skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lingdong is a awesome. tons of interesting stuff in his github. https://github.com/LingDong-
The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

- 1984
People aren't good at estimating danger that's indirect. I can provide examples.
Or, perhaps many regular users do understand the separation, and that's why this issue is getting so much attention.
> Multiple tabs of an app using IndexedDB will invariably write to the same IndexedDb database. Without cross-tab locking, database corruption is hard to avoid.

I solved this a few years ago by generating a uuid in SessionStorage and using that as a composite key for tab isolation. Worked very well. That solution is still in production. The IndexedDB wrapper I used was Dexie. Not great for long-lived data, naturally, but we needed IndexedDB for speed, storage size and an async API.

I later used localForage and I found that to be extremely limiting in comparison (because of LocalStorage being the lowest common denominator). I would not recommend localForage for IndexedDB unless you do really, really, really simple stuff.
IndexedDB implementations in various browsers had their quirks, but by far the quirkiest (buggiest) was Safari. I remember working with their implementation for our web app about 3/4 years ago, and their implementation was so utterly unpredictable and unstable, that even their error messages didn't make any sense. It was as if they'd asked a blithering idiot to do their implementation for them, and didn't check any of the work.

Thankfully, I believe things are better now (i.e. they get the basics of storing data right at least), but looking at this gist, they've found alternative ways of irritating developers.

In the past, it was IE that used to bug the heck out of me, but now Safari has well and truly left IE in the dust in terms of its ability to annoy and dumbfound developers.
> Apple was surprised its stance then was not more popular, and the global tide since then has been toward more monitoring of private communication

Huh. That’s a big problem. If the American public doesn’t support privacy, we won’t have it.
Package constituents are not.
> For whatever reason, maybe just because they've seen more ads, older demographics are harder to reach.

Fascinating - in my experience older generations are much, much easier to beguile online.

My guess would be the Reddit demographic is much less receptive to ads than the average, say, FB user.
> Meanwhile, a "Coalition for App Fairness," with members such as Spotify, Epic Games, Match Group, Basecamp, ProtonMail, and Deezer, is on board with the Open App Markets Act.

Apple and Google got too greedy. If they had just tiered their "app store tax" based on the number of users, they would've mollified most of these guys and still kept a sweet monopolistic business model going. But they squeezed the goose too hard because they got addicted to those easy golden eggs.
'Communists' instead of 'socialists' actually; the US version is inaccurate due to anti-communist propaganda.
So you’re saying they will lower prices after they’ve made up for the shortfall? I doubt it. That would be leaving money on the table, and that’s positively unamerican!
The same weather problems that hit the Ukraine in the early 1930s hit the US too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl .

The economic landscape of the US at the time was the Depression, whereas the USSR economy was chugging along, other than the poor harvest in the Ukraine that year. Walter Duranty of the New York Times visited Ukraine at the time, and said the harvest was not a good one but a lot of reports coming out of the Ukraine were overblown.
1) Prions: kuru has asymptomatic incubation period 10-13 years; 2) various carcinogens, it takes time for the cancer to develop.
At this point, there is a sizable population who has internalized the message that "MSM == lies", like, it has to come from some guy's garage YouTube channel for it to be credible.

So yes, there's an issue with people not knowing what a "good source" is, but it's hard to know how much education could inoculated this population to a message like that. Especially when in many cases it was a treadmill of Fox News telling people that CNN is lies, and then OAN and Newsmax telling them that Fox is lies, and then internet sources telling them that anything on TV is lies. The thrill was never the truth; the thrill was in thinking you were getting some kind of unique insider scoop.
Compared to 1970, cars get more miles per gallon, cost less, and last longer.

> Cars: MPG has not improved. Look at a corolla from the 70s vs today, it's about the same.

This is not true, MPG has meaningfully improved. From the EPA, "[sedan/wagon, car SUV, truck SUV, pickup truck, and minivan/van] are at or near record high fuel economy and record low CO2 emissions in model year 2019" [1]

New Vehicle estimated real-world fuel economy increased from ~14MPG in 1975 to 24.9MPG in 2019[1]

>It now costs more to buy a car today than in the 70s

The price of cars has risen below inflation:

The annual inflation average 1970-2021 is 3.86% [2] From 1970 to 2019, cars had an annual inflation average of 2.04%. [3]

Finally, a car today will last longer than they did in 1970. The typical car in 1970 would last until 100K miles. Today the typical car lasts more like 200K miles. [4]

In summary, cars cost less, last longer, and are cheaper than they were in 1970.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/highlights-automotive-...
[2] https://www.inflationtool.com/us-dollar/1970-to-present-valu...
[3] https://www.in2013dollars.com/New-cars/price-inflation/1970-...
[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/automobiles/as-cars-are-k...
because its scanning the content of the device, not what you did on the device.

An iFrame full of CP downloaded from 4chan that fills the browser cache with CP just by visiting a harmless site would not go anywhere near Google Photos, Facebook messenger, etc etc

It would trigger a scanner checking the browser cache for CP images.

Those are just the obvious ways, by "rife" I mean there is any number of ways to get CP onto someones device without them knowing, unless the device itself is being scanned nothing would achieved by this.

And if you dont think people are that messed up, check:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
I was acknowledging that a mob cancelling a founder CEO and kicking him out of his own company could surely have deleterious downstream effects on workforce morale. It’s an arguable point and opinions probably range from “the CEO is a mostly pointless figurehead” to “everything flows from the CEO.”

You really can’t discuss what might have caused Uber to lose its market advantage, without first addressing this topic. But it’s contentious and so my comment was meant as “let’s assume the firing of the CEO has no impact, so we can move on to considering other variables.”
Thread-based comments also lend themselves to much more conversation IMO - Facebook hasn’t nailed threaded comments with a depth greater than 1 yet
Then where are the news reports or articles of these false positives that would have shown up within the past decade? That's how long these companies have been using PhotoDNA on the server side. And the version of PhotoDNA from ten years ago would probably have been inferior to the version in place now. Is there even a single verifiable report of such a false positive? I feel that with the amount of attention brought to this issue, if there was such a report then it probably would have been brought up by now.

Beyond that, assume that a false positive occurs and the innocent person is taken to court. Why would they have to fear being convicted if they don't actually hold any incriminating evidence? At most, that would become evidence against using perceptual hashing in future court cases.

The issue in that case is the violation of the innocent person's privacy, not that they have a risk of being falsely convicted. The courts would still need admissible evidence, and I don't believe that only having a perceptual hash and a set of legally photographed images clears that bar.

However, it becomes a completely separate issue if the false positives are "coincidentally" used to persecute marginalized groups in other countries where the same set of laws don't apply. But Apple has stated that they have no intention of expanding the system's scope to follow those laws. There isn't any evidence yet that Apple will do such a thing, or that they've already done it in the past. We are free to disbelieve them, but that's what they've stated. We can only hope that they won't change their minds.
Thing is, I see a reasonable number of ads on Reddit, they're just rarely relevant to the subreddit I'm on. I think they could keep the same number of ads and target them better, and the results would improve.
>But… that is inflation

did I say it wasn't? The BLS freely admits that inflation is higher than usual at 5.4% YOY. What's being disputed is whether it's 5.4% as the BLS claims or 20% as GGP claims.

>Is this effect global? Who knows, it’s anecdata

The problem is that listing a bunch of things that's gone up by 20% doesn't mean the overall CPI went up 20%. CPI is a weighted measure, so the things you listed only contribute 1% to it, then it can go up 2000% and the CPI wouldn't be anywhere close to the claimed 20%.
We will know that "green" hydrogen is nearly feasible when they stop talking about hydrogen and just admit that ammonia, which doesn't cause embrittlement and stores energy more densely than hydrogen, is what they meant all along.
And that's all it ever was, perceived differentiation. They were never truly concerned with privacy ever.
While I knew that the "privacy" stance from Apple in prior years was always a marketing facade to sell more devices, I still continued to believe that they would keep sticking up for privacy as much as possible.

It's kind of funny how I am very suspicious of governments and politicians but when it comes to a trillion dollar corporation, I was giving them more of benefit of doubt. I was wrong.
So what if a small circle of people produce their CSAM material by themselves and share only among themselves? None of the pictures is being uploaded to that database, so either the algorithms are really really good at recognizing them, or it will require human intervention, that is, scanning one by one all phones, then deciding which picture matches the criteria and write down the names of the people involved. I can't think of a similar scenario that doesn't imply the total loss of privacy by anyone even remotely linked to one of these people.
Take a look at the items marked “new” in the changelog. https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/OPM7
> One thing to ask is, what problem does Reddit solve?

Possibly more interesting to ask: what problems might Reddit plausibly create?

My first instinct for answers: social polarization and mass distortion of reality perception.
> That’s right – pounds are used by Liberia, Myanmar, and popular space-faring nation The United States of America. And by no-one else AT ALL.

Care to join the modern world?

> An aside for future-thinking Alien fans: should you ever need to nuke a planet from orbit – it’s the only way to be sure, after all – then don’t worry yourself about the number of megatonnes that your nuke’s detonation will create. Megatonnes aren’t based on any of the units mentioned above.

Oh, excellent... Good job, humans.
Not fully automating, means humans for each reddit big enough. (What is big enough?)
That is expensive. So this probably means lots of decisions in short time for those administrators ... means lots of wrong decision and lots of drama.

Voting? Who has the right to vote? Anyone? Any socketpuppet account? Only verified real people? (would be a different reddit)

The base problem is called politics.
Although we like to think marriage is based on love, he says, it “also is fundamentally an economic transaction,” and women want partners whom they can call their equals.

Something does not add up here and I’m calling general BS in this entire article. In one sense its laughing at men by saying women are earning more than you, but on the other, it puts forth this idea that women only care about money and status. That is just not true. Ask yourself: How many women have turned you down because they earn more than you?

How did this ever get through editorial?
Yes, I get that the industry is leveraging its "best and brightest" on stalkertech and the users are getting pennies worth of value in trade for large dollars of value extracted from them in the form of data. The tradeoff is so ridiculous that it is essentially theft. Its like trading trinkets to native populations for land.
I think many of the commenters here are confusing overthinking projects (what the article is about[1]) and risks (not what the article is about).

Is it sensible to think long and hard about the behaviour of a strategy which trades real money in real markets? Yes.

Is it sensible to spend a week (or any time at all really) deciding if you should use an alpine base image in your docker container or something else? No.

1: "The result? Projects never materialize or are months behind schedule, and everybody is frustrated."
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that not only do they not have VC cash mania going on, they're also really hit by Covid. The only way they'd start lowering prices is if demand spikes, things normalized out, and Uber/Lyft wage war on each other as capitalism is supposed to work (but in reality they'll just pick turfs).
I'm so glad to see this posted! It's a great resource. I wonder if it's less well known because people prefer video content and/or it's rather formal and not very gentle.
This might be an English-to-English translation problem, given that we have related but different systems of law... what I'm arguing above is that we defacto have this already. If a property is purchased in the name of an LLC, it doesn't take me any more time to find the registration and contact info than it does for me to find the human owner. In fact, in the two states I do business I'd argue it's easier because there will be more information available about a registered entity than about some John / Jane Doe.

As for a guarantee by a human director... well, yes, I guess that's my point - any mortgage company is going to want personal guarantees so it's a kind of self-policing system.

Where this gets weird is when you have an LLC owned by another LLC or some other kind of corporate entity, where there really aren't humans involved. And as I originally noted, cash transaction are an entirely different matter (and it can be eye opening just how many properties are purchased with cash)
I just do not want Apple scanning my phone for the purpose of finding something they can send to the police.

I’m not even talking about any “slippery slope” scenarios and I’ll never have any of the material they are looking for. And right or wrong, I don’t really fear a false identification, so this isn’t about a worry that they will actually turn me in. I just don’t want them scanning my phone for the purpose of turning me in. I definitely do not want to take an OS update or new phone that does this.

(False positives are the huge flaw in this system, though. There are human judgements by anonymous people using opaque processes without appeal throughout this. A lot of damage can be done before anything goes to court, not to mention courts themselves are susceptible to the illusion of infallible technology. Others have well laid out the scenarios that will result in serious consequences for innocent people.)
It's an infectious disease hospital. Since it's their job and I assume they don't have a breakout every other day for the other diseases, they may be capable of doing the job they did so far. Which is to say, it is quite extraordinary it happened in there and that it happened to fully vaccinated professionals.

You average meat packing crew will be much less careful about things and have worse equipment and work conditions.

Note there was a doctor 0! It's not like they all got it from patients they had there. All the people in his office, all vaccinated, got infected. Why do you assume they were behaving differently than you would behave in your IT job? If anything, they might have been more careful.
GitHub Desktop, since being rewritten whenever the last time was, is pretty decent and I just have people install that to initially clone the project and set up the remotes and then they can still use the command line or IDE to make commits and pushes if they want.
Even if this is true (I don't trust apple's claim) I think this should still be used as a talking point to scare normal uninformed people about the surveillance tech.

The other side started it first. Look at the government's dubious claims about terrorism prevention. John Walsh a founder of NCMEC testified to congress that millions of children were abducted every year and that america was "littered with mutilated, decapitated, raped, strangled children," (this was and is not true).

If fear mongering about Big Brother throwing normal people in prison for pictures of their children is what it takes to blunt the expansion of the surveillance state I say fair play.
It’s a great question, but due to the geographical clustering, very difficult to answer with personal observations and anecdata.

I wonder how much of this question you could answer with semi-public data. Are there any sources you could scrape that would serve as a good proxy for delivery market penetration by the various participants?
My bad, I don't know how I missed that
The thing I genuinely don't understand, and I really hope a 1P employee can answer for me, if it's true that 97% of your customers are subscription and have online vaults, why not just leave the other 3% alone? We pay for your service, we love it, why not reward that?

It's not like maintaining standalone licenses and local vault storage is hard, it's already there. Just maintain it.
Imagine what it will be like when everyone has a neuralink. They will be able to scan for prohibited thoughts and stop you from thinking them before they're even fully formed in your mind. A world of infinite control and perfect morality
Does Keepass have 1P import and 2fa code output functions ?
You didn't answer my question. Was this a healthy and sustainable business before, or were these changes necessary for survival?
I read the gp comments as questioning the relevance of the CPI. From my experience it understates the very real price increases I am seeing where I am
It's great to get this extra perspective from you Bryan, because you're probably the person whose talks have most made me interested in seeing 1990s Sun Microsystems et al. Point taken about 1991's struggles. I was vaguely aware that it was a troubled time, but took the premise as is. Which particular part of the 90s was best seems an awkward question. Were things generally getting better through the 90s until dot-com bust turned everything to shit?

Thanks for the book recommendation. I've added it to my Goodreads list. I'll checkout the talk too. I haven't seen that one of yours, because I saw the title and figured it was heavy on memory-management and pretty out of my wheelhouse.
Who is pushing this message though? I've never heard Apple accused of this.
I wonder how much of this is shifting the overton window. I'd really not have people scanning my data at all really.

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." said Cardinal Richelieu in the 16th century.

I'm pretty sure my phone and online accounts hold a lot more data than just six lines. How do I know there won't be accidents, or 'accidents'?
These vaccines are not going to solve societal problems; they do not prevent spreading, and efficiency decreases as the virus mutates. COVID measures will stop when critical body of people finally realizes they are inefficient/too costly and not necessary.
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Yes, that's what the paper A Concrete-Security Analysis of the Apple PSI Protocol from UC San Diego claims:

> Reciprocally, the database of CSAM photos should not be made public or become known to the user. Apple has found a way to detect and report CSAM offenders while respecting these privacy constraints.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Alternative_Security_...
Paywall workaround: https://archive.is/9Pd5Y
If it stays like that then it's manageable i guess.
Please stop insulting people because they chose less privacy than you. Don't act superior. I would posit that just about everyone who reads hackernews knows that privacy and security are on a spectrum. People complaining about this as the last straw have every right to do so and this is a huge leap from Apple's previous position. No one thinks you're any smarter by saying "I told you so".
That's surprisingly simple for a Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol. Some random thoughts:

- Adding or removing validators is not covered

- Validators must remember every spent output for every transaction they've ever signed. I get the impression that their benchmark implementation ignores persistence. Arguably that's ok when you're looking at throughput and not latency.

- Issuing conflicting transactions can easily make an output unspendable - a potential implementation hazard for clients if they e.g. automatically retry a transaction.

- I had some doubts whether their sharding strategy not allowing inputs from multiple keys was realistic, but thinking about it you can easily issue multiple transactions to gather into an intermediate key if necessary. The verifier doesn't strictly speaking need to store the outputs anywhere, it just has to remember that the input was spent, which is what makes it shard so nicely.

- You'd probably want publish a transparency log to actually detect byzantine attacks

e: - the receiver also must verify that it hasn't received the same transaction before

Overall A+ not a blockchain.
I've now read up on NeuralHash a bit more, and while I think the idea that this is just a hash is slightly overstated, you're right and my above comment assumed this was a classifier rather than a perceptual hash.
Wild thought: could on-device scanning be considered a violation of the 3rd Amendment (quartering soldiers [enforcing agents of the government] in peoples homes [property]) ?
Ahh yes, those conspiracy-based "alternative facts", love it. Post some evidence or GTFO.
Good luck if you have two screens with different DPIs.
Plenty of subs get quarantined and then don't get banned even years later.
Is this issue getting much attention outside of tech circles? I have seen a few news stories here or there, but nothing major. I have not heard a word about it from any of my non-tech friends or from the non-tech people I follow on social media. Meanwhile people on HN are acting as if this is one of the biggest stories of the year with multiple posts on it every day.

There is a huge separation in the importance that the tech community puts on the general concept of privacy while the average person rarely worries about it.
I was in the same boat until recently. There have even been a couple of projects I got invited to that I never could join because of this (since multi-factor doesn't work with terminal username/password).

I've tried setting up SSH keys many times and have somehow failed many times. The UX for security stuff just isn't there. I finally have gotten a workflow sort-of figured out and documented to remind myself in the future.
They'll obey as long as they are run by people who have families that can be threatened.