymore. Either open the link on a new tab or use this archive: https://archive.is/UDPru
I read it as "new coronavirus..." LoL
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I built https://closetab.email specifically for this problem. I set a timer within which I'd like to read the tab, and immediately close it. The extension emails me a digest of all these tabs, once a week - until I either finish reading it or the timeout is reached.

Works like charm for me.
what do you think of "code that changes together, stays together" for explaining the SRP?

i've found minimising shotgun changes to bey favourite and most productive guiding light when refactoring.
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There's also an audiobook version, which I found pretty enjoyable (and generally well made considering it's free):

https://unsong.libsyn.com

I enjoyed all the interludes, the main plot seem mostly like a story on which to hang various ideas (but that might reflect my own limited ability to keep the whole story in my head).
What about security and upgrading?

I've heard there is some pain upgrading Vue, but there is definitely pain when upgrading React.

At the moment one of our previous React projects "npm install" gives 4000 security issues.
Not that small but my Bose NC 700's ($399)

They drove me mad until maybe the last 6 months, the firmware was atrocious but recently it has much improved, I also bought the USB link for times that there is a lot of interference.

What most people dont realise is that yes they have noise cancelling for you (e.g, they reduce the noise you can hear), but they also use their external microphones to cancel the noise in the room for the people on the call, you can be in a noisy room / office and it sounds silent on the call - crucial when working at home with other people during lockdowns or in noisy open plan offices.

The best purchase I have made in the last 2 years by far