skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most famous is flood story and creation myth which have big similarity with the bible. also Habiru/afiru people have been theorized to be ancient Hebrew. also big parallax between Baal and the bible god and many traditions that were common all over the ancient near east, as well as myths.
When trying to figure out what the truth is, it's important to keep in mind two things: (1) Corporations never lie! and (2) Once a corporation enacts a policy, that policy will never change!

So you see, Apple is only going to scan certain things at certain times under certain conditions. So we can all relax now, OK?
Having Tim Cook come out for damage control on any topic would tank the stock price. It would almost always be a VP doing a spin interview.
They knew they were being hypocritical, so they were reluctant to even divulge the fact that other cloud providers have already been doing it; they wanted to position themselves as the pioneer.

I can't imagine how they thought this would go well.

It's another example of Apple being stuck in an echo chamber and not being able to objectively assess how their actions will be perceived.

How many times have they made product and PR blunders like this?
I know it won't be a popular opinion here, but I am not sure I trust the judgment of scientists with conflicts of interest.

It would be human nature for those who were involved in lobbying for gain-of-function research to continue are now unwilling to entertain the idea that something as devastating as COVID was a result of such research. If that is true, it means that they were disasterously wrong in their earlier stance and it means that there will be no appetite to continue funding their field of expertise.

I'm tired of being told not to believe what's clearly in front of me -- a coordinated campaign in China to cover up any inquiry in to the origins of the virus accompanied by very suspicious behavior in China in the months before they were supposed to have been aware of the outbreak.

Whether COVID-19 itself is exactly a product of research at the WIV funded by EcoHealth Alliance and the NIAID, I don't know, but I can read those grant requests myself and see that they clearly refer to manipulating coronaviruses so that they better infect humanized mice cells. This is a study that Fauci insists is not gain of function research, but I'm unclear as to the distinction. I suspect that they played with language in these requests so as to be able to avoid triggering the legally-required review.

Fauci, and others, are potentially aware that the pandemic could have stemmed from research that they themselves fast-tracked around the legally mandated review process, making them partially culpable in millions of deaths worldwide -- it would be incredibly difficult in that situation to start looking critically at the possibility that it's true.

We should be very careful about trusting experts with a lot at stake in the answer to the question.
Hahaha don’t be evil Google
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Completely agree with this. But apples perspective is that on-device scanning prevents them from looking at your photos in the cloud at all. This is actually more secure than other cloud providers that do all kinds of shit with your photos.
Maybe it's because he's a fan of The Far Side and had seen this on his Far Side desktop calendar?[0]

[0]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6c/1d/61/6c1d61b11496488750658428d...
New Zealand, After Holding Virus at Bay, Unveils Reopening Strategy
Is it common to refer to it as MSI (the stock ticker for Motorola Solutions)? I would think most think of the computer hardware company when they hear that.
Am I, though? Is Apple? Is parent's? It seems "their" (whoever you meant) interpretation of what does and doesn't constitute something is looser than my interpretation.
Lithium might just become worth more than gold in the near future. As far as I know it is infinitely recyclable, and I could completely see a company like tesla hoarding it. Maybe even mining..
Great to hear about your positive experience with CBT. I think there's a lot of innovation that's possible in this sector. If we look at CBT, a lot of the core concepts and exercises haven't changed all that much (from the perspective of the average spectator) in the last 20 or so years, which leaves a lot of potential research opportunity that can be explored using new technologies which weren't available when CBT emerged.
The page they linked to, the main page of the website, has a large "Donate" link on the top of the page. It's kinda hard to not notice it.
The Green Fields of the Mind
Oh my god, I got into one of these mango buying groups once! I had no idea it was a worldwide phenomenon. The little group I found was in the Netherlands and, of course, conducted in a pretty shady way over Whatsapp. At some point someone was even going to charter a plane for the mangoes, but then something happened and it all fell apart at the last minute :(

[edit] apparently someone else in this thread has bought from the same sketchy Dutch mango dealer, this is hilarious.
> between 1880 and 1960

1960 - 1880 = 80.

> One would expect a period without 2 world wars bothering it, and with stability to enjoy, to produce more.

Only someone ignorant of history. WW2 gave a huge incentive and a ton of resources to develop technology.
I probably play devils advocate a little bit too much, but most people are too eager to firmly plant their feet in some belief, rather than just roll the ideas around. And if you like to probe around, you'll have some questions or at least value different perspectives, and if you pose these (loaded) questions or insights to others it can be divisive, even if meant in good faith. I probably messed around as a flat earth troll too much, but I think it's a great example.
GrapheneOS.org for full feature parity today.
I like to be able to records gifs/mp4s quickly as well, for reporting some issue with an animation on a website or whatever. On Linux I like to use Peek for that, and I use the built-in Screenshot tool otherwise on Ubuntu.
It’s not a flag, the feature is part of the iCloud upload process. No upload, no scan. Of course a code change could do anything.

The point of the feature is to prevent people from using iCloud to distribute CSAM. If you’re recording it with your phone, it’s no different than using an slr camera. The cloud part is what they’re worried about.
Not far-fetched at all. The FBI has set up at least one carder forum to catch entire networks of credit card thieves, and in the past they set up a whole fake bank to entice money laundering operations from drug cartels: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/13/694549634/epis...
I enjoy the irony of one internet news site, criticizing, accurately, one of the original "internet" news sites.

While both had a shaky past, how buzzfeed went from "take this quiz to discover which disney princess are you" to taking down an snopes expose is fantastic.
Probably from ablation, though, not from shock or radiation damage?
Appreciating the Poetic Misunderstandings of A.I. Art
If this is a jab at how other sites are ran you should look into HN and hellbanning.
Are you suggesting they don’t ?
Why is this comment being downvoted? Valid point.
I grew up and studied in Kolkata, and have lived elsewhere in India, but I haven’t quite seen anything like the daily adda outside of West Bengal. The article is spot on with most of us not even realizing how special it is unless we move out.
Wow, that's crazy, I think I tried to buy mangoes from the same exact guy in The Hague! It didn't work out the year I tried it for whatever reason unfortunately...
Do you have examples of what you're describing when it comes to the areas the study looked at?

> I provide evidence of a strong association between anti-intellectualism and opposition to scientific positions on climate change, nuclear power, GMOs, and water fluoridation ...
Apple published a threat model review recently, with an explicit response to the threat from governments:

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...

Specifically, it looks like they will be requiring that hashes exist in two separate databases in two separate sovereign jurisdictions.
I still remember the shock I felt when I saw this complex empty after the recession. That kind of help sync the extent of the recession for me.
Poor Ida Auken. All she does is write a mildly provocative title, and look what happens.

Peter Bilmer's response in that thread is visually very clever, even if his politics are probably terrible. I'd like to know what the image at top right is. Some kind of startup accelerator?
"Unknown."
Not sure Intel have escaped that fate yet. Ditto Boeing.
Next month, when I am watching Tim Cook in a split diopter parasocial interaction, from somewhere inside the glass fronted circle of Apple Park, in-between drawling on about 'even x%/times faster' -- I want to hear an explicit apology and/or an explanation of what happened, in the last week or so. I accept it would be a tough ask, Apple, like the Royal family, doesn't capitulate ─ they believe that the motto of never complain, never explain, will get them through anything. Not this time, the trust is irreparably broken.
> They are only in this current mess because they voluntarily curate, often aggressively.

Does "make videos with lots of upvotes more visible" count as voluntary curation?

Even in the absence of that, hopefully you can see why they'd want to remove content as described in the points I listed above.

I'm not all the comfortable with all curation/moderation/censoring/etc being based on "government orders." That means that government will get more involved in this process, and corrupt governments will have more ability to control the narrative. Not sure you've thought this through.

It also is a very costly process currently for YouTube and facebook (etc). Do you want taxes to pay for that?
Is the atmosphere an upside down ocean? [pdf]
My mother chopped off the toe next to her big toe with our lawnmower (accidentally.)

To this day none of us can figure out how it hit that toe and not the big toe.
Skimming your comment I read “ritual sadistic magic”. Funny how the mind wanders
Alto User’s Handbook (October 1976)
Wait, you're still overgeneralizing.

There's the chance that it was a naturally occurring virus that wasd being stored in a lab (like RaTG13, it's closest known cousin). Then, there's the chance that it was manipulated in lab experiments by well-meaning scientists hoping to learn more about coronavirus transmission to humans (which I think is most likely, considering the behavior of the WIV, but far from certain). Finally, there's the chance that it was deliberately leaked as a bioweapon (doesn't make sense to me).

I totally agree that there are massive conflicts of interest, including the implication of being blacklisted from Chinese data sources for one's career and the chance that there simply won't be any funding in the future if the public believes that the research field itself is to blame.
Several black and green "belt" like accessories were found, which we hypothesize were used for sacrificial strangulation to the statistical deity.
The same way "2003 google can be done by yahoo" I guess
Personally I don't see on device scanning as significantly different than cloud scanning. I think the widespread acceptance of scanning personal data stored on the cloud is a serious mistake. Cloud storage services are acting as agents of the user and so should not be doing any scanning or interpreting of data not explicitly for providing the service to the end user. Scanning/interpreting should only happen when data is shared or disseminated, as that is a non-personal action.

If I own my data, someone processing this data on my behalf has no right or obligation to scan it for illegal content. The fact that this data sometimes sits on hard drives owned by another party just isn't a relevant factor. Presumably I still own my car when it sits in the garage at the shop. They have no right or obligation to rummage around looking for evidence of a crime. I don't see abstract data as any different.
Thanks. I love these kind of books.
Library Genesis is also a good place to "borrow" books.
There's more than enough evidence that the government is lying to you. Past and present.
Yeah, I just tried logging in and got a 504 error.

I expect I'll be getting calls from users soon.
I don't think they mean a race to the bottom _price_ as the problem.

More like race to the bottom quality, security, spyware, malware, shitty ripoff of other people's work promoted over the original, fake bank apps, fake WhatsApp when you wanted the real one, etc.

Your Linux distro is not in a race to the bottom on any of these things. It works in a completely different way from an app marketplace on a money-handling device. And you know you are running Linux, you know what you're getting.

We should have multiple app stores. But don't be under any illusion that it can only turn out like Linux distros. I would expect some terrible "stores" just like there are some really dodgy apps, some of them installed on users' devices without their knowledge.
Their systems could be both operational, and unreachable from the network. The beauty of network partitions is that it's impossible to know for sure :)
If you are using user-agent for anything other than statistics, you are likely doing something wrong...

And it would be a shame if Firefox didn't implement something, even so minor like a new version number, 'just' because sites break. You are Mozilla, send them a mail and give them a week to fix it, because you are f'ing Mozilla. I'm glad this is apparently just what they did here.

(Same thing when NVIDIA or Microsoft do contortions to support broken games. You already fixed the function or shader; don't hotpatch it but send it to the vendor and tell them to merge it or else...)
Substack Journalism with Video at Rumble: The Free Speech, Anti-YouTube Platform
Maybe a smartphone is not worth it if the price is so high.
Right, if you have the resources and the ability, then writing bespoke tailored solutions will yield better results. You only get problems when your custom solution isn't as good as a hardened solution, or you can't spend the time to make it so.
>Do you know why he is doing publicity this year? He was on another podcast recently too.

Perhaps he was asked.
It's good because now Apple employees have a ton of reasons to question their employer and quit.

Apple:

- Isn't going to be remote work friendly.

- Shut down internal polls on compensation.

- Bows to the FBI, CIA, FSB, CCP.

- Treats its customers as criminals.

- Treats its employees as criminals.

- (Spies on both!)

- Doesn't let customers repair their devices or use them as they'd like.

- Closes up (not opens up) the world of computing. Great synergy with the spy dragnet.

Take your time and talent elsewhere. This bloated whale is bad for the world. There are a lot of good jobs out there that pay well and help society.
> Outside of very specific domains, most people writing software never need pointers.

You know it's not true. Pointers, references, whatever you call them. They exist for a reason.
....and now it's back.
I regret ever getting into a software ecosystem that comes bundled with snitchware in the sealed system volume provided by its first party vendor.
Does it make a difference? My iPhone shouldn’t do anything to or with my photos unless and until I direct it to. Scanning, hashing, whatevering — Apple doesn’t get to decide to do any of it. I do. And only I do.
>it would've been interesting to get to understand Google's motivation for doing this deal

Motivation was that Microsoft at the time was developing Windows Mobile or whatever it was called and Google got scared that they will put Microsoft Bing as a default internet search engine on millions of Windows Mobile phones that were suppose to conquer mobile phone industry.

It's funny how Steve Jobs was mad at Google because Android was chipping away Iphone's dominance but in the reality Android was about and against Microsoft not Apple and Iphone.

Search for an article on HN or Google I can't find it atm. But the article talks about just like I said how Google was developing competition for Windows Mobile then famous 2007 Iphone presentation happened and Google engineers realized touch UI and UX is the future not QWERTY plastic keyboard and then they pretty much copied most of the Iphone and iOS features.

Edit: here is the article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...
Judging from the threads so far, HN believes Apple is scanning everything using a naive perceptual hash implementation it probably got off of Stack Overflow, with no oversight or sanity checks, and that even a loose match (which will be trivial) means SWAT teams automatically being sent to bust down your front door like the FBI meme, and that it's all just a pretext for CCP style authoritarian surveillance anyway, and we'll all be in dissident reeducation camps by the end of the year.

I suppose it's great if you're looking for entertainment value. For rational, informed discussion of the technology and its political and social ramifications, not so much. It's just the same refrain of "we never bother to actually RTFA but we imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever."
I worked through the Flaskr blog demo on the Flask website. Then from there just started building!

If I got any errors I would just search until I found the answer. I find making something by modifying code the best way to learn.
Actually there won't be any problem getting support for dealing with the asteroid. Asteroid collision is easy to understand, even for uneducated people.

Political support depends on average people understanding the cause, and not needing to change behavior too much. Asteroid collision satisfies both requirements, but climate change satisfies neither.
Their Rich UI clients with Java Swing was common presentation during Java One's. They wrote a book later: https://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Clients-Developing-Applic...
> in the region of 30 matching images before this feature would be triggered

Kind of a funny twist. But what about the core of the issue that you created a new affordance for spies and malware, legitimate or illegitimate or government-backed. Why not implement the whole thing in your (few) own cloud servers instead of billions of phones all over the planet
They created a tool that, in principle, lets a government ask about certain hash matches that are on the iPhone but not necessarily on iCloud, correct?

There is no way to determine whether the hashes are about CP or about HK protests.
https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-5/
Burning Documents at the US Embassy in Kabul
Yeah I was following long with the End User story and went Wow to myself when I saw 'lein', really? We'd first have to tell them there's this thing called Terminal or Command Prompt.
Nice! Didn't know the name of it. I appreciate you sharing it. Learnt something cool.
I’m not suggesting anything. I want to understand what swiley meant by their comment.
Microsoft didn't a collect a tax on every dollar made from every business distributing on Windows.
> From my perspective, the bigger problem by far is that everyone to the right of our skewed American political center (this includes some Democrats, particularly those I named) do not believe that it is critical to take any action at all on climate change.

I would rather have the 50% who believe climate change is an existential threat behave accordingly rather than have 80% pay empty lip service and rally around token legislation or trojan horses (reconciliation bill, green new deal, etc).

> Or, to put it another way: If the Republicans weren't being obstructionist, the Democrats wouldn't need a strategy to overcome them. They'd be able to put their energy toward coming up with actual policy solutions.

Republican obstructionism is a real thing, but the idea that Republicans are obstructing Democrats from crafting a reasonable agenda is patently absurd, especially when carbon pricing has been the obvious solution for more than a decade, and it even enjoys some Republican support. But Democrats can't be bothered to make it part of their own agenda because of Republican obstructionism? Come on.

> Biden put out a fairly clear set of legislative goals to push for in order to combat climate change

What are these goals? Are they serious? Or are they some variation on the budget reconciliation bill (i.e., largely symbolic gestures that are bundled haphazardly into a bunch of other spending)?
This book looks great. I just ordered it, thank you for mentioning it.
> To be fair saying "One of... is..." is a tautology and doesn't make sense to disagree with.

I disagree pretty strongly and can provide as many examples as you would like:

- One of the biggest health problems in America is too much bicycling

- One of the biggest health problems in America is too little automobile travel

- One of the biggest health problems in America is too much space travel

- One of the most nutritious foods is rocks.

I think instead what you mean can be best explained by reading the wikipedia article on weasel words. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
Considering that one of the IPCC report’s “high confidence” predictions was an increase and heavier precipitation associated with the warming, I suspect “drought” might be more a localized issue than a global one.
Rapes actually dropped. They debunked it in the article. Sweden doesn't have the highest rape rate. If you look at the graph that they mention from the article. https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2017/03/sd-graph.jpg

"– The question posed on sexual crimes in NTU includes a wide range of crimes. It can range from minor events [like] flashing and groping, to very serious incidents of rape. Those who say they suffered must therefore answer questions about the severity of the crime. The responses show that in 29 percent of cases [have been] a more serious form of sexual crimes, says Emelie Hambrook, investigator at the National Council."

"While Brå noted that the broad category of “sexual crimes” had increased since 2012, the same was not true for rape. Another Brå graph shows that reported cases of rape (represented by the purple line below) did not spike suddenly after the influx of refugees in 2015 – instead, they dropped from 6,697 in 2014 to 5,918 in 2015 (about the same amount as in 2009). "

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/crime-sweden-rape-capital-...
Nice.

> wish we would pass ranked choice voting

Do you believe that parties that in a joint effort "fortified" debates in 2000 to make sure no 3rd party could receive air time and wider audience, would commit political suicide introducing a mechanism that'd shake their positions?

> Both parties are corrupt. However, only one has recently tried to overthrow our entire political system.

I'm an outsider, is it the one that "fortified" the election [1]? I mean, Trump is an egotistical narcissist who didn't drain any swamps and probably didn't fulfill a single promise. But all those things "Trump has dementia", "he attacks the media", "writes too many executive orders like a dictator"... Weren't they just projections? Whose "press conferences" are even more disgraceful and staged than Putin's "pryamaya liniya" ("direct line")? Whose administration admits they're responsible for the censorship policies of social platforms? Who's flirting with oligarchs (not to be confused with entrepreneurs) and who lifted sanctions on Putin's pipeline while banning the building of a local one? The people from Bush administration, on whose side were they?

[1]: https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Maybe we should take the government out of the student loan lending business, and put the entire process and onerous on the schools. I have always been very upset by the amount of fees that schools tack on. It seems education at the University level might actually improve if the university had to care about student loans instead of letting the government take all the responsibility