skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not claiming the us didnt do this. I'm disputing that people would stay silent when the us does this.

The us does do this and has large and growing domestic opposition movements.
Exactly! There has been so much FUD, conspiracy theory, and fear-mongering.

None of the usual anti-regulation apologists have pointed out that Apple shouldn’t be forced to download and host potentially-illegal material in the interest of ensuring whether or not it’s actually illegal.

This whole program is their intelligent solution to protecting as much user privacy as possible while still being compliant with the law. On-device hashing is actually pro privacy compared to in-the-cloud scanning (which all other cloud hosting providers are also required to do).
Honestly what do you need in a smartphone? Good camera? IDK about you but all I use it for is texting, calling, taking pictures, and maybe checking Hacker News while I'm standing in line. 100% of phones above the $500 mark are going to fit 100% of peoples needs for people like me. Let's be honest, those needs are camera and battery life. What do you need that is the latest and greatest? I am willing to bet that this is fine for 90% of people, including us here.

And we're on Hacker News. People know about ROMs and how to use them. Get a Pixel and throw Lineage onto it. It'll be at minimum $100 cheaper and the specs are pretty damn close (minor trades in either direction).
In some ways I think human review is even creepier. I don’t want an algorithm looking at my private photos but I _definitely_ don’t some rando “reviewer” looking at them! But I guess it all comes down to the same thing: I don’t want anyone looking at my photos unless I’ve deliberately shared my photos with them.
Not just their patents, but also their cellphone division. My understanding was that the Motorola phones were going to be Google's flagship devices for Android.

So I bought one, and I really liked it - I got regular OS updates (unlike many Android licensees), the phone had a gorgeous walnut veneer back, and it fit well in my hand. Nice.
So, how does it work? Can I submit any address for checking? If so, I know some addresses I don’t like.

Or do they require you to sign a message with your wallet? If so, you’ve gotta be really dumb to show your hand like that. But I could still see users trying for funzies.

How much does it cost to check? (If anything?)
Do you know how NeuralHash works? NeuralHash is not a cryptographic hash. Unless you're an Apple employee, you can't - the model is private and not inspectable.
I think we agree? The Chinese government wasn't open about SARS, and despite their apology in 2003 (by which point SARS was on the path to containment), I don't have reason to believe they've become more open about such things in the last couple decades. I am by no means a China expert, so you may disagree with my priors about their behavior.

My experience in biology labs (though not virology labs) suggests that a leak of benign research is plausible, and that if it did happen odds are good that there wouldn't be a ton of documentation to suppress. Mistakes happen all the time, and if researchers filled out a report every time a tube was dropped or some PPE was ignored in a "pretty safe" scenario, there'd be almost no time for research.

I still think the total number of human-animal contacts outside the lab are at least an order of magnitude greater than inside of it, so I would rank the probabilities as (natural > benign research leak >> gain of function leak).
Well, we do block them on Facebook and Twitter.
> except perhaps it connected via gdbremote-over-TCP instead of a 68k debug stub via RS232

(he clearly says "plugged in" in the audio track, which does not hint to a over-the-air solution).
It lives on, as a Nokia/Siemens joint venture.

Edit: apparently Nokia bought out Siemens years ago
Study Turns Central Dogma on Its Head
My problem with the non-lab-leak story is that USA went to great lengths to cover up and downplay the virus in the early months, largely contributing to its global spread
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Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition
I second freecodecamp.org as the place for beginners to start their (web) programming journey.
If you win+. from the carat/focus on text input, just type a hint for the emoji and hit enter (or use arrow keys to select other result) and it should replace the string you typed. i.e. win+. Skull
Your rebuttal is, at best, a specific, straw man instance of "If you were doing nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide."

I needn't be holding child pornography to be concerned about a third party viewing my photos, writing, or other media on a device that is just mine and not published, public content.
"Critics have said the database of images could be corrupted, such as political material being inserted...Federighi said the database of images is constructed through the intersection of images from multiple...organizations...He added that at least two “are in distinct jurisdictions.”"

Oh that's a relief. Good luck trying to get 2 intelligence agencies to cooperate.

/s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Because of the peoples’ reaction?
I used to work for a Motorola-owned company. Digital Six Sigma brings back a lot of “belt training” memories
Besides anger, I guess we are all learning very valuable marketing tactics. Just name it extremely so we cannot choose the other option because it makes us a bad person.
More importantly, it may be necessary to act as if nothing happened to avoid retaliation.
What is airtable capable of these days? Last I checked, years ago, it was mainly an easy way to build and maintain a database.

To be fair, though, a lot of apps are just a database with a CRUD UI
On my startup’s wall, I have the top cringy slogans of my customers. In the middle sits:

“We advance humanity.”

I guess the message is, don’t take yourself too seriously, most of where companies succeed is happenstance. It still takes a moment to all visitors to understand that it can’t be serious.
No offense, but have you even owned an iPhone/iPad for a considerable length of time? The darn things include a maze of settings that are inter-dependent and unexpectedly lose/alter their values; perhaps not on regular basis, but always once in a while (e.g., with a new iOS version). If file scanning and reporting capability is present, code-wise, on your device, you can consider it active - sooner or later.
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> “It’s less about making money off that inventory, at least initially, and more about who can get the most inventory the fastest.”

> iBuyers have recently shifted “to a free-for-all, acquire at any cost strategy.” At present, both Opendoor and Zillow’s homes division are losing money in the process.

> “For some families, it may be difficult to compete, when they are trying to buy a house, with a company like that,” Quercia said, referring to iBuyers. “So if this was a widespread practice in some neighborhoods, it may create some concerns about a lot of the housing stock being owned by investors from outside of the community as opposed to households and residents.”

> The company, which is reportedly searching out a new $2 billion revolving credit facility, also announced this week that it is now willing to purchase the majority of homes in every one of its current markets.

> That would be welcome news for people like Alex Villacorta, the co-founder and chief data officer of ResiShares, an investment management company focused on residential real estate. “If they can get enough inventory flow, they’ll end up being a marketplace for investors,” said Villacorta. “We would be more than happy to buy in bulk off of them.”
Well, a lot of people seems to think it was to protect human rights.
I guess this is when it gets confusing when the military leaders ignore the human rights of those kids raped in the US bases...
Can't be any worse than what the Internet has already done to society. People in the younger generations, in developed countries, had stopped acting like human beings even before COVID hit.
Tools like that try to tell you that they'll handle all of the complexity for you, but they do this by adding a whole new layer of complexity. So they tend to demo well but blow up in your face when you try to use the tool in anger. As soon as you're asking the system to do something the developer didn't consider you now have an additional layer of complexity to understand before you can even start to solve your original problem.
> Every single false positive that makes it into the news is a huge loss, which strongly incentivizes them to avoid that.

Just to be clear, "false positive" in this case means an innocent person is accused of trafficking in child sexual abuse material. It's likely they will be raided.

Sure, that's bad if you're Apple, but it's a lot worse if you're the alleged predator.
> From what I understand, atmospheric physics is extremely complicated, and it sounds like a _very_ hard problem to develop accurate models for.

You are very right about that.
I bet you my life it will not happen.
It doesn’t happen against your will. You still have full control over whether scanning happens.

Simply disable iCloud Photo Library, and nothing gets scanned.
Ask HN: How do you manage one-off internal scripts?
For a recent project, I've found myself writing quite a few one off scripts for database adjustments, SQL queries for analytics, etc. I've been manually running them myself in the command line, but it's a very messy process. New team members also don't know what scripts are available and where to look. Anyone know of any tools, or have any workflows to better organize these scripts?
I don't think that the ", initial-scale=1" would be necessary.

Nowadays, <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> works just fine.
It clearly and obviously is a public square. So is Hacker News, so is Facebook. So is Twitter.

Its where people go to get news and share ideas.
Exactly the hand-wavey and vague language I describe. Nowhere do you quantify the cost of this.

Saying there will be floods or wildfires is not meaningful discussion. We've had those throughout all of recorded history. How much worse will those things get? What is the economic cost?

Just saying climate change is bad because X, Y, Z danger and not quantifying the actual impact with numbers is simply a discussion of hysterics.

There's an endless list of bad things in the world, and logically we should address them from most impactful to least impactful. So where is the math justifying policy X with economic cost Y?

And as I said in my comment, yes studies have been done. Where is that in political discourse? To the average American, addressing climate change will have effectively no impact on their livelihood within their lifetime. Economic consequences will have an immediate impact. That's simply a fact.

Will it get hotter by a few degrees with some knock on effects? Yes. But very little actual impact on day to day life. It becomes obvious to see why many people will vote against these policies.

If you can describe to somebody how it will meaningfully adversely affect their life, you will get more support. Hence why I suggest using numbers rather than "scare language" when discussing.
Hasn’t the rural to urban migration been going on since the beginning of the industrial revolution? It takes fewer people to grow our food, and more jobs are available in cities. This isn’t something new at all.
Rationality is a process, but it has to have data to work with. That data comes from perception of the world (sight, hearing, etc.). There is no such thing as "pure" rationality without sense data to work with.

Evidence for the big bang ultimately comes from sense data. You have to integrate a lot of sense data into scientific theories, which then are integrated with other scientific theories, and so on. Science has gotten so far - but it all started out with simple experiments, eventually microscopes and weak telescopes, etc. and built from there.

Critical thinking allows you to overcome cognitive biases. Faulty perception is pretty easy to detect. A stick in a glass of water will look bent, but it's easy to figure out that it actually isn't bent.
This is exactly why I love the Dark Souls series. They show a world long past it's time. Just enough detail to give you a glimpse of what life was like back in it's prime but not enough to ruin the melancholy.

Beautiful!
I think this is just horizontal antialiasing kicking in.

The o in “Notice” happens to start slightly to the left of a pixel boundary, so it has a narrow strip of very light pixels on its left side (pixels with maybe 10-20% coverage). That makes the boundary look fuzzier and rounder.

The o in “Today” is probably more or less flush with the pixel boundary, so its left side has dark-coloured pixels (80-90% coverage).

It’s likely also the case that it isn’t scaling the luminance to account for sRGB properly. If a pixel is say 20% covered by black-on-white text, you multiply 255 by 20% to give a linear brightness of 51; but for onscreen display this should be converted to sRGB, which is around 124 (gamma ~2.2). If you don’t correct the gamma, the left edge of that o is much darker than it should be, so it looks square rather than rounded off.

Opinions differ as to whether text should be gamma-corrected! If you don’t correct the gamma, it looks darker and sharper, which many people prefer. But it’s actually sharper because it’s more aliased, which exacerbates the kind of moire glitches you’re seeing.

I personally prefer text with no hinting and correct gamma, as I think macOS and iOS do it, but it does look much fuzzier on low-res screens that way so some people dislike it.
I did the figures a while back on what it would take to build a Hawking-radiation-basedv mass-to-energy power plant (in orbit, obviously), and I was astounded at how tiny the black holes have to be in order to get appreciable power output from them.
Reddit has gross adverts already: Huel, some self-help thing, naff Adobe ads endorsed by some Reddit superuser from a corner of the site I never read. I’d far rather they were relevant to the subs I do read.
Seconding simonw:

If you implement a REST API with a "page" parameter that renders as OFFSET in its DB queries, I promise you someone will come along and page through your entire "not big" table. For reporting, or to update XML sitemaps, or something else vital to their business.

Every 15 minutes.

Now put that API behind a public-facing Web app handling, say, a thousand requests a second.

Now deploy a migration that queues for an exclusive lock on a production table to add a column.

Now write a "post-mortem" report explaining to your boss' boss' bosses why their revenue-generating sites were all down for 15 minutes.
stallman.org sounds even better read aloud
I’d expect a secure and privacy focused cloud data storage provider to not know what I’m storing _at all_.

Let’s not beat about the bush, if someone wants to store information in a form that can’t be decrypted by Apple, they can. This is a stupid dragnet policy that won’t catch anyone sophisticated.

Apple focused the last years pitching themselves as the tech giant who actually cares about privacy. They seemed to be consciously building this image.

To now implement scanning of private information and then try and sell this obvious 180degree slippery slope turnaround in the most weasel worded “but think of the children” trope is an insult to the customers’ intelligence.

I was a keen Apple consumer because I felt that even if their motivation was profit, this was a company who focused on privacy. It was a distinct selling point.

I certainly won’t be buying more Apple products.

For me, Apple lost the main reason to buy their stuff. If they are going to do the same thing everyone else is doing, I refuse to pay the premium they charge.
Indeed.

For the past week (entirely related to this being a kicker of a motivation on top of a bunch of other simmering long term concerns over Apple and the tech industry in general), I've been carrying around a Nokia 8110 4G - also known, for very understandable and valid reasons, as "The Bananaphone." It's quite literally curved and bright yellow.

The world hasn't ended yet...

It's a bit less of a step for me than other people because I'm already pretty cell-phone hostile. My iPhone (I regret buying a 2020 SE to replace my 6S under the assumption that the 6S wouldn't get iOS 15, which it's getting... maybe...) was pretty well nerfed to start with - very few apps, literally the only apps on my homescreen were person to person or group chat apps (Signal, iMessage, Google Chat, and the Element Matrix client, plus phone, browser, and camera in the bottom). Everything else had to live in the app library thing, which increased friction to use it, and I really didn't have much on there.

But that has been shut down except for a few 10-15 minute windows the past week, and I've been trying, very hard, to work out the transition back to a "dumbphone" (or, as we used to call them, a cellphone).

The main pain point so far is that all my messaging apps used to come to a central point on my phone - so if someone wanted to contact me, it didn't matter what they used, it would ping me if I had my phone on me. Now, that's split (my wife is the main party impacted, I'm pretty high lag on other platforms anyway). If I'm out and about, I can get SMS, but not Matrix/Signal/Chat. If I'm in my office, I can get all of them, but would rather not have a long conversation over T9 - except some of them don't do a great job of notifying me, depending on what machines are running and muted at any given time. Etc. I'm still working this out, and some of it is simple enough - add audio notifications to my "Chat Pi" by wiring in a speaker instead of relying on my phone to chirp if I get a message in Chat or element. That my M1 Mac Mini is going out the door at some point gives me added motivation to solve this.

When out and about, I do at least have the option of tethering to the banana - so I could carry some other device that handles more than the phone does (which seriously isn't much). I'm debating between going back to a small tablet (2nd gen Nexus 7 would be a perfect form factor), or something like a YARH (http://yarh.io) of some variety - a little Pi based mobile computer thing that is exceedingly "We didn't invent smartphones"punk.

I'm at a point in my life (professionally, socially, culturally, etc) where I can happily do "You're weird... whatever..." sort of things with regards to technology, and I'm going to pull the thread until I either figure out alternatives, or determine that they simply don't exist and I can't live without them.
If that is the case, it has absolutely nothing to do with the reported "around 90% effectivity" that was in the headlines for the four main vaccines.

Saying that delta diminishes the effectivity from over 90% to 39% is spreading misinformation. Implying it, as the above linked article does, is spreading misinformation, knowing that lots of people doesn't read beyond the headline. Vaccines are still more than 90% effective against delta variant, or any other variant so far.

The 39% above only means that vaccinated people has "only" that protection against being infected (that is, being positive on a PCR test). Even if you are asymtomatic you are counted as infected, thus the vaccine alegedly didn't protect you. But vaccinated people still has around 90% protection against being hospitalized, even in delta variant environments.

The only conclusion we can get is: herd immunity is still far. Get vaxxed ASAP, because this thing will keep spreading.
Aurora isn't an alternative App Store. It's an alternative Play Store client.
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Why would you doubt that? People are so much richer in the US, they drive more, they have bigger houses to heat and cool, they consume more in general.
I made an email-only todo list called Dobby [1]

You send your tasks to dobby@dobbymail.com, and it'll send you a todo list every morning. You can reply to complete, postpone etc.

The point is to not have a separate place for seeing and managing a giant database of todos. You only ever see what's relevant now, and in the place you already look for everything else (email).

1. https://dobbymail.com/
If you run Little Snitch you'll find there is no such thing as "disabling" icloud. Mac OS still talks to it frequently, unless you run LS.
That is the where of the story. There was a inarguably confusion over the when, what, and how of the story.

It was not universally understood that this would only apply to photos sent to iCloud.

It was not universally understood that this was only looking for previously known CSAM.

It was not universally understood that they were using some sort of hash matching so photos you took yourself would not trigger the system.

I understand if you consider the where more important than the others, but it is simply a fact that there was confusion on what exactly was happening here.
LOL all that silly bravado and you still didn't answer a straightforward question
Yes, mastering programming, like anything, takes time, practice and patience. Yes, school sucks. Now what is your point? To dumb down everything about programming to the most common denominator so that 1 day old noobs may be equal to grand masters? Not gonna happen.

Why do you never hear these types of complaints when people say it takes 10000hr to master the piano? People never suggest taking shortcuts and people accept and respect the path of becoming a master. But when it concerns programming, everyone immediately jumps to "how can we make this as dumb as possible?"

Guys. Shit takes time and effort. The freshmen will be fine.
You would expect that a company as big as they are to update their status page as well...Anyhow, at least they communicate via twitter.
Apple has the keys to decrypt them.
I don't seem to have too much of an issue speaking with people, simply based on how comfortable the conversation usually is and proceeding to next steps, but it could be a weaker signal than I think and so I'll certainly consider it. As well, I've been exploring fullstack positions too, only just recently though. I think I'd be capable in those respects.

I've definitely sent out (conservatively) beyond 75 applications and participated in 25-60 interviews (off the top of my head) depending on what you consider an interview to be. I'd say I have no problem getting into some sort of pipeline, but in terms of participation in interview processes, most now start (some not even speaking to you first) with some hour to 3 hour hackerrank test. It's not feasible to increase my coverage that way.

I'm in the Canadian market, with a little exposure to remote jobs in the U.S and elsewhere.
The simple summary is: NeuralHash is not a cryptographic hash function. It's a private neural network trained on some images. We have no guarantees of its difficulty to reverse, find collisions for, etc. The naming of it as a 'hash' has confused people (John Gruber's post comes to mind) into thinking this is a cryptographic hash. It simply is not.
https://www.instagram.com/lanasator/?hl=en

I recommend Lana’s Instagram. A really fascinating and scary at the same time pics of soviet abandoned building and industrial places.
Ben's Stratechery article explains the distinction:

> (f)Protection of Privacy.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a provider to—

(1) monitor any user, subscriber, or customer of that provider;
(2) monitor the content of any communication of any person described in paragraph (1); or
(3) affirmatively search, screen, or scan for facts or circumstances described in sections (a) and (b).

https://stratechery.com/2021/apples-mistake/
This is not about compliance, the relevant law specifically says that companies are not required to proactively scan for CSAM.
This is why there’s a threshold of matches “on the order of 30+” before anything is sent to the system for further review.
Maybe. This could happen with Covid too.

Not a pretty scenario! But better than deadly-remains-forever.