skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct, the original method would only have scanned items destined to iCloud and only transmitted some hash of matching hashes. And yes, similar slippery arguments exist with any providers that store images unencrypted. They are all scanned today, and we have no idea what they are matched against.

I speculated (and now we know) when this new scanning announced, that it was in preparation for full E2EE. Apple came up with a privacy preserving method of trying to keep CSAM off their servers while also giving E2EE.

The larger community arguments swayed Apple from going forward with their new detection method, but did not stop them from moving forward with E2EE. At the end of the day they put the responsibility back on governments to pass laws around encryption - where they should be, though we may not like the outcome.
Depends on the country also; some have their own official mapping data available in the public domain...
oh shit, accidentally posted wrong link. We are at https://firebender.ai

on a second note, why can't I edit the link right after posting like ~10 min after maybe?
The implication is he probably could’ve self-funded it himself, but chose not to.
My two cents reg. this.

Creating backdoors that allow encryption schemes to be subverted is _fundamentally_ going to cause harm on the internet, and eventually fail the weakest users/those that need privacy/security the most.

A mechanism that can subvert cryptographic protocols can be used by any party, including oppressive regimes, private entities etc. that have the resources/will/knowledge to use the backdoor etc. Backdoors harm both the trust on the web (which can have an impact on economic transactions among many others) and the people that need security/privacy the most. In the meantime, criminals will wise up and move their operations elsewhere where no backdoors exist.

We basically end up with a broken internet, we are putting people in harm's way and the criminals we are targeting are probably updating their OPSEC/MO not to rely on E2EE.
The mental health issues our youth are facing have significant roots in smartphones/social media. The longer you can delay it without having your child be ostracized from their peers the better. Each child will likely need a different approach, but I'd encourage heavy involvement and oversight by parents. The bad far outweighs the good, but if monitored you can hopefully mitigate the bad.
Optimization is solved in the sense we have engines for it, but precisely defining the problem to be solved is not trivial, and the error described here could have been made within an established solver with the wrong specification.
Anyone Moving from Julia to Mojo
we've tried using julia but FINALLY the compile time latency, HUGE memory consumption, language instability and pkg version hell got to us. We're lucky that we modularized everything so we can easily move over in stages. I'd be interested in anyone else who are making the move and what field they are in. For the record julia is a fine language but it is NOT for us.
I recall being turned off by Reddit's UI when I stopped using Digg. The content was so incredible that I learned how to love it. And now they've killed Apollo so my only interaction with it is via Google search results for my problem du jour.
Bing Bunny sounds like some misplaced Microsoft promotion.
Click and stay tuned
Today's main line rails are mostly in the same places they were back when they hosted passenger service.
Be careful though... received an angry letter after using "military-grade plutonium"
The Left side tends to miss a lot of trivia, although occasionally something meaningful or important - but knowing those things helps me have conversations with people in the right-wing bubble and know what they're talking about. The Right side tends to miss a lot of fairly serious stuff related to Trump's legal problems. I find it worthwhile to keep a finger on the pulse of that site, but it's not my primary news source.
Do they? Some 70-80% of the time, it’s the liberal party. That makes Canada almost a single party democracy. On top of that majority governments have almost unchecked power. When the government in power is a good one, they can really get things done. But I don’t think I was even alive the last time that happened. When the government is a bad one, they have unchecked incompetence. I’ve seen a lot of that, including when the liberals are not in power.
Which definitely does not help me makes slides...
Anathem is one of the exceptions where I think the pace holds up in the final act.
That’s the outrageous part of it. They didn’t test it against historical data to find it performed worse. They deployed it at scale, rather than trial it in a small sample. They didn’t notice it leaving large numbers of teachers as “drop-outs” despite only being considered for one position. They didn’t move to correct it, when the problem was noticed. Then to top it all off, they did it again, knowing it does this. Absolutely absurd.
I don't really see how the ISA is relevant, maybe that it affects 3% of a chip performance, 15%, or perhaps even 30% but either way it is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Our software is order of magnitudes slower than it could be, RISC-V or x86 doesn't change anything.
Define your expected optimization outcomes in plain human language, and verify them extensively in trials.

I can write some useful formal properties right here:

- there are n openings and m qualified applicants. At the end of assignment, there should be (m-n) applicants without a role.

- if (m>n), all roles should be filled

- if there are n identical average candidates and m identical ideal candidates, if there are p roles where (p>m), all ideal candidates should get a role

- every candidate not selected should be worse than every candidate selected

- every candidate not selected should have participated in n trials where n is the number of openings

- etc
+1. "because I said so" and "when you're an adult..." are short-sighted non-fixes.

I'm an uncle to a 5 and 7 year old. They call you on your bullshit all the time! And even as a non-parent I get that it's hard to always have to debate a 5 year old, but they DO recognize and intake consistency, even if they don't have the capacity to understand logic and rationality. yet.

You gotta set a consistent and reputable example. Or else you're just making a human that understands power.
Yup. This[0] comment seemed to do the trick.

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1679jmx/is_anyone_...
I'm pretty sure you aren't even allowed to report an error to google without creating a privacy-invading account...
It uses wxwidgets so they can just compile that to webassembly too.
The guillotine hasn't dropped yet. The graves are already dead.
Makes me hope that these POAs will know what Air Traffic Controllers went through in the 80s
It's a sad state of affairs when even the corruption indexes have fallen prey to corruption. But then again, what financial center around the world isn't corrupt? Where money congregates, corruption is the rule.
ahh thanks, i'll update the link
You definitely shouldn't compare them that way. But it still allows you to. That becomes a fairly big issue where you have the behavior working when you test it out and suddenly it doesn't work when the values become larger. Sure, an experienced Java developer will know this. How about a developer that is new to the language? Not as likely. I've personally lost over 6 hours to that one years and years ago.
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Merge nature and technology for the benefit of both
Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others that have been tried. (Churchill?)

I’ve heard the same said of capitalism.
Does anyone know of any sites that list out articles like this by language? I always find it tough to locate more advanced or "meta" articles like this that aren't just explaining basic concepts.
It's also largely dependent on the embeddings model as others have mentioned. Even if wikipedia doesn't have any words specifically referring to that monkey as "weird", the model itself would know to correlate this monkey's embeddings with the "weird" concept. The main issue with this particular implementation is the model used (all-minilm-l6-v2) which is designed for speed and efficiency over accuracy.
Aw, the poor little workshy brats. If there's three of them they'll have to struggle by on $100 million each. By the safe withdrawal rule, that's just $4 million a year each indefinitely.

Cry me a river.
> Since becoming an abuser is a process and not a moment, part of the solution must be making access to CSAM much harder.

In my opinion CSAM is a symptom, not a cause.

It's difficult to "stumble across" that kind of material unless you're already actively looking for it, which means some amount of "damage" is already done.

I also highly doubt that someone with no proclivities in that direction would 'turn' as a result of stumbling across CSAM. I'd guess they'd go the other way and be increasingly horrified by it.
I think so. They use Emscripten to compile.

https://github.com/ahilss/wavacity

Remarkable.
I used to, but I now use plain CSS.
Test of if an OS is ready for regular users:

Does drag and drop work? Can I choose a random image/file somewhere in one tab/application and drop it into another.

Just testing that now...

* Drag HN logo to Whatsapp Web: Pass

* Drag from Google Photos to Photopea: Pass

* Drag a zip file from Google Drive to Dropbox: Fail.

* Drag an attachment from an email from gmail into an online hex editor: Fail

Conclusion: The web platform isn't yet ready.
The issue is not the phone the issue is how you use it. The problem are not books the problem is what you read. The issue is not tv te issue is what choose to watch. The issue is not sugar the issue is what choose to eat
I am not using LUKS, I am using a custom kernel module that implements a block device that presents to the kernel the decrypted SSD. The kernel module receives the key when it is loaded, then it creates the block device that is eventually mounted as the new root device.

I do not know if LUKS could be used for this, I have not examined it. IIRC, LUKS stores the actual decryption key in the encrypted disk (protected by a passphrase) or in the TPM, like most commercial products for disk encryption, which are methods that I do not approve.
> The other side of the coin is that criminals are using E2EE communication systems to share sexual abuse material in ways and at rates which they were not previously able to.

...regardless of whether Apple rolls out E2EE right? End to end encryption is available through a whole host of open-source tools, and should Apple deploy CSAM scanning the crooks will just migrate to a different chat tool.
if you and your kids use Chrome, you can log into the same email id as their device (in a separate chrome profile on your device). You can access browsing and YT history. Believe there's a way to turn off incognito also. Might work on other browsers too.
> Should we also outlaw high-performance cars because these sometimes serve as effective getaway vehicles for criminals?

What if we change the last bit after the "because" to "these sometimes are used at unsafe speeds and, intentionally or not, kill people who are not in cars?"

Because, at least for me, the answer is an unambiguous yes.

I agree that privacy and security should be available to everyone. But we also shouldn't count on being able to find people who are doing vile things--to children or adults--because the person messed up their opsec. I think Apple is correct here but as an industry we have to be putting our brains to thinking about this. "To outlaw large sections of mathematics" is hyperbole because we use mathematics to do a lot of things, some useful and some not.
Ignore it, Make sure your lawyer is ready to handle it if anything ever come of it. If they had a warrant you would already know.
Much further in each direction, on the left, we compile LLMs to bare metal and boot them without an operating system.

On the right, we have more layers, so we must boot a VM in the browser, visit the same webpage, boot a vm on that page, and then run wavacity in that.
Which are now used for freight and instead people mostly move in cars, which are prone to crashing
This is the classic tragedy of the commons.

Pro tip to Bezos: it has a tragic ending.
I think a federal system would be particularly important to Canada where each province has more trade with the US than the rest of the country.

The senate is meant to counterbalance the tyranny of the majority, but in Canada its a decorative institution.
I cannot watch those Ukrainian videos and I find them distasteful to say the least. But they’re hardly comparable to this. Those are literally videos of men in uniform with guns and battle tanks who are out there to kill the Ukrainians. There’s a huge difference between that and the killing of let’s say a serial killer who is completely under the power of the state and is incapable of harming anyone at that point.

The Ukrainian equivalent would be if the military was bringing captured soldiers to Kyiv and then publicly executing them to cheering crowds. And no one is doing that as far as I’m aware. And even that would be more defensible because Ukraine is ar war which is literally a state of decivilization, where the citizens of Ukraine have spent a year and a half watching neighbors being blown up and spent half their time in subway stations so they don’t get killed in a missile attack. That’s a level of PTSD (although it isn’t even “post” but continuous and ongoing trauma) that could bring the blood thirst out in any human.

And I don’t watch these videos so I don’t know, but as far as I’m aware they very rarely show any human body actually dying. It’s usually tanks being blown out or at worst I’m guessing tiny dots of humans just falling so even the gore is not visible. Finally, there is a difference between a video and watching a killing in person.

A closer equivalent would be Americans gleefully watching bombs falling on Baghdad which was horrendous, but different from when the Abu Ghraib pictures were released which were widely condemned and drew outrage among most, even though they didn’t even involve killing AFAIR but they involved mistreatment of captives who were under custody and not an active threat to anybody.
I'm imagining a scene in a Bond movie where 007 casually bypasses encryption by mashing the enter key. Actually I don't think even movie studios would think that looks realistic.
>I've often thought that Cyc had an enormous value as some kind of component for AI

Same. I wonder if training an LLM on the database would make it more "grounded"?
We'll probably never know as Cycorp will keep the data locked away in their vaults forever. For what purpose? Probably even they don't know.

>AM (no relation to any need for screaming)

heh.
This is something I think about a lot, whenever I'm holding my infant and trying to maneuver my phone into my other hand -- what behavior am I modeling? It's made me more cognizant of how I'll pull out the phone at any free moment, even just for 20 seconds, so I can occupy myself by opening the browser and seeing something, anything.
I have a 2 year old daughter and even though I intuitively know it's important to set a good example, I've already been shocked to the extent this is true.

My daughter loves grabbing our phones and watching whatever she can pull up on them, dialing people. If you take it away she gets upset. At first I was thinking, wow phones are very addictive on a primal level, she's addicted to just the flashy screens.

I think the flashy screen being tempting might be a little true, but then I came to a different conclusion about why she was so fascinated with the phone.

I noticed she also "changes" her stuffed animals diaper including pretending to apply rash cream, pretends to read books laying around she's seen me read, fidgets with the same household items she's seen me fidget with. That's when I realized what may be obvious to people experienced with kids - they constantly imitate the adults in their lives.

So my daughter was probably obsessed with staring at a phone because she saw her parents obsessed with staring at their phones and wanted to imitate them.

Of course this may be more relevant for very young kids moreso than teenagers, where the smart phone addictions work at a higher more cognitive level. But it did drill home the message that our children can be a reflection of ourselves so if you want to improve their lives, improve your own.
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How old are you? To be a bit blunt — things have changed significantly since those of us in our (late?) 30s and up grew up dialing into BBS Compuserve AOL.
See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32610129
You can enable device wipe after 10 wrong passcodes, and E2EE gives Apple pretty broad cover to deny government requests to your data. The appeal to that for me isn't US government (who have easy access to everything else about you), but other governments around the world with worse human rights records. It's terrifying that while traveling a policeman could make up something and get details about your home life they aren't entitled to.
>> I'm not sure our parents' borderline neglectful approach to children (latchkey, ads at 10 PM to remind them we exist, not being let in the house during the day) is one that's worthy of emulation

Latchkey is a little after I grew up, mid Gen X, I think the premise is that these kids with working parents would run home alone and lock themselves inside in terror because some kid somewhere got abducted and it made the news. I don't know what statistics there are around it, but that's my memory of the phrase latchkey. I don't remember locking the door when I was a kid, we didn't live in a great neighborhood.

But I was a beneficiary of the borderline neglectful approach to children, and I'm certainly glad I grew up that way. I got kicked out of a bar for the first time when I was 10 or 11, and when I was 14, I would go to hardcore punk shows a hundred miles from home and my mom had no idea where I was. "I'm sleeping over at Joe's house tonight". Maybe "Joe" existed, maybe he didn't, but either way, I am at a show learning how to stage dive.

So it's weird reading how closely people watch their kids these days, and I'm not criticizing, people raise their kids how they raise their kids, none of my business. But I am reminded of one friend whose house I stayed at a couple times, he actually had two parents, if you can believe that, and they monitored everything he did, asked him questions about everything, listened to his answers, and he had to ask for permission for everything. On one hand I could tell he was lucky he had parents who cared about him and wanted the best for him, but I also remember feeling so, so sorry for him.
To be fair, they aren't wrong. Web applications are applications. Who says native mobile applications are the only kind of applications?

Though if you call the PNG file that's a menu for your restaurant an app, that's just wrong.
Your logic is flawed fundamentally.

Should we disallow encrypted traffic between machines because that encrypted traffic could be CSAM?

Saying "X is bad so we should be rid of it" requires a method to get rid of it.

Obviously giving up privacy and allowing more surveillance can reduce something but that isn't necessarily the right choice.

Like what do you do if they start sharing in files the user encrypts?
Mojo isn't ready unless you are doing something like writing for-loops in Python and you want them to be fast. It has probably even more language instability than Julia and it doesn't have a package manager so I don't know if that's better or worse than pkg version hell. There hasn't been enough time for multiple package versions though, so there's that.
> Looking at Canada's population distribution, you could win an election with just 82% of the votes in Quebec and Ontario or 67% of those + British Columbia.

The governing party got 33% of the votes country wide. They govern like a majority because of a supply of confidence deal with a party that got 15% of the vote. The party that got the most votes at 34% essentially had no power. This all worked out because the winning party won a lot of seats in Ontario.
See my sibling comment - where does the insistence that octopus is third declension come from? The reality is that while most Greek loanwords are third declension, many are not, and Latin authors tended to not be consistent.
> Edit: my "old man" plans are to buy some property well outside of light pollution.

I've always wonder how feasible it was to do astronomy by boat? That way you can chase clear skies. And I'd suspect there is almost no light pollution out in the deep blue sea.
Never mind the incorrect math, you have a timing problem: you looked at the price this morning after reading the news about it, but the deal was effectively done overnight. Yesterday's closing price for the stock was $10.89.
We got our kids smartphones when they started middle school -- for our convenience, not their entertainment. I control what they install and I set time limits on when they can use them. They are not allowed to have social media accounts, and thus far my only bugbear is the fact that I have to allow browser access but that then allows unfettered access to Youtube.

I generally trust my kids and they're pretty responsible, but there's a lot of stuff out there they could inadvertently wander into, and while they probably aren't at elevated risk, I don't want it to happen sooner than necessary.

They have Android phones, btw, and are practically the only ones in the school who do. The result has been that they use Messages + Telegram for chat. They barely acknowledge the fact that their Google accounts mean they have email accounts, and even if anyone sends them anything they don't read it. App-based push notifications are a requirement if you want tweens'/teens' attention.

We bought them phones as a safety precaution because they 1) ride their bikes to school, and 2) we're all over the place in the evenings with sports practices, some of which don't end until 9:15pm. We appreciate them being accessible -- by us -- and giving them the ability to communicate with us and their friends, too.

Phones are not allowed in bedrooms or bathrooms in our house, either, for adults or kids. :)