skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious — what is negotiating with tech transfer offices like? I'm sure they're receptive to your idea, but how do you negotiate fees and %s? We've seen that it's often hard for TTO and others to agree on a "true value" of their IP, and they sometimes think their IP is worth millions when sometimes it's worth thousands.
Your phone transmits the images with their security envelope (which was computed on device and contains neural hash and "visual derivative") to the iCloud server. During that process, Apple does not know whether there's any CSAM in it, so they can transmit legally.

Then the server determines whether the number of matches exceeds the threshold. Only if that is the case (by crypto magic) can the security envelope of the flagged images only (by crypto magic) be unlocked, and the "visual derivative" be reviewed.

(Note that if (at a later stage) E2EE is enabled for the photos, the images themselves would never be accessible by Apple or LE, whether flagged or not, if I understand the design correctly).
> Sounds like a strange definition of populism.

It seems pretty close to the dictionary definition (from Google): "a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups".

> the best model of the conflict so far includes tension between ordinaries and elites. Even experts don't propose a better picture, so this worldview is rational.

A reasonable alternative model (for political conflict) is rival political factions that each contain both elite and non-elite members. This model doesn't necessarily conflict with the presence of anti-elite sentiment at the base level.
>As the Minitel experiments progressed in multiple countries, there'd be demand for something like CompuServe for cheap terminals like those. Imagine that, instead of Bloomberg/Lexis and other specialized terminals, one could just to all that from a single minitel-like terminal. Or personal computers with Teletext built-in (like the BBC micro, or the Philips PC2000 for instance).

That's well and good, but the fact is that Minitel and similar efforts didn't take off anywhere it was tried outside France. Efforts in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, and Nebraska all failed. Why? Because no one, outside the French PTT (i.e., the French government), jumpstarted the network effect by distributing millions of terminals for free. The one exception was Britain, and that was done by mandating that all new TVs supported Prestel.

>I think [Microsoft would] try the MSX thing - licensing the same design to every electronics manufacturer eager to enter the home computer market, then milk them while they race to the bottom competing in price.

I see what you mean; without DOS, maybe Microsoft would have pushed MSX in the US as well as in Japan.

It's not impossible. The PCjr was announced in November 1983 but developers like Sierra On-Line knew about it a year in advance. Perhaps that knowledge caused Microsoft to not push MSX in the US.

The counterargument is that Microsoft pushed MSX in Japan because it saw an opportunity in a yet relatively untapped market, with neither home computers nor game consoles having wide penetration yet. This was not true in the US, where Commodore, TI, Apple, Radio Shack, Atari, Coleco, and Mattel were already present. They all entered the market before the PC in August 1981 except Coleco, and I doubt the ColecoVision's introduction was affected in any way by the PC's existence.

Everyone expected "the Japanese"—that is, Japanese consumer electronics companies—to enter the US home computer market in the early 1980s, but the Japanese did not because by then the aforementioned US companies were a) already present and b) (with the exception of Apple) incredibly aggressive on price. None of that was contingent on the PC's existence.
Funnily, wasn't there just a launch HN yesterday that helps with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156461

Oherwise, I just use git like others said but that can be suboptimal for non technical or semi technical users.
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But the services you mentioned don’t do it on the device. The blind trust in Apple that everything will be ok is quite BS, and very naïve .
You do not need information on their meditation practice to support the idea that secular meditation is on the rise and proof of that rise is at the very least evident in a secular meditation app getting such a large amount of installs.
Ask HN: What is Windows 11 under the hood?
I know this may be a premature hope, but I sincerely wish Windows would eventually become a Unix-like already, just to make the consumer PC world more streamlined. WSL was a good step, and now I'm getting an Android-like Play-But-Amazon Store vibe.

So, does anyone have any hard facts about this rollover? I have so many questions:

- Are Windows services still going to be the elaborate mechanism they've always been, or is this going to merge into being like Linux as well?

- What about the folder tree structure? Will it still be Windows-like (ProgramFiles+Windows+Users) or the Linux style?

- Are we expecting any Win8 UX abominations where things aren't where the users expect, or is this going to go like WinME-from-98 back in the day where it's functionally similar but the insides are different?

- How backwards-compatible will this be? Can I still run x86 Win98-era stuff, or will this have to become another VM experience? For that matter, is there any baked-in VM-like capability now for Home edition yet (i.e., like Wine)?

- I'm sure I'm missing some questions, so please ask them as well.

EDIT: first post, forgot to parse bullets
'Almost certain'? Have you heard of contingency planning?
Ditto, too bad you got flagged earlier
Didn't say the iPhone wasn't an improvement on the status quo with regards to UI. All I said is that it didn't invent the form nor the hardware.

In my first post on this thread, I said Apple improved the packaging of smartphones (ie. form, UI, ecosystem).
The joins and conditions have their own delimiters, just like the comma between the columns: For joins, the word "join"; for conditions, "and" or "or".
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If you did a crime and made money in Bitcoin, deposited at an exchange, traded it for Monero, cashed out, sent it to a different exchange, traded back for BTC, cashed out, and went to a different exchange to turn it to dollars, how would anyone trace that? Someone would need to link internal data from the second and third exchanges in order to even know you ever owned Monero.
I agree that the ideal case is just a single binary with minimal supporting data, but people using OS images is certainly the norm not the exception. To suggest otherwise is ludicrous.
I'm interested in the pipeline challenge of getting from science research to transformationally-improved education content, and I have a question.

It's been suggested[1], in the context of preK science education, that students have a human right to make sense of their world "now". That's very not the focus of current content. But what might it look like?

Here, one might tell a 4 layer story. (Or maybe 6, with mantle and crust? - slightly-stirred,not,slightly,stirred,stirred,not?) Perhaps with near-surface deposition of sunlight energy stirring the middle layers. Perhaps integrated with a story of Earth's thermal-management BBQ roll, mixing too hot Sun and too cold deep space.

But integrated storytelling isn't what we're set up for. Especially when it requires direct-research expertise to explore for and craft viable stories, as here with "is the atmosphere an upside down ocean?".

I mention this to ask a meta question. I've struggled to find exploratory discussion, both of potential stories, and of the potential for such an approach. Any suggestions?

For a quick additional example, descriptive material properties like slimy, sticky, crunchy, firmness, and moldability, are kindergarten content. And they're quantitative rheological quasi-properties. But where might one explorationally discuss the possibility of students sorting K-familiar materials into Ashby-like[2] diagrams?

If anyone has any thoughts, any at all, I'd appreciate hearing them. Thanks.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=lar...
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Ashby+diagrams&tbm=isch
I will judge your ability to code by your preference of editor

If someone is turning out high quality code in what seems an awful choice of dev environment then I'd just shrug my shoulders and move on. I don't have the mental energy to work up disappointment or frustration at how another person might, counterintuitively, be just as productive using tools I don't like.

I think R is far superior to SPSS but really don't care if someone decides to use SPSS and produces quality analysis, especially if a lifetime of experience in it made them highly efficient in its use.
A mask, hammer, and a brisk nighttime tour of Chicago's parks
This is an interesting way to think about it. For one thing, the ocean is most teeming with life near the surface and almost all life in the air is on the ground most of the time.

But consider an alternative. What if the surface was inhospitable to life and likewise the shallow regions of the ocean were likewise.

Imagine something like Venus with huge mountains, like Mons Olympus type mountains. The upper atmosphere and those mountain peaks might be amenable to life.

Now imagine that same place had oceans of an alien variety. Maybe water trapped beneath the surface like lakes under Antarctica. And imagine those places could support life.

So you'd have two or more ecosystems that either never allowed life to move between them or they once were able to but no longer could.

You'd then have two environments where life could evolve completely independently. What a fascinating place that might be.
I suppose someone could make an SSH key generator/agent that derives the key from a user-selectable passphrase. Probably nobody would package it as conveniently as using a password with standard git was, though.
US law makes them responsible for what they host, to a reasonable, discretionary degree. Literally *every* technology company that I know of scans for CSAM for this reason. Apple is only implementing this for photos that go to iCloud Photos for this reason.

They are surely not required to scan client devices, and that was a foolishly, ill-considered plan (that I still would wager they will abandon), however they absolutely must scan iCloud Photos unless they were technically incapable of doing this. US law doesn't say "you go to jail if you don't", it says "you face enormous liability if you don't".
Recaptcha version 3 doesn't need to show you a CAPTCHA. It just calculates a score in the background, and of course it's up to the website to determine what to do with this score.
Now you’ve got me missing AltaVista.
9 days? Ha. It's been months (if not years) of this user vehemently defending Apple, regardless of what the issue at hand is.

The amount of time he or she has invested in sticking up for Apple is astronomical.
I definitely panic when encountering merge commits, then I remember imerge, abort the commit and work through each individual conflict with imerge. So much less stressful merging a very small conflict than a large one. Of course, this relies on your history splitting changes up into smaller more logical commits instead of mashing together giant commits with lots of unrelated changes.
Here I was thinking it was Paamayim Nekudotayim.
Or even without calling it 'AI', perceptual hashing like you typically see in applications like CSAM is pretty damn close to ML techniques. The normal thought process is "we don't want child predators to sneak through just by cropping, or sticking a water mark on the image, or some other way slightly modifying the image like the color balance. Can we come up with something that'll hash the same even with minor modifications to the image?". And you basically end up with intentionally overfit AI.
> I really don't understand this view. You are using proprietary software, you are always an N-line change away from someone doing something you don't like. This situation doesn't change this.

And I don't understand why it has to be black and white, I think the N is very important in this formula and if it is low that is a cause for concern. Like an enemy building a missile silo on an island just off your coast but promising it's just for defense.

All arguments I see is along the lines of "Apple can technically do anything they want anyways so this doesn't matter". But maybe you're right and moving to FOSS is the only solution long-term, that's what I'm doing if Apple goes through with this.
Anything similar for Linux?
Claiming Amazon lockers could be a boon for the homeless is incredibly dystopian.
Wonder what precautions they’ve taken to prevent jamming by superglue or two-part epoxy.
Interesting. In that case, do you know why they talk about reviews only seeing "visual derivatives" (from the second perceptual hash)?

Either these 'derivatives' basically contain the original image (so reviewers can verify that it's actual CSAM) and there's no point in using derivatives at all, or they're more abstract (eg. 8x8 pixellated images) in which case the reviewer can't see the actual content (but could confirm a database match).

Edit: I was able to find the answer, they suggest that the 'visual derivative' is something like a 'low-resolution version' of the original image, so the content should still be clearly visible.
I don’t like that I have to resort to this, but I was going to mention Proles and point to Wikipedia, except that Wikipedia deleted article about that topic. Yet I can see article’s blurb in search engine’s cache! Everything is a meta nowadays…

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proles_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four...
You can create pages with GUI.

Wordpress with Elementor.
> It's not necessary or sufficient to work at Google to have a fulfilling career, it's only necessary in this case since the codebase I reviewed is not public.

That's clearly the subtext here, and here [0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28172705

Ya'll clearly think people like me aren't worthy of being "in the know" (and probably of living at all to be honest) for describing this particular doc. Openly flaunting your immense privilege is usually considered gauche, for the record.
“Western” is the dominant paradigm for many (some in China might disagree? That empire is maybe just having a cat-nap), so taking the piss out of Western society seems a fine thing, especially since much of the climate trouble we’re in is due to Western ways of thinking and doing (this is largely the culture I was raised in).

Much like it’s not really a thing to be racist against those who identify as White; they’re in power and might be expected to have the wherewithal to take it without getting defensive.

Another more palatable example might be “roasting” celebrities; would it be okay to pick on in such a way those far lower on the economic ladder as they struggle to meet their basic needs in the face of generational stress and trauma?
It's not like this is some new fancy technology no one could do before. There has never been any technical barriers to scanning your phone for insert-reason as part of the OS. The slippery slope argument could be made from the first smart phone. The government could always pressure any company to put a backdoor in any OS. Apple hasn't done this (to our knowledge) so far and this new CSAM scanning feature doesn't remove any non-existing barriers to that end.

They just gave a talk at the USENIX Security Symposium on how this works and the safeguards put in place. The scanning functionality is part of the icloud photo upload module. Security researchers can determine if they change the scanning algorithm in future updates. I don't know what else you can hope for.

Going back to the slipper slope argument, you could say nothing stops them (or Google on Android) from uploading your passcode and share it with X. It's all just software in the end that they write that powers the lock screen and security checks.
Most platforms use a black box ML model (a deep neural net) to optimize for business objectives such as time spent which correlates more with the number of ads viewed than if they optimized for "Likes".

These systems have far fewer "Likes" than other implicit signals such as which posts the user read (ie, didn't scroll past). So they use all of those signals and likes are unlikely to have a strong impact on the output of the algorithm.

The algorithms are opaque by nature. Even the developers of these deep models won't be able to explain to you why a user's recommendation list is ranked the way it is. Now imagine a user contemplating the consequences of liking a certain item on their future recommendations. It's hopeless.

As a result, the developers learn not to rely on these "like" signals and the users learn to provide likes only to affect the directly observable changes - the like counter.
Outraged seems like a but much right? Like it barely affects your life.
If the event horizon of a 5-earth BH hole is several inches across as the paper states then doubling the mass/volume of said sphere would less than double the radius methinks ...
maybe the figure is 12cm?
Someone really needs to make a tech dejargonizer. I'm very tired of hearing things like "best-in-class API that implements a proprietary protocol to direct network information". Something like Bullshit.js[0].

[0]https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/
You are right it is not just the western culture was mainly using the stereotype to prove a point specifically that moving up in a materialistic society is antithetical to what true meditation and spiritual practice aims at which is beyond the material world.
This seems like a necessary discussion to have in preparation for widespread, default end to end encryption.
You've misread that page -- the table just refers to content being stored in an encrypted form, even if Apple still possesses a key. There's a list below it of fully end-to-end encrypted content, which doesn't include Photos.
There is a split in Hindu schools of thought - some do not consider atheism as a valid Hindu path, i.e. that nastika is not part of Hinduism and that the three requirements for any Hindu sect are 1. belief in one supreme God that is immanent and transcendent, 2. belief in reincarnation, 3. belief in karma. Nastika schools like Jain, Buddhism and some Hindu sects believe 2 and 3 but not 1.
It seems silly to worry about completely hypothetical and unknown long-term risks of vaccination when getting COVID-19 has very serious, well known short-term risks.
> If Apple has evil intent, or is being coerced by NSLs, they would (be forced to) implement the dangerous mechanism whether this Child Safety feature existed or not.

Apple used to fight implementing dangerous mechanisms. And succeeded.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
Startup utilized partnerships to gain 1000s of followers and raise $1M
Yes, they can technically already do so, but that is not the question. The question is what can they legally do and justify with high confidence in the event of a legal challenge.

Changes to binding contractual terms that allow broad readings and provide legal justification for future overreach are dangerous. If they really are serious that they are going to use these new features in a highly limited way then they can put their money where their mouth is and add legally binding contractual terms that limit what they can do with serious consequences if they are found to be in breach. Non-binding marketing PR assurances that they will not abuse their contractually justified powers are no substitute for the iron fist of legal penalty clause.
I have long been interested in what a professional-grade threat model from a large FAANG/SV organization is. Is this a representative model?

Microsoft came up with DREAD and STRIDE and they suggest there threat models are more elaborate.

Would love to see more representative examples!
"President Joe Biden announced this month that evacuation flights from Afghanistan would begin in late July. The Afghans are seeking refuge in the U.S. through the Special Immigrant Visa program, which has enjoyed bipartisan support since its creation for Afghan nationals in 2009.

The group heading to Fort Lee includes 700 who qualify for the SIV program; the remaining 1,800 Afghans are their family members."

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/us-housing-afghan-r...

It seems there is somewhat of a plan in place that is what you describe.
Apple claims that “data minimization” is one of their privacy pillars, and this was probably an attempt at that. You could imagine an inverted colors or lower res image gets the point across without subjecting you or Apple to all the high fidelity images you have in your library.
Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (2002)
The kitchen thing is pretty fucking awesome though.
I doubt most think this is malicious but Apple did preach "what happens on an iphone stays on the iphone" which aged terribly given this feature.

Apple has also benefited from the perception that Google (their smartphone rival) spies on people by collecting location information where as I am sure they also crowd source iphone location to improve their Maps and road traffic data
Without discussing the importance of the topic, why it’s relevant for HN?
"safety vouchers, which contain a visual derivative of the image, such as a low-resolution version"[1]

And I said information. The hash matching is information.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...
I recently bought an LG Classic Flip. The phone itself was $30, plus about another $30 to start the prepaid plan through Tracfone. I use it for testing phone routing at work.

When I got it, the guy at the store said that prepaid isn't the same as it used to be before smartphones were everywhere. Instead of paying for X number of minutes that carry over, you get X minutes for Y days. Luckily, though, it's still pretty cheap. I just refilled for 90 days of unlimited phone calls for about $20.
How many years have you been programming? I would recommend learning the fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) because React is a code smell [1].

[1] https://www.peachesnstink.com/p/McgAxopYuNacWbhodHCxIS
A few years ago they were demolishing a building across from my office. They had various demolition equipment, mainly big backhoes including some equipped with grabbing. They were taking their time ripping stuff apart, and then sorting through what they'd broken off to separate out all the rebar and other metal.

What I liked was, at the end of each day, the crew lined up all the equipment and put each in what I would call a "majestic" pose, like with its arm looking purposeful. I thought it gave a cool, and professional look to the construction site, and showed they obviously cared about what they were doing, to clean up and pose the equipment, vs just leaving it where it was when the shift ended.
Not to be rude, but: caring about people other than yourself. This reads to me like asking a doctor why they advocate healthy living seeing how that would lower their demand.
The purpose of vaccines is to simulate the natural process which leads to immunity, while lowering the risk of serious illness. The "gold standard" is natural immunity, not vaccines.

It would be helpful if you could share one or more sources for your claim.