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Hot take, but: they never should have released the news about the neural hash side of things with the iMessage child account scanning.

Regardless of how you feel about it, both issues were being completely mixed up by every single person I saw discussing this - even otherwise very technically competent people on this very site.

I've no doubt that it muddied the waters significantly when it comes to discussing this.
> This is nonsense. Whether someone virtue signals or not, actions are what's important, not words.

Arguably the most powerful tool the POTUS has is words. So they are not unimportant.
How can this:

> [Federighi] said it would do the image-matching on a user's iPhone or iPad (...)

be reconciled with this:

> Mr Federighi said the "soundbyte" that spread after the announcement was that Apple was scanning iPhones for images.

> "That is not what is happening," he told the Wall Street Journal.

without at least one of them be a blatant lie?

Is it the tense of "was" in "Apple was scanning (...)" as opposed to "will start to scan"?
You're doing the conspiracist thing where you respond to my examples of plausible explanations with more hypotheses that could alternately explain my guesses. But who cares? That's not how proof works.

This is just a gish gallop. I told you why I find existing evidence unconvincing. You need to convince me with evidence, not hypotheses.
I spent 6 years slogging through Symbian work. The whole "C++ but not quite" approach was infuriating, and the system level API's weren't much better. It was very difficult to work with. The original iOS SDK felt like a revelation in comparison.
Xerox: I was there. I just published a book [1] about that, written as historical fiction but all facts are accurate. The idea is, you can put yourself into the story without knowing how it turns out. In particular, you can see how something like that can happen.

[1] www.albertcory.io
It's the same thing Exxon did in the 80s when it's own researchers came to the conclusion that climate change was going to happen and then spent several decades clouding the issue to keep from being regulated so they could keep making money on drilling.
Exactly it's not just right yet ..time will make it right.

If you believe everything you are hearing as fact one day the facts change/the science which it does then cool.. I'm on the fence waiting with a mask on as needed to hear the real science and facts as of now they change quickly so and again I'm waiting for it all to work itself out. Not anti vaxxer or anti science here just a realist
It was a large enough problem to cause an international diplomatic dispute between Canada and the Philippines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Philippines_was...
Both are power supply issues (i.e how the power gets generated) rather than actual bad use cases.
At the time (very very early) there was only a small amount of code and small amount of native bindings, so it only took a couple days to rebuild the lower layers and I recall Chris got the "framework" running again in js pretty quickly after that was done. I think maybe we used spidermonkey? It's been 15+ years... somebody at Google with access to the fadden demo should be able to figure it out quickly enough.

As for Java, it worked well enough for Hiptop at Danger on a 24MHz ARM7TDMI platform. We felt we could use a similar approach (use Java more for "business logic" and do the heavy lifting in native libraries and services) to get sufficient performance on the 200MHz+ ARM9 platforms we were looking at, and take advantage of having a real MMU for process protection and eventually supporting native code (the latter, more contentious).
FUCK SNOPES

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They are literally FAKE NEWS and they are actively paid to push narratives.

Utter douchebags.
Git merges by default when you pull, for one.

Another extremely common pain is trying to "delete" a local commit.
I was referring to https://plausible.io/blog/google-amp

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192685
Yes.

So now, if you doubt any of (1) it's man made (2) it's terrible (3) it's fixable, you're a "climate change denier."
>"Why must people be in on a secret coverup?"

I hadn't considered this before, but you're right that most of the people dismissing the 'lab leak' theory seem to believe that their intellectual opponents are proposing that a 'premeditated conspiracy' took place.

In any case, if I were a PRoC official, I would try to reduce the chance of any (direct or circumstantial) evidence of a lab leak came to light. That said, even suppression of circumstantial evidence is not necessarily evidence of either a lab leak or pre-meditated conspiracy.
Always amuses me when using google to search for <App> f-droid.

Google will always insist you meant <App> android and show you those results instead, which of course is the play store version if it exists.
Is there any particular reason the author paying rent via donations is different from any of us paying rent from our work? You decided to use Googles distribution platform and infrastructure while not sharing the revenue - fully knowing it is illegal in the Play Store to accept payments outside of the platform.
Basically you attempted to steal the efforts Google invested in creating and promoting Android, it’s development tools and infrastructure - and they banned you for it.
⟨1, 1, 2⟩ goes to ⟨ ⟨ 1 1 ⟩ ⟨ 2 ⟩ ⟩. I expected ⟨ ⟨1, 1, 2⟩ ⟩

This task is surprisingly tricky!
So they regret we aren't buying their excuses and explanations and not the wrongdoing itself.
Seems more like Apple is the one confused.
Layout becomes challenging after a certain point with ImGUI. Especially if your layout "flows" based on the state of existing elements. This can require multiple draw passes in ImGUI to get certain effects and outcomes.
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Cool to see an article on the front page of HN from my alma mater :)
There is no investor at this point. The mandate is made by a 3rd party that is expected to be neutral. The investor only appears after the entire thing is settled.

Yes, it's not a case of fraud. It's a case of a process structured in a way that facilitates fraud. (Who pays for the invoice has the power to negotiate its value.) It is a very different thing, but it's still a problem to be solved.
Yes, the jumping of viruses from animals to humans due to keeping them in close proximity is so unlikely that it's happened hundreds of times before (e.g. SARS, MERS, Spanish flu, bubonic plague).
I guess I fell more into scifi for my short stories. I find I read so little these days, looking forward to trying his books.
This should really be "Apple Regrets Clarity over 'iPhone Scanning'".

"Confusion" is what they're trying to sow now.
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From Wikipedia:

The climate of the Jurassic was generally warmer than that of present, by around 5 °C to 10 °C, with atmospheric carbon dioxide likely four times higher. Forests likely grew near the poles...
Can you please elaborate why you would think this is a mistake and Google should side step the app store rules applied to all businesses? This income is clearly taxable. The play store offers a 50% discount for small apps.

Is it because the payment is optional (and doesn't unlock new features) that make you think this should be except from Google's rules (and potentially taxes?)?
Yes.

Before the start of the smartphone revolution (circa 2005) the "smartphones" of the time are what we'd call flip-phones now. They were smart in the sense that they could run apps (J2ME, blech), take pictures and such.

Moto had dozens of different models at any given point in time. All running various kinds of (what we'd call today) embedded operating systems, closer to what we'd class as a RTOS these days. Stuff like Symbian. Most / all of them were not that easy to do application development with. And none could really scale up in processing power (multi-core, which wasn't a thing back then), decent TCP/IP networking, and driving a large and complicated GUI.

In one sense, as a leader in the cell phone business, they should have been well placed to make a big splash with smartphones. But none of their software on that side of things was able to transition to that, which is why they adopted Android. To their credit, they did produce some decent Android phones, but because they relied on Google, they were now also competing severely with HTC, Samsung, LG and others.
Or look at the isotope mix of the C in the CO₂ in the atmosphere. CO₂ from burning fossil fuels does not contain ¹⁴C. CO₂ from volcanoes also does not contain ¹⁴C. CO₂ from other sources does contain ¹⁴C. Subtract out all the CO₂ from volcanoes and whatever you have left that does not contain ¹⁴C came from burning fossil fuels.
There's no reason to use symbolic logic on a mixed-audience webboard, it's just a flex.
Just so people know, the two dominating app stores are under scrutiny because of the monopoly they have on the market:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/app-store-competition-targeted-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/11/tech/apple-google-app-sto...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/11/22620454/apple-google-app...
> I'm not sure why you are being down-voted for voicing your position.

The climate zealots here are extremely aggressive with the downvoting. And yes the description zealot is fair. Denier is their word for heretic.

Another sign of zealotry is the inability to recognize nuance. For example my pointing out that climate zealots act like zealots is observably true, but their brains will shut down and immediately label me as a “denier” even though I’m entirely agnostic on the subject. I really don’t care. I have better things to spend my intellectual energy on than learning enough to evaluate whatever evidence there is for a problem I can’t solve. But there’s no greater offense to a zealot than saying you consider his particular obsession irrelevant.

Yet another sign of zealotry is an extreme desire for others to publicly affirm one’s beliefs. This should help you understand why gp is poorly received.

Edit: As for why I bothered to post about zealots, it’s because I believe zealotry of all sorts, including climate zealotry, is far more likely to cause mass harm than whatever issue the zealots are obsessed with. For example climate zealots are actually seriously planning to blot out the sun. What could possibly go wrong?
The Ars Technica link in the article has a much less click-baity take on it. For those specs and at that price point if I had the money at the moment I definitely would get one.

I mean sure .... it is called the Mi Pad 5 Pro but what the heck - Would it be better to have called it the Mi Tab 5 Pro (aka a Samsung 'knock-off')?

Highly doubt that anyone looking for an iPad would get confused... Why would an Apple product have a name like Xiaomi in it? And even if someone was that 'confused' - in these days of internet commerce, a refund is just an e-mail away.

Sure. I get why a site like 9to5Mac might be ever so slightly biased but boy - haven't they heard of the Streisand Effect?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/xiaomi-gets-back-int...
It's also a single bug away from not being true.

Oh wait, Apple software don't have bugs though, right? /s
Which I find really puzzling because if you announce this fact to people who will basically have their lives ended if they get caught with CSAM material... then they will be the ones to avoid it. While the rest of the population is being scanned.
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The atmosphere is shared between all countries. Looking at the output of a single country is useless for everything except petty politics discussions. When a country moves its industry abroad without changing its demand, net CO2 output is unchanged, and these figures are worse than useless.
Archive links are used to bypass paywalls and direct traffic away from the site. (The moderator of this site encourages it [1], and archive links for most paywalled articles are in the comments.)

This could be a legitimate reason they were doing it (nefarious ones are easily imagined as well).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
To be fair, a lot of you nuts are absolutely alleging "premeditated conspiracy", or even loopier notions like bioweapon engineering. It's extremely hard to figure out who we're talking to.

If you want to argue for some weak form of the conspiracy, then maybe give it another name or something. But note that the weak form you seem to be thinking about (that it was benign research on natural viruses and just a routine mistake that caused the leak) seems to be even more susceptible to my suspicion. If you're a researcher who was doing this benign work, why keep silent? You could literally write a book fingering all your superiors as the villains and sell it for tens of millions of dollars and retire in Taipei or San Francisco.
Isn't it safer to assume it is until proven otherwise?

A developer has their app removed, perhaps their livelihood, and Google can't be fucked to sign off who made the decision?

If it was a human I expect to know who, and who I can write to so it can be reviewed, by another human. I want to know how I can contact a human for support and not some useless AI chat bot that seem to be all the rage these days (looking at you Amazon...)

But yes, it's happened so much by AI you just assume these days...like a YouTube takedown for example by a bot.
I love Hunter S Thompson'a letters which often take the form of a journal. Brilliant read.
A download option could lead to copyright violation claims.
You may win the arguments but you will lose the war. Please, as someone who understands the problem, do the planet a favor and learn about psychology too. Arguing with people is counter productive, as is shading the truth. Lastly, have the wisdom to know that you will not be able to change everyone’s thinking. There are people who think iPhones are secure and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise. Don’t tilt at windmills. Invest your energy towards finding solutions not arguing with the stupid.
...and mammals were all 3" or smaller. Not a world we'd want to live in.
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I'm not sure if this is written somewhere, but from personal experience: "you can't place a url whose content contains a direct link to a donation service (paypal, patreon, etc) nor in your app nor in the play store description".

Placing a link to a site which contains a link to another site with the actual donations links is fine...for now.
Where I have lived my entire life, the hottest I'd ever seen in my is 33C. That would be an unusual year. The hottest summer days might hit 30C. This is 100 years, historically: over 30 is possibly, but unusual. Years where 29C is the hottest day is completely typical.

End of June (June! Not even July/August!) we had a heat wave. What would you expect to find in such an event? Maybe 34? That sounds pretty hot. 35? 36?! How hot can it get in a place that has never seen higher than 33C in 100 years?

Well, it hit 42 god damn degrees. If you told me I would ever see that, if I lived to be a thousand, I would not have believed it. Over 40C in a place where 30C is a hot day, where a year going by with zero days above 29C is the norm.

Yesterday hit 38. That would have been shocking last year. Today I was glad it was under 40.

But yeah nothing scary about a hot July. Right. No denial at all.
One vote for Nalgene, had 3-4 of the same bottle!
Maybe Journalists need to be better at their jobs and just more honest in general? Major publications should have revision history links as articles are changed. If anything some of them are clearly going out of their way to cover their tracks as the narrative changes.

I understand mistakes happen, but you should be always very clear on your corrections and if you are a web publication, have revision history links.

Source: Journalism degree holder that is tired of the MSM. I advise all the people I know to stop reading/watching it. So tired of the outrage driven news cycle that is often highly misleading.
Exactly! If we could get reverse migration going where people in OECD countries downsized to developing nations while maintaining efficiencies, that would be ideal but of course it’s not going to happen, indeed the opposite happens where people who consume less move to rich countries and start consuming like the natives in rich countries adding to demand.
Which is why Apple’s volunteered to run on-device surveillance programs. Between their lobbying power and the holy grail of utter surveillance, the governments will never stand for the basic rights of the people.
This has strong “Brawndo’s got what plants crave” vibes. Good grief.
How do you back that statement?
The best writeup I've seen is actually this twitter thread from the WNYC science reporter, Nsikan Akpan (himself a phd in biology). The gist being that while lab leak is still possible, it's very unlikely and it's also likely we'll never find a smoking gun for any hypothesis.

https://twitter.com/MoNscience/status/1396240581651742724
> The system could only match "exact fingerprints" of specific known child sexual abuse images, he said.

It has to match the fingerprint exactly, but the fingerprints themselves are not exact, otherwise they would be useless.

And this is completely beside the point. People's concerns aren't mostly over false positives, they're over the possibility that this feature will be perverted by authoritarian governments. Way to miss the point.

> Mr Federighi said the "soundbyte" that spread after the announcement was that Apple was scanning iPhones for images.

> "That is not what is happening," he told the Wall Street Journal.

That's... exactly what's happening.
Sorry about that. I love computer history and put a lot of work into documenting the demo and want people to be able to learn about it, but it's very unfortunate that people outside Google (including me) can't see it. Basically it was a collection of screenshots and some notes on the code / commit log iirc.
App ecosystems can't work properly if they're weakened by LEAs. People would just not use them if they know they're being watched. I'm not saying the majority would switch to Linux phones either (like Librem 5 & Pinephone), simply that the two dominating app-stores (Play & Apple Store) would be phased out and people would probably fund independent FLOSS app stores to replace them.

In the end, the people will speak out and respond to back-doors. In-fact we need FLOSS app stores right now (Similar to F-Droid[0], but baked in as the default store), and they need to be funded properly & they need sound economic incentives to continue. No more 'free' apps where you pay for them with your data. It's possible to have FLOSS apps that are not gratis where people pay for them with money, not their data.

(The reason I suggest we switch to FLOSS app stores is that the apps can easily be checked for back-doors or malicious code since the code is open source. It makes the apps readily available for audits too)

[0] https://f-droid.org/
When Galileo saw that Copernican Heliocentrism better explained the observations he made with his telescopes that existing theory of Aristotelian geocentrism, he did not then shutup about it despite facing a litany of criticism from the State & the Church, and finally, the Inquisition. He was more correct, and they were not.

Good science is critical science.
That would be a fallacious argument because it does not follow (non-sequitur) that the beliefs of scientists can cause shifts in reality, but nobody was arguing that.

They were arguing that it is logical to conclude that climate change is real because the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists (the actual domain experts) is that it is real.
this is a myth from the 1970s. it has been debunked countless times (even by history itself), but people still fall back to this.
Switching to iphone will be a clear signal that you are not a pedo.
I have no idea when or why they changed it. Every few years I'd get a bee in my bonnet to check, and this is the first time I remember not seeing the incorrect fact being there.
When people talk about an app being “native” they generally mean one that uses the UI toolkit(s) provided by that target.

This is not native, this is just not-Electron (or Xamarin or whatever else).
Same thing with covid. "The China Virus is sent from China so we shouldn't have to deal with it because it's not our fault". Oh, had the virus arisen naturally in the US, we could fight it, but because it's (supposedly) an act of Chinese biological warfare, we should just take it lying down?

I don't get people.
I run a desktop UI on my phone. The only place it really doesn't work is when I'm driving and that's illegal anyway.

The main obstacle is SoC drivers that are kept closed.
AMP failed.
Got a Donate link to contribute toward a lawsuit?

The App stores have become a cartel and I'd love to see their unscrupulous behavior challenged in court. (Epic is doing that, but your case is easier to sympathize with).
There are programs for which we can check this, but there is no general procedure to check if any program halts. Even ignoring the halting problem itself, say we analyze a program and realize it halts iff P=NP, or pi to the e is transcendental, .or if Pi's decimal expansion at position Graham's number is divisible by 3. Will that program halt? It might be very hard to say.

More promisingly, there are ways to construct programs such they will halt, using total languages (though not every problem can be solved with such a limitation).
A wonderful example of the cargo cult phenomenon!
A better comparison would be to say "the hottest 10 days were all this July. There seems to be a trend here". Then it would be obvious that it was simply the hottest July, so of course all days were comparatively hot.

Just saying that there could be climate patterns that span more than a year, and "all the hottest Julies where in the last ten years" would be similar to saying "all the hottest days were in the last month".

Not saying it is the case, but also not saying that I automatically believe the fearmongering.