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Apple is unable to access the data even if subpoenaed, for example, and this is provable via binary audits and client verification that they are communicating with an auditable node.
I’m kind of glad Apple is putting a touch more flavor in their ads.
Isn't it like very, very obvious that while you and I and everyone else on HN appreciate the power of sideloading, average users are more easily tricked into bypassing the protections of well-run app stores?
There is no question if an enemy set off hundreds of bombs in American ambulances we would recognize it as a mass terrorist attack.
[1] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-09-18/second...
But to your point, Israel’s ratio in Gaza was as high as 100 civilians to 1 soldier in the shopping mall (or more accurately, refugee family shelters).
If an enemy targeted members of American political parties that have sponsored terrorism and brutal dictatorships, detonating thousands of bombs in supermarkets and homes maiming nearby civilians and killing children, would you also call this “objectively a good thing?”
This is incorrect. There are reports of maimed civilians and a murdered child.
There is no comprehensive information yet on the ratio of civilians to militants maimed by this attack, and any claims otherwise are propaganda.
Anyone who claimed such mass terrorism is acceptable because it is not as bad as obliterating cities would be condemned as an apologist for terrorism.
If an enemy had exploded small remote controlled bombs in American supermarkets and homes targeting members of the American political parties, the sponsors of terrorism and oppressive dictatorships in many foreign countries, there is no question we would characterize it as a terrorist attack.
Israel has utilized a rate of expected civilian to militant casualties in Gaza at the rate of 100:1 [1].
This is anecdotal and misleading. There are reports of civilians maimed including the murder of a child. This is entirely plausible due to the indiscriminate nature of these bombs with respect to immediate bystanders.
If an enemy had set off thousands of small bombs in American supermarkets and homes, maiming thousands of whoever was nearby and killing children, we would undoubtedly call it a mass terrorist attack.
“One plausible mechanism is the normalization of mental disorders through increased awareness and receptivity to diagnosis and treatment when having individuals with diagnosis in the same peer network.”
Thus the study uses “transmission” in a specific technical sense of greater likely of diagnosis, not literally that you can catch a mental disorder from a peer where none existed before.
The muckraking blog For Better Science has been sounding the alarm on this for years. Here's a great investigation into the "paper mill industry"[1]
[1] https://forbetterscience.com/2021/05/26/the-chinese-paper-mi...
P.S. scanned 130 million papers! WTF!
[1] https://forbetterscience.com/2021/05/26/the-chinese-paper-mi...
Having said that I think it could more clearly state the author's typical preferred practice for updating a branch and integrating it with main when you're done. There's a few techniques listed for diverged branches, but then fast-forward merge is in its own box and it's not super clear how you might use working-branch rebasing with it to eliminate divergences in the first place (even though it's hinted at under "pull changes").
I wonder if it would be clearer to say something like "combining branches: rebase your branch and do a (FF) merge, optionally with squashing," or however they like to do it.
Emphasis on known. The whole point of stalking is to hide the device and not get caught. How would a typical victim even discover it? Or even if they figured out they were stalked, that it was with a Tile device and thus report it?
ID scanning is easy to defeat. This is just ripe for abuse and it's good that Apple/Google took measures to block stalking, even at the expense of anti theft use cases.
This should bring a 10x magnitude of improvement and justify hardware upgrades to satiate the RAM and coprocessor thirst of LLMs.
Spotlight does pretty extensive if “traditional” index-based search of your local personal data, along with certain privacy-preserving web queries. You can imagine what on-device LLM-powered summaries would bring to this type of search and suggested actions.
There is really no need for Apple to step into web search when (1) they don't inherently have a value-add beyond making your searches more private, which they already can do, and (2) from a revenue standpoint they already tax Google billions a year for preferred placement.
Startups can launch with today's GPT agents because their utilization is relatively tiny. Siri operates at planet scale, plus Apple is committed to on-device privacy, so they need to develop highly optimized on-device models.
No doubt this is going to drive a major hardware upgrade cycle for Apple.
These days the bar for privacy should be higher than "we don't log your activity, trust us." We should aim higher than VPNs.
I've been enjoying iCloud Private Relay. Basically it's a type of onion routing. From a privacy perspective, it narrows your leap of faith to "trust that the system is architected the way we say it is and there's no out-of-band collusion among the relays." With that, the entry node (Apple) shouldn't be able to see your destination and the exit node (Apple partner) shouldn't be able to see your IP.
Fun fact: it breaks Google search for me and forced me to switch to DDG! I got a captcha almost all the time. In a way, I see that as a positive sign that it's really working to protect privacy.
Granted, some slice of it is kept by the issuers, but it turns out issuers mostly make money on interest not interchange.[1]
[1] https://www.valuepenguin.com/how-do-credit-card-companies-ma...
But it's not like we can always know it will stay slow growing forever. Some cancers can suddenly become aggressive and metastasize, so careful monitoring is important.
The worst part for me was you have bloody semen for weeks after. I thought that was so gross. But it’s harmless and resolves completely.
As for “doing something” actually there has been a consistent trend in the prostate cancer fields towards doing less. As the years go by they get better quality data from long term studies supporting “watchful waiting” for many lower grade cancers. I even had a more aggressive one and they let me go several years before surgery, just to maximize quality of life. That’s all due to new data. Data that definitely one needs specialist skills to interpret.