skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone with money in China has been trying to get it out for years. This has lead to a great deal of real estate purchases around the world, which is well documented as well as pouring money into markets around the world.

I am American and am definitely not pro-china. That being the case can't really blame the people at all for getting their money out. Any rational well off person who had concerns about their government would reasonably try and get their money out. My ancestors left their homeland after WW1 as they thought the political climate was not moving in a direction that would benefit them or their family.

I think the desire to go someplace better is a natural human tendency across all cultures, most are unable or even many of those that are are unwilling out of fear.
I'm not an Elm veteran like a lot of the folks here, but I think an aspect of Elm is that a lot of the traditional ways that people expand ecosystems are discouraged by Elm's approach. For instance, components are hard to do in Elm and are discouraged in the documentation[1].

So my own personal Elm projects have involved a lot of reading other code and often copying and modifying open source code, but it's hard to wholesale import components in the way that JavaScript and other languages do it. My experience with the language is that it is very easy to do what I want in it, but it seems more difficult to share that as an open source contribution in Elm than in similar languages.

[1] https://guide.elm-lang.org/webapps/structure.html
It's clear that EARN IT could literally be revived any day if Apple didn't do something to say "we don't need it because we've already satisfied your requirements."

Alternatively, "Apple has shown that it's possible to do without undue hardship, so we should make everyone else do it too".
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PlanetScale – Database for Developers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27197873 - May 2021 (128 comments)
Realsense cameras were cool, it's a shame to see them go :(
It's not a brave or iconoclastic thought; it's actually incredibly common: Throughout history the wealthy have thought of themselves as superior.

If they got lucky, it was because they were "super-elite." No one's going to win a nurture-or-nature argument but there's a clear self-interest in these situations to call nature what was, at least in part, nurture.
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Some of the words Apple filters in China include 人权 (human rights), 正法 (dharma), 達賴 (Dalai [Lama]), 新聞自由 (Freedom of the press), and 艾未未 (Ai Weiwei [an artist and political dissident]). [1] There is no equivalent to these kinds of words in the US filter.

[1] https://citizenlab.ca/2021/08/engrave-danger-an-analysis-of-...
I didn't mean to say it was your fault, just that it was not a problem with Firefox's UI itself. Breaking changes to the addon and theme APIs are perhaps a bit too common, though ;)
You think it's "much more controlling" to be required to wear a device which has been in existence for decades and shown to pose no health risks whatsoever, while driving an automobile, than it is to be required to take an experimental injection with adverse events being reported at 100x the rate of flu shots to go to public indoor spaces?
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I'm not sure about the Xerox Star being "too closed" to succeed; I believe it incorporated Ethernet networking (another PARC innovation).

Upon release, the IBM PC was not PC compatible, as the not-quite-ISA was 8 bits, only a single interrupt controller, the power connector was not ATX (neither was the motherboard). Nobody's monitor was multisync...

Compatibility wasn't a thing.

(So ironic, it must have been intentional: the BYTE issue featuring "Standards" as the theme has the Apple Lisa and Apple II on the cover:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-02
As cool as this is, I have been struggling to find a good non-AI digital photo display for my house.

The common ones you can buy as “digital photo frame” on Amazon sucks in image quality. I would like a minimalistic digital photo display that is colour accurate, hidpi, preferably have a way to store a handful of hi res images(if not, Adding a Pi-zero for this is still okay). Oh I am not so rich or hosting an art gallery or anything, so, it must be less than 700 bucks(the cost of an iPad). I don’t understand why such a thing doesn’t exist already.
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100%. I haven’t read the whole list yet, but all of them I’ve seen so far are extremely trivial conventions. None of these should be difficult or time-consuming for even a novice Rustscean to follow.
I was mentally living in the world where google didnt sell motorola after 2 years.

I can see your point and agree.
> Because it's on their SERVICES, not on their user's DEVICES, for one.

Effectively the same for Apple. It’s only when uploading the photo. Doing it on device means the server side gets less information.
Technically in the real world you can get jailed for anything as long as corruption exists and humans remain imperfect.

But you shouldn’t get jailed for protected speech and you shouldn’t get jailed for preserving your privacy (via encryption or otherwise.) As cynical as people may get, this is one thing that we have to agree on if we want to live in a free society.

And above all, most certainly, we shouldn’t allow being jailed over encryption to become codified as law, and if it does, we certainly must fight it and not become complacent.

Apathy over politics, especially these days, is understandable with the flood of terrible news and highly divisive topics, but we shouldn’t let the fight for privacy become a victim to apathy. (And yes, I realize big tech surveillance creep is a fear, but IMO we’re starting to get into more direct worst cases now.)
That reminded me of the AT&T Room 641A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Do you actually want to disseminate your work and have many other people try it? Or is that not actually a goal.

Right now it really feels like this isn't a priority. Which is fine.

But if it is a priority that other people replicate your work, I'm not sure you're making this as easy for people as possible.
Agreed. The moment that mainstream news started showing tweets 10 years ago is when everything really started going down hill.
Not just google, ddg has a similar list.

How did this happen?
No - the reporting is absolutely terrible here.

1) These are more share similar visual features than crypto hashes.

2) HN posters have been claiming that apple reviewing flagged photos is a felony -> because HN commentators are claiming flagged photos are somehow "known" CASM - this is also likely totally false. The images may not be CASM and the idea that a moderation queue results in felony charges is near ridiculous.

3) This illustrates why apple's approach here (manual review after 30 images or so flagged) is not unreasonable. The push to say that this review is unnecessary is totally misguided.

4) They use words like "hash collision" for something that is not a hash. In fact, different devices will calculate DIFFERENT hashes for the SAME image at times.

One request I have - before folks cite legal opinions - those opinions should have the name of a lawyer on them. Not this "I talked to a lawyer" because we have no idea if you described things accurately.
With Issues (because Discussions weren't out yet when this was made) instead: https://utteranc.es/
except for the last one, all of those should be part of the language you are using, and well thought out + researched. I guess I should have been more specific: third party dependencies.
It's incredibly shameful that anyone living in the wealthiest nation in the world needs to set up a donation drive for necessary medical care.
I think we're up for a new Apple CEO in a few days.
Businesses are public spaces. They are not private clubs or homes.
Congress doesn't give a rip about "undue hardship." Otherwise why would we pay income tax?

They were going to legally mandate that everything be scanned through methods less private than the ones Apple has developed here, through EARN IT and potentially LAED (which would have banned E2E in all circumstances and any device that could not be unlocked by the manufacturer). While that crisis was temporarily averted, the risk of it coming back was and is very real.

Apple decided to get ahead of it with a better solution, even though that solution is still bad. It's a lesser evil to prevent the return of something worse.
People talking about the Xerox Star are mostly correct, but the statement that "by that time most of the PARC researchers had long since left Xerox" is quite wrong. Star was announced April 1981, and a couple PARC guys (Belleville, Tesler) had left or would soon, but it was certainly not "long since."

I just gave a talk at the Vintage Computer Federation West about a week ago, about my book [1]. There's a photo of a guy playing MazeWar on the cover, and it was taken November 2020 on a working Alto (restored by a guy from the Living Computer Museum, actually!)

I was part of Star, and I wrote the book as a novel mainly so you could see how something like that happens. None of the characters have hindsight, which is a flaw with most histories. And they have real lives outside of Xerox.

We did run XDE on our Altos. It was written entirely in Mesa.

[1] www.albertcory.io
You can ban it's use, you can't ban its existence. You can't mandate math work differently, you just mandate people not use math.

Its amazing since this would have decimated the American Tech sector in many unknown ways.
I don't feel I distorted your claim very much?

In full:

"While people in other countries may be used to always having to carry identification, this is rather provocative in a city and state which does not require identification, among other situations, when you register to vote or vote"

I don't know why it's so provocative compared to us people from "other countries" as my experience in the US involved being required to present identification far more frequently than I had in many European countries.

I'm not sure the full quote changes my point much?
I'm curious if this really helps them retain a measurable number of users.

Basically, Edge is as good as Chrome (each has minor improvements/features that are not present in the other one), so I don't see that the average user would want to change it without a good reason.

The only reason for change would be if they want to take advantage of Chrome sync to their existing profile, or use Chromecast, in which case I doubt they would stick with Edge, regardless of the number of dialogs that they need to confirm/bypass.

For others, that prefer Chrome/Firefox/Brave/etc. for some reason, it's clear that they won't switch in any case.
I know that statistic says sample size isn't as important as is representation. But I doubt they really got a representation of 300 million Americans from a sample set of 11,178 people who volunteered to be in a group that can be called on to answer these sort of surveys.

So I personally always take things like this with a grain of salt.
Followed by this, "The photos get transferred either way, so one has nothing to do with the other."

It was clearly a technical statement not a privacy statement, so only superficial reading might lead one to believe it meant something that it did not.

That is why I replied that the person who replied to my comment, where I said I had argued something different, but that what he wrote was an excellent point.

So, what on earth are you so invested in that you feel the need to argue minutiae that don't apply?
“CS professor at Stanford” a place that does admissions exactly the opposite of the article.
I'm an avid astrophotographer, and the prices for cooled mono and cooled color cameras are the same. If you compare a dedicated, cooled astro camera to a consumer DSLR then yes, they are more expensive. But apples to apples they are exactly the same price.
Actually, looking live the mono version is a bit cheaper:

https://optcorp.com/products/zwo-asi6200mc-p - color $3999

https://optcorp.com/products/zwo-asi6200mm-p - mono $3799
One of my coworkers just convinced our IT dept to add a password vault to the preapproved list of software! I was very happy about that small victory.
My sense is that today a top notch engineer in India, working for a US-based company, doesn't cost "a tiny fraction" of one in the Bay Area. A faction, yes, but not a tiny fraction.
Real depth cameras perform better and cost far less than the $1500 GPU that you're going to need to run the monocular depth network. Monocular depth still struggles to generalize to environments that are even slightly different from the training set.

Try git cloning niantic labs' monodepth2 (or whatever is the state of the art on Papers with Code) and running it on your living room. It's not good.

https://github.com/nianticlabs/monodepth2

https://paperswithcode.com/task/monocular-depth-estimation
I don't necessarily agree with your point of view, but these two concepts were new and interesting to me. Posting their meanings for others that haven't heard of them either:

> Phrenology

Pseudoscience which involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits.

The study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character.

> Chesterton's fence

Principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.
As skinkestek kindly pointed out, the point of my sarcastic comment was that now that the precedent of scanning the contents of users’ devices - as opposed to the contents of Apple’s servers - has been set, deciding whether to do so based on the state of a single “Store photos in iCloud?” toggle is going to start looking awfully arbitrary.
Take 2 CSAM pictures, known. Combine into one image.

Swing and a miss. Not in the CSAM dataset. Take two images. Encode alternating pixels. Decode to get the original image back. Convert to different encodings print to PDF or Postscript. Encode as base64 representations of the image file...

Who are we trying to fool here? This is kiddie stuff.

This is more about trying to implant scanning capabilities on client devices.
"I'm not sure this solves a problem so much as adds a middleman."

The default "business plan" of any so-called "tech" company.

At some point the novelty of the internet and ever-smaller computers ("tech") may wear off and these companies will just be seen for what they are: "middlemen" (with silly, infantile company names).

The problem to solve in this space is arguably one of transparency ("Most people don't realise...") Allowing citizens, i.e., taxpayers, to see what kind of deals their government is making could add accountability.

To the parent's point about malfeasance in government contracting, perhaps more transparency would better allow the exising laws to be enforced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act
How can we know that the CSAM database is not already poisoned with adversarial images that actually target other kinds of content for different purposes? It would look like CSAM to the naked eye, and nobody can tell the images have been doctored.

When reports come in the images would not match, so they need to intercept them before they are discarded by Apple, maybe by having a mole in the team. But it's so much easier than other ways to have an iOS platform scanner for any purpose. Just let them find the doctored images and add them to the database and recruit a person in the Apple team.
You hit the nail on the head. Even if there is a "fair bid" it never ends up being truly fair, and the taxpayer is the one footing the bill for all the nepotism.
Could also just hop over to England and see black swans. Closer than you think.
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Same, but have you read the book? I really like Chandler and have read it a number of times so I feel like there's a leg up. For instance, the Sean Reagan character doesn't really exist in the movie and barely registers when I watch it whereas his story is perhaps the biggest thing in the book.
They aren't as necessary. But vaccinating children is meant to slow the spread of the virus as well as protect the rare case where a child might have had a bad case of covid.
I mean, not sure what you expected -- it's China.

This is not really news... any company operating in China follows what the government requires (whether explicitly or implicitly), and censoring Tiananman is top of list.

I don't see any outrage to direct towards Apple here. Direct it towards China. Unless you think every company in the Western world (not just Apple) ought to cease doing any and all business with China, both in manufacturing and sales. Because I don't see anything here that Apple does that other Western companies operating in China don't.
If you ask the average American “When did Niel Gaiman set foot on the moon?” Most would answer that they don’t know exactly but think it was in the 60’s.

This is not a limitation of AI, it’s exactly what you want it to do. It’s reading into the context of the question and finding it more likely that you made a mistake in your question than seriously want an answer for a constructed nonsensical question that has no frame of reference or context in our common knowledge pool.

If you want exact logical answers deduced from base prepositions you don’t want ML models or “AI” your looking at formal logic and deduction.
It's amazing how many hacks and data breaches all come down to dangerous default settings. Elasticsearch defaulted to no security, anyone hitting the IP has full access to the cluster. MongoDB is another infamous example. Even today, one of my sites is being DDoSed by a bunch of 2007-era Ubiquiti network devices which use ubnt / ubnt as the root login and naturally got exposed to the internet. Bad defaults linger for a long time.
Ok, but please let's not go into unsubstantive personal attack in HN threads. Maybe you don't owe that person better but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your story is interesting, of course; but you're not actually telling us the story.

Also, "total buffoon and had just been in the right place at the right time" is a pretty sweeping conclusion to say you realized "almost immediately".
Furthermore, it may well be possible to combine that blobby grey static with another image, manipulating it's visual hash to create a "sleeper" positive. If this was possible in a week, then it's going to be very interesting to watch the technology change/evolve over the next few years.
Labor laws are not a mysterious force of nature; they were created by government, precisely to prevent exploitation by employers. The role of government is not only to enforce laws, but also to create new laws which reflect the collective understanding of fairness and create economic incentives which are beneficial to society as a whole.

A society where laws are set in stone and unchanging is a society doomed to stagnation and decline.
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Not really. E2E iMessage is still available in China if you disable the iCloud Backup. It's also the only messenger in China with an E2E option.
Something of a question mark of how long the tropics are going to remain habitable. We're still on the "business as usual" emissions curve, with no signs of meaningfully changing that. That puts us 5C higher by the century, and will keep going up after that.

Many equatorial regions will either be too hot for human life, (https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838) or be active combat zones as a result of refugees escaping heat. Some cities in India are now routinely hitting 50C during the summer, and we've only had 1C of warming.
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The point is to prevent user from leaving google.com.
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"In the wrong hands, this list could be used to oppress, harass, or persecute people on the list and their families."

Teetering on the brink of an epiphany.
One thing is that it wasn’t communicated that well, but other (and that’s what made me feel really uncomfortable) is that it felt like „This feature is not allowed anymore - except for some dudes, they’re cool enough and can use it” (e.g. native modules, operators). Either keep or drop feature
>> those opinions should have the name of a lawyer on them.

Not going to happen. Lawyers in the US have issues with offering unsolicited advice, and other problems with issuing advice into states where they are not admitted. So likely none of the US lawyers (and the great many more law students) here will ever put their real name to a comment.
Depends whether they view the market size as fixed (where you'd want to capture as much of the surplus as possible through arbitrage) or as expanding (where they'd want to bring new firms into the marketplace that don't currently exist).

Normally government spending is about as fixed of a market size as exists, but with the recent expansion in government spending and the political winds blowing the way they are, this may be one of those rare moments in history where a platform play in government makes sense.
Right, thanks.

"Reduce Power When Idle" is always selected, but there's no explanation of what it actually does. I would've expected it to be based off the user being idle in regards to the shared screen (e.g. no input for x time), not based on relative CPU usage calculations. It's hard for the system to increase CPU usage if Pop is already consuming most of it, so I wonder how long it takes for this to actually kick in.

"Use Full Resolution" also doesn't explain what it does, so it's unclear how bad the video would get if it was turned off. Even "turn[ing] off Retina support" is unclear, as it doesn't tell me what the alternative is. Does it scale down to the 1x version of the screen? Ideally we'd just have a resolution selector here, for both local and remote.

I've also long had issues with the keyboard shortcuts and various settings, again because it's unclear how the settings actually effect anything. I've also encountered bugs where just typing certain characters (I think it was ".") to a remote share toggled my ability to control the remote at all, which was extremely irritating. I really need more explanation of local vs. remote short cuts and which go where and when.
>… Apple also said that after a user passes the 30 match threshold, a second non-public algorithm that runs on Apple's servers will check the results.

>"This independent hash is chosen to reject the unlikely possibility that the match threshold was exceeded due to non-CSAM images that were adversarially perturbed to cause false NeuralHash matches against the on-device encrypted CSAM database," …
While I broadly agree that this (and other attempts in Australia and rumblings about it in UK) may have been the impetus for developing the technology, I'm not sure it explains why they released it on Photos, where Apple holds the keys, and not very far since you can look at your entire photo roll on icloud.com with just your username and password.

That tech is not being deployed on iMessage which is the only e2ee(ish) service from Apple (with Keychain) and is what those legislative attempts are usually targeting. One could argue it would have made sense (technically) there though, sure.

Was it a reason to release it preventively, on something unrelated, to be in the good graces of legislators ? I'm not sure it's a good calculation, and it doesn't cover other platforms like Signal and Telegram that would still be seen as a problem by those legislators and require them to legislate anyway.
Even if all the comments you find problematic are flagged and downvoted so that no one can even see them? Would you make the same argument for all the conspiracy theories regarding Apple's CSAM scanning announcement; that we shouldn't be allowed to talk about it because there's too many bad comments?