skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point, it is hard to argue anything which sides with Apple, as the most have set their minds.

However, this is something which have been planned for years. Bad PR won't undo this, and stepping back is not happening overnight.

There is so much misinformation in this subject, because it is really hard to see the bigger picture.
We are in this situation, because of the leaked information.
Was it intentional for political reasons, who knows.

Apple is definitely going to announce some E2EE features very soon, such as backups in the next event. It is very hard to invent better system, than they have released now, to enable E2EE and apply CSAM scanning.

When you step into the Apple system (which is quite closed, and nobody really can make extensive review for it), you give all your trust for Apple. Whether this scanning happens on your phone, or in the cloud, it does not really matter, as long as the end result is the same (same files are scanned).

How about the abuse of the system?
Prior on-device scanning, government could ask Apple to add feature for telling, if users have Winnie the Pooh images on their phone. (Could you spy for us?)
After adding the on-device scanning, now they ask Apple to add this hash dataset to find Winnie the Pooh images. (Could you spy for us?)
The question is still the same. Does some technical change affect for the managers and the chair?

How about forging CSAM images to make FBI to show up in the neighbors door? Not going to happen easily. The only problem here is to brute force their human review process. In that case, it is further double checked by NCMEC. But still, at first we need some hash which exist in their database, and secondly that image should be uploaded to iCloud. And not only once, 30 times with different hash.
> should Apple scan user data or should they not?

I guess it depends on whether the system is 100% safe and cannot be exploited;

Since only iCloud photos are scanned, and other cloud storage providers already do this and have been scanning their users photos for a long time.
I haven’t heard anyone complain when Google started scanning their cloud photos, which is kind of… interesting.
Found this, simple and seems interesting: https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch
PowerNotes
> What if the police come to Apple with a warrant? Should Apple have the responsibility to reveal the user's content to authorities?

If they lack the capability to do so then they don't need to worry about it.

> Part of the motivation for this type of thing is that E2EE effectively makes the old system of warrants obsolete and hides this data permanently from authorities. Lots of people see that as a huge win. Lots of people see that as a huge loss.

The speculation that this enables E2EE is just that; speculation. It's also not a strong argument because Apple could implement E2EE without snooping people's photographs and they'd be in the same position of being unable to assist law enforcement.

If you have a system in place that intercepts all files before they're encrypted and uploaded to the cloud, then E2EE doesn't serve its purpose of ensuring privacy of people's data. It completely defeats the point.
written by a journalist who does not understand statistics. He is still gaining twitter followers but not on the same rate.

so his reach grows, but not as fast as it used to be.

probably the same journalist who write about climate change
At first I thought, weird comment, then I thought: Ah! Weird title!
The invisible link between autism and anorexia
You just need to get ahold of some widely spread CSAM. Certainly not everybody is ready to do that, but it is far from impossible for a motivated individual to obtain "hot" hashes.
You're right, but the iPhone X is well below the price point of their Macbook Pros (closer to Macbook Airs though). Their flexibility is reduced the higher the absolute price point goes. At a certain point, people really can't spend that money.
The article is a response to claims about the singularity and subsequent worries about concerning super AI.
I think this has been established already, but nevertheless it's best to repeat it.

The on-device scanning capabilities will be expanded in the future, but it can be stopped if Apple care about their users.

Right now it seems they don't care.

Forgot to mention that I'll not be recommending or purchasing any Apple devices until they halt this scanning idea.
I wasn't referring to things like IRC. When Slack was initially released, it was no different from Campfire and a whole string of other web-based chat systems that came and went going all the way back to the dawn of AJAX in the late 90s. Slack's improved a lot since then, with app integrations and other features, but fundamentally it wasn't any different than its predecessors. It's easy to think that Slack did something groundbreaking, or figured out the magic solution to the problem that sank its predecessors, but just like Discord, the reason Slack won is because it came along at a time when companies can raise tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to float them for years while offering a free product. Then they can upsell later, and/or commoditize their users' personal information. Those business models weren't as easy to come by in the past, so a lot of products failed. None of this is to bash Slack; it's an adequate product for what it does.

Another big thing that the current crop of winners has going for it is that cloud hosting allows applications to launch literally for free and scale quite a bit without paying much of anything in infrastructure costs. That also wasn't an option 10-20 years ago.
Ansible is awesome, but would largely be overkill for something like this. I'm not doing much more than ensuring a few things are in place, merging a couple files, and then running docker-compose up/down, or exec-ing into running containers to run commands. I certainly wouldn't want people to have to run an entire playbook just to do all this: it's slow, requires even more setup, and is not really well suited for quick CLI-like use.
Why? Labor is extremely cheap in China-- they can easily hire tens of thousands of people to manually flag memes they don't like and add them to a list... they can then rely on ML augmented proximity hashes to do the actual detection (WeChat does this).
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's not hard to guess - some readers are past the fatigue stage with this story, which has had dozens of threads at this point.

Others, needless to say, have not had enough yet.
Spotify didn't bring over the old episodes with people like Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes, and Milo Yiannopoulos.

> “There were a few episodes they didn’t want on their platform,” Rogan said, per DMN. “And I was like, ‘OK, I don’t care.'” https://www.thewrap.com/spotify-deletes-joe-rogan-podcast-ep...
We saw the same pattern with phone location data. ISPs are selling the data in bulk ("don't worry, they're not selling your data, they're selling everyone's data!") to "responsible" companies who then re-sell the ability to data-mine specific IPs. The result is that, yes, people in the know can pay to find out whether atok1 loves to browse hacker news.
Scientists 3D print Wagyu beef-like meat
He wanted less attention, you can't be king of the hill forever
Lots and lots of practice during moments of downtime. Those small moments add up over the years.

Back when I got my first Mac (2012) I was plateaued at 80-100 wpm. From there, it was an accumulation of intentional practice for fun and enjoyment.
works now in brave, the setting is extremely confusing, you have to set it to "enabled and available in settings"
Thanks, I updated my post to clarify that images are sent to LEO, not hashes.
Donating a million trees
What does memoryholing mean?
Removing certain old episodes from the catalogue (as if they never existed, so they become forgotten)
Yes, many streamers on Twitch, and content creators on YouTube have faced such accusations, some of them have been extensively harassed, to the point they even provided evince, medication signed by doctors out of desperation for the harassment to stop, needless to say in some cases it didn't.
Memory hole is from 1984. It is where they put papers to be incinerated and forgotten. Spotify removed a few Joe Rogan episodes IIRC.
I'm not familiar with the Maori in particular, but most traditional cultures prior to the Gutenberg revolution had special knowledge that they tried to keep to themselves. Typically there were a class of people who were responsible for both ensuring that the knowledge didn't get lost or become available to the wrong people. Typically learning this knowledge required first committing to guarding its secrecy, so I wouldn't agree it's an unfair restriction on the people who have it. It might not be useful for the culture in the long term, but then again it might. These cultures have seen some ages pass.

If the argument is just that everyone benefits when licenses are more free I wouldn't disagree, but having the option to impose different licenses doesn't seem like a bad thing. And whatever the details, that's what this boils down to, a particular set of restrictions on the use of a particular set of data.
Let's not forget that those corporations are allowed to avoid paying tax while workers are taxed through the nose. Proxy taxation doesn't work, because you don't see people enjoying the same growth as corporations wealth wise.
The whole system needs an overhaul and big corporations need to pay the money back.
Thanks for answering. The approach about adding the date on the where clause may not work. I may receive/ingest more data from that point in time after I made the report. Of course, the report wouldn't be updated, but I'd prefer to have an updated report that says "We did it witht he data available at this time" and not one that says one thing but shows a different thing.

Kudos on the launching anyway!
I was going to write exactly this! Bought XPS in UK in 2017 and repaired in Poland in 2018.
We should be careful with this part:

> Unavoidable false positives are not great in the context of your device ratting you out to the authorities. [emphasis added]

If the detection were immediately sent to authorities, this would be an issue. And it's possible in the future (or in practice) that the manual review could be removed or will be a rubber stamp. However, they do have a manual review process slated for this. The reason I promote caution with regard to this element of your argument is that if you have an easily rebutted statement, people will disregard the rest. It's why hyperbole in most political arguments should be strongly avoided, it makes it easy for people to dismiss the rest of the statement(s) no matter how valid.
I'm not understanding how it completely circumvents the legal system if the law enforcement agencies are still contacted after the flag is triggered.

But if the lack of a warrant is the problem then the main issue would be the third-party doctrine and having no reasonable expectation of privacy when entrusting your data with any company, not just Apple.
I have! Hated that idea, too.
No! Indeed. Firefox's UI on Android is built using Android's UI framework and is not rendered by Gecko. Android is one place where Gecko is actually embedded in another UI toolkit (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView).
Advantages of the Yaw Free View Camera (1982) [pdf]
My company provides either MacBook or Lenovo (I have a t480s and just received a t14s). I have yet to hear someone having an issue with their Lenovo (most run Fedora). Not sure about MacBooks reliability. The weak point of Lenovo seem to be the thunderbolt docking stations. Mine worked perfectly on the t480s but is unreliable with the t14s and IT support told me they are overwhelmed with docking station issues.
> this is about data that causes harm to children.

The data is not what causes the harm. It is the method used to produce (some of) the data that causes the harm.

And the problem is that looking for the data in order to find the people causing the harm runs afoul of the converse fallacy. It's the same fallacy that causes people to think that because most terrorists (that they know of) are Muslims, that most Muslims must be terrorists. Most child abusers have photos of naked children on their phones, therefore most people who have photos of naked children on their phones must be child abusers. It's false in both cases. A friend of mine, for example, has photos of her naked child on her phone that she sent to the doctor to help diagnose a rash.
To be honest, no. The police should come to you with a warrant. I understand that in exceptional cases of advanced crime an elaborate case should be built, but for the average joe these collusive investigation tactics are overkill and, quite frankly, a form of power abuse.
I sure hope so, but I didn't quite get that impression from the thread.
“exo-brain (tech-)tools” is a form of cognitive offloading [0], right?

[0] Risko EF, Gilbert SJ. Cognitive Offloading. Trends Cogn Sci. 2016 Sep;20(9):676-688. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.07.002. Epub 2016 Aug 16. PMID: 27542527.
So that's what "Senior software developer" really means.
IANAL, but isn't that why the designation of legal guardian exists--to allow someone else to make decisions on behalf of someone else?

I think the point you are trying to make is that a legal guardian cannot offer consent that is unlawful, as such consent would not be valid.

Perhaps that is the angle the plantiff is going for--that any oral consent given is unlawful and voided because the image was used in a pornographic way.
I'm guessing this:

> A memory hole is any mechanism for the deliberate alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts or other records, such as from a website or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
I believe GP is refering to the fact that Spotify has removed episodes from Joe Rogan's back catalog that have been deemed controversial [0].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-rogan-experience-podcast...
You've summarized all my most important thoughts into two succinct sentences, thank you.
I want to second this feedback. It seemed disconnected until I got to that line.

Good luck!
Doubt it. This IMO is probably the best PR maneuver ever conceived. I doubt they ever planned to do it.

The BBC was just about to release a long-researched exposé about all the moderation issues they have and how child porn and abuse were going unchecked on their platform. This was a supposed to be a huge deal that could destroy them if the media at large rallied around that story like they did with Pornhub. By making this announcement before it came out they stole the narrative and switched the focus away from that problem and towards the issue of what are all the sex workers going to do when they suddenly lose their income and also just how crazy the announcement was in of itself.

They did it with perfect timing and drummed up such a fuss with such a wild and seemingly out of nowhere change that when that article actually dropped, it was merely background noise and not the primary focus of media coverage. The media likes to hyper-focus on issues for a short period of time (with a few exceptions, trump/covid/amazon being a few) and then quickly move on regardless of whether the issue/story has finished or resolved itself in anyway. Which is what will likely happen here, OnlyFans will likely make it through this mostly unscathed and with a ton of publicity.
Per my experience in recruiting, not many will make these inferences during a process, especially with a lot of candidates/large company.

But even as such, other "telling" signs can be worked around:

- College graduation years can easily be skipped - what purpose do they serve besides the count of years?

- You only need to put in the last few positions anyway, anything 10+ years is mostly irrelevant.
What is your personal threshold for "naked"? Completely naked? Diapers? Nipples showing?
If they specifically mention race in the listing, then it's probably a program specifically meant to help a company's diversity. I definitely do not fall into that category, and would feel that I'm actively hurting that effort by applying.

And then if they turned around and also said "Unlike Silicon Valley, we aren't racist" then I'd just be uncomfortable with the whole thing.

Not a perfect 1:1 comparison here, but hopefully it makes sense.
The more he embraces conspiracy theories, the less I find him persuasive. At this point, with his embrace of anti-vaccination ideas and being completely mostly to medical science and the scientific community out of contrarianism, I find him more annoying than interesting.
The main reason you don't need call/cc because you already have a set of primitives that are equivalent to a Universal Turing Machine.
I generalize of course but I think older people realize there's more to life than the office and career. Takeaway pizza behind a laptop feels less glamorous at age 40.
Kinda curious, do fans .. .care about that?

I guess some do but I don't think I ever listen to past podcasts that I've already listened to...
...smoking was never - and still isn’t - illegal.

It’s just not relevant to my point. That’s harm reduction - which should be applied to drugs as well. Nothing to do with prohibition.
Every OF model has her own link in social media profile. They do marking via Instagram, Twitter, Reddit etc. It seems like the OF “community” doesn’t matter.
Right.

You hold a book closer to your eyes though than your screen.

Both have about the same line length, as you point out, but the book's font is smaller. The website font is much larger - to make up for the greater distance between the screen and your eyes.

I think 700px would be wide enough, 800px would also work.

From what I've read, going wider than about this at around a 14px size font and it becomes increasingly difficult for the eye to track between lines.

On a phone, a max with of 700 or 800 px obviously wouldn't apply since the phone screen is smaller.

On this site, I usually zoom in to 150% to 200% on my computer to make the font size large enough to comfortably read.
Sure. Result is specific, you get a value or an error. Either can be used the same way, but you don't have to. The convention is use Right for the value and Left for the error but you can use it in other ways too, eg Left for an Int and Right for a Float.
> 3. Confetti

> The illusion is a vivid demonstration of the fact that we don’t directly perceive the colors of objects in the world. Instead, the perceptual system takes an educated “guess,” based on the objects’ surroundings.

I disagree. E.g. the circles overlapped with green and blue lines look greenish to me, and the circles overlapped with purple and blue look pinkish. If the apparent difference was due to perceiving the lines as a neutral surrounding, the effect should be the opposite: a circle overlapped with green should come across as less green, not more.

I’m pretty sure the effect just comes from half-toning.
The ones with Carmack and an ex-pilot (regarding UFO) were interesting. Other than that I really didn't have any knowledge of. It's more of the people he interviewed then his channel.
> but it can be stopped if Apple care about their users.

Apple cares about selling devices, maximizing revenue. Users are just something required to authorize transactions.

If Apple has to kowtow to the most oppressive regimes in the world to keep doing the above, you bet they will and probably already are. And since it is in the interest of both Apple + Gov't to do shady stuff in the dark, there is a good chance they can hide it the public indefinitely.
Power, paranoia, crime, curiosity.

Power: Businesses are run by humans, who do not merely optimize discounted cashflows. Some humans enjoy wielding power, and frequently do so in an antisocial manner. See eg Stanford Prison Experiment.

Paranoia: Royalty have always been paranoid. Much has been written about the intelligence operations of paranoid merchants in Renaissance Venice. You should think of huge private entities like Koch Industries and Bloomberg as kingdoms. Maybe security teams want to see threats, which increases their importance to the organization.

Crime: Theft, manipulation, subversion. Companies do crime all the time, and are rarely held to account. There are indirect indicators that this type of conduct is becoming more common.

Curiosity: According to Snowden, even cleared NSA employees who pass a polygraph and invasive FBI background check abuse their access to personal data out of curiosity. This is probably a human invariant.
It's actually a more complex topic that it appears at first. Some things are much more expensive, but some are identical to everywhere else - eg:

- vacations

- cars

- all online purchases

- most hobbies

- etc...

When I moved to NY, I expected that my (much higher than before) salary would barely allow me to buy a car. Instead, I ended up with the best car I had ever owned up to that point, and went on craziest vacations. I also lived in the shittiest place ever before and after.
China is Apple's second biggest market and an integral part of their supply chain. It will be very difficult for apple to say no when China demands this tech be sued to find thought crime.
Joe has had one hell of a run, I don't think he minds losing influence
As the article points out, the nervous systems is larger than the brain. There are millions of neurons in your gut. Your sensory organs have neurons that prepare the signal sent to the brain from the sensory noise. No brain lives independent of a body. That's not how organisms evolved.
>arm chair opinions stated as fact despite zero relevant experience

There was a commenter here a little while ago making wild claims that he was being monitored because he used a ProtonMail account to sign up for a government service. He was being taken seriously by a large number of replies.

I'd love to see/find an alternative as well, but I think part of the issue is just volume. You'd need a platform that's restrictive by design to keep it from getting over populated and landing on the wrong side of the quality-quantity curve. I'm not sure that can exist in a free (as in beer) platform.
An analysis of Amazon Echo's network behavior
IF I am ready to pay XXX bucks for doing a given job in N days, I don't really care about who actually did it. I do care about quality, so if it is substandard - we'll part ways with this contractor sooner or later.

But this actually may work for simple tasks, and a company in question doesn't looks like it is gonna throw simple tasks on their consultants.
Wow, and I love this company!
YouTube premium does this.
A little line-height: 1.2em goes a long way, too.
You can do Stripe Atlas if you want to move back to India but incorporate in the US.
Does Joe Rogan have “messages”? I thought his whole thing was to be a neutral place for interesting conversations.

If he’s trying to deliver specific messages now, that would certainly affect who wants to listen to him.
The one thing I really miss about my Dell laptop is being able to call support and having them overnight ship replacement parts so the tech can come over to my place the next afternoon and fix it. The next available service appointment for someone at the Apple Store to take a look at my MacBook Pro’s malfunctioning keyboard won’t be until 4:20PM next week.
Counter argument in addition to downvote, please?