skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algorithms don't put people in jail, people do. The person who irresponsibly followed the output of the algorithm is, and the person who vouched for the algorithm being correct and put it into production is.

Don't think of an algorithm as an independent actor, think of it as an awesome tool that makes you 100x more productive.
They already tag everything, just search for any object in your photos library (wether you are on iOS or even Android with Google Photos) and it will find it.
"People in the hospital" and "Covid-19 hospitalizations".

These are not the same thing.
The next question is since this database is not exact binary hashes, but an ill defined "perceptual hash" - how many false positive images has this system surreptitiously extracted from customer hardware and shown to presumably human control personnel? Were these customers notified? What is the recourse for them?

PhotoDNA has been around for a while and you might think about it what you want, but they have never answered those very pertinent questions.
They are also scanning iCloud documents to match photos against known child abuse photos and reporting any that they find to law enforcement as well as locking you out of your iCloud account.
Will I think it is relevant because the fact that the passport holder benefits from all that makes it one of the best by any reasonable standard, unless you arbitrarily ignore all the worse ones and then say it's the "worst of the best," so to speak.
In a way that's great. Can we get something like that for the web please, make a next generation internet so the advertisers will fuck off from this one? We'll tell them it's the hot new thing where everybody went to.
You arguably have something of substance to add - you can help improve the datasets by speaking or validating phrases in the project's website

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/

There are many languages available to pick from.
> Most people have other things to do instead of learning to ensure that their devices are secure and private and then checking that for everything they get their hands on. You need regulations so that there's a consensus on what can you expect, and then enforcement so that the products you get actually comply with those regulations.

I pretty much agree with you. That said, the position that this particular issue is one in which regulations can save us is naive. The basic political reality is that the very people/organizations which are pushing for further encroachments on our rights and destruction of our privacy as people are the same people and organizations responsible for regulating the companies which offer us these services, software, and devices. When you live in a world with blatantly malicious state actors (the US Government) pressuring and demanding these encroachments as an end-run around existing regulations (the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution), whom exactly is supposed to create and enforce these privacy regulations?
Not if you have children under 12.
I assume the shame would be proportional to the cruelty inflicted to the wrongly incarcerated, and in the US public figures love to show how cruel they are with deviant people.
Do you mean, we don't know if I'm immune but spreading, or can't prove that I'm immune (no negative test)?

Assuming the first, I guess we'll have to wait for the data. Assuming the second, I haven't ever been assumed sick until proven healthy. I've been sick many times in my life, and I voluntarily self-isolate to protect others. But suddenly this is considered selfish. I must prove health or be exiled until I conform.

Are you not worried about losing your freedom? Or was this a freedom you never valued? The specific freedom I mean was choosing what goes in your body.

Thank you for your honest response. Most people just downvote and scroll on.
The community guidelines are good but they’re hidden away on the forum. I was asking them for years to just make those the official guidelines and link them prominently on the CV site but they never did.

However, Hillary, the new community manager, seems good and she’s making a lot of positive changes so hopefully this will be addressed soon.

Long-term the best approach may be some kind of user onboarding before they can record / validate.
> Would have been nice if the article included responses to these concerns. Plenty of shaming about how dangerous passing covid to patients can be, but I didn't see anything that actually addresses the confidence problem.

Here's one simple question: who's liable for the damages/complications from the vaccine.

The answer: it's complicated.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...

https://fortune.com/2021/04/07/covid-vaccine-safety-is-astra...

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-are-pharmaceutical-compa...

But why should it be? If you trust your product, that's a no-brainer to cover the consumer for damages. If you don't...
Did you actually read the release?

They will pop a warning when the minor sender attempts to send something that is flagged as nudity, or the minor receiver receives something that is, if enabled as part of parental controls for the account.

It's opt-in for the account.

The CSAM scanning is different, unrelated to the age of account holder, is a condition of iCloud Photos usage only, and is not opt-in (and the only opt-out is to not use iCloud Photos).
I can answer for the UK - the system is designed so that most people don't explicitly interact with the tax system. The only people that need to do so is the self-employed, running a business, or very highest earners. For everybody else, they can take advantage of tax breaks without filling in any forms, just by opening the right bank accounts/pensions or getting certain services from their employer. When they qualify for benefits, like Child Benefit, it gets paid separately into their bank account.

A surprising number of tax benefits are possible this way - even the income tax deduction on charitable giving is done by getting the charity to do the paperwork instead of the individual taxpayer.

So when it comes to taxing something that isn't going to be a significant tax stream and would require people to fill in declarations, the solution is-- just don't tax it.

And the answer to your second question is, the payment would be "income" (defined as payment for completing work) and would fall under income tax. There's no exception in income tax for prizes because prizes aren't even income at all, as you don't work for them. But if you still tried it, it would fall under the General Anti-Abuse Rule.
As someone who meets the third condition (one parent a US citizen and lived there for more than 5 years), it was really hard to convince the US that I was a US citizen. Every one I talked to told me to go to a country I hadn't been in since I was 5 and apply for citizenship through family sponsorship. This was more than 20 years ago and no one threatened to deport me.

After trying to get citizenship without leaving the country for about a year, I went to the post office and applied for a passport again, with every document that could possibly be relevant. The post office person looked through my pile of documents, declared my mother's passport good enough, stuffed it in the envelope, and a passport came in the mail for me. I think you may have explained to me how that worked out.
The idea that children can be prevented from contracting SARS-CoV-2 in perpetuity is a scientific/technological fantasy tale. We don't even have sterilizing vaccines.
Image with bad editing here: https://imgur.com/a/XxkzWZw

It would be nice that if I have chosen a repo above, the link includes that repo instead of the default one.
They're pushing very hard to have the actual standard manufacturer drivers available via Windows Update, and shipping the control panel as an optional download via the Windows Store.

I had to do a Windows 10 reinstall recently after I broke something severe in the networking stack (entirely on me, I was playing with something I knew I shouldn't have been playing with) and I had the NV 2060 drivers back on my machine pretty much immediately as part of the update installation chain. I just had to go back into the Windows Store to redownload the control panel since it's a hybrid video laptop and I wanted more control over settings.
PoS is decentralized as soon as you have a big number of stakers. The hard thing being “how do you know that there are in fact a big number of people and not just a bunch of guys hidden behind a huge number of aliases” (the Sybil attack problem) and this is for this exact problem that proof of work helps (contrary to popular belief, Proof of work has nothing to do with double spending).

For this reason you cannot build a trust-less distributed network with proof of stake alone: you'll need some kind of proof of waste to bootstrap it.
I don't know if Aerojet would have been any faster… at the time the decision was made, rumors said that AR-1 development was significantly behind BE-4.

As for SpaceX engines, I think SpaceX is not at all interested in being a supplier for an exceedingly picky customer like ULA.
If true, this seems bad.
You're correct! It was a typo and we now fixed it, thanks!!
If I understand correctly pictures of my naked children never match any known hashes so I should be ok (1 in a trillion ok that is? What is the expectation value for this?)? Not that I make such pictures but perhaps by accident. It’s not that I find it weird but god I’m afraid they end up beyond my control.

I don’t use iCloud (only for MS MFA backups), is this affecting me?

I self host everything, what happens when my account is suspended, does my iPhone work?

I sure hope we get to learn how effective this has been in say, a year? It’s quite something that my device is going to scan and check my pictures. I’d really like there to be a large, confirmed benefit for the children.
US Navy is developing a solar-powered plane that can fly for 90 days
I think you misunderstood. Most (EU) pension systems also payout worldwide.

It is the 'putting in' part which depends on residency.
If you own your domain, you have the option of choosing any hosing you want. If you don't you are hold hostage to the platform you choose. That is not the feeling of control, that is the actual control.

10 usd/year is a rounding error. Get your own domain or get screwed over.
TSLP protein causes rapid fat loss via sebum secretion in mice
Let's loop back in an hour and see if this post is still on the front page. I suspect it will have a front page worthy number of votes, but will not be there
We probably will. Obviously we don't always act in the most logical fashion. Long term, that's not a good trait.
I sure hope Western Europe likes it cold. Paris is on roughly the same latitude of Quebec city.
> I think it's missing the option to increase the stamp sizes though?

Holding Shift doubles the stamp size. I think this is accurate to the original implementation.

> What I really liked about Kid Pix was the ability to make animations through the slideshow mode.

That must have been in a later version. I don't remember that existing.
The money you put into taxes went into national defense that kept you safe, roads you drove on, schools that provided an educated workforce that made the goods and services you consumed, etc...

Money put into Social Security is just lost to you unless you are renouncing your money after retirement.
There is something like a 0% chance this program wasn't co-developed with representatives of the government entities you least want rifling through your data.
This sounds a lot like how Prometheus works.
Truly one of the most magnificent creatures on earth. Up there with dolphins and elephants that should be protected at any price.
> The Messages app will add new tools to warn children and their parents when receiving or sending sexually explicit photos.

> Messages uses on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments and determine if a photo is sexually explicit. The feature is designed so that Apple does not get access to the messages.
Most of the process is done on customer's devices.[1]

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Reverse Engineering the M1 [pdf]
The folks who consider themselves un-outsourcable who have to interact with the devteam often won't consider someone in Prague to be a substitute for someone in Montana since it will fuck their schedule up timezone-wise and/or result in tanked productivity through massively harder coordination challenges.

Canada or Central or South America, on the other hand... could be a lot of opportunity for people there.
Yes, working for a remote-only environment is vastly different from mixed. I don't know how companies are going to handle this without committing significant effort to making sure remote workers are kept in the loop.
Hey - thanks much for your question.
Specific to your use-case on subscriptions - we have decoupled the subscriptions software layer from the payment rails. So yes, we can do exactly what you mentioned - which is switching providers for subscriptions without customer friction. Traditional orchestration companies will allow you to vault the cards and reuse them for recurring payments - but would require you to manage the logic around subscriptions (in your case).
With inai, we allow businesses to manage their subscriptions and associated payment logic from within our dashboard.
It's not bluff. It's common to have claw back clauses on sign-on bonus or trainings, for a limited period (3 years might be too long though).

The comment you reply to is giving really bad advice to ignore it. That sort of clause is valid and the company may or may not action it. You don't know.

What your friend should do is interview for other companies and mentions to the HR interview that she has to refund 10k if she leaves now, and ask whether they would be able to cover it. It's routine for companies to offer a sign-on bonus to cover this sort of things and you can expect the same claw back clause attached for one year.

Alternatively, if she has the money AND can get a job that pays significantly more, she can switch anyway, the worst that can happen is that she has to pay some money if the company asks.
Yeah, it will biased towards the center of the range rather than uniformly distributed
No longer a developer, and never thought of it this way, but ...

I wear photo gray glasses (or whatever they call it now) with a UV coating, and sunglasses when i drive (against eye fatigue, the windshield already has UV coating).
No, they're potentially reporting after some high threshold of matches. They explicitly say that individual matches do not reach that bar, although they do not actually say what "high" is other than the statistical claim.
They have one criterion for putting in and a different one for paying out?

That would seem.....unfair.
Since when did we start allowing companies to own the actual products we purchased?
I love the cleaning example because it's something that's not considered "sexy", but that several hospitality businesses need to solve. Most tools want to only help with sexy topics like "movie production", "project management", etc. In my view, there are lot's of "non-sexy problems" that need to be addressed.
This happens "all the time". Taking responsibility is not 'in vogue' nowadays. (Prime examples are the lasts president. Obama was big on cracking down on whistleblowers. Orange explicitly claimed many times that managing stuff is not his responsibility, he has people for that.)
Woah. I definitely don't want this. I don't want apple trolling through my data.

Terrifying. This will be used in other ways. Whenever you hear "protect the children" as an excuse to increase surveillance you know they're up to something horrible. The future is bleak AF.
To the latter point, a minor user transmitting sexual images of themselves may be breaking the law depending on the state and the age of the recipient, so an algorithm may not need to "special case" a "legitimate" reason for the transmission of a sexual image of a minor -- or if the algorithm did, it would need to be very complex to account for the state and ages of both sender and recipient. See e.g. Louisiana's sexting laws: https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/teen-sexting...
Why though? Naively it would be possible to bundle postgres and have your app connect on localhost. What would be wrong with doing that?
Ask that question to weapons manufacturers.
I did plenty of the usual undergrad bitwise stuff in school and recently dove back into K&R C to refresh myself, so in a lot of ways I agree.

But how is it possible to not wonder about how these
magical boxes actually represent the software we
write in memory?

I mean, we all draw the line somewhere. Somewhere, there's a chip designer wondering how you have spent so long in this industry without bothering to get familiar with chip lithography techniques and such.
It's because USA has a policy of not paying any ransoms or making concessions to the hostage takers (unlike most other western countries). I'd assume this might also result in Americans being targeted less often than people from other countries (I haven't see any data on this).
I want to like Godot, I just dislike too many of the design choices. I don’t like the signal pattern at all. GDScript is fine for small games. C# integration is an afterthought and shows with the rough api; especially working with signals.
Again, the Windows 10 TOS extended that to scanning the local machine as well.
Wow, that's cool! It is interesting that actual scientists have thought of the same idea. The idea may still be relevant given how long it is taking the entire world to be vaccinated. There is a serious risk of new even more dangerous variants emerging as long as the entire world is not vaccinated. Releasing an "attenuated variant" into communities that cannot be vaccinated quickly may still be necessary.
You still put a bunch of money into it on the promise that after retirement you will have income, and that promise is broken when you renounce your citizenship. Also, Social Security is closer to real pensions than you think, they're just different from the theoretical concept of a pension that isn't actually used outside of the Post Office.
Well, I am glad to stand corrected.

Most of my knowledge of it comes from all the threads about Intuit's and H&R Block's lobbying regarding what IRS could and could not do to simplify tax filling.

If you don’t me asking. If it is as straightforward, what actually is the point in said lobbying?
Whether using Lua or Python, for GPU-based scientific computing, the need to drop into a C call is the same. The overhead of Python vs Lua never really mattered.

While we were based on top of LuaJIT, we couldn't use the JIT for anything because we had to always call into the C library for GPU kernels (and LuaJIT can't JIT through an opaque C call, incase that C call changes the interpreter stack).

Where Python really helps is with its ecosystem. The entire data science and ML ecosystem is in Python.

The difficulty of calling out to C is not much greater in Python, things like PyBind11 make it pretty natural.
Alright, after further investigation it looks like the Supreme Court has so far declined to rule on this issue so it depends on the state. It sounds like most states supreme courts have ruled that you can't be forced to unlock a device, but some, like pennsylvania say that if the state can prove you know the password they can force you to unlock the device.

Definitely a pretty thorny situation.
> Operating range : (altitude < 18km) or (speed < 515m/sec), both not exceeded simultaneously

Is that a limitation so that you don't use it for missile guidance?
You are stating it in reverse. Think about the children is always an excuse to get started with the next big things (like all the other things that you mentioned). So its step 1 of a grand plan on the lines of 1984 (probably to get some more markets to open for them by cozying up to governments).
Stakers in a PoS system are incentivized to do what's best for the network. It wouldn't make sense for them to stake large amounts of funds and do something that could make Ethereum less valuable. The current marketcap of Ethereum is $325B, so a 51% attack in a PoS system means the attacker would need $165B. Even if a really bad attack occurred, the majority of validators can decide to fork (eg DAO fork). The social layer of Ethereum is a hidden force and I believe the majority are honest actors that would support any Ethereum improvement proposals that make the network more fair and decentralized.
If ANTIFA or the 3%'ers were backed by a company with strong links to China or Russia, wouldn't you want to know?
>or someone working on their behalf

I wonder what the limits to this are. Clearly if government asks for help then that counts, but what happens if government slowly builds up partnerships where certain 'good partner' behavior is expected but never explicitly required in a contract?

Say government started favoring companies who scan for drug images for any contracts over those who don't? Or say that while working with companies that scan for drug images they build up relationships that lead to both better treatment and to better chances at winning contracts? Maybe companies that refuse to implement the drug abuse material scans end up getting investigated more often.

I wonder how long until the fourth amendment can be considered dead due to this one exception?
So what do we do about this? Increase the salinity? Install huge pumps? (The last thing is only partly in jest.)
Well LeCunn quit Twitter, so it is "one down". That is what I meant by successful. And Gebru's "arguments" weren't even arguments, just "whatever you say is wrong because you are white and don't recognise our special grievances".

I personally agree with what he said when he said it is a difference between a research project and a commercial product. No actual harm was done when the AI completed Obama's image into a white person. You could just laugh about it and move on.
Which is what, exactly? The irony of this system is that it is obviously only capable to scan for images that are already long in circulation.
Right, for example Avalanche now has more than 1000 validators which is the most that i've seen for a PoS blockchain.
It literally astounds me that managers don't understand that if you force people to shop around to get any improvement in their situations they will resent you for it. It costs time to secure another position, and if you only needed to pay me or give me X + Y initially to retain my employment, if you make me get an offer to negotiate it is going to cost you X + Y + Z because you wasted my time.
I think you're right, and I think it will motivate those of us who want to work remotely to quit and find companies that have that as their culture and let the "back to the office" folks become more homogenized.
Makes me look back at the last 20-30 years of discourse in the United States and let out a deep sigh. Had CFC propellants emerged today, I highly doubt the U.S. would have been a signatory to the Montreal Protocol — just to own the libs or avoid hindering the market by a boogeyman of 0.0001% overhead or some other form of contrarian political identity differentiation.
120 is still a hundred.

Windows 98 crawled under a Pentuim@133 and 64MB of RAM (we had that in the library), but Windows 95 without that crapware called IE4 + ActiveX was fine.
I'm still mostly thinking about an awesome tool that will target 100x more minority people and send 100x more innocent people in jail.
The Messages app auto-blurring seems useful and respectful of the user, which is nice.

Additionally, the client side scanning seems very well-designed, but if iCloud Photos are not end-to-end encrypted, why are they going to such an effort to do this when they already have access to any image they want server-side?
It's not quite arbitrary, it relates to having to pay an exit tax if your global net worth meets or exceeds 2 million.

You are correct in that the IRS chose this number.