skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How could this be the case? If it's been determined to be CSAM then it is, by definition, illegal.

Certain images are CSAM by _context_. They do not necessarily require those within the image to be abused, but rather that the image at one time or another was traded alongside other CSAM.

> If it were true that the database is likely to contain legal material, how would we possibly know about it, given that the contents of the database are secret?

Tools like Spotlight [0] make use of the database, so certain well-known images are known to flag. Such as Nirvana's controversial cover for Nevermind.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/how-facial-recognition-fighting-...
Separation of Concerns with React Hooks
How to Create Beautiful Gradients with JavaScript
> Why do you doubt calculators were the problem?

The way I see it, learning to do basic math in your head is just as important if not more important then learning a procedure via a calculator. A calculator doesn't teach you anything, it just teaches you how to use a calculator.
To add on — the power you’re stealing from the ground is the power you can use for propulsion. So before you switch on the handrail skateboard, you have some power, P, available from the generator. You can use that P to power an air conditioner or a light bulb, or to crawl down the rail. The fact that you’ll then use that power for more propulsion is not relevant — Newton’s laws are linear so you can just add up the two scenarios and they don’t have any non-linear interactions.

The power input, P, is constant—you’re not going to magically get free energy from the skateboard system. With a constant power source, so your velocity increases but in a sqrt(x) fashion, with diminishing returns. With real-world constraints like friction you’d hit an equilibrium.
My second child is suffering this in a UK school - the maths is too easy, his primary school had an 'advanced' group (quotes because it wasn't really advanced, didn't go as far as I did at primary school in normal class) to push the most able kids a bit. Now high-school they're back to doing absolutely remedial basics of arithmetic.

So much wasted time in school, he's frustrated not to make progress and bored with 'maths' (truly it's lack of maths, but to the young mind that gets confused with the subject and then you lose them).
Ask HN: Working at two companies as a software engineer in UK
Does anybody has experience working at two different companies at the same time? Is there a way for them to find out?
Well, it would explain why their phone is toast after only 10 minutes in the sun...
Telegram is no more encrypted than iCloud.
https://quillette.com/2021/07/25/the-insect-apocalypse-that-...
No, colonizing a new continent was not "easy". It, too, was a constant struggle for survival. New pests, new climate, new soil, new flora and fauna, communication (or battle) with natives, etc.
> a senior police officer in the UK

To be fair, this is partially because the laws in the UK are, I think, fairly bonkers strict about CSAM - mere possession, whether you've looked at it or not, whether you downloaded it or not, whether you even know it's there or not, etc., is counted as criminal.
The cost of commuting on the environment is extremely high. We should be offering incentives to companies to switch to remote work. If 20% of jobs permanently switched to remote, the impact on carbon emissions would be immediate, and extremely positive.
In Polish notation all the operators are prefix operators.

In APL family languages there are infix operators and prefix operators.

Prefix operators take as their operand the result of everything to their right. Infix operators take as one operand everything to their right and take as their other operand the first thing on their left.
WebGL Superfluid Simulation Using DGPE
Location is in the contract, you sign a new offer in order to move
I just learned of Unsong today and will be reading it. The premise though sounds similar to Foundryside, where objects can be “scribed” to change their behavior. A wheel could be told, “the force of gravity is always at a forward angle,” and it would roll forward on its own. It would also pick up speed and momentum and probably break something, so the scribing to get the desired behavior (a self-propelled controllable wheel) quickly becomes more complicated.

That is book one of a trilogy, and the third book is not out yet, so be warned! It’s a great yarn so far though.
To anyone who looks at headline alone or reads one or two paragraphs of an article and gives up, please read this entire article. The initial story is a satirical take that’s later explained as what Apple has enabled at nobody’s request and allowed warrant-less searches on iDevices with the new (closed) on-device CSAM detection engine.

The first few paragraphs of this post should be shared with anyone who isn’t part of “the screeching minority!”
The future of work: the problem with millennial productivity books
Its unlikely that the plants would be shut down completely, but these kind of frequent interruptions will be enough to push up their operating costs, and edge them closer towards closure.

Basically a 'people-driven' carbon tax.
I don't recall the details, but from memory prosecuters dropped charges directly related to the tank itself. It seems that having demilitarised tank is indeed not per se illegal in Germany.

There was some other stuff going on, like shit loads of live ammunition in the guys possession.
At least it had air, though.
I would say so.

I mean, this is almost a counter argument. If someone can just steal a tank from the govt what’s the harm in letting them buy one? It’s not like access is an issue.
This is because the JVM preallocates a bunch of memory to manage its own heap and doesn't need to make a system call and suffer a userspace/kernel space context switch every time you use the new operator. Plenty of C++ memory pool libraries will do exactly the same thing for you; it's just not built into the language runtime itself, as you don't necessarily need it if you aren't going to be doing heap allocations at all. In Java, you really have no choice unless you're writing some extremely simple toy program that only uses primitive types, at which point why are you bothering to use Java?
Somehow American Math doesn't have the same connotations. I am witnessing public schools take math out of the curriculum at elementary, middle and high schools. It is a wasted opportunity for young people to learn the beauty of math.
OK, I took a look, no evidence of neural nets, just semantic stuff which is previous gen AI and the citation count is not impressive.
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I don't understand the "kid daycare logistics". Does your work provide daycare access? Is there a specific location near your work? I'm trying to understand why not switch the daycare closer to your home to avoid this whole office situation.

Why would you haul the equipment home every day? Given the policy they want, there are plenty of simplistic solutions. Ask for a filing cabinet on wheels, store your stuff there and roll your gear somewhere that is known for employee storage of cabinets when they're doing hotdesking.

Ask for closet storage due to the cost of the equipment.
That is pure fantasy.

Stealing a tank is so conspicuous that no self respecting criminal would ever try it. It doesn't blend in and you'd never even get close to your target. It also doubles the number of crimes you need to pull off because first you need to steal the tank and the cops will be on your tail starting then vs starting when you commit the real crime you set out for.

Want to run over crowds? Rent a truck

Want to break buildings or infrastructure? Rent construction equipment.
I mean it's impossible to master everything but to find something that motivates the kid and keep him focused is largely parent's work. It's really difficult to ask too much from the public education system nowadays :(
As somebody with a yard overrun by goutweed/ground elder I really hate the romans and their stupid invasive gardens. That stuff is unstoppable and showing up at a plant swap makes me feel like I’ve got an STI.
Just like they voluntarily buy iPhones …
I think the number of people killed in the world each year by personally owned novelty military vehicles is approximately zero. Hundreds of people are killed in the United States every year by unarmed assailants. When will we wake up and pass common-sense karate-chop control?!
1. It was foolish of the man to have munitions stored with the weapons, he was asking for big government to come knocking.

2. Equally, the man has been known in the Heikendorf community for years and restored the tank, after buying it from the British Army's REME. Even helped the locals get out of snowdrifts with the tanks. If he was going to cause trouble he would have.

3. In the BBC article it says - "Many US historians argue it was the most efficient such vehicle deployed by Germany during World War Two. "
The Panther was a good tank but was over-engineered, the Panther Ausf G versions were better and had the issues rectified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lssU69QJZk4
My thought is that over time, consumers would choose products who's cost did not comprise eventual disposal on top of the cost of creating and marketing the product.

Take a dualit toaster for example. You'll never need to throw it out. Every single part is entirely replaceable.
The cost of commuting in a car 2 hours should be significant; the carbon emissions should be the priced into the the decision. Right now they're not. That has to change, or we're all screwed.
What a king
But _my friend_ from google likes _my way_ better
Univalent Foundations
As a citizen I am equally afraid of a Pantzer and a modern tank. I guess most civilians wouldn't even notice the difference when it is crushing their car or threatening their life.
Manhattan leases also famously start at 10 year terms as the shortest.

With all the secrets going around your average FAANG office, no way would any company sublease a partial floor. Maybe an entire floor, but that creates more issues with the complicated separate lobby and elevator systems they previously built

These companies could maybe cut the costs in a few years, maybe in 10-15. Most of these employees working from home probably won't work there by that time

I really doubt we see headlines such as 'Google leaves 2 floors in Chelsea office' anytime soon, with or without workers in office. They'll just keep paying for empty office space. maybe convert empty cubicles into another smoothie or burrito bar
In big corporations, especially not the best working ones (tons of internal politics, people ignoring emails/calls etc.), it is unfortunately true for many complex processes.

I could achieve before some tasks in 3 mins by just going to respective folks, interrupting them nicely and get the stuff done. Now I am chasing them for a week for same trivial task.

May not be an issue at Google, I would expect them to be less dysfunctional then our broken corp, but most multinationals are super far from well oiled machine.
In every thread about this, someone makes this same false assumption: no, Apple is not scanning for naked children or children in pain. It's generating a hash to be compared against hashes of NCMEC-verified CSAM pictures (and while some HN commenters claim the DB contains non-CSAM, that has not been verified nor ever reported on by a news publication) and it does indeed only scan photos destined for iCloud Photos (which I theorize is the only part keeping this system legal[0]).

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112982
IIRC they shot him.
When you talk about internal, non externslised knowledge, do you mean stuff like "how to ride a bike"?

I can see how AI wouldn't learn that from reading/listening to humans. ot would have to learn for itself with reinforcement learning.

I wouldn't call thst language though. But I couldn't think of any kind of non-external knowledge that can be described as language?
I dont know much about sailboats but i think they mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingsail . when they are at a slight angle and in combination with lightweight foils pointing the other way it seems they are able to go faster than wind in any direction, without anything like a propeller. In any case i think talking mixing wings, sailboats and propellers makes it confusing to understand what the blackbird does
Sources please.

Edit: The OP makes an extraordinary claim about remote work and reduction in CO2. I would assume members of HN would be intellectually curious enough to want to dig deeper.
That must smell awesome and is probably really healthy. Perhaps it won't be the largest tire graveyard for long.
I didn’t think remarkable was open source?
I added the source for it above
Good thin the US has several huge, wealthy metro areas 8 or 9 states.
You think you'll join a giant company and that there will be less need to get organisational buy-in for your proposals than there was in a startup? That's a take I haven't heard before...
If you get another bank to issue BankID to you, then you may be able to ask your current bank that you may log in using that BankID. And this way you may perhaps be able to use the app instead. Maybe.
NCMEC then makes those images available to the appropriate law enforcement agency after the fact.
Fascinating. Thank you for providing the clarification. I still find that number to be perplexingly huge. If it's indeed correct, one hopes that Apple know what they're getting themselves in for.
I love svelte. (I'm not a vue user). But my biggest gripe with it is that you can't create multiple components in a single file like how you can in react.

I remember seeing a FR for it in GitHub for it. But can't remember where they landed on it.
"But [Apple executives] said they expected any [implication by malicious actors] attacks to be very rare and that in any case a review would then look for other signs of criminal hacking."

Oh, all right: Apple, already being in possession of hard evidence of a hideous crime and already being required by law to forward such evidence to proper authorities, will also - pro bono publico! - sacrifice significant amount of time of a significant number of their in-house computer forensics experts, each enjoying a significant billing rate, to relentlessly look for "other signs of criminal hacking", until there is no significant doubt that the accused is, indeed, guilty. We're all safe, then.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
In my opinion, the conceal feature in Vim provides the best of both world to the name vs symbol problem.

When you want to review your code, you just go into normal mode, concealing all lengthy but frequent names into appealing symbols. When you want to write code, you switch to editing mode and all symbols on the editing line turn back into names

I use this feature mostly with python code. One liners making proficient use of lambdas, maps, reduces, and other functional treats are satisfyingly condensed, reducing the amount of attention required to parse each line.

No need for custom keyboards. People don't have to parse arbitrary symbols to understand what I wrote because the underlying code remains vanilla.

A drawback is that the apparent conciseness tricks me into writing very big one-liners difficult to parse when all terms are expanded.
Craigslist, eBay, used car dealer, etc.

Good luck finding one for $3K right now. Used car prices are silly inflated, and people are starting to realize they make dependable homes on wheels, once you take the seats out.
I would love to get one of these jobs. I would have so much fun messing with everything they try to use to surveil me in MY home. The possibilities for fun are literally endless.
Calling arming a tank a "historical restoration project" is already quite an example of Olympics-level mental gymnastics. And no, it's not comparable to selling pot either.

> The law was not written for these kinds of people. It was written for people who are actually up to no good.

What "good" purpose does arming a tank have then? Authorities don't like to wait and find out, and that's not unreasonable in any way.
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t....

> A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

> This assumes the average gasoline vehicle on the road today has a fuel economy of about 22.0 miles per gallon and drives around 11,500 miles per year.
there are always ways to blow your check
I think the fire is metaphorical
Finding cheaper labor elsewhere further concentrates wealth. The only way to spread out the wealth would be to mandate the same salary across regions.
That wouldn't surprise me as Google's reporting would include everything seen by GoogleBot as it crawls the internet.
I heard there was some guy in Philadelphia who was working three jobs and had outsourced the actual work to a team in India.

He got away with it for a while.
Anything that can move a lot of dirt can crush your car. Is yellow paint that meaningful?

A big front end loader would probably be better for a rampage than a tank since you can actually manipulate stuff with the loader portion of it.
This is one of the ways in which the USA is more like 50 little countries than a single one. At the federal level most everything besides post 1986 machine guns, including 120mm cannons and explosive shells along with a tank to move them around, can be had with some paperwork and a tax stamp, which is $200 or less.

There are businesses in Nevada[1] that will let you drive tanks and fire off howitzers[1] that are privately owned.
However many states, and in some states counties and cities, have additional restrictions on what they permit. For example, a muzzle loading revolver isn't even considered to be a firearm federally, but in NY State if you happen to have powder and lead handy congratulations you're now a felon even in your own home unless you have a handgun permit.

[1] https://www.battlefieldvegas.com/
That guy stole a tank from a national guard depot. not exactly the same situation.

I dont see why owning a tank should be any different than owning any other large and heavy vehicle.
>> they expected any such attacks to be very rare

Very rarely will your life be completely ruined based on inaccurate information.
Perhaps the other collector has friends in high places and he doesn't.

Or simply a licence.
Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMesssage and iCloud Storage
That’s not what the threat is supposed to be. The threat is supposed to be that all the engineers will step away from their keyboards and the ginormous money machine will grind to a halt.

But since Google pays so much it’d be both really hard to convince people to take the risk, and really easy for the company to replace them. Having employees partake of the money machine via stock is also a factor.

I don’t think Google would unionize unless the vast majority of coders worldwide were already active members of the International Brotherhood of Logicians and had already won some big concessions from other FAANGs.
There is a button. The button turns it always on, so that you may contact the default server NOT_STOLEN and adjust the stealing parameters to your taste.
It's a very weak benefit. I don't know about you but most of my time programming is spent thinking about the program, not writing it. In fact, this would only increase the time I need to think about how to write things (what was the symbol for reduce again?)
Since reading code is significantly harder than writing code, I hope OpenAI's model allows users to infer a natural language explanation of a given snippet of code. This should be possible if it is a generative model.
I would recommend looking for Indian kulfi's. They are delicious and often have clean ingredients.
Wasn't that claim limited to children's accounts?

Since Google is saving a history of what you purchase from third party merchants by scraping invoices and receipts sent to you through your Gmail account, it's safe to say that they are scanning your emails.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26248486
I use M.S. Office Lens at work every week. You can free-crop photos, compose into PDF, reorder pages, etc and save to OneDrive which quickly gets a phone PDF onto my desktop. Brilliant!

OfficeLens also had an app you could load on desktops. I’m sure it was for tablets, but the ability to take a photo, free-form crop and save to PDF was fantastic. Alas, my old install of the app still works, but won’t convert to PDF anymore.
Is your argument that everyone has the same capability?
The whole industry is scared because it is on the edge of complete collapse.

If the staff are WFH it means the students aren't getting face to face and they won't pay those kinds of fees because they'll just look for the cheapest remote 3rd tier school.
Do you also wish someone had censored Bambi's mother's death?
The "to" method on an Int creates an inclusive Range.

There is also an "until" method which would create the noninclusive Range (which would be actually closer to the original code as it would be "0 until 100").

The Rust syntax is not better. Maybe you could come up what means what if you see it in comparison (this would also work maybe for the Scala code).

The K example has even two implicit assumptions: It's an noninclusive range starting at zero. (They write on the Wikipedia page where I looked this up, as I don't know K, that the range is over "nonnegative integers" lower than the given one. But "nonnegative integers" means usually, but not always, the natural numbers, so zero not included; this makes it even more inconclusive than the Rust or Scala code snippet, imho. I had to look on examples to find out whether zero is included or not in "!").
That's a shame. When did they make it non-public?
Why the hell should they allow them? It's not your property to do things as you please. If you don't like it, leave.

I'd not only shut them down but also fire the employee behind them.
>If employers can change compensation at will without employee consent then the employee agreement is truly meaningless and simply a tool for the employer to wield against the employee.

Welcome to the last 40+ years of corporate economics. The only power that employees can have against employers is through collective action. It's unfortunate that most people in tech see themselves as too good for labor unions.
He's not talking about transacting, but rather its basic existence. Gold requires no maintenance to keep existing, hence it will stay around for thousands of years even if civilisation (and utilities infrastructure) collapses. (Securing it is a separate matter; obviously that has costs).

The same can't be said for Bitcoin. It's just a refutation of the assertion that Bitcoin is digital gold; Bitcoin lacks one of gold's most important attributes.
No, I thought that people would have the experience to evaluate my proposals on their merits, not on if they contain buzz words. So far that's been pretty true. :)

On the way to launching my first large internal service in the next few weeks.
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I like how most of the people who commented never used yarn 2.

You can do that.

You can go in the dependencies and open it files, you just need a vscode extension because vscode can't open files in zips by default.

For modifications, it may works, I never tried it.

Also you can also configurate Yarn to use the node_modules linker and you'll have it back.
The actual reason they have the perks is talent attraction and retention
But it’ll change if you get significant portions of the behave differently. During the beginning of the pandemic there were loads of stories of wildlife coming back to certain areas, pollution disappearing. So everyone WFH will in fact have an impact.

I took a bit of a pay cut during the pandemic too. All this staring at my screen for longer hours was really taking a toll. Maybe this is a good time to think about what kind of lifestyle you want and how to get it. If Googlers really believe in the work they are doing and they are treated well, maybe stay. If you only want the money quit and don’t look back.