skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions the slippery slope and "what happens in a year or two when..." scenarios. The article even calls it a cliff. But doesn't expand on timelines of concern.

As it currently stands, this concept would be sitting in plain sight waiting eternally for any lawmaker anywhere.

In your country, either side of the political spectrum - with a majority in lawmaking - can simply tap Apple on the shoulder and potentially turn ALL those devices against you.

Guns won't help. When information technology is used against you, when you are separated from society in a manner where people dare not risk their own livelihood for fear of being similarly marked.

And if Apple goes ahead with this, this risk is sitting there for the rest of your life just waiting for [that one politician that represents everything you hate] to use it against you.

Maybe that politician hasn't been born yet. But they will come. Don't let this Pandora's Box sit waiting for them.
You mean the jq creator should write up about their linguistic choices, or the author of this article?
Therein lies a problem. Most people would agree that a good predictor what people will do is what they have done in the past. If you read through some of the stories ( those of Snowden come to mind ), some declassified information over the course of the past few decades, a pattern emerges.

There is no evidence, either because it does not exist or because it is hidden. The best we have is inference and whistleblowers.

That said, I genuinely think we are not being tinfoil enough these days. And that is based only on what we know ( or at least avg. citizen should know ) was already done in the past.
who are 'we' to be the gatekeepers?
Not OP but I am in a similar situation where I am holding out too. I am in the 20-29 age group in Canada, healthy, no co-morbidities, I have been regularly exercising for over a decade, eat healthy, don't smoke/drink/drugs etc. Also I believe I have already caught COVID earlier last year (though I wasn't tested so this could be wrong).

There's been a total of 67 deaths in my age group for entire Canada in entire 20 months of the disease. Even the hospitalization in the entire 20 months for my age group has been 3,144 which isn't much in my eyes. And vast majority of these occurred in people who had pre-existing conditions.

And as it has now been widely reported, vaccinated can not only catch covid, they have the same (and sometimes higher) viral load as unvaccinated and can infect others. And the vaccine is waning off in 3-6 months. So I don't see how me getting vaccinated is "for the common good".

Canada is also 2-3 months behind Israel in terms of COVID trends (case peaks). So what's happening in Israel right now will happen in 2-3 months from Canada.

So I don't see how I can benefit from it and am willing to take chances.

What we should be doing is saving the vaccines for the elders for booster shots and working on improved vaccines for the new variants. There's a huge population in the world which can't even get their first dose of vaccine while here we are giving out 3rd doses.
This is wildly optimistic, but personally, I'm looking forward to CO2 captured from the atmosphere, reformed into hydrocarbons on-site, and used as feedstock in the global plastics and fertilizer trades.

Yes, balancing that equation is going to require energy input. Yes, probably gonna require some pretty smart chemists. But impossible? Well, I don't see why not.

Edit: There's probably not that much utility in this. See comments below.
That's interesting, maybe this is the results of a change regarding when the button is shown, or simply in how reader mode works? Previously we have had success in forcing reader mode when the option is not available. See, for example: https://www.howtogeek.com/268116/is-there-a-way-to-force-ena...
Delta raising health premiums for unvaccinated by $200/month to cover Covid cost
Podcasts follow a predictable trend, almost always. Someone really interesting and very well-informed has a lot of stuff to say that they've been stewing over for a decade or more. 100-200 episodes in, they've gotten it off their chest and you have to find someone else.
Is the difference algorithmic/architectural?
How are we approaching 2022 and I still cannot click-to-reply in Teams?
I initially found discord UI a little confusing, not sure why. I use it all the time for work, and the layout is essentially the same as slacks. Admining servers is much nicer with discord.
SSDs are relatively cheap right now. I upgraded my 2009 mbp with one and it was definitely worth it.
>Do the people who are refusing a vaccine because they were already infected have a good point now?

Not from this, because a vaccine does not cancel 'natural' immunity. In fact this study and others show previously infected people which get vaccinated get better immunity.

If their argument was that they'd rather have the dose go for someone else they would have had a better point, but it's obvious they'd benefit from a single dose.
> As you are well aware, the market is not very competitive and there aren't dozens of vendors to pick from.

Where I come from a dozen means 12. Even just LineageOS has support for phones from 30 different vendors.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

And LineageOS is far from the only way to start taking ownership of a device. And let's be real here: Pretty much anything will beat Apple on that particular spectrum.
They could pay 10,000,000 total per year to 100 people and it'd be a rounding error, with their nearly 2,000,000,000,000 market cap.
Music.

What is music? Is music an adaptation? If so, what is it an adaptation for? If not, how come it exists at all?
I despise discord. It's bloatware. It has constant popups that are difficult to disable.

I do read their tech posts on HN, and they are always fascinating. But it seems to me like a product that the MBAs have taken a over.
They won their market share with their early demographics by being a better product flat out. Whether the visual design is to your taste or not, you’re fooling yourself about the reason for their success.
They can’t decrypt the safety vouchers, which contain low resolution versions of your image until the conditions are met … which makes no sense as they have access to the cleartext full resolution image right there.

Unless of course this is a precursor to an E2E encrypted iCloud wherein Apple does not have the ability to decrypt your images server side. I don’t see how this design makes sense unless that’s the next step
I’m fairly sure this is a logical fallacy. Addiction is so prevalent among people who are far more intelligent, capable, and strong than I am. There’s nothing special about me other than a fortunate environment and genetics as far as I’m concerned.

Pretty much every addict I’ve spoken to about their addiction and personal matters (not a small number) has had terrible experiences in life. It’s almost guaranteed. Weird trauma, or a lack of something critical in early life. The brain begins to seek, it self medicates, it soothes, the feedback loop becomes unbearable. Like an itch you need to scratch, but each scratch ruins your life a little more. Even after you stop using, the itch is typically still there. Good luck not scratching it.

It might feel good to tell yourself us non-addicts are somehow superior, but I prefer to warn myself that I’m certainly not. If anything I admire a lot of these people for holding on. My life is comparatively effortless yet I still have a hard time with plenty. We’re on easy mode if you ask me (which I know, you didn’t).

Bottom line, addiction is arguably like a disease and you (fortunately) don’t have it.
This is an incredible post.
Yes. And US is a plutarchy often against the will of its people. It is just a different culture.

If it helps. I like US better.
And there's no reason they can't scan the images on their servers.
The term is “sequestration”. You are correct that trees are a temporary capture, and even then- only when you plant woodlands that did not previously exist. Given enough time, the trees that are planted will decompose or burn in a forest fire to become net neutral. Trees buy time, but they aren’t a clean up plan.
Not sure why people would take a pay cut. I just changed jobs to a remote-first company and got a raise.
This is generally a side effect of USB cables and devices which are not spec-compliant. We see the same issue with electrical plugs and wall warts.

AFAIK, some Yubikeys are not USB size compliant so that they may fit an NFC antenna in that can do sufficient power gathering.
I should set the record straight. In my experience, later-stage senior leaders can be tremendously helpful, and I currently work with a few that make my life much easier. But if they wrote an article where they took credit at someone else's expense (either their manager, or even their predecessor, like: "it was really bad until I arrived"), I would be disappointed in their lack of understanding of the big picture.

The first wave of people you hire are very strong in certain areas (eg: pain tolerance, imagination), and very weak in others (organization, social skills). It turns out that in the first year, the pain tolerance is a lot more important than organizational skills, and that first wave of people didn't care about certain things, like an employee handbook, performance reviews, etc - all they wanted to do is get shit done. Eventually, things flip, and suddenly we find ourselves spending an entire week doing 360 reviews and similar work. The new people who join the company notice that the 360 reviews are not sufficiently streamlined, and they bring this to the attention of the newly hired chief people officer. That person takes a look at the problem and fixes it. At that point, the story should be delivered as follows: "the company decided that it was the right time to invest in this process, and this is how we did it." That sounds a lot different than "it was a mess and I fixed it."
Agree 100%

There are heaps of dysfunctional companies though ;) probably more than there are functional ones
Carbon isn't used in fertilizer, no?
The CCP would make Apple stop manufacturing in China, which would effectively mean that they couldn't sell anything anywhere. Apple does have very deep pockets, but that would be an existential threat.
What I don't get is what prevented these things from happening last month? Apple controls the hardware, the software, and the cloud services...

Simple: Money.

Their response to any such demands would be (and has been) "we don't have the capability to do what you're asking".

No judge is going to burden them to spend their own dime to build a massive new feature like this and deploy it to every phone out there to comply with a demand arising from a prosecutor of an individual case.

No government is going to pony up the money to reimburse them to do it (not even getting into the PR optics).

That leaves it happening only if 1) they decide to do it themselves, or 2) government(s) legislate they must.

So far #2 hasn't happened. Politicians had no basis of reference to point to and say "Your competitor(s)' doing that, you should too".

But now that #1 occurred, it will normalize this nonsense and pave the way for #2.
I see this Apple move as a warning.
I have lived part of my life under communistic regime.

For me my Apple addiction ends here. There is no "magic" left in their products, only "bait & switch" dark patterns.

No hardware or UX will lure me again to suppress my instincts.

This is the beginning of global politically and financially motivated race for public control.
Apple is just giving a spark to the fire. Imagine a future in which your beloved Face ID will be tied to everything, your beloved iDevices, Teslas, or home appliances will scanning and reporting, scanning and reporting. There is no middle ground in this for me. No benefits or conveniences are so important. FOSS and public oversight of software must be demanded by law.

Posted earlier this without getting any reactions.
https://docplayer.net/1287799-Fourth-amendment-search-and-th...
> since Apple has very publicly resisted pressure to build technology at the government’s behest in the past.

And they've also not done that. When Jobs died Apple promptly bent the knee and joined up to PRISM.

Very publicly resisted? Nope. They went along, very quietly (it was Yahoo that tried to fight back). We only found out about Apple having joined up thanks to the man that wrote this article.

How many human rights atrocities does Apple get to partake in before their credibility is shot, such that the burden is put on them instead, of proving - in such circumstances as this one - that they're not commiting more atrocities.
Bravo ... discord client on Ubuntu has never crashed or sat there using 100% of cpu doing nothing unlike Teams
Thanks, If there are many interested people maybe a universal payment gateway for cryptocurrencies can be added, or payment part can be made into plugins to support more cryptocurrencies.
> “The server-side option was built as part of our ongoing work to give advertisers more control over their users’ data,” said a Google spokesperson

Wait. Whose data is it, Google?
Well for one scanning on-device lets them expand the amount of stuff they search for without an impact on their servers.

We can all assume they will eventually start scanning for more things than just photos only before they are sent to iCloud. It can easily and _silently_ be expanded to be any file on the phone.
Or alt+tab into Teams on macOS?
the problem is that the companies make ilegal alternatives, obfuscated legals terms, and put himself in the least resistant position, and force you to opt in.
> you have unverified logins
> verify this session
> please backup your keys
D'Arvit!
> … which makes no sense as they have access to the cleartext full resolution image right there

They have no access. It is end-to-end encrypted with new system. That is the whole point of on-device scanning. It is not next step, it is already there.
I've been a long time Apple user. Prior to my latest work laptop I've only gotten MBPs. However given the ever increasing pain in getting around the macOS security to do basic dev work (eg getting real gdb not ldb working), I've gone back to a Linux laptop.

Given this 'CSAM-scanning-next-up-political-dissent!' stuff from Apple I'll be taking a much more serious look at PinePhone/PurismPhone, etc. The rate of processor/ram/screen specs are plateauing so open source hardware/software is becoming feasible without completely outdated hardware.
A quick and dirty way to distinguish between work/stress fatigue and depression would be simply if you don't recover even when removed from work for a significant period of time.
Interesting close-to-the-end note related to much of the medical research (on mice) that gets posted to HN: “The end result, in retrospect, was predictable: they successfully cured muscular dystrophy in mice, but not in humans.”
Ya. And it's probably worth pointing out that in the context of a recovery (say after a cast) that taking steriods and/or HGH will still require physical rehab, with even more doctor supervision. While it would probably lower the median time to "full recovery", it would probably also have significantly worse worst case outcomes, and still require significant work from the patient.

Edit: Oh and specifically for steroids - one of the things that -can- (dunno how frequent really) happen is that your muscle strength growth outgrows your connective tissue (such as your Achilles tendon) growth rate and you end up with more connective tissue damage. Maxing out your muscle growth rate might be the best strategy, especially when recovering from connective tissue damage.
If they can get it down to $100/ton, that's kind of within reach for going carbon neutral, at least for the USA - we emit around 5 billion tons of CO2, so that's $500B/year to offset it all. (but ideally we'd reduce CO2 emissions so the cost to offset it all is lower). Could pay for it with a carbon tax, which would also help reduce CO2 since the heaviest sources of CO2 emission would be paying the most tax.

But do we really have a place to pump all of this CO2 laden water?
> But there is a countable list that has all possible things that might possibly represent a real.

Haven't you only demonstrated a countable list of all possible things that might possibly represent a computable number, or some similar concept?
I wish more ads said that the company hires old people. I work in the pharmaceutical industry at a company where the CSO stated he didn’t want anyone over 50 working there. If you are over 50, you won’t be promoted and they want to push you out the door while hiring inexperienced younger people to be leaders. These people make a lot of mistakes and often have poor judgement as well as a terrible work ethic. But they did go to an ivy league school!
If I had my own company, I’d be damm sure to only hire those over 40. And perhaps only those who didn’t go to an Ivy.
I'm not a fan of planned obsolescence and I won't give money to sonos because of it. smartphone controlled multi room audio may be convenient, but I won't support it with dollars if it means perfectly working devices turn into bricks and get thrown in a landfill.
I’ve been using Deezer for over a year now and have never looked back. Amazing audio quality, DRM free files, decent API, good app, amazing catalogue.

Used its API to build https://audile.app which has completely changed my relationship with music.
> I was once offered ~8K to non-disparage a company upon leaving.

Should've countered with 50k, see what they said.
Yesssss, I tried adopting Treesheets for some time. I was using it for my Heisenhower Matrix of all my things "to do (or maybe not)".

But it never sticked.
bill / pail / mayo

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KiuO_Z2_AD4
Millions laundered in Covid relief funds through online investment platforms
> I once had my AWS API keys compromised this way.

Presumably you were copying them over the network unencrypted?
> no way for anyone to independently verify that the scope of the content being scanned has not been secretly increased.

This seems like the easiest thing out of the lot to verify.

The way that this system is designed to work is that when uploading to iCloud Photos, images have a safety voucher attached to them.

If Apple secretly expanded this to scan more than just iCloud Photos, they would have to either a) upload all the extra photos, b) add a new mechanism to upload just the vouchers, or c) upload “fake” photos to iCloud Photos with the extra vouchers attached.

None of these seem particularly easy to disguise.

Your concern is completely understandable if you are starting from the premise that Apple are scanning photos then uploading matches. I think that’s how a lot of people are assuming this works, but that’s not correct. Apple designed the system in a very different way that is integrated into the iCloud upload process, and that design makes it difficult to expand the scope beyond iCloud Photos surreptitiously.

Could Apple build a system to secretly exfiltrate information from your phone? Of course. They could have done so since the first iPhone was released in 2007. But this design that they are actually using is an awful design if that’s what they wanted to do. All of their efforts on this seem to be pointed in the exact opposite direction.
My understanding is that synthetic fertilizers are (at least in part) made using crude oil. Would be interested to hear an expert chime in.
Matrix is miles behind discord which saddens me. It's a good UI but to consider them in the same ballpark is pretty uncomparable to me
How To Terraform Venus (Quickly) - Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI
It’s not a non sequitur. The comment is engaging with a series of rhetorical questions that imagine a slippery slope by observing that very little has changed about the trust model between iPhone users and their devices. If you are convinced Apple is slipping, then it is worthwhile to be able to answer how their position today is different than it was last month. That is of course a different question than whether their position last month was acceptable, and maybe people are realizing it was not.

As a concrete example, if you think the proposal introduces new technical risks, then if Apple announces they made a mistake and will instead scan entirely on the server, you may be satisfied. However, I’d argue that since no new technical risk has been introduced, your conclusions should not change.

I’d argue that the incorrect characterization of Apple’s announcement as scanning all the files on your phone with no control has shifted the Overton window more than what was actually proposed. Politicians who are none the wiser probably believe that’s what Apple actually built, even though it’s not.
Too bad it’s from Panic. It will lack useful updates and be discontinued in short order.

TLDR Panic sucks
I feel like a boomer when it comes to discord because lots of niche information, utilities, mods, and discussions that I used to google search for and find on forums and subreddits have moved to discord servers and as a non social gamer I find it chaotic and cluttered. I suppose it's different for people who grew up using it to play games with their friends as it became their go-to community tool.

For example if I want the latest info on the state of installing a certain linux distro on macbooks with T2 chips I have to open discord and figure out which unlabeled icon on the left out of dozens of servers I'm in that I visit infrequently has the information I'm looking for. I don't use the servers often enough to memorize their "logo" so it would be helpful if I could see names there. If I want to report a bug in a VR app the only way to be sure the developer sees it is to again dig through those dozens of unlabeled server icons then figure out which of the many text channels I have to put my question in. If I want to be notified when Nvidia cards are in stock at Best Buy I have to find the drop server, find the channel with the pinned message and click on the right "reaction" emoji. I'm not sure why the new generation prefers this format but it is what it is, no harder than digging through IRC channels and usenet but not much of a better experience, personally.
Of course they won't let you alter the terms of the agreement, but everyone always has the option (barring some sort of malicious state-enforced intervention) to walk away and divest themselves away from platforms and ecosystems that don't respect their privacy or otherwise act in ways they do not agree with. Or at least if it's going to take a long time to get there, one ought to start thinking about how to go about ensuring that escape hatch is available if their entire life's data depends on someone else continuing to provide them access to their "cloud" services based on potentially arbitrary rules and changing conditions they may never know about or be able to audit for themselves.

If there were enough people out there to stand up and make a difference by going somewhere else and hitting these companies where it hurts (stop giving them money and personal data to mine), then maybe it would start to make a difference.
Education with Xi Jinping characteristics
The reward, for me, also has to be more than just money. I get paid well, but when the work isn't intrinsically rewarding, I still risk burnout. That's why the highest paid engineers in the world still burn out.

(And then there's the guilt of "wow, what is wrong with me, I'm getting paid a bunch of money to do something I'm good at, why am I losing my mind?", but that thought process doesn't help much.)
https://twitter.com/cabel/status/1405180815768621056