skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the major problem when trying to educate people about anything privacy related... Living in Australia I've watched the government basically grant itself the legal right to do whatever the fuck it likes with computers and communications over the last few years, and its been a horrible outright depressing journey.

Once people internalise the "nothing to hide" argument they begin to reach for the question "what do you have to hide that makes you think this isn't ok" before they are even prompted with the usual arguments about it only being for finding drugs, guns, terrorists, pedophiles, etc

The fact this is on device and off by default is good because that's how this sort of customer feature should be built, like being able to install a DNS filter or other website filtering software. If you're worried, these options should be available to protect your children... but sadly its a small step from "these are available" to "why didn't the government make them turn it on before I bought it for my child and didn't turn it on before giving it to my child"
I can't imagine much new investment into UK datacentres will happen with electricity prices at £0.66/kWh ($0.80). That's a quoted day time price for a fixed 12 month tariff at the moment.
Doesn't this check only happen on the user's device?
A software engineer that forgets that there are 8 bits in a byte is like a surgeon that forgets where the heart is in an human being, in my view... One might argue that it would be fine because as an orthopaedic surgeon specialised in hands they didn't need to care about the heart area but really you wouldn't let them near a patient because it's such basic knowledge that not knowing raises a massive red flag and the basic competency of the person is called into question.
A couple weeks ago, I had the chance to play board games by candlelight. I was in a cabin in the woods.

And trust me, it would be much better with LEDs though obviously not perfect. Sometimes the colors just aren't different enough to easily tell apart. It seems like an issue that should be fixed.
That’s why it’s important to teach young people that the soul exists :)
Examples of how to test different sites and apps
It is not about "easy" or "hard", it is about the value it gives to the devs beyond just reaching their localhost behind a firewall, NAT or CGNAT.
> It probably shouldn't trigger for people in your contacts at all

Why? If you harass someone, you will put it into contacts so that it is easier.
For those wondering: big-endian means you crack an egg from the bigger end.
A nude photo is as dangerous for a kid as a gore one. But they decided to go against the nude one.
Well, other countries managed to solve it, as they've managed to have schools without shootings, cities with public transport, no gerrymandering, and so on.

So it's not unsurmountable, just badly done...
How so? Amazon, Google and Microsoft need access to your unencrypted data in order to provide most of their services (such as databases, analytics, machine learning). There's not much they can do with encrypted data. They can store it. They can pass it through. That's it.

This problem has to be solved on a political level. There is no technical fix and the legal workarounds appear to be exhausted.
I certainly prefer the non-Bowdlerized world for children, myself, having grown up as such. But if there is any thinking superiority to that technique it appears to not be in action considering that California (not unique in America in cultural puritanism) outperforms most comparable European countries. It certainly beats Germany at innovation, maternal mortality, income, and wealth and has comparable gross product, and life expectancy.

Considering that Californian children are no less sheltered, I find it hard to believe that this effect on thought is meaningful.
Another one of these is "diverse teams outperform non-diverse teams." Sure, maybe this is true in some abstract way, but given the race and gender makeup of the early founding teams at Silicon Valley's most storied successes, it's clear that a diverse team is at a bare minimum, wholly unnecessary to achieve even the highest levels of success.
Regardless of the specifics of the culture, this diversity is lacking in the corporations of the Western internet.
It can also happen that the person learns "this doesn't work well, this also doesn't, this too -- I wish we were doing everything differently!"

And later, when joining a better company, s/he more deeply understands the reasons behind their good practices -- because s/he has seen the mess, without.

Having seen and lived in mistakes, is life experience, can be useful. Depends on the person
Have you ever bought a smartphone? You have to register to use it, you must enter your date of birth.

Unless your parents are technologically illiterate, they will set it up as a device part of a family. That’s how they know.

This has its flaws, but that’s what we got now.

> using phone's camera to see who's using it

Most definitely not going to happen. Even if it did, it’s no worse than Face ID.
Kindly provide your analysis showing a correlation between revenge porn and nude beaches.
Please read the linked article before making baseless claims:

> The communication safety feature [...] is available to child accounts signed in with their Apple ID and part of a Family Sharing group. This feature is off by default.

In Family Sharing you can designate AppleIDs in your family as being child accounts. An AppleID is mandatory to use iMessage, so thats how Apple "knows".
By custom yes. By law, whole Germany is nude section. You have groups of nude people in public parks, right in the middle next to bike road.
Right, but there seems to be a strange belief that the US in particular shouldn't have its own culture. My objection is to that. That's kinda American exceptionalism at its worst.

Europeans have their own share if strange cultural phenomenon, BTW. E.g. apparently they don't feed their guests in Sweden. [1]

[1]: https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/countries-where-feeding-house-...
This strongly depends on the age of the child, and their maturity. I have an eight year old, who currently doesn’t even have a phone. Once he does I will absolutely be whitelisting contacts, approving app installs, and turning on functionality to limit access to content unsuitable for a child.

That’s not to say I won’t also be talking about the world, and things they’re likely to encounter. Those conversations are happening even now, he’s not being raised in a petri dish, but equally I’d quite like to avoid throwing him directly into a vat of toxic waste unprepared if I can avoid that. Ultimate children are just that, children, they’re not renowned for solid decision making skills.
Nudges are behavioural interventions. It's just a headline.
This is only true for 15 states. And half of those require you to return with an an ID for your vote to count.
Yes. Every company will be the direct or proximate cause of carbon emissions (products they buy in the course of operations, employees commuting, etc.)
In fact, you raised an interesting matter. While verbally Russia is far-right, from the inside of it, it is still a far-left society. This is one of the manifestations of doublethinking. From every quantitative metric apart from the percentage of openly LGBT people, Russia is more leftist than every EU country. Like: abortion rate, divorce rate, percentage of Muslims and rate of growth of it, immigration, social spending as percentage of GDP, firearms ownership per capita, percentage of capital stock directly and indirectly in government hands, and so forth - all of these metrics expose a very leftist society. Russia can only be perceived as somewhat right-leaning society because direct taxation of population and most businesses is on the lower side, but that's only because it mostly funds itself with oil money, not taxes on people.

It's puzzling to me why Putin chose to present Russia as far-right. It must be nothing but his personal preference, and he doesn't give a damn about it having nothing to do with the country's realities.
>Instagram is losing to TikTok.

Is KitchenAid losing to Tesla? Is BNSF losing to PepsiCo?

These statements are only valid if you think the two things should be comparable.

The backlash is because people want them to be separate, and to serve separate purposes.

The people at Facebook controlling Instagram are making this comparison, but to me (and probably many other people), this is more akin to KitchenAid building an electric car to compete with Tesla, while simultaneously dismantling their kitchenware department.
I have a 5 y.o. daughter and two nephews: 6 and 11 y.o. I like seeing them grow in real world.

There will always be perverts sending nudes to kids one way or another. Where I grew (before the internet) we've had them arrested near schools.

Pretending the world is all unicorns and rainbows is not the way to raise your children IMO - the hard truth is going to hit them sooner or later. Talk to them, treat them as young adults, and explain what is good and what is not, and why.

Fun story: I'm into crossfit semi-professionally and I've recently been very pleased to hear my 5 y.o. telling her friends that they should not eat that much fries and coke if they want to stay healthy and suggested they try fish and chicken instead.
> It's been done for trains

Has it been done on anything more complex than 100% underground subway line with the train just going back and forth?
> A culture that sees mass shootings as normal

That's just muddying the water by bringing up an irrelevant issue. We are talking about displays of violence in movies.
What benefit would a changelog bring you if you were to release up to production any change as soon as it hits main and work without long living branches? Wouldn’t it effectively be a git history?
You are excellent on this
>>And that the on device option was better for your privacy not worse.

No it wasn't. Previously pictures weren't scanned directly on my phone, then they were about to be. That was a downgrade of privacy, not an improvement. The fact that it was only going to be applied to photos due to be uploaded to iCloud is irrelevant - you are still using my own device to scan my own photos, and if it fails some completely opaque check that I have no control over, you will report me to law enforcement(who will then do god knows what). Not to mention that during the analysis process my pictures will be shown directly to a human in a centre somewhere who will judge them if they are legal or not. Again, I'm really struggling to see how this is an improvement in privacy.

>>Until you realise Apple has been scanning your iCloud photos for government banned content for years.

Source? Apple has maintained for years that they don't scan pictures already uploaded to iCloud, since they are encrypted and Apple doesn't have access to them.
The graph describes the colours in pictures taken of objects that are part a museum’s collection, not pictures taken with a variety of cameras over time. The behaviour of smartphone cameras would have no effect.
They do. iDevices can be setup with a managed Apple account which allows whitelisting contacts, accessed websites, and permission to be granted before installing apps.
Nah, opt in feature like this is better. Because it is actually useable for parents. The all in everything locked kids modes are too much of annoyance for everyone involved to be used.
This exists already as part of Family Sharing.

You can do everything you said when you manage your kids accounts (manage contacts, whitelist internet websites, define appropriate content ratings and so on.
It's actually a bit more complicated. My state doesn't require ID to vote, but some do. Some require a full photo ID and others don't. Photo ID is optional at the polls in about half of US states:

https://www.usa.gov/voter-id

Where I live you just show up at the polling place, sign on the line next to your name and address, and that's it. Separately, here's how to vote without ID in California:

https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_ID_in_California
A byte is the smallest addressable unit on a given architecture.

Depending on the hardware that byte can be 8, 12, 24, 32, or 64 bits (in my own experience over the years).

It's sad so many here are claiming that there are always and only 8 bits to a byte.

I've already replied to one person who quoted an ISO standard, that they clearly had not read, in support of this misconception.
Did you put the male plugs into the female sockets? Perhaps it was even pornographic material instead of just nude pictures.
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Didn't we have yet another thread on Google scanning all the files in your Google Drive just the other day?
I'm assuming this is a joke but even assuming that I don't see why this is funny.
Checking for the presence of contebt is compketely different from checking and reading of said content.
well, a breadboard is actually naked... :P
How will that sound? We are sorry, you are too expensive for us.
Let sleeping dogs lie and she is now 22.

There was no malice intended by me and I learned a life lesson regarding privacy - I expected for myself but did not even think about granting the same to my kids.

So I don't log internet activity - no net nannies - just use Unifi WiFi to make sure bandwidth is distributed fairly to all devices and to block spam/ads via Piehole.
Do you realize the irony of saying that Americans are overprotectionists, using Europe as a comparison, when the EU may be the most sprawling, onerous, and protectionist regulatory state to exist on this planet?
Been to Gran Canaria recently (technically Spain), and every beach had topless women sunbathing (even the big city beach). Don't recall seeing fully nude adults though, as those beaches will be segregated IME.
It's not really the status quo you've experienced, as it's likely you've used ad funded services in that time.
This is a great plan if it brings the demise of Instagram.
Nudging would look like this (excuse the politics, it's just the most immediate source of examples): people who are up to date on their vaccinations may get perks and be allowed to enter certain venues just by showing their card, while everyone else gets no perks and has to pay for testing to enter venues or are barred entirely.

Another example: instead of regulating testing for travel, allow third party companies to manage official testing certificates and set their own prices. This happened in the UK, where Covid tests were free from the government unless you wanted to travel - at which point you had to pay a private clinic upwards of £50 (sometimes more like £150) to get a 24 hour pass.

Nudging looks very much like incentives and restrictions in a mobile game.
If I can be forgiven another nitpick regarding readability:

The font size is extremely small to the point of being unreadable on a mobile phone.
Aside: I love this kind of break-down of the low-level economics of a certain industry/business. Does anyone have any good references for others?
If they're going to do this at all, "It's your choice but make sure you feel safe" is probably the right tone to hit here. It's all carefully worded to remain non-judgmental while still saying "We've got your back if you don't feel comfortable".

Also, I have to respect that it's an opt-in feature by the parents/guardians, but the feature still allows the kid to view whatever the image was without actually alerting the parents. In a way, that tradeoff is the best-case scenario for this sort of automated scanning — it allows parents to put safeguards in place while still giving kids their privacy and not blocking anything. Curious to see if that becomes leverage to normalise scanning in general.
The only values the US and the EU align on are brutal profiteering at the expense of overseas territories. If anything, I kind of hope that China replaces the US as the influential friend and we get less of this war apologism. The US is a big bully and at every turn where it has influenced EU culture the EU has become objectively worse. For it's own citizens, for any foreign powers interacting with it, the works.
This analogy assumes that JS/Python devs work with byte-level measurements all the time like how carpenters work with measurements centimeter-level measurements, which is very debatable.
I would say a nude photo is probably worse because it could be indicative of some kind of grooming or other sexual abuse.

This is an opt in feature so it’s up to parents whether they think it’s appropriate or not, but I think it’s weird that people are getting mad at Apple for providing a secure, private way to do this when child abuse online is a real thing that happens and some parents may believe that it’s appropriate to trade off some of their young children’s privacy in exchange for some small degree of protection against that.
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We are talking about the era when GNOME 3 / KDE 4 / Unity were born, which was around 2007. By then, the QPL issue had long been resolved and nobody cared anymore.
I thought a good example is when you get a drivers license and it asks if you'd like to become an organ donor, it "pre-checks" the "yes" box rather than leaving it blank.

The idea being people who are on the fence are more likely to just accept the "yes" than go through the effort to check "yes"
gov.uk is the quintessential example, but I'm not sure it meets the bar for "popular". Sure, lots of people use it, but that's because they have to.

I don't rely on accessibility tools myself(outside of Vimium for keyboard navigation) but I get the impression that Twitter is pretty well done. In between adding support for alt tags on user uploaded content, actually implementing a custom focus language, and bespoke screen reader labelling they seem to at least care about it.
In this case, it's exactly the same. Microsoft (and Google) is reading the content of your email, searching for words or phrases that may hint to the fact that a file should be attached. If it believes that you're erroneously sending an email without an attachment, it'll send you a confirmation prompt.
> Maybe people prefer (red, green, bright blue), but they fear that they won't be able to sell their car because of its color. So they buy white.

There's definitely location/cultural variety here, people would worry a white car wouldn't sell, due to the increased visibility of dirt and scratches, so only gets 5% of sales here. The top colours here are silver (24%), black (22%) and blue (17%, mostly darker shades).

I'm not sure why silver cars escape the stigma of white cars here since they have the same issues, but they do.

After the size of vehicles and number of pickups, the amount of white cars was the next thing that stood out to me about the cars when I first went to california
Ah yes, democracy. Is that when you fire up the tanks and shoot natives until they tell you you're a big boy? Or is it the terror campaign of school drone strikes after?
maybe doris is good （http://github.com/apache/doris)

join support is bad for clickhouse. For apache doris, performance and join is better than clickhouse.
I presume they use that Microsoft technology to check for presence of too much skin tones in the shape of a human body ???.

The problem is if the ML flags something and forward it to a human (even anonymized) to decide on for quality control purposes - that is why Alexa,Google and Apple smart speakers are banned in my house.

I only allow dumb bluetooth speakers.
A physically-based renderer tries, as much as possible, to ground the equations and techniques in physical principles. For example conservation of energy[1], surfaces shouldn't reflect more light that what shines on them, and Helmholtz reciprocity[2].

This affects the choice of approaches and algorithms, such as using unbiased rendering[3], and their implementation, like using energy-conserving bidirectional scattering distribution functions[4] to describe how light interacts with a surface.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_reciprocity

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbiased_rendering

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_scattering_distr...
These features exist! Apple includes parental controls under "Screen Time" and they works very well. You can whitelist contacts and websites, and even extend them remotely, as an administrator of a child's device.

For restricting access to the internet: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304
For restricting access to contacts: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-screen-time-fo...
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> If experience is the name we give our errors, refusing to accept
> errors were made means stating you've learnt nothing.

Right into the quotes.org file. To whom shall I attribute it?

Seriously, you've just summed up a significant fraction of both my parenting and my professional life.
I had a lot of fun using graphviz to create a call graph of my C++ code, thanks to clang.

Unfortunately, I was not able to generate something readable.
There's heaps of ways. For a starter, don't live in a country where doctors can get kickbacks.
I can only tell you about my personal impressions:

* Google has a lot power. Many Web-developers seem to think that "Chrome is correct" and other engines must behave the same. I'm questioning this.
* Apple locks-down their devices. This is not acceptable, because the customers are the owners of these devices. As a side-effect - this prevents a complete dominance of Google's Blink Engine.
* Google is pressing on every user of their website "Install the Google Search App", "Install Google Chrome" and especially annoying on iOS is Google Maps which constantly tries open the App-Store (somewhat also Apples fault?)
* Finally Microsoft Teams allows using their website only with Edge (Blink) or Chrome (the original UI for Blink). So we're back in 2001?]
* Opera, Trident and KHTML no longer maintained.
* Other than WebKit the Gecko-Engine seems not be used often as integratable engine. There was Galeon but replaced by Epiphany.
Linkedin is also useful to see which of your colleagues are yes men.
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>Previously pictures weren't scanned directly on my phone, then they were about to be. That was a downgrade of privacy, not an improvement.

Absolutely not true.

When you scan on the server, like Google does, that information is open to abuse by anyone who issues a warrant, and I wouldn't be willing to bet that the warrant is a hard requirement.

>Google’s Nest Will Provide Data to Police Without a Warrant

https://petapixel.com/2022/07/27/googles-nest-will-provide-d...
Which makes sense given yesterdays announcement that Rust is now an endorsed server-side language at Meta and Rust the recommended language for CLI tools: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/27/developer-tools/progra...
The US should hold a simulation range-voting election before the actual election, just to compare the difference afterwards

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_voting
This is not enough because in reality (I guess) most parents do not bother with setting this up (or don't know how to do it) and as a result kids stay unprotected. Maybe there should be a law requiring to setup such settings and a one-click option to switch to restricted mode without having to toggle every checkbox.
I didn't realize it was so few. My own state doesn't require voter ID. However it looks like the states that require ID tend to be smaller, and many larger states don't require it. 41% of the US population live in states like California with no voter ID laws, with an additional percentage in states where a photo ID (as opposed to a bank statement or utility bill) is optional:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/13/nikki-hale...
The article in question was "No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias". That study apparently counted default choices on forms as "structural interventions" - a term wide enough to usually include immunisation programs and taxes.