skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Apple's original text[0]:

> Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM is designed with user privacy in mind. Instead of scanning images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching [...]

It's incredible that Apple arrived at the conclusion that client-side scanning that you cannot prevent is more private than cloud-scanning.

Since they claim they're only scanning iCloud content, why not scan in the cloud?

They decided the most private way is to scan iCloud content before it's uploaded to the cloud... Because if they scanned in the cloud it would be seen as a breach of privacy and is bad optics for a privacy-focused company? But scanning on the physical device that they have described as "personal" and "intimate" has better optics? That's amazing.

This decision can only be read as Apple paving the way to scanning all content on the device, to bypass the pesky "Backup to iCloud" options being turned off.

[0] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Not true. The removed study was just one of 50. The study already had a control for bias attached to it. Even if the study is removed the effect remains certain.

The hit job on that study was also coordinated. The study was done by an Egyptian doctor in the middle of a pandemic. An actual doctor on the front line trying to save lives. They way he has been sullied in the name of protecting the financial interests of pharma companies is shameful.
The pessimist in me likes to think this article is sponsored by the air purifier lobby. Healthier I can understand, but smarter? How do they prove smartness?
The voice of Joseph Joestar going "Oh No!" etc. when JJBA became extremely popular totally reminded me of kidpix.
> A walkable city is far less organized than something like arcosanti, as they tend to grow organically. But they do provide a significantly higher quality of life compared to most cities in the USA, because of the focus on car-based transportation.

It pained me to watch China, which had walkable, bikeable cities, threw it away for car-centric re-imagined cities. They were hoodwinked.
What a pack of weasels.

Back in the day, Elvis Presley was asked by his accountant if he wanted to shelter his income. Elvis told him "No. If I get low on money, I'll schedule more concerts. I pay my taxes."

That's one reason why he was The King.
> just evaporated from the world because it was no longer useful.

If lessons were learned, either what is good/useful/supportable or what not good/useful/supportable then it's not wasted work

Plan9 is long gone but still provided good ideas that Linux and other use to this day. I'm sure some ideas have been taken from BeOS etc etc
One disappointing development from a larger perspective is that many privacy-preserving technologies (multi-party computing, homomorphic encryption, hardware enclaves, etc) are actually getting used to build tools that undermine once-airtight privacy guarantees. E2E starts to become… whatever this is.

A more recent example is how private set intersection became an easy way to get contact tracing tech everywhere while maintaining an often perfunctory notion of privacy.

I wonder where large companies will take this next. It behooves us cryptography/security people who actually care about not walking down this slippery slope to fight back with tech of our own.

This whole thing also somewhat parallels the previous uses of better symmetric encryption and enclaves technologies for DRM and copyright protection.
France has been pushing terrorism as a justification for mass-surveillance in the E.U.
I misunderstood then. I agree with you.
Lua can be embedded in a C project as a library.
yes I've seen a lot of groceries item stay the same price but in smaller packaging
Every time I look at cool project like this, I add it to github star and plan to play around over the weekend. But then got too busy with something else and just forget that it exist in my pile of interesting starred project in github.
It’s closely related to AI, but it’s not image classification. The important thing is your trying to match specific files to hashes rather than features to an image so the output doesn’t need to be human readable.

Image classification on the other hand cares about if the image contains say a stop sign or a trash can. That’s useful for self driving cars etc.

Aka classification you might want to match two different bands playing the same song as identical. Where perception hashing would want them to be classified differently.
you are a life saver, it works now
Yep, NightCafe has struggled for years with the expense of running algorithms on GPUs. It started out free, but as soon as you start to get any kind of volume, costs balloon.

I almost gave up on NightCafe when I was trying to make money from selling prints to people. Then, one user generated 3,000 creations in a week, which cost him nothing and me $300. I decided to spend the weekend implementing a credit system to prevent abuse, and was surprised to find that more people were willing to pay for credits than I expected.

It's still not much and I've had to spend a lot of effort on reducing costs in various ways just to be able to break even. But I love working on this app and have high hopes that _one day_ it will become profitable enough for me to work on it full time.
Reminder: Control What You Can Control
For me I've worked with the following databases with .NET (SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite, IBM AS/400) and probably others that I don't remember.

.NET divers work great. As for Oracle when companies have been around for decades and rely on it I can see it's almost impossible to change without a huge risk to the business. Bu t if someone were starting a business today Oracle doesn't feel the way to go in most cases. Of course I'm sure they have some really good sales people that make it happen lol
Yeah, I give up.
This seems even worse. If the images are only scanned before upload to iCloud then Apple has opened a backdoor that doesn’t even give them any new capability. If I am understanding this right an iPhone can still be used to distribute CSAM as long as the user is logged out of iCloud? So it’s an overreach and ineffective?
Right before that line

During a briefing with Trump, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, told him forest management is an issue, but "climate change is real, and that is exacerbating this."

And it's true, Winters are drier summer is hotter. Trump is ridiculed because he talks like an idiot and denies climate change.

No one denies that forrest management is a problem. it was a huge blaming thing for a couple years because the federal government actually maintains most of it. Remeber all of this?
There's really no controversy here. Alex Lenferna wrote this about Cliff Mass back in 2019:

> Mass was working alongside the ~$32 million No on 1631 campaign, which was over 99% funded by oil and gas companies and the Koch Brothers, although as I have stated before, he was not paid to do so as far as I am aware. Additionally, as FOIA requests of Mass’s emails have shown, Mass used University of Washington resources to coordinate with the predominately oil and gas funded No On 1631 campaign, thus violating ethics codes for employees at state universities.

https://alexlenferna.medium.com/the-non-persecution-of-cliff...
Signal is next on the list since it's a centralized solution - you can expect they will come for it next.
The text to image results look pretty awesome, but I feel like they all have a "neural net" quality to them. Whilst the style transer results come out more unique. Do you think it would become possible to combine the two techniques? Eg. Generate me a pic of this text, but in this images style?
A big enough fire, which is what you get with tall, overcrowded trees, will set many houses on fire from hundreds of yards away - even if no embers or anything else land on the house.

It is really amazing the amount of heat released, and how quickly, in one of these fires.
So what exactly is wrong with these words in your opinion?
> the word whose usage is considered so offensive that it has caused the decline of its unfortunate near-homophone ‘niggardly’

That's not exactly a unique phenomenon. For example, it's how "rabbit" replaced "coney".
Thanks for the feedback and experience! This is the difference between provisioning (adding an instance of an app to your tenant) and registration (Azure AD knowing your app exists). The pattern you're talking about is provisioning, and sadly yes, the manual route here is very focused on SAML. But anyone at all can register an app, and then anyone else can provision it into their tenant just by signing into it.

Will check out the docs and see what we can do, it's not good this was hard to learn.
Now you're finally getting it. I don't do any of those things you describe....and I don't particularly value or even like life. You stick to your value system and live however the fuck you want, and let everybody else value what they value and live however they want. If you're afraid of a virus potentially killing random people, I am not sure how you've made it this far without sheltering in place your whole life (hint, we have much scarier superbugs spread in hospitals that are almost immediately deadly to the immunocompromised).
He's uh, a prince, or something. (Probably got the crown out of a cereal box.)

But from the looks of his numbers ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/IRC_top_... ) he's doing a real bang-up job!
Neat but it's still a simplistic article and pretty much everything "comes from human minds."

My emotions are disdain and disbelief that people still gobble up this horseshit. Nothing wrong with that. Do you believe yourself to not have any emotions and are an arbiter of truth and perfect logic?

Please.
First thing I was gonna ask. I don't think I'm good enough yet to get much value out of the slides without some voiceover.
I ran it a bit longer for you - https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/2MGvqi6ZBZ3mZSFB66...
Agreed, it's shitty of Google to have moved so much functionality into it's proprietary Play Services. Push Notifications API being in it bothers me even more. Unfortunately until Linux mobile operating systems catch up in functionality though I'm going to stick with GrapheneOS.
I just peeked at Linked-in and searched on COBOL. They have a thousand or so COBOL listings. The contract ones seem to run about $60/hr and the salaried at $60k-$80k. Not terrible for some locations but also not what I'd call a gold rush either.
Here's the problem:

People want to, but are very bad at caring about quality.

For whatever subject, there will be a sort of platonic ideal -- and this ideal won't be the same for everyone as there is room for taste and priorities. BUT what that ideal actually is depends on a whole lot of subtlety and understanding... especially accounting for the marginally different outcomes for a different set of priorities which you get in diversity of cultures.

Instead, you get extremism. There are a few people talking about real quality who are completely drowned out by people who generally know quite a bit less who want quality but don't understand it and opt instead for maximizing or minimizing some value. (i.e. the practice of preventing all forest fires, defund/abolish the police, prohibition, etc.)

People can't handle subtlety or disagreeing with someone to a small degree.

This is the trend, absolutism, not understanding details, and yelling loudly about everything.

Try to get into a conversation about COVID-19 about actual risks and thresholds for certain actions and you'll either get complete deniers or advocates for every precaution (preferably forced on everyone at every level of possible control).

How do you silence the loudest people on the extremes without simply being authoritarian?
SQLite isn't just for datasets that are tiny. There are a few multi-TB-sized SQLite databases around the world.

The main consideration is typically about how the database is used. "Probably only one will be a writer" is a strong argument in favor of SQLite, which doesn't really have much of a concurrency story for writes (multiple processes can open the same SQLite database for writing, but they implement a block so only one at a time can actually write).

The file locks can be tricky to get working over NFS/CIFS with multiple computers, but it's still possible.
Babylonians May Have Discovered Trigonometry 1,500 Years Before Greeks
"HTTP/2's binary format means you can't use classic general-purpose tools like netcat and openssl. HTTP/2's complexity means you can't easily implement your own client, so you'll need to use a library."

IOW, HTTP/2 is not designed for users. It is designed for online advertisers and the companies that serve them.

How do I know this. Because HTTP/1.1 pipelining still works great. I am using it on a separate task as I type this (I use it outside the browser).

It just doesn't work well for companies that profit from online advertising as a "business model", the so-called "ecosystem" of actors seeking to capture "eyeballs" and Hoover up data about users.

That includes people who design whiz-bang websites making dozens to hundreds of "automatic" requests not initiated by the user, many for arguably unnecessary external resources (or for telemetry), to gather data on the user and/or to serve her with ads.

The type of websites that drive HN readers nuts. That is not a problem with HTTP/1.1, that's a problem with the effects of online advertising, surveillance and greed run amok.

It also includes popular browsers supported by advertising. HTTP does not exist exclusively for a handful of corporate-sponsored browsers. It exists for all present and future clients that users wish to use to retreive information from the web.

HTTP/2 is biased against users in favour of a web that exists only for online advertising (so it can keep filling Google's pockets with cash). It is a protocol that is so complex that users, not to mention the author of this blog post, "cannot easily implement clients for it."
The point is that it's easy to, from a distance, think that something is just like another thing. Without experience in a particular domain, you really don't know how things work. No two walls are alike.
It’s always feasible that they put a change in that does something users don’t want and invades hardware privacy. But this update is not an instance of that. It’s simply changing how we interact with their SaaS. We’re no further down some slippery slope.
I doubt it? Universal constructions give a nice definition for a few operations but I doubt they have the power to pull out all primitives, that is, select out of all the well-defined things you could do the ones that are natural or useful. Can Indices[0] be constructed as a universal morphism? Is defining it in this way simpler than an algorithmic definition, which can be quite short? One of the properties of primitives I list is that they tend to have short definitions, so constructive definition is already a sort of filter that prefers primitives. Universal morphisms might be another, even a more useful, filter, but probably not a perfect filter.

Although, if you're here... there's a more focused question that's been bothering me because I feel it should appear in category theory but can't locate it. There's an operation I call Under that I partially introduce at [1] and define at [2]. The idea is that given functions F and G, where G manipulates things in some overall framework like arrays, F⌾G is a function so that F⌾G x is as similar as possible to x while satisfying (G F⌾G x) = G x. Maybe it's a sort of pullback along a functor G. Does that look familiar?

[0] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/replicate.html

[1] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/tutorial/variable.html#modif...

[2] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/spec/inferred.html#under
Offensive Golang Bonanza: Writing Golang Malware
The impact a false positive can have on relations between parents & friends of the family is huge for something banal as an art poster/music cover art
>It would be nice if people did the bare minimum to not endanger lives, without requiring the force of law. Sadly, that's not always the case.

I completely agree, we need to somehow get rid of all cell phones, so that people can stop with all of the distracted driving for one. Then we can make sure we force folks to eat right, exercise, and get 7-9 hours of sleep a night. No sleep, no car.
To CoRecursive podcast has a great interview with Richard Hipp (author of SQLite). Very much worth a listen.

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
Object Wake-Up: 3-D Object Reconstruction, Animation from a Single Image
Leo: Learning Energy-Based Models in Graph Optimization
Was it? From what I can tell they published this in a general media release today. If it was leaked before today I seem to have missed it.
With AIMI, we released EchoNet-Dynamic, the largest open dataset of echocardiograms (cardiac ultrasounds) and expert cardiologist labels as part of a paper published last year. The dataset went through a rigorous review to make sure no identifying information was leaked as part of the process. Happy to answer any questions.
That's fair, I'll have to think about that.
Sketch Your Own GAN
Many game development scripting applications disagree with you. Including: DotA Workshop, Tabletop Simulator, Galaxy Editor (for StarCraft 2), and many others unlisted.

Of course, this only matters because you're pretensions about what other people ought to use to develop or script games.
Kids are among the least effected and don't really need to make the decision and, as harsh as it sounds, the incredibly small population of immunocompromised do not get to dictate policy for the country at large.
Love can actually be used directly as a C++ library. It's a bit of work to get the build system going but then you can use the Love API like: https://github.com/castle-xyz/castle-client/blob/7bfffa10e84... -- we used to use the Lua Love and have since worked on porting our engine to C++. It even runs in the web with the same code through Wasm. No Lua VM ever gets initialized. I may create a minimal starter template repo showing an example of this at some point...

Though, for a 'simple C library for 2d (and actually 3d) game development' -- I would highly recommend https://www.raylib.com/. I really, really dig the API design there. One of the main 'downsides' I guess is it doesn't out of the box build natively for iOS -- but the Wasm support makes it run there pretty fine out of the box and raylib-fork can be used to get a native iOS build going with some work. It's got a lot of stuff out of the box including a GLTF loader and skeletal animation.
It seemed like a huge fluff article for a "science" mag. I felt like I had to scroll a significant amount to get passed the bio.

If anything it was sponsored by HVAC. Heat recovery ventilation units are expensive. (Would have one if a new house. Harder to justify for retrofit.)
The Colab notebooks actually have a "target image" parameter. I haven't added it to NightCafe Creator yet, and haven't even experimented much with it on Colab, but it's definitely on my to-do list.

However, adding keywords like "watercolour painting", "van gogh painting" etc goes a long way to getting more precise results.

One big difference between style transfer and GAN art is that style transfer never changes the shape of things. E.g. you can't put in a woman's face and a cubist painting and get out a rearranged version of the face (as cubists do). It will have all the hallmarks of cubism, but it's still recognisable as the original photo.

With GAN art though, you can put that photo in as a start image, say "Cubist painting of a woman's face", and the GAN will actually rearrange the face like a cubist would.
Just to add to this: trying to compile an open source Android distro is a tricky proposition that requires trusting several binaries and a huge source tree.

Moreover, having a personal route to digital autonomy is nearly worthless. To protect democracy and freedom, practically all users need to be able to compute securely.
You mean

-if (photo.isCloudSynced && scanForIllegalContent(photo)){
+if (photo.isCloudSynced & scanForIllegalContent(photo)) {
reportUserToPolice();
}

https://old.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/onlcus/update_it_...
Dirt roads are cheap to operate.
It's amazing how many people still fall for the 'fuck-as-acronym' myths. I've literally argued with people convinced that FUCK stands for Fornication Under Consent of the King, or (as Van Halen apparently believed) For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.

No, none of the above. Nope.
The data license seems to be research-only. How would people be able to build products/medical device software with this license? Or is that not a goal of releasing this data?
A probabalistic event with different probabilities remains probabalistic. A lottery with different award tranches, if you will.

The original question concerned risks, and gave a clearly bogus answer. I provided the best current available knowledge.
Assuming it works, you have to take ivermectin constantly, and the pro-ivermectin studies generally only say that it reduces mortality / severe outcomes, not thy it significantly prevents infection or transmission. So if the world goes the ivermectin route, there's still a lot of value in the vaccines, and until the virus is eradicated we have to keep taking ivermectin.

This is an obvious financial win to any slightly competent evil pharmaceutical - e.g., make some small chemical variant of ivermectin, patent it, and p-hack a bit. Or just manufacture the generic and sell lots of it; plenty of companies have a good business selling aspirin, which literally grows on trees.

I'm not buying the "big pharma is trying to censor it" angle. Also, like any conspiracy theory, it requires a whole lot of people to be perfectly loyal and silent. If ivermectin is actually effective, some pharma exec with family in a part of the world with poor vaccine access is going to push for it.
That is not a valid epidemiological methodology.
There's a lot of evidence that people perform worse on intellectual tasks at high CO2 and VOC levels.
That was just the pitch, now they are back to full authoritarian.
I failed machine learning in medical imaging
Hope you understand how ridiculous this statement is:
"However, I very much doubt many of such people, claiming "it's my body, so I can do what I want" are willing to actually follow through what's required to avoid putting _other people's bodies_ at risk. "

Most people are healthy enough to beat flu, coronaviruses, strep infections, etc. etc. etc. Most people are "good enough" immune-system wise, and are not at all a risk to anybody.