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There have been people defending Apple's CSAM policy on hacker news as well. It comes down to how you weigh "small harm on everyone, potentially abusable to serious harm in other countries eventually" vs "major harm to a small number of children".

Clearly the majority opinion here (and mine also) is the first of these is worse, but it's not like I can't understand how people who believe the second is worse came to that opinion - I simply disagree with them.
Hah I was up there up until about a month ago. We did not design our equipment to be resistant to rain. Oops, apparently.
In my suggested world, you are free not to install it. If you distrust them enough to think that they'll change their policy to be more invasive, don't install it.

Personally, I'd rather have the detection happen on my phone than in the data centre. And I don't mind opting in to have my photos analyzed before upload. But the thing I don't like about Apple's CSAM thing is that it comes with my phone. And you know someone somewhere is going to accidentally enable iCloud and then claim they never did. Or maybe they didn't? Bugs do happen after all.
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Forbes covered this in 2016.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/05/25/uber-lo...
My car's AA implementation is horrible, so I use the implementation that's being discontinued. The worst part is it's too new to replace the head unit with one of those fancy wireless AA units out there, since my car has an integrated infotainment system. This does, indeed, suck.
I'm skeptical but, one source says this was "debunked" in Sep 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yyJiz4K9gY

They point out that these rideshare apps can detect what your phone's battery % is, and the TOS says they may access that info.

To test the allegation, they used two phones with different battery levels and compared the prices (at the same time, & with same destination), but did not find pricing differences.

They reached out to Uber who made a statement:

> Uber does not use personalized pricing nor is battery life a factor in determining fares. Pricing is optimized for the network as a whole, not any one individual rider or driver. [1]

Here is the reference Uber provided which describes how prices are set, and how other marketplace functionality works. [2]

[1] https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/verify/verify-does-uber-ch...

[2] https://www.uber.com/us/en/marketplace/
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If you haven't seen it already, this is a good read about EARN it and the issues around CSAM scanning in general wrt the 4th amendment.

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/03/earn-it-act-uncons...
Wouldn't a good solution for this be to require significant training for emotional support animals?

There are certainly potential issues of disenfranchisement created by simply raising the bar of qualifying for special treatment, but it would also do a lot to eliminate these frivolous claims of ESA need and also help to legitimize animals that serve a genuine and important function.
Volatility and exchange with fiat are the main issues. In terms of simply effecting a payment Bitcoin has worked since launch (aside from a few times when transaction fees got pretty silly). The scaling problem can at least temporarily gotten around with multiple currencies. (Which seems to have been adopted in practice when Bitcoin hit its txn soft cap a while back.)

IMO here in Canada it's near-feasible. Most people can purchase Bitcoin near-immediately with a bank transfer. Slightly more complicated than linking your PayPal account to your bank.
Is it worth continuing to push sex workers into illegality, thereby putting them in danger?

Put another way, do we have a right to sacrifice one population to protect another? Allow me to doubt it.
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You could say that the NYT piece was the spark that eventually led to the rule change. I doubt someone read the column and made the rule change immediately, but it probably sparked dialog within MasterCard that eventually led to the rule change.
Wow,I needed to take an Uber yesterday, and my battery slowly went from 10% to 5%. When it went to 5% the price doubled, allegedly saying that there was a surge in rides in my area. It wasn't rush hour, and there was no visible surgery as far as I could tell.
You can delegate authentication via a permanent DNS record to another DNS hierarchy and give your certificate software authority to change that for ACME purposes. This fixes both the "My API key is allowed to change anything" problem and the "I can't get an API key for the DNS domains I need certificates for" problem, albeit at the cost of needing that one-time setup to tell ACME where to look in DNS.

To do this you need a CNAME from the _acme_challenge DNS name you're being challenged on, to a DNS name you're going to use for this purpose. It needn't be in the same domain or indeed even the same TLD but of course it does need to be a public DNS name.
Personally, I struggle to believe this. Multiple companies are accused of it: all deny it. Surely, if this were true -- and endemic in the ride-sharing industry -- we'd see more than just rumours, whether that's acknowledgement from a company or whistleblowing from someone within these companies.

Uber haven't just used flowery language to evade the question, they've denied in the strongest possible terms:

> It is categorically not the case that the battery level on your phone affects the price of a fare
The world is full of trade-offs, no rights are absolute.
This is actually the point of the elite overproduction hypothesis, although the article doesn't get that across. People who pose the theory don't believe that actual elites are being overproduced, but people who believe they should be elite and act as though they are.

Many people with a degree believe that they should be elites (because they would be in the 1960s) and are disappointed that they are not. The elites have circled the wagons and use friendships to determine eliteness (see WeWork and Theranos - where elites started companies that are total frauds and still were billionaires for a while).

At the same time, it is good for society to have a meritocratic component to the measure of "eliteness." This is why generals who won battles was a good example, and college degrees used to be: people who became generals or got into college were generally not there purely on merit, but the cream of the crop became apparent through challenges relevant to the society of the day.

The meritocratic component also allows for social mobility for people who are really damn good at whatever the merit is: great soldiers could find their way into the roman aristocracy from nothing, and colleges always admitted a few exceptionally talented lower-class people who became great scholars. The "elite overproduction" theory suggests that there is too much social mobility for the wrong people, and not enough for the right people.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with starting a debate.

Rehabilitation is one of those code words that polls well, but I am skeptical it exists. In reality it usually just means 'addiction treatment' (which seldom works) and there isnt really a good analogy for crimes that are not drug related. Just for my own clarity, what exactly constitues rehabilitation for eg. someone who embezzles?

The second issue is that it seems to focus on preventing additional crime, but punishment is about preventing crime before it happens. Just proving 'I would never do it again' isn't really the point, we want to prevent crimes from ever happening.

Your theory seems to be that most people are inherently good and wouldn't do crime just because if their nature. I think that is fundamentally wrong, and I can prove it.

All you need to do is examine situations in which people were suddenly put in situations where they knew they were unlikely to receive punishment: and crime explodes.

There were millions of rapes commited by soldiers against German women during the occupation following world war 2. My guess is most of the perpetrators never raped again--they went home and were otherwise normal citizens. Had they not been given the opportunity to get away with it, they would not have done it.

I sort if see this akin to the Milgram experiment. You probably think you wouldn't shock the man--and maybe you wouldn't--but our studies suggest most people would.
Yeah, I don't think it's possible with the current hardware. The best Tesla can hope for is Level 3, mainly due to the lack of redundancy.
well-stated.
I have a basically English heritage. If I counted unrelated ancestors back through 45 generations I reckon I should have had 35,184,372,088,832! Since the population of England back in the 800s was probably a few million, what are the chances I am NOT a descendent of King Alfred?
Unfortunately, calls with more than two people seem to fall apart quickly if the network connection isn't perfect, even where Meets, Zoom, etc. work flawlessly.
Even if true, the enormous amount of fraud is in large part a result of their puritanical values. The fraud happens because it's an underground industry, it's an underground industry because of the puritanical values, etc.

This is like saying "drugs are bad because of all the violence" when the violence is mostly a symptom of how we treat drugs.
the amount of code in existence in languages that support "goto" is mindblowing. I would wager that the majority of developers have encountered it in a code base. even though it's not modern, it's certainly a relevant example for most people
What I've done is delegate (NS record) only the subdomain _acme-challenge to a standalone DNS-zone the webserver has write access to.
This way it cannot escalate to changing root A/MX.
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You could argue that it's policy to develop or not develop this feature, but if the feature doesn't exist, you could always refuse the update that provides it, whereas if apple adds tiananmen-square.jpg to this list in China after the feature is out there, then you don't know until you're already screwed.
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ditto. Was definitely the most impressive part of the presentation (IMO).

Also, did I catch it right? One of those plates is 15kW of power? That's some crazy heat dissipation!
I edited the post to add images and videos statistics — it's frighteningly common.

The numbers are correct and it's shocking and heart-wrenching; here's a linked study [1], but there are many.

I went to college in Boston, where the Boston Globe broke a scandal that around 150 Catholic priests in Boston were accused of sexual abuse, with more than 500 victims [2] [3].

It was immensely tough to grasp and accept that in a small city like Boston, that many priests were sexually abusing children.

[1] http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/9248.pdf
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/21/boston-globe-a...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Boston...
I know for a fact there's a market for this in both cars and televisions.
It does have a mic. We are conflicted about the accelerometer for our next iteration.
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I mean its a complete misnomer to state that the quality is remotely comparable.
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You see stories like this and think that China is correct in coming down on the tech sector. No one is better off when a company pulls stunts like this.
> I think it's stupid to pay for porn when there's so much available for free

> if we are to enjoy the free stuff, we also gotta make sure the content creators get paid

What do you mean by "paying for porn" versus "make sure the content creators get paid"? Do you mean pay content creators as directly as possible, rather than paying distribution/publication platforms?
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So the timing of this, and the Apple's CSAM is interesting. Are companies facing a legal liability or afraid of facing one in the future? Are they worried that they could potentially be liable under FOSTA-SESTA?
> Phish testing campaigns in companies that send fake phishing emails to employees, are probably full of inaccurate data due to this.

Anecdata: just running curl on one of those test URLs will trigger a failure and can result in a long discussion with HR and IT.

> > Many phishing test as a service companies will report clicks vs. people who actually interact with the page.

> Would you mind naming some?

KnowBe4 is one such company. Their emails are also easy to spot because they'll have an X-PHISH-TEST email header.
Dojo. Because it's real and pretty impressive. It shows Tesla has some pretty good hardware chops.
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Open Question. Why don't more places accept stablecoin like USDC and USDT? The number of places that accept crypto is exceedingly low but even those that do usually only accept BTC. I wonder why stablecoins aren't used more for these sorts of transactions? Is it just that BTC is the most well known? Or are the underlying technical differences that prevent that from happening.
Are there any statistics about how popular the current "modern" image formats are?

Because in every single dev project that I've worked on, people have typically just used JPEG or PNG, only recently having started looking at SVG for logos and such explicitly.

Now, in part it might be because of the legacy and how widely supported these formats are, but also perhaps since most of the browsers out there seem to support them pretty decently, which is why there's no need to bother with fallbacks, even if these older formats have poorer filesizes of quality.

Right now I'm just considering either finding a tool/web API for automatically preparing images for the web, since doing that manually seems a bit cumbersome, as opposed to letting some build tool do it, similarly to how JS gets minified.
Jitsi works fine as well.
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Great read; we can say that imagination is the limit for a skilled programmer—great idea combined with skill results in a good outcome.
Blazor Desktop makes a lot of sense to me. Basically: Blazor Server is getting pretty good and it’s easy to serve it up to a local webview so why not make that an officially supported use case?
> The problem the goto solves in a language that have predefined line numbers like basic just doesn't apply with numberless line code bases.

That's not true. There are useful times to use goto, but the main issue with its use doesn't have to do with line numbers... Using goto leads to spaghetti code that is difficult to maintain or reason about.
Right. But the article isn't titled: How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Created the PC Industry

It is an article that shows how two bored 1970's housewives helped to create the pc industry. It's a bit of a clickbait title but it's accurate.
Thanks for the link, I'll look at it too. I'm also in the group of people who assumed almost everything the plants sequester gets quickly recovered by other plants and organisms, and is part of the growth-sequester/decompose-release cycle.
Stock price will likely not go up the day after. Analysts have to break down the implication in terms of potential revenue models that Tesla could gain for it. From there we can establish a future price target based on potential revenue. For now the market wants to focus on revenue today, that is mostly sold products today and near term products soon to be available.
Problem is that sex work is a very wierd exempt from current social norms. We do not like meritocracy but we do agree that hot young women can make a lot of money just because they were born this way.
No, you're not the only one. That's actually the main reason why I personally stopped using them entirely several years ago and just write straightforward loops that search for things I need in the input string.
If I remember correctly, React's default approach of comparing states/props is a shallow comparison (e.g. for PureComponent). That seems about as close to free as you can get.

I use PureComponent everywhere, but I don't know what people do in function-component world.
Yea, it's a lot of foreign concepts. Bit of a learning curve to it. Whether or not the incentives are great enough so that the public goes past the learning curve is going to be interesting to see.
The ship design in Picard didn’t feel trek. Like it was a different franchise. The nostalgia moments were the best but overal I didn’t liked the overal tone and storyline.
This should not be something that alleged without evidence. It would be trivial to take multiple phones with different battery levels and compare the prices. You could also vary the distance between the phones. Furthermore, and I could be wrong on this, I don't recall there being any API to get the battery life remaining.
This substantially the opposite of my experience so I’d bet there is some factor for proximity to CDNs or traffic shaping done by your ISP. FaceTime is rock-solid; Zoom is also good but has noticeably lower video quality (but good noise handling). Meet’s native apps are good but their browser UI is coded to break Firefox so I don’t use it much.
Your argument is completely undermined by being full of references to enthusiastic ignorance. Covid was a massive IQ test, which many failed by following con men who told them to take the easy path, rather than the path of self responsibility. Rather than insisting that doubling down on bad decisions is somehow defending your "rights", you need to come to terms with how you were led so far astray in the first place.

Furthermore, "right to closed borders" ? You previously invoked "free movement" yet there is also a right to closed borders? It appears you've just cloaked the same tired red team talking points in the language of freedom. Please, as a libertarian, stop trying to use freedom to justify what is a highly authoritarian movement. You're doing freedom no favors.
Just another case of an online echo chamber.
I think the title is kind of misleading. Or at the very least, they're trying to be a little tongue in cheek.

These people aren't doing anything special to try and lose weight during a competition, it's just that the competition itself is causing them to lose weight even though they are not engaged in strenuous physical activity. Which is interesting. I wouldn't have pegged chess to cause a person to burn 6000 calories in a day.
BeOS was less compatible. There were also many improvements to it in the later versions. When NeXT bought Apple[0], BeOS was not even in its pre-release phase. Its heyday, such as it were, was really on Intel, with R5 and the Personal Edition, in the last few years of the 90's.

[0] For -$400M :)
Could it be that Apple thought that child pornography was going to get the most sympathy from society for this general approach of scanning libraries? They may have expected some HN push back but maybe hoped for some halfway decent press related to helping combat this abuse.

I ask that question in curiosity but I'm super skeptical because this is actually surveillance.
When you have your workplace overrun by dogs because we no longer expect grown adults to manage their own emotions, it'll be the most important thing in your world too.
If all airplanes needed to do is "be safer than cars" then no one would ever fly.
There was also a recent BBC investigation into OnlyFans that found they constantly bent their rules for popular content makers and had a real problem with sub-18 people on the platform.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58255865
That was my question too. It seems they have a deal with Samsung, atleast for the FSD computer chips[1].

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/05/03/how-tesla-pivoted-avoid-globa....
It is on the decline in India too:

> In the past decade, landline subscriber base has been on a decline, with connections reducing from 36.76 million as of 31 January, 2010 to 20.58 million as of 31 January, 2020. Of the total telecom 1.18 billion connections, only 20.26 million, or less than 2%, were landline as of February. - https://www.livemint.com/industry/telecom/trai-says-declinin...

(And yes, landline phones do offer better voice quality. Even if I am calling from a cellphone, I prefer to call someone on their landline. )
I'll just wait for the Chinese government to ask Apple to implement CSAM for Tank Man pics.
It’s true that a centralized system can make “the right calls” without having to compromise for the purpose of maximizing or minimizing something… that’s the good. On the other hand, they can also make unilateral and very poor decisions (like the cultural revolution).
It's so great and easy to use it even works for video calls with a person in China, while all other foreign communication apps are blocked there. Isn't that interesting.
Wouldn't be surprised if pretty much every communication service is doing this.

I sent a link to a large file over Viber and immediately some ip connected and started downloading. Stopped at 350mb of around 3.5gb. I get that they want to show thumbnails or whatnot, but they just don't discriminate between content types.
In the app recently I saw Uber offering to drive you around on your errands. They're just pivoting until they get lucky buyout-wise or until they find a business they can actually make money in. The founder was the smartest to cash out; read somewhere he's been investing in ghost kitchens.
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Your point is valid but offers cold comfort. The government raiding your cloud without a warrant grants you more legal protection than Apple handing it over.
There is an api for battery level in both iphones and androids. Evidence: life360 can tell you the battery levels of the phones of people in your circle.
It's been a while, but I think my Zune was directly exposed as a USB storage device when plugged in.
> Futures were first proposed in 1976, in a book called "The Impact of Applicative Programming on Multiprocessing".

According to Wikipedia, Promises were, Futures (which are similar but not identical) were proposed in a 1977 paper. All of the closely related concepts of promises, futures, logic variables, and dataflow variables were used in functional languages first, and long before their use in, or the existence of, Twisted.
There can be that (should be), but the difference is the code owner isn't making the change, instead the person changing the API is making it.
Thought that the article would be abou the quest for a better random graph model. It's weird that Quanta didn't talk about this yet.

For the other direction (ML helping graph theory and not vice versa), see Constructions in Combinatorics via Neural Networks [0] by Wagner (2021). I made an implementation to play with [1].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14516

[1]: https://github.com/dpaleka/cross-entropy-for-combinatorics
Net... uhm.. payment-processors-neutrality!

I have no idea why payment processors get to choose and pick what they want to process and what they don't.