skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a very sick 8 month old baby who I obviously had a million photos of. Unfortunately, my lil girl had 9 surgeries and her little body had gone through more than people can think of. She passed in May, and it's really difficult to look back at old pictures because of how much stuff was going on, various levels of critical ICU care, pre/post surgery, etc. But it wasn't until a few months after she was born I had gone to do something in Google and realised my little girl's very severe diaper rash, open sternum, chest tubes, etc, etc, etc photos were backed up and tagged in Photos.

This is sort of the premise to why I've de-Googled/de-Cloud myself because I didn't want my little girls pain and suffering to train some computer's image detection AI.

How would this work for a parent of a sick child who sends their doctor, S/O, possibly graphic in nature and personal photos of their own child? I was in close contact with my daughter's doctor, and would send him all sorts, I can only imagine the same is true for most parents of chronic children.
The general advice is to liquidate your TFSA, ISA etc. before moving to the US.
That is only applies to so-called earned income, you still owe taxes on all of your other income. And many people earn considerably more than $108k.

Furthermore, even under tax treaties, it is not uncommon for some part of your income to be double taxed due to differences in recognition and classification of income and foreign taxes paid. Americans often have to pay more taxes than if they only had to pay taxes in either country separately.

And this is on top of the onerous reporting overhead and other difficulties.
I agree that you are ethically in the right, but it is still legally "tax evasion", and therefore probably not the best advice to be given to others. I say this as someone who has personal experience with the "accidental American" status. Depending on where you are, the IRS may discover your "American" status, and the penalties could be worse. For example, Canadian banks share information with the IRS under FATCA.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fatca-tax-deal-forces-canad...
Agreed. From my comment:

> although (to your point) without doing any magic to intentionally cause a collision, effectively you will never get one because of just how many damn buckets there are
return n % 2 == 0
Thanks. I'm in the process of writing the documentation, especially for the webhooks format.
> echoing their voices back at them on a very slight delay which is apparently quite intolerable, and I could believe it!

Sometimes I get this effect on my normal calls, and it is pretty awful. Echo wasn't nearly so bad on circuit switched calls, but now that everything is digital and has sampling and codec delays, the echos come back so much slower.
While undoubtedly true, it’s also true that Linux is nowadays the default OS for VFX, for example, and this means that a lot of commercial 3d software targets it (for example, Autodesk Maya or the Substance suite). There is a standard “platform” of reference that allows companies to have a fixed target for their software: https://vfxplatform.com

I think targeting it would be probably the best solution for a company willing to porting to Linux. Alternatively, Flatpaks/Appimages provide a very nice and user friendly solution to this problem.
AWS doesn't do any automatic fingerprinting of files being uploaded to S3 and never has. The only time I've heard of anything like this was briefly when Microsoft was doing it, and I don't know if that was shutdown long ago due to outrage or not.
'Drinking and driving' is not a good analogy either.

There is no one that argues that 'drinking and driving' is good for anyone at all.

OTOH, regarding vaccines, there are so many different human conditions, side effects and issues seen with vaccines that it is fair to be skeptical.

The other big factor is the time that has elapsed, and different folks have different levels of comfort.

All of this being brushed aside - to identify a group of folks to crush -- is the evil being discussed.

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that they are immutable or not is quibbling, in my opinion.

Using the Khmer Rouge, the system decapitated the intellectuals not because they are learned, but because they had the ability to think and decide for themselves.

Now, in the US, I argue, that people who chose to think differently are being targeted, with the carrot being provided that they can change...

Is this not coercion? There is a line between persuasion and coercion, and very clearly, it has been crossed.
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Well Germany also requires that you surrender other citizenships when you get a German citizenship, unless you are a German dual citizen through ancestry.
None of this was ever about a virus.
> "One of the worst" maybe if you're comparing to the EU, but definitely not in a wider global sense.

Definitely. But comparing the benefits of US citizenship to that of, say, Venezuela or Tchad would be pointless, now, wouldn’t it?
Seems reasonable, depending on shift length. Some doctors work 24 hour shifts, three 24 hour shifts a week would be brutal. Even three 12 hour shifts would be 36 hours, not much less than a standard 40 hour week.
There is zero AI classification involved, it’s a lookup vs hashes of known child porn images. You would need a hash collision, misidentified photo in the dataset, or legitimate use case to end up with a false positive.
That doesn’t make the system audited. The obvious reason we don’t hear more about the weaknesses is that no high value targets are using these systems, so it’s not worth exploiting them.
So why not just send the payment to a Russian bank?
Here you go:

An umbrella review of the evidence associating diet and cancer risk at 11 anatomical sites

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24861-8
Cool idea. Have you thought about the ability to export to a PDF?
How long can this go on until you stop believing it's a bubble?
So this means it is checking if you are sharing known CP images? That does seem to be much less invasive and problematic as there is likely no good reason to be sharing these images.
The next day Apple phones could periodically listen to the environment via the internal microphone. The next day Apple phones could take and upload photos of the environment by itself.
Unless the tax applies globally then they’ll just flee to Kazakhstan. Oh wait; they won’t have to flee far.
The Constitution applies only to the government. A user's relationship with Apple is not in any way governed by the Constitution, just like how Twitter banning people who violate the terms of service is not a violation of the first amendment to the Constitution.
Mmarq is exaggerating quite a bit. It may be that they are accurately reporting their own experiences, but as a description of typical life in London, take it with a huge pinch of salt.
No need to imagine, it's already done in OneDrive which comes with Windows 10 by default:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
What reasonable evidence do you have to think that "valid" in that context is saying your name is wrong, rather than that the system cannot handle it?
Anecdotally, I have at least 7 family/friends that were RNs at some point and moved on to other professions or dropped to part time. Zero of my family and friends are still full-time RNs. They cite a combination of reasons: risks from patients (moving overweight people, assault from patients, verbal abuse from patients/families, etc), increased workloads that threaten their licenses, and cost of childcare. And this all occurred before COVID.
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I think you misunderstand me. I am not saying the rich are leaving because of culture war issues. I am saying that the incessant claims that America is just the worse erodes the social fabric for everyone, including the rich, and one manifestation
of such erosion is that it becomes morally acceptable to cheat the system. After all it is a corrupt, racist, oppressive, hypocriptical imperialistic system, so why pay into it?
PoS should be less centralized than PoW as I understand it. At least in Ethereum if you stake your 32 ETH then you get transactions to validate assigned to you randomly. You don't need a purpose-built rig with a ton of hash power to compete so smaller players are incentivized to participate, leading to a far greater incentive to run a node.
Not that I am qualified to hold a legal debate, but as far as I know, if Apple implements this under the pressure from the state, and that it reports what it findings to the state, it is effectively an agent of the state and it should apply.
Here is the link to the paper about the study in the Lancet.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Here is the press release by Imperial College about the study.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/187871/there-safe-level-alco...
On the Mac at least, there is PostgresApp. A double-clickable application that wraps a PostgreSQL server. Installation takes a minute or two without having to use the command line for compilation.

https://postgresapp.com
The IRS has teams of crypto experts and they use tools like Chainalysis that do much of the low level analysis for them. Also, they get data from crypto exchanges so when someone sells Bitcoin for dollars to cash out, Coinbase will (in most cases) send the IRS the 1099.

Like the rest of the US tax system, it's based on the tax payer being required to submit what she owes. If she lies about her income, the enforcement comes from the risk of IRS doing an audit and asking you to show where you got your funds from. It's no different than if you own a restaurant or other private business. You can misreport your earnings, but the risk is the IRS will audit you and you will get fined or possibly go to jail.
Have a look at Vectornator. I have no experience with it, but it was used to demo the M1 Macs when they were introduced.
Not a VGM track, but "Something Dark is Coming" from the Battlestar Galactica Soundtrack by Bear McCreary comes to mind.

https://youtu.be/tlwZEutyrX8
How do you have the money to move, take classes, or start a business (business licenses cost $$$) if you are choosing between abusive/dead-end work and homelessness?
Yes, that's exactly who it is aimed at. If you can write code in an imperative language—in other words you're a typical software engineer—then you should be able to follow along fine.

The first half uses Java, but sticks with a pretty vanilla subset. If you're comfortable in another OOP language, you should be able to squint and figure out what's going on.

The second half uses C. That does assume you have some basic familiarity with pointers, malloc(), etc. but doesn't assume you're a C expert. If you're totally new to C, it might be worth spending a little time learning the basics if you really want to grok the last half of the book. If you mostly want to understand the concepts around bytecode, stack-based VMs, and Pratt parsing, you can mostly ignore the C details and get by.

Also, the code in the book has been ported to many other languages:

https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/wiki/Lox-...

So you can always use those as a reference too.
SWATing is actually the absolute cheapest option - if you want to ruin someone's week from across the nation (or across the ocean), your best bet is a burner phone calling the person's local 911 with a threat that warrants a SWAT team response (I am of course not advocating for anyone to do this, just explaining the process malicious actors currently use to trigger these). Outside of that, you'd need to pay a lot of money for something like a PI or obfuscated malware to steal PII or credentials from the victim.
Thank you for this!
Great work!
I look forward to exploring it fully :)

Really cool work - and it works! I'm going to noodle around and deploy it to gitlab :)

On a philosophical aside, it hurts my heart to see "Open-Source" with the logo of a private company (microsoft-owned github) representing this Free Software for Free Culture. I'm embarrassed to bring it up, but I feel like the battle for our collective soul is being decided here. I do not wish to fault the author for making the most convenient choice for easy user onboarding, I just wish the world were otherwise.

Thank you again to the wonderful author!

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Edit: This article on development is illuminating https://aizac.herokuapp.com/from-hero-to-zero-with-learning-...
I have been so far, and it's been delightful. :)
Yes! Buying a different phone or even forgoing a feature phone are both valid alternatives. Just because the alternatives are unappealing doesn't mean "There are no alternatives" or "The warning wasn't actionable" into true statements.
So I happily bow to local / expert knowledge, but my understanding is that giraffe deaths by lions are fairly rare and even when they are eaten scavenging is involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe#Mortality_and_health
I can, and I do. Weddings are about the people getting married, unless for some reason you think people get married for your sake or for their friends' sakes. If somebody has a problem, there's no law or hit squad sent out to compel them. It's unreasonable to have this attitude that people should limit their weddings just to "respect your time"
Is it possible to operate using a business account in other countries? It's pretty cheap and easy to do in the USA.
Yes it is very well described, as a meditation on architecture. But I still don't see what real world use cases are.
The point is, Costco is taking many pictures of you, including possibly correlating with events or actions.
It’s impossible to argue meaningfully without an example (for a field with tens of thousands of papers a year), but the purpose of academic papers is to convince experts of the ideas. If the paper is clear enough for an expert, it is serving its intended purpose. People are free to write blog posts and summarize papers on YouTube in a simplified way but it’s not compatible with technical writing and will likely get the paper rejected if it is done there. Journalists should consult with experts not unlike any layman consulting a lawyer for legal advice.

For a concrete example, you can’t explain algorithmic complexity precisely and also make the explanation accessible to general audiences. One is inherently mathematical and the other is just intuition. The math is exactly precise and for the same reason hard to digest.
WTF happened to Australia? I was under the impression it was a "take no shit" kind of place. It seems like they've become some sort of clown world police state. The Government response is completely over the top considering the situation.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/

Is it because socialized medicine can't cope with a surge in illness (Canada was another example) exposing the poor state of socialized healthcare after spending 10's of billions a year in tax payer funds. Somehow the USA with it's private system was able to scale and accommodate massive amounts of patients without collapse while these other countries were invoking the worlds longest lock downs and basically shutting down everything to try and save a healthcare system that barely functions under normal conditions (Canada as an example, visit any Toronto Hospital).
> But anything Gimp's native images can't do, you can't "add" using these plug-ins. The SVG plug-in for example can't magically make Gimp understand vector images

No, but an SVG datatype can present itself as both bitmap and vector and an application that wants a bitmap can still read an SVG as if it were a bitmap.

> It's because there really were sixty different crappy pixmap formats that were completely interchangeable

Any data type that’s generic enough can present itself in multiple ways as long as it’s possible to translate (even if with losses) to those ways.
I think you could learn how bit-shifting and bitwise operators work in an afternoon or two. The concepts aren't very difficult, but a lot of people don't know them, because they haven't take a Computer Architecture class or they haven't had to use them in their domain.
> But that could change or are you asserting it won't

How can you interpret what I wrote to say that a new virus or variant certainly won't cause a higher fatality rate? Anything can happen at any time. For all we know, a new virus could become prevalent. Typically though, we base public policy based on things that have already happened and the likelihood of future things.

There is little reason to believe COVID will evolve into something more deadly. In general viruses rarely make this evolutionary step. Pathogens do not gain reproductive advantage by killing their host. This is why zoonotic pathogens are so dangerous ... when such a pathogen crosses over, they can go from causing no damage to their original host (bats) to becoming very deadly in the context of a human body. Indeed, if history is any guide, endemic human viruses eventually evolve to be mild infections or beneficial (there are theories that placental development is due to the presence and integration of ancient viruses in mammalian DNA).

Given that, unlike the flu which has natural reservoirs in birds and crosses over very frequently to humans, COVID does not seem to be bouncing between animal hosts, it is highly unlikely based on every understanding I have of pathogenic evolution that the virus will become more deadly. Indeed, delta variant, while more infectious (as to be expected) is not as deadly.

> . It doesn't claim 35% fatality, it cites the 35% fatality of MERS, a distantly related coronavirus

Except, MERS and SARS-Cov1 are zoonotic viruses, whereas the COVID variants are human evolved and thus unlikely to become more pathogenic. Zoonotic viruses evolve to be less deadly in their hosts. The zoonotic crossover is a chance event and given the viruses were evolved to not kill bats, they had not been exposed to any selective pressure to not kill humans. Now they are exposed to that pressure so we will see the fruits of that selection.

Also, as you point out, MERS is only distantly related. If this pandemic were MERS with a higher infection rate, then it would have been more concerning to begin with, but of course then it would also have evolved faster to be less pathogenic because the selection pressure would be stronger. But it's not. Even the earliest estimates (again, with assuredly bad data) were a fatality rate of 7-8%. They've gone drastically down, by orders of magnitude, and the new variants will continue to drop that.

It is good new variants are being created. The higher infection rate + lower death rate will lead to quicker herd immunity against a broader spectra of Sars-COV2 family viruses.
You think Facebook and Google Photos should be the goal for privacy standards? You and I are practically in different universes then, philosophically.

You're also being naive by swallowing the "it's only iCloud" justification. There is a clear intent to progress to scanning all local photos. After all, if photos must be match those of a government child abuse database, and any matches trigger manual review, what would an innocent person possibly have to hide? By that logic it'd be absurd to not scan just because it's only locally. After all, you're only catching bad guys! This is about protecting the children after all! /s

I oppose government-supplied blacklists. Doubly so when we can't even see what's in the database, but I would oppose them either way.
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It's worth taking a look at the Firebird relational database.

Firebird can be used as an embedded DB or an client/server DB. It supports a wide variety of data types, is open source and cross-platform too.

It's a database that's rarely discussed here (a mystery why not). It certainly deserves wider attention.

Firebird features: https://firebirdsql.org/en/features/
The largest source of Moderna's R&D funding was nearly $1B in grants from the US Government.
Still seems relatively safe:

> The Department of Homeland Security has stated that they cannot obtain the information required to enforce the amendment unless the former U.S. citizen "affirmatively admit[s]" his or her reasons for renouncing citizenship, and so from 2002 to 2015, only two people were denied entry to the United States on the grounds of the amendment.
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Not to mention that Ethereum has shown willingness to hard fork to punish/reward specific actors.

If an actor pulled off a 51% attack on Ethereum I'd be surprised if there wasn't an effort to just hard fork them out of their resources.
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I think it comes down to this: as a developer, part of your job is tuning your sensor for moments of "there has to be an easier way to do this, let me look it up".

I wouldn't criticize a developer for being unfamiliar with bit shifts because I've never had to use it for work either. The part I'm incredulous about is that there wasn't a step in the middle where the developer looked up bit manipulations.
Is there a site like https://ethernodes.org/london, but also with a % of the hashpower? An anti-EIP 1559 mining cartel made an attempt to fork Ethereum and it would be interesting to know how close they came. https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-mining-pools-threaten-cont...
Also note that this crypto tax-reporting provision was slid into a huge bipartisan infrastructure deal. It really never should have been included in this legislation in the first place.

Exempting actors in the crypto space who facillitate crypto usage without ever having custodial control of the funds makes a lot of sense. (Just like envelope manufacturers shouldn't have to register as money transmitters because people sometimes mail cash.) The provision that was slid in was nonsensically bad.
Buying a different phone or even forgoing a feature phone entirely are both valid alternatives. Just because the alternatives are unappealing doesn't make "There are no alternatives" or "The warning wasn't actionable" into true statements.
The extremely fraught battle over the actual Equal Rights Amendment would seem to disagree with the idea that this is a settled issue.
I think this is sarcasm given the last bit.
Lived in Germany for 4 years quite well versed on the local customs :-) Its about adjusting the punishment to the crime.

So you are still sticking to the opinion, that you will put in detention a lateral thinker ...While a bank robber (with violence ) will be painting the community center ?

Edit:
Although its a completely different matter...As you mentioned in Germany you dont take lightly on people flouting the rules, I cannot resist asking.

Did anybody got detention yet as outcome
of the Wirecard scandal ?

https://youtu.be/XUofgnbcbCw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard_scandal
I heard yakei was doping, and that she had metal studs implanted in her knuckles
100% agree!

I was kinda surprised by this performance focused update, I have not had any performance issues whatsoever, even in big documents.

For this reason I can not use Sketch. It's just painfully slow compared to Designer (and Figma). When everything is "sticky" it really messes with my productivity.
"the statistics would disagree with you on how representative a random draw of several hundred would be in this situation"

The observations in your original citation were NOT NOT NOT a random sample.

Are you really this deeply ignorant of basic statistical methods or are you just being dishonest?
I don't think there's anything miners really have to do differently because of this. The only big thing would be to make sure to upgrade your software to the version that has the code for the hard fork (though at this point the hard fork has already happened, so you would be a bit late). But regular users should upgrade their hardware too so that their clients track the correct chain, otherwise they might not see the right balance.