skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real problem with these masks is that unless you are quite good at equalizing with your jaw, it will be hard to relieve pressure if you dive down more than 6-8 feet or so.
That we lived most of our life without internet. And nowadays it seems that if the internet is not working is the end of the world.

> and have no access to healthcare, banking and employment as an almost direct result of the lack of internet access.

Yes, because we didn't have all that things before internet was invented. Or people that doesn't use the internet, like all the old people that doesn't where to turn on a computer, doesn't have access to them.
You can't really compare hydrogen with gas and coal. Gas and goal are (fossil) fuels, hydrogen is a battery, or more accurately, at best an energy storage medium. Yes, you can use it for rockets, but you first have to separate it out from water using the same energy that later oxidization will return.
That's why I said 'something like'. An extension of the idea adapted for wider use.

I'm certain such a person uses TCP/IP every day and doesn't need it explained. Yet twenty years ago, some knowledge of IP addresses and subnet masks etc was necessary to get connected.
Methane is a better fuel for that than hydrogen, you can make it from air plus energy (although not easily - there's not enough CO2 in the air for that). Or, more practically, coal and water and energy.
The loss of OnlyFans would make a LOT of people very sad.
No, because pollution (CO2, etc.) is the problem. Energy use would be irrelevant if it did not harm the environment.
We’ll have to wait and see how good their neural hashing is, but just to clarify the 1 trillion number is the “probability of incorrectly flagging a given account” according to Apple’s white paper.

I think some people think that’s the probability of a picture being incorrectly flagged, which would be more concerning given the 1.5 trillion images created in the US.

Source: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
You can synthesize gasoline, for that matter. You can't really do much better than that for a liquid fuel. I'm surprised there's not more of a market for "green gasoline". It's not that hard to make.
Not a lawyer, but if the Unicode Consortium even tried to add their logo to the specification, wouldn't Twitter have to actively sue to stop them or risk having their trademark genericized?

Gut check: are there currently any trademarked symbols in Unicode? I can't think of any offhand, and it I find it difficult to imagine it happening for precisely that reason.
It also depends whether or not your local power company can sell its surplus.
The US Corporate Transparency Act passed earlier this year requires LLCs to report their beneficial owners to FinCEN.
Direct link to video explanation from article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhqZ9ECm70
Something that hasn’t been brought up in this thread is the massive problem Reddit has regarding large scale bot networks.

Reddit allows for unlimited account creation and has extremely poor, if any, detection algorithms. Additionally, its trivial to stream and analyze the entirety of Reddit comments and posts in real time (check out PRAW if you like Python).

Networks pushing COVID narratives and crypto frauds are probably the worst offenders. Here’s an example I just came across in /r/miami: https://reddit.com/r/Miami/comments/p1z6a7/have_you_guys_see.... The networks pushing certain COVID narratives are evening more troubling as, unlike crypto, im not sure what the end game is or who is controlling those networks.
> Think, having your graphics designer able to make commits, or having someone who only wants to update docs.

GitHub's web interface is pretty good for this.
Giving fringe viewpoints a megaphone and that kind of validation is a terrible idea. We have seen it be abused and fail us consistently over the last decade in both mainstream and social media.
Hypothetically, it could be that some law was worded “in writing or verbally, or via telegram” and it didn’t include other forms of communication.

There is in fact a U.S. law that defines “writing” in some parts of the law to encompass electronic communication in some manner as well. So some federal laws that required certain kinds of agreement to be in “writing”, like, IIRC, exclusive copyright licensing, now permit electronic communication.
>The escrow company generally should do proper KYC work, and does fall under AML/CFT directives.

I'm claiming that some of the escrow companies are only in business for a short period of time, only to pop up under a different name with one or two of the owners being different. Wouldn't that mitigate a lot of the risk of non compliance?
> I should be allowed to correct someone when they do.

You're not a fact checker, this is a discussion board...?
The Structure of Systematicity in the Brain
Proudly sponsored by Google and this feature is no different to Brave Ads. Mozilla has given up on privacy here and is holding hands with Google.

They are finished.
I get 4-pack espresso from sams for $10 that lasts me a month. I stopped getting "lattes" and other fancy stuff long time ago.
I used to have a similar impression. Gradually my view has changed. I now see it as one of the best sources of information on the internet on specific topics.
Maybe airplanes and boats?
When They Fantasize About Killing You, Believe Them
For my search use case, documents are mostly single topic and less than 10 pages. However I have found embeddings still work surprisingly well for longer documents with a few topics in them. But yes, multi-topic documents can certainly be an issue. Segmentation by sentence, paragraph, or page can help here. I believe there are ML-based topic segmentation algorithms too, but that certainly starts making it less simple.
As I recall, Google reacted to the Snowden leaks by encrypting traffic within and between its datacenters, which it had not previously been doing.
Yes, I concede it's a good engineering solution there. Especially when you also need water!
Sounds like the ethanol of hydrogen.
According to quick wikisearch, all cities except NYC, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Philly and SF
I’m not even sure if it's a joke or you are serious.

It is a check against existing hashes in a big database of confirmed CSAM. What are the chances that photos of your partner are in that database? If your partner is older than 12 - it's 0%.

Who is taking more risk to be sued for the leakage of the photos, you or Apple?

The last part doesn't worth to be discussed because children in that DB are younger than 12.
Fifficult indeed
> It was torpedoed because it was SQL-based (and not trendy "key value" and "web scale").

Whenever I need simple (but indexed) key-value (unless that's a hi-load server-side) I always just use SQLite anyway. I really don't understand why do we need any data storage other than SQLite (and HDF5 perhaps) to exist on the client side.
Yet it's absolutely required for synthesizing hydrocarbons from CO2 so, there's that.

I mean, pick any fuel you want, their utility as stores of energy are all based on hydrogen content. So we're going to kick the fossil habit and still have fuel of _any_ sort, we're going to have to learn to produce and utilize hydrogen at scale.

Grey and blue hydrogen are transition fuels. They build a market for green hydrogen to fill. It's going to be a little messy along the way.
IIRC, wasn't the price point for a bio-gas (made from atmospheric CO2) something like $4/gallon?
> Am I correct in assuming that energy use, period, is the problem?

No, greenhouse gas emissions are the problem.
The flowback protection is usually directly attached to the water inlet of the washing machine.

It's not an optional thing that a landlord can skimp on, you'd have to replace the inlet entirely to get rid of it.
Is there a theoretical carbon capture technology with hydrogen as byproduct? It seems to me that if anything it would consume hydrogen.
Librem 5 and pinephone are the future
Musk/SpaceX is most probably working on efficient production of methane using water, CO2 and electricity for Mars refueling, and one can wonder whether it can get downstream-ed into the Earth economy giving Musk's energy related (solar/storage/etc.) business here.
GCM still doesn't support multiple users properly, though. Https auth is what I was using for a second GitHub account, so I'm not thrilled about this change.

I want to have work and personal GitHub accounts on the same machine and very explicitly choose which account goes to which repo. Too often I have changes going in with the wrong user.name / user.email or account to the point where I paranoidly reauthenticate every time and manually check each clone's .git/config.
Reddit is 16 years old. It's one of the largest sites on the internet by views, users, time on site, any metric you would care about. They have something like 500 FTE's, which is tiny compared to lots of other sites with far less traffic.

It's basically the perfect combination of high traffic and low costs, and they have raised close to a billion dollars in funding. If they aren't profitable now, they are very unlikely to ever be profitable. I think it's likely they will sell to one of the big players (I would guess FB) in the next 5 years or so. If that goes the 'usual way', whoever acquires them will immediately let the site fall apart and eventually shut it down, and in the meantime a new hot reddit/digg/slashdot like site will emerge to take it's place almost overnight.
Reddit was a bastion of free speech but it's suffered a steep decline in quality and content. It's a toxic place with heavy handed dark UI patterns: they've lost their minds over there.
I am profoundly disappointed that almost all of the discussion is about the minutiae of the implementation, and "Hmm.. Am I ok with the minutiae of Apple's specific implementation at rollout?" And almost nobody is discussing the basic general principle of whether they want their own device to scan itself for contraband, on society's behalf.
> Reddit allows for unlimited account creation and has extremely poor, if any, detection algorithms.

Why don't they put some CAPTCHAs? They have no CAPTCHAs anywhere in account creation + post first time comment + first time thread + first time direct message?
Ahh - an "irrefutable" claim that apple is committing child porn felonies.

This is sort of what I mean and a perfect example.

People imagine that apple hasn't talked to the actual folks in charge NCMEC.

People seem to imagine apple doesn't have lawyers?

People go to the most sensationalist least good faith conclusion.

Most mod systems at scale are using similar approaches. Facebook is doing 10's of MILLIONS of images to NCMEC, these get flagged by users and/or systems, and in most cases then facebook copies, checks through moderation queue and submits to NEC.

Reddit uses the sexualization of minors flags. In almost all cases, even though folks may have strong reasons to believe some of this flagged content is CSAM, it still gets a manual look. Once they know they act appropriately.

So the logic of this claim about apples late to party arrival of CSAM scanning is weird.

We are going to find out that instead of trying to charge apple with some kind of child porn charges, NCMEC and politicians are going to be THANKING apple, and may start requiring others with E2EE ideas to follow a similar approach.
"graph", "tree", "boostrapping", and "bandwidth" are all fairly accurate analogies.

"smart contract" is a buzzword (incidentally, you may notice that it is not literally buzzing).

The parent comment is like saying "I'm just happy to see something about crypto that's actually about cryptography"
I think you're wrong about the risk (the paper says per account), but even so you need to compare it to the alternatives.

Photos in iCloud are unencrypted and Apple checks for CSAM on the unencrypted photos server side, they know of all matches.

OR

Photo hashes are checked client side and only if a certain threshold of matches is passed does Apple get notified at all (at which point there's a sanity check for false positive by a person). This would allow all photos on iCloud to be able to be encrypted e2e.

Both only happen when iCloud photo backup is enabled.

The new method reduces the risk.
> No comparision between FDR/Truman/Ike and the buffoon class of Bush/Obama/Trump.

As much as I would love to rag on Bush, Obama, and Trump, you have to realize that FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower had an extremely homogeneous, nationalistic, patriotic people to lead, whereas bush, obama, and trump all were handed an extremely divided country where nationalism and patriotism were bad words, with perhaps the exception of Bush who got post-9/11 unity for a bit.
Good clarification- my wording was clunky.
And that’s why I asked the question! Thank you, I hadn’t seen that before.

I would say that’s definitely problematic. Still wouldn’t call it a scam. That’d be like calling Lehman Brothers a scam.
The correct answer is a well qualified "Maybe." The hashes are fuzzy AI generated weights. It's impossible to know what will cause a false-positive.
It's a good question. The only explanation that makes sense is that this now allows them to begin end-to-end encryption of iCloud photos. I see that many commentators are claiming that they could already have started e2e encryption without introducing this "backdoor." While this is true, Apple would then be creating a perfect environment for child abusers to house their CSAM content on Apple's own servers. You can understand why Apple might not want to do that.

This allows Apple to get to what is in their mind the best of both worlds: a truly private cloud for their valued users while not creating a safe haven for child abusers.
We really aren't that far from a plausible charging setup that can do 300 miles in 10 minutes. And that would be perfectly adequate. The infrastructure to support it would certainly be less difficult than trying to get hydrogen available everywhere.
> financial institutions covered

being key...
They're all propaganda, not just RT and Global Times.
They could E2E iCloud, of course. Question is whether they could while still staying on the right side of the law.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1597/
> they've spent a ton on paint with little to show for it.

This is a bizarre comment under an article for a company that bootstrapped to a $10 billion valuation.
I received a safety insert when I got the vaccine. It was pretty thick, actually, and covered potential side effects and risks. This was at a Walgreens pharmacy so I assume that's a broad corporate policy, not just a single pharmacy location.
A gallery of example results:

https://github.com/LingDong-/fishdraw#gallery
Intel's compiler is free (as in beer) now. It used to be commercial though.
Dear tech users,

Associating with some of you has become a liability. One may be smart enough to avoid iPhone and Alexa et al. but what to do when one is surrounded by people who willingly expose themselves to nefarious technology?

In short, I don't want pictures of me being hoovered up along with your baby pics from your iPhone.
I find this an odd comment. Is a 100% Rust browser something anyone is clamoring for?

At any rate, if that really is your goal for some reason, rendering engine is going to be your first problem anyway. Then a JS runtime.
Go ahead and take issue. You missed the part about them turning your own device against you and normalizing it as "oh it's just a little thing". This is huge and you shouldn't downplay it. Phones are at the center of our digital life and this is allowing a government proxy in to (first steps, likely to be followed by many more). I am quite glad that people are "overreacting" to it. It seems like you want us to just eat our grass like sheep. I will keep raising issues with it not matter how many times people say "alarmist" or "must be a pedo" or whatever is the insult of the day.
This is where the thresholding and manual review come in, but could be a bit scary for sure.
The author uses his experience of the Middle East to justify his warning, but I would argue that a reading of history, including 1930s Germany, Bosnia, and other Genocides support his thesis. I think this could be discussed without getting too political - I'm interested in the warning signs and reading the tea leaves. I agree that the present rhetoric is dangerous, and similar to what clearly preceded the bad events above. Is the US heading toward another violent civil war? How do we avert this outcome?
Yep. For instance:

> banking institutions;
I wouldn't say this isn't a problem at all but the fact that subs have mods which have a lot of power seems to be very effective.

I don't spend that much time on reddit as a whole - but frequent about 5-7 subs every single day. These are mostly medium sized subs and none of them have a problem of spam. And I'm on them enough that it is by far the social media/news site I interact with the most.
While some forms of comparative advantage might occur in the real world, Ricardo's theory, like so much of economics, abstracts away fundamental facts about the financial and biophysical aspects of development to such an extent that I do not see it as a useful tool of economic analysis. See for instance:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/diversification-or-specia...

https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/08/ricardos-vice-vir...

This in general seems like a good reason for realism over empiricism within economics, many toy theories such as Ricardian comparative advantage can be used to interpret real world data and be assigned scientific credibility in the process, you have to open up the black boxes at all levels of aggregation to get beyond that.
What would prevent someone from, for instance, printing off an illegal photo, “borrowing” a disliked co-workers iCloud enabled phone, and snapping a picture of the illegal picture with their camera?

On iOS the camera can be accessed before unlocking the phone, and wouldn’t this effectively put illegal image(s) in the targets possession without their knowledge?
I agree, but it doesn't necessarily mean what they say is wrong.

I like that they disagree - the issue doesn't have an obviously correct answer.
> I don't see how this is even being discussed.

It's because people disagree with your assumption that you are completely correct, but I know you're already not here to discuss but to "fact-check".

There are reasons why specific pieces of history stick out and resonate. His "I have a dream" speech is what I remembered most because that is what ultimately, I believe, actually played a role in truly removing a lot of pervasive racism and discrimination that used to exist.

It certainly helped me from a young age really have a worldview that people are who they advertise themselves as, not by the visual identity I associate them with. It's never been an issue until people like you popped up out of nowhere saying I'm the most racist person alive because I don't treat people differently because of their race.
> Is there a theoretical carbon capture technology with hydrogen as byproduct?

Just from the elements involved, that seems possible, but only if the GHG you are capturing specifically is methane.
Adidas passing on Jordan was clearly a dumb move.[0]

[0]https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bulls/michael-jordan-wante...
Backpage had a staff of ~75 employees dedicated to manually reviewing all adult ads and they were the #1 source of trafficking tips until they were shut down and the owner jailed.

They truly did good work and were an unfortunate casualty of a political pissing contest.
As much as the tech and security community has concerns and objections to this policy change on the part of Apple, I’m skeptical there will be any notable impact to Apple’s revenue and future sales.
> I mean, pick any fuel you want, their utility as stores of energy are all based on hydrogen content.

OK, I pick black coal. No hydrogen content. What do I win?
The question for an advertising business is how much do the people interested in those topics spend, and how hard are they to reach elsewhere.
Taxation on Americans living abroad is crazy, when you consider that American companies aren't taxed on their foreign profits.
Every website or internet community that I've used for over a year feels to me like it's dying, including HN.

It's a natural reaction to change.

I've been on Reddit for 11 years, and all your comments could apply to 2010 Reddit as well as they apply to 2021 Reddit. At least edgy memes on /r/atheism aren't a core part of the site anymore.
"only realistic alternative" isn't quite right since it's one of several grid-scale storage options none of which have yet proven themselves to be economical.
The EFF article refers to a "classifier", not just matching hashes.

So, three different things.

I don't know how much you know about them, but this is what the EFF's role is. Privacy can't be curtailed uncritically or unchecked. We don't have a way to guarantee that Apple won't change how this works in the future, that it will never be compromised domestically or internationally, or that children and families won't be harmed by it.

It's an unauditable black box that places one of the highest, most damaging penalties in the US legal system against a bet that it's a perfect system. Working backwards from that, it's easy to see how anything that assumes its own perfection is an impossible barrier for individuals, akin to YouTube's incontestable automated bans. Best case, maybe you lose access to all of your Apple services for life. Worst case, what, your life?

When you take a picture of your penis to send to your doctor and it accidentally syncs to iCloud and trips the CSAM alarms, will you get a warning before police appear? Will there be a whitelist to allow certain people to "opt-out for (national) security reasons" that regular people won't have access to or be able to confirm? How can we know this won't be used against journalists and opponents of those in power, like every other invasive system that purports to provide "authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and crime[1]".

Someone's being dumb here, and it's probably the ones who believe that fruit can only be good for them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
Reddit even has communities where sales are made like r/MechanicalKeyboards and those communities use karma and transaction tracking to rank sellers - the communities have done the proof of concept for them.
Why do you care what someone else does with THEIR property?

If I want to own something and leave it "empty", that's my prerogative
Sure, but when people say "hydrogen fuel" they usually mean pure H2. Trouble is, those carbon atoms everyone's so keen to get rid of are damn useful, chemically speaking. I actually think there's a lot more mileage in synthesizing hydrocarbons from biowaste. There's nothing inherently wrong with burning hydrocarbons - the problem is that we're lazily digging historical supplies out of the ground, instead of keeping the carbon cycle closed.

Really, we should just put massive tax levies on fossil fuel extraction operations and call it a day. The market will sort the rest out.
Replace China by any country name and I still wouldn't be surprised.
My common sense is tingling, telling me that Apple's eventual move will be one of malicious compliance, finally implementing e2ee in a way that provides them with culpable deniability and users with a much desired privacy enhancement.
The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough. As time goes on, I realize that certain authors had better insights into the human condition than others. For example, Alduous Huxley has turned out to be more prophetic than George Orwell. I believe Frank Herbert will as well. Man cannot be ruled by machine.

This cannot last much longer. A lot of political division in this country is due to technology. As someone genuinely interested in computation, it upsets me to realize this, but more and more it seems inevitable.
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