skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another reminder that many parts of HN have their own biases; they're just different than the biases found on other networks.

Instead of exclusively focusing on the authoritarian slippery slope like it's inevitable, it's worth wondering first: why do the major tech companies show no intention of giving up the server-side PhotoDNA scanning that has already existed for over a decade? CSAM is still considered illegal by half of all the countries in the entire world, for reasons many consider justifiable.

The point of all the detection is so that Apple isn't found liable for hosting CSAM and consequently implicated with financial and legal consequences themselves. And beyond just the realm of law, it's reputational suicide to be denounced as a "safe haven for pedophiles" if it's not possible for law enforcement to tell if CSAM is being stored on third-party servers. Apple was not the best actor to look towards if absolute privacy was one's goal to begin with, because the requests of law enforcement are both reasonable enough to the public and intertwined with regulation from the higher powers anyway. It's the nature of public sentiment surrounding this issue.

Because a third party insisting that user-hosted content is completely impervious to outside actors also means that it is possible for users to hide CSAM from law enforcement using the same service, thus making the service criminally liable for damages under many legal jurisdictions, I was surprised that this debate didn't happen earlier (to the extent it's taking place, at least). The two principles seem fundamentally incompatible.
The Jordan brand itself is worth over 10B.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2020/05/03/mich...
Looks like they've been doing them for about a year, but stragglers are a guarantee!
Unlikely except if you send them to a iphone which is registered with a "child" account.

Apple uses two different approaches:

1. Some way to try to detect _known_ child pornographic material, but it's fuzzy and there is no guarantee that it doesn't make mistakes like detecting a flower pot as child porn. But the chance that your photos get "miss detected" as _known_ child pornographic material shouldn't be too high. BUT given how many parents have IPhones it's basically guaranteed to happen from time to time!

2. Some KI child porn detection on child accounts, which is not unlikely to labile such innocent photos as child porn.
PS. floathub.com is brilliant!
Non-zero being technically true because of the subject matter, but I don’t see how Apple’s system increases the risk of authorities killing family or pets more than server-side scanning.
Lucky for you, they just filed for IPO, so you can read their prospectus! https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001666054/000110465...

I think their strategy is right there on page one:

ABG is responsible for brand identity and strategy, and marketing. ABG has approval rights over product design. Their partners (licensees) do everything else (including product design).

Presumably for this strategy to work at all, people believe that ABG is sufficiently skilled at branding and marketing (as well as having the ability to synergize across brands... before you laugh, ABG owns the rights to likeness of Marilyn Monroe, Mohummad Ali, Shaq and Elvis) that people who like to be just "operators" will partner with them.
The more Reddit gets infected by ads, the less value the content will provide. Advertising is diametrically opposed to information sharing.
Paint by Numbers: How Roger de Piles tabulated artistic merit
> Many of these companies create immense global value and could not possibly have gotten to where they are w/o the resources of a FAANG (think YouTube, WhatsApp) -- and if you think otherwise, where are the competitors? (I mean...this isnt like cell phone contracts, you can switch chat clients or video streaming sites easily)

Something that the CMA has recently become incredibly aware of is the power of network effects (and how they can be used to create a moat around one innovative and well-funded early-mover that prevents another equally innovative company from succeeding in the same way).

Especially where the network effect is used with deliberate non-interoperability in mind (chat clients, and the corresponding protocols that all originated from XMPP, but diverge sufficiently to prevent interoperability, as an example), they seem increasingly interested in the competition factors at play, as it allows one dominant player to entrench that dominance and can lead to an uncompetitive marketplace.

Where default settings are used to win marketshare across markets (see browser defaults, search defaults, etc.), this is one of the specific areas they like to investigate and act on.

At a recent talk, one of the heads of the CMA explained their goal here - it isn't to ruin the tech sector, but rather to ensure that new and innovative tech companies can succeed today, and in the future, without today's entrenched tech players having a de-facto veto on their success, or the ability to acquire and sink or subsume them.

The CMA doesn't want to see innovative new companies forced to get the permission of entrenched players (through platform business models and other control-yielding constructs we see being created today) to innovate - this is one of the reasons they're also looking very closely at Apple and their app store platform model, since it disallows competition and has been designed to give them a self-selected (not free-market) rent that helps them maintain their position. Decoupling the lock between the phone and the app store platform would force price competition and lead to new and innovative options, and a more dynamic market.

While this seems an unpopular view in the tech world, it's probably worth contextualising that in 2012, the average lifespan of an S&P 500 listed company was 15 years, and this has been falling since the 1920s... Today's tech giants shouldn't last forever, and newer S&P companies tend to out-perform older ones. A dynamic market that doesn't allow FAANMG to try to preserve themselves forever will likely see more growth and opportunities in the long run.

Ref: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16611040
Very, very few signed, written contracts get deposited with a neutral. Parties keep signed “file copies” among their records. For big or important deals, one or the other’s lawyer compiles and shares a “closing binder”. Mostly these are PDFs, on file servers and mail servers.

Practical evidence is not technical proof. Methods of technical proof don’t cover all the potential legal challenges.

The goal is establishing terms before judge or jury. Do that and the court can enforce.
> And just in case this seems like the way of nature, consider BASE jumping, which is illegal almost everywhere in the United States, even as we allow the purchase of assault rifles alongside eggs and milk at Walmart. In Europe, the opposite holds true: BASE jumping is legal all over but gun ownership is highly regulated. That’s because Europeans venerate the freedom to risk one’s own life but not the freedom to endanger others.

This is a very interesting article. I hadn't thought of it this way before.
Yeah I found the EFF's piece to be really disappointing, coming from an organization I'm otherwise aligned with nearly 100% of the time.
Where I live (Boise, Id) there are a lot of bikes.

The reality is that for a car that wants to make a right turn, there are three directions the driver must look.

1. To the left for oncoming traffic.

2. To the right for oncoming bikes riding on the sidewalk.

3. To the right and behind for any bikes coming up between the car and riding between the car and the curb with the intent of going straight.
You were exploiting a bug, an egregious one, and I don't think any reasonable person would think that behavior was the intent of the service provider. In other words, "the code let me do it" isn't going to fly in court.

To your original question, entering a negative amount in a web form should not be illegal. That's silly. But you're responsible for the effects and what you do after noticing the odd behavior. If an ATM machine vends me an extra $20 because the bills were stuck together, I should return the extra $20.
Yeah, and as argued in one of the blog posts - that's just a policy decision - not a capability decision - malleable to authoritarian countries' requests.
India will a bigger problem much sooner, there is less snow melt from the mountains. The great rivers have less water and it is occuring now. Add a bad heatwave and C19 will look a normal flu season.
I don't really buy that - you could just turn off iCloud backup and it'd avoid their current implementation.
What is the relevance of this comparison?
That was back when Nike and Reebok were actually in competition.

Here's an interesting read about it: https://www.retaildive.com/news/reebok-was-meant-to-be-a-nik...
IndexedDB is a dumpster fire we all got screwed over with by Mozilla after they declared "inelegant developer aesthetics" of WebSQL and killed real life usable SQL engine https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis... This is how we ended with a cow shit IndexedDB nobody uses without some middle layers. This is one of those middle layers making using SQL database client side actually viable, by hiding IndexedDB as deep as possible.

tldr: Mozilla's fault
I think it's good advice to assume your device is doing things against your best interests, especially when running software from MS, Google, etc.

There are a few easy things you can do like use e2e encryption wherever possible and trust as few things (devices, companies, apps) as you can get away with.

TOR has dubious value given the effort put in by various actors to de-anonymize its traffic.
>Their ads are the worst of all the big social networks, given how anonymous their base is. So they're forced to innovate, which I think is good for everyone

The oddity is that their user's aren't that anonymous -- in fact, they very directly tell reddit what their interests are. Like a trade magazine, reddit really doesn't have to do any analysis at all to figure out how to map ads to the right target audience.

It confounds me how they haven't managed to do a much better job of targeted advertising -- just showing woodworking tool ads on the woodworking sub would be a dramatic improvement over the current setup.
But how is protest relevant to famine?
Oh yeah I don’t mean there’s a technological reason it’s not possible, it’s just at odds with the new controlling faction of the web.

Time was the web was for everyone, and enthusiasts were the main stakeholders.

Now the web is just another marketplace run by corporations.
One word – branding.
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The irony of Corporate America's diversity programs is that they appreciate diversity of thought except for those that disagree with them. Then, they suddenly don't care about you and your thoughts.
Passwords are probably one of the worst things to happen to our field as a whole (phishing, password managers, etc. are the results of their ubiquity), so efforts to remove them are probably not part of some Microsoft plan to kill open source. This change is a good thing.
He doesn't own Apple. The owners of some ~17 billions shares of AAPL own Apple.
These things, in different forms, happen frequently, unfortunately.

It would be interesting to know how many times the outcome is "hero" and how many "lizard", under which conditions, in which contexts etc.
> Let's just sit here and consider for a minute the inherent racism in referring to anyone being rich as having the quality of 'being white'.

I guess you never saw this.

https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rationa...
> The end isn't really compromised with their described implementation.

They've turned your device into a dragnet for content the powers that be don't like. It could be anything. They're not telling you. And you're blindly trusting them to have your interests at heart, to never change their promise. You don't even know these people.

You seriously want to cuddle up with that?
I didn't see it mentioned in the article but is swapping out the battery entirely an option being investigated, i.e. you roll into the truck stop and some process takes the depleted battery and inserts a charged one.

It was discussed on the past for cars but I'd assume it's easier to design for trucks due to their specialised use?
... and made life much easier for stalkers, extortionists, and kidnappers.

I suppose you'll be posting read-only email log in credentials for all of us too, so we can all make sure you're not doing anything illegal there.
Unless the page hasn't been kept up to date, the founder of Reebok is still alive at the age of 86:

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

some more info on the origins of the brand over there.
Why not mention the Biden administration attempting to distribute COVID relief money based on race?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/joe-bidens-covid-debt-reli...
Calling dang.
Offhand, /r/legaladvice, /r/AskHistorians, and /r/AskScience stand out as being heavily moderated to the benefit of overall content quality. I don't see how any of those would be political propaganda (left-wing or otherwise).
"In order to respect our privacy policy, we need to even more egregiously violate your privacy in a weird lawyer-y way"
All leaders are human. All humans are flawed. This is why government is always corrupted in someway. There is no way around it.

Additionally, the humans who fancy themselves as not flawed to the point where they are able to effectively lead and decide for others is a major red flag that they are not. Which to me is the great irony of democracy.
Even in the child account case it's not sent to Apple - it alerts parent accounts in the family. It's also just nudity generally, more akin to garden variety parental control content filtering.

The child account iMessage thing is really entirely separate from the CSAM related iCloud announcement. It's unfortunate people keep confusing them.
FYI, the seller didn't choose the escrow company.

Either your agent/attorney or the seller's agent/attorney did.

And you had the legal right to choose the company providing almost all of those services. Well, in most states you do. Federal law provides that you can choose a subset of them.
This is a poor take, I addressed the false $300B channel claim elsewhere in the thread but was downvoted so my response is invisible.

The HN echo chamber must stay intact at all costs I guess.
Indeed. FATCA is an extreme annoyance and makes Americans persona non grata in a lot of countries. Try getting a bank account or opening a mortgage as an American permanently abroad or an accidental one.

(I wish beyond FATCA that taxation on Americans domiciled outside of the country would be ended. Such a waste, and I say this as someone who supports taxation for public goods.)
Appending on to what BitwiseFool said. There is "Martin Luther King Jr." the person and "Martin Luther King Jr." the public figure (or the icon, or the philosophy, or the doctrine, or the movement).

MLK could have thought any number of great or terrible things. In some contexts it can be highly appropriate to mention them.

In my opinion, when someone mentions MLK in the context of the "I have a dream" speech, its clear to me that the personhood of MLK or his beliefs are really not up for discussion. MLK is a piece of iconography, a historical reference point, for the color-blind, racially-neutral position. Any discussion of MLK's beliefs distract from the point being made and ultimately does not change minds.
I think sql is a bad fit for front end code in js. We may have ended up with another fight over ORMs. The Vietnam war of computer science as I think it was called.
It's been leaked before that Apple folded under pressure from the FBI not to add iCloud encryption for images.
If I'm wrong GP can correct me, but I think "engagement" means commenting/posting/voting, just viewing a page doesn't count as engagement.
The design more plausible enables total device surveillance than questionable iCloud Backups. (I refuse to call a backdoored setup E2EE)
One probably has to assume at least some level of control of any system where there's access to secrets where they're necessary for production processes.

But if you aren't confident of it, then at least that token only has access to a repository, and can't be exfiltrated to let somebody log in and really mess with your user account or your organization.

(All that said: I'd recommend a single-use, minimally privileged SSH key over an access token, just because that workflow's what you should be using on a desktop too.)
I don't have much to add and I don't disagree with much of what you wrote, just wanna say thanks for the write up.
I just checked /r/linux, which I browse on occasion, and the three sponsored posts I saw on the front page were for Intel vPro, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Google Chromebooks. Those all seem at least reasonably relevant.
> The vast majority of hydrogen (96%) is generated from fossil fuels, particularly from steam methane reforming (SMR) of natural gas but also from coal gasification.

That's the problem, right there. It's hard to make those processes clean.

We need a different process for hydrogen. Or stick to 100% electric instead.
The implementation issue with integers in Commodore BASIC 2 was that they were still stored in a 5 byte format, while actually using just the first two bytes. Meaning, unlike with other implementations of MS BASIC, they occupied 7 bytes in memory (with two leading bytes for the identifier), just like floating point variables, and there was no improvement on memory usage with integers.
Your comments make perfect sense in light of the fact that Reddit is the world's largest free porn site, with just enough "social" sprinkled on top to keep you engaged between wanks.
They were probably legit and intentionally more affordable: https://www.blackbusiness.com/2016/07/shaq-affordable-shoes-...
Pessimistically: to allow them to (eventually) scan other content that you don't upload. I think pessimism about Apple's behavior is somewhat warranted at this point.
TLDR? The article was three sentences!
Yeah, anything but green hydrogen is just a complicated way of keeping the status quo, fossil fuel oriented system in place. There might be a small benefit to global warming (not found in this paper), but it’s using up a finite amount of capture space.

I do think we can probably get a lot better at capturing methane leaks, though. It’s low hanging fruit.

…and even green hydrogen is much less efficient for heating and propulsion than heat pumps and battery/direct-electric. Especially in the early days when we are still working to increase the energy payback of renewables, this is not helpful! We need high efficiency usage of electricity. Making hydrogen is something you shouldn’t do unless there aren’t alternatives.

We don’t need hydrogen for heat, for transport, or for storage (possible exception being seasonal storage once you’ve surpassed 95% clean electricity… no point in hydrogen storage if you’re still only a 50% clean grid). Hydrogen trucks are more expensive (to buy and ESPECIALLY a to operate) and not necessarily any more range (possible exception if you use liquid hydrogen). We do use hydrogen industrially for all ammonia production and (believe it or not) all new iron ore reduction plants (DRI/HBI plants) in the US (they use syngas usually, a mix of hydrogen and CO, usually made from natural gas but it could be made almost entirely with hydrogen), so it’s not like we won’t find a use for the hydrogen we might produce from excess renewable power.
Instagram and Whatsapp had very small teams even with hundreds of millions of users. Reddit has more features but honestly the amount of money pumped in is crazy given that it's well, basically a collection of web forums.

Remember the point of a company is to make money for the people that invest in it, being in the top 25 globally doesn't mean that much if you need to take half a billion in cash 15 years into your existence. it's a weird narrative for a tech company.
Because no one in their right mind uploads CP to a cloud service, and apparently pedos abuse Facebook’s easy sign up process to bulk upload CP.

Not that it matters when those Facebook sign ups are probably proxied with throwaway emails
> The only thing sent is the hash and signature and that's if there are enough matches to pass some threshold.

Not true. If there are enough matches, someone at Apple will have a look at your pictures. Even if they are innocent.
No one is arguing that demographics have to match the country, at least not anyone serious. No one is forcing certain ethnic groups to apply to tech jobs - but if you have a group of people who are telling you that they would like these jobs, and there are structural disadvantages in place that make it more challenging for those people to get those jobs - why wouldn't you try to make things more equitable?
“If it works as designed” is I think where Gruber’s article does it’s best work: he explains that the design is pretty good, but the if is huge. The slippery slope with this is real, and even though Apple’s chief of privacy has basically said everything everyone is worried about is currently impossible, “currently” could change tomorrow if Apple’s bottom line is threatened.

I think their design is making some really smart trade offs, given the needle they are trying to thread. But it shouldn’t exist at all, in my opinion; it’s too juicy a target for authoritarian and supposedly democratic governments to find out how to squeeze Apple into using this for evil.
I read an article that I cant find now about the irony of "evil" organizations - the example they gave was intelligence agencies - going out of their way to be "gay friendly" or some similar pandering to make people feel good. As if it's ok that you're illegally wiretapping and torturing or whatever, because of your commitment to diversity.

I'd also add that it seems that many of the most zealous virtue signaling orgs are monopolies / oligopolies that don't have a lot of real business needs to focus on. Check out the Canadian banks for an example. I feel like there's some animal kingdom example I'm not remembering about large antlers or something that signal fitness because only a strong, well fed reindeer could expend the energy growing them. You get the idea. And it ends up having the evolutionary advantages that it crowds out those who are struggling to make ends meet and can't grow the big antlers, and eventually we're left with some ridiculous relics that can barely lift their heads.
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Well you see, they desperately need the runway to give them time to figure out how to pay back half a billion dollars.
The bullying in the 90s was something else. Kids today would be blown away
What you describe as "baby-sitting", I would call "encouraging users to fall into the pit of success."

Many, many GitHub users are not professional software developers, and many more than that are not security-minded users at all. Small incremental improvements like this are a kind of defense in depth, and it is valuable.