skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s be honest - YouTube’s “moderation” is just a vector for the illiberal employees who have gained control over it to amplify their own ideology while suppressing all others. The justifications used for such actions are just a set of shallow euphemisms that try to falsely frame it all as a virtuous program to benefit a society they claim doesn’t know any better and must be treated like children. It’s inappropriate and their opaque influence and control over information is no less disturbing than foreign propaganda from state actors.

We need to treat large digital platforms like public utilities. Social media is the new digital town square. And large tech conglomerates are too powerful, and need to be split up where possible, and regulated like a public agency where they can’t be (network effects).
Right, but neither is the CSAM code being used to detect anything but CSAM.

If a bit can be flipped to make the CSAM detector go evil, surely it can be flipped to make photo search go evil, or spotlight start reporting files that match keywords for that matter.

There is nothing special about this CSAM detector except that it’s narrower and harder to repurpose than most of the rest of the system.
Simple steps to learn a new programming language or a framework
Ask HN: Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone?
Kicked off by everything happening with Apple, anyone in this community who has tried these different devices? What's your impression? What are the big problems that need solving?

I've seen a lot of people referencing these devices so figured I would ask about firsthand experience.
Yes, of course that is true. I use iCloud Photos and find this terribly creepy. If Apple must scan my photos, I'd rather they do it on their servers.

I could maybe understand the new implementation if Apple had announced they'd also be enabling E2E encryption of everything in iCloud, and explained it as "this is the only way we can prevent CSAM from being stored on our servers."
Ham Radio does not depend on internet backbone. In the extreme, you can communicate across the world with a few basic electronic components which can be built at home. Sure, government can listen to it but it's trivial to encrypt (illegal on Ham bands) if you're oppressed by the government.

> nice list for their shit to be confiscated.

I am not sure if this would go well in the USA.
I assume that also includes the Cache API's Storage?
Clearing site data makes total sense. Otherwise after a year of web usage you have multiple GB of stored website data that the user does not know what it is being used for or how to clear it.

And the majority of uses for local data is to cache fetched data or store temporary preferences not worthy of being in the server side database.
1919 for any non-white person (or woman) would be a terrible idea. 1991 at least you don't have to worry about segregation.

Assuming you're talking about staying in an industrialized nation.
I would argue that in a discussion about privacy, if trust is brought up it’s no longer a discussion about privacy.
I haven't studied revolutions much but I know they are the ultimate form of authoritarianism. The last one actually enforced freedom.
There is no opressor class in capitalism, both want the state and most even confirm it every 4 years. In a democracy the government is exchangeable but the economic conditions remain. That's why Democrats will always increase the mil budget and the Reps will always leave some social welfare.

Please continue the discussion if you disagree.
> the technology does exist, publicly and on the record

And not only that, but with a little footnote saying "* Features available in the U.S." - in other words, publicly and on the record: this can be switched on and off on per jurisdiction. If another jurisdiction comes and says "here's my list of hashes of illegal images", how can Apple say "sorry, can't do..."?
> This is a misunderstanding of the system. It's not a classifier, it's a hash

You know that a perceptual hash has more in common with a classifier than with a cryptographic hash, right?

If they were using a crypto-hash, then, yes, your argument could be valid, but with perceptual hashing your picture of your baby in the bath could VERY well generate the same hash as a CSAM image. And nobody believes Apples "1 in a trillion" number.
Thanks for the link - I signed up for a free 2 GB Nextcloud with one of their partners. Experimenting with non-iCloud hosted notes now. It's a bumpy ride, lots of room for improvement.
We have a gaming platform where users can download and play full games in the browser. We don't use indexedDB though, we use the Cache API.
I can relate to this. My parents are baby boomers and not in the best of health or in a good financial situation. Being privileged enough to be in the tech industry and doing relatively well financially, I can foresee my parents moving in and living with me to help with costs and assistance. As this generation continues to age, I suspect multi-generational households will become more common.
Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds
> That's how long these companies have been using PhotoDNA on the server side.

Then where are their published peer reviewed papers demonstrating their false positive rate? The burden of proof is on them and they don't have any verifiable public data at all.
The cynic in me says they’re taking advantage of the fact that the web UI is a lower friction experience to drive more people towards Codespaces (which are not cheap, by the way).
Amazon recruiting is for shit.
I'm early enough my career to not at all find it trite. Open-source has certainly been the most exciting and fulfilling aspect of my software work so far. If I was thrown back to the 90s with knowledge of 2020s open-source culture, I'd be frustrated as hell.

I didn't fully appreciate how important open-source is as a 21st century movement until I read The Cathedral and the Bazaar this year. Hearing the open-source development story of SQLite also blew my mind a little.

I can see why you're so energized by open-source firmware.
Don’t panic in general. It’s really bad for you.
From your description it looks to me like the foundry industry moved from one-time lump-sum for everyone, to one-time lump-sum (font designing cost) for some rich companies, and pay-per-use for everyone else.

Was it effectively a bad move ?
Price is the quantitative indication of value.
The potential for this is overblown and I think a lot of people haven’t taken the time to understand how the system is set up. iOS is not scanning for hash matches and phoning home every time it sees one, it’s attaching a cryptographic voucher to every photo uploaded to iCloud that, if some number of photos represent hash matches (the fact of the match is not revealed until the threshold number is reached), then allow Apple to decrypt the photos that match. This is not something where “oops bug got non-iCloud photos too” or “court told us to flip the switch to scan the other photos” would make any sense, some significant modification would be required. Which I agree is a risk especially with governments like China/EU that like to set conditions for market access, just not a very immediate one.
It looks like viral load diminishes faster which is a plus. However, I’d be willing to bet that almost all transmission happens when people are at their peak viral load. And so if peak viral loads are not differing between vaccinated and unvaccinated I’d guess we’re pretty much going to see unabated transmission amongst vaccinated.
I totally agree that those actions individually are not much. However, with enough people doing those small actions, it will add up in the long run. Plus we’re going to be better off with open alternatives.

They just lost a few thousands from me alone not upgrading all my iDevices for next model year. Savings go to privacy advocacy organizations.
If webSQL were a thing, that list would include webSQL data too.
There’s a long list of alternatives (https://alternativeto.net/software/youtube/) but none have the kind of mindshare, content, and momentum YouTube has. We need content creators of all kinds to publish on decentralized platforms, not just those who have been banned and driven away from YouTube. But it’s a chicken and egg thing - advertisers won’t bother with sites that have small audiences. I think I agree that the users who care (particularly political moderates and conservatives) should consider where they spend their attention if they hope to halt the censorship trend.
HN is indeed not the proper forum to have this conversation. The epidemiological data indicates the the vaccines are not exhibiting ADE in the Delta, so no need to panic. Yet framing the conversation in terms of 'those people' is unproductive.

The ADE situation is of high concern. There is a huge open question in deciding whether to vaccinate kids or not. For kids the risk of covid death is a tiny 1% of the share of death from all cases. For hypothetical future strains that may exhibit ADE in combination with current vaccines, the existing epidemiologically data is simply irrelevant. There is a tiny possibility of 'the cure is worse than the disease' situation may develop in the future.

The Li paper is claiming in-vitro infection enhancing antibodies. This paper is modeling increased balance of infection enhancing antibodies for Delta. It appears we don't understand enough how ADE works to make foolproof predictions about future strains. There is huge public pressure to 'just give the kids the vaccine'. This may prove a mistake.

Concerns around kids and vaccinations (unclear of what nature, as we are not supposed to be transparent about such matters) are held by the scientific establishment and by the authorities. As of now, neither EU nor US have approved the vaccines for under 12s. US and half the Europe has approved only Pfizer for teens. In Europe, half the countries have not approved vaccines for teens, and the other half only approved in June 2021. UK and Germany are only vaccinating high risk teens: "STIKO [Ger] said in a statement that it recommends a vaccination only for those youngsters with an illness that raises their risk of a serious case of coronavirus."

PS. Dear downvoters. I'd appreciate if you'd also make a brief comment explaining your reasoning. Perhaps I missed something obvious. Think of it as a code review.

https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/public-health/covid-...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/causes-of-death-in-5-14-y...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/european-countries...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-panel-gives-limi...
Naw. The new Reddit design is much nicer than the old. There, I said it. It is much easier to use. It took them a while to iron out the bugs but it is way better.

Now their new mobile app video player… ho boy…..
When I was just starting out with git and hadn't really learned enough of the more advanced workflows in git I really wanted gitkraken. Much like the jetbrains software it has a license requirement so that can be a turn-off but if you're trying to teach git in a visual way on teaching projects this software is great.
Good point. Puerto Rico, Guam, and maybe even the Virgin Islands are proof of that. The Philippines too, but we didn't keep that island chain. 1898 is that birth of the US empire.
i meant downstream as in feature commits propagation between source repos. As in from SpaceX Mars R&D into Tesla's solar/storage Earth business.
Given that they obviously already have the capability to send software updates that add new on-device capability, this seems like a meaningless distinction. It’s already “just policy” preventing them from sending any conceivable software update to their phones.
Chodi is like the Indian version of TheDonald so no wonder. Not that /r/India is neutral either. Stop going to politics subs and you’ll be fine?
How many of them include erect adult penises and active participation in sex acts?

Apple's on-device list of hashes only includes images which have been classified "A1" under the CSAM categorisation scale. If any other photographs are accidental hash collisions to these images, it's going to be pretty damn obvious to the human reviewer.
It can be used as a better form of cache to make actions happen faster. So an instant messaging app for example can cache messages and stuff in a db so it does not have to refetch everything every time you switch chats.
Does toyata charge a premium? I feel like they sell mostly really cheap cars?
Holy shit, I can't believe they thought those tags would help discourage discrimination. That's a genuinely shocking lack of internet-street-smarts for a company that's so heavily involved in youth internet culture.
As the screws tighten, it’s fascinating to watch more and more moderates say “enough is enough”, while the ever-shrinking group of die-hard tankies are now just saying the quiet part out loud:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-need-big-brother-to-be...
Working with and implementing C++ exceptions for 30 years now, including implementing exception handling for Windows, DOS extenders, and Posix (all very different), and then re-implementing them for D, I have sadly come to the conclusion that exceptions are a giant mistake.

1. they are very hard to understand all the way down

2. they are largely undocumented in how they're implemented

3. they are slow when thrown

4. they are slow when not thrown

5. it is hard to write exception-safe code

6. very few understand how to write exception-safe code

7. there is no such thing as zero-cost exception handling

8. optimizers just give up trying to do flow analysis in try-exception blocks

9. consider double-fault exceptions - there's something that shows how rotten it is

10. has anyone yet found a legitimate use for throwing an `int`?

I have quit using exceptions in my own code, making everything 'nothrow'. I regret propagating exception handling into D. Constructors that may throw are an abomination. Destructors that throw are even worse.
I don’t know if the first half of 2020 is a good time frame for sampling as this is when the country had the largest amount of protests in history and the police are going to be making a lot of requests in retaliation.

Doesn’t make Apple look any better though. I’m curious about how often Google and Facebook hand over information.
You need to do some more research. Hydrogen is 57 times lighter than air, which means in the case of a leak, it disperses almost instantaneously...almost always completely dissipating before having the chance to ignite at all. Rapid depressurization will freeze nearly everything in it's path, minimizing your chances of a heat induced ignition. And unless you're giving it liquid oxygen, you have almost no chance of an explosion.

https://hydrogen.wsu.edu/2017/03/17/so-just-how-dangerous-is...
With intramuscular vaccination there are two types of "breakthrough". There is the real breakthrough where internal body organs have extensive viral replication. Then there's infection of the surface tissues of the tubes that run through our bodies.

Intramuscular vaccination provides long lasting antibodies to the body proper and these seep into the lungs surface tissues too. But there's no long term antibodies (or resident B or T cells) in the upper respiratory mucosa (throat/nose/sinuses).

That means even if you're doubly vaccinated + 2 weeks your nose/sinuses (where they test for virus) can be infected and shed virus. But just because you test positive in the upper respiratory mucosa does not mean your internal organs will be infected. This shows clearly in hospitalization vs. confirmed infection cases in the vaccinated.

So... there's breakthrough... and there's BREAKTHROUGH. Studies, and news reporting, really need to begin presenting a more nuanced message about these numbers. And more importantly we need intranasal vaccine boosters to follow intramuscular to end the pandemic.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/397 "the ideal vaccination strategy may use an intramuscular vaccine to elicit a long-lived systemic IgG response and a broad repertoire of central memory B and T cells, followed by an intranasal booster that recruits memory B and T cells to the nasal passages and further guides their differentiation toward mucosal protection, including IgA secretion and tissue-resident memory cells in the respiratory tract."

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evoluti... page 5, #8. "Whilst we feel that current vaccines are excellent for reducing the risk of hospital admission and disease, we propose that research be focused on vaccines that also induce high and durable levels of mucosal immunity in order to reduce infection of and transmission from vaccinated individuals. This could also reduce the possibility of variant selection in vaccinated individuals."
Careful with IndexedDB. There was a post here recently about how it is 100% broken on safari right now.
Slow and correct are arguably better than fast and broken
States need to put a law on the books with fines to prevent faux encryption and scans without warrants which are unauthorized by the device owner, further consent may not be covered nor may electronic suppliers attempt to lease or license equipment to circumvent these protections.
> The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, nonprofit organization established in 1984 by the United States Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Missing_%2...
Tests show all driver assist systems can be fooled
I’ve been writing and writing on abstract ideas regarding theories of values (i.e. axiologies) since 2018 or so. Some people find my essays/blogposts interesting and become followers of sorts. (Most find them incredibly wordy and roundaboutly.)

This is perhaps HN-flavored although I consider it obsolete. https://asemic-horizon.com/2019/03/13/the-wave/

This is maybe a better example of my more contemporary approach. https://asemic-horizon.com/2021/02/10/we-have-never-been-ase...

— edit: those are more about ethics, this may be closer to OP: https://asemic-horizon.com/2021/07/31/zero-chroma-infinity/
"Fast reflexes" wrapped up perfectly the movie, though. You see it at the start, you forget it because Burton is mostly useless, then bam, Chekhov's gun ending.
Why the 'Great Remote Work Experiment' may have been flawed
Not worth panicking about but it changes the lockdown mentality Australia has... at some stage we need to decide that we have flatlined the growth in people getting vaccines and we'll have to no longer lockdown.

But i suspect that wont happen until kids under 11 are vaccinated.
mind expanding on this? you've piqued my interest but I can't quite see the connection
"The first phase of the Cold War began shortly after the end of the Second World War in 1945. The United States created the NATO military alliance in 1949 in the apprehension of a Soviet attack and termed their global policy against Soviet influence containment. The Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955 in response to NATO. Major crises of this phase included the 1948–49 Berlin Blockade, the 1927–1949 Chinese Civil War, the 1950–1953 Korean War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The USA and the USSR competed for influence in Latin America, the Middle East, and the decolonizing states of Africa and Asia. "

Source is wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
Cats find it meaningful when social activity accompanies feeding. They play with the mouse not just because they're hungry but because they're lonely. They love to play with you to get fed for the same reason.

My two house cats are trained to tap (cat 1) or headbutt (cat 2) to get fed. Both of them will do the special behavior even if they have food. I don't expect them to "feel it" from solving a puzzle, but I think they relish having a social interaction.

It's easy to train a cat this way if you pick a behavior that they occasionally do spontaneously. Cat 1 might be a Russian Blue which does that, headbutting is much more generic and that's why we trained Cat 2 to do that.

Cat 3 in the barn likes to bite people, which is NOT a behavior we want to encourage however.
But that's precisely the question: why are they hiring?
It's free for open source work, and you can sign up as a student if you're still in school to get it for free for a while.

But yeah, I pay for it now because it's such a significant time saver for my day-to-day. I'm always aware of what my coworkers are doing because it auto-fetches every minute. I use it for code review as well, because I find it really easy and snappy to navigate file changes in a commit (I always use split view, and I almost always have "hide whitespaces changes" on). I has a great interface for interactive rebases as well, allowing to drag to reorder commits, etc. Good built-in merge conflict resolution tool.
I feel like there’s a fallacy for this but I’m not sure. Either way doesn’t matter the logic here isn’t that the US could careless about children , it’s that the US cares more about Gun rights than it does children , but that doesn’t say anything about the minimum level of care they have , only the maximum.
Making a custom OS update is pretty different from adding an entry into a database, and could also be mitigated against.
Clickbait headline.

> Infants between the ages of 9 and 15 months expend a stunning 50% more energy in 1 day than adults do, adjusted for body size. These wee dynamos consume and use up energy even faster than pregnant women and teenage boys, most likely to fuel their energetically expensive brains and organs.

> “Little people are not burning energy like small adults,” says Duke University evolutionary biologist Herman Pontzer, who led the new analysis of data from around the world. “They are burning energy superfast … like a different species.”
I'd be surprised if a baby in the bath—or indeed any legitmately innocent photograph taken by a parent—could ever be a perceptual match to images tagged as "A1" by NCMEC and other agencies. This is the most extreme of the extreme: prepubescent minors actively engaged in sex acts.
Wow more headlines trying to cause panic. When will this end its so mentally draining.

At this point im sure the reporting on covid is causing just as many mental health issues as covid itself.
Are you saying you haven’t seen the media express a concern that those two are becoming less democratic, or are you more concerned that my plan to kick out nations who don’t fall in line with the EU bureaucrats’ vision of the ideal economic and social policy is doomed to end in the dissolution of the bloc in a reductio ad absurdam?

Because if it’s the former I can find you lots of links, whereas if it’s the latter that’s merely the point.

https://ecfr.eu/article/for-europe-losing-britain-is-bad-kee...

https://amp.france24.com/en/live-news/20210501-human-rights-...
I see it as Apple taking voluntary steps to prevent the Earn IT Act (or something similar) from becoming law in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act_of_2020

Big tech companies are under a lot of US govt pressure right now to crack down on CSAM, most especially Apple because of their very low number of reports compared to most other tech giants. I think Apple saw this as a way to ease some of that government pressure while not jeopardizing their ability to use end-to-end encryption, which something like the EARN IT Act could effectively make illegal by requiring a government backdoor for all encrypted cloud services that operate in the US.

Apple probably saw the on-device CSAM scanning as a small, widely-acceptable concession to make that could prevent much bigger crackdowns, but maybe didn't anticipate the level of blowback from people seeing the CSAM scanning itself as an unacceptable government backdoor on their own device.