skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have tons of anecdata suggesting worse…

And that's flawed due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

[thing] increases in price: "omg inflation!"

[thing stays the same]: "meh"

result? "omg inflation!"
Well, do you use reddit?

Seems like a good place for finding discussion on broad topics (news) and niche ones (small indie games, etc).
have not investigated but my expectation is that this heavily blurs the line between philanthropy and investment. I don't mind some rewards & financial success, but billyg's stance during covid on what should remain proprietary & what the world ought try to do for itself was [filtered]. generally I feel like most of his massive wealth pledges are used as a for-profit investment, obscured behind the guise of headlines describing the magnitude of his stake in on those money-making attempts, or bowing before how far advanced these progresses might be. billyg pays for his news coverage then gets to spin a story projecting what he does as philanthropy, but upon examination it feels like there are ongoingly missing words in the coverage, lack of criticality, where it might be found that these "pledges" are often attempts to own & control critical assets the world direly could want to be able to partake in, and whose existence is kept at a exclusionary, profiteering affordability. I keep trying to imagine a Volvo that fought for every cent and dime for it's invention of the seatbelt: why is this world so short, so pressured to do the right thing but to control & monopolize access? the best counterstories I'd love to hear for my bloody liberal views are: how was Volvo not as "give it all away" as I fancy here? how was everyone else as nuanced & not as pure & noble as it seems like today & today's men are?

whereforth is fair purpose for this world & those men on it?
Don't forget staff rotation. A database can live forever.
You not only have to trust what is now, but what the future leaders of Apple may do, what all the future image viewers may do and who they are...

This is a pandaora's box of trust. Once you open it, you have to trust in perpetuity.
I'm assuming you're kidding here, but if you look at the list of countries already selling/supporting iPhones, what's not on the US export ban list that's a totalitarian regime?

https://www.apple.com/iphone/cellular/
This already happened, Condé Nast bought and then spun off reddit when they failed to monetize it. Reddit has to thread a needle to monetize and not kill its user base. I wager it’s impossible.
The CSAM detection technical summary [1] only mentions iOS and iPadOS.

If it does come to macOS it will be part of Photos.app, as that's the only way to interact with iCloud Photos. I would recommend you to avoid that app and cloud in general if you care about privacy.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
I'm not sure it's resaonable to sum up someone from a "Campaign to stop Leathermarket CBS building on the popular ballcourt, removing children's outdoor sports space and green spaces" as "opposed to social housing".
Frustratingly, the subsequent seasons try to address different issues and questions without answering any of the quests raised in the previous seasons. It's almost like they want to jump from topic to topic so as not to spoil the potential of what's worked on so far.
Said no men ever...
Not to dismiss this, but rashes are an absolutely routine allergy symptom. I don't have the Pfizer or Moderna warning sheets handy but I can't imagine they don't have this listed. It's not common, because allergic reactions aren't, but they're routine enough to be seen in a bunch of patients. And we've given billions of doses of these things now.

You had a mild allergic reaction. I mean, yeah, that's a "side effect", but not in the sense that all the hysterics here are trying to evoke.
> the contents of your phone could have been uploaded to the CIA every day, including live recordings 24 hours a day.

You’re describing new functionality which would have to be added in many places: in addition to building that service they have to turn off the recording indicators and prompts, coexist with other apps recording, not have recording pause playback in other apps like normal, masking data usage on both the phone and your carrier’s reports, concealing the battery loss and putting in bigger hardware batteries to compensate, etc.

That’s technically possible but there’s no link to this feature - that hypothetical government would need to do the same things either way. It’s similarly not Apple-specific: with that level of control the same thing would happen Android and anything else.
Similar with me. Also like you this was over 2 years ago.

I looked to advertise on Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.

Facebook didn't seem interested in SMBs and I didn't even advertise on them, it seemed very complex just to run a simple ad.

Twitter didn't deliver good value per click etc., but I did get good demographic information on who was and wasn't interested.

Google was the best value, especially if you look for bargains where one group of customers is cheap.

Reddit had no offerings in the way Google had, or even Twitter had. IIRC I bailed on advertising with them at all. With Facebook it was just too complex for a simple ad, with Reddit it didn't even seem they were offering anything near what I wanted.
I got my first shot of Comirnaty (Pfizer-Biontech) yesterday, and would do it again 100 times if needed. I will also have my 2nd dose in early September because although I got Covid (2 times, fist one symptomatic), my last positive swab was more than 6 months ago, so they assume my antibodies ratio dropped too much in the meantime to be safe with a single dose.

Actually I feel safe for myself because the 2nd time I tested positive was hospitalized for nearly 2 months in a Covid ward after a road accident and was literally surrounded by people with the virus. I'm confident that should I catch it again it will be asymptomatic like the 2nd time, but what about other people? How could I live knowing that I brought it to someone because I was so stupid to avoid the vaccination? I'm shocked of the number of people I see who only think along the lines of "I'm safe, I already got it/I'm young" etc. They seem to disregard completely their effect on others. For fuck's sake, people walk around, they move, and bring what they have along with them when they meet others. Is it so hard to get that? I've seen right in front of my face people die with the virus, so I welcome the shots.

About side effects, have anti vaxers ever read any medicines leaflets? One can get nasty side effects with a lot of them. I already wrote about an experience of mine, and here's another: very recently had to halve the dosage of Doxazosin I use to keep blood pressure down because during the last days I was developing an urinary tract infection, and probably will stop taking it the next days. Yes, that one is a side effect, even a pretty common one, of an otherwise normal and safe cure against high blood pressure. And by common side effects, we're talking about 1% to 10%, not one in a hundred thousands or less.

Covid19 vaccines rare side effects are making the news just because there is someone ready to count them on live TV and social media for their own political gain, otherwise they would slip under the radar, just like a lot of other medicines side effects already do since forever, only to be withdrawn from the market should those side effects ratio reach a dangerous level.

As for my shot, felt nothing at all during all yesterday, while today I woke up with a small bump on my left arm where I got the shot and it hurts mildly only if I touch it, otherwise aside feeling weaker than usual no problems at all.
Your link doesn't support your conclusion. Growth in M2 clearly precedes increases in inflation by 1-3 years.
The Cali Burrito increase has been insane.
So again, how is this different from Google Photos, Facebook messenger, etc etc?

If this really was such an issue we would have hit it long ago. CSAM scanning is going occurring for photos that would be uploaded to iCloud.
Is there a single internet host for my websites, blogs, forums, and public files
I've been on the Internet for a long time. My points of presence are a hodgepodge of disconnected this and that. Is there an Internet Host that can host my websites, blogs, forums, and public files with a well-conceived and unified user interface that is economical? I'm retired and cost is important.
There's nothing to argue. I'm incredibly disappointed in Apple and feel betrayed. I went all-in with the Apple ecosystem because I stupidly and naively believed their commitment to privacy.
> These companies aren't selling state of the art tech here - why do they need to be such money makers??

You’re thinking of the user facing element as being the thing they’re selling. That’s not what they’re selling. They give that away for free so they can sell extremely sophisticated data and targeting. You’re the product they’re selling. And the access is definitely cutting edge.
CO2 won't go down for hundred years. The gas will still be up there and still having the same effects, even if we stop all emissions. This has been warned against for decades already.
People really don't know about the birthday paradox, don't they? Should be required reading any time someone claims a false positive rate is "1 in a trillion."
Reddit communities are similar to Facebook groups, I guess, but pseudonymy gives things a different feel.
It is "very dangerous" in that it's killing millions of people and will probably kill millions more if we don't get people to take their vaccines. Better?

Again, imagine if people successfully deployed your logic against the smallpox vaccine. We'd still be getting sick with smallpox.
Masturbate every two hours. works for me.
Sounds like you just need to learn some interpersonal skills.
Have you ever tried RPGing with a good DM?
Why is that inflation and not things like supply chain problems or availability?
Yes technically you are correct, but COVID does not care about technical definition of obesity. Obese is a very general term, borderline obese/overweight person with otherwise healthy body has much better chances than someone with morbid obesity or diabetes or heart/vascular condition.
We could add an imaginary part to line numbers. If you do a GOTO 200 + 20i, you’ll jump to a line that’s above the program in the imaginary axis and continue running from there.
Thinking about this.. I guess my trust, is that someone smarter than I will notice it, cause a fuss, and the community will raise pitch forks and.. git forks. My trust is in the community, I hope it can stay healthy and diverse for all time.
Extreme coupons come to mind.
Huh?

Apple uploads all photos to iCloud photos (just as google does). This includes CSAM and not CSAM.

It keeps a counter going of how much stuff is getting flagged as possible CSAM. They don't even get an alert about anything until you hit some thresholds etc. And no one has reviewed anything yet at all, the system is flagging things up as other systems do.

Are you sure (legally) that one can't review flags from a moderation system? That is routine currently. No one is knowingly doing anything. Their system discusses being alerted to possible counts of CSAM.

Is your goal that apple go straight to child porn reports automatically with no human involvement at all? At scale (billions of photos) that's going to be a fair number of false positives with potentially very serious consequences.

The current approach is that images are flagged in various ways, folks look at them (yes, a large number have problems), then next steps are taken. But the flags are treated as possible CSAM.

Please look into all the false positives in youtube screening before you jump from a flag => sure thing. These databases and systems are not perfect.
Since we're on HN. Use something like restic and a cron job backing up to something like blackblaze.

Yes, it's the cloud, but they don't control the backup software (it's open source, not developed by them, using public APIs) or the encryption keys (protected by a passphrase client side, use a good one).

There may be less programmery equivalents of that, which have scheduling built into the backup tool and so on. Just recommending what I've used.

(This advice applies to general purpose computers, not sure if there's an equivalent for android or iOS)
Read that paper again.

Cloth mask wearers had a higher rate of CLI than the control group.

The control group being may or may not be wearing a mask.

"""The control arm was ‘standard practice’, which comprised mask use in a high proportion of participants. As such (without a no-mask control), the finding of a much higher rate of infection in the cloth mask arm could be interpreted as harm caused by cloth masks, efficacy of medical masks, or most likely a combination of both."""

Point is: The CDC mask policy of wearing a dirty cloth rag on your face until the waiter brings the breadsticks is probably not ideal.
Do you have a link to that interview? That's a really big asterisk on the "one in a trillion" claim if true.
The words of wisdom for Covid was if you wanted to know where covid would be in a couple months, just pay attention to how the big tech players act (FAANG). Does this still hold true?
This sounds like a cool story and a nice idealistic narrative, but do you have any evidence for it? It’s honestly the first I’ve heard of this even being a claim/trend.
Linux powers most of the internet, most mobile devices, and most embedded and IoT devices. Maybe it's not a complete monopoly, but it's close.
It's because the "secret inflation" theory is incredibly prevalent in tech-y circles (something around bitcoin maybe) without any real evidence to back it up - except "something something asset inflation"
I identify as inflation
So, just so we are clear, it's not a structural problem now that men are less educated and make less money.
stay tuned for our next 100% capitist critique of why you as a man are valuable & good & why everyone else should be disregarded.

my feel is that this is enormously testosterone snuffing pro-classical-mascluninity of a take. whatever it says about man per se, it's actually about limiting & reducing our identities to a normative old view of what makes a man.
But… that is inflation. Prices are going up. Such is the anecdata?

Is this effect global? Who knows, it’s anecdata
It does not. Only photos (designated to be) uploaded to iCloud Photo Library.
In general, the "Progressive" in "Progressive Web App" just means "progressively-enhanced." In conventional usage around most of the internet, any web app that supports any kind of progressive enhancement, is a PWA.

And "progressive enhancement" just means "being written in such a way that you'll work with a core set of APIs — all the way down to 'no javascript support' — but will take advantage of further APIs if they're available." Where the app forms a sort of Russian nesting doll of functionality, where it "launches" with just the innermost layer (e.g. just server-rendered HTML), and then in turn each new layer is enabled if possible (i.e. if Javascript is enabled, the browser will load some JS from a <script> tag that will then take over the DOM and turns the page into a SPA; etc.)

It's just a further refinement of the older concept of "graceful degradation", where the gracefully-degraded experience is delivered at the start, and then bootstrapped out into the non-degraded version.

Under this definition, the "further layers of functionality" provided to "installed" webapps in some browsers are just a specific kind of progressive enhancement. The app detects that it's being run "installed", and takes advantage of that. (And before that, the browser detects that the app has such a layer, and therefore treats the webapp as "installable.")

Thus, all "installable" apps are PWAs. (But not all PWAs are "installable"!)

I would note that webapps like Slack — i.e. webapps that have both web and "native" versions, where the "native" version is just the same remote webapp from the web version, loaded in a special browser that exposes extra capabilities that the webapp then takes advantage of — are also PWAs by this definition.
I tend to take "not looking but happy to chat" fairly literally. Coding is a waste of time on a guaranteed-private channel.
I cant even count how my "overthinking" and analytic conclusion has 90%+ hit rate but all my friends and colleagues told me I am overthinking it.

When 99% of the world are under thinking, not thinking it through or worst and most likely the case, not thinking at all, then of course the 1% are overthinking.

There are downside to overthink on small things, procrastination.
Windows 2000 would be as far back as I would reasonably go to still be comfortable enough for "daily driving". But we'd need an unofficial patch that backports all the security holes and updates the root certificates, so that modern browsers can be (securely) used.

If you're talking about gaming only, my dad still has a working 386 running DOS and Windows 3.11 with a few games from 30 years ago. The clickity-claky noises made by the spinning disk and floppy bring me warm nostalgic feelings and I enjoy 20 - 30 minutes of Prince of Persia or Wolfenstein 3d when I get to visit, but it quickly looses its appeal and I would most definitely not want to be using it as a "daily driver".
"I'm not giving my photos to anyone. I am just taking photos on my phone and Apple is automatically backing them up to iCloud. I have no idea how that feature was turned on or how to turn it off." ~ most normal people.

People here too often only think of these issues from the perspective of the type of person who browses HN. Apple is thinking of this from the perspective of an average iPhone users.
> Anything could trigger a false positive

Don't you think Apple has independently arrived at that very same possibility? Maybe even thought about it and extensively tested it? Then put a probability on it? And then chosen the threshold such that the overall probability of falsely flagging an account is, indeed, minuscule?
House of Representatives raises max salary for staff to nearly $200k
>supply chain problems or availability

If supply chain problems or availability cause prices to go up, that's still inflation. They might call it transitory inflation or whatever, but they won't say "well that's just supply chain problems so we won't count it for this month".
I've absolutely no knowledge of how they operate, but it occurs to me that there would be at least two very obvious avenues:

1) During the course of investigation an officer infiltrates a CSAM sharing ring and/or poses as a customer for CSAM. Material is shared with the officer as it would be to an actual consumer of CSAM.

2) When someone is charged with child abuse, possession of child porn, etc, their physical and electronic lives will be methodically and forensically searched for CSAM material. They will likely find material they already know about, but potentially uncover new material and/or new social networks.

Any material acquired would need to be analysed and classified for the purpose of effective prosecution. My understanding is (from other comments made by people on other websites) that images in the NCMEC database are tagged based on the severity of their content and that Apple is only scanning for the most extreme "A1" material.

I wasn't sure what A1 meant so I googled it. According to this[0] PowerPoint presentation, page 22:

A = prepubescent minor
B = pubescent minor
1 = sex act
2 = "lascivious exhibition"

If you want to ruin your day, the PDF provides very specific—depressingly, grossly specific—definitions for the above.

[0] https://www.prosecutingattorneys.org/wp-content/uploads/Pres...
Read Hothouse by Brian Aldiss. You wanna be 6" tall and scared of giant bugs and plants eating you? Go for it.
Can you use deploy keys to auth with the api?
Inflation is a complex metric. I don't there is a meaningful way to summarize it.
My job is 20-50% sales. I would always take a first call with someone who knew what my job was and wanted to talk to me. It makes me curious about recruiting, are they really spending their time on higher value stuff? Like I said above, my guess is it's a numbers game, more telemarketing than relationship building, at least for people cold-messaging on LinkedIn.
The SF Minute
Uber/Lyft have IPOd and no longer are being pumped artificially, and they need to make up after a year of drastically lower revenue. Lots of things increased in price but that doesn't always mean it's tied to something larger.
In a few years, all the pedophiles will stop using iPhone, and then only innocent people will be scanned in perpetuity. Remember, if someone makes new CSAM, it won't match any hashes so even "new" pedophiles won't get caught by this.

So really, the steady state is just us regular folks getting scanned. As the years go on, what is defined as CSAM will morph into "objectionable material", and will then include "misinformation" like today. They say they won't right now, but where will things be in a few years?
Hey it's still private... unless you have content that matches an opaque, government controlled list of forbidden content... what could go wrong?
This is a good point, when you take into account two income households, more then half can afford the average apartment.
It would make sense that the lowest 10% of paid workers would live in the cheapest 10% of apartments. I wonder how that picture looks.
That does sound quite bad, doesn’t it? That some Linux distributions are getting closer to them?
We have a freedom, let’s use it.
I’m using it for something minimal, like Arch Linux.
> It's a complete change of narrative and there's no easy way to explain it and still defend Apple's Privacy narrative, wihout doing extreme mental gymnastics.

Everyone who took Apple at their word was already doing extreme mental gymnastics because Apple's privacy stance was a farce on borrowed time to begin with. Now it's just blatantly obvious to everyone.
Food items are swapped out for lower cost 'substitutes'. I can't imagine someone cooking those numbers
What’s the difference between a bug in a smart contract and a bug in an online banking application? The fact that the contract’s code is public, immutable, distributed doesn’t make it ok to hack it and steal money.
I wrote this 6 years ago, and it’s still relevant: https://max.io/articles/the-state-of-state-in-the-browser/

We need a real robust abstraction for the web that works like a file system. Everything else is just too opinionated and compromises in one way or another.
You don’t seem to have read what Apple has said on the issue so that feels a bit extreme.

And for the record I’m not for this, but my concerns are more about what various governments may start mandating as this capability becomes an option.

If you want on-device and cloud backup of data that isn’t checked for illegal content, I think that change needs to happen at the legislature not the phone store.
Tresorit? Excellent app, speed, features, and Switzerland zero knowledge encryption. Also supports camera uploads as key feature for mobile.
It used to be understood in the 2nd half of the 20th century that a modern western society needs a strong middle class.

That's the proof that the west actually works, and at the time was the only way to fend off the communist hordes.

I wonder what happened to that strategy?
Agreed. Technology has allowed abusive images to thrive and reach new consumers. Any pressure to "evolve laws with technology" will surely lead to more draconian anti-privacy measures.
I was thinking of a superSet of Zig, sort of like C++ to C would be Zag. Rather than a Scripting Language.
It only runs if you have iCloud photos enabled.

Then it only runs client side and alerts if there are matches to CSAM hashes above some threshold.

The other way is it runs against unencrypted images in iCloud and they'd know of any match.

The new method also paves the way for the iCloud photos to be encrypted (they're currently not).
The link is dead.