skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you lie to people repeatedly, they stop trusting you. If you think they should continue to trust you because you're an "expert," despite your proven track-record of dishonesty, that says more about you than them. None of this is complicated or confusing. None of this needs a sophisticated academic examination to plumb its impenetrable atavistic depths. It's obvious on the face of it.

If people fail to understand something so simple, it can only be due to cognitive dissonance caused by a refusal to acknowledge their own moral and ethical bankruptcy. You cannot go around murdering people day and night and then stand, drenched in their blood, and complain that no one RESPECTS you anymore.

And lest anyone think this is hyperbolic, remember that lies have consequences, and when "experts" in power lie, those consequences are often injury and death.
> brainwashed leftists

My heuristic is, whenever I encounter these labels, it's the moment I stop reading. They signal the end of productive conversation, anything surrounding them can be ignored.
Who cares, the NCMEC database is certainly full of unreviewed material, given even their employees can’t automatically have access to it. For any dystopian state, the goal is to have as many false positives as possible in the NCMEC database, to be able to legitimately have your photos uploaded to their headquarters.
There is still a possibility that Mozilla's improvements can break backwards compatibility. One time they attempted to improve Firefox's error message for undefined property accesses in JavaScript, but it caused breaking changes because some websites relied on parsing the old error message format.

Mozilla's response was to roll back the change instead of blaming the users. The alternative was letting Firefox lose market share to Chrome because the websites people wanted to use didn't work. At least one major e-commerce website (Flipkart) was actively losing sales because of the bug.

Mozilla trying to strongarm people into using web features the "right" way sounds like something Google would do.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488417

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492660
> I have no idea why they haven't done a 180 yet, this is a bigger failure than the butterfly keyboard.

Pressure from governments.
I'm mostly self taught aside from a diploma and some formal CS. It's a decent market, but the crux of the question was less about the overall market, because obviously every company is hiring React people, but also vastly more people are applying because it's a commodity skill. Basically lots of huge funnels to enter into. I'm not a new grad at all.
Are you paid to defend articles/journalists here from criticism all day? This is the second time you've attacked a HN member for legitimately criticizing an article. People are entitled to their opinions. Why are you attacking them for it?
I am sure there are still plenty of lawyers lined up with tape measures to check that the opposition doens't have a smaller one than them.
Did you read it? They use neural network to discard false positives, because perceptual hash alone is not reliable. It's pretty much the same concept I described.
You’re also wrong no? The perceptual hashing doesn’t match EXACTLY the same photos, it intentionally matches photos similar to the same photos, so a minor rotate by a few degrees or crop or whatever also matches
Feel free to deduct another point or two. That seems to be the case with my comments recently. Welcome to an open discussion on HN ( ...and here's anothecpoint gone for criticism).
I should have said, "iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted". Apple has full access to everything you upload to iCloud, because they control the encryption keys, not you.
Fundamentally, I think this along with encrypting iCloud backups is strictly a win for customer privacy. This set of data is subject to scanning seconds later already. However, charging someone simply because these hashes detected illicit material is a scary reality.

Everyone's heard about SWATting... get ready for CSAMming. I don't even know where to begin with services like Pegasus that rootkit a phone floating around. Got a major business deal a rival is about to close... CSAM their negotiators and win the contract.

I'm sure there are variations that wipe themselves without a trace after delivering their payloads.
Poverty is on the decline globally and this means consumption correspondingly increases. People in Benin and elsewhere have the same desires as everyone else and they too want to consume at a greater rate. They want things too. Americans are the worst for sure. I think that there are far too many people given humans’ proclivity toward consumption.
Ohhh! I wonder why you’re having so much trouble.

I’m in a very competitive market. I also refuse to do leetcode and whiteboards, and will only do small, clearly defined take-homes (since I lack a portfolio and kind of enjoy them).

I don’t bother with the alphabet companies (no interest and don’t want to waste my time with their interview process).

Maybe try targeting your companies more selectively?

And thanks, by the way! :)

Life-changing skillset.
> This becomes a bad faith argument the moment you start trying to browbeat people over "being comfortable hosting kiddie porn."

Fair enough, I could have phrased this more carefully. But my point stands, so I'll rephrase it.

To put it more carefully, people here are saying they would prefer the tradeoff of hosting CSAM compared against the tradeoff of the privacy implications of scanning users photos when they're uploaded to iCloud. I personally would not make that tradeoff, as I do not want to host a website that distributes CSAM.

> The same reason Apple was the most "friendly to CSAM" is the same reason any E2EE platform would be.

iCloud photos are not E2E encrypted [1]. iCloud photos allows you to share photo albums with others and publicly. This is the reason I feel strongly about this, because if you don't scan for CSAM, iCloud will be used to distributed it.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Nano feels a lot like windows notepad. Still my favorite editor and beginner friendly (as far as unix editors go).
Don’t know why anyone would downvote you. It’s a valid question.
> Apple is the luxus brand. People don't buy it for privacy.

Privacy is the main selling point Apple is pushing in their current PR campaigns. They've been slowly building up a brand around privacy with new privacy features.

They've just sunk that entire brand/campaign. Instead of "iPhone, the phone that keeps all your data private", it's "iPhone, the phone that looks through your pictures and actively rats you out to police to ruin your life".
Firefox2 0.0.1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28154187
On TikTok there are plenty of videos now going around saying “Apple is scanning your phone to report you to the authorities”, with little to no nuance.

This is really, really bad for their brand.
There is definitely noise and false positives as with any honeypot, but there is probably enough signal among the noise to correlate with other datasets and contribute to crime detection models.
It’s classic politics to me, if you have to explain yourself, you’ve already lost. Did apple really think the average person would hear “scanning all devices” and think oh they’re using device local keys to keep the data on the device, that’s fine. I’m honestly shocked at Apple’s expectation that this would go over well.
Can anyone recommend a book that describes some potential destructive consequences of Cartesian thinking on everyday life in Western civilization (not just in the field of philosophy)? It seems possible to me that choosing the individual "subject" (the mind in mind-body dualism) as the starting point for Enlightenment discourse could have contributed in some way to the modern selfish solipsism we see in society today.
Would it be useful to have a large power plant at the edge of the solar system? There's not much out there to power.
Startups Are Not Great for Marriages
Motorola phones are still the best Android phones. Way better that Samsungs / Xiaomi / Huawei phones with heavily tweaked (for the worse) devices.
The other valid use case is blacklisting buggy browser versions. Some browsers will claim to support a feature but it doesn't actually work (e.g. indexeddb in some versions of safari). The only way to detect is using the user agent.
After criticism, Apple to only seek abuse images flagged in multiple nations
> I really want to like Snopes

Herein lies the archetypical problem with the vanilla HN (or should I say "mainstream") crowd conformist mentality. As a human herd animal, we want to belong, but it's not okay to forgo our critical thinking to do so. Downvote away.
Link to the original album for people who just want the pics:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25165196@N08/albums/7215771215...
"never promised mucosal immunity" Promising something and providing something aren't the same thing. I might have missed it in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7733922/ but where does it say that no mucosal immunity is provided by the current generation of vaccines.

"infected and have long recovered with sterilizing immunity that is better than symptom-reduction from non-sterilizing vaccines" The article you link to here doesn't make this strong a claim. It says "at least as good" not "better" and references a single study from Israel.

I don't think based upon the evidence presented your summation is supported.
Nice.

You can do the same in our iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1535903742

Browse to any page and click on "Listen Now" in the app (including logged in page)
> Perhaps someone could fund a startup that would connect people with suppliers of medicine that is non addictive yet prescription only, like most antidepressants, anxyliotics and DNRIs.

While many antidepressants are not psychologically addictive, it's worth noting that they many cause physical dependence due to receptor up/down regulation, and can cause horrendous withdrawal symptoms.

I have personal experience of this - when coming off a TCA (which are effectively SNRIs) I felt like I was dieing - I vomited for days, had hallucinations, the whole works. And perhaps worse, there is a 2 week gap in my life where I don't remember a thing.

As someone who has tapered off (prescribed) opioids before, coming off opioids was easier for me than TCAs or SNRIs (which I also, unfortunately, have experience of).

And all that is before considering the common side effects, such as dizziness and vertigo, headaches, vision problems etc. I'm really not sure it's a good idea for people to take meds like these without medical supervision.
How do you navigate text in nano?
> because it feels less like a violation of your ownership of the device.

Agreed that this was not intended to be malicious. Apple has always been pretty clear they they should decide what happens on their devices. This sort of on-device scanning that doesn't serve the user is just the latest example of it, and one that people who would never be affected by the code signing restrictions can relate to.
> You are Mozilla, send them a mail and give them a week to fix it, because you are f'ing Mozilla.

I think you vastly overestimate Mozilla's clout on the internet these days.
The stock isn't a like/dislike button. Apparently, the stockholders think that, regardless of what happens, Apple will still be here tomorrow. And to be fair, it's not like a significant portion of Apple customers will throw away their phones.
(Edit: it seems like the algorithm does not work like I thought it did, you can basically disregard this comment.

This has been mentioned on here before, but it's known CSAM possession that's illegal. Apple keeps your files encrypted until its algorithm thinks your encrypted file is too similar to CSAM, and then it decrypts it and sends it to Apple for review. There's a few things here.

- The algorithm is a black box, so nobody knows how many false positives it hits.

- Apple's willingness to decrypt files without the consent of the owner makes the encryption seem like a bit of a sham.

- I imagine many are skeptical of Apple's ability to judge CSAM accurately. If I take a photo of my kids in a bathtub, is that CSAM? What about teenagers in a relationship sharing nudes. The law is a blunt and cruel instrument, and we've gotten away without hurting too many innocent people so far because the process is run by humans, but computers are not known for being gracious.
The public wanted it and will not hold itself accountable

https://news.gallup.com/poll/9994/public-opinion-war-afghani...
I've been a really big fan of Micro[1]. A single binary with excellent out of the box features. Mouse mode, syntax highlighting, tabs etc

[1] https://github.com/zyedidia/micro
All the web developers I know use and test on Chrome. If they test on Firefox, it's as an afterthought.
> That’s what Federighi says in this interview. It’s only scanning photos that are about to be uploaded to iCloud. Otherwise photos aren’t scanned. Disable iCloud and there’s no scanning.

That's for now. The first update can change that and you will have no recourse.
Maybe things were a bit better for a while. Life's essence is an integral of happiness.
Perhaps they will regard our current obsession with machine learning as a sort of Tower of Babel built out of made-up statistics. Or a castle in the sky.
Yes, it's different. You can read more about it here[1]. There's no option to run unsigned binaries on M1 Macs on macOS.

[1] http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/blog/2020/11/12/apple-m1-and-th...
Why is nano the favourite editor? What's the upsides and why does it stay the favourite?
I just don't understand why you'd make this comment literally 2 minutes after writing the original one.

1) you can still edit the original to add this remark if you really want to, although it's frowned upon

2) initial downvotes mean nothing, I've had comments go to -10 before jumping back up to +30 few hours later. Why would you complain about it within 3 minutes of posting is beyond me.
This all sounds great, thanks for the additional info!

> For custom components, you could either build them as Judo components/symbols when they come out. We have also floated the idea of inserting placeholders in the Mac app which are replaced with your own custom components when rendered in your app. Although we haven't fully thought through how this will work yet.

While I'm sure just building these as Judo components would be quicker, I must give a strong +1 to the placeholder concept. Just thinking about our product card component, there are 3 different interactions, 10+ different visual parts, it's a core concept repeated throughout the app, there are lots of analytics things tied to it, and it has been optimised a fair bit. I don't think we can reasonably expect to rebuild a version in Judo that meets our needs, and I think that would be misusing Judo for things it's not really designed to do.
In the interview, Craig discusses this. They did not previously scan iCloud photos because they consider it too invasive. They consider this less invasive, because Apple does not look at the content of your photo, except on the device. So the change was from "not scanned" to "scanned before upload on device".
Regret is not an apology. It means Apple is stating they are disappointed by the confusion, and I am pretty sure that's true.
Actually, I'm with you in that I think Apple's motives are different than people think, but I think yours are incorrect as well.

> Apple has been, as part of their privacy initiatives, trying to do as much as possible on the device. That's how they have been defining privacy to themselves internally. Then someone said "can we do something about CSAM" [...]

As a separate issue, many people in the company certainly do care about privacy, and that may go all the way to to Tim Cook. Who knows.

What is much more important to Apple the company, though, is making money. Governments have been hounding them for years about letting them spy on users. And they have painted themselves into a bit of a corner, by having the most secure phones.

Now the government comes to them with an offer they can't refuse, cloaked in child porn motivations. I believe many (most?) of the people involved are sincere. It's clear they have tried to make the least invasive system that still does what the government wants.

But that's not good enough in the crazy connected cyber-world we find ourselves in today.

Apple doesn't have a motivation to do this themselves. But they will do what they calculate they need to do.
What facts am I disregarding? As global poverty declines consumption correspondingly goes up. Globalization ensures that the message of consumption wins out. Profits need to be had. Humans are local optimization machines. The only real solution given human psychology is for there to be far fewer people. Until that happens the damage will continue to be done and at an increasing rate.
I think the most obvious answer to this is that understanding the world perfectly is impossible (for an individiual human in a finite lifespan), and so in reality we use a whole slew of hacks and simplifications. Things fall to the ground at about 9.8m/s. Is that true? No. Is it helpful to assume it's true, sure. And so it's extra-ordinarily easy to therefore find conditions where these simplifications don't hold. We optimize for survival and reproduction. Anchoring[1] is a great example - as long as no one knows about anchoring, anchoring is a great technique for negotiation, in fact there are studies that show some form of anchoring is optimal. It's far more optimal to use these cognitive biases than to invent new algorithms for life- because most of these are incredibly difficult problems- what is maybe more surprising is how effective our cognitive biases are and how they've propogated, isn't it more crazy that we're all fairly good at applying these intuitive rules of thumb?

[1]: Setting an initial price in order to later favourably negotiate a price.
I had a Moto X (2014), and I had a very similar impression. The launcher was very minimal and AOSP-like. It was also one of the first Android devices that had always-on listening for a trigger word (Hello Moto X?). I always found that almost magically useful at setting alarms when I was already in bed.
User agent string lost most if its meaning and is often abused.

Safari even froze its UA string to help against browser fingerprinting (giving less bits of information).

Unfortunately it is still the only way to somewhat distinguish browsers without using javascript.
> But that doesn't matter, does it?

Yes, it does.

> Anyone familiar with the topic will already know what’s up, and anyone interested enough to research the topic will be able to do so as well.

They will be able to do so…by reviewing and evaluating information from sources that provide the evidence and logic on which they rest conclusions. That a “fact checker” is such a source is…clearly something that matters.

> The point of declaring true/false is to have the final word for most readers.

And the point of providing support is to provide the ability for the readers that are willing to do more legwork to evaluate the claims, which is also how a fact checker gets (or loses, either because it fails to do this or because following back doesn’t support their claims) the reputation which allows them to be trusted by the users that don’t do the extra legwork. Same as any other source, because all a fact checker is is another research source that happens to be focussed on claims of current salience and controversy.

> “No need to look further, Snopes said it’s true”.

Which only holds up as a long as Snopes reputation holds up.

> Sure, anyone can provide evidence to say you’re wrong, but they’re just some random blogger and nobody reads them.

That would be a problem in a world where Snopes was the sole and universally accepted “fact checker” and every other source of information was regarded as “just a random blogger”. But there are lots of fact checkers (both standalone and as part of media organizations), and a lot of focus by interested parties with very influential platforms on the reliability of various entities that hold themselves out as fact checkers or other fact sources.
The thesis of this post is roughly that nano, when configured, is enough of an editor for the author. Which is totally fine! People should be happy with their tools and not feel pressured by popularity to use what others use (vim, emacs being prime competitors in this case).

Alas, nano (and pico before it) have a certain stigma among more "experienced" Unix users that more or less boils down to gatekeeping and snobbery. Which is a shame.

That said... it is worth considering that learning tools like editors is an investment in one's self and pushing through preference to genuinely try to use what others find value in can, if nothing else, help you better understand what you value and adjust your tooling to fit (much like the author adjusted Nano to be more like vim).

That's a pretty nuanced distinction though and I am glad that the author feels comfortable owning their preference and not feeling pressured by peers to conform to more "acceptable" choices while still having tried and learned from them.
Conforms to my personal anecdotal evidence on hackernews
> In fact, he was pretty clear he thought

I suspect you're being downvoted because of your insistence on Donald Trump being "pretty clear", among other things, when Donald Trump has a decades long history of being anything but "very clear"

While this is after when your comment refers to, here is an example.

> "And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

"So it'd be interesting to check that."

Pointing to his head, Mr Trump went on: "I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what."

This was stated by a US President to the general public of his nation, and the world at large.

The next day, about this quote - he simpled stated that he was "being sarcastic"

If you have some notion on how this method of communication and reason equates with being "pretty clear", please do tell.

However, this reply of yours

>the downvotes indicate

Would seem to "indicate" that you're not exactly the most reasonable person to have any discussion in good faith to begin with.
If ebola had emerged right next to a lab doing high-risk research on ebola-like viruses, people would have (justifiably) been highly suspicious.
I initially thought this was saying that train passengers were more likely to be manipulated by social media toward outrage, which probably rings true to anybody familiar with transit twitter.
there are far worse choices. for quick stuff, i either emacs -q or nano more or less interchangably, and in my larval stage i lived in nano (and pine!) for many years happily enough.

These days, i find that my movement key memory will betray me in nano at the worst time(s), so i tend to stick with emacs -q -nw for light-and-fast stuff, but when that's annoying to obtain, i'll happily fall back and think more carefully about my keystrokes.
No job, no access to covid relief, no access to public services. There will be plenty of sticks. Potentially saving you own life and those of your family should be the carrot.
That is unusually young for T2, the diagnosis might well change to T1.
no matter what you editor you use, set EDITOR to whatever you want, then when you want to edit files as root do `sudo -e /path/to/file`

thanks me later
nano was my cli editor of choice because I was overwhelmed by vim. For years I felt subpar and thought that I should learn using vim. I'm using vim for some years now but I don't really make much use of it's features, maybe an occasional cut and paste, which probably can easily be done with nano too.
It's also bound to Windows-Shift-S by default, as of 2018