skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've followed this for quite some time now, not just Apples implementation of CSAM detection tools but the many other large cloud players including Cloudflare and Google who have had this in place for a number of years.

Whilst Apple's initial implementation might have been more aggressive than some of the other players. I do think that CSAM detection technology is a good way of being able to detect this type of information. However with all things, there is an opportunity to use it for good and bad.

We love using technology to improve our lives, but seem to actively despite using technology to plug the dangerous gaps in these cloud services. The public don't mind using cloud services despite terrible CSAM and terrorist content being circulated throughout them undetected, but resist when other technology might try detect it.
Well, you certainly can use it with just an text editor. However, due to the maturity of the language and platform, the IDE support of Java is pretty much unsurpassed and you would certainly be quite a bit more productive if you used an IDE like IDEA or Eclipse.

In terms of complexity, it really depends on what you want to do. Using a powerful framework like Spring can entail some config (albeit much less than it used to). Also you would typically use a build tool like maven or gradle to manage dependencies, build artifacts, etc.. Especially maven can be a little arcane. But another major upside of the aforementioned maturity is that there are reams of docs and stackoverflow answers which will almost certainly contain solutions for any problems you might encounter.
There's a premium price on Apple products. That premium is arguably paying for the software.
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Nintendo has been possessed by Oracle apparently....:/

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They stopped being competitive game company and turned into lawyer straddled litigation machines.
Curious. The reason I mentioned nests being close together upthread is because - per my understanding - both being stung by a wasp/hornet and killing one releases pheromones that makes other wasps/hornets go into aggressive mode. So I'm imagining the two nests being so close to each other will, eventually, trigger a war, which only ends once one of the side is eradicated. I wouldn't want to see anything like that near my house.
I think, universal pagination will always be a problem, because of varying paper formats, etc. However, there's the `break-` suite of CSS rules (`break-before`, `break-inside`, `break-after`, formerly `page-break-before`, etc) to handle the worst cases, like cutting through images, lists, or vital portions of text. But these rules are more about what is to be avoided and not so much about how it should be done.

A somewhat mundane reason for the examples, you provided, and for these rules seldom seen in action may be that with websites, there's rarely substantial care invested in print layouts, anymore. (This used to be slightly different, when executives still used to interact with the Internet on a print-out-only basis and pages came with extensive, dedicated print style-sheets. Meaning, print was how your customers were probably experiencing their new website, as were their peers, so it was important. There are also possible, additional problems related to reflow and varying resources, esp. with JS-generated content.) In a way, "mobile first" also meant "print definitely last", since it's yet another layout to maintain.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-befor..., https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-after, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-insid...
I'm not saying he was a random employee but he was definitely lower on the totem poll. Holmes could have had him removed from the company at any time. The same is not true of Sunny removing Holmes.

I have also read the book and agree Holmes was more into the PR stuff and investor stuff. But again - the crimes had to do with lying to investors.
I don't think it's quite so clean as that though. All data is customer data from the perspective of the service; it may in fact be employee data, but employees are also people who's privacy should be respected. And even if it doesn't contain data about any people, breaches often involve attacking multiple services to leverage increasing access. So you're putting a vulnerable app into an ecosystem of software, which doubtless includes sensitive days, and increasing the vulnerability of that ecosystem.
The author justifies it immediately above:

> Also I’m trying out a donation button for the first time. If open source work like this is valuable for you, consider paying for it. The recommended donation is $20 (or your local cost for an item on a restaurant menu) for individuals, or $1000 for organizations. (or your local cost of hiring a contractor for a day) But any amount is appreciated.

But also, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Very frustrating and you end up with the same problem.

I have some fun thoughts around this problem which is maybe just as a lonely sculptor might sculpt a human-like figure that they can converse with to feel less alone (and from "one" make "two"), maybe a universal consciousness decided to create something & the illusion of "separatedness" (from one, many) in consciousness to feel less alone. Hence make a universe with lots of manifestations of consciousness to observe and interact with one another, and keep any true knowledge of itself a mystery to preserve the illusion.

But that's not a very scientific perspective, and all the questions above still remain.
ChatGPT can solve novel undergrad level problems in computational complexity
If you ask me, function is beauty. I live in Tokyo, the architecture here is 99% ugly, but the way it functions is phenomenal so I don’t feel that ugliness at all. I just experience a great city.
That is very interesting, I hadn't heard of CHERI. 129 bit pointers sound like a bit of an oddity to me. What is the story behind choosing that size?
> Reducing demand and creation of CSAM protects children.

You're thinking of this as if CSAM production follows a rational supply/demand relationship (such as with food, or furniture). But is there really evidence to back up the idea that CSAM production follows the same rational relationship?

Child abuse is not rational, and an abuser provides their own demand for the CSAM they create; a child will not be saved from abuse even if there's nobody for their abuser to share the photos with.
And the dreams keep getting bigger as people spend more time on social media watching people have a better life than them. It used to be taboo to flaunt your wealth. Now it's all people do. Of course everyone who watches that is going to feel like shit.
It's plausible that a larger brain developed because it offered advantages. But later that brain was optimized without increasing in size.

For example, my current desktop computer is the same size as my stone age IBM PC.
I enjoyed the observations in this essay, but I missed the answer to the question in the title. I have a few thoughts in that direction.

Neutral colors like greige are fitting for our hypernetworked, hyperconformist age, where eccentric behavior, unconventional views, and standing out generally get you odd looks at best, surreptitiously filmed and socially shunned at worst. Being boring is an aesthetic survival mechanism, and entirely apt. As is the flimsy built environment.

Clothing is subject to fashion cycles so rapid, why would anyone make anything to last when it’s likely to be discarded and replaced in a year anyway?

Another banal observation, but architecture is subject to survivorship bias. Most of the mediocre buildings of the past have long since been demolished and replaced. We’re mostly familiar with successes. But the fact that buildings today are generally cheaper, uglier, and flimsier is true. And yet, people were making the same observation 100 years ago. And for decades before that.

General aesthetic degradation has been a more or less continual process since industrialization. It’s put more goods in the homes of more people, and the price is more uniformity and more ugliness. And it is relative. Our ugly present environment will possibly be an aesthetic high water mark to future generations, as midcentury aesthetics, derided for their ugliness in their time, seem to us today.
My kid’s school seems to primarily teach handling emotions, social procedure, and executive function.
You're presupposing because you're coming to a conclusion that is not justified by the evidence.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

> The only way it makes sense is

I don't think you've provided convincing evidence of that.

Are the following all not possible?

1. They are unable to access that account or page any longer

2. Facebook chose to lie about this in a way that is not easily disproved by a screenshot.

3. Facebook disabled their account because of their ad content, but chose to put up a message that was more ambiguous.

*edit: formatting & make messaging more polite
It scared me when this story first broke that there was almost no focus on the real harms being addressed. It was all about calling out the flawed methodology about the scanning, not the overarching reason why anyone needed to talk about scanning images at all.

I think the litmus test for if a service perfectly respects privacy is if a pedophile can conduct their entire operation using the service without their private data being exposed to prying eyes. By that metric, there ought to be no perfectly private services on the clearnet. To many it is a matter of compromise and "thinking of the children."

Those who really want a higher level of privacy don't need to be beholden to a publicly traded company, subject to legal requirements, to provide it to them.
Congratulations! 2 years is a long time to be doing one thing
Is there a list of some popular blogs available?
I had IPv6 only on the default APN configuration pushed by my carrier on Android, last time I checked it
And IPv4 only for roaming
Both v6 only, v4 only and v4+v6 were supported

For landlines, I'm surprised because some ISPs who were not having difficulties with ipv4 are being the fastest to switch to ipv6. While some who had to deal with CG-NAT and other horrible stuff are fine with ipv4, and haven't yet planned to move to ipv6

Is this due to corporate culture or something ?
I feel like the biggest source of truth was inside the company. Controlling the employees is what kept it hidden for so long and an employee was what took it down. But you might be right that most of the fraud was via investors. The companies operations were just a fiction after a certain point.
I intentionally said IF it's the best research we should listen to it. I'm agnostic on whether or not it is the best research.
> But neither ChatGPT nor some larger descendent model will ever be able to write the most difficult pieces of our software given natural language descriptions of desired functionality.

Strong assertion that I think will be proven wrong in the next decade, barring any catastrophes. Maybe not a direct descendent model, but likely one that has quite a bit in common.
Do you think schoolteachers are pathetic? They have much less influence than a reddit mod.
A back-handed compliment is the closest I ever get to a real one on HN, so I'll take it.
If you google for "how to bury guns", you will find plenty of advice.
Piss-Weak Parenting
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MemorySegment::adress only returns an address, which fits in 64 bit even on CHERI.
Note that this seems to be about biodiversity rather than carbon emissions or fuel source sustainability, and it is about industrial production of bioenergy rather than people burning dead trees in their fireplaces.
Depends on when you last touched Java. Lambda's (Java 8) have significantly reduced the ceremony needed to do things you'd use anonymous inner classes for. Java 14 introduced records, which makes building simple immutable data objects trivial.

It's still a fairly verbose language, but it's miles from where it was 10 years ago.
Most CPUs in common use can only address 48 bits of memory, which is about 280 terabytes.
Well, technically early on it was a real business and a genuine attempt to create the blood meter. It was when it became apparent it wasn't going to work but they still maintained that fiction was when it turned into a fraud.

A legitimate startup morphed into a fraud, coincidentally not long after Sunny joined and started secretly dating her.
Some other answers I have seen floaing around:

- Boomers are dying and their highly inflated real estate assets are getting transferred to their children. Imagine one day waking up from your Walmart cashier job and having $$2.5M house on your name.

- Many people invested in stock market and got out just in time to have double or quadruple their money. Many of them went to $1M-3M in cash and now happily living ever after financially free in cheap places.

- Many people have got addicted to buy-now-pay-later and they haven't came off yet.

- Ton of people moved to gig economy, driving taxies and delivering goods. They are hard to account as "employed" but leave a huge hole in available labor force for traditional employers.
This article is interesting but it seems determined to reach its conclusion. I have a hard time believing that everyone seemed so cold and lifeless to those who weren't looking through the author's lens. I'd expect people to be a little awkward at any internet gathering. I feel like this piece seeks to "expose" them for not being as cool as their Twitter personalities, but we already knew that, and there are better things to criticize them for than their posture or red eyes.
They will get examples of code that uses libraries that don't exist (yet)
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Basically this, and the fact that so many other fintech companies try to act like the only possible option is to use Plaid (seriously, a lot of them will only let you connect accounts via Plaid.)

It's already a service I don't trust, and the attempt of other companies to force me to use it has made me dislike it even more.
VC $ works the same as short-term bank loans? how? in any case, all of this interest rate "math" the parent wrote is only applicable to short-term loans. This is math for a shawarma stand, not a company that raised 300 mil of non-borrowed money.
Florida. The armpit of America.
I would have to agree with you, from personal experience. About 5 years ago I believe I might have overdosed by mixing OTC medication by accident, it was a combination of neurotropics and other focus medicine or at least after reflecting on the whole ordeal I believe this to be the case. I’ve never been one to consider suicide, never understood how someone could take their own life but at that specific moment in my life I felt that I was literally losing my mind and at any moment could go crazy and I would rather kill myself than to go crazy. So to touch on what you said, even a person that would never, ever do that under any circumstances within a sound mind can absolutely do it if the pain or suffering is so severe that killing one’s self is the only way one can save one’s self from what they’re going through.

I learned through that experience that the mind can be so fragile. My situation was induced from over the counter medicine. My heart goes out to individuals that have to deal with something like this due to mental disease… it really is something that affects everyone one way or another.
I don't really disagree with anything you said, but I do think ethical principles have priority and that higher priority principles can override lower priority principles. Some people are simply not in a position to uphold their principles, and I don't think there's shame in that; if anyone is at fault, it's the people who put them in a position to make that choice.

Our first duty is always to the survival of ourselves and those around us. Of course, if you're working on a system that can put lives in jeopardy - which may not be an artificial heart or something obviously critical to life like that, it may just mean a social networking app used in countries suffering from authoritarianism - then it's possible to come into a very sticky conflict.
True, on an individual level that probably represents the best benefit. Anyone who actually cares would also know to go through the settings to check the defaults on all of those things with a new router too.
Excuse me for interrupting, but what has access to do with publication? The problem that someone might have with an archive-site copying and publishing the content on the archive-site's domain isn't about the copying, it's about the publishing.

If all they did was archive but not make these archives publicly available, it would be different case -- if it was a case at all, because nobody would know that they're doing it.
Both Theranos execs were tried in Federal court. There's no parole in the Federal system.

This is one reason why you see generally longer "sentences" handed down in state courts (where parole is part of the picture) vs. in Federal (where the number is a more accurate representation of how long they'll be in custody).
Interesting - their approach to hash checking prior to iCloud upload (only when upload was enabled) seemed intended to allow them to support e2ee which they announced today (without the tradeoff of enabling CSAM).

I guess they decided it wasn’t worth it and it’d be good to ship e2ee anyway despite that meaning it may protect CSAM. I had figured they’d enable e2ee first and then reannounce the hash check if you enable it but I guess not.

I can’t see the rest of the article due to the paywall, but I wonder what changed. Maybe the risks with imperfect hash matches or the recent news of Google reporting that guy to police made it not worth it?

It’s in someways to Apple’s benefit to do this, they can’t see the data and are no longer responsible for policing its contents. They can’t accidentally leak it or get social engineered to restore access to a fraudster (how some celebrities got their images leaked).

Whatever it is, it’s nice when the incentives are aligned around user privacy. It’s cool (and a little surprising) to see real consumer device facing e2ee for cloud storage, even if behind an advanced flag.
https://www.dji.com/nz/mobile/dock The competition
I run Nextcloud on a RPI at home with fail2ban, brute force protection, MFA, and E2EE which is backed up remotely using encrypted Borg backup. The 4TB SSD drive safely serves my friends and family too. My laptop and Graphene phone's files, apps and settings are backed up automatically to it daily. I have too many apps installed on Nextcloud to list, but it is basically an all in one solution to your cloud needs.

Both Nextcloud and GrapheneOS are FOSS which addresses your concern about it being a government trap.

My partner is able to access my Bitwarden account if I were ever to be indisposed.

Sure nothing is perfect, but tell me how this is not a better solution than trusting the closed source ecosystem of the biggest corporation in the world.
It was totally normal (especially back in the day) to edit a makefile on a remote host with vanilla vi. There weren't any electron apps in 1976. Hell, vi is only a few months older than make, so when it was created I bet the usual way of editing a makefile was with ed!

Talk about a badly configured editor...
It's not just a pointer, but a pointer + metadata.

See this paper for details: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/pdfs/201904...
The issue is not so much background radiation (you'd have similar issues with RF), and your SNR is going to be reduced because of diffraction (as you rightfully point out goes at r^2). However the SNR would still be much better for optics because diffraction scales as 1/lambda.

The reason why JWST did get an optical link is that people developing these things are rightfully conservative and optical links in space are really still under heavy development.
>E2EE deals exclusively with the transit and reading of data between trusted ends, that's the point.

That's transit encryption. The point of E2EE is to prevent anyone, including the service provider from decrypting the communication. Apple making a backup copy of the comms that they can read breaks the E2EE.
GitHub Actions definitely offers iOS builds.
I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion
I think the person you are responding to's point isn't that these are people to look up to, but it's how Peter Thiel would prefer people acted. Thiel was a major sponsor of Vance's campaign.
I don't remember the first time. The computer is something that has always been a part of my life. My grandpa would leave sticky notes with the DOS commands I had to type to get into my games before I was able to read, I'd type them in slowly a character at a time matching the glyphs on the page to the ones on the keys and screen.
Both almost certainly surrendered their passports at initial arrest. The time to have fled was before that point.
It's good to have principles, but they must be weighed against what actual harm might arise and if it's actually your responsibility. If you had been aware of half the holes in M$ which have been "fixed" over the years (from what I'm told there's still a few despite being informed, that have been carried though for near 20 years) would you have programmed for anyone who wanted a product to run on M$? Obviously most people continue to write programs that ran on M$, since it is quite easy to see that a great amount of people use nothing else.

Since .NET is not proprietary any more, there's a good chance ALL of the issues are being addressed for the next version, unlike M$ who held onto a few of them knowing that eventually they might need an ace to "push."

Out of interest, as a end user myself, as well as what I might install for the average user, I have actively avoid .net products ... too many on offer were written poorly and it's too hard to vet every single one, as well as nasty surprise requirements. This may have changed in the last 8 years or so. On the other hand a coder who could push the same in C++ I could trust, along with most products which employed a good coding team.
Probably quite a lot, the size is way too big for a standard pallet as LTL freight, so it would have to come by flatbed truck with a built-in small delivery crane, if you don't have your own huge forklift to get it off.
Parent was agreeing with you directionally, but with less trashy rhetoric. Vance and Masters are Thiel proteges.
it has to be
Why did they start this PR disaster in the first place? Who was/is supposed ro pay the bills for development, operation and storage of this service?

Because they really want to prevent child abuse? Because they want to offer technology to governments like China that can then look for anti-Chinese-government content?