skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to

https://rentafounder.com/the-problem-with-perceptual-hashes/

the false-positive rate will be likely high. Given the billions of pictures going through this system there are going to be a lot of false accusations of child porn possession likely (and alone such an accusation can ruin lives).

HN discussion of that article from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091750
There is hope. Shock to the system is how one disabused of trusting to benevolent companies.

Instead of upgrading to next iDevices, I ended up getting a much cheaper de-googled device and will split the different by donating to privacy advocacy organizations. A bit harder for other family members, but I did that before by converting everyone to a Linux laptops.
Yes - and I agree that that's where the risk lies.

Though I'd argue the risk has kind of always lied there given companies can ship updates to phones. You could maybe argue it'd be harder to legally compel them to do so, but I'm not sure there's much to that.

The modern 'megacorp' centralized software and distribution we have is dependent on policy for the most part.
It's not anyone elses business where the money came from! If you were engaged in crime then the investigations of the actual crimes can eventually catch up with you. Expecting crime to get caught by surveilling your finances when you have no reason to be suspected of a crime is like expecting to scan your private correspondence for evidence of a crime.
that's kind of a weird strawman. I don't think people (in general) love scarcity, but you don't have to think too hard to realize that some desirable things are inherently scarce. even in star trek, there are only so many penthouses with a view of central park.
This seems more like a Silicon Valley issue than a Reddit one. And Silicon Valley generally doesn’t have much motivation to get people doing actual stuff, people sitting at home is where the cash is.
Well, Reebok was just an underperforming subsidiary of Adidas, a company that's currently worth ~$70bn. So I don't think it's fair to just compare the 2.

What Nike did right, though, is fully embrace the influencer culture, I think. That, and actually having some cool and unique designs.

Reebok always felt like "just another shoewear brand" and their clothing lines were completely generic and uninspired.
I have stories. Believe you.. me.
In 1991, distributing encryption software was a violation of US munitions controls.[1] At the time, it was not at all clear whether encryption software would remain legal for individuals to own and use. The US government was considering mandating backdoors in all consumer encryption, culminating in the development of the Clipper chip.[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
"Multiple occurrences of matches" could have definitely been an issue for a friend of mine. When they took a picture, they'd often go for the "blitz the subject with the camera" approach, then never ended up deleting all the bad pictures because they had hoarding tendencies.
When it is truly important that I show up somewhere at a particular time, I factor in the long estimate of drive time and add 10 minutes. I am late <.00001 of the time. That is embracing uncertainty and taking responsibility.
>If they did a survey and collected opinions from their employees the decision would be pretty trivial.

There are surveys at Facebook, Google, etc. The vast majority of people do not want full remote only. Most of them prefer a hybrid approach.
I think it's meant as a joke, but for many of us, there's some truth to it.

If you're missing a dependency, you'll need to download, configure, make, install it.
And we have fifty years of software development history to prove we need this kind of babysitting. It’s a pain one time and then you realize it wasn’t hard to do and start doing a better practice out of habit.
The price of your morning cup of coffee keeps on rising – The Age, 13 Aug 2021
I think the one thumbnail of the matching hash? Just to make sure there isn't a (they argue one in a trillion, but I don't know if I buy that) false positive.

That's if there is enough matches to trigger the threshold in the first place, otherwise nothing is sent (even if there are matches below that threshold).

Alternatively this is running on all unencrypted photos you have in iCloud and all matches are known immediately. Is that preferable?
And, perhaps more to the point, with what exactly will said line be drawn?
I feel like I am missing a few steps.
So the claim is that housing developers have been suppressing controlled burns because it drives up housing prices? I feel like I am missing a few steps here
Hopefully wind/solar electric
Even in Europe their network isn't particularly good, but I guess you get what you pay for.
A lot of freight is already transported by rail in the US 18-30% depending on who you ask. This seems about on par with or bigger than the fraction of fright that travels by rail in Europe.

Part of the difference is that rail in the US is used mostly for fright whereas people use trains to get around more in Europe. Passenger focused rail vs fright focused rail.

30% according to railroads.dot.gov.
https://railroads.dot.gov/rail-network-development/freight-r...
Product.... Nike is just innovating all the other legacy product makers, Rebook, Puma, and even Adidas. Especially in the soccer gear department, Nike is just outcompeting them.

Adidas, should have been first, since it is a European company, but they just slacked and their product line stagnated. They thought it was just a marketing problem, which it was not. Just changing their logo to something cooler, didn't make their products any better.

I was an Adidas fan, since they were the 'product of the west', of all the kids that were born under communism. They, and together with Puma made the best soccer shoes and gear. But over time, Nike started innovating hard, and releasing better engineered soccer shoes, and wear. (their Drifit Nikefit shirts are great).
I would have hoped that the hydrogen needed for fuel would be produced by the electrolysis of water using solar/wind/nuclear. Anything else is kinda silly.
This site is full of people who, in defiance of Feynman, are absolutely sure that they're the ones who will finally come up with a way to fool Mother Nature. They don't care about science, simulations, or common sense.

To be fair, as insufferable as this attitude can be, it's probably necessary in order for progress to happen. It usually drags us in the other direction, though.
Tawana Petty https://tawanapetty.org/ is a Detroit based activist who has been at the fore front of the movement addressing algorithmic bias in policing.

In a country based on the precept that all Black people are the “bad guy” until proven otherwise, any and all facial surveillance should be ended. References for that statement? How about Angela Davis: Davis, Angela. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prison, Torture, and Empire. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005.
Eh, I think everyone stands to benefit when a service increases their security standards in a reasonable way. Fewer account recovery support requests for them, fewer footguns for inexperienced users of theirs.

Do you consider password length requirements baby-sitting?
Your suggestion doesn't install dependencies, doesn't check for out of date software, and doesn't work on windows. Those all seem like fairly major issues to me.
Oh I did... and rolled my eyes.
With "easy" I mean that our strategy does not deny quality of life in any significant way. That's what got this conversation started: the perception that saving a good portion of your income is painful. A massive sacrifice. It isn't.

I started saving at age 6, on a 1 guilder (I'm from the Netherlands) weekly allowance.

When I landed my first job, still single, low income, I still saved 30%. I save significantly regardless of income. This to say that I'm not some privileged armchair commenter. I come from the lowest of the lower working class, and have plenty of experience with poverty.

So it's not tone deaf, it's an attitude. Which indeed most people don't have. That's a lack of education or awareness. Not a matter of it being difficult. A few minor tweaks do wonders.

I do agree with one point: it won't work if you don't have a partner that aligns with such a strategy.
Not sure why the author thought that would be flagged - it's in the "not flagged" list of phrases. I can't find any other reference to it either.
The US from a position a real weakness handled a strong Germany and Japan and rebuilt those countries. Which goes to the point about Leadership. There is a long list of terrible decisions post 9/11. No comparision between FDR/Truman/Ike and the buffoon class of Bush/Obama/Trump.
so more money so they do another UI redesign that's again going to reduce usability and push mobile users towards their app?
If Johnny/Jane didn't want their contributions to be used like that they could have licensed them differently though, or contributed to gcc instead. Of course llvm wouldn't accept their contributions if they were licensed under, say, the AGPL. But presumably getting their changes upstreamed is not a condition for completing their thesis, so it's their choice. As a PHD student they are hopefully capable of reading and understanding these licenses (to the degree that someone who hasn't studied law can understand such things).
Did reebok make a mistake?
It’s not splitting hairs to point out a lie about what Apple is doing. If you are also trying to say that Apple is scanning files that are only stored locally, then you are also a liar. If you support the spread of that false information, then you are dishonest.

As to the capability on the device, the capacity to scan for CSAM is very narrow and is very hard to repurpose.

The capacity to upload images to iCloud Photo Library on the other hand has been there for years.

At any time Apple could add some other kind of scanner if they want to, and there is no reason for it to use this mechanism. It would be terrible if they did but it has nothing to do with this.

Anyone with programming experience can tell you that if all they wanted to do was check arbitrary files against a list of hashes, they would be a simple mechanism to write.

There is no way that this mechanism helps them scan for other things. It isn’t even a step in that direction, let alone a baby step.
Dee Brown!
Why not try? Because the cognitive dissonance when people's eyes and brains run into a large variety web-based and app-based screen fonts. Web based font performance is still terrible. So.. because: the brain doesn't like it.

Different presentation fonts in web pages, desktops, etc. can start to have the experiential impact of (gui) skins, or non-standard dotfiles.

Please note the things I'm leaving out of this... print, books, static things, etc.
"Hard work is internalized racism" might be the most 2020s sentence I've ever read.
Like this part?

"The Messages feature is specifically only for children in a shared iCloud family account. If you’re an adult, nothing is changing with regard to any photos you send or receive through Messages. And if you’re a parent with children whom the feature could apply to, you’ll need to explicitly opt in to enable the feature. It will not turn on automatically when your devices are updated to iOS 15."
That's “green hydrogen”, and it does happen – but it's more expensive, because we already have the fossil infrastructure.
> How does that provide value to the "community"?

Well, you are part of the community. If you get value from playing piano or chess then you've provided value to the community.

I think there are two reasons to have chosen community here. Firstly you could chose to do thinks for the benefit of someone else, if that's what you want. Secondly it gets you to think about the externalities that exist.

I guess the person you are replying to thought it was obvious that a person is a member of the groups that they are a member of.
So, the effect of all excess CO2 put in the atmosphere in 2050 will have an impact between 2065 and 2070 (roughly). The atmospheric CO2 "half life" is more than a 100 year.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2915/the-atmosphere-getting-a-...
Yup, entirely possible. I haven't used it myself.
As a guy that has spent years in the crypto space I can say that crypto is all bots. Blockchain transactions and general activity is powered by bots. Crypto Twitter is powered by bots. Offshore exchanges are wash traded by bots.

Coinbase can be considered the cleanest thing out there. On the other hand their employee Charlie Lee without any trouble did inside trading with the knowledge of CEO.
they're just shoes
> If you're missing a dependency, you'll need to download, configure, make, install it.

Right but people want their package managers do this for them. That’s the whole point.
> The Deceptive PR

Tautology
...but that means Google has downloaded it earlier to index it. I guess Google should get raided as well.
Yup, we can agree on that.
>You're making the assumption that people behave rationally.

What? No, my original post was completely about how people don't act rationally, and that's why WFH will not be as amazing despite it can be more product in many cases.
When will we get repo-specific tokens? That's what I really want. As-is, I've just created extra special purpose github accounts, but that's a bad solution IMO.
If this is babysitting, I never want to grow up.
Seems like a straightforward electric truck mileage/range problem.
It's not just Switzerland. France also makes it so difficult to hold an account that it's not worth it. It's understandable since the paperwork they have to do is also enormous for the small profit they would make.
Some numbers for the US for comparison:

https://www.capstonelogistics.com/blog/trend-watch-2019-leng...
Yes it does, it uses fuzzy perceptual hashes not crypto hashes.

So if your innocent baby pic looks similar enough to a previously tagged child abuse image then YES, it will flag you and send a copy to the feds.

And before you correct me, the Apple employee will see a picture of your naked baby and hit “forward to NCMEC”, which… upon investigation is actually just the feds
> How long until media players and display devices are hashing all of our media to check for copyright violations. Right now it is effectively impossible for a consumer to buy a TV that doesn't include a computer capable of this.

Not my area, but wasn't this part of the point of HDMI... So, the slope seems slippery and pretty vertical to me
I haven't seen much discussion of the changes to search, which seem a little dystopian as well:

> Siri and Search are also being updated to intervene when users perform searches for queries related to CSAM. These interventions will explain to users that interest in this topic is harmful and problematic, and provide resources from partners to get help with this issue.

Will apple.cn be extending this to searches about "tank man" or a certain stuffed bear? Oh bother...
Two different things which are sold as one package by Apple.

Two different things which both are known to be prone to all kind of miss-detection.
If they do ruin Reddit with monetization, I hope it also ruins a few people's investment portfolios along the way.
I think the title/abstract are seriously overstating the result -- the validators still have to hold onto what is essentially the set of spent outputs, which grows linearly with the number of transactions processed by the system.
Ask HN: Can Tokio's Ecosystem Be Ported to Was(M/I)?
I'm still somewhat new to Rust and low level programming but understand the language, theory, and as well as C. However, I have no idea if porting Tokio's ecosystem to WASI/WASM at this point in time is even possible or practical (I know threads are relatively new).

Why do this? I've been planning a distributed, asynchronous, multiplexed protocol (called IOTAP) that you could say is L8+ (but is semantically just HTTP on each level after the base level), but tunnels over H3 and interoperates generically with any lower level transport in theory. The state transfer and representation system is beyond the scope of this question but basically requests are inverted in a sense but not RPC. So the client peer makes a request and the response is procedurally generated and compiled into WASM packet layers (for each protocol level) using differential data flow among other technologies--but it's all sandboxed with WASM; at first thought this sounds really slow, but think of it as more lazy evaluation perhaps. I was thinking about using Wasmer as the runtime but that's still up in the air.

Anyways, I really like Tokio and its ecosystem, but obviously the I/O will need to be ported, and that's no small task. Perhaps there's a better way to go about doing all this?
... thought Reebok and Adidas.
Well, the comment was two :D
This change affects HTTPS access, not SSH.
Can't really hide lost funds worth 600 million $ because of a hack.

"Exciting" or not.
> Unless by “soon” you mean 15 years; I don’t want to bet on anything on that timescale

Well, I'm old so by "soon" I mean within my lifetime, e.g. the next 3 to 4 decades.

edit: to clarify a little, when the term AI was first coined by McCarthy in 1956, researchers were confident in cracking AGI within a decade. Then AI-Winter came and people became more cautious. So when I say "soon", I mean it's probably not going to be another 65 years, but also not 5 months or 5 years (unexpected breakthroughs aside).
I don't own one, sorry :-/
This might be useful for a desktop-app like experience on the web. Imagine something like excel but you want to open a 100mb file and work with it right away. It can sync to the server as you are working but you just want to get working now.

Another use is privacy centric apps that send nothing to the server, using the web as a kind of “install” platform but nothing else.
>I think that once a sub attracts a large amount of readers, it's unethical to block certain conversations.

Why? You're free to make your own subreddit with a different bias or no bias. No one really assumes it's unbiased and they go there because of the bias that they agree with. People like communities of like minded people.

By that logic any large scale media (tv, newspapers, magazines, etc.) should not be allowed to have bias even if the only reason people went there was for the bias.
The funny thing is, I was a subscriber to Agre's mailing list (the archive of which is still at https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/rre.html)

I was impressed by his methodical way of dissecting the design of information systems and how they interacted with the social context. The didactic brilliance was consistent with his (and David Chapman's) famous AAAI paper about the "Pengi" system https://aaai.org/Library/AAAI/1987/aaai87-048.php -- although I didn't realize at first that he was the Agre in "Agre and Chapman".

Yet, somehow, I missed the importance of whatever he said about privacy. Like others I was more interested in what new things we could build if we were all as sharp as him.

(The "Surveillance and Capture" paper mentioned by the Post seems to capture an important distinction between two modes of privacy invasion; even 20 years later I see attempts to discuss privacy concerns founder on a failure to reckon with this distinction. I will now read.)
The encryption on the hash DB has very little to do with recreating images. It is pretty trivial to make sure that it is mathematical impossible to do (just not enough bytes, and hash collisions means there is an infinitive large number of false positives).

My own guess is that the encryption is there so that people won't have access to an up-to-date database to test against. People who want to intentionally create false positive could abuse it, and sites that distribute images could alter images to automatic bypass the check. There is also always the "risk" that some security research may look at the database and find false positives from the original source and make bad press, as they have done with block lists (who can forget the bonsai tree website that got classified as child porn).
> No landlord has been receiving $0 in rent for the last 18 months. Either they accepted rental assistance from the government (covering the full amount of missing rent) or they have declined rental assistance from the government, and have evicted the tenant.

Nice words, but bullshit.

I know multiple people (landlords and tenants) who have been attempting to get rental assistance. After 6 months of waiting, not one of them have gotten a dime. Has anyone here (landlord or tenant) applied for and received rental assistance from California? If so, I know some folks who would love to hear how you did it.

And the landlords still cannot evict. Despite the the moratorium not being absolute (for example, you can allegedly get evicted for lease violations other than non-payment), the courts simply will not accept eviction cases at all, making it effectively absolute.
As this blocklist issue gains increased contemplation lets not forget that this is a "new feature". Lets consider the silent remote access subterfuge that has become known as "software updates".

Therefore, as this is a "new feature", 1. it does not apply to older computers, particularly ones that are not remotely acessible by others to install their opaque "updates" and 2. on newer computers these lists can only be dynamic if the owner allows "software updates".

The moral of the story is (a) not all "new features" are ones the computer owner may want, and (b) older computers have value, if only becoause they lack the bad stuff that greedy, manipulative, overreaching "tech companies" are building into new ones.

There is nothing wrong with updates so long as they are granular1, transparent and optional2. It is the owner's computer and the owner has a license to the software installed on it at the time of purchase. Any party wishing to install new software on the owner's computers should need the owner's permission. Owners should have a reasonable option to deny such permission and to review and install updates themselves, or to reject individual proposed "new features".

1 Here "granular" means avoiding a situation where the user has to install a feature that she does not want in order to get a feature she does want.

2 Manual installation of updates should always be possible.
Shows that in the real world, users don't actually really care about having a five nines availability for a forum.
> What did Nike do right?

Luck and paying the right celebrities for endorsements? Also using sweatshops in the global south to extract superprofits [1]?

More and more I'm starting see branding as a way for big companies to slowly condition people to relate emotionally to some spectacle [2] (e.g. an exciting celebrity spokesperson in an advert), distracting them from an often exploitative and unsustainable production process.

How many people know about Rana Plaza? [3]

It's exciting to see new initiatives like 'Fixing Fashion' though (Alicia Minnaard and Dave Hakkens)[4].

[1] https://anticonquista.com/2019/06/29/revolutionary-reads-rev...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

[3] https://youtu.be/OaGp5_Sfbss?t=31

[4] https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/52553/1/fixing-... - short intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buWRaffBdNM
I'm pretty sure they started with the Uber drivers in cars, but in some cities or with those on bikes they offer that as an option, too.

I've never used it so I wouldn't know.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I have a close friend who moved back to Taiwan from the US and many banks have told her exactly this. She want to renounce her US citizenship because it is making life hard for her.

(Note: I am pro all the reporting requirements. But the parent comment is factually true.)
I think everyone who allows users to upload images and is medium sized or larger has to- you really don't want to be hosting CSAM, for legal and moral reasons.