skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agents of the state get Qualified Immunity even when they knowingly violate the law, but citizen/subjects get the full book thrown at them for laws they weren't even aware existed.

Seems totally balanced to me.
Not if Zoom uses something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia
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does it still look bad if you use a log scale?
Why would Zoom feel that ultrasonic watermark be necessary or a selling feature? Am I missing something? Why would you want to do this?
What's wrong with calling people out for a moral failing? It's more polite to ignore and pretend it hasn't happened, but it's a bit insane too, isn't it?
your "meet the team" page seems pretty lonely, I hope there are people here, who are interested in contributing. I'm definitely going to look, if I find a place, where I can contribute some code, docu, translation or anything.
As a user, I'd definitely pay a moderate subscription for this service. I think it's super useful.
I wanted to check it out at some point though I'm a little scared about the ability of Linux to pulse step and direction with the same precision of a 15 year old DOS setup that has no background tasks and just hits that timer interrupt with very predictable result... The motion generation capabilities of TurboCNC are pretty basic though.

Btw, if anyone is interested that build is documented here:
https://www.cnczone.com/forums/diy-cnc-router-table-machines...
How do you remove an "invisible" watermark from an audio file? Is it just a frequency outside of normal hearing that can be removed by re-compressing the audio to remove the high and low range sounds?
It's literally impossible. Even the US Government does not know how many criminal laws are out there.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304319804576389...

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/473659-america-...

https://twitter.com/CrimeADay
RIP google music
Have you tried John The Ripper?
I didn't want to go into details, but I think we actually get Netflix in 1080(p?) using either Firefox or Chrome, but Amazon Prime looks like 720p using Firefox.
> Nobody said it was perfect, as they say

Not saying it is perfect or imperfect. Just saying the imagined time when all rules were self-obvious natural laws that could be logically deduced a priori, never existed.
Audio watermarking is old hat, and it’s FAR easier for Zoom than for say a music service, because people are used to imperfections/stuttering/blurring in their Zoom calls which can just be encoded watermarks.
Exactly, as mentioned by the order itself, which also takes in strict liability crimes and sets a posture that they should be as limited as possible.
One of my pet theories is that this is driven by what sorts of things bookstores are willing to sell, and at what prices. If they will only sell book length works, you'd better pad your idea with 200 pages of fluff, and if you want to charge a lot, better make it a fancy hardcover.

It used to be you could publish in a magazine, but those are near dead.
What will happen if anti-Putin posts show up on Parler? Will the Parler CEO get poisoned or the site simply goes offline. Any bets?
If the US antitrust machine hadn't been asleep at the wheel for a couple decades, it wouldn't be a problem.

"There's no mechanism to force a private business to do a thing" - but bakeries have to make cakes for gay weddings - which I'm not opposed to.

If the vast majority of tech companies are based in the echo chamber of Silicon Valley, and they're going to ban any thought that falls outside of that narrow range, then political views need to be the next protected class.

Yes. An expansion of government powers. An added protected class. Or antitrust can come out of hibernation. Either way.
For people who are interested in this kind of idea, there is some research on estimating Word-Color associations.

A popular crowd-sourced dataset for this is [1] which contains average color association for 14,000 words. There is a demo available at [2].

There's also a recent work[3] trying to estimate such association using image data from Google, similar to the OP project, but a bit more sophisticated than just taking an average.

1: Colourful Language: Measuring Word-Colour Associations, Saif Mohammad, ACL 2011 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-0611/

2: http://www.lexichrome.com/

3: Estimating Color-Concept Associations from Image Statistics. Ragini Rathore et al., IEEE VIS InfoVis 2019. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.00220.pdf
This is going to be the new blasphemy laws. Anything anti-American will begin to be called "interfering with the democratic process"
The Moon is not a protected environment under Planetary Protection guidelines. Also the rules apply to much larger payloads. Don’t forget the Apollo astronauts left nearly 100 bags of excrement on the Moon.
"New York Gov. Cuomo ruffles feathers by revealing illegal eagle keepsake"

https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-gov-cuomo-ruffles-feathers-re...
The Vice President of the United States was at risk of being murdered by a mob at the capitol, a mob that failed to recognize a free and fair election, a mob encouraged by the sitting president by a host of lies.

And that doesn't have a tinge of "coup" to you?

Can you explain your logic, and how often you hang on /pol/?
You’d want to do it to find out who is leaking your meeting.
Not a paper but a blog, anyone know sites like https://latacora.micro.blog/?
Yeah, let's forget that taxpayers paid for the internet and so much of the internet infrastructure in US. But it's cool to cut off the people who subsidized it.
Democracy works best when critical thinking skills and public disclosure of information co-operate.

Better understanding why people believe in the conspiracy theories and fixing the social ills that radicalize portions of the population will be critical factors during my entire adult lifetime. For the US, and for the world at large.

We need to learn how to prevent terrorists from being created and in so doing advance as a global society.
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While true, it looks pretty reasonable to me, and I'm not sure why Biden would knock it down? The weirdest thing about it is why a lame-duck administration with a day or two to go is issuing reasonable-looking executive orders.
I heartily agree. For example, searching kiwi should result in roughly the color of the inside part. Instead it's a light muted green, probably taking into account a white background that it's usually featured on. Taking the mode by clustering instead of the mean would improve results.
Not necessarily. Watermarking an audio stream like this wouldn't require that high of a bit rate. It could easily be hidden "under" the content using coding techniques like direct-sequence spread spectrum.

A real world example is GPS, which uses a spreading code to provide about 30 dB of gain. GPS signals aren't directly observable relative to the noise floor in many receivers. It's not until after the signal is "de-spread" that it becomes observable in a spectrogram. This process requires prior knowledge of the signal structure.

In short, if you don't need to send data at high rate there are many ways to hide your signal.
There's a paper which does something similar including an analysis of different statistical models on top of a CIELAB color space.

Estimating Color-Concept Associations from Image Statistics. Ragini Rathore et al., IEEE VIS InfoVis 2019. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.00220.pdf
>Now, alt-right trolls and white supremacists are all but limited to a corner of the Fediverse almost nobody else talks to. While it does not prevent a dedicated group from talking hatefully among themselves on their own instance (like Gab), it does isolate them, makes radicalising new users harder, and protects others from potential abuse.

I don't follow this logic at all. This is effectively how QAnon spread, as a niche group on fringe websites, before it grew to millions of users. A federated network gives better moderation tools to communities who actually want to moderate, but it leaves the radicalised communities free to grow, even freer than on a centralised network.

Another example I heard of were so called "free birth" groups with tens of thousands of women shunning medical help for births, even bullying women who wanted to seek professional help. As a result, quite a few children and women died during labour[1]

Private/semi private anti-vax groups are of course another huge issue right now. They often have hundreds of thousands of members. On a designated fediverse instance there is no possibility to shut this down.

I see no evidence or reason at all how the decentralised internet stops radicalisation or misinformation. It honestly to me seems like it would make it worse.

[1]https://www.thedailybeast.com/she-wanted-a-freebirth-at-home...
The defenses available to a defendant have nothing to do with prudent lawmaking. This order simply advises regulators to not make criminal law without careful consideration of the harms of doing so.
The laws that were both actually enforced and reasonable basically were. I don't think we need to emulate things people historically said they would do even though they didn't, or did do but were unreasonable.
The language here doesn’t sound like it was written by a professional lawyer, more like a Reddit comment. Hardly matters, I expect Biden will just blanket reverse these executive orders on Wednesday.
I went ahead and bought it, because it seems neat. A couple things:

At first I was just playing around with the stock templates. I then discovered the HTML editor and that's when I was really blown away. The fact that I can drag and drop stuff, immediately customize it, and then visualize it was a powerful mix. For some reference, I'm a backend and infrastructure dev who has some decent React skills.

I don't know if you can stuff this in an electron app, but I would love to be able to just load this on my desktop when I need it.

I thought this was cool before, but I'll be showing it to my team tomorrow.
I've let a tooth die and fall out without getting infected, but most definitely wouldn't do it again. Dentist is so safer, faster and more comfortable!
Hi Sriku, with regards to your first point, not necessarily. I mentioned in another comment, but the model you are using the labels to build and the labelling process are related but not the same, they have different fundamental constraints and rely on different techniques. You can't have a human in the loop to help you out in a live model as an example.

You are right there are a bunch of difficult problems this technique isn't perfect for, but it actually can still help improve the efficiency of labelling a lot and when I do it I get the added bonus of understanding the dataset a lot better.
maintainance != development.

Less than 50 commits in half a year is perfectly fine for a stable subsystem, even 0 are fine if it's stable. Calling for a removal of stable subsystem from a wannabe middle manager will not bring him many friends.
Steppers skip steps if you are asking for more torque than they can deliver. No other reason. It might be: 1) too small of a stepper motor, so it can not deliver sufficient torque for maximum load, 2) too small of a driver that can not deliver the current needed for the motor to reach its rated torque, 3) software bug that tries to accelerate the motor faster than it is capable of under the load at hand, 4) software bug that throttles the driver.

They all boil down to commanded torque greater that the system is capable of delivering. Fix your design. Be suspicious of software trying to accelerate too aggressively under load.

I have cut a lot of metal on a Tormach PCNC 1100 Series 3 machine, with steppers. NEVER had an issue. Correctly designed stepper systems DO NOT miss steps.

That said, servos systems typically are capable of greater accelerations for a motor of a give volume and current load, because of the closed-loop control. Use servos for speed, not because you are afraid of skipped steps from a stepper.
The Internet used to be decentralized and only after communication centralized via social media companies did the likes of QAnon become particularly problematic. There was always a fringe, but we had the norms and tools to keep it marginalized. Something has changed and arguments that we can fix the problem by doubling down on changing our norms/ideals (e.g., free speech, equality, tolerance, etc) don’t seem likely at all to pan out. We made a bad turn, but rather than continue to jeopardize our social fabric for pride or dunk costs, we should figure out how we can get back on course. Of course, that requires good faith, honesty, integrity, courage, etc., which are in short supply these days.
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Going to analog and back by eg. photographing the screen or printing then re-scanning a document is a good way to ensure you've removed all document metadata, but brings its own challenges (see the article, where it mentions source camera identification), not to mention that the camera/scanner itself may add back its own metadata.

Watermarking may or may not survive that kind of process - depending on the kind of watermark it might be designed to still be detectable even in low-quality copies.
The LangSec papers(lenguage based security, Meredith Peterson ?).
> The snap is not running macOS on mac hardware. Even if you run it on a mac laptop, it's using virtualized qemu hardware.

Right. "Virtualized hardware", as in, you know, software. In other words, QEMU is software that runs on actual nonvirtualized hardware, in this laptop's example produced by Apple.

If you think differently, I invite you to virtualize a sailboat and than sail with it out to sea.

I suspect that somewhere along the way, the difference between virtaulized sailboats and actual sailboats will become more readily apparent... :)
In ancient times, the clergy were the scientists, but they had to communicate with people who had no scientific literacy. So instead of saying “We’ve autopsied some people who died and it looks like eating undercooked pork might destroy your heart” they say “Sky Guy says no pork” and achieve the public health outcome.
I think in this case you don't always have the visual recording of the speaker.
Why would re-encoding into mp3 help? The audio is probably already in some low bitrate similar codec.
But if certain frequencies are in the training data, they still will be in the output. Won't you end up with watermarked audio still?
It's a very unpopular sentiment here on HN, but I agree with the gist of what you are saying.

I have a slight different idea that is also very unpopular. I don't think you should be able to "broadcast" anonymously. When you say things that are illegal, like death threats and hate speech, you should be held responsible.

I think privacy is important, and I think you should be able to consume content anonymously, but I don't think you should be able to "post" anonymously.
It has to be something that the team commits to maintaining. IME, often there are a couple of folks in the entire team who contribute with any regularity, or care to update the docs. Its often not an activity that's given credit. When the people who maintained the docs switch teams, there is rot- docs become stale. Because they're stale, other users don't trust them don't update them, just stop using them leading to a vicious cycle where they become totally irrelevant.
Easy amazon interfered when it banned a app simple because of the poltical leanings of the people on its platform. Yet it would never ban youtube or twitter even when violent foreign extremist those to communicate with the world. Do you mean that part.
Ask HN: Anyone knows a data structure compiler?
I need a compiler to create optimized data structures for fast searches in lots of known data. Code compilers are easy, data compilers should be also.

Think of gperf, or unicode tables, which do change every year, and it's not clear which strategy should be used, eg. to find the script property of a codepoint, or if it's a valid identifier or such. If it's a three way array lookup or a perfect hash or a binary range search. For perfect hashes I already wrote a tool (phash), but for different data containers and strategies I'm missing the cost models. eg. gperf is limited, and I routinely create faster hashes with better strategies. I even made memcmp 2000x faster when knowing the data.

Does anybody know such a thing?
It's counter intuitive because when we burn something say a wooden house it turns into ashes. Where are the stronger bonds then?
even homeless people these days often have a smartphone. (and I have for a while argued that we should give every person without a residence one so they have access to basic digital services). It's for sure easier than to bring bank services to them. Also, stealing digital money is much harder than stealing cash, which is very easy to steal.

There's obviously problems with this, mostly revolving around identity, but that's true for all forms of banking. But getting someone a phone and an account and being able to trivially send them money is pretty safe and realistic to set up.
> Aside: Asking for a hypothetical that doesn’t involve hypotheticals seems… off.

Comments like this on a computer programming forum, where one would expect logic (and an understanding of the importance of dependencies) to prevail, also seems "off".

I wonder, what might explain this apparent paradox, and the substantial quantities of it that can be found right here on HN? Does academia have any prior knowledge and study into this general phenomenon? Which domain would we search within to find answers to questions like this?
Not lost on me that the government these people are claiming needs to be overthrown violently because it's tyrannical is treating them with kid gloves compared to most governments. And frankly the relatives of those that stepped over the line and will go to prison should be really happy they live in the US and not another country where people get punished because of mere association. Because that's totally a thing in other countries. But not here.
> Restricting advertising isn't restricting speech, it's restricting the ability to pay for special treatment for your own speech.

That isn't the way it works in the US. There are some restrictions on advertising, but is fundamentally protected speech in the US and therefore can't be banned outright.
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Seems to me he means Trump and Qanon.
I don't think it's poorly done, so much as it isn't what you expected it to be. The text below the image pretty clearly explains the effect that you're seeing:

> Commercial and industrial areas are also likely to be green on this map. The local shopping mall, an office park, a warehouse district or a factory may have their own Census Blocks. But if people don’t live there, they will be considered “uninhabited”. So it should be noted that just because a block is unoccupied, that does not mean it is undeveloped.
> because most dolphin pictures are dolphins in water

that is one possible reason, but it's a guess.

it could also be that it's weighted by the extremely high incidence of the miami dolphin team colors.
Someone doing what they want with their own hardware that they paid for?

Not on Apple's watch.
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The enemy of my enemy is my ally. Granted perhaps not a very reliable one, but Russia is one of the few places nearly entirely out of reach of American influence so I'm not surprised they are hosting from there.
Why wouldn't the same thing apply to whatever licensing regulations you're expected to be aware of, in the grandparent's idea?
Can you explain your comment more? It isn't adding to the conversation.
Such small changes in sample value would probably get lost quite easily after being encoded with some codec. And I don't see them streaming un-encoded audio. Right?
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byron katie has some nice technique going in asking 4 questions about the suffering and getting behind the believe that makes the difference between pain and suffering. Very often it's the resistance toward pain that intensifies and turns it into suffering.
> freedom... should depend

I completely agree with you. But the point I was trying to make wasn't what the limits on freedom should be, just that people need to accept that there will be limits on freedom and agree on what those limits should be ahead of time, rather than pretending freedom is a thing that can be unlimited and then after we get into a situation where it can't be, trying to roll back freedoms we thought we had.
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I'm not sure it's a great idea to just let "the angry mob" decide either.
Given that they killed one police officer, and injured dozens more, I think it is safe to say that they had the means to kill people if they came to a position to do so.
Try accessing a struct property that isn't in the declaration, or accessing a value after it has been freed (out of scope). You'll get a compile error.

D has lots of memory safety features. It is not the same set of features as Rust. It's wildly incorrect to suggest that Rust has a monopoly on memory safety.
We can thank Michael Ossmann for his DC25 talk about detecting and pulling DSSS signals out of noise. He also posts proof of concept code to do just that, including also detecting the chip sequences and chiprate. https://hackaday.com/2017/07/29/michael-ossmann-pulls-dsss-o...

We're also dealing with only 48KHz, which is 2-3 magnitudes less than what SDR people are accustomed to dealing with.

And we can also make our own detection systems by having a 3 person "meeting" with fake audio, with this fingerprinting on, and then comparing the 3 recordings.
I doubt that this is the case. Before I answer, let me ask you back: Why don't all languages just do it like that? Sounds pretty easy, no?
Nah, everyone wanted it, but for free.

I think the only thing that went wrong is the budgeting, OP might have made it had he dumbed it down a little and made it 100x more simple (on the backend).
Losing a license is not the same as being imprisoned.
> The mob physically attacked the Capitol police, repeatedly, with a variety of weapons.

Can you be more specific than "a variety of weapons"? Almost all interactions with the police seemed peaceful, bordering on friendly, barring the one who was hit on the head.
> I've seen the demos of AI systems that can be trained on an individual's voice, and generate new speech in the same voice. If I was waterprinting a meeting, I would train a system like this on the fly on the people in the meeting and use it to dynamically insert filler words (um...) in a unique pattern into the audio stream for each member of the meeting. That would defeat any audio filter tricks or recreating the meeting from scratch, so you would want to summarize/rephrase the meeting too.

But wouldn't doing something like that make the recording seem like a deepfake, potentially reducing it's credibility? To an outside observer, it may make a genuine recording appear to be fake.

I'm reminded of the controversy over the faked Bush Texas ANG documents. They were discovered by randos on the internet realizing the text looked like the output of a modern version of Word than the 70s typewriter they should have been written on if genuine. Imagine a similar but genuine document where the content was deliberately retyped using anachronistic equipment to obscure the leaker's identity.

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