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by abalone 1y ago
Note that even with OAuth it took, as of today, security engineers many iterations of review and prompt tweaking to get this result. We’re still in the “mapping” phase.
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by abalone 1y ago
I like to make a rough analogy with autonomous vehicles. There's a leveling system from 1 (old school cruise control) to 5 (full automation): * We achieved Level 2 autonomy first, which requires you to fully supervise and retain contro
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by abalone 1y ago
It might surprise people in the U.S. to know that the Abundance agenda is not at all how many other international cities solve affordable housing. Did you know that one in four Parisians live in public housing? Or that in Singapore it’s 80%
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by abalone 1y ago
This is Q-anon level conspiracy rambling. Preston has a long career as a tenants right attorney directly opposing the interests of landlords. He is landlord enemy number one. He wrote and passed a tax on the real estate industry to the tune
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by abalone 1y ago
That is a low quality and highly inaccurate comment that doesn’t really belong on HN, but just briefly: - The real estate lobby funds CA YIMBY and YIMBY candidates, not socialists. - Dean Preston was a major tenants rights attorney who auth
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by abalone 1y ago
I do, and they are notable for their lack of advancement of social housing, the number one solution internationally for affordable housing for all people. But you’re avoiding the thesis of the article which is that the core funders of the Y
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by abalone 1y ago
> We need a sane politics that can win and for that we need to start with a rallying cry The answer is staring us right in the face. It’s a catchy slogan and pulling tens of thousands even in deep red MAGA country. https://w
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by abalone 1y ago
The Donald Trump in this analogy is.. Patrick Collison? And the “five dollars” is $120M? Your premise is these right-wing anti democratic ideologues are on the fringes of the YIMBY movement. That is not supported by the facts. I quoted just
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by abalone 1y ago
“Those guys” are California YIMBY. The Stripe brothers for example are major funders.[1] One of the “California Forever” billionaires, Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, looms large in Abundance world. Along with Open Philanthropy, he donate
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Abundance: Big Tech's Bid for the Democratic Party(newintermag.com)
19 points by abalone 1y ago|31 comments
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by abalone 2y ago
> "In other words, little of the horsepower being used in this editing process is actually coming from the Mac Mini on this guy’s desk... I’m not entirely sure we were supposed to see that, but there it is. Oops." Sounds like
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by abalone 2y ago
You know this comment made me realize something. Apple and Meta are basically in an escalating Cold War. Apple recently singled out Meta as the number one requester of privacy-sensitive APIs and beneficiary of EU-mandated broader access for
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by abalone 2y ago
> The most upvoted comments in all of them is how sideloading and interoperability are worse than death Not even remotely true. Top voted comment is complaining about not being able to run Linux on the iPad: https://news.yco
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by abalone 2y ago
P.S. @dang should unflag this
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by abalone 2y ago
It’s not just Gruber. As both a medium-high HN karma person and a Gruber fan I can say there is a definite reduction in the overall quality of discourse around Apple news versus general topics on HN. Much more knee jerk reactions. I theoriz
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by abalone 2y ago
> what we're concerned with is Apple itself misusing our data in some way… and it’s in fact an unsolvable solution as long as their server side code is closed source (or otherwise unavailable for self-hosting as binaries) It is in
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by abalone 2y ago
Nitro is good! And showcases a great many of the foundational architectural concepts in PCC. But there is a major difference that is germane to the topic of Apple’s investment in US server manufacturing: The hardware root of trust. Hardware
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by abalone 2y ago
Absolutely right. My comment was strictly about “for consumer use at planet scale.” It’s the aggressive adoption and rollout of confidential computing architecture in an easy to use consumer platform that I’m celebrating here. (Including a
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by abalone 2y ago
That’s good food for thought! I would just add that the kinds of threats PCC is primarily targeting, I think, are attacks by malicious third parties (including state actors), rogue internal employees, and privacy-leaking software bugs. Th
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by abalone 2y ago
PCC is completely different from the ChatGPT integration. ChatGPT is indeed not a privacy-hardened system, but Apple devices only use it for so called “world knowledge” queries and make you confirm when calling out to it, typically involvin
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by abalone 2y ago
> Their answer to that is "you can audit us", but I don't see how that would prevent them from switching things in between audits. PCC does actually prevent Apple from switching things in between audits to a high degree.
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by abalone 2y ago
> I’m placing my trust in the open source community You’re right, security is a matter of degrees not absolutes, but open source software requires considerably less trust than closed source. Right? PCC applies this principle by making
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by abalone 2y ago
Some useful context: this is almost certainly being driven by Apple’s Private Cloud Compute architecture and not tariffs, as an investment of this magnitude is not planned overnight. Why is PCC driving Apple to spend billions to build serve
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by abalone 2y ago
> One scenario would be somebody in an airport and security officials are searching your device under the Counter Terrorism Act No, it's much broader than that. The UK is asking for a backdoor to your data and backups in the cloud
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Apple built a search engine using homomorphic encryption(machinelearning.apple.com)
8 points by abalone 2y ago|1 comments
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by abalone 2y ago
This has gone a bit under the radar but Apple went and built a private search engine that doesn’t know what you’re searching for. It’s called Wally and it powers queries like caller ID and landmark recognition in photos. * Homomorphic enc
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by abalone 2y ago
According to Apple, "A randomly generated UID is fused into the SoC at manufacturing time. Starting with A9 SoCs, the UID is generated by the Secure Enclave TRNG during manufacturing and written to the fuses using a software process t
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by abalone 2y ago
> Harder to attack, sure, but no outside validation. There is actually a third party auditor involved in certifying hardware integrity prior to deployment.[1] But yes, the goal is to protect against rogue agents and hackers (and softwa
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by abalone 2y ago
> As soon as you start going down the rabbit hole of state sponsored supply chain alteration, you might as well just stop the conversation. There's literally NOTHING you can do to stop that specific attack vector. Just want to poi
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by abalone 2y ago
> There is, for example, as far as I understand it, still plenty of attack surface for them to run different software than they say they do. I would not say "plenty." The protocol that clients use to connect to a PCC node lev

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