skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in order to avoid storing unencrypted photos within iCloud

To be clear, Apple does not utilize E2E in iCloud. They can (and already do) scan iCloud contents
You can be pretty sure they'll report your account if at least 1 low-res thumbnail ("visual derivative") looks like an image of naked people/a sexual act.
> That sounds like the problem of badly formatted CSV

That’s what CSV is. That’s what happens when you ingest CSVs whose production you don’t control.

> If you [ignore everything people literally clamour for in these comments and praise csv for]

Yes i also like ponies.
Tl;dr Don’t listen to amateur forum advice, get informed at professional level.

Long: Please, In general I suggest for anyone dealing with chemicals to read the safety sheets to the very least and ask for professional advice.

Very often you will find second order effects at play (teratogenic, cancerogenic, allergogenic, er cetera), as well as dangerous surprises that can await you in reactions.

HF is a very nasty chemical that not only does funny stuff to your bones but can kill you making your breathing stop. Rinsing off your hand does not help in this case, you will need to get a specialised treatment in hospital. We lost two students at the University of Marburg in Germany to HF exposure.
Looks more like HTML via HTTP, specifically DoH.

const dohServer = "https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query?ct=application/dns-json&type=TXT&name=";
const baseDomain = "hod.experiments.jacobkiers.net";

About 12 years ago I experimented with HTML over UDP DNS by modifying dnstxt from djbdns to output a MIME header. I could store tiny web pages, i.e., hyperlinks, in a zone file and serve them with tinydns. (This was before the size of DNS packets ballooned with adoption of EDNS.)
Have been using Pop for 1:1 pair programming sessions with a friend and it’s been great! To me there is a massive value in simplicity and speed with which we can go from zero to working. It’s 100x faster than Zoom or Meet. Two clicks and we are on!

Good luck, team Pop!
Highly distributed global CDN for free. You can use a short TTL, though there are lots of misbehaving DNS servers around cache timeouts. "Fetch with DoH" kinda ruins the party, but browsers can't do UDP or non-HTTP TCP.
yeah, I've heard it argued that B12 is produced by a lot of soil bacteria, which would have been sufficient for historic vegans.. but now since plants are washed we don't get B12 (and salmonella!) from plant sources.
Typography vs. tpygoarhpy – models of word cognition
They can still be forwarded to your email, but they quietly disabled the forwarding to linked numbers, yes.
Ask HN: How Google Maps detect if I am passing under the bridge?
I recently noticed when I was commuting using Grab that Maps changes to Dark mode when I'm passing under the bridge. I'm curious to know how it detects? Is it done using the phone sensors or satellite data?
heheh possible! After pages and pages of "I'm confused why people are outraged about this" trolls....I could use a joke like this :)
Twilio. I send all idiot 2FA websites to a Twilio number and forward to Slack. You can also forward to e-mail or pretty much do whatever you want.

Twilio's also great because I can set it up to answer known 2FA voice calls and hit the # button automatically to confirm.

I also use it to play endless loops of hold music for unscheduled calls to teach businesses to stop calling me without making an appointment and e-mail me instead.
There is some obscenely expensive program for that (I have tried to search for traces of it online). I should do an advanced search again, using key words from the YouTube video below. The course is here: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/

Anyways, there is this guy who is really good at hacking life who describes it and took the course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3dA2GcAh8

Anyways, his channel is interesting for sure: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOae5nYA7VqaXzerajD0lg

He was also #1 student in psychology at Cambridge as an undergrad.

Anyways, chances are the course is ideas plagiarized from somewhere else. That's why I have searched for the source. I found a good written source for finding key words to do advanced search queries to find the original source: https://www.rylncoaching.com/post/why-i-have-a-second-brain-...

I found high quality illustrated notes on it, too, which will be really helpful for locating wherever the course material is originally from: https://maggieappleton.com/basb

For searching text of books with advanced queries, the best place is here (world's biggest online library): https://www.bookshare.org/search

Google Books is best for previewing books.
In my mind this is a neat proof-of-concept that shows how you can serve content through some absurd method (in this case serving HTML over DNS).
It may not have "a point" beyond just being an example of what's possible!
Let's be practical for a minute. What specific image would Apple voluntarily search for on behalf of the US Government? I sincerely can't think of anything.
I am vaguely aware of twilio's api offerings, but they don't have a consumer product do they?

What in particular are you doing, and how much does that cost?
The post say 'right wing' not 'far right'. And many countries have left and right wing parties and they have very little if anything to do with Nazis vs Jews. I think you may just be viewing this through your own lens...
Who cares about billionaires? I'm concerned with HN.
To me the most interesting findings from this fiasco were:

1. People actually do use generally publicly available services to store and distribute CP (as suggested by the amount of reports done by Facebook)

2. A lot of people evidently use iCloud Photo Library to store images of things other than pictures they took themselves. This is not really surprising, I've learned that the answer of "does anybody ever?" questions is aways "yes". It is a bit weird though since the photo library is terrible for this use case.
Will they ever listen though? This is so wrong in so many levels but not sure if apple ever listen.
I received an email about this from Google well over a month prior to the change. I have issues with this change (see my own comment), but they did send notices.

Whether or not they successfully got those emails to somewhere you saw them or not, and whether a month is enough notice for upending your SMS strategy are both good questions though, I suppose.
You store the photos you want to keep private in another app. I'm sure there are lots in the App Store.

Still waiting on that citation.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made with <3 by Govly uwu
Yeah. I used to work for a Hamburg based fintech that was one of the first to get its PSD2 license.

We still had to fall back to scraping at some points. Perhaps that’s different now.
It looks like I did receive an email. I retract my original comment.
Slack runs like shit on my pc. I’ve not been able to answer a call this week: seems to freeze up for the length most people want to dial when there is an incoming call. I hope OP will optimise for performance when using electron.

OP: Until you are in the position where your software is forced on people by the pointy-haired managers (like Slack or Jira for example) you’ll need a better performing app or people will give up.

Coders especially; we don’t like waiting and emptying our L1 cache to context switch to troubleshooting a comms tool.
Intelligent alien fiat systems require roughly similar size dyson spheres.

Edit to resolve Poe's law ambiguity: this is a parody. Obviously aliens would have lightning network which would require a smaller overall dyson sphere
If I understand correctly, NTFS describes a file as a sequence of cluster ranges, e.g. [7,12), [0,4), [20,25). So the more fragments a file or folder has, the more space is required to describe how it's stored. This applies to the file system and is independent of HDD/SSD technology.

As for SSDs, they need some degree of garbage collection - it's considered bad for an erasable block (e.g. 1 MiB) to contain a mix of live pages and deleted pages (4 KiB each).
Photos that are automatically uploaded to iCloud are not scanned?

As for apps - WhatsApp, for example, saves everything to Camera Roll by default. Which then gets auto-uploaded to iCloud.
Don’t worry, their government is so much in shambles they aren’t even going to notice
Because there is no way to perform that enforcement, becauae you say “CSV” and people understand “my old garbage” and you can’t fix that; and because millions of incorrect documents will yield a valid but nonsensical parse.
Get an adblocker to block the consent modal. The Internet will be a much nicer place.
Oh come on, this is meagre.

Think bigger!

How about a transmission belt around the milky way to propel a hyper space Tesla?
Senator Ted Kennedy was mistakenly matched with someone on the list back in the Bush era around 2004. How can you make that mistake?
Animals don't produce B12 but they definitely contain it. Otherwise they'd be dead.. they need it as much as we do.
fwiw, this was announced back in March

https://i.imgur.com/fA1x9ka.png
Nabokov was most certainly modern and veering into postmodern at the end.

I was totally thinking about The Prisoner as an example when this came up today! It's clear that McGoohan had gotten bored with neatly constructed thrillers, and wanted to create an allegory and explore deeper themes. The great thing about that show is that every individual episode was a neatly constructed thriller in its own right, even though it always ended back at ambiguous-square-zero (why is he in the village? will he escape or won't he?).

At the same time, it's pretty clear that he had no idea how to actually end the thing, and he told Lew Grade that shortly before they filmed the ending. I think the fiasco of the unsatisfying ending was only partly that people wanted an explanation which McGoohan didn't want to give them because it wasn't the point of the series. It's also that he kind of winged the ending and it just wasn't that good, compared to the high level of the previous episodes. So in a way it did fail the audience, even if at the same time the audience was failing to 'get' the art.

Edit: this is fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXqtDgvpL8
First of all, thank you for the offer. I don't want this account directly liked to my person though, so I must decline.
"This guy just joined and has no clue about what problems we deal with and the importance of write simple and maintainable code, and instead insists in throwing in half the GoF book in what should be a simple six-liner code change."

"To make matters worse he handles code reviews very poorly, complains about his abstractions being flagged as unacceptable while systematically failig to understand they are not needed and just worsen code quality and maintainability while really adding nothing in return."

"Ultimately he just shows he has a fundamental misunderstanding of the basics of software engineering, specially the importance of making things as simple and as maintainable as possible, displays an unwillingness to learn and adapt, and when faced with any sort of criticism he shows poor attitude and professionalism such as accusing everyone around him of being dumb."
Many expatriates with US bank accounts use Voice for 2FA.

Not anymore.
Design Resources for Developers – II
I see you've written a book on PLATO -- I'd love to know some of the examples of these early MUDs.

I believe the deal with the noted jurist who claims to have invented email is that he may have had an earlier version of a text delivering system called email, except that there is very strong disagreement that his version of email has any living descendants.

If we assume that he's wrong, then the right inventor of MUDs is the one whose creation has many (more popular) descendants.

I played on the original Essex MUD in the early 80s, and it had a lot of distinctive qualities that directly inspired many of the other MUDs, including I believe LambdaMOO.

And, unless you have any competing evidence, I think it might be fair to say that Bartle and colleagues predecessors at least coined the term "MUD".
"Important: In light of spam causing potential issues with SMS forwarding, text message forwarding to linked numbers will stop on or after August 1."

That's interesting. I thought Google felt like they were quite good at squashing spam.
> I also use it to play endless loops of hold music for unscheduled calls to teach businesses to stop calling me without making an appointment and e-mail me instead.

I feel ya. I have a public line that does the same thing, but instead if you call or text it just lets you know that I'll contact them, not the other way around.

Question: why do you not terminate the call? Do you not get charged for the usage if you make them hold?
Have you had any issues w/ not being able to use your Twillio number for 2FA?
If someone is ok with Apple handing over iCloud keys to the Chinese government to comply with local laws then scanning for CSAM is no different.

Basically, if you have issue with this go change the law rather than ask large corporations to act illegally for some greater good.
I give it 5 years
> Question: why do you not terminate the call? Do you not get charged for the usage if you make them hold?

It's only something like $0.0085/min. On their end though if someone stays on hold for 15 minutes it wastes the company's 15 minutes worth of that person's salary time and they learn to not do it again.
> No, because there is only so much you can do with energy. You need materials, ores, deposits, etc to actually build something new.

If you had the power of a star you could create all of that from base elements via eatting the star, and you'd barely make a dint in it's mass.
Ya I’m curious too. How would you switch to Twilio without doing the coding yourself?
Nope, I still get my code via email. They only stopped forwarding to linked numbers.
I've been pretty happy with voip.ms. They have a bidirectional SMS/MMS to email system that works well enough for my purposes.
It is precisely because Google Voice is a Google property that I, as an expat, have taken great effort to keep my US phone number with my US carrier.

Trusting Google with such an absolutely critical aspect of one's life is lunacy.
I feel like if anything they've figured out a way to capture and use massive amounts of energy in something super small.
> The repository has 1k contributors over 20k commits. That seems like an exceptionally diverse contributor base.

Go to the contributor tab and look at main contributors. It's entirely a Google-driven product.

Why is this a surprise to anyone? Because it's on GitHub?
Guessing that's not far behind. I would guess a lot of the userbase is using it at least partially for the text forwarding to their devices that have a different number.
idk what's in the database, whether it's rape or nudes or both. Although depictions of sexual acts versus simple nudity seems like a logical place to draw a line, all the lines on adult pornography are arbitrarily drawn based on "community standards", and we're only a few decades away from state-level bans on any nudes as "porn" in the US, including artistic photos. (Not to mention anti-sodomy laws).

Even if what's in the database is 100% violently criminal as you suggest, and even if it remains limited to that material, we already have a process in place that denies the accused of even seeing the evidence against them if a hash matches. What a horrific, orwellian situation if someone sent you hash matches, the police raid your house and now you can't even see what they think they have or prove your own innocence.
Effect on stock can be random, but if you're trading on insider information I believe it's still illegal even if you're wrong about the outcome.
Did you take the course?
I wonder why Facebook is so afraid of transparency.

I’d like to start by saying that I actually like using Facebook in 2021. I’m Danish and I’m on Facebook solely because I play Blood Bowl and Facebook is where the majority of the community organise things. From how it operates it’s local version of the NAF rules to events for tournaments and leagues and just general chat about collecting outrageously little plastic toys. Before I started playing Blood Bowl I had quit Facebook.

While Facebook is still the most popular social media in Denmark, seeing 65% of us login daily, it’s trustworthy ness is at an all time low post the COVID lockdowns. I’m 2018 more than 50% of us would use Facebook for news, by the end of 2020 that had fallen to 5%.

Leading me back to me having quit Facebook, and into completely anecdotal speculation, but I quit Facebook because it didn’t have any content for me. No one in my network posts anything of real interest on Facebook and after I stopped following news media’s on Facebook and went directly to their sites instead (as well as subscribing to a physical news paper) Facebook was just boring. Until I started playing Blood Bowl. If I’m not alone in this, and only 5% of us now follow news sources on Facebook then wouldn’t that be an issue for them in the long run?

Their key advantage now that people have abandoned news is hobby and group content, but Facebook only has an advantage here because all of us are on Facebook. Except young people aren’t joining Facebook. In 2018 1/4 14-18 year old Dane joined Facebook, in 2020 that has fallen to 1/10. Sure Facebook is sort of safe from disruption, but within the miniature painting communities we’re already beginning to see more and more of people not having accounts or people only having accounts for one specific purpose. Less anecdotal than that, research shows that 67% of us will use phrases like “I’m only on Facebook because x” and that it’s no longer “cool” to be on Facebook because of its bad PR.

So why is Facebook afraid of transparency? Trust for SoMe in general is an all time low, but Facebook is actually one of the few networks sharing at least some of their data publicly. So why not exploit that advantage and go all the way? Especially when their image is already so terrible that people come up with excuses die being there?
Use Hunter for dependency management

https://github.com/cpp-pm/hunter

There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's the only dependency manager that does things right (all from within CMake)
Didn't they add it back for some if not all models? I have a 2019 16" with a physical Esc.
So Apple is not required by law to do this. So why they are doin this?
State of the Finney III
Are you in the US?
I think Wise’s ways of adding funds vary depending on what’s available in terms of payment infrastructure in each country. In the UK where Wise is based, direct debits are very common for routine payments but do not require a card number. But for receiving money Wise UK’s closest equivalent right now is to authorise payment via open banking and your bank ( the newish UK specs for doing this are really good and online here: https://standards.openbanking.org.uk/ )
I haven't seen anyone proposing actually doing it, but I think a lot of people are rightly pointing out that bad actors, black hats and the Russian mob are going to have a field day with their ability to do so.
There is no linear ordering on workers! You might be dumb at algorithms but great at stakeholder management and average at coding. Takes all sorts of strengths to make a good team.
As far as I know the default behaviour of Google Maps is to switch light/dark mode depending on the feedback from the light sensor next to the front camera, so basically as soon as it detects a lack of light, it will switch to dark mode.
I don’t. I either login or sign up. If I click the little x (which used to work) it takes me back.

iOS 14.whatever is mostly latest.
If the default behavior is not to exclude photo rolls from this new feature, I'm not sure where the argument exists. Telling iOS users they should download some app to keep photos private is absurd.
I'll second voip.ms. I use it as my primary "land line" in my home. I wish they had VM transcription too. My biggest gripe is that some online account verification systems refuse to use VOIP numbers as 'valid' phone numbers.
Wouldn't that mean that people created a system that can be used with normal pictures? So your code was literally to flag an innocent photo?
Edited to add a winky face after reading up on Poe's law [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law ].
This system could potentially look for images that offend the CCP, such as the Hong Kong flag, Uighur iconography, pictures of Winnie the Pooh, etc.
Hey! Academic research on social media.

The big thing that reddit has done, is by letting people see data (to whatever extent), studies can be conducted that tell us what is actually going on.

Right now, when I talk to anyone dealing with trust and safety, the discussions start around the point in a workflow where a case is filed in court.

But the amount of clarity we have on whether certain forms of forums result in happier communities, whether they reduce polarization and so on - is remarkably small.

And, from my experience, its mostly in English and mostly focused on the “global North”. W

I used the reddit pushshift data set for my work, and realized that conducting sentiment analysis for content relating to India was … beyond the tooling I could find available. Code mixed language analysis is its own kettle of fish. A problem Ive been thinking about every since.

Now multiply these limitations to under resourced communities around the world and its concerning.

As I see it, there’s tons of law related work being done in this space.

But it seems the data and code analysis of it is mostly held under an NDA. And to illuminate a future painful discussion - its held by companies in the US, a geo political fault line in the making. What happens to Puerto Rico? Kenya? Morocco?

This is the one thing that tech can still do, which is to build the tools that give us an objective view of how people actually behave online, and make that information public and a common good.
Ask HN: What's the best (most secure) cloud data storage service?
Maybe this is how 4chan finally demolishes itself.
I’m not excluding myself from this and am working towards it.
1. This only applies to forwarding. You still get all messages in the Google Voice apps.

2. My totally uniformed speculation is this has more to do with Google's own numbers being flagged as spam by telecom carriers, rather than Google Voice not being able to detect spam itself.
Old habits... :/
> I'm highly opposed to Apple's CSAM move but they are still much better and transparent than Google, Amazon, and most other services.

Is this actually true? Is there a way to see what information Apple has on you? I'm sure it's not the full extent of what they have, but for example I can see(and hear) past voice prompts I've given to Google Assistant and their results. I can also choose to delete this information(obviously no way to know this is actually deleted though).
Twilio studio let’s you config a call flow visually for this.

Alternatively you can use TokTiv a free (limited number of users) PBX from an Indian company that relies on Twilio numbers: https://www.toktiv.com/

I’ve been using it for a year. It’s been buggy at times but improving.
I'm starting to think that Google is too scared to kill Voice outright because of the backlash, so they are just killing it slowly hoping people leave without too much fuss.
> PRs originated in GitHub and the majority of those are not google employees.

How did you figure that out? There are people don't list their company, but their only activity on GitHub is contributing to AMP.

Some people don't list Google, but are a part of the AMP org on GitHub.

> all of the changes have descriptive commit messages

Please show me all the open decisions that introduced AMP for email.

(hint: you can't)

As I mentioned in a sibling comment: why are people so surprised that it's Google's product driven by Google's own needs?
I don’t think Google Voice data is used for ads, though I could be wrong.

https://policies.google.com/technologies/voice?hl=en-US