skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, they were coded by hand!

Here was the initial commit which added the first diagram (originally there was only one):

https://git.io/JfJ4K
Is there a way to "poison" the results of Clearview by adding images of yourself over a short period time that distort your features?
WeChat's dominance in Chinese social media is mainly due to its close relationship with CCP. It would be a different story if the market was open to west tech companies.
Talking about a censorship resistant social media in China is completely a waste of time.
Does this solution apply to private networks? I learned first hand how dangerous it can be when I brought down our datacenter with an accidental BGP announcement.
Yeah, claiming an IFR of 0.1% is laughable; it would mean everyone in NYC has been infected twice over.
Right. So why were we in full lockdown then? I can't imagine 1% is that significant.
I think NASA and SpaceX can quarantine a crew safely, and can manage the operations.
Not to harp on this, but the point is that, as I understand it, both “systems” are using exogenous information to extrapolate more data than is actually present in the source image.

That’s not to say that the same “thing” is happening at the granular level at all.

But this is distinctly different from standard filtering functions, which can only work with entropy already present in the source image. So there’s a neat distinction.

The output from the CNN is essentially an “artist interpretation” of the source image. As such there could be “clarifying details” in the output that were in fact totally invented and not actually present in the source.
What are these problems? I’ve asked (many) geologists and the best answer they come up with is salt seepage into the aquifer if it’s not done right, and a temporary increase of seismic activity due to relaxation from the added weight.

Look, the Three Gorges damn is much larger than this and much much more destructive. Entire cities disappeared.

But it also generates 22 GW of power.That’s an insane amount of coal that wasn’t burned.

So choose: burn coal. Burn U235. Flood valleys. Sashimi the birds. Carpet the desert with glass. Or massively decrease your standard of living.

For the record, I’m actually in favor of the last option.
If folks want to use video backgrounds, there is a simple way, if your source is on youtube.

youtube-dl <video>

In many cases these days, it will yield a mp4 file that you can plug directly into Zoom. Sometimes it will download in other formats, you might need to convert.
The marginal cost of everything you mentioned is zero per email.
On Linux ffmpeg can output to a /dev/videoX device using v4l2loopback in order to spoof a webcam, I was able to play a looped video as a webcam and connect to websites that require a webcam.

On kubuntu I had to mknod (I think) the video device, then apt install v4l2loopback, then modprobe videodev and the v4l2loopback module, then use ffmpeg.

ffmpeg can capture from any video source including your running Xsession (eg a desktop area). So in theory you could output a pythonCV window or something this way.

OBS can probably do that better.
How would this work in practice though? Sorry if the question seems dumb.

For your own example : orders, customers and products. How would you generate a UI that matches design decisions of your product? Without specifying super detailed rules, in which case you could write it yourself? What am I missing?
It does come with some default styles (https://tailwindcss.com/docs/preflight), which can be spotted to some degree. There are also some example components, that a lot of people copy, and then transfer some of those styles into other components.
I have a better idea - how about instead of giving them even more identifying information, we file a class action lawsuit instead?
> they are under a lot of pressure

Quite the understatement
Your question was answered before you even asked it.

> It matters for people who find it valuable, the same way art, music or literature matters.

Key phrase "the same way".

There's nothing wrong with being wrong, yet you strike me as a person who doesn't like it.
What is it about HN and simple math? And The Truth? Down voting with no explanation is soooo lazy. Yawn
I think you're missing the point and the reason for the appeal of wechat. In China it's much more than just a messaging platform, and reality is most people don't care about notification standards and such.

I've used wechat expensively in China and I wish there was something like that in the US. Wechat just makes it so much easier to do somethings and has a nice integration with life. Some examples outside of messaging:

- payments obvious, but also ability to send money, split bills etc.

- Orders things. Either in person at restaurants, delivery or a ride

- The social media aspect. A lot of events, tickets etc are sent via wechat.
Adjusting for selection bias is really hard and potentially first-order.
I wish they would axe the entire staff! I can't stand their style of "explanatory journalism".
We just launched three astronauts last week. They have quarantine process they've been using for years even before COVID-19 came up.
Great to see actual testing on a representative population sample, though I’m not sure what the consequences ought to be:

> These prevalence estimates represent a range between 48,000 and 81,000 people infected in Santa Clara County by early April, 50-85-fold more than the number of confirmed cases.
Weird Things That Flew on NASA's Space Shuttles
Author here! RNNT's is indeed a good approach. RNNT's with masked attention are also capable of streaming as well.
The apathy is too damn high.
It's super easy...if you have a suitable chromakey backdrop and decent lighting on it. What I'd love is a plugin that replicates (or at least approximates) some of the "virtual chromakey" features of Zoom et al.

I don't currently have access to a good chromakey backdrop and it really is much easier to do it well with a bright green matte screen behind you.

It ain't important, but it would sure be nice!
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Server-side tracking: surprisingly easy
Original title was "PatchAttack: A Black-box Texture-based Attack with Reinforcement Learning" which seems better. The phrase "99% with black-box RL" is particularly inscrutable.
Ultimately disks don't really care whether it's software or hardware that sends them the commands.

Even hardware RAID is somewhat of a misnomer. Just like the disks themselves, it's just an embedded CPU, varying degrees of hardware acceleration, possibly battery/ultracap backup and a big software stack.

Software RAID can achieve high capacity and/or performance. No difference in principle to hardware RAID there. You can use multiplexing for huge SAS backplanes in either case.
The mask should cover the nose too! Can you modify the algoritm to change the position of the mask?

A few images in the landing page would be better than having the images only in the FAQ.
As long as they've existed, SPAs have been faster, but only in theory ;)

I don't think I've _ever_ seen one that's faster than the normal webapp it replaced. Except possibly for Google's first attempt on gmail, which was pretty snappy. Fortunately they've since replaced it with a sluggish behemoth, so order has been restored to the universe.
I don't think there are competitors outside of china for wechat. In messaging space yes, but that's only one aspect of why wechat is popular in china. I don't know of anything anywhere that has the functionality and integration with everyday life that wechat has in China.

Maybe most people only see the outside of china version of wechat, which is primarily just chat. Inside china that's not the case.
Fascinating. Source?
This is probably a trademark infringement on Zoom, in my personal opinion; this is not legal advice.

You might want to ensure you're doing what you need to for safe harbor provisions on copyright too.

Edit: I see you addressed the later.
We're still hiring! I passed this link off to our head of talent acquisition.
> it's also getting exhausting when people act like Amazon FC workers are treated like slaves.

Try saying that when you're the one who's not even given time to attend to bodily functions during the workday.
What the hell are you talking about? lol none of this is correct.
Long ago I worked in support on a government contract where the first name in the email directory was Alan Aaron. There was no such person, but the account got plenty of email because it was so easy to include by mistake. The COTR's staff would go in now and then to clear it out.
Statistics: How do we quantify evidence for a hypothesis from data?

Examples: p-values, Bayes Factors, credible regions, a likelihood ratio. These are all quite different!
going on a tangent here... I looked at the stylesheet (https://isbgpsafeyet.com/index.css?v=24) and saw things like `border-top-color: currentColor;` and other variables used in plain CSS that I didn't even know you could do.
Nah, I find it way more flavorful than regular style. You need quality ingredients to make it, since you really can’t hide a bad crust by drowning it in cheese or sauce.
An alternative is greenhouses. These folks have been growing tropical plants at 7200 feet in the Rocky mountains for years using inflatable greenhouses:
https://crmpi.org/
As a matter of fact, I've converted the frequency representation that the core algo extracts back to audio without noticeable quality loss. Although in the app I am just showing the amplitude, but the phases are also important (people usually say that the phase of the note is not important for perception, but actually in complex sounds it's important to preserve relative phases of different frequencies).

I think this intermediate representation that I've extracted using this algo would be much better for machine learning on the sound data than either 1) raw sound or 2) frequencies extracted with FFT. But there is an engineering difficulty to overcome: the frequency data that the algo extracts doubles in its amount (more frequent frequency samples) with each octave... It's like wavelet data... It's a challenge to feed this data to standard ML algorithms, need to think of how to configure the inputs, it would have to be highly hierarchical.

My initial goal was to "learn" different instruments from raw sound data, and this intermediate representation is good, because it allows "translation invariance" across frequencies. I've described it here: https://vsound.app/high-precision-in-frequency-domain.html

It's a work in progress... This app is just for me to see if people are generally interested in this area, I don't want to do something for months only to discover nobody wants it (although it's been a few months I've worked on this app LOL).
I like the bubble visualization a lot. Great work! Have you seen the art of mixing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEjOdqZFvhY ? It seems like something like your tool would be really helpful for mixing music.
I've been wondering the same thing. The photo either belongs to the user or to Facebook, just because it's viewable on the site doesn't give Clearview the right to use it. It must be a violation of the terms of service and I'm surprised we haven't heard anything from Facebook about it.
my friend probably had the virus (2 inconclusive tests) and tried to get into this study. some group asked her for $125 to get tested. i'm not sure if she saw any of the facebook ads. so, grain of salt about representativeness of the sample. there's for sure a response bias towards people who think they had it.
How are you verifying compliance? It looks like to pass the test all I need to do is implement filtering on my interconnects with Cloudflare (or just drop 103.21.244.0/24 entirely).

To your example, airlines could screen passengers flying out of Eastdakota Regional Airport but nowhere else.
Feature Request: Chrome Extension
Check out the Mr. Gotcha cartoon, if you haven't seen it - https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
Beauty Spa Owner Charged with Fraud for Alleged Covid-19 Cure Claims
I think also because wechat outside of china is a very stripped down version of wechat functionality inside china. It's actually very convenient for many aspects of life there.
It hasn’t been released yet, but know that Microsoft is looking to hit this space as well with their Money app.

If you’re looking at DIY budgeters who don’t want third-party access, I’d make sure that subviews of specific goals, like a pay down chart of student loans or month-over-month of credit card bills. Since you’re manually entering information, your primary sell is probably going to be UI-based.
Can you provide more detail? I can't find the paper you are referring to.
From what I read Amazon has been actively pushing manufacturers in this direction. Saves on packaging material and labor costs. They can automate even more of it.
Oh absolutely - Considering what clearview did was replicated by a few individual researchers, I'm sure any government or private entity that wants to build s system like this has.

But I think most people here would fight against those systems once discovered, and there's no reason to allow clearview to profit now.
Shopify CTO: our platform is now handling Black Friday level traffic every day
>He deserves positive attention for his ideas and negative attention for the reality distortion field, and these discussions serve that purpose.

Here, here!
This sort of dynamic is something I feel the Free Software/Open Source world often misses. Yes, security, openness and ideally freedom are desirable and in some cases essential, but if the software doesn't fundamentally work well at its primary task, for its intended audience, those benefits won't count for a lot.

I think Zoom certainly deserves the criticism that they're getting regarding security. But until the alternatives figure out things on the functionality front, I don't think that's a sufficient reason to kick Zoom to the curb.
Elastic Beanstalk comes with the load balancer already in place, I've never had to think about load balancing as a thing-to-figure-out. And Amazon Aurora lets you set up a read replica / autoscaling policy as you're setting it up.

Honestly - it's a pretty painless, AWS-takes-it-from-there setup.
Japan’s ‘Disaster Parks’
Kirin J Callinan and Alex Cameron both like to invent characters and then write songs from the character's perspective as sincerely as possible. Sometimes the characters they are playing are just exaggerated version of themselves. They write 'serious' songs with elements irony and sometimes this means the songs fall closer to the 'parody' end of the spectrum.

I think their best attempt at this was Alex Cameron's album 'Forced Witness'[0]. Alex imagines what a Marlon Brando obsessed, porn addicted loner from the 80s would look like in 2017 with access to the internet. It manages to achieve biting satire and great song writing without devolving into simple parody.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU01Rix_l2w - The lyrics of this album are very NSFW .. read the pitchfork review if you want to know what you're getting in to: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/alex-cameron-forced-wit...
Ask HN: How is your PPP loan application coming along?
My wife and I run a small winery with about $400,000 in annual sales and a monthly payroll of about $4,000. The COVID-19 situation dealt a blow to our sales and cash flow so we submitted an application for a PPP loan with Mechanics Bank, where we keep our business checking account. So far, the process has looked like this:

On April 6 we submitted an application to the bank's portal, which included the standard federal form with information like average payroll and headcount.

On April 8 we received an email saying that we needed to submit some additional information, which just turned out to be repetition of payroll information we had already listed on the federal form.

On April 13 we received another email asking us to submit ownership details for any equity holders in our LLC.

It's now April 17 and we have not heard anything back. If I call the bank's number, I get a recording which says they'll process our application as soon as possible and they're unable to provide status updates over the phone.

Now I'm reading reports that the program is already out of money. If this is what's supposed to help small- and medium-sized businesses weather the pandemic, it is not inspiring much confidence. Have others had a similar experience?
I cannot. To the best of my knowledge nothing like that exists. Everything I've seen of people "studying" it have cohorts of like 4 people or show no effect.
Looks like all the animations were keyframed manually, pretty sweet!
In general, one of the problems with the spectrogram is that pure frequencies will get smeared across a few buckets, due to the finite window size. Similarly, transients will get smeared across a few windows. These two are at odds—no free lunch. If you increase the frequency resolution, you decrease the time resolution, and vice versa.

If you are using a normal FFT this is no problem. You can reconstruct the original signal with a very small amount of error. However, this works because the FFT preserves phase data for each of the buckets. The spectrogram does not preserve phase data, so it will really mangle things.

(I’ve tried this, but it’s been a while. You get a sound which is recognizeable but total garbage otherwise.)
I'd like to humbly suggest that Rasterizer may have extended the state of the art of 2D GPU-accelerated rendering: https://twitter.com/Vector_GL/status/1214507005316128768
> Wordpress seems like the least likely one to require a bespoke from-scratch hosting strategy.

wordpress may not, the org deploying it might.
Obviously anecdotal, but when I toured an Amazon fulfillment center there were plenty of bathrooms and no shortage of workers using them...
That scenario is covered by the fact that organizing on company TIME is not allowed.

I think I disagree. This is exactly the role of the government to adjudicate. I would suggest a standard something like "everything is allowed, unless the company can prove significant harm". So instead of the gov saying "email is ok!" you just get to use email, and then the company has to go to the gov and prove that you using email is a drain on their resources in order to fire you.
I wanted to try it, but apparently not compatible with IOS 9. I wonder if this app has any features that require a later OS, or did you just pick the OS compatibility at random in XCode when you created the project?

Why am I using IOS 9, you ask? Because that is the latest my device supports. Why not upgrade you ask? Because my device works fine and is in great shape, so I'd rather not destroy the planet for for that sake of my own greed, vanity and stupidity.
Doug Hurley was the pilot on the shuttle crew that left the flag on the ISS, and will be the commander of the crew that brings it back to Earth.
Hi, I don't use budgeting on a regular basis, but when I need it for a project or a trip I use ledger-cli.org

It isn't a "batteries included" solution, but with a little creativity it allows you to do pretty much anything you want.

If you are prepared to even build your own app, I thing it might interest you.
FYI, United told me it's 6 hours or more per flight. They changed mine by 4.5 hours, so no dice on a refund.
The dynamic range of the human eye is better than that of the lens in your phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye#Dynamic_range:

”The human eye can detect a luminance range of 10¹⁴, or one hundred trillion (100,000,000,000,000) (about 46.5 f-stops), from 10−6 cd/m2, or one millionth (0.000001) of a candela per square meter to 10⁸ cd/m2 or one hundred million (100,000,000) candelas per square meter. This range does not include looking at the midday sun (10⁹ cd/m2)[21] or lightning discharge.”
I got that vibe from it too to be quite honest. It was mostly put there with an "it can't hurt to put it in" attitude, but it might be worth taking it out as I already have an article about it on my website.

Hm, yeah. I don't really have much of a formal education to rely on, I was unschooled. It's an awkward thing. Personally I don't feel that my work is particularly good, especially since I don't have a specific yardstick to work off, but the people I've worked alongside or have shown it to have told be that I'm 'very knowledgable', which feels weird.

I've been wondering about spending on some AWS certifications and the like just to improve the 'qualifications' section, or hiring someone to look at my CV and give a professional opinion on it.
RNFS - A Highly Available Network File Service. K. Birman with S. Armstrong et. al. Workshop on Workstation Operation Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1987.

It's about building a clustered NFS server on "virtual synchrony", which is another replicated state machine scheme like paxos and raft. The paper really focuses on some of the issues in making the system very fine grained versus previous virtual synchrony implementations, in addition to the issues in general to making a clustered, highly available, multi master NFS server.
I noticed that all of your supporting evidence is articles talking about allegations made in lawsuits. What were the results of these suits? Were any of the claims substantiated?
Haven't seen that video, thanks! I am a bit of a home DJ thought, in addition to my full time work in machine learning :) I've thought about DJ applications as well. It all comes back to the original goal of the project to do machine learning on music. One of the potential applications I've thought about is a new interface for mixing! I've imagined an app where you would "grab" different parts of songs/tracks and "drop" them into the mix, and remove some other parts. The ML algo would need to break down each track into its composable parts, and make them available for mixing with parts from different tracks. Possibilities are endless! :) That would require a lot of work (my dream job) :)
Shellcode to reverse bind a shell with netcat
You may have a point. And I did forget about things like social choice theory or game theory (although I'd assume that partially this is also due to e.g. social choice procedures or "games" often being very limited and artificial settings where by their very nature the relevant space of options/outcomes can be explored in some systematic way, which is generally less the case in more organic, complex settings, such as e.g. gradual societal changes).

When it comes to economics, I know that a lot of people don't agree with the basis of many mathematical models that are used, but I'm not an economist, so I can't speak to that.

So maybe I was overzealous in discounting mathematics for the social sciences altogether. Still, I would contend (albeit with much less evidence):

- There's some measure of people trying to construe "nice models" of things in those subjects instead of trying to make sure they agree with reality. I have a degree in linguistics and I've seen this over and over. Most of these models haven't convinced me at all.

- The amount of maths that you either need or at least benefit from in order to do good research in such areas is still substantially lower than in, say, physics. I think it's still to be noted how we can describe much of physics just with a small number of economic and elegant models. I haven't seen anything comparable in any of the social sciences.