skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal, afaik, is to stop facial detection software from learning to recognize you and put a face to a name, not to frustrate visual similarity searches. The images are supposed to be visually similar -- so similar that they're indistinguishable to a human viewer.

Surveillance software that purports to accurately identify a person across multiple images is not just looking for the same content with some visually insignificant modifications. It's reading your facial structure, attaching your name to it, and searching for it in every image received. Fawkes is working to defeat that specific use case, not all fuzzy matchers in general.

P.S. If you have a human assailant running a reverse image search for photos of you, I think you're well past the point that something like this could be expected to help.
The bucket should never be publicly writable. The "go-to" techniques are signed POST requests [1] and signed URLs [2].

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/sigv4-post-e...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/PresignedUrl...
I created this interface using the Gradio[1] library and Peter Bailey's fork[2] of NVIDIA's StyleGAN2[3]. Try the examples in the bottom.

[1]: https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio
[2]: https://github.com/pbaylies/stylegan2
[3]: https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2
Think like a legislator. How do you write this regulation?

> [shut down] just large / public sites that require this sort of moderation

Let’s say I start a restaurant review website that allows comments and photos to be uploaded. It does modest business for a while, I now have 50 employees. I’m following the law because my site isn’t big enough to violate this “no user content for big prominent websites” law.

Soon, it becomes big, like a major competitor to Yelp, and I’ve got 1,000 employees. But suddenly, this new law kicks in that says that I have to stop accepting uploads because my site is too high profile. Now, I lay everyone off and go out of business.

This just isn’t a workable solution, at least not in the particular way you’re proposing it be constructed.

And really, you’re asking the second largest advertiser on the web (Facebook), a Fortune 50 company, to just pack up its bags and shut down.

It’s not like I love Facebook or anything, but I’m sure their 45,000 employees wouldn’t be happy about that.
"Generate text that could believably have been written by a human" is a task we're getting very good at. I'm curious how far it extends towards concrete applications. When can we start using it to fill functionality gaps between the functions of a human-coded framework?
> I no longer have that box of serial adaptors and my wife somehow can’t remember where it went since we got maried.

I used to have a glorious box of ram, spare drives, and every cable and adapter imaginable.

My box also mysteriously disappeared some time after I got married. I feel your pain :)
A pandemic is not a black swan event:

> Besides, the pandemic was wholly predictable—he, like Bill Gates, Laurie Garrett, and others, had predicted it—a white swan if ever there was one. “We issued our warning that, effectively, you should kill it in the egg,” Taleb told Bloomberg. Governments “did not want to spend pennies in January; now they are going to spend trillions.” [0]

Pandemics aren't some new thing. They've been happening probably since pathogens and parasites evolved, and they'll continue to happen as long as they exist.

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[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-is...
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

> The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: civil and substantial.
> I'm not sure how trivial though

He doxxed a guy for, in his words, leaving a "really bad review of my book."
https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/543992830256238593?s=2...
Yeah, a buddy of mine works at D-Wave. They held the world record for the longest quantum state (or maybe still do, I think it was like 15 mins or something) and I'd joke that they couldn't get past 15 mins because they'd lift the lid to check if the "quantum state was still okay".

But seriously, D-Wave is doing some pretty amazing stuff. The Lower Mainland, in general, is an awesome place to be career wise. Just a shame about the housing situation
They’re shipping Macs that need it by the end of the year.
Fair point. It's not my website. Maybe you can help them.
> GPT-3 continuation: A confused voice came from inside. When I opened the door, the person that looked back at me was Hayama Hayato. Why was Hayama, who I only shared memories of me playing soccer with, in my room at this hour of the night? That question immediately flew out from my mouth.

[I knew that name felt familiar](https://oregairu.fandom.com/wiki/Hayato_Hayama). Does that mean GPT-3 was trained on an arbitrary, huge database of text? I wonder how copyright applies here.
Your comment was just not relevant.

We don't really do funny here. Explicitly.
1 year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19521872

4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12350890

many more: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Why+GNU+grep+is+fast
Apple's lawsuit is about infringement of their copyright. And that gives them exclusive rights over their intellectual property without any conditions. Legally, their case isn't better or worse because of this program. The likely reason they announced it just before suing Corellium is to avoid giving the impression that they were attacking the security research community in general, rather than Corellium specifically.

My hope is that they'll settle the case and Corellium's assets go to Apple and the founders become employees and continue to work on their product, because clearly a virtualized service is better than a physical device. But perhaps there are other legal reasons I'm not aware of why they'd still want to do this program with physical devices.
Do you know of any intel based machines that work well with thunderbolt docks and are worth considering?
Developers are something absurd like 20% of their install base, so Docker gets a first class seat at the table from a product requirements perspective? Albeit in aarch64 mode.
American Indians and Europeans have/had radically different cultures.

"Magic" and "medicine" have been distinct for thousands of years in Europe.
small chunk of change when you see how they spend trillions...
Two well researched articles on Reliance Industries: it's origins and it's foray into 4G with Jio:

1> https://hind.substack.com/p/reliance-origins/
2> https://hind.substack.com/p/from-oil-to-jio
No but the DNA database helps them track you down.
Wireguard requires a more complex setup than for IPSec, believe it or not.

To give my home router a static IP address, I use a Vultr VPS and pay for an additional IP address. I then use IPSec encapsulation to forward traffic for the second IP address directly to the router, which initiates the IPSec SA setup. The router has a loopback device configured with the static IP address; the routable static address is effectively local, even from the kernel's perspective. The IPSec rules handle forwarding of everything, so I don't even need packet filtering (e.g. OpenBSD PF in my case) rules.

No need to fiddle with private address ranges, NAT'ing, reverse proxying, or packet filtering of any sort. The IKEv2 setup is a single line on the VPS and a single line on the router, though OpenBSD's OpenIKED (as well as their isakmpd fork for IKEv1) is awesome that way; StrongSwan and other Linux IKE daemons require a more verbose configuration on account of their key-value pair syntax, but in any event it's still relatively simple.
I was using the pretrained LFW models, but an older version (128 instead of the 512). So roughly ~6000 faces
underrated reply
Pot calling the kettle black. What an utter joke of a country.
Yeah, hypervisor.framework is a very thin passthrough to the Intel VMCS page manipulation. It's so low level it wouldn't even make sense on an AMD CPU.
> Aristotle may have been first to recognize it

It's truly amazing how many concepts fit that description.
Adoptive Cell Transfer
If by “no-driver” you mean “no kernel extensions”, that’s just part of Hypervisor.framework which shipped years ago. Perhaps they just added support for that?
The author is both a former entrepreneur (Sysdig) and a current investor, but I agree with you that the viewpoint is more investor-centric.

Your suggestions are interesting, but I'd rather focus on the real customer, and have the numbers speak for themselves, rather than simply perfecting the art of raising money.

I've founded startups in the past, raised money, and also invested both as angel investor and as a founding member of a micro-VC fund (and currently operating partner at a large VC fund, but not too relevant here).

In my personal experience, building a strong company most often trumps a founder's ability to play smoke and mirrors in front of an investor.
The OECD suggests [1] that there are about three nurses for every doctor. Complain about doctors as much as you like, but most nurses have lots of useful and relevant practical experience.

(I think most doctors are probably fine. But I don't need to win that argument to deny the 90% claim.)

[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/health_glance-2017-5... suggests
How Vendor Lock-In Works in Analytics and How to Avoid It
Is There a Microsoft Office for ARM?
AS3 added classes and static typing on top of ECMAScript, but lost out to regular ES3 in browsers.

In a surprising twist of history, AS3's ideas were rediscovered years later with a language called Typescript that among other things added classes and static typing...

Flash development's language and tools were surprisingly ahead of their time!
OS.css – Windows 98 and XP styled CSS
Style your web pages like Windows XP and 98! Also here is the link to the github repo for this library: https://github.com/chowderman/os.css
Privacy.com... is my thing for this reason.
Agreed. There are in fact many languages (e.g. Mandarin and Japanese) that use symbols, in their written form, to represent concepts instead of letters, and some of those symbols were originally pictures, just like emojis.

The cool thing about emojis is that not only they can represent whole concepts in one character, but a lot of them are almost universal across languages and cultures. Pretty much anyone in the world understands an emoji of a laughing face.
That's a really good point. Forgot to consider that.
> The morality of which clauses? Can you be more specific?

I was already very specific: "holding bugs indefinitely without public disclosure no matter how long it takes Apple to fix the issue" is the exact quote that I used after "clauses most security researchers consider unethical" in the comment that you replied to and which we were arguing about ;P.

In said comment, I noted that I wasn't sure if that clause only affected the bug bounty program, or if it also applied to the security device research program (which is crazy as the terms are right there: I must have just let them all blur together in my head); of course, as this is Apple we are talking about, there was no real risk that they would have suddenly decided to be reasonable, and so they are even more explicit about this immoral clause in this new program.

https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/

> Researchers must: Not disclose the issue publicly before Apple releases the security advisory for the report. (Generally, the advisory is released along with the associated update to resolve the issue).

https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-devic...

> If you report a vulnerability affecting Apple products, Apple will provide you with a publication date (usually the date on which Apple releases the update to resolve the issue). Apple will work in good faith to resolve each vulnerability as soon as practical. Until the publication date, you cannot discuss the vulnerability with others.

I have many friends who believe in simultaneous disclosure, and I know many people who believe in "responsible" disclosure (with its associated deadlines before public disclosure); I have met almost no one who believes that this "tell Apple and give them indefinitely long to fix the issue without telling anyone else about it" disclosure model is legitimate (I'm sure they exist, but they are certainly a small minority).

This has also been discussed in a different thread on this same post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23920454 with a link to someone from Google Project Zero expressing their disappointment with these same clauses "which seem specifically designed to exclude Project Zero and other researchers who use a 90 day policy".

https://twitter.com/benhawkes/status/1286021329246801921?s=1...
Dell XPSs are very good
The dewy-eyed mentality that China is powerless in the face of our mighty consumer demand is what got us entangled in China's manufacturing sector in the first place. I think the pandemic has made it clear that what happens in China has an immense impact on the availability of goods in the USA and elsewhere. This is true whether we're talking about webcams, medical PPE, iPhones, or anything else that is made in China. If China were to shut down the exportation of ball bearings tomorrow, the entire world would notice.

If you don't consider this to be "leverage," then perhaps you can suggest another name.

China doesn't need any one country's corporations in order to survive. Even if what you're saying had been true 20 years ago, I think it's incorrect to believe that China has no leverage over corporations that do business in their massive manufacturing sector today.

China doesn't even need the West to be involved in HK, and they have acted to that effect. HK has become a much smaller contributor to their economy than it was when Britain ceded HK to China, in relative terms.

If Apple's assembly campuses in China shut down tomorrow, Apple will be unable to manufacture iPhones, but China would be able to absorb some of the redirected demand in the form of handsets from Oppo, Vivo, Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. Samsung would pick up a lot too.

If Boeing (which contrary to your zero-leverage thesis was strong-armed into opening a finishing plant in China) shuts down sales to Asia Pacific tomorrow, China will be able to take up demand in the form of aircraft sold by Comac. Even if not, a moratorium on Boeing purchases in China would tilt the Airbus-Boeing duopoly toward Airbus.

Apple generated $260B in revenue last year, and Boeing generated $77B. China's GDP was $27T (PPP). See the difference? Our companies need them, but they don't need our companies.

Even if the manufacturing sector were to disappear tomorrow, China would be a huge consumer market. Their buying power is a form of leverage. When you make them the world's factory on top of their substantial consumer activity, that gives them immense power to shape the economic behavior of foreign governments and corporations.

Why do you think that Apple acquiesces to China's government despite claiming to be pro-democracy and pro-privacy back in the States? It's not because China lacks leverage, that's for sure.

The first step to disempowering China is to accept reality; American consumption of Chinese goods has basically subsidized the growth of that country. Once we have accepted the problem, we can take steps to solve it.
Why Document Editing Sucks
I upvoted you and FYI the word you’re looking for is “lieu”.
There are a couple problems with this line of thinking. First, a lack of known cases doesn't mean that this is necessarily hard to detect or that it isn't being prosecuted. It might also simply not be happening. That seems to be the most likely scenario given how hard it currently would be to secretly acquire and use this genetic data.

Also you don't need to have a massive amount of HIPAA protected data to be publicly available for someone to notice. There are plenty of independent insurance brokers who serve as middlemen between consumers and the insurance companies. These people have access to all the medicals and usually end up having a decent understanding of how that translates into insurance rates. A drastic change in how insurance companies rate risk would be quickly noticed by these brokers. Right now if a broker receives a particularly bad rate from a specific insurer due to a quirk of their actuarial numbers, they will often turn around and apply to a competitor. That means any single insurer using this information wouldn't necessarily do that much damage to end consumers. It also means that any single insurer who did this would quickly get a reputation for providing rates that look unexplainable on the surface and it won't be long before people start asking why. Once again, I just don't think this is a realistic scenario.
That should be an interesting article.

One of the things that happens is that a lot of these ecosystems attract young entrepreneurs who, devoid of business experience, jump in head first and give it all they got. They see accidental success stories like Flappy Bird and think "If I can do 1/10 of that I'm set". Three years later they are alive to regret the opportunity cost they wasted on that decision.

I am going to say that in business you have to be quite sanguine. Not always, of course, but the world and your competitors want to eat you alive, and if you walk into one of these arenas unprepared you are going to get used, abused and tossed out.

I don't want to be negative on Apple but I would sure like to know the numbers on the millions of developers who contributed massive amounts of time to the growth of this platform with free apps of all kinds that didn't even buy a daily loaf of bread for them. While developers were enjoying their get-rich-quick scheme, Apple piled billions of dollars (I lost track, $100 BN, $200 BN, more?) by selling hardware on the strength of a platform made useful by millions of free apps that nobody made any money on.

In a nutshell, I don't really like it when folks get used and discarded --which is precisely how I see what Apple did. They controlled the platform. They could have setup a win-win. They did not.
SoftBank’s Chip Company ARM Said to Attract Nvidia Interest
Didn't understand your point. Identifying specific individuals is not the same thing as mass surveillance.
Wait I’m a little confused. It seems like injecting people with an mRNA, which their cells then translate into an antigen that provokes an immune response, is a very different technology from monoclonal antibodies. They are both related to the immune system, but mRNA vaccines are at least partially about stimulating polyclonal antibody production, as opposed to monoclonal antibodies. Can you articulate why you think mRNA vaccines were derived from monoclonal antibody work?
The US government does not send election mail, because it does not conduct elections. Elections are conducted by state governments. Election mail should be a free service provided by the US government in exchange for states adopting certain mandates, such as universal voting by mail with no postage assessed to the voter.
Paradox of the Plankton
> Science rarely speaks authoritatively on moral questions.

At least they aren't allowed to. Even if you don't allow to derive 'ought' from 'is', facts and reasoning can transform some simple 'oughts' into interesting consequences.

Ie 'ought' plus 'is' can derive you another 'ought'.

You still have to pick your initial 'oughts', of course.

I agree with your first paragraph!
Huh. I'm surprised to hear this. I have a liberal arts degree, and I had zero issue getting a job after going through a bootcamp 6 years ago. My brother-in-law did the same 3 years ago. My husband last year. He literally doesn't even have a degree...
Cheaply made, nothing all that special except floor to ceiling windows.
If I'm not mistaken their CEO (Stewart) is known for saying some... Weird things. And then changing his mind right after. (My experience is from as an user on early Flickr days and his game, Glitch.)
A couple of decades back, our product was always internally <codename>.<buildnumber>, where parallel codenames would exist when multiple versions were supported or in development (think "1.x" and "2.x").

What was displayed to the user was hex-edited into the CD image after it passed QA, according to the whims of marketing, and we treated it as pure text.
It thinks I'm a terrorist or something. My access is denied with

This website is using a security service to protect
itself from online attacks.
True, but often you can use type c support.

I'm using a type c plug to run my monitor, USB hub and charge my amd laptop right now

Asus g14
Not necessarily, because the changes are destructive. They can't restore what was there before, and they can't necessarily infer which image was cloaked and which was not.
Yup, this article is an oldie, but also a goodie, and I like seeing it reposted because it shows a terrific programmer speaking about their work with great passion, and it reminds me how to carefully answer questions without a condenscending tone (be that tone accidental or not, it's very easy to be off-putting when you are "idolized").
KUDO (Language-as-a-Service) Closes Its $6M Seed Round
> Does that mean GPT-3 was trained on an arbitrary, huge database of text?

Yes, 500 billion words, for a model with model 175 billion parameters.
Forgotten Best Sellers
But they will be available on ARM?
GPT-3 probably has thousands of different skills like these two, we just haven't explored it much yet.
We can only hope. In the end, Google will fall when new technology is accessible and powerful enough to create search in a new way. Competing with them as they are is impossible, but competing on search from a new paradigm is possible. If not GPT-3, then something is coming. But I doubt it will look like Google search, it will be different, but will fulfill the same need
The simple answer is that Apple builds their own CPU cores, so they have to build their own virtualization. Virtualization is not something you tack on around a CPU core, it's something that's part of a CPU core. Since Apple aren't using ARM CPUs, they can't use ARM virtualization. Anyone suggesting otherwise is confused :-)

(Apple might be able to leverage off the shelf ARM technologies that might help with virtualization, but not the core feature of virtualization itself)
Adorama is totally reputable and everyone is smaller than Amazon. Still super annoying to encounter things like that though.
Don't use phrases as "Maybe you just have OCD". This is offensive and trivializes the problems those with OCD face. OCD is a serious disorder and your use of that phrase illustrates your lack of mental maturity.

Further, that phrase is bigoted. What you are implying is that someone with OCD is "lesser" or "other" as you are using the phrase to discount the person you are talking with. Hence it is bigoted.

In fact, it is obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about. Mathematics is not "just notation" in the same way software engineering is not "just programming language syntax", music is not just "notes on a piece of paper", and literature is not just "grammar rules".

If you cannot see that, I suggest you read more and expand your view of the world. Don't hurl insults at others.

If you want a more concrete example, show that the sum:

1 + (1/2)^2 + (1/3)^2 + (1/4)^2 + ... = pi^2/6

That is, first define what it means to take a sum of an infinite number of terms, prove that your definition is consistent with a sum of a finite number of terms, and then show that the sum is exactly pi^2/6. Showing that they agree to 100 billion decimal places is not enough. You need to show they are exact.

When you are done with that, find an exact closed form for the sum:

1 + (1/2)^3 + (1/3)^3 + (1/4)^3 + ...
Is it possible yet to virtualize an OSX install without breaking the EULA?
So did anyone here not on mobile test out their software on FB auto tagger or similar social media face rec?

If this really works, why are they not publishing it in a prestigious computer vision conference?