skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the perceived problem is the database of hashes to be matched. If this is a database that can be contributed to by other parties this can be used to "frame" people of a crime. This can the be used for example to get rid of political dissidents etc.
Since there are just hashes in the database, this should be fairly easy.

This is what I THINK people are worried about. I don't have an Apple device so I haven't really fact checked all of this.
If generating electricity could be done carbon free via nuclear/solar/wind, and that electricity used to produce hydrogen via electrolysis, you'd have something for industrial/transportation uses.
> Sure, by all means block phrases like "kill yourself"

Even that will often lead to the scunthorpe problem.

I remember well once scouring through a post that was rejected on a forum to finally realize it was because it contained the phrase “tardive dyskinesia” which contained “tard” which alone was enough to deny the post, apparently.
This is why everyone use 10, 20 etc.

I think I remember there was a Renumber command that would reset any inserted numbers too?
I think it's a common misconception that old.reddit.com is still extremely popular. As a mod of a medium-large sub which should skew highly towards old.reddit.com (developer-focussed content, created at around the beginning of reddit itself), the percent of pageviews on old.reddit.com is right now around 8%.
Reddit's user base is poor and disaffected young men. Those might be valuable eyeballs to a warlord or a revolutionary but corporate America isn't buying.
Electricity production is only 20-40% of carbon generation (depending on what stat you're looking at and where). Nuclear power emits only a little less co2 than "clean" combined cycle nat gas when you account for the massive amount of concrete and energy for construction and decommissioning (aka lifetime emissions which is a stat rarely used for this reason).

Dirty electricity production (coal primarily) also has an aerosol masking effect the latest IPCC report estimates to be 0.5-0.8C in cooling - an effect we lose when we switch to renewable (which we should do anyway as this bandaid will need to be ripped off eventually).

The post you're replying to is exaggerating but a decarbonized economy will look nothing like what we have now.
> "They've turned your device into a dragnet for content the powers that be don't like. It could be anything. They're not telling you"

They're pretty explicitly telling us what it's for and what it's not for.

> "And you're blindly trusting them to have your interests at heart, to never change their promise. You don't even know these people."

You should probably get to work building your own phone, along with your own fab, telecoms, networks, - basically the entire stack. There's trust and policy all over the place. In a society with rule of law we depend on it. You think your phone couldn't be owned if you were important enough to be targeted?
It's a dam-break moment for Apple on privacy - until now, people could be unaware, or wave away , concerns about storing iCloud data exclusively on government servers because it was China, promoting ""antivirus"" software on boot because it was Russia, not encrypting iCloud backups because who knows maybe that's just been a complete oversight for years even after detailed reporting on how Apple used it to escape arguing about encryption after San Bernardino, and additionally made it super easy to get the backups, just show me a warrant

Now it's on _your_ phone in _your_ country. No handwaving, no sticking ones hand in the sand. The only hopeful argument being posited is that somehow this will "make iCloud more private in the long run"
I think I answered my own question by asking it. I think only the DDF would have to be ported. However, further discussion is welcome, since I'm still curious about Tokio's future with WASM.
This is throwing the baby (pictures) out with the bathwater. I am for better or worse deeply rooted in the Apple tree (phone, laptop, tablet, and, recently, watch); for all its occasionally infuriating and arguably stupidly designed warts, the fact that so many features disappear and Just Work is something you can nary say for other ecosystems.
You saying one conspiracy is 100% true but another one is laugh out loud impossible?
This seems ironically complex. If starting from zero, why have any dots at all? Don’t make sense.

I’ll continue using ChronVer. https://chronver.org

(Full disclosure, this is my site)
Ok I'll admit it. I'm the dingus who is still using https and login/password. It's how I learned to use it years ago and since I only ever access GitHub via cli it's all I've ever learned. I don't program anything complex and I've never put anything secure up on GitHub (it's public, after all, so i had the expectation that all info on there is insecure). I don't understand why this is being deprecated when it's the default suggestion GitHub provides you when you add a new repo to your profile so that you can connect your local git repo to it. For hosting my trivial personal projects it seems so silly to have to go onto github's web interface and click through a bunch of their ui to build a personal passkey(which is just a password with a different name afaict). Am I just not the intended audience for the change or am I missing something crucial that doesn't make this seem like a bunch of extra effort for no meaningful change?
[2013]ish if I remember.

Also note the ABI for C++ exceptions followed by G++ et al is actually documented as part of the Itanium C++ ABI :

https://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html
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It's also not even wrong in so many ways that it really highlights how far DF has fallen over the years. Really ugly stuff, handwaving about hashing and nary a mention of perceptual hashing and collisions. Not a technology analysis of any sort.
Guess it’s 42% for Pfizer according to this preprint.[1] That’s July, so presumably even lower now. I thought I saw 47% somewhere more official but can’t find it now.

[1]https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v...

“ However, in July, the effectiveness against infection was considerably lower for mRNA-1273 (76%, 95% CI: 58-87%) with an even more pronounced reduction in effectiveness for BNT162b2 (42%, 95% CI: 13-62%).”
What are those cases where they might be checked by humans? To determine whether it's an innocent baby bath? If you have naked photos of a partner which happen to hit a statistical match for certain patterns that are similar to CSAM? These aren't far fetched scenarios, these are exactly the most likely types of photos that would be likely flagged. Are you okay with those photos being passed around Apple's security review team for entertainment? Leaked to the press if you later run for office?

How about in 15 years when your small children aren't small? Is this the magical software that can tell the difference between 18 year old boobs and 17 year old? The danger isn't to child molesters, it's to people who get incorrectly flagged as child molesters and need to fight to prove their innocence.
Do you want to be the one to explain PGP and revcerts to somebody who has used the same password for everything their whole life?
that one i did take for a spin.

i must say that the experience is quite horrible - that torture of having to write map/reduce functions, added with some erratic behavior in regards to data integrity (inserted entries silently discarded, sync to the remote couchdb instance working somewhat whimsically). as soon as your dataset is sizable in any regard (tens of thousands of records in a collection, if i recall the terminology) it begins to just break apart.

was writing a browser extension, and used pouch with the hope of keeping its persistence local and avoid needing a server. seeing that it leaks tried to trade it for a couchdb server. seeing how bad sync is, and that couch is not very comfortable to work with either ended up throwing the thing in favor of a postgresql+postgrest backend.
My understanding is that you should not upload these photos to the cloud anyway. The cloud is not your computer and who knows, maybe apple engineers might be snooping on them, or there could be a hack and so on..Putting on the cloud is like sharing with Apple.
I don't think i've ever been to reddit.com without an /r/ after the name.
>It's disappointing it never went anywhere.

There's probably a sound reason for that
Throwing my support in for Fork as well. I've been following it since it was a free beta and it's always been a great product.

As mentioned, the developer(s) are very responsive to e-mails and have been very nice when dealing with my stupid questions and suggestions.

Definitely recommended.
The problem is that then you have to write them on disk, since node expects to find a directory named node_modules somewhere. And yes you can expand them in /tmp that is typically mounted on a tmpfs (but not on Windows), but still you have to pass trough some kind of filesystem.
IF there are multiple matches, IF it's going to icloud, THEN a 'derivative image' will be show for screening and IF deemed to be warranted, sent to NCMEC.
Don't you think that telling people now that there will be a "check" at Apple before things get reported to NCMEC could be a PR lie to keep people calm?

They can easily say afterwards that they're "frankly" required to directly report any suspicion to enforcement agencies because "that's the law", and they didn't know because that was an oversight?

That would be just an usual PR strategy to "sell" something people don't like: Selling it in small batches works best. (If the batches are small enough people often don't even realize how the whole picture looks. Salami tactics are tried tool for something like that; used for example in politics day to day).
The solution that everyone actually uses until they learn the unnecessary details is "take a backup of relevant files and blow away & redownload the repo".
Most people don’t have that ability in their mouse and even many people who do don’t know about it. UX should always be easily accessible and to as many people as possible.
Measles isn't a valid comparison for a control strategy. It isn't commonly spread by asymptomatic patients. There are no animal reservoirs. The measles vaccine is far more effective at really blocking infections rather than just preventing severe symptoms. So your hopes are unfounded.
Had to edit title a bit due to hn character's limit.
> I think we should recognize our society has historically oppressed and impoverished the majority of black people.

Okay, now that we've acknowledged it happened historically how do we make sure it doesn't continue? Treat those same people differently based on the color of their skin?

> Colorblindness does not allow that.

What are you talking about? It absolutely does, you can understand that treating people based on race is incorrect. You are blind to the color of their skin for today.

If you treat them any differently because of their skin color you're inherently believing they are different because of their skin color.

> Beyond that, I owe you no explanation.

Then don't post on a _discussion_ board? You're kidding, right? I guess I won't expect anything else, but I'm not sure why you're here in the first place then?
Just learned about him a few weeks ago (here). I bought three of his books and so far have only read The Invinvible Based on this I will read more and recommend him. I'm happy to have found more 60s space fiction - I'm not very sophisticated in the area but would compare it to e.g. Asimov. I love the mix of interstellar travel and a mastery of all things nuclear but still using telegraphs and slide rules.
> but it has only continued to grow in terms of users

That's because I make a new account everytime I'm doxxed, banned, or censored.

Now that you mention it, I realize that the reddit blocking, censoring and quarantining system basically is a free way to drive up their 'new user' count.

What a joke of a website and a company. Cannot wait til it dies.
Love 'em or hate 'em, it is hard to believe Apple's lawyers haven't very carefully figured out what kind of derivative image will be useful to catch false positives but not also itself illegal CP. I assume they have in fact had detailed conversations on this exact issue with NCMEC.
You sure are making a lot of assumptions while lecturing others about how they should not make assumptions.
Yes and no. That's great for niches but not for general, high profile topics, a country subreddit for instance.
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And young people, oftn the most screwed over by housing and employment conditions, still don't vote

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/upshot/youth-voting-2020-...

(probably that's part of why they're the most screwed over)
This is interesting because it’s trivial to use someone else’s Siri and make it search whatever you want.

(I can trigger my partners with 75% reliability if I just speak in a high pitched voice)
Yeah :)
Also, it's funny that Apple here goes for bigger risks: reputation, trust, all of that noise, then risks of false accusations.
And for what? To help with stopping the pedophile networks.

“But no, wait, they want to use algorithms to scan my photos, it’s a privacy violation...”

Just wake up.
It’s also being repeated over and over that apple is doing this so they can later do some more evil scanning. They haven’t said anything about that either.
Key based auth is much more resistant to phishing. Its just one command to have openssh generate a key pair on your computer, and you're done. Password auth in general cannot go away fast enough.
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or we could just go nuclear
I wrote my suicide note on my own subreddit and got banned (site wide) for threatening violence. Err, OK, gotta find a safer place for that.

Sadly, as you might be able to tell, I wasn't able to do it. It's terrifying. Also why should I die while worse people live? Gotta do something about them before going myself, d'uh.
Explanation and comparison between platforms: https://mobile.twitter.com/mcclure111/status/142590242262759...
Sure, wait for the thing to crater. There is your proof.
There is a scifi book 'Occam's Razor' that treats time as coming in quantum-like chunks. As far as people in this universe are concerned, time is continuous but in between the time-chunks, there is room for millions of other time-chunks for millions of other universes.
It's 3 minutes assuming the fuelling station is at peak pressure - 700 bars. After the first fill up it needs several minutes to pressurize. Also such a facility costs at least $1mln and is unlikely to ever get much cheaper.
He is clearly unaware of /r/cannedsardines
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Good point, thanks, updated my comment.
Is the latest iteration of Digg a totally different entity or something? I have coworkers who use digg a ton - doesn’t seem dead to me.
Any idea about the round trip efficiency for other synthetic fuels like methane or propane? It's probably awful but may be worth the increased density over hydrogen.
That’s silly. The design is so narrowly tailored to scan for CSAM that nobody can use it for anything else.
> I don't understand why this is being deprecated when it's the default suggestion GitHub provides you when you add a new repo to your profile so that you can connect your local git repo to it.

It suggests SSH commands by default for me, I assume this depends whether you have added an SSH key to your account or not.
Really? I'd say they are closer to unreasonably irrelevant. Maybe I could stretch myself to see a Chomebook being interesting and relevant. To me seeing the other two would make me look negatively on the brands/products. If those who sees an add get nothing out of it except wasted time I'd say they are spam. Those sound like 100% spam to me in /r/linux.
In-device scanning is used for the feature that warns teens (and if =< 12yr old, their parents).

Biggest mistake Apple has ever done was to roll out three different features at once and announce at the same time. This is creating all sorts of confusion.
No. The CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) scanning is comparing hashes of photos about to be uploaded to iCloud against a specific set of images at NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) which are specific to missing and exploited children. It is not machine learning models looking for nudes or similar. It is not a generalized screening. If enough matched images are found, the images are flagged for manual verification. If the manual verification confirms that the images match specific images in the NCMEC database, law enforcement is informed.

Be aware that almost all cloud providers screen photos. Facebook reported 20 million images in 2020, Google reported half a million. Dropbox, Box, and many, many others report images. See https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/gethelp/... to see a complete list of companies that screen and report images.

The other thing Apple announced which is completely separate from the CSAM photo scanning is additional parental controls for the Messages app. If a parent opts in for their under-13 children, a machine learning model will look for inappropriate material and warn the child prior to showing the image. The child is also told that their parent will be flagged if the child looks at it anyway. For 13-18 year olds whose parents opted in, the teen is warned first about the content. If the teen continues past the warning the image is shown and no further action is taken. Parents are not flagged for children 13 and over. As I said, this is a parental control for pre-adult kids. It requires opt-in from the parents and has no law enforcement implications.
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We're all guilty of overthinking sometimes and under-thinking others.

Of course, context is everything.. so perhaps the blanket statement is a useful reminder for the author.. but also maybe dangerous advice for those reading who this just gives license to continue not putting enough thought into things they should.

A bias towards action might be a good default, but how many of us are dealing with untenable situations stemming from rushed decisions?

So be careful with this advice.. and do your best to know yourself and the situation.
Thats less than 0.5% of traffic tho, most of it is from the official apps nowerdays.
Imagine taking a photo or have in your gallery a photo a dear leader doesn't want to spread. Ten minutes later you heard a knocking at your door. That's what I'm most worried about, how is this not creating the infrastructure to ensnare political dissidents.
> chances are you have a gmail and have 46289902834 unread messages that they auto filter for you in an ads tab (being facetious) and force you to use webmail.

A fix for this:

1. Create a label called "Promotions"

2. Create a new filter for Matches: category:promotions, Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "Promotions".

The Skip Inbox setting means your inbox will stay clean! You can do similar things for the Updates and Forums categories, but don't skip inbox on those.
You forgot about the part where you run `git push` later and realize it didn't save your passkey, so you have to make another one. This time you Google how to save it and copy the top answer on StackOverflow, which uses the git credentials store to save it in plain text in your ~/.gitconfig file. Now is the passkey more secure?
>" will likely reach cost parity with diesel as early as 2025 if the right policy incentives are in place"

Weasel terms instead of honestly telling that we will increase the cost of owning and operating regular trucks until they will become uncompetitive. Nothing's wrong with it if the end benefits outweigh the economic harm. Just please do not insult people's intelligence.

P.S. There is a good chance that sometime in the future batteries tech might improve to the point that makes them competitive for truckers as well but this remains to be seen
I'm not an expert in fuel cell efficiency, I'd read that number somewhere and a quick google confirms it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/round-trip-...

The energy density situation looks less attractive when you include the beefy 350-bar storage tanks, and the fuel cell itself. A battery just has two wires sticking out and that's it.
http://www.immigrationlawgroup.net/h1b-rfes-and-denials-incr...

Not hard to find.
But what i'm saying is all these escrow companies used to buy multi-million dollar houses are out of business. they don't exist anymore. Did they transfer their records to some government agency?
Yes, if they wind up part of a child porn investigation. Your cloud account gets hacked. Some perv gets your images. He is then arrested and his "collection" added to the hash database... including your family photos.

Context often matters more than the nature of the actual content. Police aquire thousands of images with little hope of ever knowing where they originated. If they are collected by pervs, and could be construed as illegal in the hands of pervs, the images become child porn and can be added to the databases.
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Lots of people responding to this seem to not understand how perceptual hashing / PhotoDNA works. It's true that they're not cryptographic hashes, but the false positive rate is vanishingly small. Apple claims it's 1 in a trillion [1], but suppose that you don't believe them. Google and Facebook and Microsoft are all using PhotoDNA (or equivalent perceptual hashing schemes) right now. Have you heard of some massive issue with false positives?

The fact of the matter is that unless you possess a photo that exists in the NCMEC database, your photos simply will not be flagged to Apple. Photos of your own kids won't trigger it, nude photos of adults won't trigger it; only photos of already known CSAM content will trigger (and that too, Apple requires a specific threshold of matches before a report is triggered).

[1] "The threshold is selected to provide an extremely low (1 in 1 trillion) probability of incorrectly flagging a given account." Page 4 of https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Or liquid fuels like gasoline or kerosene that don't just boil off if you don't keep them compressed. I'd like to see that analysis.
No no no, first you need to find several admins. Otherwise you'll get banned along with your subreddit lmao
Yes, and you can put a number on the probability of that happening, say a fixed p << 1. And then you can choose the number of required matches before flagging, say N. And then (assuming independence [1]) you have an overall probability of p^N, which you can make arbitrarily small by making N sufficiently large. (I'm pretty sure that's how Apple came up with their "1 in a trillion chance per year".) And then you still have manual review.

[1] you could "help" independence by requiring a certain distance between images you simultaneously flag.
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It's not a stupid fuel in cases where you need massive amounts of energy and can't spare the weight... Like rockets and... rockets
My interactions with recruiters have generally been similar. I think it must be a numbers game where basically they just "spray and pray" and only engage the most dedicated prospects that they trawl up. I'm surprised the recruiter didn't just ghost him. That's what's happened to me whenever I say I'm not looking but happy to chat.
Friends can disagree. Everyone has their own biases - good and bad. I think it’s always good to keep people’s biases in mind when reading their work.