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I find D's implementation of pointers not only to be fairly easy and straightforward to understand, but quite powerful and useful. They basically fix most of the problems with C's pointers.

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/d_programming/d_programming_p...

The toy virtual machine and language I built in D uses function pointers heavily to implement the machine's opcodes. They made it incredibly simple to program the 'CPU' of the virtual machine. The opcode functions are setup as an array of function pointers.

Whenever a byte that represents an opcode is read, it simply calls the function being pointed to at the corresponding index in the array. It allows for additional opcodes to be easily added without hassle or breaking things. Every other way I tried without pointers was convoluted and didn't work as expected. Using an array of function pointers just works.
More notable than how they use tangential evidence to debunk a claim (e.g. citing a drop in rape as evidence it's not the rape capital, and comparing the rate of rape in absolute terms, not per-capita), is which part of a claim they choose to debunk.

According to the Swedish state TV, 58% of all convicted rapists were foreign-born [1], despite being only 19% of the population [2]. They could cite that as supporting "accepting refugees from war-torn regions like Syria would make the United States less safe", and rate the whole statement as a mixture. Instead they meticulously dance around the core of the statement [3], using all sorts of indirect statistics.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764

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

[3] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/crime-sweden-rape-capital-...
"In meditative states, the monks had remarkable control over their body temperature and oxygen intake. They could use their body heat to dry wet towels placed around them, where most people would shiver uncontrollably. They could raise the temperature of their fingers and toes by as much as 17 degrees. Some could even spend a night on a rocky ledge at an elevation of 15,000 feet in the Himalayas, where temperatures fell to zero degrees Fahrenheit, while they wore only woolen or cotton shawls. "

How well has this been replicated? Has a non-buddhist person ever been able to demonstrate similar feats?

It's such an astounding claim. I want to believe, but am still skeptical because it just so astounding.
Maybe they are paid well at the very top, but I think journalist employment has dropped by half, or something like it. Remember very few journalists appear on CNN, write for the NYT, and even fewer have a name like Matt Lauer. Most are toiling away in trade journals, hyper-local websites, etc.

> the operating budgets of these corporations is massive.

> $50 million

$50 million is not a massive budget.
That’s where I’m at. They could have just started doing this without even saying anything at all.
> in a month this is going to be completely forgotten.

I'm tossing the mac and iphone because my phone is mine.
Keeping with the metaphor, I'm not sure that quantum entropy requires an additional source of randomness, only the classic concept of entropy. The thermodynamic laws like that are a emergent projection of the quantum realm and don't always have a distinct analog. Additionally, one could argue a breakdown of the metaphor, that randomness isn't a complete analog for free will, and is only useful for talking about free will in aggregate where the different choices tend to cancel and coalesce.

And, again, none of this is a position I actually hold, just where I've ended up trying to understand the cognitive framework of people vastly different from my own who simply have different axioms they start with.
Atleast the refresh-rate is better.
People need to stop buying Apple devices, immediately. They do not give a shit about us.
> Speaking purely personally, whether the scanning happens immediately-before-upload on my phone or immediately-after-upload in the cloud doesn't really make a difference to me.

What I find interesting is that so many people find it worse to do it on device, because of the risk that they do it to photos you don't intend to upload. This is clearly where Apple got caught off-guard, because to them, on-device = private.

It seems like the issue is really the mixing of on-device and off. People seem to be fine with on-device data that stays on-device, and relatively fine with the idea that Apple gets your content if you upload it to them. But when they analyze the data on-device, and then upload the results to the cloud, that really gets people.
I don't think it has to do with facts so much as trust in institutions.

Educated people I suggest are more likely to accept that the CDC's conclusions are reasonable, and then maybe do a quick Google search to confirm that.

My vaxxine hesitant friends are those with no exposure to any kind of professional environment, and they believe all sorts of crazy things about what goes on within these groups.

The problem is institutions made of people are fallible, and sometimes corrupt. But those failures take specific forms: usually a minority of people, possibly corruption over money, possibly over ideology etc..

But generally speaking the CDC is not made up of people who are actively trying to secretly hiding some big studies that show it's dangerous etc. - it'd be impossible as there are 180 nations and 10x that institutions dealing with all of this.

There might be something to an 'elite arrogance' but I think it's more that it takes time for the information to come across to regular people.

I'm highly doubtful that PhD's are more hesitant, but if they are, it would be very interesting to understand why.
Not confusion - we will eventually remove humans from CSAM checking and it will all be AI's. The "slippery slope" is already halfway down the hill.
This seems like a pretty helpful document, and really shows how carefully the CSAM system has been designed.

Two things that stuck out to me:

1) The CSAM hash database is encrypted on-device

2) The device doesn't know the results of hash comparisons

These suggest to me that the hash comparison is going to happen inside the Secure Enclave - give it the encrypted database and the NeuralHash of an image, it gives you back a Security Voucher to upload.

I don't quite get how the hash database can stay secret though - the decryption key has to come from somewhere. AFAIK the hash database has never been made publicly available before, which probably makes it quite a high value target for security researchers and curious parties.
Really? I’ve read that seeing the US lose its shit and pull out of Somalia after losing a couple helicopters and a dozen or so troops gave him the idea that it culturally couldn’t handle losses. That he thought scaling up the losses would increase the scale of the withdrawal and that he could get the US to pull out of the Islamic world completely.

They seem like mutually incompatible motivations.
What’s the difference between hybrid cloud/local scanning “due to a bug” checking all your files and uploading too many safety vouchers and cloud scanning “due to a bug” uploading all your files and checking them there?
Could you try create or showcase existing personal projects to demonstrate your skills and the decline any tests and point them to those projects explaining that spending 3 hours on a test for every job application isn’t sustainable?
Yes, exactly this. It’s useful to understand biases: cognitive diversions from the truth.

Echoing OP’s sentiment: How one uses/weaponizes such knowledge depends on one’s goals: to win petty ego battles in debate or seek the truth?
If apple can be coerced by governments to scan photos on the serverside then what is the operational purpose of a frontend scan, given what apple is publicly saying they are trying to do? This is the most confusing aspect for me.
Zero evidence? Might want to look at the details of the NIH grant funding the research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. You aren't very informed on the subject, which is why you dismiss it as fringe.

https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/proje...

It's right at the bottom of the summary.

"3. Test predictions of CoV inter-species transmission. Predictive models of host range (i.e. emergence potential) will be tested experimentally using reverse genetics, pseudovirus and receptor binding assays, and virus infection experiments across a range of cell cultures from different species and humanized mice."

But sure, it's fringe and unlikely that the virus leaked out of a lab where it was specifically stated by the scientists applying for the grant that the funding would be used for testing interspecies transmission of bat coronaviruses with humanized mice. The lab doing this being in Wuhan, where the pandemic originated is also totally fringe and unlikely, is totally unrelated, right?
The hardware engineers, especially the RF guys, were stellar.

I also worked with a group that spun out of Paging down in Florida and helped design XM Radio's transmission protocol. That was a neat design.
Fun thought experiment: If we could assume with absolute certainty that we would find out the inception of COVID-19 by Jan1 2023, and Vegas was allowing people to wager money on “somehow came from a lab in Wuhan”, I wonder what the odds would be compared to “came from a wet market”, or other competing theories. Money has a funny way of making people weigh and consider the outcome of an event.
It would be much easier if you would just play the game like everyone else.
> Removing a tool just invites developers to work around the gap.

This.

It's either a clean rebase, or messing the repo history with merge-commits, or merge with no ff and no commit onto HEAD followed by a local commit.

And rebase is far better and far cleaner and far simpler than any alternatives.

And rebase starts to become necessary as soon as two or more people start to work on the same mainline branch. After all, what rebase does is help get your branch (local or remote) updated and tied to the HEAD of a branch without screwing up the commit history. Isn't this one of the most basic usecases for a CVS?
Like Pascal's wager
> people like OP continue to promote an elitist view of the world.

Please explain specifically how I've done that if you've going to throw around accusations.

You seem to be reading a lot into the fact that I worked at Google in the past, but I didn't design the hiring process, the data access rules, the cultural vocabulary, or any of the other things you seem aggrieved by. People at giant companies don't have influence over those things, and if you go through my comment history you'll see that I have mixed feelings about working there.

If the mere mention that someone worked at a particular company gives you a feeling of inadequacy, I can certainly sympathize. But you need to realize that those feelings are coming from your own issues and not something I wrote in my comment. It's not necessary or sufficient to work at Google to have a fulfilling career, it's only necessary in this case since the codebase I reviewed is not public.
> If you “Like” useless content, then you will get more useless content in the future.

I think I am missing your message -isn't this exactly how most platform's algorithms work now? You get more of what you like?
Stopping the spread to older people is a very useful thing. They will not 'end up getting it anyhow' this is a fallacy.
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left-right is a false dichotomy invented to simplify politics (by literally dichotomizing it), so you’ve already lost by thinking in those terms (as has @magila in the parent comment) or any other 1-d axis like liberal-libertarian.
Most manufacturers give ratings up to 120 degrees, that doesn’t mean they totally stop working at that point, but the start to become less effective.

Projections for the next century range from a 2-10 degree increase in temp. Even on the aggressive side of 10 most places on earth never see 110 today. This also assumes 0 innovation in AC technology over the next century.
The hash database is blinded on the server before being embedded into iOS. You’d need to access Apple’s private key or break cryptography to get access to it from the client. For the less cryptographically savvy, the “Technical Summary” is a good document on their Child Safety page.
How does it ‘detract from the point’ to not speak falsely?

If you intentionally make someone think that anything other than the photos they are uploading are being scanned, then you are deceiving them.

Deceiving people to make your point doesn’t help anything. It just makes you a liar and the other person misinformed.

If this is a massive privacy violation in itself, then you shouldn’t need to exaggerate it.
"I’ve practiced meditation for over a decade with many, many traditions in and out of Buddhism and never heard of this concern. Not arguing that meditation can’t have downsides, but I think you’re way over exaggerating them."

Here[1] is a recent HN discussion about an article[2] about just this. And here[3] is an earlier discussion about a similar article[4].

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27890790

[2] - https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11752317

[4] - http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-k...
> The problem is, cashing out in Monero raises eyebrows on exchanges and mail by cash method is sometimes risky as well.

Yeah, Monero doesn't raise eyebrows. This adds another point to FBI/The SS/IRS/NSA.

Exchanges only track fund sources because they can see it. Banks don't even do that, so this is a separate higher standard for crypto exchanges that accept surveillance coins. And when exchanges can't see it because the funds came from Monero or Tornado.cash they just revert to bank standards.
They can publish the dev design doc, the test plan, even the fricking source code, that doesn't change the basic fact which is local device scanning.

There is no misunderstanding of that fact by anyone with sufficient technical know-how. There is also no misunderstanding of what comes next once this Pandora box is opened.
> My comment wasn't sharing blame. It was remarking on the fundamentally different organizations that the right and the left run, and who they allow to speak.

Fair enough, and I think that's a valuable point. However, I think the following is too:

>> What extremists?

> There's a well known group, who you can probably find by seeing who's on the Fox News homepage right now, who says things would would be considered far left.

> And yet, Biden still calls these people crazy and says no to the more extreme policy proposals. Big tent politics.

I don't think they are extremists, but if you can name some and their extreme policies, I'd go with it. Fox isn't a great source for deciding what is 'far left'.
Just clarifying in case someone else isn't sure either - by "feature phone", you mean NOT a smartphone, right? Like those old-school flip phones? (e.g. Motorola Razr or something?)
If that thing were to appear on Earth, wonder how long before it becomes 6M⊕.
The Danger Hiptop. Wow, I'd pretty much forgotten about that but it was probably the first phone I owned that I would consider a smartphone. Unfortunately I got it primarily for (very) basic web browsing and the area I was in at the time was fairly spotty on data coverage. Eventually I upgraded to a Treo 650 on Sprint which was a little better, but it really wasn't until the iPhone 3g that I was happy with a smartphone's mobile browsing capabilities.

(But that was the last time I purchased an iPhone: I lost $hundreds when it got bricked and Apple said the moisture sensor was triggered so they wouldn't replace it. It never came close to getting wet, and I later got a minor settlement through a class action because the sensors were faulty, meaning anyone in the unfortunate coincidence of a broken phone still under warranty & a faulty triggered sensor got screwed.)
Well, theoretically this could be a step towards e2e encrypting the photos so that Apple can't see them on their servers.

This entire "secure tickets that unlock a derivative of your photos so we can review them" system would, in this interpretation, be there as a way to neuter law enforcement objections[1] to no longer being able to serve warrants for the contents of your photo library.

Now, will this actually happen? Hard to say.

[1] There was a story last year claiming that Apple wanted to turn on e2e, but the FBI got them to drop it. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a306318...
From the article:

...
Ald. Rosanna Rodriguez (33rd) said a Park District supervisor told her the lockers in the park at 3259 N. Elston Ave. were installed there by mistake. Chicago Park District spokeswoman Irene Tostado wouldn’t confirm, saying only, “The locker was installed in the correct park.”
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Rodriguez on Friday asked the Park District supervisor to move the lockers to a more appropriate location...
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A total of 68 Amazon lockers are being installed at Chicago parks across the city, according to a list provided by the Park District...
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Rodriguez said the lockers are a symptom of a larger budgetary issue the city is facing.

“When you have public institutions that are not well-funded, and can’t function with the budget they’re provided by the government, they need to look for other sources of revenue. This is how we get a company like Amazon to have a presence in our public parks. It’s disheartening,” the alderwoman said.
...

Conclusion:

It looks like Amazon is only half the problem here, the other half being corrupt local government bureaucrats taking bribes from Amazon.
Middle men generally have negative impacts on society overall once they become entrenched. Their role becomes less service provider/facilitator and more parasitic.

What’s preventing homeowners from buying and selling to each other directly? Why do we need real estate agents? (I ask as a mid 20s engineer who is probably never going to own a home)
Down by the river, of course.
? I can't believe that anyone would think this.

Also the average IQ for those doing their PhD is about 125, which is 25 points and almost a couple sigmas past average.

Moreover, anyone who has been around PhD's would see very clearly that this is the case.
I think you have this backwards.

Given that nations already "grabbing in the night with black helicopters" (semantically, at least), and do so with impunity, it doesn't seem much of a stretch to imagine they'd potentially set someone up using this much milder sort of approach.
Looks like it's only held down with 4 bolts. Easy enough to remove if anyone is feeling motivated.
Weirdly enough, I trust the current management to do the right thing. But that can be changed at a whim, and in my opinion, the greatest security threat to this whole thing.
But in that case they would eventually be caught red-handed and won't get to do the "for the children" spiel and get it swept under the rug like it's about to be.
That would arouse suspicion as soon as someone (perhaps someone inside the company) figured out what was going on. Here, a key person introduces the idea, says it's "for the children," and people are baffled but the masses will forget about it, even come to accept the logic, soon enough.
Start with the media.

Media in 2020: "Racism is a public health emergency, so go ahead and have your 2020 National BLM Super Spreader Event"

Media in 2021: "Black people are more concerned about racism than COVID."

No one could have predicted this.
When I was coming up, Solaris was as popular as Linux at the time. There was no option to install nano on production machines for Solaris. It was vi or find a new job.
Wim Hof comes to mind. Guy melts ice for hours to break a world record. His control over his autonomous nervous system is amazing, basically maintains normal body temp even when aggressively cooled.

It looks like he can control his immune response too.
I get the intent, but this is how we already see circlejerk communities forming. How do you plan to mitigate the negative impacts of that?

The only way I see this can work is if you can make the consequences of a like really obvious. E.g. "You are missing out on those amazing content because of what you did."

But even then, I don't see this addressing the tendency to promote shallow but addictive content.
As more engineers joined and people needed to reuse old scripts, was there some process to discover them on their own? My scripts are also dumped in a repo, but team members are having trouble finding them and running them especially since there are quite a few now.
So, all you have to do is experience a 15x worse outcome in terms of deaths and illness early, in order to have a delta-bump that's half the size (per capita) now. I guess that passes for "enlightenment", at least among the people who are disposed to find that anything Sweden has done is wonderful.
I live in Chicago (and in fact just got back from a walk in a park!). I will be outraged if I see one of these in my neighborhood. Sadly, if this isn't in fact a mistake, it won't be the first time in recent memory that city leadership has accommodated dubious private interests in public parks (see [1] for example).

EDIT: fix typo

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2013-06-27-ct-met...
...because cloud uploads require explicit user consent, practically speaking? Apple's system requires none.
This was a design patent, not a utility patent. That means they patented the look of the tablet, meaning the non-functional parts. They did not have a patent on the "concept of a tablet."

I guess I can go look up that design patent now. It's entirely possible that 2001 did anticipate the look of the iPad, but we can also look at the record of the trial to find out how this played out.
So you end up selecting for a company full of spineless yes-people. The logic makes zero sense to me. Apple isn’t going away anytime soon and the best opportunities for change will come from consistent internal pressure.
>> It is too bad, but it's your government.

> "Too bad, but it's your monarch. He's anointed by God. You must care about him".

It's not a monarch. I assume you live in a democracy. The reason you think people are anointed is that you don't participate. I promise: Participate, especially in local politics, and you'll see how much government depends on citizen participation, and how powerless most people make themselves by bizarrely excluding themselves.
> Freedom you advertise

You are free to not use other app stores, correct.

Don't use app stores that you don't like.
So if we submit to having all our content scanned by them they'll even give us E2EE on iCloud? I guess they really do care about our privacy.
I don't think people are worried about multiple nation states framing them with CSAM photos - they're worried about multiple nation states in an intelligence collaboration poisoning both sets of hash lists with non-CSAM material, so that there is an intersection that makes it onto the device.

There is still that Apple human reviewer once the threshold has passed. What I would love to ask Apple is - what happens if/when their reviewers start noticing political material, religious material, etc. is being flagged on a consistent basis, thereby insinuating that the hash list has been poisoned. What's their play at that point?
> because it feels less like a violation of your ownership of the device.

It doesn't just feel like a violation, it is one. This opens doors for a number of future abuses of power, and abuses of rights.

The average user has no way of knowing what's in the database of hashes being compared against, and we have no way of controlling what goes into those databases. If some party in the US government decided that they didn't like the Quran, and put a million pictures of it in the database, and served the Apple reviewers with a gag order or some other nonsense, we'd have a 80's dystopian blockbuster as everyday life in our country.

My device, my property, my rules. Apple doesn't get to do a stop and frisk, even if it's "for the good of the children".