skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are papers galore on the topic; it's not an under-studied topic. ACF is an example of where to look https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/focus-areas/child-abuse-neglect.

I'd add that I have served on the District of Columbia Infant Mortality Review Committee. No lie, 9/10 of the time, the recommendations were breastfeeding, parent support, parent coaching, reducing the number of births in a family. It took YEARS before any of the recommendations were implemented.

As to the use of tech, I'd suggest talking with practitioners and policy makers. For example, child advocacy centers (in the US, at least) may have some ideas or suggestions of other ways to help reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect.
Designing a new font is a hard job, not something you just slap together for a movie. Even big corporations who want a custom font will generally hire a designer who bases it on something they've done before.
"The ark of the covenant is open and now all your faces are going to melt" - to paraphrase "The Thick of It".

Prior to this when a government tapped Apple on the shoulder asking to scan for what they (the government) deem illicit material, Apple could have feasibly say "we cannot do this, the technology does not exist".

Now the box is open, the technology does exist, publicly and on the record - Now we are but a national security letter, or a court order with an attached super-injunction, away from our computers and phones ratting us out for thought crime, government critique and embarrassing the establishment. At first it's the photos, but what about messages and browsing history or the legion other things that people use their devices for, when do they follow?

CSAM is beyond abhorrent, morally reprehensible and absolutely should be stopped. This is not in question. And I have no reason to doubt that there is sincerity in their goal to reduce and eliminate it from Apple's perspective.

But they have root; this system and it's implementation is a fundamental betrayal of the implicit trust that their users have placed in them (however foolish it was, in hindsight). It just is not possible to regain that trust now that it is gone, when the level of control is so one sided and the systems involved are so opaque.
I'd be really interested in hearing about your struggles - this tells me there's something really wrong with the tutorials you were reading (through no fault of your own).
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What happens in practice, is that police stop investigating most crimes where there isn't good CCTV coverage.

The police straight-up don't investigate property crime committed against private individuals, regardless of whether or not CCTV was involved. They write you up a report that you can take to your insurer.

This process saves everyone time and money - you, the cops, the courts, the criminal...
Exactly. They already analysed photos on your phone for search. They don’t in fact do CSAM detection on the photos on your phone.

But why are people only objecting now when they were already doing on-device analysis?

CSAM detection is a complete red herring. It is less of a general purpose scanning mechanism than the search function that was already there.
And it isn't even mildly disconcerting that your only option is to guess at their rationale because the video was memoryholed?
Yes, I can see the signs: you probably breed & fight pitbulls right?
> the mantra that NoSQL solves all our persistence problems ever again.

That argument was more usually a straw man than a good faith belief.

On the other hand the belief that SQL will solve all our problems seems to be legitimately held by some people.
On the other hand, like natural mass extinctions, this created new niches for diversity to explode.

The pre-PC retail market was by necessity constrained. Main-street retailers had to stock so many distinct platforms that they couldn't go deep on any one of them. If you wanted anything beyond the first-party disc drive or the top 10 software packages, you're stuck looking for specialist dealers or mail order, which was a significant barrier to entry for new users.

A single dominant PC platform made the late-80s-90s-early-2000s model of "white box" computer retail feasible. They could offer a greater assortment of IBM-compatible software and peripherals, while taking less risk that you'd be stranded with dead inventory.

This, in turn, supported a galaxy of small software firms and hardware manufacturers.
> An immediate way to alleviate those injustices would be to

pay restitution to the victims of abuse at the hands of the State.
I think going forward, EV charging locations aren't going to be like gas stations: they'll be on bigger lots, maybe on the edge of town or between towns where land is cheaper. Or they'll co-locate in shopping center parking lots, which you see now.

Converting an existing gas station to EV charging just wouldn't work in most cases because they don't have the space to charge, say, a hundred cars at the same time.
It sounds like (from discussions and links in HN and media) they actually have an obligation to scan any data they host.

IANAL and could be wrong.
> vaccinated people who become infected with Delta SARS-CoV-2 can carry as much virus in their nose as do unvaccinated people. This means that despite the protection offered by vaccines, a proportion of vaccinated people can pass on Delta, possibly aiding its rise.

Which seems in line with I had speculated about earlier[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003932
If you are asked for proof of vaccination in SF please call Harmeet Dhillon: https://www.dhillonlaw.com/ .

This is blatantly un-constitutional.

You have a 5th amendment and this is totally illegal.

We need to take all these assholes to court.
Wait til you work in a corporate environment where core doesn't work but the original GCM does. They bungled that transition.
I just mean that there's an intuitive sense of ownership over a physical device that you don't have over data stored in the cloud. My point is that this distinction is artificial. You don't really own the (software on the) device, but you should own the data the company is processing on your behalf. Whether this processing happens on the physical device or in the cloud seems like an irrelevant distinction.
What if the industry doesn’t even know how that task should be fulfilled or the company. There are some many projects/experiments/products are companies that good be delivered in some many ways.

> If one considers the hiring practices of top companies, they are absolutely claiming that the great majority of applicants are imposters.

It’s a logical fallacy that leetcode is only to filter imposters. And separately, gamification of interviews can definitely lead to real imposters.
Sure, I agree that obesity is not a great indicator. I just used it to illustrate that an unhealthy population can be very large. Another example: 6.5% of Americans are morbidly obese, which I would guess can have an effect on the severity of Covid symptoms. That’s already 20 million people. And that’s just one factor. How many people have heart problems, lung problems, etc?
I thought they made NSFW require login a couple years ago
That's certainly true, and it is a strong 'selling point,' so to speak, for open software. But openness is just one feature of many that people use for making considerations about the sort of software they run and frankly, for an average consumer, it probably weighs extremely low on their scale, because in either case it's effectively a black box, where having access to that information doesn't actually make them more informed, nor do they necessarily care to be informed.

Most people don't care to follow the controversies of tech unless it becomes a tremendously big issue, but even then, as we've seen here, there are plenty of people that simply don't have the technical acumen to really do any meaningful analysis of what's being presented to them and are depending on others to form their opinion, whether that be a friend/family member or some tech pundit writing an article on a major news organization's website.

Trusting Apple presents a risk to consumers but I'd argue that for many consumers, this has been a reasonable risk to take to date. This recent announcement is changing that risk factor significantly, though in the end it may still end up being a worthwhile one for a lot of people. Open Source isn't the be all end all solution to this, as great as that'd be.
Thank you, this is better, but if I cat a 1000 line file I can only scroll up about 150 lines, I think this has something to do with the speed of the output(?); how does this work under the hood?
> you call me banal?

Your reading comprehension seems a bit lacking, casting doubt on your other statements. To be clear I am asserting that your claim censorship by private companies is unjust; that is banal, annoying, and ignorant.
How is that mutually exclusive of having more functional stable 2 parent homes? We can do both.
Been using mosh for years now, couldn’t imagine working without it!
Ah, that makes perfect sense now that I think about it.

Toyota has perfected charging people a premium to let them pat themselves on the back for being financially savvy (you need a chainsaw to cut irony that thick). They are also not known for creative or permissive buying/financing options, the opposite really. This is just a localized version of the former masquerading as the latter.
Been expecting this for sometime now..
I used to run Arch but I got sick of trying to fix my Grub/EFI settings etc. which it would
occasionally break.

Freedom to me is being able to ignore the OS' existence, and frankly Ubuntu is better at that than Arch.
Also

> I'm happy but let's see if you can make me happier
I'd wager the target size of all iOS devices, with the scanning happening by default right after the photo hits the device, is bigger than the other platforms combined.

Google Photos (+ Google Drive I guess ?) is on by default only on Pixel phone I think, and not by default on Samsung phones. For Facebook you have to post the images, for Microsoft I don't think there is any scanning inside Windows itself and by default, I guess it's on OneDrive ?
Those companies are big, but the majority of pictures still go through iOS first and foremost.
...as a pre-requisote of avoiding criminal liability for statutory violation of a Federal statute. Transitive property of logic therefore yields that this private entity is acting as a Government proxy. Therefore, Constitutional considerations.

I don't find this unreasonable.
Right, but the CSAM scanning routine is absurdly narrow and difficult to use for detecting anything but CSAM, whereas a general purpose hash matching algorithm really is just a few lines of code.

This whole ‘now that they have a scanner it’s easier’ reasoning doesn’t make sense. iOS already had numerous better matching algorithms if your goal is to do general spying.
Synology has a phone app that automatically backs up your photos. Then a pointy clicky setup to backup your backups to Glacier
This is an interesting theory, but it falls apart upon contact with reality.

The vastly overwhelming majority of immigration barriers in the world keep people out of other countries, not keep people in them.

The motivation behind those barriers is, broadly speaking, in keeping out moochers and undesirables, not "Actively helping some country on the other side of the world repress its citizenry."

You'll be hard-pressed to find people who support strict immigration controls for the latter reason. You don't have to look hard to find supporters of them for the former reason.
My feeling is that the web apis try to do too much. Why do we need a webSQL api. Why do we not just let websites create a file and then they can provide whatever kind of library they want. They could package a WASM version of sqlite and just work like they would as a desktop app.

That way you never have to deal with browser incompatibility or unchangeable specifications.
As a former mod of /r/politics the reality is quite mundane. The bias you see on the front page of that subreddit is pretty much entirely due to the users upvoting. The mod team is really careful to ensure nothing gets removed simply due to political differences and is internally transparent, and includes mods from a wide spectrum of political beliefs and backgrounds. Interestingly the mod team is simultaneously accused of being biased towards left and right wing politics at once!
Same goes for MacOS, try deleting the News App on Big Sur.
Hiring, they are on a hiring tear.
I always wonder how much the split between .deb and .rpm had to do with the names. They serve the exact same function to the point where there is translation software from one to the other and vice versa, but the names themselves promote the distros they were designed for. Is that the biggest reason for the split? Of course the debian project managed the development of .debs and Red Hat managed the development of rpms, so control of that development path was probably another reason. But this is one split in the linux community that really feels unnecessary.
Multi generational living is also great, and not mutually exclusive of having more stable long term relationships. It's fine to live at home as a couple to save money if your parents are okay with it.
It’s nearly impossible to have a discussion about race here, and the most popular articles always seem to have the same point of view.
They're doing on device analysis, but there isn't any process by which an image of a hotdog will be sent to someone else without my knowledge.
Yes, the bad actor would need to do non-trivial bad things.

To stay on the topic of iCloud, my point is that it seems quite hard to protect yourself/device from even this most basic attack scenario.
Don't worry, they'll be changing back. https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10919686/clearview-highway...
It would include Safari, Firefox, IE11, and Edge (before it became Chrome Skin) as well right?
Presumably they’ll just say, we built a child abuse prevention mechanism and we have no intention of using it for anything else.
Everything a Signaturen does is better done by an digital signature.
It's crazy how one party signs a PDF, scans it, and sends it via mail to be signed and scanned by the other party.
Legally no party then owns a signed copy because they just got send a copy of the signature which is void.
Doesn't matter in court: these contracts are enforced. We have done it. In the end only the invoices really matter.
Is there any available link that shows what actually was fixed?
if reviewing PRs coming from forks is common for you, why don't you just write a script that will add the remote and fetch the PR. this fits straight into the "automate what I do often" philosophy, I don't think it's worth giving the power away to the browser.
AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immunity Impossible
Looks like CSAM detection is iOS/iPadOS only (for now?). From Apple:

- Communication safety in Messages

[…] This feature is coming in an update later this year to accounts set up as families in iCloud for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey.*

- CSAM detection

[…] To help address this, new technology in iOS and iPadOS will allow Apple to detect known CSAM images stored in iCloud Photos.

- Expanding guidance in Siri and Search

[…] These updates to Siri and Search are coming later this year in an update to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
To add a little to the grandparent, Park County's figures are skewed to the extreme by the Breckenridge/Frisco/Dillon metropolis, which isn't actually in Park County, but rather on its border in neighboring Summit Co.

Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon, Silverthorne, Keystone, and to some extent Copper Mountain are radiating an insatiable demand for affordable housing. Building is slow due to the mountainous terrain and lots of NIMBYs.

Park county, in contrast, is still a working man's county. The Placer Valley, which lies over Hoosier Pass to the South of Breckenridge, is full of active mines from top to bottom, and South of that lies the vast mountain meadow called South Park. The valley and park can hold Summit's bedroom communities, and they inevitably will. It's just going to take a while to build them up.
WhatsApp on iOS for example will by default, save images that people send to you to your photo gallery.
Mass produced food has a pretty elastic supply.
I just have non-devs use the browser interface and this seems to work for text edits and image uploads and stuff.

And some statisticians and stuff only know how to use the GitHub desktop client and that works ok for 99% of them. Drives me crazy because I only use cli and struggle to help when they get blocked with the client.
I know several people who've gotten covid after being fully vaccinated.

Now did they have serious issues and need to go to the hospital? So far no.
Would this not be solvable by just making it all arbitary WASM code? As long as the simple WASM sandbox is secure, it doesn't matter how buggy your internal SQLite implementation is.
A lot of twitch is built on childish memetic cringe behavior, I suspect there's a culture war going on behind the scenes. Nobody should have to suffer through hate, is what's important.
> your family photos ... could be construed as illegal in the hands of pervs, the images become child porn and can be added to the databases.

It's not as simple as that. Photos in the NCMEC database are tagged based on the severity of their content. The categories are A1, A2, B1, B2. According to this[0] PowerPoint presentation, page 22:

A = prepubescent minor
B = pubescent minor
1 = sex act
2 = "lascivious exhibition"

Apple are only searching for images tagged as "A1" by NCMEC and other agencies. This is the most extreme of the extreme. There is a massive gulf between the A1 category and anything you could even remotely conceive of being in anyone's family photos.

[0] https://www.prosecutingattorneys.org/wp-content/uploads/Pres...
That's what Jetbrains does
The problem is that, as much as this capability is disturbing, Apple chose it's first target well: It's difficult to be too vocal about this without the risk of getting labelled weak on underage sex trafficking and kiddie porn.

So, no matter the criticism, Apple won't seriously be pressured to reverse course, and after that the door is open on incremental increases in content monitoring.

(Not to mention the problems that could arise from false positives.)
Can we just stop using YouTube instead of complaining every time they do something totalitarian?JUST.STOP.USING.YOUTUBE
Cats Prefer to Get Free Meals Rather Than Work for Them, Study
What do you mean by democratic? Are you thinking of some kind of election system to replace mods, and if so have you seen such a mechanism work anywhere else on forums?
How else would you suggest full applications run in the browser. Desktop apps make use of SQLite all the time even when they are mostly server backed.

An example is that Telegram maintains a local db which stores the most recently accessed content so you can scroll through past messages and media without having to request them every time you view them.
Yea, actually there are plenty of books and papers about it.
I still use the "old reddit" mode. Cannot stand the narrow main page in the new view.
I'm so worried about what Reddit is doing to the world. Online communities like that only lend themselves to toxicity and echo chambers as they grow, and with most of us stuck at home during the pandemic those communities have become a primary source of human interaction - and not in any sort of healthy way. I sincerely think it is one of the top three factors (along with CNN and Fox News) in the dangerous level of polarization we're seeing between people in the United States.

Reddit develops it's own narratives, and those narratives end up being all that gets visibility (because of the comment upvote model). Ideas like 'all conservatives are MAGA losers, look at the idiots on /r/conservative', 'AOC and Bernie are God's gift to Earth' and 'minimum wage should be $45 and all student debt should be forgiven' are the only opinions upvoted. This directly leads to reactionary places like /r/The_Donald getting created. Then, when those communities get banned, it creates even more hostility and resentment. The best part of Donald Trump losing the election was that 80% of the front page wasn't articles shitting on him anymore.

I have to constantly remind myself that the people commenting on reddit are not an accurate representation of the real world, but I worry most people don't do that and legitimately believe people on the other side hate them. They react to this (inaccurate) belief with their own hostility and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I had to put my conspiracy hat on - I think nurturing this hostility between ideologies would be the best way for a foreign power to destabilize the US; they're probably already doing it to some extent.

Honestly, I'd like to give it up entirely but it still remains one of the best resources of really useful, non-marketing knowledge on the internet.
If password authentication is insecure, why don't most website authenticate with private key?

Because most people want to keep it simple.
Isn't the scanning routine searching for fingerprints? What happens if someone adds a fingerprint to the database, which matches something other than CSAM?
The threshold is cryptographically enforced. See page 4 of Apple's technical summary.
This sounds very promising! I imagine that eventually it’ll integrate with some way to find IPAs, and have a simpler way to detect input. Good start
I disagree. I think TFS is an abortion geared around project managers with dev features bolted on. The wiki is ok if you’ve never used other products and their optimizations require an understanding of TFS’ project management suite. I’ve never been able to teach non-TFSers how to use the wiki who don’t commit to learning TFS.
There are also active subreddits for specific brands like /r/djimavic and /r/SonyAlpha
First thing I’m wondering is how much garbage collection impacts the sequence timing. Love to see midi tools!
It's time to decentralize the internet, again
There are two pieces of tech that punch way above their weight: Lua and SQLite

So many apps could have just saved to a .db file instead of coming up with their own binary format. So many others could have just embedded a tiny, easily sandboxed, Lua library and added scripting languages, rather than embedding larger ones (or worse yet, implementing their own scripts).
To complement srfvtgb's point, even official unicode characters are not guaranteed to be included in all fonts. Having the glyph disappear on other platforms will probably be accepted as a fact of life, especially as it's a corporate logo.
> For users, if you enable this feature, but then lose your password, you are entirely screwed and Apple can't help you.

Exactly the same with the phone if you forget your PIN/passcode. So they already do this.
Surprised he didn't mention the Gill Sans shown in one of the screen shots. It's distinctive because of the "R".
I remember him from the Gambit Scheme days.

https://archive.jlongster.com/Open-Sourcing-My-Gambit-Scheme...
I'm confused as to what you are arguing. The concept is just an application of statistics. Less people will die from the broad application of the vaccine vs. not, so we choose to vaccinate.