skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the SUV-driving crowd is stomach churning, it is also small in the big picture. The huge elephant in the room is global population size, moving apace toward 10 billions and possibly beyond. Industrializing 10 billion people turns out to be a very dirty business.

If US were to ban ICE cars and truck and switch go horse-and-buggy tomorrow, it will save 29% of US emissions. US accounts for 15% of global emissions. Thus the overall global savings will be 4.35%, or about 1.44 GT CO2/year. Fantastic. Yet 95.65% of emissions will still be going out every year. In 20 years, emissions have grown from 25 GT CO2/year to 36 GT CO2/year, or about .5 GT CO2 / year. The whole 4.35% savings would turn out to be a minor blip, overtaken in about 3 years by new emissions elsewhere in the developing world.

We are already 40+% above Paris agreement 1.5C emissions levels of 25 GT CO2/year. We need deep cuts on massive scale. If the world were even remotely serious about tackling CO2 emissions for a rough but perhaps survivable crash landing, we'd see:

* World wide moratorium on building new coal/gas/oil power plants and ICE vehicles.

* World wide moratorium on economic growth. Good bye lifting the third world out of poverty. Good bye western retirement.

* Gradual phasing out of industry in developed countries. Good bye middle class lifestyle.

* Ban of immigration from low emission countries into high emission countries.

https://www.c2es.org/content/u-s-emissions

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
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> Was it an actual image of a person? Were they clothed?

Some of the false positives were of people, others weren’t. It’s not that the hashing function itself was problematic, but that the database of hashes had hashes which weren’t of CP content, as the chance of a collision was way lower than the false positive rate (my guess is it was “data entry” type mistakes by NCMEC, but I have no proof to back up that theory). I made it a point to never personally see any content which matched against NCMEC’s database until it was deemed “safe” as I didn’t want anything to do with it (both from a disgusted perspective and also from a legal risk perspective), but I had coworkers who had to investigate every match and I felt so bad for them.

In the case of PhotoDNA, the hash is conceptually similar to an MD5 or a SHA1 hash of the file. The difference between PhotoDNA and your normal hash functions is that it’s not an exact hash of the raw bytes, but rather more like the “visual representation” of the image. When we were doing the initial implementation / rollout (I think late 2013ish), I did a bunch of testing to see how much I could vary a test image and have the hash be the same as I was curious. Resizes or crops (unless drastic) would almost always come back within the fuzziness window we were using. Overlaying some text or a basic shape (like a frame) would also often match. I then used photoshop to tweak color/contrast/white balance/brightness/etc and that’s where it started getting hit or miss.
In a rational society, this practice should be disallowed while keeping the same product name and price.

Either adjust the price accordingly, or be forced to put a big red sign with something like "Now with 10% less content (compared to before DD/MM/YY)".

Even better, products should have their key content-size metric on the box, very visible, normalized by the price. E.g. XX/ounce.

If the retailer makes a discount or changes the price, they should add a label with their changed price YY/ounce.
Vosk just works good and it works on mobile platforms too. One suggestion is to put lisence on alphacephei site. GitHub repo has it, but site doesn't.
> lets say a chocolate bar contains 80% chocolate and 20% food wax. A year later it contains 70% chocolate and 30% food wax

Is there any evidence that this happens often enough to affect CPI?

btw in the few cases where I've seen the concentration of tasty ingredients go down, it was clearly done so they could advertise the new version as "low-calorie" or "healthy". Consumers get what they demand.
They are deliberate in that they know how to take a photograph which maximizes the attractiveness of a space.

The same tradition occurs in filling the written description of a place with no amenities. “Walking distance to schools & churches” is a popular filler. Τhe facility could be 50 feet away or it could be a 5 mile walk; anything short of walking alongside the freeway is fair game to describe in this fashion.
This makes me think of the book "The Paradox of Choice." Essentially it argues that we live in a world of infinite choice, which should make us happy, but actually makes us miserable. When you don't have options, or have very few, you don't spend a lot of time regretting your choices, because you didn't have any. But once people have a hundred different options, suddenly they can imagine all of the ways things could have been better. According to the book, we actually experience this imagined alternative reality as a real loss. You can imagine a lot of reasons this sort of psychology would have been evolutionarily useful—you're more likely to take your scenario analysis seriously if you really feel the pain—but it malfunctions badly in this paradise of choices we've created.
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It might just be my state or store, but most products do, in fact, include a price per item or prize per unit of weight or volume in very small print on the price labels.

I'm guessing this was introduced as a law, in good faith to help consumers make more informed decisions, but I doubt the majority of numerically challenged consumers take advantage of this information.

For example, all pricing labels in-store will have prices like the following, from their weekly ad:

https://ibb.co/187RkPb
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It's still apart of youtubes guidelines. [1]

YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19.

If your content violates this policy, we’ll remove the content and send you an email to let you know.

*Content that recommends use of Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19

*Categorical claims that Ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19

*Content that recommends use of Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19

[1]https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en
Credit score. As a foreigner, you won't have one. And can't rent an apartment, buy a car, or get a mortgage. Many companies run a credit check as part of the pre-hire background check.

If you are able to befriend a local with good credit and get them to trust you so they're willing to cosign, you can work around this, but it's a barrier that is not to be unaware of. Immigrant communities are built on people that do this for others creating community.
Victims kill themselves due to negligence or lack of training all the time, it's not far fetched nor insensitive to understand reality. They built the building on sand right next to salt water and hurricanes, it wasn't like they built it in Minnesota. We should have expectations of people to consider the inherent risk of such an idea.
This feels like a scam artist trying to push air purifiers.
Why millions of millennials are not homeowners (2019)
From https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

“The threshold is set to provide an extremely high level of accuracy and ensures less than a one in one trillion chance per year of incorrectly flagging a given account.”

How did they calculate this? Also, I can imagine more than a trillion photos being uploaded to iCloud a year.
This is an extremely narcissistic world view. "Ethical AI is vital for every member of society to handle appropriately
and I, as The Ethical AI Police Person in Charge, will tell every person how they are going to behave if they want to be on the side of Good." Most of these articles refer to the same example - What if a facial recognition machine learning algorithm is trained inadequately and has some inherent bias against some group-identity. If anything this is a quality issue and is the responsibility for the few people involved with handling training data. More importantly, what are these fictional companies doing where they are potentially causing devastation by carelessly deploying facial recognition software? This sounds like a problem with the ethics of the business model of the company, not some algorithm.
Skips the rather more pressing issue of files no longer existing for most mobile apps. Data portability matters but not to anyone in particular.
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Experts also said that having a computer beat a professional Go player was at least 10 years off.

Be critical of what experts say.
The naming does not help make things discoverable...
For a while, Walmart price tags showed $ per unit. I think that helps keep things fair.
I mention this because the article seemed to assume that people were buying by the box, and only evaluating price per box, ignoring the weight.

Price per weight only partially solves the problems... lots of products aren't directly comparable in the first place. For example, 100g of product X is not like 100g of product Y. It works well enough with things like raw ingredients (flour, oil, etc) but even once you are talking about things like cereal, jams, mayonnaise, etc. it starts to break down. It also doesn't work well with meat.
'bEanx' in practice destroys every rainbow table in existence.

It's on the line probabilisticly, so I can't make a harder statement, but 20 characters (which takes the programmer 2 more seconds to smash in) takes us to computers the size of the earth conversation which ok you win, it is possible :)

> the salt has to be stored on a per-user basis.

That's of no use to stop Rainbow tables. One salt across the site is fine to destroy or not destroy Rainbow tables. Either 'bEanx' or “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” will work fine commonly used on all passwords. A common salt is not great for brute force though, but that's a different topic.
My gut feeling tells me activated carbon is not enough but you need HEPA.
This is mostly a historical thing. There’s no real reason to use .dmg these days - historically it was the only Apple-supported way of compressing macOS files and keeping their resource forks intact. These days .zip is fine.

That said there isn’t an ‘install’ as such on macOS. Applications isn’t a special folder, it’s a regular folder like anything else. Putting an application bundle on your local disk anywhere is sufficient to get file type mappings to work.

The downside of course is there’s no corresponding uninstall that removes anything extra the app dropped in to ~/Library.
inflatable pool/yard toys are for some reason extremely susceptible to this. Like those paddling pools where the image shows a whole family playing in it, when in reality your kid can maybe fit a single ankle in there.
Well, this also includes credit cards. In some countries, unused and barely used credit lines improve one's credit score.
Everyone has something to add. Go read stuff on their site in the languages you know. If people would actually do it for a few months all languages would have been done years ago.
Staggering statistics about the US prison system (2017)
This is a Show HN post. While you have valid criticisms (small labels, using filenames as labels produces lots of package.json, etc.), the way you shared it certainly violates the site guidelines (“Be kind”).

You knew you were being harsh and let your emotional response get to you. But, you should remind yourself that a person was on the other side of this post, and she cared enough to share it. Even if you feel the visualization is unacceptably bad, you should seek to find a way to provide constructive criticism. You’ve got the beginnings of actionable feedback, it’s just covered in invective language (though directed at the work not the person, so that’s something!).
The $5B fine comes with a lot of enforced changes to the company's operations: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-i...

Though it does tend to have fewer regulations than the EU, the claim that this settlement has resulted in no operational changes does not appear to be true.
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Law enforcement care because they want to get pinged whenever someone shares imagery of interest to an investigation, irrespective of its legality.

A person who creates CSAM likely doesn't just create CSAM all the time, right? Those innocuous pictures get lumped together with illegal content and make it into the database.

The database is a mess, basically. Of course it is. It's gigantic beyond your wildest estimates.
That's a good thing
What got my attention:

> In Louisiana, one in 86 adults is currently in prison. (…) The situation is even worse for minorities – one in 14 adults is serving a prison sentence, with one in seven currently in prison, on probation or out on parole.
Real estate photos are so bad. When I sold my last house, I almost regretted it when I got the listing photos back. I never knew I lived in such a clean and enormous house!

Three things:

1. I get that interior shots need a wide angle to capture the boundaries of a room in a single photo. But there's a limit. Most pictures I see dial it up to those crazy levels where obviously square or circular items become rectangles and ovals. Here are 2 images I just now randomly picked:

This kitchen is long! https://i.imgur.com/YxrRMSy.jpg

Nope, just small: https://i.imgur.com/rPCSMUT.jpg

(But, the rise of 3D walkthroughs is a good antidote for this, so credit where it's due on that front.)

2. Saturation! Please, stop maxing out that slider. Sometimes it's just vivid blue sky and greenest green grass, but other times they go so far that the highlights are all blown out and everything just looks weird.

3. Fake fireplace fires, sunny weather, etc. A lot of photos have a fake sunny sky inserted into window openings, or a "fire" in the fireplace that's obviously been pasted in. Different random listing shows 2 photos with incredible luck—the flames are identical.

https://i.imgur.com/jhnwvAv.jpg and https://i.imgur.com/Ut1aTdl.jpg
Many purifiers contain a carbon and HEPA filter.
This is the most interesting paper I’ve been pointed to in a while.
I guess its rather safe to call it a 3D internet.
Closing the quantum computing talent gap
I kind of roll my eyes at the mah freedom tech bro libertarian types. When I was kid they were drafting young men and sending them to Vietnam.

Seriously people don't want to do their duty? Why should society care at all what they think?
Air purifiers do not remove co2. The green way to get fresh air into a well insulated house is to use a energy recovery ventilator (ERV)
This is what I prompted it. Actually very surprised with the results. Conceptually it did a good job:

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/JxN2V4LL2mTozEoPLV...

Prompt:

a large robot is fighting another large robot with a scenic background over the water 8k resolution
> If consumers were the rational creatures depicted in classic economic theory, they would notice shrinkflation. They would keep their eyes on the price per Cocoa Puff and not fall for gimmicks in how companies package those Cocoa Puffs.

It’s not that consumers are not rational. Optimizing around 1 oz change of coco puffs isn’t really a good return on investment for many people.

Certainly people with limited budgets or fixed incomes might notice the change and adjust.

However if you are running to the store after dropping you kid off at soccer practice and only have 30 min to shop you care more about time than the small amount of money they are “up charging”.

Besides, people might be in-elastic with regards to their brands. Certainly I could switch to another cereal but if I want coco puffs I’ll pay the premium because lucky charms won’t substitute.
Same as how you verify the keys of another person, manually transferring the hex digits of the fingerprint, or something more user-friendly like QR codes or audio or BT data transmission.
Yes I do, it's a bit of a hangover from the original business model of buying prints. Stripe would potentially be better for credits.
I have noticed that a surprising amount of time one product will be in a certain unit while a competitor product will be in a different unit. So one will have the price per pound and one will have the price per ounce, good luck trying to divide by 16 in your head to see if you’re saving a few cents here or there. it’s so common that I have to assume it’s on purpose, probably an instance of complying with the letter of the law but not the spirit.
In terms of bang for buck nothing comes remotely close to having a furnace filter strapped to a 20" box fan. This gets you most of the benefits of an expensive filter for a fraction of the price.

People will talk about CADR but also look at TCO.
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As someone said:

if you really want to put a dent in abuse, mandate cameras in every home because that is where most abuse happenes. Anybody who opposes that clearly has something to hide...

Police can always pinky promise to never use it for anything except catching the baddies.

Yes. For anyone who wonders. This is sarcasm.
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I tried writing a bunch of F# once before, but one major issue that came up was working with JSON. There's a lot of good libraries for serializing/deserializing, but sometimes you need to do something like injecting a value into a an object, and that's just not easy or type safe to do. How hard is working with JSON in Haskell? Any particular libraries/extensions that make it easy?

Another question that came to mind: how good is the ecosystem for Haskell? Eg, if you wanted to deal with, say, generating PDFs, would you be more or less confident that you could get something working over a weekend?

E: Completely forgot to mention, sumi.news looks great!
This is not over-fitting, a fully overfit model is one that would only detect positives on the 5 or so frames that it was trained on, but this is clearly generalising well to unseen frames - many unseen frames - so yeah, like you say, it’s not overfit.
More or less toxic than condemning cars but then benefiting from them?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i believe Microsoft enforces certificate checks, meaning you need to buy certificates regularly and be in good standing with the company so the apps you signed with the certificates will run on Windows without issues. I believe Defender can act similarly to Apple's Gatekeeper.
Everyone thinks their work/what they know is important, that's it. Why don't study electrical engineering while we're at it. Even better, go even deeper and get us all some physics

There's a reason Randall Munroe draw that butterflies xkcd comics.
You're right that more advanced forms of hardware attestation would defeat the masking if Google eventually implements them.

I'm hoping that Microsoft's support for Android apps and integration with Amazon Appstore in Windows 11 will hedge against Google's SafetyNet enforcement by making an alternative Android ecosystem (with fewer Google dependencies) more viable. Apps that require SafetyNet would most likely not work on Windows 11.
I switched from biking to work to riding a spin bike after the pandemic lockdowns, and since I'm no longer riding on roads with traffic, I've probably increased my life expectancy since I'm not going to get hit by a car in my livingroom.
I agree that, in rational societies, this should not be a thing. We don't live in rational societies, though. We live in irrational societies, controlled by fear, euphoria and drama.
Some have been known to be.
Your smartphone or desktop computer is your agent. You can't accomplish many necessary tasks without it, you're nearly required by law to use one. It handles your most private data, and yet you have no real visibility into its actions. You just have to trust it.

As such, it should NEVER do anything that isn't in your best interest-- to the greatest extent possible under the law. Your relationship with your personal computer is closer and more trusted than your relationship with your doctor or lawyer-- in fact, you often communicate with these parties via your computer.

We respect the confidentiality you enjoy with your professional agents but that confidentiality cannot functionally exist if your computing devices are not equally duty bound to act in their users best interest!

This snitching 'feature' is a fairly general purpose tracing/tracking mechanism-- We are to assume that the perceptual hashes are exclusively of unlawful images (though I can't actually find a firm, binding assertion of that!)-- but there is nothing assuring that to us except for blind trust.

Even if the list today exclusively has unlawful images there is no guarantee that tomorrow it won't have something different-- no guarantee that some hysterical political expediency won't put images associated with your (non-)religion or ethnicity into it, no guarantee that the facility serving these lists won't be hacked or abused by insiders. Considering that possession of child porn is a strict liability crime, Apple themselves has presumably not validated the content of the list themselves and certainly you won't be allowed to check it. Moreover, even if there were some independent vetting of the list content there is nothing that would prevent targeted parties from being given a different unvetted list without their knowledge.

The pervasive scanning can also be expected to dramatically increases the effectiveness of framing. It's kind of cliche that the guilty person often claims "I was framed"-- but part of the reason that framing is rare is because the false evidence has to intersect a credibly motivated investigation, and they seldom do except where there are other indicators of guilt. With automated scanning it would be much more reliable to cause someone a world of trouble by slipping some indicated material on their device, and so framing would have a much better cost/benefit trade-off.

Any of the above flaws are sufficiently fatal on their own-- but add to it the potential for inadvertent false positives both in the hash matching and in the construction of the lists. Worse, it'll probably be argued that the detailed operation of the system must be kept secret from the very users whos systems it runs on specifically because knowledge of the operation would greatly simplify the malicious construction of intentional false positives which could be used for harassment by causing spurious investigations.

In my view Apple's actions here aren't just inappropriate, they're unambiguously unethical and in a more thoughtful world they'd be a violation of the law.
> Paolo Soleri's "bacon" number

Ha! Paolo knew Edmund, and Edmund certainly knew Kevin. Bacon number of 2, although in the original sense it should apply to actors, not to just any person [0].

From the Wikipedia article about Edmund Bacon:

> In 2002, at age 92, he skateboarded in LOVE Park, the plaza he founded and designed at Cornell in 1932, as a protest against the City's ban on the sport.

I didn't know anything about Edmund Bacon. Interesting character.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon