skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Normal" suggests the status quo. There's nothing new about normal. Yet the phrasing suggests this new paradigm will become normalized.

The CDC described this as the last extension of the moratorium. It reminded me of, "just one more drink".
The iPhone and the Mac are different platforms, developed at different times, for different purposes and different markets with different design philosophies. I don’t see a logical connection between the iPhone being bootlocked and the Mac necessarily following suite.
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> Apple’s neuralMatch 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. Users’ photos, converted into a string of numbers through a process known as “hashing”, will be compared with those on a database of known images of child sexual abuse.

It's weird and invasive that they'd search users devices, but this makes it sound like they're just searching for files with certain hashes, which (to me) is fairly uninteresting. What I don't understand is why this is called "neuralMatch". Is it some sort of perceptual hashing (versus cryptographic hashing)? What exactly makes it "neural"?

If neuralMatch is to Google's reverse image search as Apple Maps was to Google Maps when it launched, this is going to have so many false positives.

> According to people briefed on the plans, every photo uploaded to iCloud in the US will be given a “safety voucher” saying whether it is suspect or not. Once a certain number of photos are marked as suspect, Apple will enable all the suspect photos to be decrypted and, if apparently illegal, passed on to the relevant authorities

Is this separate? Or is the article just confusing iCloud storage for on-device storage? Regardless, there's some very lazy journalism going on here.
As a concrete example, see latexmk. https://mg.readthedocs.io/latexmk.html
Zelle is useless to me because my credit union (like many other banking organization) doesn't support it.

Really looking forward to a governmental, ubiquitous solution.
> I'm reluctant to leverage such language, but this is an appeal to authority.

Then so was the comment it was responding to
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> Also, if you made a significant amount of money on any crypto, you probably held it for more then a year at which point to capital gains tax is probably at most only 15% (<$441,000 ordinary income).

Ownership of other assets tends to have legal documents of when it was purchased though. How does anyone know how long you've held it? You could prove it if it's been in the same wallet the whole time, with the transaction ID, and proof of ownership of the wallet. But what if you transferred it between wallets, and lost the first?
Why isn’t it part of the solution? It seems like keeping track of who buys mining equipment (at least at large scale) would be a pretty important component in making sure that they pay taxes? Just like it’s important that brokerages report your stock transactions to the IRS.
As an example in favor of your conclusion, I propose Greenlandic. Geographically really close to Iceland, is the sole official language of an autonomous country, significant cultural heritage (with even a famous [possible] dwarf planet named after one of their historic gods). However—unlike Iceland—Greenland is not a wealthy country, and tend to have darker skin color then Icelanders.
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Absolutely, but forcing elderly to their deaths in the face of multiple warnings against it and against federally recommended policy is much worse.

Sex assault is terrible, but marching people off to death is much worse, IMO.
That begs the question of whether the unorthodox notation is a catalyzer for the results he gets, just a coincidence, or if just thinking differently in general is the reason for both. =)
I think a lot of the details will come down to who you're talking to. I wouldn't talk to a sensible but naive person the same way I would talk to a conspiracy theorist. My goal wasn't to be prescriptive, just to give an example of a simple explanation.
The comment you’re replying to was also using the appeal to authority fallacy. Parent was just clarifying that the group as a whole might not be well informed, but the more educated subset is less vaccine hesitant.
The SE/30 is actually a pretty amazing machine. It could run A/UX, which meant a very decent Unix workstation in the classic Mac form factor, with X apps running alongside MacOS (classic; System 7-era) apps. One of my hallmates in uni had one.
You're talking about two different things. QI has nothing to do with the level of proof needed (preponderance of evidence vs. reasonable doubt.) Qualified Immunity only exists in civil litigation and has no bearing on criminal cases.
The stories are rare. We don't know how rare the events are. What percentage of people do the Innocence Project manage to review? It's certainly not everyone.
I wouldn't differentiate those suburbs as anything of interest, their existence serves primarily to prop up the center.

what about building new centers?
The Linux community is a very vocal minority when in comes to the internet. While it would be nice to have available on all platforms, the reality is the majority of people are happily working on the other two major platforms and don't care.
> but it's no longer in dispute on principle.

It was also not in dispute in the first constitution of the united states, but they just did away with that for funsies (I'm being facetious). I imagine we'll see something similar in the EU as the bloc becomes more integrated.
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The problem is, you can't transfer the oil to others with the click of a button for other things.

Tax evasion is very easy when you have crypto. You couldn't just sell it all at an exchange tax-free, but you can convert it into foreign currencies, goods, and services all without any oversight.
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The thing is, many of these expats aren't even "paying into the system" anyway. I have to file US taxes but can deduct what I pay in taxes in my country of residency, which is higher than I'd pay in the US; as a result, I don't actually owe any US taxes. But, like another commenter said, I have to pay thousands to someone to figure out how to even file all this stuff. In other words, some local accountant is making bank, not the IRS.
As any of the lawyers here can attest, the legal definitions here open to huge debates. Some material is unambiguous, other images reside extensive grey areas. The legality of material can even change based on context. Something that is perfectly legal in one area can be absolutely illegal in another. Example: If I had to list the most iconic photographs in world history, one of them is of a totally nude child (Vietnam). That isn't an illegal image, but try explaining that to a computer. At the moment these nuances are handled by cops, prosecutors and in extreme cases the courts. Is Apple going to put a marker down on a particular universal definition? Will that definition become the de facto world standard?
I recently purchased a system from Dr Jeffery Thompson for sound healing. It creates custom binaural beats based on the body's stress response as monitored by heart rate variability). The system includes a pair of sophisticated 3D microphones that go over the ear with the pickups being located as close to the ear canal as possible. This allows them to record the sound as close as possible to what the ear hears. We use them to record the client singing their tone. It then gets disguised and wrapped back into the binaural beat so you are essentially singing to yourself. I'm eager to go out and record some natural sounds in 3D for use as background.
Is "upper-middle class in developed countries" meant to be an expletive?
> That means that the IRS will not be able to require that miners, stakers and companies that sell hardware or software for storing digital assets report the activities of their customers or crypto users whose transactions they verify.

> In a statement, Wyden said that “investors failing to pay tax they owe through cryptocurrency is a real problem,” but that the law as previously written was too broad and would have applied to actors who would not have been able to fulfill its mandates.

> The changes will lead to the bill raising $5.2 billion less than the $28 billion envisaged by the initial legislation, according to a Politico report citing the Joint Committee on Taxation.

To me, a layman, it seems that they are trying to allow more loopholes for tax evasion through buying and selling bitcoin in certain ways? Or am I completely off base?

EDIT: Here [0] is the actual ammendment, so it seems maybe it's just protecting people doing development work on cryptocurrency software/hardware from having to pay taxes.. I think

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075226
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The stakers of even an entire state like Texas represent a rather small percentage of all ETH stakers. So the extra punishment is rather small. It will likely be much bigger if you use Coinbase/Kraken/... or any other centralized staking service and it goes down (including any possible failovers that they have set in place). I don't have the specific numbers in front of me but you should think of the extra penalties for centralization to scale with the risk of the network not being able to function properly, so of the order of 30-40% validators going down for them to kick in hard.

Also, staking redundancy/failover is hard to do. You never want to have two nodes validating with the same keys, the punishment in case there are two validators with the same keys at the same time are very harsh. While not being up, is barely above the cost of opportunity of the reward that you could have gotten.

Roughly speaking:

Your node goes down: roughly cost of opportunity (you don't get what you could have gotten if online)

You and your neighbors, city, state going down: Roughly above of cost of opportunity

Centralized service validating for a large percentage of the network going down: Above cost of opportunity penalties.

Double-validation: Risk total loss of capital.
Imagine if Microsoft does this with Windows, lots of people would get arrested rightly so.

But like some people say this can be dangerous because evidence can be planted on your device. I remember reading articles how through torrent clients files could be planted but I never actually saw it in the wild.
> All it takes is one security researcher to publish a tool that creates millions of false-positives for the current dataset/model used by Apple & others to be useless.

And even better: someone could create false-positives and just send them to people, or put them on websites. While you're watching funny kittens tumbling around, your iphone is calling the cops on you because it thinks you're watching child porn.
In a world where all police were incorruptible and all laws were just, maybe I'd be ok with this. But since we live in this world, I feel like it's only a matter of time until the "think of the children" technology is coopted to scan for other "bad" images.

I wonder how long it'll take for China to compel Apple to add winnie_the_pooh.jpg to the set of naughty images for users in China and HK? And like we saw when bing altered the search results for "tank man" even in the countries like the US, at that point we'd be one configuration error away from those hashes leaking into the US dataset.
Currently burning at a rate of USD $16M per day.
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I really wish the current global monetary system based on the US dollar would be this simple to change as just creating a fork. Wait, it's actually the US military (which is still the largest in the world) that's backing the whole monetary system? Ah, shucks.
> Agree that feminists and modern women aspiring to adopt male traits rather than embracing innate female goddess energy and power is stupid

"Agree that"? What are you on about? The parent comment can't remotely be interpreted to be saying this.

> ... especially when they, at the same time, "stand against" how "toxic" men are.

The term "toxic masculinity" does not imply "masculinity = toxic".

Rather, our culture associates certain (often positive) traits with what it means to "be a (real) man", such as strength, protectiveness, ambition, decisiveness, confidence, courage etc.

"Toxic masculinity" is the cancerous behavior you get when men overshoot in trying to display these qualities, such as authoritarian behavior stemming from an obsession with being perceived as strong; being incapable of letting others shine due to seeing everything as a zero-sum competition; being unreasonably stubborn and unwilling to change their mind out of a desire to be perceived as decisive and confident; pointless risk-seeking behavior potentially putting others at risk etc.
No, really, climate change is not some incidental factor here, the climate conditions in CA are a huge contributor to these fires and possibly dominating factor in these fires.

All the more reason to focus on managing them, and remember the state's history of fires when deciding where and how to build structures and manage urban/wild interfaces in the future.
There are organizations dedicated to handling the repeated abuse of mental health facilities in similar ways here -- not the legal aspect, but the mental health. "Incredibly rare" feels like it's playing into the narrative of "oops, this is rare".

So, I would argue, "one of many":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
Thanks for the feedback! Latency/perf is definitely top of mind. We're looking at different ways to improve it (caching, sidecar integrations, private cloud deployments), especially for large volume users. But we still believe that a service-driven approach is the way to go.

In terms of initial setup and configuration, I agree there's room to improve and remove friction. We're building tools and integrations that should just make this much easier.

We're also iterating on price and do offer volume discounts. So if that's an issue, reach out to us! (aditya@warrant.dev)
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> proscribed burns

"Proscribed" means prohibited. I think you must mean prescribed burns? I assume it's a typo but it conveys the opposite meaning.
No, it just means that there are three people in the Senate who recognize that labelling wallet devs -- or anyone other than actual exchanges -- as "brokers" is impractical and serves no purpose.
Fanfiction is for masses but in some of those pieces you can actually learn something useful it's not all thrash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe

Such a gruesome story: Kenyan sources supported Israel, and in the aftermath of the operation, Idi Amin issued orders to retaliate and slaughter several hundred Kenyans then present in Uganda. There were 245 Kenyans in Uganda killed and 3,000 fled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin

Amin first escaped to Libya, where he stayed until 1980, and ultimately settled in Saudi Arabia, where the Saudi royal family allowed him sanctuary and paid him a generous subsidy in return for staying out of politics.[18] Amin lived for a number of years on the top two floors of the Novotel Hotel on Palestine Road in Jeddah.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/

Movie The Last King of Scotland is Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
But we could greatly reduce its spread through behavioral measures, including masking. Like with flu and cold, absolute eradication is not the only possible policy goal.
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If Apple thought this kind of dragnet was a losing political fight that tells me they've become too weak to stand up to unreasonable government demands. Where is the company that won the public opinion battle over unlocking a mass shooter's phone?
Encampment is quite different from falling asleep... And even then it should be enough to tell the person to move on, not to arrest them.
No more than Pork Futures are a threat to their power. This is plain old fashioned finance guys paying off senators to make tax loopholes for them.
My spouse is just starting her first RN job. As part of the onboarding, an administrator/HR person called and strongly suggested that she sign a paper waiving one of her 30 minute lunch periods. Even though the paper says "I am not being coerced", it's pretty clear that signing it is necessary for getting the job.
The last time hospitals ran during an epidemic of this intensity was in 1920. I think your confidence in the long-term viability of treating a population that has no interest in stemming the virus is completely unwarranted.

If levels stay as is, you're completely right. The issue is that they likely won't and certainly won't if "everyone does what they want."
You can get all 3 improvements if you're starting with an absolutely terrible worst-of-all-worlds system, like the one we have in the US. The main losers of any reform would be administrative paper pushers, but needless fakejobs aren't good for anybody.
I just assume that when people are too busy with creating fantastical stories around some of their ventures, they're probably not doing too well, and are trying to establish themselves as influencers. Hell, sometimes I even doubt they had any ventures to begin with.

It's even worse on low-effort platforms like Instagram, TikTok, etc. seems like 95% of modern "Entrepreneur" content is just a mishmash of MLM, grind/hustle porn, dropshipping, etc.
Oh no, it was called a "hoax" for a long time, people were claiming doctors were faking death certificates. Trump said Covid is "their new hoax.” People on facebook were saying covid would "disappear" after the election.

Don't gaslight people.

Some examples:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/congressman-elect-bob-g...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
>Computing power is just a proxy for capital/resources. Why not be more efficient and use the capital directly and save power in the meanwhile.

Anyone can create new capital independently.

Nobody can create new tokens outside of the chain rules.

This means any newcomer can build up power in a PoW network, but "old money" is privileged in a PoS network.
>Climate change is helping forest fires to ignite and burn hotter

[citation needed]

Actually no, none needed this is obvious nonsense, everyone with a basic understanding of physics can spot that.
I think you’re underestimating the meaning of “detailed investigation.” A single “detailed investigation” can tie up one or more detectives’ entire careers. (If you watch a lot of true-crime, there’s frequent mentions of how the case was solved because one detective pursued the same cold case, day-in, day-out, for literal decades, as their only case.)

But maybe the GP meant a not-so-detailed investigation. A regular investigation, per se. A cursory investigation, even.
The proposal does not exempt anybody from paying taxes; it exempts people and organizations who are not actually brokers from reporting on their customers' activity.
I bet Apple understands this is a bad idea (dilutes their "privacy" brand image) I wonder what forces have pushed Apple to this point.
Hard to call it a market failure when the government restricts new entrants and highly regulates every aspect of healthcare.
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Good point. By "Bitcoin Billionaire" I mean people who had cashed out. If you haven't ever sold, you don't owe taxes.
This Coursera Course (Writing in the Sciences, Stanford University, Dr. Kristin Sainani)

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> But the majority of harmful errors happen in handing over patient care from one provider to another

I've heard this claim before, but this seems like a communication problem more than anything else. Keeping insane work schedules as a means to address it seems really suspect to me.
> They are disregarding doctors and scientists all over the planet, because they think their politicians are incompetent?

It's a direct result of the toxic "every opinion counts" culture that is so pervasive in the United States (this isn't obvious to insiders, but quite clearly evident to immigrants and people who come from different cultures).

This results in people believing obviously junk sources on information - because they aren't discounting them, and treating them as equal in value to scientific articles. E.g. treating someone's personal blog that cherry picks statistics from random countries worldwide and a PubMed Meta-analysis of 10+ articles with equal weight.

Or treating the opinions of friends and family above expert recommendations.

I don't understand it and never will, so I don't know how to solve this underlying issue. My guess is by investing heavily in education and teaching kids critical thinking skills, and shaming those who disregard experts.
I imagine the biggest catch of this will be teens taking inappropriate photos of themselves because teens often do things like this in their awkward years when sexuality and body consciousness kicks in. With this we'll be seeing warrants for those images and a big fuss made on this most suicidal age group who thought they were doing something completely private. This isn't good.
> But, if it's in a folder called "Beach Holiday 2019", it's not illegal nor really morally a problem.

With all due respect, please please stop making broad blanket statements like this. I'm far from a LEO/lawyer, yet I can think of at least a dozen ways a folder named that could be illegal and/or immoral.

> This kind of policy will lead to innocent people getting dragged through the mud. For that reason alone, this is a bad idea.

Completely agree.
Each property is completely private by default unless you want to make it public (and currently that feature isn't ready anyway).

Thank you also for your clarification on version tracking vs. control - I will change that now! And I do plan to describe it as something other than "GitHub for Buildings" eventually, but assumed that description might register more effectively here while I hunt for feedback.
You don't have to go that far back. See the recent Surfside tragedy. Israel sent an elite rescue team and set up relief centers to assist displaced persons, regardless if they were Israeli or not.
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CSAM also means Cyber Security Asset Management.
previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28008202
There's a saying in real-time audio processing that "the ears don't blink"
I think these things happen more frequently than we like to imagine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
Is there a non-paywall version of this article anywhere?
OP here...

This is completely free for the community to submit text prompts, view the results from others, etc.

Submission interface: https://clipdraw.comet.ml/

Public project: https://www.comet.ml/team-comet-ml/clipdraw/view/Y4aT3gy6IrP...

Colab notebook to reproduce (requires a free Comet account): https://colab.research.google.com/drive/16nR8_Ida5tID1RSzLy1...
oh my goodness that is an absolutely massive file! I think that at this point serif is just bored and thinking of edge cases to fix.
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@dang, I very much agree. I think there needs to be less companies per batch though.
Forget just the government. Imagine if corporations could abuse regulatory structure to enforce copyright on private images?