skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After being down for about 10 minutes, I'm able to access the control panel and can get to my instances and apps again.
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FYI, they also published this today: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...

With new bits of infos too.
It's just as easy to imagine this being most of San Jose because of drought.

Or this being every corporate HQ because of the collapse of Western Capitalism in the face of global warming.

I'm sure life will go on though.
That's so far from the truth it is comical - populism is literally appealing to the base and stupid indistinct and creating an environment hostile to intellectual thinking... and it's been kind of a big thing the last 100 years...
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I can't find an answer about whether it's the default nowadays. You certainly used to have to turn it on -- e.g. the Apple support page on the feature tells you how to do so: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264

That said, the argument that many people in these threads are making is that they say it's reasonable to scan photos that are uploaded once they're on Apple's servers, they just don't want them scanned while they're still on their phones. In either case, the same photos will be scanned -- ones which are in the process of being uploaded to iCloud -- the disagreement is just about exactly when in said process it's okay to do so. Which seems like a pretty fine distinction to me?
So the best guess is that it came from wild bats, and there was a lab right next to the initial outbreak site that was studying wild bats. That could just be a coincidence, but it's a pretty remarkable coincidence and at the very least deserves further investigation.

It could have been just an innocent mistake. A researcher got the disease while collecting bats out in the wild, but the lab never got a sample of the disease. The researcher was asymptomatic and unknowingly spread it to another person while stopping by the local market on their way home. So as far as anybody can tell, it came from the marketplace.

I don't know what really happened, but I think I'm being more reasonable that most people about this. There's three other major lines of thinking, all politically motivated and all wrong in my opinion.

#1: Many of the Western "liberals", especially the media, dismissed any kind of "lab-leak theory" as right wing conspiracies for most of 2020. I honestly think just because Trump and the right were promoting it, the "liberals" were against it.

#2: The Western conservatives and Trump filled in all the blanks in the "lab-leak theories" with their own personal agendas. This turned sane and objective lab-leak theories into conspiracy theories. What the other lab in Wuhan was doing is interesting, but not necessarily connected.

#3: The Chinese government considers any lab-leak theories as anti-Chinese propaganda, and aggressively launches it's own counter-propaganda. In my opinion, the Chinese government doesn't want to know the truth, and the biggest and most racist anti-Chinese organization of them all is the Chinese government itself, based upon what's currently happening in HK and to the Uighurs, among other human rights issues.

I'm by no means against China, their government is just as hypocritical as the US, and both get in the way of any kind of truly objective and scientific approach to these issues. Seems like there's so much "noise", so much cognitive dissonance and emotional charge, that we're incapable of discussing these things sanely.
Every exchange that I know of that provides collocation has contracted standard length cable routes as part of the offering. So that’s not the gimmick.

The gimmick that IEX brought to the table is that they are delaying orders a fixed amount. They own the matching engine so can trivially add that fixed amount in code.

But that’s not nearly as fun to show off as a big box of spooled fiber.
There are myriad GUI tools targeting the web platform. If none have achieved the success of VB, it’s not through a lack of capability.
You are way out there with your thinking. Nobody denies born children the right to live.

The idea was more in line of preventing children from being conceived in the first place.

Not that this isn't fraught with moral, philosophical and other problems (just look at China), but at least it is obvious no children are being harmed by not being conceived.
Or the other reams of world class machine learning research and model weights they've released freely.
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You mean Li Wenliang, the doctor who was eventually decorated - by Chinese government - for speaking up? He was never put to jail. That’s another case of anti-Chinese propaganda for you.
That's a fairly large step, though. Apple cares first and foremost about their reputation. If this feature catches a real predator, it is 100% good PR. Every single false positive that makes it into the news is a huge loss, which strongly incentivizes them to avoid that. The last thing I expect them to do is expand the risk surface for something as trivial as copyright enforcement.
Most of the tasks in the article can now be solved by tools like airtable or notion with minimal training. Certainly much less training than would be required to do the same thing using traditional programming tools. So not only is the problem reasonable, we are actually making progress.
So this had the very useful feature of finding two separate typos in a post that I had spent many hours proofreading. I'll need to remember this.
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My sister had one of these to explain terminal cancer and dying. It's a really effective tool, not just for the kid itself, but also siblings.
One other thing that played a huge part is how Jobs beat AT&T over the head to provide an unlimited data plan. We don't think much of this today, but in those days data was expensive. It put a huge cognitive load on any kind of data operation. Merely turning on the data modem was a "will I be able to eat through payday" kind of decision. It was very stressful! And suddenly Jobs comes along with the cool new phone AND takes away this barrier. Now you could have data always on, not worry about how big the app was you were about to download. You could browse the web and go to any website, with images turned on, without fear.

I remember the day this was announced and even though I never bought into the Apple ecosystem I remember feeling that it was a game changing move.
I agree, CBT is certainly no panacea, and as mentioned in the post, for those at the moderate to severe end of the spectrum, or for those where CBT is ineffective, it may be the case that medication is the only viable solution.

Y Combinator has actually funded several companies looking at the usage of various drug-based mental health treatments, including Osmind (S20) and another company in this batch (S21) who are looking at the use of psychedelic therapeutics for mental health, although none are addressing your specific issue with availability / accessibility which is a tricky one with respect to legislation and regulation.
It was pure hubris on their part.
Worth noting: despite the fact that this black hole would have an event horizon 4.5 cm in diameter, that doesn't mean you could get anywhere near it or put it in a box or anything.
This is one of those failure apologies, that's just making us dislike them even more.

I have no idea why they haven't done a 180 yet, this is a bigger failure than the butterfly keyboard. They are letting themselves become the symbol of technological dystopia in the public consciousness. Even an acquaintance who does construction was venting to me about how bad apple's policy is and why she is getting a pixel.

After entirely removing that feature and making a commitment to fight against that kind of future I feel like they owe two more apologies to get on my good side - one for screwing up this bad in the first place and one for insulting my intelligence with their handling of the outcry. This isn't 1990, you don't handwave a mistake this big.
Except that it is proven that the risk of fomite transmission is extremely low. The chance of a transmission when you directly touch an infected surface and then touch your face is around 1 to 10^4.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r...

Just spending 15-20 minutes once talking indoors with a person, whose covid status you're unsure of, is more dangerous than not bothering with the whole surface cleaning, hand sanitizing theatre during the entire pandemic. I am not sure that most people appreciate this.

Your understanding of the virus is based on incorrect understanding of how the virus worked that people had in the first few months of the pandemic. This was exactly the point I was making. While the scientific knowledge improved, this information was never really communicated to the people.
Note: This was 5min of google search and reading abstracts/ overviews. Unfortunately I can't commit the amount of time necessary to provide a full rebuttal right now.

From Representatives:

- https://posey.house.gov/wasteful-spending/
- https://www.paul.senate.gov/wastereport
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114shrg95798/html/CHRG-114shrg95798.htm

From the Media:

- https://www.rd.com/list/wasteful-government-spending/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/09/30/wheres-the-pork-us-taxpayers-funded-a-lot-of-wasteful-spending-2017-2019/?sh=4563d5523dc0
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-rein-in-inflated-military-budgets/
- https://www.nationalreview.com/news/rand-paul-outlines-54-billion-in-outlandish-government-waste-in-annual-festivus-report/

From Acadamia

- https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305865
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003043871200004X
I love the planters inside. Especially in the big open space. Does anyone know any names for the architecture and design choices of that building?
I've tagged HN users using a small browser plugin I wrote. It's amusing to see all the Apple users jump to the defense of Apple despite their continued shitty behavior.

It's also great to see the handful that have changed their minds.
This is all so true, all please quit Apple. (so there will be some openings for me)
Yeah sorry there is no internal consistency here for me, I do thank you for trying in a honest way.

God created everything including free will and what it means to have it.

God blames and punishes his own creations for excising free will in a way he's deems incorrectly. He's wants us to learn from him and accept him, yet he created us and designed us down to the quark.

Basically for me the buck stops with God, yet he seems to blame us if we stray, why? Is there something outside of God where evil comes from? Who created that?

Again I as programmer cannot blame the program and punish it for its emergent behavior based on the code I wrote that responds to input and makes decisions. The fault is mine especially if I also created the computer and the universe in which it runs, I either change the program or accept its behavior, punishment and blame would just be playing a silly game with myself.

Most responses here seem to revolve around God not following logic, fine there is nothing more to say then, and is truly nonsense, 2 + 2 does not have to equal 4.
no it’s not. Philips Lighting is split of into a new brand: Signify. They pay to use the Philips name (e.g. for Philips Hue).
US did this many times. The investigations ended up like they usually do in US, starting from My Lai - in the best case they’ll find a single scapegoat and that’s it.
IANAP, but they're (among others, like MACHOs, primordial BHs, etc.) potential candidates for dark matter, yes.
They exist for a reason in the same way that there are a bunch of different types of fasteners - there are situations where it's critically important, but writing the average line-of-business application isn't one of those, in the same way that you can bang together a custom shelf without knowing about more than a drill and screws.

We're talking about accessibility for getting started. Pointers and recursion are good ways to scare people away. They were all my highschool CS teacher cared about... guess who avoided CS for a few years as a result until figuring out ways to use other languages to solve specific problems in non-CS courses several years into college?
Maybe I'm misinterpreting CF's explanation, but it sounds like the scanning does not happen on device. The neural hash is generated on device, both the hash and image are uploaded to iCloud (if you have that enabled), and the matching happens on the server side.

This still isn't great from the perspective that scanning's happening, but it seems better than all your images being scanned server side (which all the other big cloud storage providers do), or all images being scanned on your device.
They are confused. They thought they could get away with this.
Oh thank god. This has been so annoying in the past
It's ironic that Apple asks developers to pay 30% which is effectively 30% tax on developer revenue, while at the same time they dodge taxes like there is no tomorrow...
I was a junior employee at Mot as my first job in the worst period: 2006-2007. I saw someone in his 50s who had been in Mot forever been shown the door very impolitely. We also saw the team in Urbana Champaign let go because of some differences with the upper management at that time. It was possibly the most crucial team to compete with Apple. The environment was crazy with layoffs every three months and you can imagine what would have been going on there. We used to hear about the big sales parties in foreign locations when all of this was going on. Would have loved to know if the CEO at that time had better options.
"You'll never believe what we found in the last Pharoh's tomb!"
How so? It would require passing the threshold to get human review, so actual material + false flags > threshold. This should probably result in the person getting in trouble. The case of false flags > threshold should not result in an any trouble since it would then go through human review.
One of these things intersecting with Earth would be an interesting way for humanity to end.

The real question is, with the warping of space-time, how long would it take for us to perceive the end? Would it seem like the black hole started moving incredibly slowly, or would our planet start getting torn apart before then?
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The confusion was that many were previously taking Apple at their word when past actions should make that a questionble premise.
What does the law say, though? Possession of CSAM by any organization or person other than NCMEC is flatly illegal. Even other branches of government, including law enforcement, may not have any in their possession. My question is -- does CSAM residing on Apple's servers, even when it is 'owned' by a customer, count as them possessing it? What about if it is encrypted?
I think the fact that there are only two labs in China that study Coronaviruses...and the outbreak location is a few hundred yards from where one of the labs is...is enough of a coincidence that it should be THE theory that it somehow (leak of some sort) until proven otherwise.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We're trying for curious conversation here—not cross-examination.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. (Note also the one about not using uppercase for emphasis—it may seem like a minor point but it affects the threads too.)
Do we need to actually blame them, as such? Or is it more important to memorialize the mistake so we can learn from our history?
It's a feature that only applies to kids under 18 who're in a family group, whose parents turn it on. It warns the kid before letting them see an image which machine-learning thinks is nudity. If the kid is 12 or under, their parents can be notified if they choose to see it. It apparently does no reporting to anyone apart from that parental notification.

Check the section "WHAT IS APPLE DOING WITH MESSAGES?" in this article: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22613225/apple-csam-scann...
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They said so in an interview with Tech Crunch. The other articles confused iCloud Mail with iCloud Photo Library.
You said Apple was scanning the device. They aren’t. This is what you are being called out on.
And when a government want to scan for “illegal” images, they will just fall back to the argument that it’s the law there. It’s a terribly slippery slope.
Agreed, software developers should be paid minimum wage - they’re not really creating anything real right?……
Sure, the President of the United States holds an office with a lot of executive power, but there are plenty of other people with other forms of power that would have an interest in a compliant population.

I hate to beat the "evil-zillionaire" drum, but if you made your fortunes selling people juice-boxes they don't really need, you'd prefer it if they complicitly buy all the junk your ads tell them to buy instead of critically thinking "maybe I DON'T need another one"

Take also cult-leaders for example (or other con-men in power/leadership positions). If their followers possessed the critical thinking skills to see through their manipulations, they wouldn't have any followers. Complacency in this case is fundamental
Oh we are just stupid and confused. With such patronising attitude towards customers, I hope your company goes bankrupt. There is no place in society for such predatory business. And start paying your taxes!
The chinafication of how big tech interacts with civilians in the west. We are all Chinese citizens now.
The thing I remember about non-iPhone touchscreens in those days is seeing the little mouse icon jump to where you pressed, and tiny scrollbars. And having to get out the stylus to better hit the targets. And seeing the cross-hatch X-windows background while the phone was booting up. It felt like using a handheld oscilloscope. At least the UI was not done in Tcl/Tk :-)
> You know it's not true.

No, I don't.

> Pointers, references, whatever you call them.

References are not pointers, and I stand by what I said. Pointers are not needed by most people writing software outside of very specific domains.

References are a related but distinct concept. I can "hold a reference" to something without ever being able to read what its memory address is or change what memory address that reference points to. The power to do that is unnecessary for most programs that are written.

> They exist for a reason.

Did I ever say otherwise?

EDIT: Expanding on the notion of "need". A programmer using a C library "needs" pointers because the C library almost certainly makes use of them. The user may or may not need to use pointers themselves to interact with the library (that is, it may offer an interface based on values and not pointers). A programmer on any OS I can think of will be making use of pointers through similar levels of indirection. As an Erlang hobbyist, the implementation almost certainly uses pointers internally, but as an Erlang programmer I wouldn't use them directly. In order to write a program in Erlang, I never need a pointer, though I may make use of some kind of reference (process IDs are a kind of references, but they are not pointers).
You don't need laws when all the most powerful and prolific information dispensation institutions that have ever existed function as the enforcement wing of one party behaving as the politburo
Same here. Most pleasant summer ever with lots of rain and cooler temps.
iOS 10 did break some things years ago, so this is a totally sensible test to do.
What sort of voice recordings? Like voice notes in chat apps or voice overs?
Not zero for self-employed folks. Self-employment tax (Social Security and Medicare) is unaffected by the Foreign Tax Credit or the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. Unless you're paying into a foreign social security plan in a treaty country, you'll owe that 15.3% tax.

https://brighttax.com/blog/expats-self-employment-tax-foreig...
Reminds me of Kodak Eastman Business Park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Business_Park

Just visiting Wikipedia found out that they
weapon grade Uranium in an underground lab... yikes!
Its more complicated then that. for example Akkadian is a language that used the Sumerian cuneiform. the way they used it was divided into two. Sumerian was written in a simple way that in which every word have unique symbol. the first advancement in written happened with the second written language Akkadian as so: first, because of many words in Sumerian had only 1 consonant the Akkadians used the symbol of that word to represent 1 consonant. let say the world Ki in Sumerian meant a star and had a symbol * you can use that symbol in you language to write *d and read it "kid" (but you also need a sign for d, I don't have real example). second the used complete Sumerian symbols but read them in Akkadian like Korean used Chinese symbols until 1500. this got evolved until the Assyrian which used old Akkadian system and the new (normal) alphabet system that was invented by the Phoenician long time after.
> One also wonders what's going on in journalism programs around the country that is allowing for so much unabashedly propagandist content to be pushed out under the guise of "journalism"?

Is it coming from the universities directly or is it reality shock on the j-school graduate’s first job where they learn that pushin leg narratives is the only way to earn a salary?
/e/os seems reasonably good for phones. It’s far from an iPhone or even stock new Android but not an order of magnitude worse and none of this file scanning.
Freedom you advertise:
https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/28/18200610/metro-exodus-epic...
The best part about this is that it’s a non-partisan issue and pretty cool to see people rise up against this overreach.
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One point that I haven’t seen mentioned is that pedophiles probably aren’t going to be using iOS devices for very long. They will catch wind very quickly and adapt.
> Firefox is may freeze the user agent to a two-digit number like "Firefox/99.0."

Opera did that when version went up from 9 to 10. Too many websites looked at first digit of version rather that doing feature discovery back then.

Useragent string of Opera 12 is "Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.18".
IIRC, the other way around. The editor who greenlighted the WIMP paper for print (and only because it was already an established name) regretted this decision once he saw the MACHO paper. Apparently he doesn't like cute names.
In Hebrew it's mostly bug (באג).

However there is an official translation "teqel" (תקל). It is a derivative of a root that means "to stumble". It suggests a resolvable setback more than an "error".
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Seeing it in others and not yourself is the ultimate confirmation bias.
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You can do a lot with thought experiments that show logical inconsistencies in ideas without any actual knowledge of the facts.

Physics is a fairly clear example. It's hard to make all those equations work without creating paradoxes unless they actually model the real world correctly. If it was all fake but internally consistent, then even a small amount of observation could destroy the whole thing.
Probably the only way to die that would also result in you outliving everyone you ever knew.
FastCompany claims the average American spends 19 hours/day staring at a screen