skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to browse in ShowDead but I think it's not a healthy approach to the majority of folks - flagging comments as controversial can end up having the opposite effect from desired since we tend to be drawn toward controversy and the spectacle of it all.

HN has an extremely good moderation system. It has very level headed folks like dang that only use the very lightest touch and the fact that it has downvotes is good - but prevents downvoting replies is even better since it trains people to be more conservative about blindly downvoting things they simply disagree with.

There is definitely an issue with downvote brigading on some articles[1] that it hasn't been able to deal with sufficiently but it's relatively organic brigading and tends to be limited to politically charged topics (and vaccination is definitely a politically charged topic in the US). The solution of slicing political topics out of the general discussion pool seems reasonable as a response and while I would like to have a discussion on the topic with all the interesting people that hang out on HN I can accept that this message board isn't oriented to support that kind of a discussion and is only damaged when such political hot topics rise to prominence.

Oh - if this seems counter to my comment above it's because it partially is. I think this is a hard problem to solve and I don't like any of the solutions out there. HN's moderation system is the is the worst moderation system out there... except for all the others we've tried.

1. Not on most see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and the comment on brigading.
> I have also considered the “freedom phone”. But my understand is it’s just Graphene + process isolation on a slightly modified hardware.

No, it's not. You may be confusing it with another company with a similar name selling devices with GrapheneOS and various apps installed.
Both are not associated with GrapheneOS, by the way.
This is already possible if you self host your stuff. I’m talking about iCloud specifically here - backups are not encrypted so it’s either scan in the backend or scan on the client.

If you don’t want to be scanned you can turn it off. I honestly don’t see the issue. It seems the only thing people can say are hypothetical situations here.
It's not going to destroy the brand, it only put a dent into the privacy rhetoric.
There is no chance in hell that apple will stop with their privacy marketing over this and once enough time has passed people will start to think that they're the only torchbearers wrt privacy again.

Their interest in privacy was never real, but their marketing is top notch as always... It's just a question of time when everything is back to how it was before
Not that anyone can hold a grudge for founders getting acquired, but I think myself and others here just want to make sure this doesn't meet the fate of ScreenHero, purchased by Slack and disappeared, ruined, etc.

Good to hear you're also feeling it.
I'd like to buy Neal Stephenson's new book for $1.99 but can't figure out how
This is really cool. I recently attempted to build a toy database, and subsequently implemented my own b-tree (
https://github.com/spandanb/learndb-py). I ended up running into a lot of these issues.

I also did a write-up on why everyone should engage in similar projects: https://www.spandanbemby.com/joys-of-database.html
I heard it on History of English Podcast, but I might be misremembering. I suppose it was probably post-1066; not sure what the bounds on "Anglo-Saxon" are.
There is a depth camera in every new iphone.
Coronavirus and Simpson’s Paradox
It's a matter of setting up expectations and balancing that with good story telling.

Ambiguity, elision, out-of-order story telling, etc. are all part of art but it's a delicate balance. There's a contract that artists set up with the audience that will allow them to use these techniques. Primer is one of those where I'm OK with my confusion because the story was interesting without all the answers, and it was setup pretty early on that this wasn't an A to B story. On the other hand, the fade-to-black ending of The Sopranos was, in my opinion, a total violation of that contract. Nowhere did they setup that kind of ambiguity. Yes, it's a series vs. a movie but my point still stands.

No Country for Old Men, again IMO, rides that line a little close. Sure the Bardem character checks his boots at the end but there were some other major gaps that I don't think were set up. It was well acted and produced but expectations were not managed so it still goes into my meh pile.

When it works the it's a lot of fun figuring things out. I'll have to give The Big Sleep a try.

Edit: At the other end of the spectrum, expository lumps are no fun either.
From what I understand it's even more cut and dry than that. If you submit a report to the NCMEC you are generally required to (securely) keep a copy of the image(s) being reported and any related info for a period of time. That's part of the rules. You are also only compelled to report things that you know are bad, so verification before reporting makes sense. The idea that they would be charged with a crime for doing what is essentially required by law is flat out wrong. Unless they are storing the material insecurely once confirmed bad or otherwise mishandling the process, they seem to be following the law as I understand it.
IANAL but I have an account with the NCMEC for a service I run, so I have looked through their documentation and relevant laws to try to understand the requirements placed on me as a service provider.
Ask HN: How to protect a hardware product for investment?
Dear HN,

I just saw the news that Intel is EOL-ing RealSense. Let's hypothetically say I have custom hardware prototypes, drivers, and some example AIs for a replacement product. So far, it's only been used internally where it enabled new AI research. But how would I go about turning the camera itself into a proper product?

Obviously, there's startup incubators and venture capital firms. For example, I'm aware of Y-Combinator (surprise!) and the Sony Innovation Fund. The latter apparently seeks to invest into AI and Vision technologies. Also, those hardware prototypes just so happen to include Sony sensors.

But if the product already exists and is proven to work and to solve a real and valuable problem, it would be quite risky to just show the solution to angels, investors, incubators, or VCs. On the other hand, nobody's going to "buy" the cat in the bag.

My preliminary research suggests that it'll cost $10k to $20k to submit a patent draft. And one should probably at least cover hardware, software, drivers, and derived AI models, meaning probably around $60 to $80k in legalcosts. So that leads to a chicken and egg problem. You need money to pay for IP protection, but you'll need that IP protection to raise money.

What's the solution?
The hash table is blinded on the device, and the device never knows if a given image is a hit or not. This is well documented.
Each stat carries with it the opportunity to level it up and do more good in the world.
Right the only logical explanation is that 40% of the US population are selfish.

I don’t care how much money you donate to charity, I care how many people died because of you :-)
> does Apple have a duty to report illegal images found on that computer and stop them from being shared

Duty? No, that's the secondary question. The primary question is whether they have the right.
Thanks for making an effort to improve the situation. It's refreshing that you are realistic about the problems and challenges of fixing what's broken.

That's not always the case - an HN post by a VC fund some years back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833213) was all about the market opportunity, while glossing over the tough bits.
I can recommend A Short Hike, it's a fun little game with great atmosphere, exploring, some puzzles and a little depth.
Typically no. American cities, with a few exceptions (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, and probably Los Angeles), have poor or no public transit, which is generally only for commuting and not suitable for any other kind of travel. There are cities where you can't even walk a few blocks away because there's no sidewalks and no guard rails and so you end up having to walk on the shoulder (or not at all).

It's kind of ridiculous.
Please don't take HN threads into cheap flamewar, and definitely not on the most flaming flamewar topic of the moment.

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

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28225993.
Correct, only the server does.
How many session do you do per day? Is it for powering through particularly hard work? Do you enjoy the company, or is it more of a discipline thing?
Personally, I'd prefer no privacy intrusions at all.

The issue is that Apple previously was not intruding into their user's privacy (at least publicly), but now they are.

It sounds like your argument is that Apple could have been doing this all along and just not telling us. I find that unlikely mainly because they've marketed themselves as a privacy-focused company up until now.
It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again.
Sometimes they just turn people away at security without an explanation.
also very very expensive.
ALL the dozens of people I know at Apple would do anything to create a job looking at kiddie porn.
I think the person you're replying to wasn't suggesting those are bad people, but it's hard to dispute that "misfortunate" which violates trait contracts is "bad code". It's well written, good for some definition of good, but also it will definitely break callers that rely on the invariants traits represent and by that meaning, it is "bad code".

Fortunately, these people are very clever, very good Rust developers and they are not maliciously dropping nightly crimes into widely used crates :)
> Does Apple's solution only stop people from uploading illegal images to Apple's servers or does it stop them from uploading the images to any server.

Only applies to iCloud Photos uploads, but the photos are still uploaded: when there's a match, the photo and a 'ticket' are uploaded and Apple's servers (after the servers themselves verify the match[0]) send the image to human reviewers to verify the CSAM before submitting it to police as evidence.

0: https://twitter.com/fayfiftynine/status/1427899951120490497 and https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Then doesn't that seem hypocritical to you to defend dropping Apple right now for the imagined future possibility that all local photos could be scanned (instead of just the uploads)?
> The amount of misinformation in this thread (and in the other responses to you) is out of control.

True it’s not perfect here, but you should see Reddit, then :p. People there hardly even know what they are mad about.
With the assumption that their problems are real, what's the alternative? Surgery?
I'd steer from Dear Esther as it's all style, but it is a short playthrough, so maybe get the source version before buying.
Please don't take HN threads further into cheap flamewar, and definitely not on the most flaming flamewar topic of the moment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This incomplete tutorial is about how to write a sqlite clone, with particular emphasis on how to implement the underlying b-tree: https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
Just because The Guardian has an article saying so, doesn't make it true. It's a propaganda rag, not a newspaper.

Getting your news from multiple sources is a good thing, but exclude the extremes from all sides.
What about an android tablet?
Yes. But this whole discussion is about potential problems/exploits with hash collisions (see title).
A fascinating read. Thanks!
My intension is not for people to replicate my work (the trained GAN-network), but rather supply a tutorial over how to build the installation. Then people can add their own generative art/code. It could be ML-generated, or traditional "code-art".
This is incorrectly applied. Offering a legal opinion is fundamentally different from offering legal advice. We publish legal opinions in academic and professional publications all the time. That doesn't mean we have an attorney-client relationship with anyone who reads those opinions, or that we would advise that someone act in accordance with such an opinion, particularly if no court has adopted our position yet.
Apple doesn’t “call the police”, though, they contact the center for child abuse or whatever it’s called, who will then presumably verify the picture.
At Fy!, we’ve been using Pop for impromptu remote pair programming sessions for a few months now. The killer feature, for us, is how easy it is to take or surrender control over the sharer’s screen. Much lower friction compared to Zoom or GMeet.

It works well, too. There’ve been random hiccups, but nothing too disturbing. Most of the time it just gets out of the way.

Thanks for the great tool!
That doesn't seem so obvious that it should be taken as true on its face. You could perhaps reason your way there, but it may not pan out in reality.
Some people like me never generate CSVs like that. If someone sends me a CSV with quotes, I reject it and say "clean up your data". It's okay to say, "we're not going to allow escape characters in our CSV grammar. We're going to have a higher standard"
I hope development continues as an open source project. I just got an Intel L515 not that long ago and it is pretty great!
Hmm... it depends on what exactly you liked about Firewatch. I personally classify Firewatch as a game with great production quality and no pressure so I can take my time. It's the kind of game I can relax/unwind to. The titles below were exceptional in this regard - you can't go wrong with any of them IMO.

Life is Strange

The Stanley Parable

Subnautica

Portal

Astroneer
One thing I'd add to the article is that a key feature of the Marlow novels is their meandering plots. I read once that Raymond Chandler stories are about the journey, not the destination, so basically you're following Marlow around as he does stuff (that is mentioned in the article). The stuff he does is locally interesting, and it makes the stories good. But judging the stories based on their plot synopsis doesn't really get you anywhere. I've read all the Marlow novels, a while ago now, but I'd be challenged to give a decent summary of any of them. Its about the individual scenes.
Could it be that this old, abandoned image processing software glued with Python is what you're expected to improve/modernize?

First you have to play with it the way it's being done now.

Research places always have legacy cruft; it's not like they just heard of image processing and want this new thing now.

How I would approach it would be to focus on reproducibility of old results. OK, you have the legacy cruft, you have Python and you have data. Put that together to create a regression test suite which validates that the processing produces certain results.

Once you have that, you can confidently replace legacy parts of it with new stuff, and show, "look, the tests pass; it's handling the existing data in the same way".
All: if you're going to comment in a thread like this, make sure you're up on the guidelines. In particular, please don't post flamewar comments. It leads to tedious, repetitive nastiness. Not what this site is for.

That implies not posting predictable or shallow comments, because when the topic is super inflammatory like this one, those automatically count as flamebait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Gamification of killing:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-gamification-of-domest...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/europe/germany-synagogue-atta...
I’m your situation can’t you just turn off the scanning? What’s the issue?
Hashes can always collide, but how likely is it for neuralhash?
What has been stated is that this all _only_ happens as photos are about to be uploaded to iCloud photos (not to be confused with iCloud backup, a totally separate thing). This is currently done server-side on iCloud photoes. This appears to move it client side.
It's "encrypted", but Apple holds the keys and they regularly give up customers' data in response to government requests for it[1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
Show HN: Zauth – CLI based 2FA application can now be installed using Docker
Oooh, next step is to create an AI picture frame that generates images based on the photo documentation of its own creation.
There are actually some pretty good database courses at CMU for example, that go into what is required to build databases from the ground up.

So don't think all DB classes are the same, there are some vast differences in that type of class compared to a class teaching you how to use SQL.
Was anyone testing "vitamine B15" effect? It seems to improve oxygen utilisation so maybe could be helpful. I can't find many articles related to covid.
Ah. I see- like a kinetic structure? I think Fusion 360 could probably help with this, but even better is blender. Blender contains 3D physics engine that can operate on models with constraints, so you'd basically just build a 3D working model of your moving parts table, and "simulate" it by moving parts along constrained paths. Then put a floor under it and measure the angles of the bases of the legs (assuming that's what's wobbly).

I was assuming you were just hitting the "it's hard to make a 4-legged table sit flat" or the "keeping attached legs attached firmly" problems.

Fusion 360 would add the ability to do FEM simulations, so in theory if you're torquing wood hard, you could see where the weakest point is, and add more material.
The data is encrypted, but Apple has the keys. If they get a warrant, they'll decrypt your data and hand it over. See page 11 of Apple's law enforcement process guidelines[1]:

> iCloud content may include email, stored photos, documents, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, Safari Browsing History, Maps Search History, Messages and iOS device backups. iOS device backups may include photos and videos in the Camera Roll, device settings, app data, iMessage, Business Chat, SMS, and MMS messages and voicemail. All iCloud content data stored by Apple is encrypted at the location of the server. When third-party vendors are used to store data, Apple never gives them the encryption keys. Apple retains the encryption keys in its U.S. data centers. iCloud content, as it exists in the customer’s account, may be provided in response to a search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause, or customer consent.

1. https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
I’d say that it’s not, and that many people think it is is because they haven’t fully read or understood the technical description of the system.

But what you should do is read the documents yourself.
Personally I can't believe how many of those pages I actually read and processed.

It makes me reflect that a lot of what I'm doing on the web these days really is reading, even though it doesn't involve books, and is comparatively technical/informational.

Those mags were fun though, and I remember reactions from "check out how many stars they gave Turbo Pascal" to "what a goofy author photo" to "somebody wrote in with a great system script" to "oh there's an obscure game company in Vermont still writing arcade titles for dad's office computer" :-)
> Does Apple's solution only stop people from uploading illegal files to Apple's servers or does it stop them from uploading the files to any server.

Perhaps they're trying to prevent being in "posession" of illegal images by having them on their own servers, rather than preventing copying to arbitrary destinations.
It surprises me that even today nearly every power supply has a dedicated chip in like this whose task is switching a transistor on and off with the correct timings to regulate an output voltage, using mostly analogue components.

It surprises me that this role hasn't been replaced with a tiny ARM core running some firmware to do the same. The benefit is the core can be self-tuning. It can detect components going out of spec and warn and/or compensate. It can have digital comms with the rest of the system to set all kinds of parameters, allowing a more flexible design and allowing bug fixes in the field. It can have lookup tables to tune efficiency for input/output voltage, load, etc, in a way an analogue design never could.

Considering a tiny microcontroller has a BOM cost of just 4 cents, in the same region as dedicated power supply chips, I don't see why software-controller-switched-mode-supplies aren't common.
Palm® Treo™ users all quivered a little.
Apple's guilty of these kind of tactics too, it's extremely galling to get a "Try the New Safari!" notification if you run another browser[1].

1: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...
In the US, it is fairly dependent on which state, how old the signage is, and who owns the road. On Federal Highways, I haven't seen button-copy (The small reflective buttons on letters & such) installed in a very long time. Sometimes highways will get signage updates to many signs but others will be reinstalled on new posts, so you might see button copy around longer in those cases.

When I drive through California, however, I see lots of older style signage or posts that is phased out most everywhere else. I suspect due to budget constraints.

The retro-reflective sheeting is WAY more popular and effective, but it's also very delicate and easy to scratch. I also think it only has a 10 year lifespan (technically at least. In practice states seem to keep it a bit longer than that since it's so expensive)
Put an NVIDIA Jetson Nano in between and you also have hardware matching.

IR projector is $19: https://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ams/AQAA-20?qs=DRkmTr7...
What? Why would memes be on the CSAM list?
Horrible counter argument, what's the point of Apple advertising privacy ad nauseam if your shit isn't safe and secure for your eyes only.
Check out 77 Million Paintings by Brain Eno

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77_Million_Paintings
I am very intrigued about what you think the other options are that preserve E2E encryption. How do you make search warrants part of the process without some kind of escrow or third party involvement, at which point it is no longer "end to end"?
The Census Bureau fuzzes numbers for privacy reasons, which becomes more apparent the small the district is. Liberty Island (home of the Statue of Liberty but no actual people) is listed as having 48 residents for example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-12/data-scie...
> China-hosted China-decryptable datacenters.

China hosted, yes, but Apple denies China-decryptable, so that’s speculation unless you have a good source.
If you have enough talent that a good quality Stripe integration takes only a day to write, bending Rails or Laravel to serve websockets is not going to take more than a few days to write either. The true pain of non-standard languages is not in having to implement any specific dependency yourself but in having to reimplement a few dozen trivial-but-not-easy things yourself. It's a death by a hundred small cuts.