skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clicking "Get it on canvas" takes me straight to "enter your personal information" with no clue of what's going on. Noooooooope.
First detected in November, becoming dominant by end December. The first vaccine wasn't approved in the UK until December.
Today they say it’s for CP, tomorrow they will say it’s for pirated content, or anything deemed illegal by the government.
The value I assign to "my government will ensure repatriation of my corpse" is $0.
> but it’s very hard to “innocently” end up with one of those images that they are looking for from the database.

Are you sure, given how many iPhone takeover/jailbreak bugs regularly exist, including the recent 0-click iMessage bug? Would you like to dare a hacking group, domestic or foreign, to land a single verboten image on your iPhone?

> And the way it’s being done (hashes), a collision is highly unlikely.

The limited details so far are suggestive that its using perceptual hashes, which are more susceptible to collision-engineering/false-positives than cryptographically-secure hashes.
yeah it sucks. people here take things too seriously, it's impossible to have a light hearted discussion. That's one reason I really enjoy n-gate.com

that said it's probably the best centralized place for high signal-to-noise tech info.

Also love n-gates's about page message:

About this webshit
Good thing you idiots got rid of the blink tag. It was super detrimental to the user experience.

Hacker News is an echo chamber focusing on computer posturing and self-aggrandizement. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and sociopath incubator, Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's ineffectual curiosity".

Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European mistake centered on free and open-source attention whoring. It is aimed at TEDx wannabes and anyone interested in the free and open-source noisemaking movement. It aims to enable social media engagement specialists to meet and to promote the awareness and use of themselves.

This site is full of bullshit and you should not read it. Having read it, you should ignore it. You don't have to listen to this shit from some rando on the internet.

Opinions are those of your employer.
complain here or appear to monetize this site
And private insurance has a long history of denying claims. How is this any different?

https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Forms-Reports-and-Other-...
I'm in a similar boat. Very happy to be out of the Adobe ecosystem, but just not seeing a lot of action feature-wise from Affinity. Notably, I've been waiting on some kind of bitmap auto-trace, a thing that's been standard in Illustrator for at least fifteen years.

Pixelmator seems to be on a much better track than Affinity Photo for bitmap editing, but I'm just not aware of a better alternative to Illustrator than Affinity Designer.
It is right at the top of the page. Lack of trust in the intermediaries. Which is often the correct level of trust.
Or if you're in NY for too many days, even not for work, they'll tax you too :)
Amazon announces new conversational-modeling challenge
I have always been concerned that this system could be weaponized as a way gain access to someone's account. For example:

- Add the hash of a non-pornographic image to the database

- Using a burner email address, email the non-pornographic image to the target's Gmail address. The target wouldn't think anything of it.

- The innocent image would trigger a CP alert, giving law enforcement the pretense it needs to access the account
Indeed, this is true. I was also assuming you would be buying the ETH from other stakers (if not, you would need $8B in ETH at spot price) and that you as an attacker have the ability to make the network desynchronous (if not, you would actually need 1/2 the total stake rather than 1/3). These are just generous assumptions that give us a lower bound on how much money it would actually take to attack the network.
Even earlier than that; it was detected in November, though it didn't become dominant til late December.
YouTube still allows uploaders to mark their videos as CC BY 3.0 licensed, and it's still possible to check that via YouTube's API.

(See https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468 and the part about status.license here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos)
It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I consume no media directly, but I get exposed to the victim complexes quite thoroughly here on HN. And from that I do indeed get the impression that I'm under attack.
How does it compare to MariaDB?
> There literally aren’t all the resources on Earth to do “detailed investigations” about every one of them.

If the state (or other organization) doesn't have enough resources to do a detailed investigation, then it should not be taking away freedoms for whomever it is unable to perform the detailed investigation for.
Newspapers almost never do this. It's probably a way to remain relevant, otherwise you can just skip the middle man.
Why doesn't the US reduce it to a flat tax? Say, $1000/year to send you your election ballot, and evacuate you in case something goes horribly wrong.
I saw it at the Broad in LA, and it was mind-blowing.
If there are no benefits to being a US citizen while living abroad, there should be no issue with renouncing their citizenship.

Why do they want to maintain their citizenship if it doesn’t give them anything?
If I could take two shots that prevented me from having Heart Disease and never having a heart attack that kills me, I would get those two shots.
What you are describing is a pretty common requirement. Canada has a similar requirement, and while a passive bank account would in itself not be considered 'ties' to the country, an active one that sees use might.
Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Billionaire Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal
He's referring to William Halstead, whose cocaine habit let him work long hours without sleep, and who was one of the instrumental figures in developing the modern medical residency system (with its brutally long hours):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted
As a Scot I get your point, although to be honest I don't recall much need to refer to "British Isles". Wikipedia suggests "Britain and Ireland" or "Atlantic Archipelago" as alternatives.

In the US, where I live now, we have "North America" to refer to Canada, USA, Mexico. Makes me wonder if Canadians are offended by that..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles
Most countries don’t tax citizens living abroad on foreign revenue, and just forget about them once they become residents elsewhere (unless they still have income from their country of origin).
AbcDatalog
Switzerland is not a high tax regime (outside of some French speaking Kantons).
"our tongue-in-cheek name will likely need to change to something more professional"

I know, I know! "Super Duper Secure Mode For Professional Enterprise Datacenter Unlimited Seats"
Electric vehicle sales outpace diesel again
There isn’t always symmetry in the tax status of various elements. The US doesn’t recognize Canadian Tax Free Savings Accounts (similar to Roth IRAs) so you can’t benefit from them without being taxed in the US.
While I was visiting Botswana, I observed a group of young giraffes clearly playing tag with each other. After that, I had no doubt they're pretty socially intelligent creatures.
Wouldn't it have to be an agency in their own jurisdiction that would prevent the hacker from accessing banking services? They would make an effort to shut down the hackers bank account but not prosecute them?
irrc a cryptosecure hash is computationally infeasible to generate a new sample that has the same hash.

that is if you know hash (or reasonably small, ie only a percent of the total bit space), it's improbable bordering on impossible to generate a false positive .
Speaking from my own point of view, the reason I'm not getting the vaccines is in large part driven by how obvious it seems that the push is not about public health.

For one bit of the large body of evidence of this, that restrictions on those who are unvaccinated are applied even to those who have natural immunity, which is durable and robust, and almost certainly longer-lasting than vaccine immunity (https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...), means to me that there is something else afoot rather than merely public health.

To boot, I am very healthy, not fat, get plenty of vitamin D and fresh air, and am thus basically more at risk from driving to the store than from covid, though it's hard to say for sure what the real numbers are--suffice to say, the risk does not meet the threshold I'd need for me to take any action beyond just getting fitter and healthier and happier every day--which I'd try to do anyway.
> As described here, the scanning only applies to images also uploaded to iCloud ("[the] algorithm will continuously scan photos that are stored on a US user’s iPhone and have also been uploaded to its iCloud back-up system"). While we don't know whether this description is accurate, it suggests that if you don't back up images to iCloud your device won't do any scanning locally. Apple already has the keys to your iCloud backups, so if you value privacy you're probably not backing up to iCloud anyhow.

If we had a way to guarantee that it would stay that way, it'd be less concerning. As it stands, clearly there are plans to scan on the device itself, otherwise there would be no need to roll out software on iPhones at all.

> Hash collisions aside, this should only produce matches against images that are already in a government database. It will match manipulated images (e.g., rotated or cropped), but it won't match new images.

Agreed, but the issue is the government can stick whatever photos in the DB they want. And we have no way to verify what's in there, since they're not gonna release thousands of CP images for us to audit them.

> Apple has the control to do all sorts of invasive things to our privacy. They could be scanning and reporting all kinds of things already, and we might not even know. Or they could start doing so tomorrow. From this point of view we're already trusting them to do right by us as their customers, and this feature doesn't change that.

It changes plenty. Currently Apple more or less promises not to spy on you, and so they have to actually be lying to do so. Is lying an option for them? Sure, but that's different than them just announcing in advance "hey we're gonna start scanning every photo you have and crossreferencing against a somewhat-transformation-invariant secret government database". I'd prefer that they have to lie to me to spy on me, since that at least has the potential for backlash if discovered. If they get this feature rolled out we're all fucked.
I mean, if you work as a Staff engineer in a department that only does web app development (say, working at Shopify on their rails codebase) I can easily see that you wouldn't come into any contact with bitwise operators at all. Rather, your time is probably better spent on scaling databases, refactoring codebases and other such higher-level things.
Same here. I used to use GNOME once upon a time, then switched to macOS, then after 5 years to Windows, and since this spring I’ve gone back to Linux, specifically Fedora with KDE. I find KDE to be fantastic. I’ve got most ergonomic setup I’ve ever used, there is really nothing to complain about it, including fantastic hidpi support. I’m really happy.
unfortunately I can't seem to freeze the dynamite.
> never learned how to use a circular saw.

More like a hand plane, or perhaps a chainsaw. Sure they're tools that work on wood but you can do lots of woodwork without ever needing one. Once upon a time i diddled Grey codes and similar and the elegance of bit banging is lovely and foundational... but someone who makes ships in bottles need never know how to cut down a tree. To mash a metaphor.
Wait, so two American companies, Apple and NCMEC, are working together to install spyware on all Apple devices world-wide, with no government involvement?
Spoken like an anglophone. Tell that to Latin America and East Asia..
There was the Philips concept called MFB which integrated an accelerometer into the low frequency speakers in order to match the desired waveform with the one that actually went out. Quite a neat little concept, they are still somewhat popular in the HiFi scene.

The microphone systems mostly calibrate for frequency loss across the spectrum, time-of-flight adjustments I haven't seen but it's quite possible they're out there somewhere, but they would require a pretty nifty delay mechanism or a digitization step and then turning the signal yet again back into analog which would probably cause more problems than it solved.
Are the traveling nurses also not working their butt off?
What I don't understand is how is it even constitutional in the US. Isn't it a warrant-less search? It's not like scanning content on a cloud. The cloud owns the device on which you store your data. But you own your mobile.
I think this dataset is mainly for speech recognition and not text to speech. Speech recognition should be able to recognize as many different accents as possible.
Random doesn't mean unweighted. Choose a number at random from this list [5, 10, 5, 12, 8, 5].
I've done this and it makes you tired extremely quickly for some reason. It's worse than tuning up a piano from scratch.
Living in California, you wouldn't know we had mental facilities...
Not surprised. Rich people have disproportionally many crooks who have both desire and capabilities to avoid paying taxes.
The title says "scan US phones", the article is behind a paywall.
Ah yes, that does help. Too often I see people make statements like that and it just comes across as fatalistic, like an attempt to dissipate the will of others to do anything about it at all.

I wonder what the other countries are that do better, and what they do differently. Maybe there should be a mandated evidence review every x years, irrespective of sentence.
So it's not the pandemic that both Republicans like Schwarzenegger, Democrats like Obama, and billionaires like Bill Gates predicted and tried to plan for 5 to 15 years ago? It's some weird social agenda to isolate the free thinkers? Okey-dokey then.

But I support them being the control group for the vaccine as well. We don't need that control group anymore we have plenty of data but hey it's a free country. But that choice comes with responsibilities that they don't want to accept and that's where I have a problem. If you're going to sequester yourself away and harm no one but yourself, good for you.
This brings me back to the time I was in Kenya: seeing Giraffes in the wild was one of the most enchanting experiences I have had in nature.

I was walking in one of the national parks, and we happened upon a young one in a clearing. When we got a little closer, the rest of the group emerged, their necks rising above the trees in front of us. The whole group galloped past us, with a motion almost like they were in slow motion or underwater with the way they float on top of their long limbs.

It was really different from seeing them standing in a zoo.
From what I’ve read, the US is possibly one of the worst countries to have to file taxes with, paperwork-wise.

And that’s for the simple scenario of someone actually living in the US.

But is also is another issue altogether. How US citizens can bear with this and the lobbying that spawned it is beyond me.
One would assume that the big dinosaurs had similar social strengths. I mean when you are effectively un-predatable (!), like an elephant or giraffe, or a homo species with clubs and fire, all your competition is others of your species.
Also lets draft on all the children of senate and congress

https://quotepark.com/quotes/1911588-immortal-technique-the-...
The math on the PoW energy FUD just doesn't check out.

- At current levels, bitcoin uses very roughly 0.1% of global electricity but electricity only represents 25% of fossil fuels emissions so current PoW contribution to global emissions = 0.025%, ie a rounding error. This issue is currently a total red herring. Now let's project into the future.

- bitcoin total addressable market cap if it took over the entire global monetary world (full global monetary premium): ~ 250tn or 300x from here implying a worst case outcome of 7.5% of global emissions, IF this happened TODAY and hashpower linearly tracked price. This is impossible off the bat because building out that infrastructure would take at least a decade. But more importantly it will take a decade or two for price to get there, by which time...

- The block subsidy will have gotten cut by ~ 10 (three halving cycles). Transaction fees might grow of course so let's say 5x lower which gets us back to 1.5% of global emissions.

- Add to that the following:

- 30% of CURRENT electricity production is stranded / wasted. All terminal bitcoin energy usage needs to do is tap into 5% of that to be emissions neutral. And it's heavily skewed towards tapping into that exclusively as that's the cheapest source and PoW is location neutral.

- the proof of work energy mix skews towards not only wasted / stranded but renewable which is trending towards being the cheapest form of energy.

- green power production is on an exponential adoption curve and enough sunlight hits the earth to power humanity for a year. Clean energy is there in amounts dwarfing societal needs, it's just a matter of harnessing it. This doesn't even include geothermal or nuclear.

- At an even higher level, if you got to this point, you would have replaced all the fiat systems in the world thereby:
- eliminating the energy spent on maintaining the fiat system which is easily more than 1.5% of global emissions
- flipping the world into a hard money world that is no longer incentivized to consume at all costs (read misallocate capital) ergo hugely reducing conspicuous consumption / GDP growth at all costs which is arguably the biggest driver of unnecessary emissions

- This final line of thought would have you conclude flipping to PoW would be emissions negative in the long run, but you don't really need to go there though, the energy numbers alone make this at best a chronically misunderstood narrative.
> What was special with the Amiga in that respect was that these things were embraced fully across the board

That’s just because it’s part of the OS. On a Mac you have lots of high level APIs to interact with programs and data that form the visible layers of the OS. On Linux there is a hard border between GUI and OS and a mechanism like this would be more at home in Gnome or other desktops.

Another factor that drove adoption is software scarcity. Back then it wasn’t trivial to just link to a library that reads GIF files and it was much easier to use OS services for that. The cost comes in portability. I can write a Mac or Linux app that can be compiled and runs on mostly anything, but the moment I use OS services, it’s no longer portable.
I think KDE has changed that much. A lot of work has gone into fixing the small things and making the default saner. The solid technology behind it + all the usability fixes they’ve been working on in the last years have made it really shine. I think it’s the culmination of years of work, and I think it’s finally paying off (also the fact that Valve is officially working on KDE will give it even more momentum).
> To me, both the Amiga & the original Mac had a "ding an sich", a such-ness that made them feel timeless.

I know the exact sensation you describe here. But I can never decide whether it's a property of the thing itself, or where I was in my life when I stumbled onto it. My hunch is that it's mostly the latter: artifacts feel seminal when they hit as a formative time when we first gained a new capability.

I'll always have a fondness for the Apple IIe and the early Macintosh because those were what I had when I first started using computers to create. I'll always love late 90s electronica because that's when I fully discovered my love of music. My Lodge Dutch oven will hold a special place in my heart because I got it right when I was really learning how to cook.
Well known among whom? My thinkpad barrel chargers still go strong, the oldest is from 2006.
COVID "misinformation", anti-lockdown protests, any movements that are commonly labelled as domestic terrorism (boog bois, antifa, maybe even BLM; in China it will be anything that speaks out against the CCP, etc) - the potential for abuse is massive.

Anyone that trusts the feds to do the right thing here is incredibly naive. They get to operate a black-box database; if your phone has any photos that match an entry in the db you will be reported to the authorities. I can't believe on HN of all places there's not 10x more of an outcry.
> I just don't understand all these weird and arbitrary rules they have out there.

But you live in the nation that invented the ASBO.

> - Drinking in public (even in parks or at the beach) - Sleeping in public (apparently) - Jaywalking - Eating on public transport

These are local laws, not federal, so not universal across the US. And in all of the places around the US that I have lived, these sorts of laws are rarely enforced (at least not as a primary offense).
What are the current best estimates for the timeline of the proof-of-stake transition?
further discussion less than a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28069588
You've been watching too many movies, I'm afraid. The reality is (and it happened in Yemen recently) that the US will just shrug and tell you to go ask some other country for help. No MEUs set foot in Yemen when things went south there.
The amount of the US where you can buy a detached single family home with a white picket fence and 2 car garage for significantly under half a million dollars is probably not as much of a majority as you seem to think.

Not everywhere is the bay area, where you'll struggle to find this for under $1.5M. But $500k is not that much for a house these days in a lot of the markets where huge percentages of the population live (from the tri-state area, to Boston, to Seattle, LA, Austin, etc.) and lots of middle class people live in houses valued at more than this.
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Epstein meetings a mistake, says Bill Gates
> Both kill just as many people

Let's be honest here, lefty authoritarianism has historically killed way more people in total.

Fortunately, righty authoritarianism was stopped; unfortunately lefty authoritarianism wasn't.
vaxstation/microvax + 4.3BSD + printed USENIX manuals is pretty much the quintessential mid-80s internet machine
Not if you give permission, which you do by your purchase agreement.
London does not bring PoS. The switch to PoS will be happening in a later hard fork.
Elon Musk says Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson writing about him
Each block still mints 2 new eth, in addition to tips (which should always remain small, even as base fee rises).
perhaps they're being required by law and gagged for indicating as such

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...
https://archive.is/https://www.ft.com/content/14440f81-d405-...