skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is false information, the scanning system is highly generalized to finding any type of photo via fuzzy matched perceptual hashes.

It can target a pride flag just as easily as CP.
I think you should look into the relationship between the NCMEC and the government. It's not just some arbitrary charity running it. They work with the government, with government regulations, while providing a layer of separation, that theoretically, should prevent government abuse.
Yeah these are good reports I guess, but it’s not helping the cause. People are already panicking about serpent dna and other crap and not taking vaccines. We know the vaccine prevents serious illness. If the breakthrough cases are indeed high, it means we should increase vaccination rates. However, the anti vaxxers will use this as proof that they shouldn’t vaccinate as it doesn’t stop the spread.
Great post.

Connecting motive and opportunity is not a fallacy
They're working at one of those places where you work less and earn more.
Here in Germany around Munich we have quite a few cooperative communities for retirees where retired people live together, take care of each other, with some assistance from nursing staff or food delivery and so on if it's needed.

From what I have heard it works very well, is much more dignified because elderly people can take care of themselves, keeps people active and is significantly cheaper.

Lots of the crisis around the retired population seems to come from the degree with which it has been commodified. People isolated from their family or community, taken care of by strangers, no social life, no stimulation, just horrible.

In the US in particular it seems to be amplified by the dominance of the nuclear family.
The GP is mentioning "recent" things. None of this is recent. I studied the idea of truth in high school. We studied it through the historical lens of Greek philosophy and how it influenced and evolved through following European philosophers up to modern times.

I'm often seeing people react to "fake news" and other trends like this is the first time humanity is dealing with such things. Historical revisionism, propaganda, all of these are as old as the first human settlements
more just showing the subconscious xenophobia that exists- i.e. i don't approve of my foreign neighbor so there must be something shady going on
I am by no means an expert but even I know the story is more nuanced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfPHZFsw40M
It's all about the bottom line. What emotion sells best in the modern-day attention economy? What keeps the clicks coming? What keeps the eyeballs watching? Well, that's what you can expect to see more of...
are you actually serious LOL
So you know it’s not just a fingerprint. Did you notice the parts about the safety vouchers and the visual derivatives?
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Hey all, I’m working on a free online flowchart editor. Its optimized for speed via keyboard shortcuts and a compact UI:

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I’m looking for feedback so I can make it better. I did a Show HN a few months back (below) and have made updates based on what people said then. It was mostly about usability and confusion for first time users.

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I got an email from an AWS recruiter recently with the subject "Join the AWS family yes or no?". My first reaction was to think "good god this feels like someone just passed me a note in middle school that said 'do you like me [ ] yes [ ] no?'". There's something to be said for a bit of professionalism in recruiting, especially when talking to someone who's been in the industry for 25 years.
You make good points but the comment I was responding to was very focused on people choosing to live somewhere based on what they like regarding the social atmosphere and feelings as opposed to economic concerns.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this is clearly less about cultural differences as much as it is about official party ideology.
It's really bizarre that the risk isn't more obvious to people. Apple is partnering with foreign countries organizations who will supply CSAM hashes except that there is no way Apple can actually verify this. To do so Apple would be asking these foreign organizations to send them CSAM creating a massive liability. Instead Apple will just be flagging arbitrary file hashes from countries that will absolutely poison the well.
Ooof, really bad name. Makes me think the project or maintainer are immature...
Clickable link:

https://www.knotend.com
this "take" makes literally no sense.
Something probably did happen. Apple no doubt became increasingly aware of just how legally culpable they are for photos uploaded to iCloud.

For content that is pirated Apple would receive a slap on the wrist, but for content that shows the exploitation of children? And that Apple is hosting on their owned servers? There is no doubt every government will throw their full legal weight behind that case.

Now they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Do they or do they not look at iCloud Photos? Well, not in the cloud i guess, but right before you upload them. Is that any better? I don't know? Probably not. They really have no choice though. They either scan in the cloud of scan on the device. Scanning in the cloud would at least let people know where their content truly stands, but then they can't advertise end-to-end encryption and on paper it may have felt like a bigger reversal.

I think the long and short answer is. Apple cannot really legally protect your privacy when it comes to data stored on their servers. The end.
I like to anecdotally track burrito prices.

When I worked in Hawthorne in 2010, there was a $4 burrito option. When I left in 2013, it was a $5.50 burrito.

In the bay area, it seems like burritos with guacamole have been $9-11 for several years now.

Restaurant breakfast burritos have seemingly gone up from $8 to about $12 in the last two years.

Grocery store deli counter breakfast burritos have gone up from about $3.50 to about $4.50.

Microwave burritos have gone up from $not-worth-it to $not-worth-it + 2 over the last couple years.

The diner down the street from me makes the best breakfast burrito for about $9, enough to feed two people. It's pretty amazing, considering it would probably cost me $6 to recreate from the grocery store. My favorite coffee shop in 2019 had a $12 burrito that was a bit overpriced but worth it; they shut down months before the pandemic ramped up, though. I suspect it was partially because of the burrito price. Their food was expensive enough that my wife and I would always share an entree regardless of how hungry we were. We live in a touristy area, and there are local restaurants we won't even consider going to because it's so overpriced.
http://xkcd.com/927/ sorry, but I had to
GitKraken is amazing, I'm a happy customer through work. makes me happy when electron apps aren't crap.
Does this explain WeWork?
I wish I were more sympathetic. But this generation:

- had cheap housing for years

- lived through a strong American economy

- had relatively cheap access to education

- had a cheaper tax burden

- many of them have pensions that are paid for by today’s workers

- spent most of their lives polluting the earth and not putting money aside for the cleanup

Not sure what other advantages this generation wants?
I think Apple has adopted a denylist instead of permitlist approach. They let all iPad and iPhone apps run unless the developer puts their app on the denylist.
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> Most people spend years learning the things that are required to understand how git works

They don't need to know how git works, they need to know how to use it.

Just like I don't need to know the details of an internal combustion engine to drive a car, someone who only does CSS work doesn't need to know how git works to push commits. A simple GUI interface suffices there.

The problem is that the official Git GUI interface is unbelievably bad and happily lets you put yourself into situations that the GUI is completely incapable of getting out of. A default GUI that can't essentially softlock itself would be fine for most casual users.
> the porn problem.

Is the pornography the problem, or is the the abuse of children?
This looks really cool, but not being able to self-host without an enterprise plan is a deal breaker for us :( We use Metabase right now not because we like it but because we can host it on our own servers, with our own firewalls, behind our own Cloudflare Access rules, etc etc. Understand why you might have chosen to go this route, though. Best of luck!
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The size of a high-power 60 Hz transformer is prohibitive in weight, both directly (where are you going to put it?) and in impact on price (shipping, amount of metal).

It ends up lighter, cheaper, and not much less efficient to do a high-frequency conversion instead, either as a boost directly from the 120V AC or as a DC-DC in the secondary.
Because it's only a hash that matches and then a court order is needed to get the actual contents.
Really, BASIC v2 is at its best as a scripting language to load and call machine language subroutines ...
I have a personal friend whose account was permanently banned (from reddit, not a particular sub) for using the word "retard".
Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz
So they can raise more VC. Seriously, what part of this don’t you understand?
I refuse to even click on the above link or any headline with similar sensationalism. If this is the direction news is going to keep going i can only see how fun life is going to be in the future. Anything you say will be so triggering to someone one way or another for no reason.

I already know that at work I hardly talk to anyone anymore because of fear that something i say will set someone off. This wasn’t an issue 5 years ago i use to love talking with people at work even when they completely disagreed with me at least we could talk.

Its one of the things that has accelerated my save everything and invest everything so i can be done with this crap and get on with my life. Likely just move back by family where I can actually have a normal conversation.
To lose money gaining market share so they can eventually sell ads to those eyeballs.

I still use old Reddit. If they get rid of old Reddit I’ll never go back.

I wish Kevin Rose had managed to keep Digg a competitor.
About halfway through the journalist makes the mistake of comparing the infection rate for vaccinated vs unvaccinated with the proportion of deaths coming from the vaccinated population. I see this in nearly every article I read- saying that the proportion of cases coming from the vaccinated is rising. At this point it’s nearly impossible to distinguish fact from fiction because the average article butchers basic statistics.
Looking at a single business in isolation is not sound financial reasoning.
Interesting. I’ve found them to be attracted to play that involves motion, didn’t know that playing with the mouse in any way social. As a whole, given a chance, they’re certainly social animals.

That said, “serve me” seems to be the work they prefer to put in to get their chow.
As a new algorithm, the algorithm clearly wanted to make a splash and have an impact.

This also makes room for the algorithm to bring in its own people.

Best strategy for a remaining employee is to suck up to the algorithm and try to transfer in to its team.
Appreciate the context. I like this take as well, it brings up questions about what "ownership" really means. Where do you land on privacy then, do you go radically open or radically closed, something else?
I believe, that this chaos is mostly caused by the leaked information, which was presented in a bit missleading way.

The fire was spreading, and Apple went along to announce it publicly. It was too late to argue for reading their materials properly. In-device scanning was on everyone’s head.

Some have argued, that leak was even intentional to lower pressures on new regulations. Or it was just whistleblowing.

But there is a lot of evidence, that Apple is going closer to full E2EE with this PSI system, and original goal might have been announce everything in incoming iPhone event. That might have ended even into the positive light.
Lollapalooza not ‘superspreader’ event, says city’s top public health official
I doubt a judge can find apple liable for hosting encrypted data if its illegal. That would mean every e2e storage solution, or even just encryption and storing files on a s3 bucket host would be liable.

Apple should use it's gigantic legal arm to set good precedents for privacy in court.
Why is that one special? People hold impacting opinions like "gays should (not) marry". Picking a side and saying "this perspective shouldn't exist" represents one group becoming dominant and trying to suppress the other.

Some people may think more accurate to talk about "extermination/concentration/ccollection". These opinions should be reflected if want an open conversation instead of oppression of a dominant group.

It's tempting to think that our own cultural group is the one in the right and that we need to educate others, but a quick look at History shows the limits of that mindset
Honest question, why is this noteworthy? Isn't driving on the I-5 mostly pretty chill/straightforward? My understanding of self driving is that all the concerns are about handling potential incidents at high risk situations (e.g. intersections, construction, etc)

Statistically speaking, one disengagement in ~10 hours of self driving feels like it's nothing to write home about.
Debian unstable isn't really meant to be a fully fledged desktop OS on its own. I mean, yes, it can be. But there are problems like the one you mentioned - around freeze time for the next release the entire update policy dramatically slows down.

Personally I'm a big fan of Fedora.
My favorite new news was Fauci telling all of you to get booster shots.
> Executives had looted companies by loading them up with debt that relied on optimistic cashflow, gave themselves bonuses for that "optimization", and then got bailed out when the cashflow slowed. These companies should have been restructured in bankruptcy, with the executives going to jail for violation of fiduciary duty.

By "optimistic cashflow", do you mean the assumption that the government wouldn't suddenly ban most companies from doing anything that would earn them any money for months on end? Because until they did, that seemed like a totally reasonable assumption.
Steve Jobs on Privacy (2020)
A richer email experience would be rolling out JMAP in the mainstream. A logo? Feels like the ultimate cop-out.
Are the broad conclusions really that much new information?

Were we really particularly scientifically blind to the basic energy usage as a function of age, or is this a somewhat more precise measure than was available before?

Of course there is a lot of half-accurate folk wisdom about how much you eat when you're growing or old or whatever else, and it's useful to dispel and correct that a bit (but I'm assuming that data already existed)

It would be nice to have the actual advance this study made over previous information be the center of the show instead of an offhand remark which is basically just a joke (both in the title and at the head of the article). It just seems like the important part of the story is absent.
With FOCAL, though, they were more like modules rather than floating point values; you could address blocks of code ("groups") by, for lack of a better expression, the integer portion of the number, with the fractional portion being the line number within that group.
No, it's not a company that hosts and distributes GIFs. It's a company which has a stranglehold on a large portion of the planet's communication, as well as a stranglehold on services which are allowed to interact with that communication.
There is a DRM scheme that uses fingerprinting to detect unauthorized play (Cinavia), but it requires the player to implement the detection.

In practice this just means you can't play ripped movies using blu-ray players or Sony devices like Playstations.
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A1 is nowhere near the most extreme material with which police must deal. Not even close. This is called child abuse imagery for a reason. Sex acts are literally the entry level for A1.
Ouch, the window scenario is a real bummer.
Try this version https://shottr.cc/dl/Shottr-1.4.9-beta.dmg, it adds ⌘⇧2 to capture an active window. I wasn't sure if the window shadow on a transparent background is a good thing, I added a wallpaper to the backdrop. Let me know if it solves the problem.
They could’ve kept Windows & Linux in sync and kept Mac separate. As they said themselves, “Mac has always held a special place in [their] heart.”
I may be misunderstanding you, but what you’re describing sounds like the classic idea of decision matrices.
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Hello from your friendly co-tinkerer and misfit!

I needed a better method to manage 3 and 4 button gestures on Linux laptops. I wrote `Swipe Linux Gestures` to suite my requirements. Since it works well for me, I am sure this would be useful for others.

You can download the binary or build it yourself. See: https://github.com/evuraan/Swipe or https://evuraan.info/Swipe/

Have a good day!
> It wasn't "memoryholed".

It wasn't? Where can I watch a copy of it then?
But isn't vaccine supposed to make the virus less severe? I've seen many of my relative or friend of a friend who caught the virus weeks after getting the vaccine. Most of them have less severe effect, some of them still have critical condition..

At this point if even vaccine is not effective, then we're not sure how to kick this virus ass anymore

I'm still pro to get vaccine btw, I'm getting it once I am eligible :/
Do you think the same for Brainfuck?
I think this has been developed by Apple attempting to balance a complex issue: E.g. Government request asking them to report with certainty that their cloud storage is not used for illegal activity (CP in this particular case but each country/govt may end up with different requirements).

Apple thought they found a clever way to satisfy a government request of "Can you guarantee your storage is not used to house XYZ". Apple then continues to be able to advertise 'privacy' while retaining E2E encryption (or at least have E2E across all services eventually).

What they didn't forsee is the potential slippery slope backlash that the IT community has become concerned about.

The scanning feature could be used in more nefarious ways (if modified in future). For example. The hash checking could be altered to check and hash against each photo metadata field instead of the photo itself.

Now we can find who took photos in a particular location at a particular point in history while still retaining E2E!

Would it go that far? Or can we trust Apple to stop moving the line in the sand?
There is no way this doesn't get out of hand. This program is now the number one hacking target for every nation on earth. Currently it scans for CSAM, but can 'Free Hong Kong' images get added? What about Q or anti Putin literature? What if the US government believes incredibly sensitive documents were photographed and lives depend on finding out who did it? Is apple going to start reporting teens for selfies? This is a stone throw from escalating to minority report. I know this seems a little far fetched but it is very rare for governments or companies to willingly become less intrusive, it always escalates.
See: https://github.com/evuraan/Swipe or https://evuraan.info/Swipe/
I guess nature perfected what the Wuhan lab could not.
With JSI, React Native will be as fast as Native iOS/Android
I don’t know mate, even if there is only the potential for a dangerous crime, we need to keep these criminals off our communication infrastructure until we know for certain. Perhaps a better idea is a public/private partnership between all the big search engines, social media companies and police organizations who want to join and can pay dues.

Information sharing between members of the federation would reduce crime and spread of violent content. For example, when Google links a visitor to a harmful website, they can ping the local police with basic metadata about that user (could reuse the code from GDPR export). Google can lend its AI to categorize the alerts so local police know to be on the lookout for e.g. support for “The Big Lie” or local militia groups.

This way, the officers can stay aware of any potential threats to the safety of the children in their town, but maintain the ability to act proportionally and in context. Continuing with the example of a violent Google search, the alert might be a “P0”, but the police live in the same community as the suspect. If they’re not familiar with the data subject yet, they can use the alert to get a warrant for more information from Google. Or maybe they know the alert is a false alarm because the suspect is actually a government worker researching misinformation networks, so they instruct the AI to ignore alerts like it in the future.

We need to be on alert. With the proliferation of encryption, protecting citizens from harmful and increasingly dangerous information has never been more critical.
I can't open the article, it seems redirected to insider.com/asia
Electron does potentially have some security implications. Although, as others have pointed out, the 1Password development team likely has enough knowledge and manpower to keep up.
I absolutely adore the name.
silly citizen, having subsidized intnet is for communists and cuba is communism!
I'm not sure why it follows that only one of the two matters, or exactly what that even means in this context.
What about the intranasal vaccine?
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So who is responsible for this decision? Is it Tim Cook?
Shouldn’t there be a “with existing vaccines” be attached to that?

Delta was particularly infectious due to some mutations, but are those mutations antithetical in some way to antibody production? Why can’t b-cells just update their response and block that pathway with a new vaccine?

My understanding is this was always expected to be whack a mole with the virus anyway. All other endemic coronavirus reinfect people.
In regards to your second link, I found this quote coming to mind while reading about your linkages to chromaticity:
“Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.” - Ulysses
This too if you dig a little deeper is an allusion to Aristotle’s work. So I would say that many others have also found abstract analogous meaning in the way in which we decipher color and the way in which we decipher the world.
Vaccine passports are dumb for this reason. Somebody choosing to be at higher risk does not increase the risk to other other than clogging up hospital resources
Yes, the vaccines are still very effective against severe disease. It is transmissibility that's changed dramatically.