skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but it's like the portion of Mint or Quicken that interfaces with financial institutions, and it enables end user applications, right?

When I wrote "how is it different" I meant how is it different in the task it performs which (I assume) Mint and Quicken also perform.
Do we know who within Apple is pushing for this?
I'm waiting for betting odds of Apple rolling this back to pop up on polymarket https://polymarket.com/
Passport and SSN are national ids. They are issued by the Federal government, so it is nation wide database.

On top of that, states have their own ID systems. Typically there are 2 options: just a state ID or driver’s license, that serves also as an ID. Most people in the US get driver’s license early(permits as early as 15), so there aren’t that many who has just the ID.

Now, SSN is issues upon birth. Before you know it, you can already start paying taxes.

For passport you need to apply, typically you would need it if you wanted to travel outside of the US. Otherwise, you rarely need it. This is because for the most part you deal with state bureaucracy, as most of the day to day life falls within state’s jurisdiction. Driving, getting married, divorced, buying things like a vehicle or a real estate, opening a bank account, domestic aur travel, etc. Some can live their entire lives without a passport, because a state ID will suffice. Even for things like voting in federal elections - you don’t need a passport. Contrary to many people’s beliefs, in the US the states vote, not people. This is/was by design. Now it gets more centralized, but the original concept is close to EU in terms of states autonomy. This means, that even for federal elections procedures vary greatly by state (its been on the news a lot lately). Moreover, you aren’t required to have an ID. It is not illegal not to have an ID or be off the grid.

Before 9/11 you could even go to Canada using state ID only. Now I think even it’s possible, probably only if you have some special kind of ID.

This is how things have been until recently. Then REAL ID came around. Because states rules governing ID issuance, they vary greatly. So we ended up with some states’ IDs that were as easy to counterfeit as printing a piece of paper. Some states would not do a due diligence verifying your name or address and would just take your word for it. READ ID is to addresses: mandates minimum protection level, due diligence a state needs to do to confirm address, etc. New federal regulations does not allow air travel with state ID that don’t comply with REAL ID requirements. Few states still don’t, so residents of those states will need passports for domestic travel. I think this trend will continue beyond air travel.

States aren’t required to share this data with federal government or each other. It is, however, a requirement for REAL ID. At the same time there are many businesses, that specialize in aggregating various identity information a out people. Credit bureaus are such businesses as well. They aren’t only in business of credit checks, but also identity verification, employment verification, etc. Some of these companies have federal, state and local agencies among their clients.

Fun fact: you can board a domestic flight without an ID. For example, if you lost it. TSA has a procedure to establish your identity. This includes asking you a bunch of facts about your life, such as where you lived in year X, last 3 cars you owned, your spouse full name and birthday, etc. I suspect they maybe using one of the credit bureaus identity verification product offerings.
Apple will not drop their plans. Google and Facebook are already doing this. Be happy at least Apple’s implementation happens client side and therefore can preserve end to end encryption.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/child-sexual-abuse-mat...

https://www.facebook.com/safety/onlinechildprotection

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2021/04/16/keeping-flickr-and-chi...

Most companies dealing with photos have had this in place for almost a decade now. The FUD and slippery slope arguments are getting old.
Richard's argument starting with

> But I think of sociability or socializing as a collective action problem.

is excellent. He nails it in a way I hadn't articulated before. Marc disagrees, but I'm really with Richard on this one.
> "We know what it does and we don't want it"

And that interview is likely supposed to telegraph that they “don’t care”. It wasn’t a live one, was it? They could have improved parts of it if they wanted.
All of the PR out of Apple seems to assume that people simply do not understand how it works and if they did they would feel better.

Everyone understands well enough how it works and understands how trivially it could be changed to search for other kinds of content.
In the crazy universe where Apple rolls this back, what does it look like? Cook resigns? Craig? Team is sacked?
Roku's "privacy" policy is a hoot to read for stuff like this.

It's basically, "If we've come up with a way to grab it, we do. And send it to our servers. And do what we want with it."

It literally includes:

> We may receive information about the browser and devices you use to access the Internet, including our services, such as device types and models, unique identifiers (including, for Roku Devices, the Advertising Identifier associated with that device), IP address, operating system type and version, browser type and language, Wi-Fi network name and connection data, and information about other devices connected to the same network.

Emphasis mine. They literally have given themselves permission to nmap your LAN and upload the results!
I suspect in part it's a combination of 1) Go is good enough as is (and some people don't mind Go's simple type system or the boilerplate-y but explicit error handling), and 2) the Go tooling is really good -- "go build", "go test", etc, would all have to be wrapped or rewritten with slower, buggier versions.
The best one I’ve read is Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach by Michael Sellers. It’s a good bit more rigorous than other books on game design.
The guy can't even teach his kids (agree that it is his teacher's job but you are a parent, take him out and show the world) I wonder how he is the CEO and goes about mentoring/writing books about leading. Seems like his whole life is a hack.
comptime fixed macros in a practical implementation: https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-programming-language-blurs-...
I know you don't really want to hedge too much on your example, but do note that in your attempt to simplify, you accidentally turned an API which can, in theory, draw many triangles into one that only can draw one triangle at a time. What if I want to parallelize the work of drawing triangles?

Trying to aggressively simplify without understanding the full design space or surface area is not really a great idea.

In the worst case, if you never use, for instance, Timestamp Queries in your engine, you can half-ass a backend and just nop the implementation. Lots of game engines do that kinda thing. So many game engines where half the graphics API implementations were no-op stubs because we never needed the functionality on that platform.
I'm no financial expert, but it seems this would uber-stabilize the stock since algorithms (ingesting via scraping or human data entry) would trade near-perfectly based on the statistics, leaving little speculation for retail investors/other impulse trades.
Really cool that you brought up Mondrian, since I literally implemented a Haskell program that generated art in their signature style during college. No AI required at all, just setting some random parameters. Here are some results: https://imgur.com/a/rtWkTTl
I think you're underestimating the severity of child abuse by orders of magnitude. CSAM is a database of child rape, not child nudity.
The advice to arbitrarily delete every third paragraph makes zero sense. That whole piece is just cult of personality. The advice is also an insult to real writers who know how to actually craft intriguing stories.
I never understood why Paul Allen didn't secure LCM's continued existence when he knew the end was near. It must have been easily within his means.
We do know that Apple has been scanning email attachments sent via iCloud email. I don't think it's ever been claimed that Apple has ever scanned anyone's iCloud Photo Library.

Ethics aside, on-device scanning has the benefit of Constitutional protection, at least in the USA. Because the searching is being performed on private property, any attempt by the Government to try to expand the scope of searches would be a clear-cut 4th Amendment violation.

(Whereas if the scanning is done in the cloud, Government can compel searches and that would fall under the "third party doctrine" which is an end-run around the 4th Amendment.)
> When you say Pop could be more lightweight, are you talking about CPU or memory usage?

Memory usage. I haven't noticed an issue with CPU usage, because I usually only open it briefly and tend not to be doing anything else intensive during that time. If I kept it open for video chat while I was working, maybe it would be an issue, but I currently use Messenger (in the browser, not the app) or Discord.

> Slack / Microsoft Teams / Dropbox / 1Password / VSCode

Slack was definitely a big problem for memory usage, so I don't use that much anymore. VSCode I only open while I'm editing. I wish it worked better over an X connection for that. Dropbox I allow to keep running on my main Mac (although its memory usage is ridiculous for what it does), but only load it as needed on my Mac mini. I use Teams, but that's on a work laptop that only runs Teams and Outlook.

Discord is the only Electron app that I keep open nearly all the time.
> Even worse, how long will it take until other cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google Drive et al implement the same features? Or worse, required by law to do so

They already do this. Google and Facebook have even issued reports detailing their various success rates…
Isn't that when the state prohibits your service? So then no body cares about your mathematical proof because it's a crime to use it.

This is what has happened in many countries already.
If you read the letter, if’s clear that whoever wrote it has little understanding of what it does.

There are good reasons not to want this. Just not making everyone into a suspect would be a start.

But whoever wrote the letter is clueless.
What if this is four-dimensional chess by Apple: maybe they deliberately announced this back door, just to prove how politically poor the backdoor topic is with the public? Maybe Congress will think twice about trying to force this via legislation on anyone.

(This comment is intended as a joke.)
> George Orwell’s 1984...wasn’t on our school’s reading list.

This seems to be common, and is crazy. It’s perfect for high schoolers.

My kid had to campaign to get it added back to his school curriculum.
Exactly, and 100% Google and Microsoft have on device scanning as well. We are saying "Apple are bad for admitting it" what about the others that are not?
Their goal is to minimize false positives, so would not be in their best interest.
Maybe, maybe not.

Current vaccines do not target mucosal immunity, but intranasal and inhaler delivery are being worked on in other vaccines.

Mucosal immunity would help reduce R0 and drive the disease to manageable levels.
Crypto volume is pretty hft/market maker weighted as well.

There’s just not

a. Enough random interested parties willing to buy/sell various coins so that you have low-spread and liquid markets

b. Non-hft players who keep crypto markets in line with each other

This isn’t super surprising. Managing posted liquidity is a difficult task that sort of requires being halfway to a market maker, and naturally most non-market makers just want to buy and sell right away instead of posting orders and waiting/hoping.

The result of this is that most liquidity is provided by HFTs, since they’re the only party that can and even wants to have a bunch of bids/offers out for you to trade against.
Nolan's films are not baffling in the sense of creating true mystery or intrigue. They are baffling because they truly are a mess and have inaudible dialog, and that's despite being famous for having tedious monologues.
You mistakenly replied on the wrong thread. Here's the one you meant to reply on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28221654

Your quote "The CSV format itself is notoriously inconsistent" comes from this page which the thread discusses:

https://www.bitsondisk.com/writing/2021/retire-the-csv/
There's a difference between high-impact and high quality. You'd hope that the peer review process selects for high quality and then the impact is TBD by history, but it's usually the other way around.
> I'm not aware of any big anti-CSAM push being made by Congress.

Right now. The best time for Apple to do this is when cannot be painted as a defensive move against any specific legislation. The CSAM argument has been used many times in the past and it's certain to be used many more times in the future.
I'm not necessarily asking you, but I'm taking your message as an opportunity to ask if anyone knows of an extension that does the opposite?

I have pretty bad astigmatism, and I cannot read pages with dark background. There used to be an extension I used for this purpose, but it stopped working several years ago, and I have suffered ever since. Going into developer mode to play around with the stylesheet works, but is a huge hassle.
I mean... That's so bad it's almost good?
Yes, but a human who don't understand a word lacks the vocabulary for that specific language and that's the reason they cannot understand or comprehend the question properly. Whereas Google Search does have the vocabulary built in with its data set. The problem here is it didn't piece the words together correctly even though the question is valid.

It is one thing to not understand a word in the first place and another if you cannot piece it together i.e. assuming you know the language.
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Ask HN: Building a startup while working elsewhere and parenting?
Founding a startup is often associated with grinding, long hours and low pay (for a possible high compensation in the exit). I want to start a startup but I feel that I am bit too late because now I am 35 years old software engineer and has a family with 1 toddler and another child is coming in couple of weeks.

Is it possible to build a good startup part time (while still working in another company for full time)? Is there any founders out there which still can start and grow their business successfully while raising up children? Should I wait once having enough life saving and once my children a bit older so that I will be more ready for grinding?

This is the only link related to this topic in HN[1].

[1][https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10019268](https://news....
There are high quality privacy preserving android apps on F-droid too.
- MyPy doesn't have pervasive nullability, but distinguishes nullable and non-nullable types in the type system. A function declared to return int but randomly returns None has a bug in its type hints.

- I dunk on Java for pervasive nullability too (though there are tools that add @Nullable xor @NonNull annotations used for analysis, possibly sound). But Go has over a decade more hindsight and should've known better.

I haven't used the other languages.
Only the safety tokens are generated on your device, the action triggering scan happens in the cloud (just like all the others) and then it goes to human review, so if it's a hash collision it'd be caught there when they review the images, and they can only review the images that matched CSAM.

I honestly can't find the uproar here. Google devices can face match photos offline... so they are applying a neural net (scanning) ON THE DEVICE! How is that not worse than what apple do?
Of course it will get better. But it's not going to end at "Hey, this photograph of a sunset is visually unchanged" while now matching CSAM. That's just not plausible. It's not how these classifiers work.

Regardless, this whole thing is moot because there are two classifiers, only one of which has been made public. Before any matches can make it to human review, photos in decrypted vouchers have to pass the CSAM match against a second classifier that Apple keeps to itself.
yeah, WFH and closeness to data means citrix is a necessary evil. But yeah i work as hard as i can to try and find ways to NOT use citrix.
> Because the searching is being performed on private property,

It's it though? The device someone bought 2 years ago suddenly starts reporting them to the FBI's Anti-CSAM unit without the owners realistic consent does seem like a run-around to unpermissioned government searches. It's not reasonable to say "throw away your $1200 device if you don't consent", is it? Nor can a person reasonably avoid iOS updates that force this feature to be active.

> any attempt by the Government to try to expand the scope of searches

We've seen private companies willfully censor individuals at the government's behest under the current administration - will Apple begin expanding the search and reporting mechanisms just to stay in whatever administration's good grace?

Like I said, this is extremely out of character, and very off-brand for Apple. Why would someone trust Apple going forward? Even Google's Android doesn't snitch on it's owners to law enforcement... Setting aside all the ways for nefarious actors to abuse this system and sic LE on innocent individuals.
Mainly Ctrl+F and diffs, in my case.

Sometimes you need to look up a single code in a 50 MB file. And sometimes you need a quick check to see if one line or a million lines changes.

It's "exception not the rule" type stuff... but it sure comes in handy to be able to check this stuff quick with basic text tools than have to run it through some binary parser. Same as JSON. But unlike protobufs for example.
China and Russia are or have modernized their weapons. A central issue with nuclear weapons is that they decay over time, their nuclear yield falls, inexorably, year after year. The US needs to build a new generation of warheads in order to remain a credible nuclear power, which is critical for a stable world order in the nuclear age.

There are some interesting issues though: prior generations of nuclear weapons production involved massive release of highly toxic byproducts. In addition to better control and containment, one would reason that processes with less toxic byproducts would also be desirable.

So how do you purify the plutonium cleanly? How do you cut and weld the plutonium to manufacture the parts, cleanly? And how much of this can you tolerate and still produce weapons-grade materials, and weapons-grade parts?

Given some modifications in design to accommodate the environmental restrictions, you need to model the reactions to make sure the new designs work. But even if you model everything, you need to validate the models. So you have to test something. So you need to produce high energy plasma for primary and secondary designers to validate their models and their designs.

The NIF is a weapons lab instrument for studying fusion reactions. The current hollraum is plutonium, designed to irradiate a deuterium-tritium target. If that doesn't sound like a primary acting on a secondary, I don't know what does.

All that is just a high-level counterargument. The real argument though is quite straight forward: LLNL (home of NIF) is a weapons lab. They are not in the nuclear power business.
Thanks for the details!

Based on the feedback today, we're going to look into how we can reduce memory usage overall (especially when idle), and CPU usage especially when screen sharing. We already modify Electron, so we may be able to work out a good middle ground that reduces the footprint significantly, while still giving us the advantages of a shared codebase across our 4 platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, web).
That isn't the question of your comprehension though. You got the input (question) wrong because of your habit and not because you couldn't comprehend the sentence structure. You misread the sentence and that's why you got confused over what is wrong if I get it properly. You most probably wouldn't have done this if you read it as Mars in the first place.
> Be happy

Just because the bar is so low does not mean we have to accept privacy abuse.
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Congrats on the launch! Can you tell us a bit more about the company? How many of you, where are you based?

Also, did you consider using Signalwire APIs [0] to power the service? (disclaimer: I know the team well and I am an early investor)

[0]: https://docs.signalwire.com/
The real question is: how can they make sure people are not committing other crimes? They better scan all messages at all times. Are they meeting more people face to face than the government permits? The only way to be sure is to log all gps data and compare.

They better monitor every aspect of their customers lives to protect the children. Think of the children
> Apple however told Motherboard in an email that that version analyzed by users on GitHub is a generic version, and not the one final version that will be used for iCloud Photos CSAM detection. Apple said that it also made the algorithm public.

When did they make NeuralHash public?
You don’t have to accept it. Don’t use iCloud, no problem.
Photos of your dog are not going to trigger it. Someone would need to engineer the 30 photos of your dog tweaked to hash to a particular value, and then convince you to save them to your device and then upload to iCloud. And then some portion/abstraction of the dog photo would need to convince a reviewer they were looking at CSAM.

The more likely path to trouble is legal NSFW material that's been engineered.
Nobody needs to resign. Nobody needs to be sacked. They just need to acknowledge the mistake and not push the spyware update.
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> Be happy at least Apple’s implementation happens client side and therefore can preserve end to end encryption potentially.

No, why would I be happy with this? I actually prefer the alternative: scan photos server side, fine. That's Apple's computer and if I send my photos there, then I can't justifiably argue against that. But my device shouldn't be part of their attempt to appease law enforcement by turning the world into a dragnet.
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How does Unicode present a problem?

In UTF-8, the byte for a comma and a quote only exist as their characters. They don't exist as parts of multibyte sequences, by design.

If you have Unicode problems, then you have Unicode problems, but they wouldn't seem to be CSV problems...? Unless you're being incredibly sloppy in your programming and outputting double-byte UTF-16 strings surrounded by single-byte commas and quotes or something...?
I don't really want to do the research, so I'll take your word for it.

But by fog of war I was thinking more like the victim already has some sleazy (though marginally legal) stuff on their computer, or a search led to a find of pot in their house, or they lied to try and get out of the rap, or perhaps the FBI offered them a deal and they took it because they saw no way out, or perhaps they were simply an unlikable individual who the jury took a dislike to.

Basically that things are not always clear cut, and they come out of the wrong side of things, in a situation created by Apple's surveillance.
I expected some reference so some country's lore where foxes did that, but the real explanation is actually much nicer.
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It might be worth watching how the development of helloSystem plays out, and maybe contributing.

https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/