skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Going back to the slipper slope argument, you could say nothing stops them (or Google on Android) from uploading your passcode and share it with X. It's all just software in the end that they write that powers the lock screen and security checks.

If they start claiming they do that then I'll get angry about that too. You'll notice that only the fringe is accusing Apple of being liars or acting in bad faith here. Apple are pretty up front about what they do.

The problem with this plan is they're claiming they are only going to do selective law enforcement (only 1 US law, only things that are strongly supported by consensus and even then only sometimes). That isn't a position with a reasonable foundation, they are going to change their mind. I want them to change it in the "we don't snoop on people's phones" direction rather than open season.
"Apple is scanning every image you upload" will certainly have a measurable effect on non-tech users, even if the details are more nuanced.
Perhaps the result of internal stakeholders trying to hold on to any vestige of a massive project they've put a lot of effort into. I doubt they want to see it scrapped, even after admitting to themselves it was a huge error.
Ask HN: What unconventional stack do you use to develop native smartphone apps?
True except in Persian.
Given it was introduced by Sumerians who were not Semitic, you get vowels. Adoption by the Semitic peoples preserved vowels.
You really want to like snopes? Why?
I want Sam to turn this into a startup somehow. There has got to be something better than the semiconductor industry we have today, which has ridiculous barriers to entry.
As a kid the REPL was always intimidating to me. I never liked it and was always frustrated trying to get it to work whenever I was dropped into DOS. I loved GUIs and gravitated to them as a user. It wasn't until much later that I developed an appreciation for the terminal.
IIRC HCQ was flagged in computational models as promising, but the concentrations required to have an actual effect are a large multiple of the lethal doses.

There is a ton of politically driven disinformation around. Brazilian president Bolsonaro pushed both as treatments while, we now know, government representatives were stalling direct purchases from labs while negotiating vaccines with intermediaries in order to profit from sales to the government.
I agree regarding the average person but I’ve forwarded the EFF article to friends who are surgeons, electricians, firefighters, etc. Who wouldn’t know what HN is and the reaction has been a universal “wtf Apple is scanning all my photos?”. I guess the question is how big the angry minority is.

I think a lot of people blindly trust Apple as a reputable corporate entity and this definitely shakes that trust.
The list of other locations has 3285 N Elston Ave.

This one is installed at 3259 N Elston Ave.

Oops!
Yeah. I will say, though, I am happy that people are having the uncomfortable realization that they have very little control over what their iPhone does.
Yes, I write my own code in BBEdit. When there's no collaboration needed, it's more than adequate, and the Mac integration (AppleScript API) is great.

VS Code is good for git blame integrations, finding references to functions in a deeply nested project, and using extensions. It's an IDE, not just a text editor.

So I suppose it depends on your use case: if you're the only developer, a text editor is enough. If you're working in a larger team, an IDE can be helpful.
> I am automatically dismissive when a drug from one area of medicine is recruited as a treatment for a completely disjoint disorder.

I guess you have never heard of Viagra.
For future reference, the mods jump on emails to hn@ycombinator.com pretty quick.
I have tried several feature phones:

* Alcatel Go Flip [1]
* Nokia 3310 3G [2]
* Samsung Rugby 4 [3]

I like the durability of the Samsung phone, but had to replace it because it lacked 4G support.

I tried the Nokia phone for a short time, I believe there is a version that supports 4G, but I could not find one in the United States. I switched to the Alcatel phone because of its support of 4G on T-mobile.

Both the Nokia and Alcatel try to hard to be smartphone-lite, they have web browsers, e-mail, video players, etc. I believe both the Nokia and the Alcatel use KaiOS, which is a fork of Firefox OS, and is buggy and slow. For example, searching my contact list takes 20 seconds to load, and if I start to type a letter to find someone, it often displays the wrong character (12 key typing, 2 = abc, 3 = def, etc.) and breaks the scrolling / list of names.

There are a few that I have been watching, beware they are still in development / crowdfunded.

* Mudita Pure - $335 (e-ink screen, 4G, Polish company) [4]
* Punkt MP02 - $350 (supports Signal encryption, 4G, Swiss company) [5]
* WiPhone - $140 (Wifi / VoIP only, not true cellular phone) [6]

[1] https://www.t-mobile.com/support/public-files/images/alcatel...

[2] https://liliputing.com/2017/02/nokia-3310-gets-reimagined-20...

[3] https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/all-other-phones/sa...

[4] https://mudita.com/products/

[5] https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/

[6] https://www.wiphone.io/index.html
They fucked up? No they didn't fuck up.

They got what they wanted. It did sting a bit, but it was calculated.

They won't suffer any massive losses over that, they have the moral high ground among non tech people, who mistakenly believe that they're doing something to protect children.
Show HN: C++ virtual_vec vector implementation
I know of only 2 meditation techniques. Samatha and Vipassana. (Aka Concentration and Growing. Aka meditation with a seed and meditation without a seed).

I have never heard of a meditation technique that was not simply a variation on those 2. But if you have one then I am all ears.

Also, ya, you could say that meditation touches some other stuff than just "getting intelligent with your awareness". Sure.

And as far as other ways of getting intelligent with your awareness are concerned. Ya sure, I can imagine such existing.

Also. Ya. Meditation can lead to much crazy. But that's a good education :)
I doubt that. I mentioned it to a non-tech person today. They hadn’t seen the news, and their first instinct was to empathize with the Apple executives having to confront that their products are enabling pedophiles.
What you've described sounds like regular old consumerism.

The type of person that buys the flipped property isn't looking for a long term investment or hassle-free life.

What they want is the feeling of getting something shiny and new without spending a fortune on a properly improved building, even if it means tens of thousands of dollars in maintenance cost down the road.

This is something I've learned in the past year or so through e-commerce, and then mapping the behaviours of my customers onto family and friends that I know. A significant portion of the population enjoy spending money on shiny shit, and buying and getting something new is the end goal in and of itself.

The classical understanding that people will spend money to solve a problem after weighing the benefits against the cost only really applies to the population at large when finances are limited.
Like the guys who installed it at the wrong address. =)
There's plenty of confusion, but what's telling in this story is that the people who are the least confused are among the most opposed to Apple's plans.
I trust Apple doesn't upload everyone's photos despite opting out because it would be hard to hide.
I think this is a stretch, and forcing Apple to allow sideloads is a more likely outcome.
Can you point to a country in 2020 that was affected by food shortages because they depended on food imports from China?

Also, the US food supply chain was disrupted in 2020 despite not relying on imports.
I did not. The person I replied to said content. Not me.
Sounds like pain, but also a means to getting better at sed.
I've been using jottacloud.com for backups for a while now. The amazing thing is that EUR 8/month gets you unlimited storage. I'm currently at 3 TB of raw photos. Supported by rclone, which makes it really easy to set up a cron job.
You can buy a house in bitcoin, they don't even have to be that expensive.

Source: I just bought a home in Los Angeles. I expected I'd have to compete against all-cash offers; I did not think I would have to be competing for a home against all-bitcoin offers. Many brokerages from my anecdotal experience will gladly accept Bitcoin. (I have no stake in crypto in any capacity, just thought it's worth sharing, since it surprised me)

https://themillergroup-bcb.com/buy-with-bitcoin
https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/power-players/crypto-bil...
If I recall correctly, some US embassies that have been built in turbulent areas are more accurately described as military bases that just happen to host an embassy. They're heavily fortified and don't resemble what we'd typically think of as an embassy.
I have been talking to more people in the real world about social issues or whatever the big topics of the year are... and what I'm finding which shouldn't surprise me is that people are a lot more moderate than you would be led to believe looking at social media or online conversations.

It's not that everybody is at the exact center, but most of the people I've encountered will have a side but be pretty far away from the loud extreme narrative you see online and in the news.
From https://www.sellcell.com/blog/apple-privacy-survey/

>A majority (72%) of iPhone & iPad users are aware of new privacy changes in recent software updates. When asked how well they understand Apple’s new privacy policies, these were the responses: Extremely well (13%), Very well (29%), Moderately well (21%), Slightly well (9%), and Not well at all (28%). Two in three (65%) users are “extremely” or “very” concerned about their activities being tracked as they use certain websites and apps, while only 14% said they were not at all concerned.

And from https://www.androidauthority.com/android-app-tracking-transp...

>You told us: You really want an Apple-like anti-app tracking feature on Android... Over 30,000 people voted in favor of an App Tracking Transparency feature on Android.

People are becoming extremely conscious of online (and on-phone) privacy issues. Where have you been?

Your statement "don't tell me you believe privacy was at the usual consumers mind when they bought their devices... this is ridiculous or you don't meet many normal users." is itself, ridiculous.
>This potentially means all of iCloud, not just photos, could start to use E2E encryption as well - which is fantastic.

They have to scan things that are not photos. What if the bad guys just zip their photos and upload that?

There also needs to be a solution to CSAM uploaded before NCMEC had a chance to tag it, especially to cases where the bad guys uploaded their CSAM and deleted it from their iPhone. What happens then, the bad guys get E2E and nobody can find them? There has to be a technical solution in mind for this, and everything I can think of has implications (Let the iPhone store hashes of deleted images? Would it be enough to scan also during download?)

IMHO, any serious attempt to find CSAM using Apple's client-side approach requires more scanning, and Apple not being forward on that makes me trust them less. Also, the moment they expand the scanning, we should think carefully if there actually are any privacy benefits.
Saying you love physical books then not giving the reasons… come on, people want to know.

One reason I love them is that I can easily browse a shelf. Scrolling through a digital library doesn’t have the same sense of amusement.
There has been a concerted effort to conflate populism with podunk racist hillbillies since the term populist was coined.

Great book documenting the anti-populist efforts:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250220110
I'm switching to a Pixel 3 or 4 running CalyxOS, GrapheneOS, or LineageOS. I'm eager to have my choice of OS on my phone, build it myself, etc.

https://calyxos.org/get/

https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
Android devices are much more open than iOS devices. There are quite a few alternative OSs with much more privacy than Google and Apple

Unlike Apple, Android devices are not vendor locked into just one OS.
> Even if this, alone isn't enough to convince you to move off Apple, are you comfortable with the trends now clearly visible?

Still much better than all but the most esoteric inconvenient alternatives.
You're new here obviously, but this sort of comment is not well received here.
I signed up for your service - two things I noticed. One, the github was authenticating with app called digger.dev by motatoes and not alicorn, the page I landed on. Also, it took me to app.digger.dev, felt like bait and switch.

I created an app. It has been stuck in deploying state for 9 hours now[1]

You can't say that I didn't give your product a fair shot. I might conclude that I have trust issues with your product.

Anyways, congratulation on your producthunt campaign!

[1] https://ibb.co/vqf3HBm
Now introducing Windows 12 Developer edition. Dark mode is enabled by default, Visual Studio comes preinstalled and it is $5000 a year. Cheap to a professional developer and keeps the masses from running their own code.
Sam is one of my favorite content creators, all his stuff is amazing.
Windows 11 is just reskinned Windows 10.
Raspbian, for example included vim-tiny
it's absolutely a problem for us. But saying climate change is a natural cycle isn't wrong. We have sped up the process of climate change, so much that it is a problem for us.

Aging is a natural process. Now imagine there was a virus that would make everyone age 100 times as fast. It would then be a huge problem for humanity. That's the best way I have of describing climate change.
“Human review and reporting” - fact checkers?

Or are we to assume that their AI is 100% effective.

This will not end well..
Quit talking down to people who don’t want Apple messing with their private party. Just accept that they have different opinions that you do.
Would love to know the ancillary stuff like waste disposal. Playing with this stuff without making a new superfund site is arguably just as difficult as the core work.
Coming to a torrent tracker near you for free an hour after release.
But viagra has a plausible-sounding (to me, I am not an MD) mechanism of action. Whereas in the first paper[0] about chloroquine for COVID, the claim is:

>This drug has multiple activities, one of which is to alkalise the phagolysosome, which hampers the low-pH-dependent steps of viral replication, including fusion and uncoating. Other mechanisms of antiviral activity are poorly explained.

Which sounds like limited evidence.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7134866/
Impressive that it's one of the few purchases that didn't go to Google to die. I wonder if they ever compete the acquisition to other products that are no longer with us...
It's the typical "I'm so sorry you feel that way".
This piece also speaks to moderates:

> “Our studies find that people with politically moderate friends and followers are more sensitive to social feedback that reinforces their outrage expressions,” Crockett said. “This suggests a mechanism for how moderate groups can become politically radicalized over time — the rewards of social media create positive feedback loops that exacerbate outrage.”
Kudos for the fact that you bothered to email them for clarification. I never engage with the "fact checking sources"
This article explains the suspected mechanism of action. I'm not claiming that ivermectin is actually effective, but the biochemistry is at least plausible.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422...

In general small molecule drugs often hit multiple different pathways. It's not reasonable to put them into neat little buckets.
From 2:45 in video with the Wall Street Journal:

>"If you are a customer that is using iCloud photo library, which you don't have to, but if you're using iCloud photos to store your photos in the cloud, then what's happening is a uhm, a multipart, uhm, algorithm where there's a degree of analysis done on your device as it uploads a photo to the cloud so that the cloud can do the other half of the algorithm"

Oh so Apple isn't scanning customer devices they're just going to do "a degree of analysis" on them. Got it. What an asshole.
You can download it here: http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/Download.html

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The text below this line was completely written with daSher ! where is the period . Oh, there it is down at the bottom of the box .

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Played with it for about 10 min, and I timed myself. 5 minutes to type the above. :P

I think it could be really fun if it learns my patterns and I learn it. I found that turning the speed up helped me get paths better, but as you can see the S was fighting me, and sometimes getting "back" felt tough, but it's the same with a keyboard I am just more used to it.
Incels: A new terror threat to the UK?
Democrats eye 'essential' alternative to Wall Street for green energy incentives
What's the contrarion question?
I used to live down the road from moto headquarters and always wondered what it was like inside. This was very enlightening.
This opinion piece seems based on faith, not evidence.
You're making the mistake of anthropomorphizing a corporation. Past a certain size, corporations start behaving less like people and more like computers, or maybe profit-maximizing sociopaths. The intent doesn't matter, because 5 or 10 years down the line, it'll likely be a totally different set of people making the decision. If you want to predict a corporation's behavior, you need to look at the constants (or at least, slower-changing things), like incentives, legal/technical limitations, and internal culture/structure of decision-making (e.g. How much agency do individual humans have?).
Whatever that is...
This is a highly informative comment. Thanks!
> "Other cloud providers run checks of their own property, on their own property. This runs a check of your property, on your property. That's why people care now."

iTunes Match is an iCloud service which (if you buy it and opt-in) scans your local on-device music library for copyrighted songs, tells Apple you have them, and then they let you listen to high quality versions of those songs on all your devices. And it's not filename or id3 tag matching, it's doing a fuzzy match that can identify the same song in low quality rips and in different file formats. It would be concievable for them to scan for banned audio lectures, or scan your whole device outside the iTunes library, or change it to check for other copyrighted files e.g. movies. It could concievably be reporting you to the MPAA/RIAA if it finds certain songs along with your public IP address so they can check if that IP address has ever been logged as torrenting those songs. It could "in future" be changed to look for and report evidence of torrenting or movie copying. There's nothing technical or regulatory(?) stopping Apple from saying "people with CSAM on their computers can't use iTunes Match" and making it scan the computer as a condition of use, is there? There's nothing technical stopping a government from asking "can your iTunes Match scan engine report video files in the iTunes library which match popular Tiannamen Square video MD5 hashes?", is there?

I do get that these are not the same seriousness, iTunes Match isn't (so far as we know) scanning to report crime but in so far as "Unprecedented on-device scanning for known content using an opaque database and a closed-source fuzzy-matching engine, it would only take a small change to make it look for other things, governments will definitely pressure them to do that and since they willingly built this system they will definitely agree, and all you can do is trust them", are they not samey enough to be relevant?
Used to be that all tos were "subjects to change." ToS are mostly just random words anyways
Can’t read this opinion piece behind paywall but I’ll probably disagree.
I don't think Apple has insidious reason, but their implementation can come across as betrayal.

Unlike Android phone, iphone will know about your uploading potentially problematic image beforehand. Yet, it will not alert you or block you from doing so.
I bet it'd take a while. The initial sync for someone with a large library is big, but just turning on upload for new pictures is only a few megabytes a day. Depending on how many pictures you take, of course. And if you're caught, an anodyne "a bug in iCloud Photo sync was causing increased data usage" statement and note in the next iOS patch notes would have you covered.

And that's assuming they weren't actively hiding anything by e.g. splitting them up into chunks that could be slipped into legitimate traffic with Apple's servers.
Same. I would love to see that analysis. So many unknowns. I bet once Afg settles down someone will interview people on both sides and write a book.
You could find a guy saying "yeah I totally made that up". Or at least trace the origin of the rumor, and note that it doesn't plausibly connect with Osama's life. Or interview a bunch of people close to him who say they've never heard anything like that, and note that it's therefore implausible that a bunch of Americans somehow know. Or find the real reasons that he hated America, and note they're vastly more plausible and documented. Etc, etc.

This is a classic "Russell's teapot". We should not give any epistemological weight to unfalsifiable things. To debunk them, it suffices to demonstrate that there was never any evidence to begin with.
Why the Partition of India and Pakistan led to decades of hurt
Yes, I remember the debates about truly owning a game when you bought a physical copy vs buying it on Steam. I avoided Steam for that exact reason, but then the market for games that never had a physical distro exploded, and even many/most physical games moved to a physical disk but one-time activation codes.

Once I realized there was little benefit to physical purchases anymore and the hassle of reinstalling games when I got a new machine I made the switch. But with GOG around I at least still get to mostly own the games available through them.
The good/bad news is it's starting to not feel so slow.
You could argue that the slippery slope started when we invented the transistor :)
> Obviously such an attack has nothing to do with the false positive rate.

At face value, they indeed don’t. But the premise from Apple’s white paper that their mechanism can’t be tricked is not realistic.

> If you have reason to think they are a real threat, I’m sure you can explain.

Yes, I can.
Well, I think it'd be sufficient to say there is no proof it happened, the same standard we use to say that there aren't little gnomes who collect up all the water and turn it into water vapor, causing it to rain.
Good point. As I said, it may be fallacious reasoning on my part :)

I suppose what this underscores is: biology is immensely complex and first-principles thinking can only get you so far. Eventually, you need to test things with a big RCT to know what's going on.
They forgot to add "but we've decided to keep the article published for the ad revenue despite it being completely non-newsworthy."
>...but the conentrations required to have an actual effect are a large multiple of the lethal doses..."

Which was the excuse they gave when they designed actual drug trials that gave patients lethal doses and ignored the testimony of doctors who found it useful at sub-lethal doses. And therefore a drug used by tens of millions of people a year(if not more) for the past five decades was declared too dangerous to use.

Addendum: I wound up arguing with someone that thus-and-such a trial was actually using what was considered an overdose in 2017 and they would not look at the entry in the PDR.
Pixel will do the same, but they won't make the mistake of announcing the policy.
England has a binge-drinking problem anyways. But better dead than drunk, amiright MrFusion?