skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be more specific about what I suspect the actual intentions are behind the online safety bill.

A few months back the UK charged five retired police officers with hate crimes because they had a private WhatsApp group in which the police found content racist[1] comments about the Duchess of Sussex (Meghan Markle).

In the UK it is illegal to say something online that could be considered hateful. But the issue is that in most cases when people are saying hateful things they do so in private, so most of the time offenders like these retired police offers go unpunished.

People in the UK are very concerned about hate speech, and unlike these surveillance stories, this is something that UK media obsessively report on.

The issue is that although the government can arrest your kids for saying hateful things in public[2][3] they cannot do this when they're being hateful in private. If we genuinely believe we need to stop hate speech, then it follows that we also need to do something about the large amount of hate speech which occurs in private.

I suspect this is the primary reason why the government wants to know what content you have on your device and what you're saying to your friends because it's likely some of it is hateful, and if you have said something hateful in private then they want to know.

[1] 100,000 people were charged with racist hate crimes last year, and around 1 in every 400 people are charge with some form of hate crime each year. I'm providing this context because these are extremely unlikely to be highly racist messages on par with what you might hear from say a neo-Nazi. More often than not it's simply something negative which could be classed as hateful.

[2] Police arrest autistic child for commenting that an officer looked like her lesbian nana, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-66462895

[3] 17 year old arrest for tweeting Olympic driver, "You let your dad down i hope you know that". It was deemed "malicious communications" because the divers dad died the year before, https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/336534/Teenager-arrested-o...

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Legal note: I do not agree with hate speech in any form. My comment is not intended to downplay the seriousness of hate speech or question our need to enforce hate crimes, but simply to note that a lot of hate speech currently goes unpunished due to E2E encryption and the governments lack of visibility into what we do on our private devices.
> the browser would open only pages that declare that they are safe for kids

Safe according to who? There is no actual consensus outside of a core of extreme things about what is "safe for kids" and what is not.
Censorship is not and cannot be a blanket defense for companies to get away with not moderating their content, and for Google this information is content.

Google in particular left behind the excuse of "we just serve what's already available" when they started weighting results for political and commercial gain and labelling things as factual. They clearly do not act as a dumb pipe for information gathering.

IMI, as soon as they started exercising editorial privilege on data they serve, they became responsible for this kind of thing. Uncensored search results can only come from an engine that isn't censoring for their own benefit anyway.
Ask HN: I use Windows, macOS, Debian, iOS and Android daily. Can I use passkeys?
I've historically been OS-agnostic and have tried to choose "the best hardware for the job" rather than sticking with an ecosystem. This has resulted in a Threadripper desktop, a macOS laptop, an Android phone, Linux servers, and an iPad, combined with open-source software or cloud platforms that support all of those. Until this point, they've all served me well. This is not a hypothetical.

Any attempt at trying to figure out how passkeys are going to work in this environment has left me - despite years in the industry - totally baffled.

Very curious about how others who regularly use different operating systems on various hardware platforms have navigated passkeys and whether it's actually worked, or if fall-back to passwords has still been necessary.
> How do you define "safe"?

There are ratings for movies and games, we can use them.

> What if different countries have different definitions?

Then browser will refuse to open pages from that countries. For example, there could be an organization assigning rating to websites and issuing them a cryptographic signature as a proof. The browser will refuse to open any page without this signature, including pages from countries with different standards.

> How do you enforce this policy?

With jail terms.

> At what point is a person allowed to view not "safe" web content?

At the age of 18.
IIRC, it's in the spec to have WEI fail some of the time randomly, so that sites are designed to deal with real failures. Though, that may just be in there to make the spec less unappealing.
What's a reasonable time ratio these days (as in Intel gen 13 and quality ddr5) to assume between an addition of registers and access to L3 and to RAM?

Also, they analyse gate times rather than ALU in estimations to account for someone producing a dedicated chip for cracking the cipher, right?
I’m generally of the view that voters get what they want (even if what they want is internally inconsistent, not in their best interest, or they have to contort their worldview or values to justify it).

My point being, politicians aren’t honest because they’re not penalized by voters for being dishonest.
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The government will decide what is safe of not. There already are ratings for movies, for example "General Audiences" rating.
"An Englishman's home is his castle" used to be a well known saying.

We once did, but it looks like times have changed for the worse.
the death of journalism has nothing to do with the open internet; it mostly has to do with their complete failure to find a functional online business model outside advertising. I'm pretty sure propaganda bots are largely a result of the death of journalism -- given that the trusted sources of information have become largely and obviously untrustworthy, then your only option is to go to the "community", where conspiracy and propaganda can reign freely.

Social media is the only thing you could possibly blame on the open internet, but it has more to do with the same incentive problem as internet journalism -- advertising is money, and advertising needs "engagement". Social media, like journalism, needs propaganda and conspiracy and flamewars to thrive in order to exist. They have no real incentive to reduce it, except to make it sure it doesn't cross the point where it goes a little too far and they start getting accused of "causing the near collapse of democracy in the united states"
Self-centered narcissists, like the classical stereotype of boomers. That’s certainly probably part of it, but I don’t think it’s the whole story. For one I didn’t clue in to their narcissism until I was much older, though that doesn’t mean there wasn’t effects I wasn’t consciously aware of.
https://archive.ph/rVZIT
Yep. For those who don’t do much open source collab, it entered our lives as an open source project discovery, evaluation, and distribution system. Now, of course, it’s also where lots of us push our code that we write for pay, but that’s why we started visiting.
The actual claim of this paper is that any watermark can be erased, which it justifies by proving the existence of an Erase function that removes the watermark without degrading quality. Therefore, since any watermark can be erased, let's use the simplest one that's visually identical.

This is true, of course, but also vacuous. The problem is that there is no sense of the computational complexity or difficulty of implementing the Erase function. The proof holds even if the watermark can only be removed in O(e^n) or some similarly absurd time span. A good watermark, like a good encryption scheme or a good password, is one that can be verified quickly but must be reversed slowly.

The paper's stance is no different from saying "since any watermark can be reversed, none of them matter, and we should just use THIS WAS WRITTEN BY CHATGPT".

Which is why you should never assume that a paper makes sense merely because it is technically correct.
> A field like software where a single individual can make a disproportionate contribution and where a lot of the FOSS we depend on every day was written at least partially by volunteers is probably quite alien to them.

Oh my! An awful lot of contributors to FOSS are europeans.
The article mentions that Google "is suspected of making the device makers feature its search application and Google Chrome browser app by default and specifying where those apps should appear on the device screens in exchange for allowing them access to the "Google Play" app store"

Is there more information on this anywhere or are the requirements for Google Play certification confidential?
I agree it would be nice but it requires more investment than my plan and companies really do not want to spend an extra cent for children safety.
Are there any client side dynamic samplers that can target a maximum event rate? Burstiness with otel has been a thorn in everything that uses it from my experience and it's frustrating.
For early societies, you might be thinking of the Greeks, though apparently it's somewhat common between languages?[1] For Greek the idea to originate from Homer's writings, with colors being more described in terms of how light or dark they are versus specific hues.[2]

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

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer)
Fucked is not a binary. The choice now is between majorly fucked and severely fucked.
I'm fine with age assurance. If you're under 13, you go to the post office to prove that you're under 13, they digitally sign some token on your phone, and then your access is restricted according to the law. If you are an adult who wishes to remain anonymous, take no action. Problem solved!

It would be interesting to see how the reverse of this system is implemented; adults must prove they're adults before being able to access certain websites. What technical measures would allow this? Information can leak in HTTP requests and responses, i.e. "curl -H 'User-Agent: help me i am trapped at the bottom of the ocean' https://example.com" before any authentication has taken place. Is an adult allowed to send that request to a child? Probably not! This would mean the system has to be implemented at a lower level layer; websites would only be served on private IP ranges, and you'd have to setup an IPSec tunnel or similar first to prevent that out-of-band leakage. (You can get more absurd; everyone has a /64 of IPv6 space for themselves, so you can use your source address as a form of intentional information leakage; 1:2:3:4::1234 is a 1, 1:2:3:4::4321 is a 0. This means that, legally, you would have to be careful about how you do the TCP 3 way handshake, because, as a middlebox, you can't prove that sending a SYN in reply to a SYN is not actually someone requesting adult content.)

All in all, this seems technically impossible to implement, prone to making identity theft even more lucrative than it already is (don't reuse your ID.me password anywhere else, or some kid is going to use it to cheat in a video game and get you sent to jail a la South Korea), and unconstitutional ("prior restraint").
Those ratings are only advisory, though, which allows parents who disagree with how the ratings are determined to ignore them. If we're going to use a rating system that has teeth, then we still smack directly into "who gets to decide what 'safe for kids' means".
applying it to good (highly rated) code would do more damage to the model

the behaviour would be identical for the end user, but very different for those stealing, sorry, "training AI models" from it
It will become more like how it already is: the ""open"" internet with a need for registration/real names everywhere, and the ""dark"" net with zero rules and the usual cat and mouse of police raids/honeypots vs technical advancements in obfuscation. And seeing how this repeated so many times in tech and other industries, I think that's the best we as humanity can do for the near future.
As popular as ChatGPT is, I'm sure it will only take a few weeks before TikToks are widely circulating instructing users how to un-flag text if this was adopted. It would be so widely known that even non tech savvy students would be searching or asking friends how to get away with using it. Either a web app or saving as ASCII text in Notepad will probably be the preferred approach.
NeuralRad –- The Next-Gen Radiotherapy Platform with Rust and WebAssembly [video]
Due to the surprised interest of Rust community, I decided to make a longer demo to showcase the capabilities of Neuralrad platform using Rust and Webassembly.

From previous post, here is a little background on Neuralrad: The Neuralrad platform adopts multiple AI technologies and uses the latest Web Assembly technology in page rendering. NeuralRad Brain is a platform designed for the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Workflow. It can automatically segment tumors, OAR (Organs At Risk), automatically group Brain Mets into multiple Treatment Sessions, and automatically register a patient's CT/MR images for follow-up studies across multiple Treatment Courses.
You can visit the NeuralRad site using link: http://neuralrad.com
I mean, would it? How confident are we that there's not a one in a billion chance it might silence a random gene in humans? Or that there aren't impurities introduced in the manufacturing process resulting in substances that silence other genes?
It also scales in ways that no other information manipulation tool has ever scaled before. I'd say that AI is actually scary, even though I don't believe that it's truly intelligent.
This is false, even cyclists who think they pull up and pull back do not, and it is less efficient to do so. However it is a VERY common misconception that you should do this.
Neither MS nor Apple will want to spend lot of money for designing devices where they cannot even show ads.
Tech companies _cannot_ do anything. The DMCA is a terrible law, and requires that the company receiving a DMCA take down immediately take the claimed URLs down, or become liable if the claims aren't fraudulent. I recall originally it sounded like not only was an immediate take down required, but also they had to keep it down for two weeks even if the victim files a counter claim showing that it's BS.

The law is designed specifically to enable this, because the recording industry bought a bunch of politicians, and said "hey we need to have a zero cost zero risk mechanism for us to remove content we believe to be pirated, without having any penalties for being wrong, but there must be penalties for the host services if they try to stop us".
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Web Annoyances Ultralist may help, previously mentioned here by crazypython.
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Data Meetups mostly! https://www.datacommunitydc.org/
That was pretty much my point- parenting style isn't enough to explain the difference.

Then again, I grew up in Wisconsin, which had to go through all the coverage of Jeffery Dahmer. Stranger Danger was a very real thing for a lot of people.
That's pretty terrible for all the people living in coastal areas, which is a large part of the human population.

It's also pretty terrible for all the people not living in coastal areas, because people living in coastal areas will not want to live under water.

It's pretty much lose-lose.
A little pointless, considering that Stable Diffusion is already at or near human levels. Worst case scenario, just train on pre-2022 images.
> when will artists accept genai as a tool not a competitor?

When non-artists stop using it to compete with them?
Great, but then the content on the site has to be relatively static. Maybe social media is inherently "unsafe", but what about a news site? Do kids only get to see yesterday's news?
Emerging? Haven't highly skilled folks been targeting games and game DRM for decades?
This is what lead to the entire world's water supply being contaminated with PFAS. We need to make sure this stuff does not get into the water supply.
> There are ratings for games and movies, let's consider "safe content" to be a content which a 12-year old can watch.

The existing ratings are terrible, though, and as a parent I think they allow things that I very much object to my children seeing, and prohibit things that I don't.
I don't know about shampoo but I've been told (face) skin gets greasier the more soap you use - it tries to compensate for the protective layer it loses by soaping too often. So you might have been caught too in a positive reinforcement loop?
I can anecdotally attest to contact and employment happening solely based on Github profile - without it containing anything impressive - in Scandinavia, as well as a few cases where the profile was used as input in a regular interview process.

Do what you want with that info.
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Fungus? I thought it was gut bacteria herpes gum disease?
We need this for tv content as well.

A tv should show zero content until it has fully verified the identity / age of the viewer(s) and sense if someone new arrives and then stop programming
until that person is verified.

This could also be done by transmitting scrambled content, that can only
be fixed by wearing identity ensured glasses genetically locked to the wearer.
Hmmm. Your own evidence seems to disprove your point?

Looking at my quote from before:

> Small countries have less resources to combat misinformation, bribery, and corruption of other forms.

Then looking at your transparency.org link... is has an awful lot of small countries in the bottom rungs of the list.

According to that list, they're far more corrupted than the US (#24), China (#65), Brazil (#94).

Nigeria is definitely in a bad spot though (#150). It's still in a better spot than the 30 other (small) countries below it.
Good to get the sarcastic straw man out of the way, so we can get back to the actual conversation.
Let there be an government-assigned organization that verifies website owner, content and issues a cryptographic signature proving that the site has been verified. The browser shall not open any page without the signature.
You should take a dive in my comment history. I very much do not tolerate it.
> That's no different from saying "since any watermark can be reversed, none of them matter, and we should just use THIS WAS WRITTEN BY CHATGPT".

I’m not sure we shouldn’t do this; at least people wouldn’t put false stock in watermark detection methods. As it is now, what a watermark not being detected says is that this wasn’t copy-pasted directly from an LLM, but what lay people will understand is that “this was not produced by an LLM.” That’s a dangerous muddying of the waters in my opinion.
> I stopped using Twitter for years in the mid-10s after 4-5 years of daily usage and certainly didn't write a blog post about it, and I started my freelancing career there.

How many Twitter followers did you have, and how many people would read your blog post?

Evans has 389,000 Twitter followers, so his departure does have some salience to people other than himself.
If you are a programmer.
The embedded page title is more descriptive of what this is about: Grade Inflation Needs to Stop
The point is that the time scale of "lost, forgotten, rediscovered" is perhaps orders of magnitude longer than it is to be useful for much of humanity. And you similarly need to cross your fingers and hope the facility isn't burned to the ground or blasted apart or whatever. An indestructible nanofiche disk at the bottom of a forgotten pile of rubble is going to do little good to anyone.
Might need to do a bit of geoengineering on the side. I hear upper atmosphere SO2 does wonders for atmospheric cooling (and yes, Neal Stephenson has written a book about it).

Apologies for the slightly dark take. But either it’s humor or despair and I refuse to choose the latter out of principle.
I'm sad there's no other sites I know of, certainly not mainstream ones, that do moderation like HN does. I'm glad to see the [dead] comments on here, so I know what's current in not allowed and spam content.

I think Scott Alexander wrote up a blogpost about the difference he saw between moderation and censorship. It's similar to what you suggested.
Sounds like this explains why Docker eats thru Mac battery so fast
It is indeed embarrassing that "replace(chr(0x0020), chr(0x2004))" is an "algorithm" and that a paper can be submitted about it... *rant
I 100% trust my life better to two human pilots than to the same flight on an aircraft with a remote control system capable of taking over the aircraft's control against the wishes of those in the cockpit.
Will Microsoft Edge support it?
It's a terrible, interesting time we are leaving our collective children and grandchildren. There will have to be a mass migration, where possible, since so many people live or work within that zone of sea water rise.

They also need to adjust this map viewer thing to go to 20 feet.

https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
How long before "safe content" becomes the default?

.. and then the requirement

.. and then the law?

I'll take my Internet unsafe, thank you very much.
... right, and how many visually impaired people did you talk to about this actual issue?

Next week: "Of course I can understand black folk's problems - there are quite a few living in my city.
How do you tell when the dryer is finished?
The main CCS computers are a custom 18-bit (not all registers are 18 bit) design from General Electric, used on both the Viking and Voyager missions. The onboard software is mostly in assembly.

There's two of them.

They send software updates fairly regularly (including a nearly full rewrite in 1990) and this is a common question. You can find some statements in older reporting on other updates..

It's in some sense not very exciting. Basically, it's an interrupt-driven system and you can, by radio command, invoke handlers that will rewrite some memory holding the program with new contents and hand control back to other routines. Of course with the expected error handling and failover protections in place. NASA got quite good at it during the Mariner missions, which saw the first remote updates for their programmable sequencers, and by the time of Viking and the CCS, it was a routine part of the requirements.

There's tooling written in Fortran (and later partially ported with C) that supports the Earth-based team in preparing the updates.

The patches discussed in the article are actually for a different type of computer in the system, the AACS (Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem). But it's similar there: There's redundancy (there's two) and you patch memory contents, do a memory read-out to double check and kick things into gear.
"Even if I believe that what I'm doing is morally correct and legally protected, legal processes still have a financial cost. I can't afford to take on that financial risk for something that I do in my spare time to help others." - this is very logical and exactly what I would have done but it still makes me very sad that this is the way the world works right now :(
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