skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'You're clueless' if you're worried about the technical definition of a 'Ponzi Scheme', when colloquially, it's clearly a scam in which participants gain book value only to the extent that there is an every growing number of idiots willing to continue participating, i.e. a 'Ponzi-like Scheme' for all intents and purposes.

"Bitcoin doesn't "burn oil", it's at 55-60% renewable" - 'it doesn't matter' from which source it draws energy because it's effectively (by and large) the same pool of energy that other, far more useful mechanations are bidding on and drawing from, and of course, it's an enormous amount of energy wasted.

"As for relevancy, it has an exponentially growing user base"

Which is false, it has zero user base, because it can't be 'used' for anything, which is the entire point.

"A trillion dollar market cap " again a bit 'clueless' to get into pedantic definitions because that has absolutely nothing to do with what a 'market cap' is.

Bitcoin had some promise even as it was a little bit of a hustle, it never materialized, now it's a total waste of time and energy.

People can waste each other's time, but not our energy.

Thankfully, it's so wasteful politicians will eventually hone in and ban mining it, they'll have no choice.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/canberra-records-new-...

4 cases for the population of 431,215, but the presummable point remains, is this justified?

Melbourne is currently in the 6th lockdown, may this be the future of governing moving forward?

Lockdown does solve every problem ever I guess, gun violence, traffic accidents... you name it.
Have you seen the Samsung "The Frame" range? They really look like a painting, they have art you can display, and I'd guess you could add others to it.

https://www.samsung.com/au/tvs/the-frame/highlights/
I wonder how much society has to tolerate that. You want to live in society? Well, sorry, that involves some loss of agency. You want to be the master? Then why is there an entitlement that the grocery store, etc, has to serve you?
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Entirely true. That's the pain.
Can you explain how it is better?

If they only scanned icloud I can choose to not use that.

If they scan on my iphone my choice would be to stop using that and get a gphone instead.
Hence why propagandist like Salvatore Babones insists on totaliarian without qualification like "successful totalitarian" or dictator without "benevolent dictator".
It made headlines not long ago when Just-Eat I believe was advertising on porn sites, so it's not an impossible ask... but marketers will want to play those campaigns very carefully. It wouldn't take much to accidentally end up next to revenge porn that makes the news or something.
There is also an argument that the cloud scanning is a few bit flips away from allowing random Apple employees from looking through all my photos while on device scanning means they have to be specifically looking for certain content. On device scanning is probably preferred if one's fear is someone stealing their nudes, which is one of the more common fears about photo privacy and one that Apple has already shown is a problem for them.
Idk, avoiding regulation in general? Getting into the government's good graces never hurt anyone
Jeff Hawkin's a Thousand Brains Theory on Talks at Google
Jeff Hawkins and Subutai Ahmad present and chat with Peter Norvig about 'A Thousand Brains' theory and their applied ML derived from the theory.
We don't need an alternative to petrochemicals for rare use cases we decide are worth the cost-benefit ratio. I expect there will be jerrycans of synthesized gasoline on the McKendree cylinders riding fusion engines to other stars. For the odd use case where you need a stable high density fuel with minimal weight-costs on the engine, and you can tolerate the atmospheric effects it will make sense to use it so we will.

Fossil fuel is hopefully going away, but we will have petroleum in the toolbox forever and we can still use it when it makes sense to.
Well okay, but if we're bringing those things into it, hydrogen requires cryogenic storage and is, ah, famously flammable, even when it's not pressurized to 350 bar. I wasn't saying Li-ion is perfect - all I was trying to say was that if you want to compare like with like, you can't compare batteries with just hydrogen - the hydrogen is just the fuel, while the battery is both the fuel and the generator.
That’s a weird conclusion.

Could it be that it’s popular with individuals at your job and that’s why they recommended it?
Part of the reason this might succeed is the Apple fans. They're defending Apple yet again despite the treasons against our privacy being committed.
So you have User A - they upload a pic with User A and Peoples B,C,D,E,Z

icloud scans for those faces

finds those faces and ties them to other ID accounts via face - then via fingerprint recognition to a device, and to a location based on IMEI etc.

Apple's platform is literally the foundation for the most dystopian digital tool-set in history...

Once the government is able to crack the apple war chest, everything is fucked.
> Apple is engaging in this activity of their own free will for sake of their own commercial gain

What's the commercial gain?
No they haven’t.

“According to Zillow, the typical value of U.S. homes is $269,039 as of January 2021, a 9.1% increase from January 2020. Between 1999 and 2021, the median price has more than doubled from $111,000 to $269,039.”
What I feel is prices on everything in every store and online going up, while packaging shrinks. Who's doing your shopping? There's a big difference between facts and government published statistics.
At some point people are just going to stop paying rent.
I think you’re going to have to go to a flip phone, then.

Not to be, uh, flippant. Because this feels like a rather obvious slippery slope that Google will be compelled to slide down as well.

Feels like the only way to avoid such a thing would be dumb phone + Linux laptop/desktop.
The UK recently passed laws that require land (property) registration to include real names, even if the property is owned by a limited company.

Also, most mortgages made to companies are backed some sort of Personal Guarantee by a director.
I don't think people who really wanted pesticides and GMO foods made those arguments.
> This project is probably going to cost millions, they won't catch any pedophiles, they will only scare them so they don't use Apple devices.

Mission accomplished? They can argue that encrypted iPhones aren’t being abused by pedophiles, and they can argue that alternative App Stores will be avenues for illegal material.
Read: cherry pick whichever values are highest to keep the inflation narrative going.
I agree. Our phones tend to hold all of our most intimate data. Violating them is akin to violating our homes. It would be nice if the laws saw it this way.
In order for this system to work, Apple has to be able to compare the CSAM NeuralHash hashes against the NeuralHash hashes of the images to be synced with iCloud. How do they compare the hashes without decrypting?
Thanks for pointing this out! That nuance seems to have been completely left out of the conversation
Often, despite all its disadvantages, on-device scanning would at least let know see what was being scanned for.

But Apple have circumvented that with NeuralHash. There's no way for the user to verify that only CSAM is being detected - which could be partially accomplished by having iOS only accept hashes signed by multiple independent child protection organisations (with some outside of FVEY).
if your cloud account gets hacked you have other things to worry about than someone stealing your child's photos (which for whatever reason are explicit enough for apple to report the detections to authorities), spreading them on a honeypot forum and you ending up in court where the judge doesn't believe that the minor on the image is your child
I find it quite easy, with Dropbox and Google Photos you just install the app and enable background sync. It's never let me down.
Did you forget to add /s to that?
Somewhere along the line someone is producing and signing the binaries that find their way onto their computer, they could produce those binaries from different source code and I would be none the wiser.

Debian tries to be reproducible, so to avoid being caught they might need to control the mirror to so that they could send it to only me. I.e. if I'm lucky it would take a total of 2 people to put malicious binaries on my computer (1 with a signing key, 1 with access to the mirror I download things from).
Rumble will pay creators who ‘challenge the status quo’
Problem will always be the hardware. Until we get some 80's IBM style architecture on mobile, there is no viable Linux for smartphone.

I have 4 phones. None of them support lineage os.
> As it is the mechanism they have built only works in the US jurisdiction.

That is very worrisome. How do they want to withstand political pressure then to make the database of "bad hashes" dependent on the jurisdiction if they've already made the feature dependent on the jurisdiction?
Where are they getting the USD for those loans?

LOL! They're not loaning USD, they're loaning USDT which they create out of electrons --- and accept an IOU is return --- but only from select individuals/companies.

The rest of the crypto marketplace are the ones who produce USD and exchange it for USDT.
Why does it matter to advertisers if the user is registered or not?

NSFW content can work perfectly fine to get users on the platform, even if it can't be monetized.
That's just a separate topic.

If you do it yourself none of this policy stuff matters.
They do offer both a space saving setting which changes the quality and an original size option.
Is a gimmick. If a wealthy farmer can brag that he bought his Hilux for a bag of beans and rice, then he can drink on that for a long time.
> Secondly, it seems rife for abuse: dont like someone who uses an ios device, msg them some cp and destroy their entire life.

I see this a lot. First of all, if you even have CP in the first place that seems quite bad and that you've made yourself vulnerable. Messaging someone will also reveal yourself as the sender. But my bigger question of this hypothetical issue is that Facebook, Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, etc etc have been scanning for CP all of this time on their servers. So it's not like this is somehow a new proposition. Thus wouldn't this already be a big issue through the many, many more people that use all of these other company's cloud products?
There is no law that requires providers to scan users private documents, even uploaded.

However, if they do review the material and see child porn they're obligated to report it.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02172-8
Why ham radio? That doesn’t make sense. There’s no privacy there by law. It is by nature a completely non anonymous medium. Not only that if a country shuts down its comms the hams are all on a nice list for their shit to be confiscated.

Im not a ham because of some romanticised dystopia avoidance. It’s just fun to make things that you can talk to people on :)
What about only including data from places people want to live? You can buy a house in South Dakota for 25,000, but that not useful information when looking at national housing inflation.
Can't the same be said that auditors have never fully prevented fraud in the real-world?
What is the difference between a "bug" and use of a contract that differs from the creators intent? If intent is the determining factor for digital contracts then there is no point in digital contracts because intent can only be adjudicated by courts.
That’s amusing, but your source is completely wrong about (1) What 18 USC § 2252 says in general (notably, it leaves out the “knowingly” requirement, which is critical given the wait being given to post-auto-flag, pre-verification transfer), (2) What exceptions are in § 2252, and (3) the entire reference to § 2258A, which is a separate reporting requitement, not an exception to § 2252. Really, one should read all of the chapter those sections are part of, but the whole argument is based on either fantasy or distortion of the text.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-11...
> Facebook checks for potential CSAM when you upload from your client device (sometimes an iphone) to their servers or after it's on their system and a user flags it.

Thats not the issue according to the linked source.

Instagram transmits all photos and assumes it's not CSAM until flagged - thats safe content. Apple transmits ONLY CSAM - thats a no-no content because they're assuming it is CSAM and you can't transmit CSAM.

You can't knowingly transmit CSAM. Transmitting a photo pre-scan is safe (if you assume any photo is not csam), transmitting post-scan is dangerous if you filter for csam.
What is the status of abiltity to predict these heat waves? YoY extrapolation that can be managed via policy, a few weeks of heads up from meteorlogic predictions, or sudden onset like a natural disaster that leads to mass casualty event with no warning?
If you don’t trust what Apple says about this, why even argue?

Apple could be doing all of this and more without telling.

I agree with you on the point that the concern here is what various governments may mandate, but if we’re going to argue about Apple’s specific implementation you should probably understand it.
All food CPI is up 2.1% this year, housing of course is much more but that's what the article is about so where's the lie?
> public domain is being enriched by that stuff from the early 20th century.

Well this is trivially true, but it really doesn't mean anything. If copyright length was 500 years this would still be a true statement.

It's ridiculous that there are 100 years old works of art created by people who have been dead for three quarters of a century which are still under copyright. You cannot spin this as a positive thing, I'm sorry.

Works published two years after the end of World War I will enter public domain in 2047 (Agatha Christie's first book). Star Wars will enter public domain in the 2070s. It's mad.
As others are pointing out, this is a wild misreading of a study that actually showed all education levels becoming less hesitant. PhD's quite obviously held constant modulo sampling error, and that's exactly how it's described in the paper:

The relevant chart is on page 27 of the paper here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...

Also note that they call out the weird results with PhD's as an outlier without an explanation (other education metrics show less hesitancy with more education monotonically), and call for further research.

To wit: you're spinning like crazy here trying to make this data say something its authors expressly disclaim.
This will likely be paired with the rollout of full encryption for iCloud and they will sell the entire thing as a pro-privacy move.
Hypergamy will necessitate social acceptance of polygamy in countries in which women out-earn men on average.
my wife has a phd in a relevant field, and only just got her first dose last week. she still is not sure if it was a good idea or not.
Median cuts things in half, it’s effectively the middle of housing desirability. You might want to live in NYC or SF, but most of the US doesn’t.
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By the same logic, how do you know there aren't bad actors working at Apple's software teams? Or your insurance company or bank?
Do you have any source of this?

Not offhand, but I've heard of users getting temporary suspensions for using the word, although I don't believe there's an automated rule site-wide.

It's also completely useless

Not entirely. Sure, if you're a dedicated attacker trying to tell a specific target to kill themselves, there's not much I can do about it; you'll acquire an aged account with decent karma and find a way to do it.

If you're just a regular person going about your day and say something stupid, an automod removal with a warning that circumventing the rule will result in a permanent ban is probably sufficient to make you give up and move on with your life. And of course bots that aren't specifically designed to circumvent my subreddit's rules would be trivially blocked.
Alternatives are already being built and released, both hardware and software.

There will simply be more divide between know-how people who can save their freedom (tech people, friends, family) and the rest who get left behind.

Now, if we get to China and North Korea levels of authoritarianism and people start snitching on each other, then that's a whole other problem :-)
2019 but just as, if not more, relevant in 2021. And onwards into ‘22 and so on.
I'm using Windows and git with ssh keys and haven't managed to install WOL.

What you need is to install Git for Windows. It will include ssh-keygen (if it's not already there) and you can do the usual dance.
End game (being charitable to them here) is they can now start encrypting iCloud photos, and iCloud backups for that matter, with a key that they do not have any way to access, while getting the FBI off their backs on this one hot button issue.

That by itself makes it look ok.

Until you consider… there are a couple counterarguments.

One, Apple has not actually enabled such private encryption with the keys out of reach to Apple for iCloud backups.

Two, that child protection in other countries will sometimes be defined in such repugnant terms that it will compromise Apple fully to scan for the hashes provided by “child protection” organizations in those countries.

“Child protection” is in quotes not because I think countries will get away with shoehorning, say, terrorist
content hashes in as purported child pornography hashes. It’s in quotes because the concept of child protection can be so wildly bizarrely corrupted in some countries for religious or ideological reasons. Who decides what is off limits for children, from having gay parents, to having friends of the opposite sex, to having an unislamic head covering? Well, each random government, of course, with Apple as the enabler, and individual and human rights be damned.

So while the most charitably viewed end game may be good, they seem to be papering over the real impacts this could have.
This is misleading though, because a majority of H1b applications are renewals (so folks already on an H1b), not new applications. On top of that, most renewals happen to be Indian Nationals because they have no pathway to obtain permanent residency in many cases.

Also how does a higher rejection rate lead to brain gain? I'd imagine it discourages a would be immigrant.
Dunno how it goes for other countries, but I spoke with someone who did professional analysis on green hydrogen from renewables for Poland... and it's not a good outlook.

Essentially, in order to produce it in any reasonable quantity, assuming highest available efficiencies, required such massive overbuilding of renewables that economics started to take second position to just plain "zomg" effect.

It got better if you combined it with nuclear, but there the free market that EU insists on in energy actually made it harder to achieve anything useful, so you end up with massive overbuilding still. It had a little chance if you overbuild wind & solar while also making it so you had nuclear providing close to 100% of the "base load" (defined as "floor in daily electricity consumption") while possibly providing green hydrogen as extra sink for renewables to recoup costs... but it still was problematic economically :(
Ah, right. But Apple is using NeuralHash, not photoDNA, right? Does that suffer the same problem?
Sure, but I don't particularly care because I don't upload sensitive photos to iCloud. As I'd recommend to everyone else. If it's on someone else's computer, it's not yours.

But, I suppose my iPhone was never really mine either. I knew that, I just never quite put two and two together...
“Unhealthy people” is a very large group. For example, obesity is considered an unhealthy state. 42.5% of the US population is obese.
So it boils down to companies make most of the OSs for devices.

Governments can compel companies to do stuff.

The only option for the truly privacy conscious is to not use a company provided OS. The future is in buying a phone and flashing the ROM you want.

Until even owning a non-standard phone becomes illegal.
Sure, but a hydrogen fuel cell system has most of that too. My point was just that hydrogen can't be directly compared to batteries because it's just the fuel, while batteries are the complete system. I guess I worded it badly.
There are loads of reasons why people will not deal in bitcoins. One reason is what happened at Poly Network since you posted your comment.

Bitcoin and Crypto in general are filled with thieves and scam artists. Just because some ethical people can navigate that minefield at relatively low dollar transactions - that doesn't mean many people or businesses want to stake their livelihoods on it not failing.
Apple could provide a way to communicate with the parent of a given account if they wanted to.
The problem is that worries about inflation are only ever trotted out when relief for individuals is being considered. Money printing to juice the markets happens without concern or debate.

The bailout that caused all the current asset inflation happened reflexively after a single day drop in the stock market at the start of Covid. 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. Instead, they were rewarded.

The direct price inflation we're seeing lately is actually a good thing in that it will force the Fed to use the brakes. When they only give money to the financial industry, it takes a while for price inflation to occur. But by giving the new money directly to consumers instead, price inflation occurs much quicker and thus precludes asset inflation.
Haha, I've done something very similar recently. I go by the name Cloud in some circles, so recently got thenameis.cloud when I needed a spare domain.
Ah the objectification of men.
if covid was truly frightening we wouldn't need government mandates forcing people to take it seriously
"First they came for the pedophiles..."
From A Concrete-Security Analysis of the Apple PSI Protocol:

> Taking action to limit CSAM is a laudable step. But its implementation needs some care. Naively done, it requires scanning the photos of all iCloud users. But our photos are personal, recording events, moments and people in our lives. Users expect and desire that these remain private from Apple. Reciprocally, the database of CSAM photos should not be made public or become known to the user.
Apple has found a way to detect and report CSAM offenders while respecting these privacy constraints. When the number of user photos that are in the CSAM database exceeds the threshold, the system is able to detect and report this. Yet a user photo that is not in the CSAM database remains invisible to the system, and users do not learn the contents of the CSAM database.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Alternative_Security_...
The American dream is to become a property owner.
I think you’re intentionally misinterpreting my statement.

Since we know the vaccine doesn’t prevent you from contracting or spreading the virus—it should not be mandated. Period. If this actually had to do with people’s safety, an argument COULD be made. But that’s not the case, so I think it’s preposterous that would should be forced to take a vaccine that’s solely for one’s “own good”.

As an aside, any group-think situation where people start being concerned about “my own safety” is not an experiment I’d like to be a part of.