skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today it is to 'combat data theft', tomorrow it will be like Amazon fufillment centers in the Call Center no time to take a potty break. Let's hope we don't hear about the pee jugs there too.....

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/amazon-workers-pee-bottle/
>> It seems silly to worry about completely hypothetical and unknown long-term risks of vaccination when getting COVID-19 has very serious, well known short-term risks.

> Doesn't seem silly at all to me : the known risks of covid are pretty tolerable. Death rate is extremely low for my demographic [emphasis mine].

That perspective is why we can't have nice things.
For how that might work (or not) in practice, you might want to check out Vermont, which has had many years an extra transfer tax on land held fewer than 6 years. https://tax.vermont.gov/sites/tax/files/documents/LGT-178%20...

The table of rates on page 6 says they'll charge up to 80% of your gain on land held less than 4 months. It doesn't seem to cover improvements, though, so it's anti-land flipping tax not an anti-house flipping tax AFAICT.
a good chunk of CSAs are remote.
Agreed and it would make the mod position self-sustaining.
It'd just skyrocket until people took it seriously and locked down even more. We saw that in Italy 2020 and now in India, Brazil.
They just recently changed to a limited paywall model.
I would suggest that it is cooperation with governments in exchange for easement (watering down) of antitrust pushes
> Will this stop those bad actors if they're determined? No, of course not, but there are so many ways they can do it already.

This is not a reason to let your guard down on security. Keeping up with securing things against bad actors is a constant battle. Tim Cook put it best [1] and I want to hear how this is not exactly what he described 5 years ago.

[1] https://youtu.be/rQebmygKq7A?t=57
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I am not a professional, but this looks like a very good study and I trust its results. I think I am pretty convinced that Ivermectin alone is not effective at treating Covid. I still have hope that it is effective in preventing it. We need more studies on that.

I also wonder what the cost of this study was.
Why not their IT department also? And management?

Why are companies like Amazon constantly kicking the shit out of the lowest paid employees!?
You don't by chance know a list of handles to follow to get started following "compiler Twitter"?
It's not a panacea but the most implausible the mechanism, the less likely it's going to be used on anyone but the most high value targets.

(And besides, it's far more likely that this nefarious Government agency will just conceal a camera in your room to capture your fingers entering your passwords.)
If they cared about privacy so much, why wouldn't they just alert you and block you from uploading in the first place?

By this becoming such a hot topic, I think this will push the activity to more underground.

I bet most people didn't even know that other cloud companies did search for CP.
we live in a world of cults, but somehow think we're more enlightened than our ancestors.
The first time you deal with Google's customer support, you wish you had never dealt with Google in the first place.

Their decisions are slow, arbitrary and often inconsistent. Regularly, they are not answering at all.

We are fighting with Google for 8 months already. Our app was suspended 5 times. We re-submitted 3 new apps in order to comply. They approved our appeals request, only to suspend the app one week later. A process error as admitted 3 months later by Google. Our app was even in quantum state once: both approved and suspended at the same time. The story still goes on ...

All other app stores, like Apple App Store, Huawei AppGallery, and Samsung Galaxy Store made a thorough check once, but all approved the app months ago.

When I started a startup, I was afraid of bureaucracy in Germany. Turns out that in fact the greatest threat is Google's (non existing) customer support.

To be clear, I don't blame the customer support itself. They are doing their best. It just seems that Google is seriously understaffed in this area. It's outrageous that the 30 percent fee is not invested in sufficient man power.
China will easily get multiple countries to flag content as problematic. Values are not reflected in UN votes, either.
Amazon's slogan - "creating the worker's dystopia - today!"

stopped buying from them a long time ago, I encourage everyone else to do the same.
You might want to check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXr7rxTLBE
I'm pretty sure all cloud storage providers have good idea about who has what pirated content already.
No. The 4A protections don't apply to third parties. This is part of why the US has nearly nonexistent data protection laws.
Well, they can just say that "Development" on desktops is dangerous for the user and allows malicious actors to create malware. As such, desktop OS will block running of any unsigned binary. For developing your Microsoft© Authorised Application®, please sign up to CodeSpaces™ subscription at just $99 per month!
Not a big deal really. I know that I already treat all work devices as if they were keylogged anyways.
> but overlook other passages about meditating over a corpse at a charnel ground

As morbid as that is, I feel like I would actually gain a lot of value from doing that...
90% of lucid dreaming is just becoming extremely aware of your surroundings, and your experience of your surroundings, and whether they're real.

Once you find out a few times that they aren't it can pretty fundamentally change some of your perceptions
There are 3 types of programming languages you can learn: Modular programming, Object oriented, and Functional programming

Python- it has a very simple syntax and it’s easy to learn. It can be used for modular programming and object oriented and it is forgiving if you don’t strictly follow the best practices. Therefore it can help to make thing working while you’re learning
Speaking of mobile OS. I am a bit of a newbie myself in this area. I am an Android user but I want to decouple from Google as much as possible. Is there an mobile OS out there that offers a similar experience to, say, Android in terms of functionalities, apps, etc without the drawback of privacy concerns?
> Where did I even imply that?

Granted, I did extrapolate from your first response. I said so because race (like class) is a social reality in the US, and being mixed race does mean that you experience the US differently. You replied to

> America is used to 3/4 white 1/4 black being considered black

by saying there are no races, which is literally true. However, you're also implying that people should not identify themselves as Black or White or a mix. Some of that is perfectly valid since the blood quantum system was oppressive. But you're also saying that people should only identify themselves as human, and doing otherwise is bigotry.

Sometimes you need to identify yourself as a minority group to find a community of people who share experience with you. Should people not identify as Black, or avoid celebrating Black success because there isn't a genetic basis to calling themselves or others Black? Maybe you'd benefit from thinking about the similarities (and differences) between race and ethnicity. Being White/Black in the U.S. is both a racial and ethnic deal. People can identify as Black while recognizing that there is no concrete test which can identify them as Black.
Their “you can’t compel us to build something” argument was for building a change to the passcode retry logic, which is presumably as simple as a constant change. Certainly building a back door in this system is at least as difficult, so the argument still stands.
I assumed we were talking about the pre-.Net days of VB6 and earlier. Having a resizable window was certainly possible, but quite a bit of work, and not the norm.
Actually it occurs to me that perhaps they're noticing a lot of CSAM is being produced with smartphone cameras and are hoping to snag the phone which produced the originals. If they can get new content into their database before the photographer deletes them, they might find the phone which took the originals—and then find the child victim.

Beyond implausible, but then most law enforcement tends to rely on someone eventually doing something stupid.
> I don't buy into theories that Apple is being pressured or coerced on any of this.

Of course they were.

It’s well known that Apple chose not to introduce e2e encrypted iCloud backups back i 2017/18 or so, due to FBI complaints.[1]

This is clearly Apple’s play to be able to introduce that again and tell law enforcement “Look, we ‘thought of the children’, if you want further access to our customers data, you’re going to need to come up with a better justification than that.”

If Apple pull that off, adopting client side image scanning with this quite impressive privacy preserving system behind it, and then e2e encrypt everything they upload to iCloud, that’d arguably be a very big win for Apple customers privacy.

Whether that’s an acceptable trade off for having a device I purchased run code I didn’t ask for and don’t want to monitor where or not I’m a paedophile, possibly snitching on me for false positives or bad-faith additions of non CSAM hashes into the database, or not is a good question still.

1: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
I’d personally switch that “just” to “specifically”; while you’re correct, “just” connotes insignificance but the scanning is arguably significant.
It’s simple, the reviewers will be cops (so viewing CP is legal).

They will pass on/hit report at rates that make a FISA judge blush.
Well, to be factually accurate, in this case with Apple, nothing will happen. Apple only reports when it matches 30 instances of this content. They have said they plan to reduce it from 30 as they improve their algorithm.
I think he just regrets the bad press about it.
Sounds like the NY Post is purposefully conflating a lab-leak with a researcher accidentally getting infected in the field.

"A lab employee infected in the field while collecting samples in a bat cave — such a scenario belongs both as a lab-leak hypothesis and as our first hypothesis of direct infection from bat to human. We’ve seen that hypothesis as a likely hypothesis," Ben Embarek said.

via https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/12/who-origins-...
> There has got to be something better than the semiconductor industry we have today, which has ridiculous barriers to entry.

I am curious about your exact meaning. When you say barriers to entry, it sounds like you're implying the "semiconductior industry we have today" is actively putting up barriers to prevent you from entering? Is that what you are trying to say? If so, please elaborate so that we can understand what these barriers you are facing are.

Or is it just that you're acknowledging that it actually costs many billions to build up a commercially viable fab?
The payoffs from Intuit are a bonus, but the design is as old as the Inquisition--make the victims confess all their sins first, and then you can figure out how to punish the ones you really want to punish. Why take away the tools that brought the likes of Al Capone to justice?
Wow, thanks for sharing your experience. The GitHub thing in particular is absolutely absurd. We do have GitHub Sponsors set up on the Language Transfer repository, but it looks like the GitHub link wasn't the culprit this time around.
There is another option - don’t put anything sensitive on your phone and basically treat it as an adversary already has root access. This pretty much what I do for a long time. All the sensitive information (e.g. banking) is on Linux desktop and there are no logins or apps on iPhone or work laptop (hn is not sensitive ;) ).
Only if you assume that everything written about him is accurate. If his biographers were mistaken or made things up, then he could have been just a regular religious reformer.

Lewis seems like a smart guy, so I’m not sure how he missed that possibility.
Most of these look like reasonable things to ban in a prison. Is there something specific that makes this a notable document to share?
> Last year, for instance, Apple reported 265 cases to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, while Facebook reported 20.3 million

According to [1] it does seem like Apple didn't do any wide scale scanning of iCloud Data.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/technology/apple-iphones-...
I don't think they have to compromise on the CP protection.

They can just go along with what other cloud storage providers have been doing all along... that is, "we won't snoop into your phone, because that's yours. but if you upload photos to iCloud, onto OUR servers, then we reserve the right to scan for images in CP database.."

And I think most people will be perfectly fine with that idea.

Just like you sign away some rights and accept risk when you decide to store items in physical storage facility, same thing will happen when you use iCloud.
There’s got to be a compromise between having an idea first and disclosing it, having your patent drafters make it as broad as possible such that even you barely recognize it, and the expectation to have a trillion dollars of capital to attempt making the idea viable

The “trolls” or non practicing entities are just as much a piece of this system as everyone else. The patent inventor has to recoup as $15000 is a lot to them, the trolls have to recoup as their millions of dollars of patent purchases is a lot to them, and the companies that build use unfathomable amounts of capital to build at all and it is ridiculous to suggest the inventor or the NPE do that.

Maybe the government should just buy patents and not leverage them. If there is no comprehensive patent regulatory change people can agree on.
The Unsafe API has existed since Swift 1 which predates Graydon joining, and `UnsafeSendable` is just following the language naming conventions.
"Look, there's a hack that allows you to avoid this at the cost of convenience that you bought the device for!"

OK.
You have to find the capability / price point sweet spot and you could probably create a big market, that kind of thing has been happening more and more lately... but it takes a lot of domain knowledge and luck.

A good example of this is how Arduino broke open the hobbyist electronics market which went from circuit programmers and prototype boards that would run in hundreds of dollars on the low end to $20 or something to get in at the ground level.
Recently I've been really enjoying "Unearthed" on Discovery Plus (I think originally Science channel). It's hit or miss depending on the episode, but the good episodes are really good.
Show HN: Computer Astrology
The Taliban could easily be defeated if the occupying military didn't care about civilians and accepted destruction of the country.

What doesn't work is fighting while also trying to build up a country, After WW2 Germany and Japan only worked because there was basically no resistance and the occupying powers could focus completely on rebuilding civilian society.

What makes it even worse in countries like Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq is that the occupiers have no understanding of these societies and are trying to impose Western values on them.
here's some of it:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4178089/apple-inc-v-sam...

I know this case continued up to at least 2015, since that was when I went to watch for a day. When I went, there were some utility patents at issue.
Yes, you missed the guidelines for commenting on this forum.
> Now we know that it’s possible to make really good transistors with impure chemicals, no cleanroom, and homemade equipment.

The good news here is that 2 of those 3 issues are pretty easily solvable. With some work, and a ton of HEPA air purifier machines, you could probably turn an area the size of a small shed or 1 car garage into a class 10000 cleanrom pretty easily. It would be simplest if this area were embedded in a larger area, like a 2 car garage, but, you could probably squeeze it into just a plain old 1 car garage.

Chemicals, you can buy online from scientific supply houses. Some, like acetone, you can buy from less specialized sources in high purity. Water and alcohol, you can either buy at high purity pretty easily, or buy lower grade stuff and purify it.

Of course, at the point where you're going for higher purity stuff like this, you might want to switch from acetone as a solvent to DMSO. DMSO itself is safe to handle and doesn't evaporate like acetone will.

> Silane

Yeah, nasty stuff. Toxic as hell, ignites spontaneously when exposed to air. I used to work near a rather large storage tank that contained the stuff. Needless to say, I am glad there never was an accident. :-) Very wise to avoid this stuff.

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https://www.americancleanrooms.com/class-10000-clean-room/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silane
I agree this is vastly better than what anyone else is doing, and you know I understand the technology.

However, I don’t think any framing would have improved things. I think it was always going to feel wrong.

I would prefer they don’t do this because it feels bad to be a suspect even in this abstract and in-practice harmless way.

Having said that, having heard from people who have investigated how bad pedophile activity actually is, I can imagine being easily persuaded back in the other direction.

I think thins is about the logic of evolutionary psychology, not the logic of cryptography.

My guess is that between now and the October iPhone release we are going to see more media about the extent of the problem they are trying to solve.

That is how Apple wins this.
Don't forget that military and government are the same. The US military is as guilty of stupid wars as everybody else in leadership.
Again, "if they require or accept payment for access to features or services"
This is one of the most shameful defeats in American history. Every single family of American heros that died or whose life was impacted forever has been shown that their sacrifice was meaningless. Not only is that unforgivable, this should be considered the highest treason imaginable.
That's on their servers, not your device. The difference is the source of people's outrage.
Flippers aren't getting nearly as low of a rate and they have to put more down than people buying for themselves.
> There's even other keywords like unsafe in Swifts new `UnsafeSendable` for Sendable types that bypass compile time checks.

Swift has used the “Unsafe” prefix for a very long time to indicate things that break its safety model, see for example the UnsafePointer APIs.
What are the advantages of Lulu over Little Snitch?
Is it possible to get this on android?
>The other feature they're packaging with this (nudity warnings for children/teenagers) should be relatively uncontroversial.

To me that's the worst of the two. From what I understand, it uses AI trained to detect nude photos. This is much more likely to produce false positives than a hash compare.

Not only is it less accurate by nature, it's a backdoor that can be later used to scan the entire device for whatever photos it's trained to find and report to whoever it's coded to report to.
OK, I have responded to many people in this thread.

The TL;DR is that TikTok connects people who are facing the same struggles, which really helps with dealing with them.
This looked weird to me too at first; this would appear to be a list of things that were confiscated, rather than a[n extraordinarily short] list of things that were banned. It's sad that American Gods is on there, although I sort of almost see why.
I’ve seen this kind of thing a lot. Two reasons this always happens to the lowest ranked. First because they can- these jobs are largely easily replaceable so even if the workers resist they will be quickly replaced by someone who can be pushed around. Second because people constantly come and go from these jobs they tend to attract some bad apples so there is some need to monitor them more closely.
It’s not a back door in any sense of the word. That’s why he is surprised people see it as one.

It really only does what they say it does, and it really is hard to abuse.

But that doesn’t matter. The point is that even so, it makes everyone into a suspect, and that feels wrong.
They didn't unlock that phone for the FBI. The FBI got some foreign contractor to do it. Yes, Apple did turn over data to which they had access. Their stance back then was not a farce.
I wouldn't necessarily say authoritarian-leaning. More like "just this once"-leaning, without realizing there's no such thing.
Control millions of qubits at once using dielectric resonators
David Brin (sf writer) shoe-horned a scene into one of his books where a "terrorist" deliberately poisons a populist politician with a sci-fi drug designed to cure addiction to stop him from making angry speeches.

Blog article from him here: https://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/addiction.html
If Apple was performing scans on their cloud servers, you'd be absolutely right. But if the scanning is being done on the individual's device, I'm not sure it's that straightforward. The third party doctrine surely cannot apply if the scanning is performed prior to the material being in third party hands.

Therefore if the Government forces Apple to change the search parameters contained within private devices, I cannot see how this would work around the 4th Amendment.

If this is correct, it might be possible to argue that Apple's approach has (for Americans) constitutional safeguards which do not exist for on-cloud scanning performed by Google or Microsoft.
They haven’t shipped this yet.
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Does anyone have a rough sense what the cost of Sam’s equipment is, and how someone can emulate this on a budget with second hand purchases?

Also roughly, would anyone know the cost per batch of chips? I’d love to run thing as a learning exercise for middle or high school students and wonder how costly it would be.
Is he still working there? It doesn’t really look like he is.
Yep.

And you know who that gun is aimed at first?

Apple employees.

Even if you trust Apple and NCMEC to not add out of scope hashes that some government or law enforcement or intelligence agency “asks” them to, does anybody who’s ever worked for Apple have any doubt at all they they’d use this to check employee’s personal devices for Apple IP? Especially if a big spectacular leak hits the media? Apple’s IP enforcement goons are legendary. And not in a good way in most people’s opinion. Particularly Gizmodos…
Link to actual article: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg9158
No mention of safety?

There's a UN protocol on the use of blinding weapons, signed by the United States and over a hundred other countries, but the terms are pretty loose: you're not allowed to make weapons that deliberately blind people permanently, and you're supposed to employ any safety measures at your disposal to prevent unintentionally blinding people, but if you make a weapon that blinds people by accident and there's no way to make it not blind people by designing it differently, that's apparently okay.

It'd be interesting to at least have some mention of whether it's safe to be around these things without protective eyewear when they're operating.

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