skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Client implementations typically need to be deeply integrated with the host PL/OS but I think we can create a shared package registry with a protocol that sits on top of IPFS.

A single tool for publishing to the registry would push the package to IPFS, get the returned CID (hash of the package) and store the hash with some package meta data in a blockchain. Storing the hash in a blockchain would provide confidence the package has not been tampered with assuming no 51% attack and that client implementations always verify the hash against the package bytes. By making the hash immutable and linked to the content address of the package we have more confidence in the integrity of our packages.

Then we add an HTTPS bridge so that client implementations can easily migrate to consuming packages via this new distributed registry.

I am exploring this now so if anyone is interested in this kind of distributed language-agnostic package registry drop me a line at muji [at] tmpfs.org.
This is exactly the point
I haven't worked in recruiting but have experience with sales, and a prospect who is "not interested but up for a chat to learn more" is exactly the one you should be putting all your energy into. I really hope this recruiter gets paid a salary and doesn't rely on commission.
> This assertion has been thrown into doubt, however, by the CDC's Barnstable study [1] suggesting viral numbers between vaccinated and unvaccinated are similar

I'm a little horrified that you cite your academic credentials and then misread that conclusion so badly. Viral load and infectiousness are equivalent between vaccinated and unvaccinated INFECTED PEOPLE in that study, not overall. The vaccinated are, obviously, much less likely to get sick in the first place.

Your wife was right and you were wrong, basically.
I was repeatedly downvoted for pointing this out on HN. In fact, ridiculed with "Good ol' trickle up economics" snark.
> but the small size made the Atari Basic faster.

The 6502 running at 2MHz also helped a lot.
That is technically true but in a real very practical sense everyone here using OSS absolutely is trusting a third party because they are not auditing every bit of code they run. For less technical people there is effectively zero difference between open and closed software.

It’s really disingenuous to suggest that open source isn’t dependent on trust, you just change who you are trusting. Even if the case is someone else is auditing that code, you’re trusting that person instead of the repository owners.

I’ll concede that at least that possibility to audit exists but personally I do have to trust to a certain extent that third parties aren’t trying to fuck me over.
Wasn't this already posted this morning and heavily discussed already? From a better source than the nypost too
Prices up 2.1%, I would like to see the average package size change. Shrinkflation is happening to everything on the shelves.
This CSAM Prevention initiative by Apple is a 180 degress change of their general message around privacy. Imagine investing hundreds of millions of dollars in pro-privacy programs, privacy features, privacy marketing, etc... just to pull this reverse card.

Of course this is going to spark concern within their own ranks. It's like working for a food company that claims to use organic, non-processed, fair-trade ingredients and in just a day deciding that you're going to switch to industrial farming sourcing and ultra-processed ingredients.

It's a complete change of narrative and there's no easy way to explain it and still defend Apple's Privacy narrative, wihout doing extreme mental gymnastics.
> 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.

There was a good article [0] that was on HN a couple days ago that touches on the flat out lie regarding "one in a trillion" and how PhotoDNA sounds poorly thought out.

[0] https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
The important part about the hackerfactor link is that the author claims he was able to reverse PhotoDNA hashes into images. Of course Apple has their own, different perceptual hashing algorithm NeuralHash which they use, but if the hashes of a similar system can be reversed into images, maybe NeuralHash hashes can be reversed as well. Therein lies the problem.

Edit: i.e. OP isn't talking about MD5 hashes
Are they actively deleting secondary references? I mean, if a vlogger posts a video talking about this deletion, will it get deleted?
> The best of the best charging systems draw "only" 250kW

Actually Electrify America can charge at 350 kW. They have to actively cool the cables to keep them from overheating.

> in Tesla world it's shared between chargers so if you have few Teslas charging at once no one is getting 250kW.

I think with v3 Superchargers, this is no longer true. There is a megawatt allocated per 4 chargers. I'm not sure how much this applies to the really big stations, because it seems they could be using multiple megawatts of power.
i've actually seen far more diverse and niche creators on tik tok. their algorithm also promotes them if you show interest in those kinds of videos.

youtube used to do a decent job but lately is more focusing on showing viral or promoted/paid videos. along with videos with 30second ads or useless intros, it's no wonder people are flocking to shorter form vids.
My guess is the headaches either only happen if you use Twitter while drinking the new Coke Zero, or they only happen if you use Twitter while not drinking the new Coke Zero.
> How will Apple know whether a hash is for non-CSAM content? Spoiler alert: they won’t

Spoiler alert: they are building the hashing algorithm, so there is at least someone to confirm everything in the beginning. They are not hashing hashes.

Stakes are so high in this game that they must be very careful in review. This is not about Youtube copyright claims.

> And what about in China?

I don’t think that China even cares a lot. It is mandatory to install some apps by law for some minorities. They have the surveillance already.
Unfortunately, what with all the negative publicity this is causing, Apple now has a huge incentive to catch somebody, anybody, just to justify the project. The thing about pedophiles is, all it really takes is an accusation; the public will presume guilt, the target's job and home and life are taken away, and Apple + NCMEC can say, "See? It works." Even if the target is later exonerated, the damage is done. The teams that vet the candidate images might even have quotas to fill. "How many did you catch last month?" Your innocent baby bath pictures might catch you up in a net that destroys your life, just so some low wage clown can claim they made quota.
More access to markets subject to totalitarian regimes
SRS, breadtube
This is just about the least information-dense article I've read on the subject. Might as well call it "Couple local gals say they're having trouble finding financially comparable men." Oh, and it's from 2019. How did this make the front page?
“Happy to chat” is just part of their sales script same as the fake concern wrt covid and whatnot etc. Never had anyone agree to chat when I’d actually taken them up on that.
The Fearless Flyer strikes again!
I believe you're thinking of the wrong class of vehicles. Trucking refers to the big 18 wheelers and such, not the little four wheeler trucks and vans. The Tesla Semi is an example, which may end up being great for short haul trucking.

https://www.tesla.com/semi
Someone else's icloud photos got into mine once, just random sunsets from some place I'd never been. It was weird.

How can we trust this?
> Probably you'll lose some convenience, but you know, you may always ask some FOSS dev to bake a feature for you and pay for it.

The amount of money needed to bring CalyxOS to the iPhone level of polish and to get the same sets of popular apps on there is probably in the millions.
> "The report’s Housing Wage is an estimate of
the hourly wage full-time workers must earn
to afford a rental home at HUD’s fair market
rent without spending more than 30% of their
incomes. Fair market rents are estimates of what
a person moving today can expect to pay for
a modestly priced rental home in a given area.
The kind of home that can be rented for the fair
market rent is in decent condition, but it is not
luxury housing."

Basically, unless I am reading the chart wrong (https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/2021/Out-of-Reach_...) the price of a 1 bedroom home is in fact affordable to 50%+ of the population.

its kind of like duh, the average house is affordable to the average person, and people below that average (nearly half) would have to spend more than 30% of their income to pay for the average 1br by the very fact they are in the lower tier.

they also try to make it sound like 'unaffordable' means they can't ever pay those prices, they could, it would just take more of their take home.
It might make the Chinese government look more kindly on Apple.
I just got the Ryobi 40v weedwacker and leaf blower. I did my 1 acre lot and it still had one bar of battery. I even did some thicker brush areas to put it to the test. Would definitely recommend!
"This race and this country and this life produced me. I shall express myself as I am."

- James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Not necessarily how much it costs but more how much the provider wants to make. And w/ VCs involved in Reddit they're not looking for pennies.
The real world has ways to reverse fraudulent actions. Crypto does not.
Until even owning a non-standard phone becomes illegal.

A similar scenario was found in Stallman's disturbingly-prescient story 24 years ago:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
a bit of stretched speculation - may be Apple is just ahead of the curve getting ready (and thus naturally bringing it closer - dialectics though) for a future where "common carrier" protections would get eroded even more. We already have FOSTA laws against websites and it isn't a big stretch to imagine that the Apple style scanning would become a "reasonable care/etc." under FOSTA style laws.
the only thing I don't like is that SQL is a second class "stringified" citizen in this world (and often in any environment where you want to use SQL). It's missing all the advantages of syntax checking and dynamically building queries. In my C# projects, I tend to always work with SQL files which then get embedded into C# so I can always query against a DB and build queries more REPL like.

Having said that, I do like the idea of Sqlite in the front end for localstorage.
I don't understand why I'm being downvoted. Is my attitude coming across as smug? Am I being punished for being a critic of a classic Unix utility? To be clear, dd is a fantastically flexible tool, but there are tools that better and more safely serve a subset of its functionality. Right tool for the job and all that.
Are Mac and Windows not also full of an enormous amount of crap that we don't need?
>What about only including data from places people want to live

Shouldn't the median sale account for this? If there's a buyer presumably somebody wants to live there, and if there are 1000 sales in CA but 10 in SD that would be accounted for as well.
When you choose to use a cloud (aka someone else's computer), you trust that someone else, because you're no longer in control of what happens to your data once it leaves your device. That's a sane expectation, anyway. But you don't expect your own device to behave against your interests.
Did you read the spec? This is why the scanning happens on the device.
Cool. I remember when Reddit launched and everyone was trying to figure out how they would make money. It looks like they made $100m last year so as long as they keep engagement up and optimize I think things will go well. I was surprised at only 50m DAUs.. that means there is a lot of growth left especially internationally.

One thing to ask is, what problem does Reddit solve?

And to stretch an anthropomorphism: if Reddit was a person, I would ask them, who is Reddit?

Also just to ponder for a minute, what makes reddit and say facebook so different?
If you think that FAANG and other tech companies aren't filled with spies from around the world, you're incredibly naive.
Wikidata can express more than just basic infobox data. That being said it's also a lot less expressive than natural language. I think "Abstract Wikipedia" tries to overcome this shortcoming, I wonder how it will turn out. It feels like an impossible feat.
I think what you describe and what is shown by Apple is "the" concrete piece of evidence, and what I have suspected for long that there is no longer any product person running the company. It used to be Steve Jobs.

You have people arguing over the technical definition of privacy, or on devices, off devices terminology. It doesn't matter. The user doesn't understand any of it. And they just feel exactly what you wrote. An intrusion of their private space by a company that has been telling you how much they value your privacy for a better part of decade.

These sort of technical explanation used to be a Tech Companies / Google / Microsoft things. Absolutely make sense to nerds, but nothing much to a layman. Now Apple are doing the same. If you watch their Keynotes, you should notice the increase usage of technical jargons or numbers for performance over the past 5 years. Something that Steve Jobs's keynote used to keep it to minimal.
This is prety cool, I must say. Not all extensions are "available" though, so you may end up with an unsupported language without syntax highlighting (like for example zig).

FWIW, I had to disable Privacy Badger on github.dev, or it would not work. Complaining about not being able to resolve resources.
kind of like they raise the price of coffee by 50c a cup because "prices for raw materials have increased"- when it's the sugar going up 20c a kilo
>the system is just a few bit flips away from scanning every photo on your device

I prefer to think of it as being just one national security letter away from that happening.

Which is of course a schroedinger's cat kinda thing. It's already been sent. Or it hasn't. But why would the national security apparatus not take advantage of this obvious opportunity?

Anyone giving benefit of the doubt to this kind of stuff nowadays is IMO very naive or just poorly informed of recent digital history.
package size is factored into inflation.
I have been waiting for the Time Series Regression user guide section.

The project sounds really cool but I will for sure get into it more once that guide is available.
Ask a question. Then another. Then maybe another. Then you're part of the conversation. Then you can make statements if you want.

You should have something to say. That always helps.

Once you have ground, you don't have to talk fast. Talk normally and your listeners will adapt to your speed. You can control the speed of conversation just by slowing it down yourself.

People who like to talk and can do so quickly? I can't say I've met many who like to listen, so maybe listening as a strategy would be the better bet for this group.
is it?
Though it was kerosene, paraffin and a drop of anise oil to cover the smell of the kerosene.

Maybe I should to revisit what I thought I knew
They already do. Look up “federated learning”. Lmao.
Are you thinking of solidity.finance?

https://rekt.news/deathbed-confessions-c3pr/
> Do you have any idea that means?

No, I don't know what that means. Presumably it is some sort of thumbnail, maybe color inverted or something.

> does Apple's implementation flag on any of those? Who knows - they're not going to refer to anything specific about how they got "1 in a trillion"

I assume they've tested NeuralHash on big datasets of innocuous pictures, and gotten some sort of bound on the probability of false positives p, and then chosen N such that p^N << 10^-12, and furthermore imposed some condition on the "distance" between offending images (to ensure some semblance of independence). At least that's what I'd do after thinking about the problem for a minute.
By your logic the first amendment would forbid all regulation as you have redefined all commercial activity as speech. This is certainly novel and interesting but it's not in line with our nations laws nor jurisprudence. Back in reality commercial speech and activity will remain regulated.
Living conditions for the working class will eventually equalise with that of Mexico. With the scale of immigration into the country, its inevitable. Labour rates will be driven down, and housing prices (in markets with supply restrictions) driven up.

This should at least be controlled with legal temporary migration and removal of birth citizenship (which very few Western countries have), instead of a free-for-all with a large criminal element.
I'm sure the day-to-day experience of building software is generally much better in 2021, but as others have noted there are other reasons to start in 1991.

- Particularly interesting point in history for software (pre-Netscape!)
- Build lots of experience before Google, Netflix, and FB are even born.
- Incredible compounded returns in software stocks (and great returns in housing)

2021 is a great time to be a 20yr old software dev, but it's also a great time to be a 50yr old software dev who has 30 yrs of experience, stock market returns, and housing investment.
Infection-enhancing antibodies recognize both the original and Delta
>Sure, but I don't particularly care because I don't upload sensitive photos to iCloud

So you are saying you have nothing to fear because you aren't hiding anything?

Is this a tacit admission that you don't want them scanning your phone for CSAM because they will find something?

I'm obviously not seriously accusing you of anything, just pointing out how your line of argument applies equally to privacy whether on the cloud or on your device.
The government is entirely predicated on rule of law and the monopoly of violence imposed by police. Nice try though
Not being identified as the go-to platform for kiddy porn collectors.
I have tons of anecdata suggesting worse…

I just filled up a propane tank, 3lbs of fuel was almost $10 whereas a year ago it was $5-$6

The price of a California burrito most places here is almost $10, they were closer to $7/$8 before pandemic started spiking beef prices

It’s getting harder and harder to keep the bill at Costco under $100

Uber/Lyft rides that used to be $10 cost $15-$20 during non-surge hours

And so on…
I’m sure it’ll be just as successful as their US based phone factory
You wouldn’t happen to have a link to it would you? Not sure if it was flagged but stories tend to drop off the front page and into the void sometimes.
You said it is very dangerous, but I say it is not in that category. It is very dangerous to specific subpopulations, that's it.
LOL now this is fearmongering at it's best (worst?). You don't have to count the number of articles to measure inflation (surely this is a joke, right?), instead you can go straight to the source to see that prices rose 0.9% in June and 0.5% in July. It's at 5.3% for the year[0]. Come on @Grakel, do better

[0]https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-consumer-prices-rose-...
> People would just not use them if they know they're being watched.

Are you so sure of this? Maybe some people.. like the same kind of people who visit this web page, they might get a sick feeling in their stomach thinking that their basic human interactions like talking to their mother, are swallowed up and surveilled... but MOST PEOPLE will just accept it and it will become the new normal.
I’m more mad that they made a tool that will clearly be abused by totalitarian governments that need to squash protests in HK for example.
Mask policy?

You mean epidemiological studies on communities?

Ok....

Masks may or may not work as a stop for particles but do they stop spread on a community level?
> Whether Rand Paul's carefully cherrypicked arguments are technically medically/factually correct doesn't really matter, you need to consider the narrative as a whole. Youtube deemed that promoting his overall message is a threat to public health, regardless of whether he made factually correct statements or not.

These couple of sentences came pretty close in my opinion. They read to me as advocacy for the censorship of factual information if you happen disapprove of an opinion the person might hold.
They are not underresearched, they are unknown because the long term has to pass first and then it can be researched.
> So you are saying you have nothing to fear because you aren't hiding anything?

No, I'm saying that if you're hiding something, maybe don't give it to someone else.
They're sorta at their mercy, yes, because they have no real infrastructure of their own. My understanding is that they get a discounted network usage rate compared to retail customers and that rate is governed by CRTC, but bigcos bully CRTC to increase it year over year when the public interest groups say it should be reduced (the thing about rural Canada is, to my understanding, the stick with which they threaten to stop investment in rural infrastructure if their profits decrease).

Also, just a small clarification for posterity, telecom in Canada is comparatively shitty but it's not a monopoly. There are several companies, both large and small, and many things are structured in fragmented fashion both in terms of large and small players (for example, Sasktel is crown-owned and unionized, Telus only deals w/ wireless, Fibrestream only deals with condo fiber, etc etc)
I was just noticing the price of beans appears to have gone down. Perhaps you’re buying the wrong thing at the grocery.
With server-side scanning, the separation is clear

In all these threads everyone is coming close to the crux of the issue, but I want to restate it in clearer terms:

There is a sacrosanct line between "public" and "private," "mine" and "yours." That line cannot be crossed by Western governments without a warrant. Cloud computing has deliberately blurred this line over time. This on-device scanning implementation blows right past that line.

Our tools before the computing revolution, and our devices after, become a part of us. Our proprioception extends to include them as part of "self." A personal device -- a tool that should be wholly owned and wholly dependable, like pen and paper -- that betrays its user, is a self that betrays itself.
It's interesting how much of Temple of Doom was actually pieced together out of deleted scenes from Raiders. In a few places you can actually see glimpses of Last Crusade in this.
>Messaging someone will also reveal yourself as the sender

Sending a link to 4chan /b would probably be enough.
Or a hidden iFrame in a forum post.

Its very very easy to get images onto someones device without their consent, getting them to upload them to a 3rd party is completely different.
Ahh yes, those government published facts, love it.
>Does anybody know if this policy will extend to macOS too?

I don't see how it could be in the same way, or at least it only could be on brand new ARM Macs right? The thing is that at least on Intel Macs Apple simply doesn't control the whole stack. I mean, obviously, while more effort it's perfectly possible to get x86 macOS running virtualized or directly on non-Apple hardware entirely. So any shenanigans they try to pull there can get subverted or outright patched out. Without the whole hardware trust chain and heavy lock down like they have on iOS this sort of effort, even if attempted, becomes less threatening. I guess we'll see what they go for though :(. They could certainly make it pretty nasty anyway so as much as anything it's more of a forlorn hope they'll mainly focus on low hanging fruit.
We don't know but I think there's a good chance it does. It's important to determine before release. Maybe it's possible to encrypt them in such a way, no one can access them despite being on the device and still be able to use them for comparison