skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard it is better to say Roma people now, instead of Gypsys. What do you think? (My old co-worker was from Romania and explained it to me. And I have see positive propaganda adverts in Italy explaining the same.)
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Poison Ink: Robust and Invisible Backdoor Attack
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.02488.pdf

"...most existing backdoor attack methods are either visible or fragile to some effortless pre-processing such as common data transformations. To address these limitations, we propose a robust and invisible backdoor attack called ``Poison Ink''. Concretely, we first leverage the image structures as target poisoning areas, and fill them with poison ink (information) to generate the trigger pattern. As the image structure can keep its semantic meaning during the data transformation, such trigger pattern is inherently robust to data transformations. Then we leverage a deep injection network to embed such trigger pattern into the cover image to achieve stealthiness. Compared to existing popular backdoor attack methods, Poison Ink outperforms both in stealthiness and robustness..."
Isn’t this racist? How about Netflix for white people?
Businesses can adopt "smart" technologies because the decision makers are spending someone else's money, either on the initial outlay or on future maintenance / obsolescence. At work, the army of maintainers are your colleagues. At home, the maintainer is you.
> the fault is not in the actual light emitting element but (of course) in the driver....

Being over-driven.

Big Clive loves to tear down LED bulbs to examine the driver boards. Often shows you ways to drop the current to sustainable levels and get back your 20-year lifespan LED bulbs (caveat, at lower power levels).

https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom

More specifically, example: https://youtu.be/klaJqofCsu4
Most "white" people in America today were never treated like property the way black people have been in america for generations. Most "white" people in America have never dealt with the degree of dehumanization that occurred to black people in America. The degree of what has happened to black people in America is overwhelmingly moreso than any other race save for Native Americans.

It's extremely important to acknowledge that the barriers to social cohesion for certain races are significantly higher than others. We are in living memory where black children had to be accompanied by the military for their protection because they dared attend the same school as white people.
>The minority representation in media is still generally token at best.

Is this really true, today? I can definitely see that even 10 years ago, but just glancing through Netflix recommendations, I see characters from all over the place. I wonder if anyone has been able to quantify this progress.

>know that that means you have some issues to work out on your own.

Wait, what?
Well, ironically, the behavior will eventually make the planet less hospitable to humans. Fewer humans, fewer problems. We either adapt to continue. Or we end. Just like millions of other already extinct species.

I think humans needed to be this remarkably selfish to get to this point. But now selfishness risks a quick demise. Quick as in faster than evolution can be an aid.

If there isn't a technical solution that's economically and politically equitable, we will end.
Bin Laden did take a course at Oxford and palled around with Britain's best and brightest of the young. So there is some connection with the West's elite universities.
> This is absolutely not true

I’m not saying modern medicine didn’t put a ton of evolutionary pressure on antibiotic resistance. However, there’s some evidence of AR genes being present in the microbiomes of previously isolated tribes [1]. So we didn’t promote the “invention” of AR by bacteria, but likely just accelerated the selection of AR strains.

1. 10.1126/sciadv.1500183
I can't even really tell for the shampoo except for the listed ounces.
Another alternative feature rich client:
https://dbeaver.io/download/
The Media Bias Chart puts Quillette at about the same level of reliability as FiveThirtyEight. A bit higher than CNN. A bit lower than The Atlantic.

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/
The meme tides have turned against logic on this topic.
Saying it is For <group> implies it is not for other groups.

Again, realistically, how many white people would pay for a platform like this? If you think the number is substantial you are delusional. For starters, its being marketed "for black people", its all black content, and other platforms e.g Netflix already have content from black creators (albeit not as focused)

Having said that, they do not need white people to sub to build a viable business. I think it could work - the real secret sauce will be in securing great content naturally. But positioning your business as "$X for black people" does pigeon hole their potential market quite a bit.
The promise of open-source intelligence
Yeah, same. I usually use docker-compose per-project and manage the database (and other services) using that.

The idea of a "system" postgres is kinda wierd, since that single instance has to work with all my projects -- which might have conflicting needs.
Yes, by and large Americans have the same basic values and interests. The most popular entertainment figures, sports, musicians, and other cultural elements come from a very wide range of backgrounds. Values like individual freedom or the importance of voting are fairly universal among Americans.

As I said, this is easy to observe from abroad, where there is no space to differentiate between black Americans and white Americans. They’re all just Americans and they mostly act the same way.
You are describing Identity Politics. The harshest critics call it Neo-Marxism, because it ought to be well-meaning but might ultimatively be disastrous.
You know you're talking about the APIs that Cambridge Analytica used to extract data from FB, right?
There has to be some incentive somewhere for Apple to do this. They know it's wrong, they know it will be abused. Tim Cook himself, if he wasn't rich and powerful, would be executed in a number of countries that Apple operates in for his sexual/romantic identity.

Apple also removes LGBT based applications in countries where they're illigal, to continue doing business. This demonstrates that Apple complies with the demands of foreign governments, that they value money over anything else.

So Apple, a company that complies with governments committing human rights violations (Including the U.S), forces everyone to have an image scanner that looks through their private images and documents to find content Apple has deemed objectionable, with the sources of that content supposedly being from these governments.

FBI: Hey apple, here's some new hashes for images that are bad, let us know who has them. You just have to trust us, no way that we would ever put political imagery critical of the government in that database. But you can't prove it even if we did.

Remember, this is the FBI that flaunts federal court orders, breaks the law, and no one is ever held accountable.
https://youtu.be/oy3623YRsMk

My suspicion is that the FBI finally had enough of Apple not complying with their encryption standards and have done some work behind the scenes to make various individuals at Apple's lives difficult. So they're implementing this to appease the feds.

There was a thread on HN here not too long ago with the FBI stalking and threatening pentesters that wouldn't join them. No doubt they're doing the same to big companies that are making their "jobs" harder.
That's all? That surprises me.
Yeah Ive come to learn that Stronghold is something of a semi-hidden gem that only really gained the popularity it deserved a good decade or more after its inception (I wager due to Steam and the efforts to renew its name). This game felt the most medieval to me when I first got it, not that I knew what realistic medieval settlements were like :)

Its the only settler game I've played where I enjoyed the siege warfare at all.
The first slippery slope for this was when people made tools to do deep packet inspection and find copyrighted content during the Napster era.

That was the first sin of the internet era.

Discussing slippery slopes does nothing.

Edit: It is frustrating to see where we are going. However - conversations on HN tend to focus on the false positives, and not too much on the actual villains who are doing unspeakable things.

Perhaps people need to hear stories from case workers or people actually dealing with the other side of the coin to better make a call on where the line should be drawn.
> You are directed to scan all iPhone and iCloud storage for any pictures matching this NeuralHash and report to us where you find them.

I think the US Govt (and foreign) would actually send Apple tens of thousands of NeuralHashes a week. Why would they limit themselves? False positives are "free" to them.
Well, you can't, because GMT is not well-defined. It's been through numerous revisions, so that if you want to specify a time in GMT, you also need to state which revision of GMT you are using. GMT is now an obsolete timescale.

GMT has generally been some form of "Mean Solar Time at Greenwich". If you're specifying a time well in the future, then for the same reason as UTC in the future is ill-defined, so is Mean Solar Time at Greenwich. If the speed of the Earth's rotation has changed (it will have) then there's no way of knowing the numer of seconds between now and "January 1, 2030, midnight GMT".

The term is nowadays used to refer to UTC, but in a handwavy way. The BBC refers to all its time announcements as being something "GMT", which they enunciate in a smug, jingoistic tone of voice. It sickens me (and I'm a brit).

Here's an excellent article detailing the relationships between different timescales, paying particular attention to the "sordid history of GMT".

https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html
I can't understand why so many commenters here consider this launch to be divisive, or as you say "isolated"...

They're focusing on a particular cultural group to aggregate content and sponsor more... none of which excludes anyone else. Marketing niches are a core concept across the entire business world.

What makes this one niche less effective?
Probably. It loaded fine for me just now.
> 5. Simple is hard.

Yes.
TBH I've been considering just dropping a smartphone all together, I don't really get much value out of it since i'm on my laptop most of the time when I want to internet anyway
That's all well and good except for the "charging the same price as we did when there was 20% more product".

I love the tiny cans of soda now available in US supermarkets. They're all I buy at this point. But if they were being sold for a dollar a can at the 7/11, I would be pissed.
Somewhat related recent discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073586
Who are the signees of your root certificates?
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>I also grew up watching shows like these, and being a white person watching a black family didn't feel strange or incongruous at all.

What was weird for me was as I got older, all of these shows became just samey Horsein Around type crap on top of that I do remember at a certain point noticing a stark difference between shows that were on UPN, WB, BET ect and ones that were on say like FX, Fox, ABC NBC I'd say starting around the early 00s.

This difference became so stark, but when I was younger there seemed to be far less of a difference. Almost like we started off with the here are ethnic families, they are similar to you but slightly different. Then ended up with, here is this completely different culture that you don't understand so it no longer is going to appeal to you. You being me and me being clearly at the end not the target demographic.

In retrospect maybe the beginning was a fantasy that was never really true. My point is overall, I think I'm pretty burnt out on content that is meant to be hyper focused on identity. I hope more people get burnt out on it and realize that centering your life around aspects that you have no agency over is a waste of time.
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Non-black viewers are less likely to watch videos with black people in them.
A Quantum Circuit Simulator in 27 Lines of Python
This is an important point. It's not fruitless to continue to pursue mitigation, but complete mitigation in the sense that we can expect our future lives to look anything like present day is a pipe dream. At this point mitigation is simply damage control. Short of completely miraculous technology, there will be no rewinding this situation. So what that leaves is adaptation and preservation. Learn new ways to live and things to live for, like you were saying before. Preserve what we can of the natural world, even if all that boils down to are fancy zoos and aquariums. Save the genetic code of as many creatures as possible, and freeze it in a vault next to the South Pole. We already have a seed vault but we need more, and that one has been subject to melting and flooding already so we need to do better. It's only when we can clearly admit the scope of the problem that we can pursue the most effective actions at this juncture.
Starlink is better than satellite and DSL but not as fast as fiber or cable
It’s 8.3 times faster than real time if you have a beefy GPU, which most devices don’t have. On a desktop CPU it‘s real time and on smartphones worse.
Have you thought about meadow mixes with native beneficial flowering plants [1]? There is some planning and expense to get it established, but once established your only maintenance is cutting it down once a year. In the long run it'll save you significant time.

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Best of luck with this!

Many persons are not going to understand the need or motivation for this, but that's fine, it is not for them.
Meanwhile Dell just removed the media keys and replaced them with more calc related keys on the most recent precision lineup. Also moved end and home into the F row. I mean WTF.
Can you give an example? I’m assuming you’re not referring to this Netflix competitor as an example of something equivalent to making it illegal for non-whites to eat at certain restaurants.
I don't disagree. Can certainly build a great business capturing part of that 13.5% with great, focused content. The challenge, similar to Netflix's big challenge is discovering and securing the right content. Good Luck.
Yes, I do this with all work issued laptops.
I didn’t say it would be as easy for everyone. Just that this is a better route (melting pot) than a return to separatism.

I’m struggling to see how your comment relates to what I’m saying.
Anyone with eyeballs can tell there are far far far far far fewer insects than there were thirty years ago. This isn't a fuddable topic.
I had the same issue with the ThinkPad T14 AMD. Left it in my backpack for two days and the battery was completely drained.

What made it worse: Lenovo's own USB-C Gen 2 Dock would refuse to charge the battery when it was drained. I had to borrow a friend's MacBook Pro USB-C charger to get the battery up to a reasonable charge.

(Yes, the dock does provide enough power for charging the laptop.)
One of them is scanning on device. The other isn't.
AlphaFold: Improved protein structure prediction using potentials (2019)
As a teen in the early 90s, I distinctly remember significant campaigns against violence represented in TV, movies, video games, and music. There were several congressional hearings demonizing Mortal Kombat, rap music, Doom, etc.

Now as a parent with a tween and younger kids, my understanding of the current state of the science is that there still is no overwhelming consensus on increased violence related to media, however it seems to be agreed that aggression is linked. 30 years later Mortal Kombat is the number one fighting game franchise of all time, and murder rates are lower and violent crime are relatively unchanged.
.NET recently landed (storage-only) support for f16 as well. Their article is nowhere near as interesting as TFA, but for reference: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-the-half-t...
While I understand that most users here are American, this process of "shrinkflation" happens everywhere else to some degree. Tricks of the sales trade are spreading like wildfire these days.
Neat project and good blog post. One nitpick, on ios latest the link tags are super light blue against an off-white background. It’s very hard to read them.

I only mention it in case you were unaware.
No it's not like building a bridge. It's like thinking you're building a bridge but then the client decides he needs it to be moveable so then you have to give it legs so it can walk. Then the client's manager decides he wants it to be able to get to the moon so you then have to strap rockets and parachutes to it. Then after it gets installed and someone finally speaks to the users you realise all they needed was a canoe.
That's fair, however there is no guarantee that JS is the issue there.

(And for anybody interested in actually helping to diagnose and report these issues: https://profiler.firefox.com)
Almost all the movies and TV shows and video games I’ve consumed featured no one who looked like me. But I still felt represented when a character behaved like I did or was interested in the same things I was - characteristics that formed a bigger part of my identity than my skin colour. I’d speculate you might be the same - you’re listening to stories that feature people who display characteristics similar to yours.

But here’s the thing you’re missing - if your race is a dominant part of your identity, like it is for many black people in America, it’s certainly normal to look for stories that feature black people and black stories. Stories where the characters experience problems and issues similar to the ones they might face in their lives.
This is 100% false. Cops brutalize anyone who slightly offends them. More black people are disaffected by this, but it happens to us all.

I am white and was nearly killed by a black officer in South Florida. He piled drived me head first onto a concrete floor on video tape. Prior to that, he choked me and threatened to kill me.

I was in Miami to attend the VMAs with a billionaire, yet they claimed I tried to fight them. Eventually all charges were dropped. The cop was actually working private security when this happened.

It’s just men, testosterone, and power emboldened by a badge. The cop — Mr. Ritchie — later won Detective of the Year, while his Sheriff went to federal prison. Reality is different than what you read in the papers.
If you feel that there are two education systems, eg one for Black people and one for White people, aren't you simply reinforcing that by having more segmented services?

Separate but equal was a dismal failure in the US. I don't understand why it deserves a second attempt.
Just call it "a glass of gin with an olive" then and accept who you are as a person.
> The problem is that white Americans don't have the same American experience as black Americans, which is where the divide comes from and it creates another culture. It's been getting a lot better, but there are still two legal systems, two education systems, etc.

It's really more about how much money you have in your pocket, what neighborhood you're in - but please continue driving a racial wedge to further divide the nation and distract from our broken system's root causes.
I'm sorry, I just don't see how this is any different from Google auto-searching Google Drive files and flagging/deleting them. Apple is only doing this to "Apple Cloud" files and flagging/deleting them if they see them.

The best counterargument I've seen to that is that Apple is lying and it's not limited to Apple Cloud, unlike Google. However, no one yet has been able to substantiate that claim.
>Black people live a different experience than other groups

Black people are certainly entitled to watch whatever content they choose, but they are not unique in their "different lived experiences". "White people" are not some amorphous, homogeneous group.
I don't really care about your personal experience. What does it cost? Didn't YC teach you anything
They could try not collecting the data in the first place
My Aldis and Homeland frozen blueberries have gone from 12oz to 10oz. Walmart is still 12.
> I wish there were more posts where people impliment an application with multiple tool sets and compare them, give insight into what some things are good for and not. "Tool Benchmarking" might be a good term for it.

I recently started working on a project like this. It's hard work.

Building a complete tool in one language takes a long time. Not to mention 2, or 5.

Moreover, many (most?) programmers are only "fluent" in one or two languages. Even if you "know" a language, you might not know the full build toolchain, or you might not know common idioms, etc.

Most people probably want to work on building new/interesting/fun stuff, not reimplementing the same toy program in several different languages.
No. The point is the number 1 concern is we're destroying insect ecosystems to anthropoform the world.

Pesticides are a problem, but almost always secondary to wholesale habitat destruction in order to make farmland (mostly to grow feed for cattle in this country) and suburbs. Pesticides are just a tool to make those new "more profitable" landscapes.

Modern commercial farming leaves no room for nature, and suburbans folks seem to think ants and spiders shouldn't exist. Turns out the same things that kill "pests" and "weeds" generally make it tough for the cute things we like.

We're reshaping the world, often in ignorance on how much we actually depend on these ecosystems we are destroying.
It doesn’t have to be either-or, lots of people have multiple streaming services
> With kids, it has turned out to be an energy saver.

I wonder, though. Most folks now have LED bulbs, so being diligent about turning off lights isn't as much of a savings as when I grew up and everything was incandescent. Also, if you train kids that the lights go on and off on their own, are they more likely to just never turn anything off?

My teenage kids have friends over frequently, and while my kids have been reasonably well-trained to shut things off, close doors after they go through, etc., their friends are generally pretty bad stewards of my electricity. (And it's not malice; they just don't think about it.)

I like the idea of automating efficiency into the system, but there's always a human element. And that seems to require repetition.