skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently starting (re)-learning Japanese, and I realized that they have a lot of clever slang! My favorite one is 鯖(saba) which means mackerel, but they use it as a slang for server/game server, because it sounds similiar to サーバー (sābā) which means server in Japanese. There are many others, I'm pretty sure, but this is the one I can think of.
That's a nice outlook. Maybe I can reframe my perspective and find a way to enjoy it again.
Removing iCloud does not remove the scanner or it’s database full of hashes.

Limiting the scanner to iCloud is a policy decision one NSL away from changing.
Good. They've created massive value.
I like this Derek Banas guy. He puts out a lot of videos with titles like "Learn <language> in one video" and they're actually pretty good. He's very much a programming language enthusiast. I sometimes watch his videos for languages I don't even intend on learning just to see how they work, because he has a particular structure that makes it easy to compare. And he sounds like he actually enjoys dissecting and talking about them. He also does videos for other skills, but the vast majority are computer related.

I think C might be his home language because he has a few videos in that series, and a lot more when it comes to other C family topics. Here's the first one for C programming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXvy5900m3M

Check out his other YouTube videos. You can really go down a few rabbit holes on his page alone.

EDIT: He has a channel for all his C tutorials here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ib7nwc33uA&list=PLGLfVvz_LV...
Edit: I reconsidered my previous reply.

That really doesn’t sound like anything I’d describe as a “back door”. A back door implies general purpose access. A system which required the collision of multiple governments and Apple and their child abuse agencies simply is not that.

One of the casualties of this debate is that people are using terms that make things sound worse than they are. If you can’t get at my filesystem, you don’t have a back door. I understand the motive for stating the case as harshly as possible, but I think it’s misguided.

Having said this, I would find it interesting to hear what Federighi would say about this potential abuse case.
Judging by your username and comment history, you seem to think getting into Google is some sort of intelligence test that only a select few can ever pass: it’s not. You just prepare for it and do well as you’d do for any other exam. Getting into Google doesn’t mean you’re inherently smarter than everyone else.
For better or worse, Christianity's explanation of that is that the eyewitnesses didn't expect to have to write about it for future generations; Jesus said he'd be right back.
Normally as techies we’d get these texts from friends and tell them everything will be ok.

Except this time we’re mad too, and we tell them it’s way worse than they even know.

Apple fucked up big time.
>>>In a legal context where detecting CSAM is a strong requirement, what’s preferable to this approach?

It's not a strong requirement though? Only if the company sees it (unencrypted) do they need to report it, detecting it on-device is wholly different. It would honestly be better if they adjusted their TOS and started scanning the files on upload (on server side). They have the encryption keys already.

Apple is planning to install on all (recent) iPhones software that will let them scan for any image similar (using perceptual hashing) to some set of images. Right now, that's CSAM, and only on upload to iCloud. But what do you want to bet China is salivating at the idea of including images of Tank Man and other "seditious" content? And maybe checking images anytime they're added to the phone, or sent to someone else, not just up to iCloud?

It completely ruins the idea that Apple has your privacy/security in mind.
Right. Pa, CMU. Is that current though?
TLDR BBC shilling for Apple while providing no clarifying information at all. There was no confusion.

Apple is using CSAM as the straw man here but in the broader sense they can trace any photo found on the internet back to the originator if that person captured it on their iPhone and stored it in iCloud. CSAM is just the excuse to develop the technology and put it on all their phones. Next they'll use it to track down protestors and other dissenters.
Why don't they scan files as they're downloaded, the way we scan for malware and viruses on PCs? This way, we can warn people _before_ a law is broken!
When you're strongly against something, one may become vulnerable to the same kind of misinformation and biases. Important to research all sides, and weigh experts and professionals more. Considering them as fools, is most likely sign of Dunning-Kruger.
I don’t think I agree. If you think this boils down to instinct, do you think a story about coming together to save the next generation will work well on people cynical enough to see TLAs around every corner? At the very least, I feel like Apple should probably make a concession to the conspiracy minded so that they can bleach any offensive bits from their device and use them as offline-first DEFCON map viewing devices, or some such.
I guess I'm imaginary then, because I use sed -i to fix mistakes.
> Did a doctor ever give you a guarantee that their treatment would heal you?

You don't get a guarantee that a brand of paint will work with your walls, but that does not mean paint doesn't work.

Meanwhile, personally I've enjoyed a 100% success rate in all medical treatments I was subjected to. I might be lucky, but I'm under the impression that everyone around me has been fantastically lucky as well.

Does this mean there are no conditions for which modern medicine does not have a good answer to? Absolutely. But it's my understanding that patients are indeed briefed on relative chances of success.
wait, is "covid is a ploy to transfer wealth to the companies providing a vaccine against the greatest global pandemic in a century" an actual anti-vax talking point?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
> But you're also saying that people should only identify themselves as human, and doing otherwise is bigotry.

I didn't say, or even imply, that either.

I'll let you go and set up and knock down your straw men all by yourself.

Thanks!
I think you've got two sensible options in this case: commit, or do nothing. The standard's wording accommodates both: it's valid for a reserve to be a no-op, a situation the caller can detect (if they want to - assuming they even imagined anybody would ever do this! - I certainly never did, until now) by checking the new capacity.

It's not obvious to me that it buys you much to reserve without committing. You're taking the hint, then ignoring it. Why bother? Why not just do nothing?r
Here's the thing. It takes one person. Just one. To ruin it for everyone.

That's why stuff like this exists.

So assume this happened to Amazon one time and cost them a ton of money.

Do they sit back and just hope it never happens again?

Do they somehow selectively choose which employees to monitor?

Don't get me wrong. I would love to live in a world where everyone can trust everyone else but that's a fairy tale.
The lack of women falling to the ground with legs spread wide to accept having sex done to them is involuntary. The brand of "incel" is a choice.

Note: I don't actually belief women are objects and men are owed sex. That first sentence is intended to be descriptive.
Reference: https://youtu.be/ICPgBY10-dg?t=60
> A system which required the collision of multiple governments and Apple and their child abuse agencies simply is not that.

Agree to disagree.

> I would find it interesting to hear what Federighi would say about this potential abuse case.

Personally I would not. That's a political consideration and not something I want to hear a technologist weigh in on while defending their technology. Apple's previous stance, with which I agree, was to not give humans any chance to abuse people's personal data,

https://youtu.be/rQebmygKq7A
Which is why this is so bad. Apple sets the trend for the mobile industry.

Expect everyone else to follow suit and not apologize for it because "Apple is doing it".
Which is unfortunate if we’re interested in making the most of the form factor of electric vehicles.
I studied Vedanta in India at an Ashram for 4 years continuously without break.

One of the things my master would emphasise a lot was that physical yoga is the first stage on the spiritual path and meditation is the last. But he says they are easy to teach and have become completely commercialised in the West only because they are both really easy to instruct.

He cautioned us against the perils of meditation when you are unqualified, pointing out that it may lead to mental illness. In general, the qualification for meditation is total uparati, withdrawal from the world. A state of mind where the objects and beings of the external world have no sway on the mind at all — he would say “there is no push from within, there is no pull from without.” He said trying to meditate with the mind of a typical Westerner is like suddenly putting a brick wall in front of a car speeding on the highway. You will crash and it will be painful.

Some of the Upanisads have lines which repeat which say “this must not be spoken of” — being suitable only for prepared students, but now people walk around talking about illusions and maya like it’s just another How to Win Friends and Influence People or something.

If anyone is interested in reading his perspective on meditation, the chapter with the same name in Vedanta Treatise by A Parthasarathy is instructive.
Regulatory capture and patent laws are pretty big inhibitors to competing with massive pharmaceutical companies generally speaking.
Which desktop UI do you run that is usable on a phone?
This feels like a cope. I don't think it's true at all. I've studied for years and I haven't gotten into any Google-tier companies. It's all IQ, and people like me aren't chosen to be part of the elite class.
Because they are targeting people (an actual marginalized group: women) and killing them.
~ $ cat a.cpp
#include <vector>
int main() {
std::vector<int> v;
v.reserve(1ULL<<32);
}
~ $ g++ a.cpp
~ $ sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory'
~ $ ./a.out
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
Aborted (core dumped)
~ $ sudo sh -c 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory'
~ $ ./a.out
~ $
> Popular Mechanics ● June 2018 Issue ● November 2019 Issue

> Popular Science ● Winter 2018 Issue

> ...

> Rolling Stone ● 1313/1314 May 17-30, 2018 Issue Only

I wonder what those had in them.
With enough eyeballs, all disinformation/bugs are shallow.
Motorola is now a brand of Lenovo ,which is a Chinese company, and Motorola smart phone is also developed in Beijing of China, and producted in Wuhan ,maybe any other city of China.

Motorola is still alive, in another formal.
As someone who is mildly colorblind, but not nearly as color deficient as others—Please please please use actual colorblind testers.

I have seen testers with full color vision test color contrast ratios based on edges only (pixels) of text affected by font anti-aliasing. This is pointless and serves to dilute the premise.
Their private relay service appears orthogonal to CSAM… it won’t make criminals and child abusers easier or harder to catch, and it doesn’t affect how people use their iCloud Photos storage.
> For instance, the "it only scans photos uploaded to iCloud" element isn't just an arbitrary limitation that can be flipped with one line of code, as some folks seem to think; as Erik Neuenschwander, head of Privacy Engineering at Apple, explained in an interview on TechCrunch[1]:

> > Our system involves both an on-device component where the voucher is created, but nothing is learned, and a server-side component, which is where that voucher is sent along with data coming to Apple service and processed across the account to learn if there are collections of illegal CSAM. That means that it is a service feature.

I don't see how that proves what Neuenschwander says it proves. Sending the voucher to the server is currently gated on whether or not the associated photo is set to be uploaded to iCloud. There's no reason why that restriction couldn't be removed.

The hard part about building this feature was doing the scanning and detection, and building out the mechanism by which Apple gets notified if anything falls afoul of the scanner. Changing what triggers (or does not trigger) the scanning to happen, or results being uploaded to Apple, is trivial.

The only thing that I think is meaningfully interesting here is that it's possible that getting hold of a phone and looking at the vouchers might not tell you anything; only after they vouchers are sent to Apple and algorithm magic happens will you learn anything. But I don't think that really matters in practice; if you can get the vouchers off a phone, you can almost certainly get the photos associated with them as well.

I read through the article you linked, and it feels pretty hand-wavy to me. Honestly I don't think I'd believe what Apple is saying here unless they release a detailed whitepaper on how the system works, one that can be vetted by experts in the field. (And then we still have to trust that what they've detailed in the paper is what they've actually implemented.)

The bottom line is that Apple has developed and deployed a method for locally scanning phones for contraband. Even if they've designed things so that the result is obfuscated unless there are many matches and/or photos are actually uploaded, that seems to be a self-imposed limitation that could be removed without too much trouble. The capability is there; not using it is merely a matter of policy.

> I know that's easy to dismiss as Pollyannaism, but "we need to protect ourselves from our own government" has a pretty dismal track record historically. The entire point of having a liberal democracy is that we are the government, and we can pull it back from authoritarianism.

Absolutely agree, but I fear we have been losing this battle for many decades now, and I'm a bit pessimistic for our future. It seems most people are very willing to let their leaders scare them into believing that they must give up liberty in exchange for safety and security.
But this applies to any sort of crime: there are limits to what is reasonable surveillance. Of course the legal system is different than what a private company does with its employees, but I think it’s useful to note that there are limits to how far we can go to catch these things.
The words and standards of the Buddha or other masters, just like Scientology isn't true Christianity even though it has Jesus in it all Buddhist practices aren't necessarily Buddhist if they have meditation in them...

And it's also what Christian mystics like Meiser Eckert and and Gnostics also believe.
>You’re assuming people universally have strong negative feelings about race, but that’s on you.

I'm not assuming that at all. Rather, I asserted that "race" as a social construct is outdated given our understanding of genetics and the extreme genetic similarity of all humans.

Whether anyone else agrees with me or has any particular feelings about "race" one way or another is irrelevant to anything I wrote.
You can’t change the treatment of women without changing the culture. I don’t think you understand how deeply embedded those values are. Values we consider barbaric are perfectly acceptable for the locals.
> without your approval

This isn’t true. You can always turn off iCloud Photo Library and just store the photos locally or use a different cloud provider.
> UrbanStreet Group and Antunovich Associates set up a joint venture called Veridian which would transform this abandoned site into a thriving urban center. It is anticipated that the first stage of this project will be completed in the fall of 2020.

Veridian Dynamics?
cool, 50 copies of crap like /r/mildlyinteresting and a thumbnail-prioritized default feed, I never want to go back.
I love this sort of blend of urban exploration and archeology. I actually made a video game about it, inspired by the "sublime" of uninhabitable (yet comfortable) exurbs of midwestern USA: https://q-andrew.itch.io/anemoiapolis
Amazing review. Thanks for posting.

Since you are experienced in GUI tech, what cross-platform solution do you think "has got it right"? I like QT apps alot for snappiness alone.

What do you think of https://quasar.dev/ and https://ionicframework.com/ ?
I am 100% enthusiastic about my doctor, if I want my actual experience to be ignored, an unwanted prescription for early-cholesterol junk to be pushed upon me, and a useless colonoscopy that ends with me just taking what's over the counter anyway.
don't get the reference. the article talks about Defcon not Blackhat? Do I miss something?
I'm all open to hear other ways how Amazon could reliably stop employees from stealing data.
Do they? Can you link to where they survey every citizen and ask this? The closest thing I can think of is the annual Swedish crime survey, but that goes to a representative sample of Swedes, not every single citizen. I also don't know what the point of surveying every citizen would be or how it is relevant to Sweden detecting more rapes than most people.

Calling Sweden the Rape Capitol of Europe may be misleading or naive, but it isn't simply false. An objective fact checking of this claim should consider it as too hard to evaluate for the reasons discussed or come up with a good way to evaluate the claim and do that. Instead, Snopes obfuscates the claim and rambles a bit about Trump and immigration then says the claim is false because they have a theory that might explain why Sweden has an elevated rape rate.
Are there any other common food ingredients that have a high chance of causing cancer?
https://2130706433:443/ https://0177.0.0.01:443/
Let's not pretend anyone is really "opting in" on this feature.
> If you believe some god to have created all things then how can there be free will, that would denote something from the outside, some source of entropy not under the control of the creator. If it is under control of the creator the it is not true entropy and everything is determined ultimately by the creator.

Yeah, that's one way to look at it. There's also philosophies of what exactly is "self" and where its boundaries lie. One take is that if "God lives within us" then even if the universe is entirely deterministic, our decisions are governed by our own internal mechanisms (hence it's "free will" in the sense that we exclusively "own" those mechanisms, as opposed to them being influenced by outside factors). Another related view is the notion of relativity (i.e. "my reality is not your reality and definitions are inherently tied to each person's relative consciousness because without consciousness there are no definitions". This second notion cuts pretty close to the heart of why arguments between christians and atheists often break down: if they are talking about two completely distinct, mutually-exclusive realities (as it is perceived by each individual), there's really no way to reach a compromise.

There's a variety of interpretations of free will in that context, some simple and fatalist (e.g. immutable, inescapable fate), some quite a bit more creative ("God gave us free will because He loves us and He weeps when we use it to do bad things, yet everything is part of His grand plan"). I don't always see these interpretations as necessarily internally inconsistent. Some definitely are literally nonsensical or highly metaphorical, but some just take a bit more effort to appreciate. At times, it's an exercise in realizing whether I'm being overly pedantic over some philosophical minutia and extrapolating aversion to the entire belief system.

Rather than rejecting entire ideologies at face value, I enjoy looking for common ground between different ideologies or ways to reconcile ideas because religions come packaged w/ moral frameworks and I think the moral aspect is an ignored but key thing if one hopes to talk to religious people about controversial topics in a productive manner.
Wishful thinking. Heavy, localized and random precipitation means floods washing away on dry soil. Warming, heatwaves and melting of glaciers will have the stronger effects, especially on industrial farming and natural irrigation.

There will be new areas of blooming, but we lose so much more of existing life.
Professionals hedging their bets with asterisks isn't helpful.
Blindness, Schizophrenia, and Autism
Due to existing laws, Apple will be forced to make their human reviewers be active LEOs.

Their approval/report rate will make a FISA court judge blush.
You gotta assume if someone is an engineer they can do some nasty stuff. The idea is there's professional etiquette and ethics. It's as easy as encrypting some code, downloading it as some image file, and running it through a benign sounding script. Keystroke monitoring is more likely to find you chatting with your SO than a breach.
That's my fear as well. The last wall to topple is a straight tax on capital. Sure, they'll sell it as a tax on the uber rich just like they did with the income tax, but that threshold will drop drop drop until the middle class is paying out on both ends: tax on earned income + tax on everything you have. Every year.
No, I don't see the difference. That just sounds like an example of confirmation bias.
People could have also been incentivized to buy cars with higher MPG.
Unfortunately, this is not an accurate description of how Apple enforces that particular rule against apps.
Can't tell with Popular Science or Mechanics, but the Rolling Stone cover story was about a Nazi terror cell (presumably Atomwaffen? Not sure because I don't have a copy).

[0]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91lrYO0x0IL...
I’d leave this one out to the lawyers. I’m not one but I don’t think that the court will evaluate the number of lines of code required for help.
This is impossible no matter how many safe guards you put up. Like keeping drugs out of prison.
Apple will turn it on eventually for non iCloud destined photos (and documents), you don't build a system like this not to use it.

We know Apple concedes to China's demands, and with another Snowden situation, the US would not hesitate to add classified documents to the scan list and identify individuals.

This system will catch no abusers, because they're not Airdropping photos to each other.

And if they're smart enough to use a VPN, they're not storing that on a phone thats logged into the cloud.

And if they're not using a VPN, they can be caught at download time.
And what about the hundreds of millions of people that enable iCloud by default thanks to Apple’s dark patterns, does their privacy not matter?
Is that warranted by other practices of your employer (locked down laptops, etc.?)

We give full admin rights to laptop owners and don’t install spyware. I would be sad if a coworker acted as if their keystrokes were being recorded; thinking that would surely slow them down and make them more careful about pursuing all promising research paths. So I think it’s important for companies that don’t spy to signal that they don’t; the opportunity cost outweighs the marginal security benefit.
I think that there's some weird sort of moralization aspect to alternative sweeteners or just a 'too good to be true' attitude. In how many other areas would we spend so much time looking at such scant evidence and taking it seriously?
you are correct, my bad
[edit] but the defcon guy did admit going through with it. Sorry I dont have the link

[editz] google also indistinguishes/confuses the results for blackhat and defcon