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I'm a long way from a (copyright) attorney, so I really don't know what I'm talking about on the finer points.

In general, of course, the act of creating is what currently confers copyright. So if you write some code, for example, you automatically hold the copyright. No need to do anything official or call a lawyer.

But you're correct that there are exceptions for older works that were never published or formally registered under the old (pre-1978 system). So yup, my (pretty much worthless) opinion agrees with your reading that it would be 70 years after 1983. And who knows, the Mighty Mouse might might well rise up again as 2024 approaches (the current date when Mickey Mouse will otherwise enter the public domain).

But
This is awesome! Was wondering if y'all rolled your own editor or built off of an open source project?
Was defeat of the Taliban really the plan? I don't think so. The important plan was to kill Osama Bin Laden, which did happen. And another important bit was to hamper their resources such that they won't attack the US homeland again.

Defeat of the Taliban was secondary from the start. If the Taliban negotiated a peace such that they wouldn't support Al Qaeda, I'm sure we would have let them take over the country and integrate back.

Even in WW2, we never killed every Nazi or every Japanese. We let Japan keep their Emperor for example, though they were a society who was willing to accept a new government / democracy. But anyone who was hoping to kill the Taliban until they gave up would be hopelessly naive.

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I do think it was perhaps a mistake to try to push liberal ideals to their primitive society (okay, so Women were getting abused. It'd be nice if those women could be treated better... but now we've left the country and all those women are going to be oppressed again).

It would have been more important to have them build their society akin to their values, as opposed to our values. Spreading our ideals never was really part of the plan or a priority.
Did notice this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28140315
I showed Netflix's "Love Death + Robots: Ice Age"[1] to several people and no one noticed it's CGI until I pointed it out. Even then I had to point out particular details until they really believed it.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQGEUv6CCPM
The false positive rate for any given image is not 1 in a trillion. Perceptual hashing just does not work like that. It also suffers from the birthday paradox problem - as the database expands, and the total number of pictures expands, collisions become more likely.

The parent poster does make the mistake of assuming that other pictures of kids will likely cause false positives. Anything could trigger a false positive - especially flesh tones. Like, say, the naughty pictures you've been taking of your (consenting) adult partner. I'm sure Apple's outsourced low-wage-country verification team will enjoy those.
Er, do you have a recommendation for non-cloud services that provide me with automatic backups of everything I do if something happens to my apartment, or open-source services that are free of all security flaws allowing hackers to compromise your privacy?

Like I wholeheartedly get where you're coming from, but I'm not sure what realistic alternatives look like.
Theres a difference between curating the best recipes or cutest cat pics, and censoring certain ideas about pressing global health crises because they don't fit a certain narrative.
Not really. They arrested him to investigate and let him go. It's not very nice, but it's lawful and working as intended
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Can someone explain how Apple being coaxed or coerced into searching all of our personal devices for illegal files by federal law enforcement is not an unconstitutional warrantless search?
>The worst part is: how do I put my money where my mouth is? Am I going back to using Linux on the desktop (2022 will be the year of Linux on the desktop, remember)

people really need to retire this meme. On the desktop in particular as a dev environment Linux is completely fine at this point. I can understand people not wanting to run a custom phone OS because that really is a ton of work but for working software developers Fedora, Ubuntu whatever any mainstream distro is at this point largely hassle free.
Betteridge's law of headlines is consistently useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
It is easier to harass the weak.
There are few things more hurtful than someone telling you they prefer the company of Canadians.
Ugh, this is a very complicated struggle for me, personally. However I have been in the Health sector for the past 15 years. I had a short stint at a retailer.

I think Finance, Health and Social Media we can't really "under"think too much because at a certain point you have potential death in the health sector for making a mistake. You have the potential for a billion dollar lawsuit in the financial sector, and a major class action privacy lawsuit in the social media sector...

So while I tend to think, yeah this sounds great, at the same time we have to be very careful about what Jr level person that wants to start underthinking about stuff...

I think a good balance is to have old geezers overthink and young ones underthink and come to some middle.
Half Life Alyx did at some moments feel extremely real to me, it was a weird experience.
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To be clear, it's 1 in 1 trillion per account. 1 in 1 trillion per photo would potentially be a more realistic risk, since some people take tens of thousands of photos.
Slowing sales were also due to PCs lasting longer and remaining useful longer. Mobile sales are slowing for the same reason. A five year old phone is fine.
Use a photo client on an android phone, encrypt the photos and use NextCloud (self-hosted). Make sure your certificates are up-to-date. Reverse this process on another client to see the photos.
Hydrogen tanks can also have multiple outlets (I get that they are more expensive than gas outlets, but the tank is presumably a large part of the hydrogen station cost).
Who looks at the photos in that database? How do we know it is a trustworthy source? That it doesn’t contain photos of let’s say activists or other people of interest unrelated to its projected use?
Seems it's not the colour that matters but the actual material used. Aluminium foil is a good I.R. reflector. https://sciencing.com/materials-absorb-infrared-rays-8044395...
Would anyone prefer to use this? Presumably you would get a better price for your corn on the open market?
That is how you should look at it.

They have no business scanning the phones for anything, period.

I'll refer you to the poem beginning with "First they came for the Jews...".
On the other hand, I am also quite annoyed that some projects do yearly major version after 1.0.
> This claim seems actually quite irrefutable.

I don't think so.

Apple transfers the images to iCloud, yes, but before the threshold of flagged photos is reached, Apple doesn't know that there might be CSAM material among them. When the threshold is exceeded and Apple learns about the potential of CSAM, the images have been transferred already. But then Apple does not transfer them any further, and has a human review not the images themselves, but a "visual derivative" that was in a secure envelope (that can by construction only be unlocked once the threshold is exceeded).
That's the article I used when I implemented exceptions in an LLVM-based compiler, so it's applicable to more than just GCC.
I doubt Apple has not thought about the PR & policy consequences of such an iPhone backdoor. For me, it's even more sad to see Apple using the fight against CSAM, a noble cause, as a shield and a way to convince the masses that breaking its promise to protect privacy is OK. "What happens in your iPhone stays on your iPhone [no longer]". There is no court oversight, no laws, it's automated mass surveillance.
Whoever controls the hash list controls your phone from now on. Period. End of sentence.

Apple has not disclosed who gets to add new hashes to the list of CSAM hashes or what the process is to add new hashes. Do different countries have different hash lists?

Because if the FBI or CIA or CCCP or KSA wants to arrest you, all they need to do is inject the hash of one of your photos into the “list” and you will be flagged.

Based on the nature of the hash, they can’t even tell you which photo is the one that triggered the hash. Instead, they get to arrest you, make an entire copy of your phone, etc.

It’s insidious. And it’s stupid. Why Apple is agreeing to do this is disgusting.

And it doesn’t make sense. If I were a pedophile and I took a new CSAM photo, how long would it take for that specific photo to get on the list? Months? Years? As long as pedophiles know that their phones are being scanned, they won’t use iPhones for their photos. And then it will be only innocent people like me that get scanned for CSAM and potentially getting that used against me in the future.

If they really cared about CSAM, this feature is useless and stupid. All it does is make regular people vulnerable to Big Brother tactics which we know already exist.
That is the big 'if' for the majority of population in European cities. Pretty convenient for suburbs though.
I doubt any formal attempt to define such a test exists, given attempts at ultra-realistic painting as an art style predates Turing, let alone computer graphics: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ivan_Shishkin_-_Рожь...
I got Pfizer but I'm not worried about this. If these side effects were really widespread we'd have heard of them long ago. If they were even 1 in 10.000 their cases would be overwhelming the hospitals by now.

Covid is a lot nastier by the sounds of it. And much more likely in an unvaccinated population. I still fully stand by my decision to get it the very day it became available to me.
Love it, i'd be hitting that w two or three times a day.
I think most people don't upload to facebook pictures of their kids taking a bath? But they more than likely store such pictures on their phones/laptops.
Capitalism got "destroyed" in WW II for a while. The US government told US factories what to make, and US growers what to grow.

Changed circumstances need changed responses.
As I understand, they're acting as an agent of the government, it's a private company. So, the 4th amendment protecting against unreasonable searches _by the government_ does not apply.
New images, yes; but, new art? Isn't the art of an image imbued by the artist, DuChamp style.

Or, I guess maybe it's like a quantum effect and the art appears when the viewer perceives it.

Don't get me wrong, I too love generative art, conceptually and the outputs of generative algorithms too.
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An interactive simulation of Tesla valve.
https://tinyurl.com/yzcr74gw
That sounds like it could be interesting. It's funny how much of our "reality" / perceived universe is simply imagined or taken for granted even without any CG involved.

Even in simple text, I can relate to you my relief at finding a news article on HN which was posted by my stealth marketing team on behalf of Nvidia today, or I can describe the tiny white kitten curled up on my chest as I type this from the couch I found on the street.

In a way, that expression will create an effect similar to the Nvidia CG project for a lot of people.

Meanwhile, I have no tiny white kitten, I'm not laying on a couch, and I don't work on a stealth marketing team. But some will go as far as visualizing what I must look like, or waxing sentimental about kittens.

Some others would even doubt the retraction of those statements, merely because of a constant inner perceptive mandate which causes them to work extra hard at never getting caught closing off possibilities.
Because for the last at least 80 years the constitution as not been seen as a document limiting government power, but instead as a document limiting the peoples rights

it has literally been inverted from it original purpose
Chasing photorealism in games seems misguided to me; you have to spend much more money on artists. And at the end of the day, photorealism won't make a bad game into a good game; so that money is better spent on other aspects of the game. Furthermore, if you're committed to spending that much money making a game, it will probably have a very conservative lowest-common-denominator design to recoup as much money as possible. Who will take risks and experiment when so much money is on the line? You end up with a game that is mediocre to everybody but exceptional to few. The video game equivalent of a big budget marvel movie.
Indeed, the blog post is referring to this effect: https://youtu.be/KboaLRKbaBU?t=191. Suggesting the entire thing was rendered is very misleading.
If you have a "project" not a "user". If I'd known this in the past I would have just created a "kevincox" project and a "kevincox-u" user.
Now that they are setting up Cryptocurrencies in some subreddits (donuts in r/ethtrader and a couple of others that I don't recall right now) they should experiment with reddits where you initially "pay" for posting, commenting, up/down voting. Then somehow if your post gets upvoted or is heavily commented on, you get some of those tokens (shared revenue) as well as moderators in the subreddits that adopt that dynamic.

It's akin to the "payment per Email" (hashcash as spam prevention) idea that a lot of us have yearned for a long time, which would deter spammers and make people think twice before commenting, so maybe it would increase the content quality.

It would be an interesting experiment.
Could hydrogen electrolysis be viable as grid or building level energy storage? Round trip efficiency is bad of course, but I (naively) wonder if it wouldn't have a lot of the downsides fuel cells have for vehicles?

You could bury a huge volume of tanks beneath new buildings and store the gas at a lower pressure than we see in hydrogen car tanks - wouldn't that make the whole system simpler and more economical?
IANAL but I presume I consented to this in their EULA.
They’re not coaxed nor coerced
What? Instead of ./command you type screen ./command.
Even Topher Grace and the other one? Or just the stuff in the freezer?
Reddit is the only major social media company that gives you the tools to build something resembling a human community online, yet it seems dwarfed in popularity and clout by products like Facebook and Twitter, which seem to me much less capable.

But to be honest, even I don't use Reddit, although I do sometimes search "reddit X" when I want detailed opinions on product/service/business X. Their UX doesn't draw me in at all, especially on mobile. Hope they do something about this with all the cash. They seem to have a lot of unrealized potential.
https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/02/powerpaste-fuel-of-futu... sounds interesting.
Don't get me wrong both companies suck in terms of human rights.

At least xiaomi is cheaper.
Statistically, these are low risk. But for those who were injured or died, that's no consolation. The question is how can we screen those small number of people who are more likely to be vaccine injured? We need more funding to study those who were injured, and to perform autopsies of those few who died soon after vaccination.

You can see the list of VAERS (caveat lector) adverse events by age group, for the specific lot number on a vaccine card. One vaccine lot number can be distributed across multiple geographical regions. To run the query, replace 123456 at the end of the URL below, with the lot number from a vaccine card. More granular results can be found via the query wizard.

https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=...

Public VAERS is about 50% US vs foreign data. There are more accurate, private databases on vaccine injuries, in the US and other countries. You can search VAERS for specific symptoms and the entire raw database can be downloaded for offline analysis.
I believe it's at least one of the most beautiful places on earth. It's certainly one of the most striking.
Assuming it is possible (I think it is), there is a manual verification process if you have a match. And obviously, the white noise will be rejected, like all pictures that do not look remotely like the original.

But it can be a form of denial of service: saturate the system with hash collisions so that people can't keep up.
How do you get the “real” number? If it’s a conspiracy, it’s one that spans dozens of governments, because the numbers are close to that pretty much everywhere. To say nothing about all those governments being really good at keeping secrets.

But that’s beside the point. How was it determined that the vaccines, mRNA, viral fragments, or inactive virus, have higher fatalities than the disease itself?
Their system needs real images in the training phase, because they are building the system which produces hashes. There must be someone to confirm from Apple, that indeed correct photos are flagged. At least in the beginning.

We don’t know really how adding new hashes work. NCMEC has the whole new algorithm and they drag-n-drop new images? Hopefully not like that.
Probably the same way people say that when Twitter moderates speech on their platform it’s not censorship.
As a licensed real estate agent in two states, I've got some familiarity with the topics at play in this article and discussion, but I'm not really clear on the point of the article. Can real estate be used to hide ill-gotten gains? Sure, as I'm sure plenty of other schemes can as well. What's interesting is that this article makes no mention of FIRPTA (IE: when they sell it they are going to get taxed on it) and each of the examples they give seem to be of someone who was eventually arrested or sanctioned (IE: the system is working as expected).

Escrow has come up several times in this discussion, as have the responsibilities of buyers and sellers... so look, at least in the two states where I do business, the selection of an escrow company is the mutual agreement of buyer and seller. In fact in some places a real estate agent can even act as your closing agent in place of an escrow company, if that's really what you want. Escrow is there to act as a neutral third party, and so long as you have proof of funds to close, it's generally irrelevant to them where those funds came from so long as it meets the conditions of the contract. Several people in this thread have voiced the opinion that escrow should have greater responsibilities related to KYC, but that would be a significant shift in their responsibilities and really opens some interesting cans of worms. If you have reason to suspect your escrow company is operating in a questionable way, there are state agencies to provide oversight.

What's maybe the more interesting angle to the topics of this article are the number of parties working to make real estate a completely automated process, IE: I click a button and I magically buy a property. As it stands, transactions generally have a lot of humans eyes on them, and when things don't look right (IE: fraud) it's that human attention that flags things, and I'm not sure (even as a former software engineer) how technology would have flagged some of the scenarios I've encountered.

Regarding people who were able to do the paperwork yourself and get the transaction through to a successful closing without issue, go buy a lottery ticket because your story is not typical - there's a reason why real estate agents and real estate attorneys exist. I spend an insane number of hours each week handholding buyers and sellers through complex transactions. The paperwork is the "easy" part, and it can still get you sued if someone forgets a checkbox. Water rights, property boundaries, zoning, feasibility, trade fixtures... it's incredible how many things I have to assist with, and there's absolutely no such thing as a "typical" transaction.
No, the Fourth Amendment applies to private actors acting on behalf of the government.
What do you mean? I’ve owned iPhones for 13 years and ordered a Librem earlier this week. I’m determined to use it as my daily driver, no matter how buggy it turns out to be when it arrives.
> how could give a guarantee that a system that finds any disguised/distorted CSAM won't tag a random baby picture with a similar appearance.

Cannot guarantee, but by choosing a sufficiently high threshold, you can make the probability of that happening arbitrarily small. And then you have human review.

> And given such collision, the picture might be looked at by Apple and maybe law enforcement

No, not "the picture", but a "visual derivative".
FWIW, I think it's silly that reddit has banned the term "retard" site-wide, although I also acknowledge that the term may be becoming broader and more offensive than I personally understand it to be.

In the case of "kill yourself" in /r/SuicideWatch, though, it's such an extreme case with potentially disastrous results that I wouldn't find it particularly problematic. The occasional false positive is arguably a small price to pay.
I'd like to see how many cases facial recognition helped solve compared to just throwing dice.

As a society our decision used to bw that you are not convicted unless proven guilty. This principle is not a minor thing and maybe you choose the wrong thing to optimise here?
Cool, do it on a federated Bitcoin sidechain using OP_CTV or something, integrate MimbleWimble or some anonymizing tech, use a Spacechain, burn the bitcoins going in to create a perpetual one way peg to stabilize the peg from perverse incentives, then you've got yourself a decentralized global stablecoin?
Excellent idea. I didn't think of that when I was working on that library.
I thought this would be a story about Intel based on the title.
Acting as a agent, used to anyway, mean the 4th amendment attached to the company

if they WERE NOT acting as an agent then the 4th would not apply. I think they way they get around that is not do not report to the FBI but instead to NCMEC a "non-profit"
> The problem is that damn undecidability, which is like a minefield of rakes. It's undecidable for a compiler to tell if a program will do anything (e.g. halt). It's undecidable for a compiler to tell if two programs are equivalent. It's undecidable for a compiler to tell if a program is minimal.

Only for Turing complete languages, to be clear. Now, of course, most interesting problems cannot really be solved in sub-Turing languages, but it's still a fundamental point to consider.
I would guess that "in my password manager" immediately puts you into the minority of GitHub users. (Maybe not the minority of power users or high-profile software maintainers, to be fair, but they care about security for the site in general.)

So maybe it didn't improve your security, if you were already letting your password manager generate distinct passwords, but it almost certainly improves the median user's security, who has come up with a weak password they think is strong, and may well use that password on multiple websites.

Generating the accout password instead of allowing a user-supplied password would also work here (and incentivize the use of password managers, if enough websites did it), but I would guess getting people onto SSH keys is useful for them in general - e.g., it allows them to make 2FA or CAPTCHAs mandatory for use of high-abuse-potential features like CI or Codespaces.
when are they going to add this backdoor to MacOS?
That's a great argument for a Linux phone or de-googled Android build.