skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...be decryptable and contain grayscale low-res versions of the original image for confirmation...

But what happens when the false positives are erroneously confirmed as legitimate CSAM? What's the system in place for removing all the security vouchers on someone's account because the vision system flagged a bunch of false positives? What's the process for unfucking a person's life because the employee confirming the CSAM was in a bad mood that day? Is Apple going to pay the legal bills of someone they effectively SWATed?

For the ones of people this system might actually catch with legitimate CSAM there will be at least as many false positives slipping through to ruinous consequences. Law enforcement shouldn't be trusted as a backstop against abuse because LEOs and DAs are incentivized for "good numbers" and "results", not for actually meting out justice. If someone flagged by false positives gets to the stage of law enforcement being involved their lives will be ruined.
Another issue - they've been doing things like having all their folks shelter in their modules when SpaceX docks - but not doing that for this type of stuff.

Also the somewhat odd cracks at SpaceX

Rogozin told Russian media that he doesn’t believe SpaceX can build better rocket engines than Russia can. “Musk is not a technical expert in this matter,” Rogozin said. “He just doesn’t understand what this is about.”

Will be interesting to see how Raptor 2 competes (and yes, Russia has had amazing engines).
There were three generations of graphics hardware and sound chips, anyone doing any kind of serious use of them had to recode their applications to take advantage of the new capabilities.
... why some countries succeed and why some don’t ...

Not for want of trying.

That's literally the topic of the foundational book of modern economics, Smith's An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. And there've been many, many, many subsequent attempts at answers. If there is a modern concensus, it's that there is no accepted answer or understanding.

There are several reasons. It's difficult to run controlled experiments. There are a limited number of examples to study. There is a phenomenally entangled set of factors. And many attempts are influenced by specific experiences, ignorance, or ideological alignment.

You'll find free-market fundamentalists, institutionalists, Keynesians (fiscal policy), monetarists, American School (National System, following a national policy), socialists, communists, neoliberal school, feudalists, physiocrats, cyberntics / systems theorists, complexity economists, biophysical economics, and numerous others.

Among texts I'd recommend:

Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations.

Lloyd Jeffrey Dumans, The Overburdened Econommy.

Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms. (The series this is part of contains numerous other explorations of economic history.)

Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation

Arnold Toynbee, Lectures on the Industrial Revolution.
> I'm against screaming, but infrequent/involuntary screaming by a very senior exec does happen, and in my opinion, cannot be called abusive.

There is no situation where screaming at employees is okay unless they're actively endangering lives.

If somebody loses their shit and flies off the handle, then calms down and apologizes and doesn't do it again, that's forgivable. That doesn't mean it was acceptable to do it in the first place.
This is for people not using a password manager. Good luck coming up with and remembering hundreds of random 20 character alphanumeric sequences.
I don't pay attention to the points on this site. The hackernews I knew a decade ago is dead. What's left is a bunch of middling code monkeys who think this should be treated like extra-pretentious reddit. If I had to describe it in a metaphor, I would say it's now an Asperger's meet up show and tell. It used to be that truly interesting things would get posted here on a daily basis, too.
Corruption is quite bad in Argentina. This is not limited to politicians, it's at all levels of society.
The somebody matters though, what a ridiculous statement. In the UK most funding is protected via funding councils and royal charters so that it's never directly the incumbent government deciding what is and is not researched. There are still things like ministry of defence funding though, especially in areas like engineering. I was always quite uncomfortable when the MoD guy would visit the robotics lab and decide what could and could not be useful for military purpose. In part because he lacked the imagination to realise all of it could.
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Ok...but is it correct or incorrect? Maybe you could address that point instead of the ad hominem?

Here's a similar story from 9news that describes a similar situation

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-nsw-gladys-ber...
Yeah what happens when someone abuses this for easy “untraceable” swatting. What if the next iOS malware uploaded some CSAM hashes to iCloud unless you pay 5 btc in the next 24 hours?
Have a look at Mesa/Cedar as well. Those OSes have explored only a subset of its ideas.

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4
The IRS has seized $1.2B worth of cryptocurrency this fiscal year
You can store hydrogen in lower pressures if you don’t care about the amount of space it takes.
If you're a year ahead, let's see some links. Maybe we can all save time.
That sounds likely. SpaceX is a lot further along in development than Swarm appears to be -- it's unlikely that they see much value in the specific technologies Swarm has developed.

Interestingly, Swarm had launched some of their microsatellites on SpaceX vehicles.
> but some people just wouldn’t need to be online/on smartphones if it wasn’t for the pandemic, and they wouldn’t have any specific issue in their day to day life.

But now the pandemic has happened, being online is more important than ever, and there's probably no going back. I find it unacceptable to leave some people behind. I know that pessimism and cynicism about the Internet are fashionable these days. But we're still here, discussing things online. If we're not willing to throw that away ourselves, then maybe we need to give those people more of a chance to decide for themselves if it's worthwhile.
I'm not well versed enough in the topic (or the law) to have answers. I do think the podcast episode I pointed to does give a lot of food for thought. For me it was an eye opener, as a software engineer trying to build a beautiful future with strong beliefs around e2e encryption, etc.
Sadly, I think this will be gone forever soon! If you are on Linux, everything might continue for a while, but for Mac and Windows, the writing is on the wall ... there is a near future where nothing will be installable on your computer unless it is "authorized" by Microsoft or Apple.
So these kids are bright but don’t realize that if they got the degree, the world would be their oyster. Smart enough to be spies, dumb enough to actually be spies.
The issue is that the "supportive" quality high achieving women look for is different from the "supportive" quality high achieving men look for. Essentially, the modal supportive wife wouldn't be given the time of day by potential high achieving female spouses if her gender were switched. What (straight) women value in a mate is very different from what (straight) men value in a mate.
> Once paid journals go away, Sci-Hub will end up like GitHub

more like we get arxiv.org?
> I don’t think there is any rule requiring it anywhere I’ve seen.

No one claimed there was. They said that not doing it makes him a bad boss. You seem to be in agreement.
Never step in other men's food
Moot was trying to be friends with the people in that circle. A girl he was trying to date didn't like it. He was taking awkward babysteps towards his lackluster job at Google where he would never be promoted or accomplish anything meaningful again.
This is clearly a double-bluff by science. Nice try science, I don’t trust science enough to believe this pseudoscience!

In all seriousness though, with the magnitude of the psychology replication crisis right now, you might legitimately be better off with a blanket mistrust of ALL social psychology. I think the replication rate for social psychology papers is under 50%.
I am curious as to how you would remove us from the ISS. A third of the pressurized modules on the ISS are Russian [1]. Do we just take them with us when we leave? How do we achieve that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_International_...

"""

The ISS is made up of 16 pressurized modules: five Russian modules ( Zarya, Pirs, Zvezda, Poisk and Rassvet), eight US modules (BEAM, Leonardo, Harmony, Quest, Tranquility, Unity, Cupola, and Destiny), two Japanese modules (the JEM-ELM-PS and JEM-PM) and one European module (Columbus).

"""

*Pirs was undocked to make place for Nauka.
I was happy to see this

In part because Garland is ultraconservative, and he's inclined to not rock the boat for the four years he gets before trump fires him, or he pulls a Rosenstein and does whatever trump wants.

The situation is so extreme that garland knows Biden can't win in 2024, even a supermajority of the population wanted him to.
Android Java is Google's own flavour of J++ and needs to be slammed by the same exemplary way.
It very much is from dispensaries, which is what is being discussed.

And this does happen everywhere, where prices in dispensaries 'miraculously align' right down to the daily/weekly specials etc.

What should be happening is the price going down as shops compete with each other for business- which, incidentally, they all did ~10 years ago. That also miraculously stopped at all shops simultaneously.

So it's definitely collusion/price fixing but I believe rather than the supplier/seller it's both. Especially in Oregon where the shops have their own grow farms.
Cool project. Let's say i want to switch the currency from BTC to BAT. How can i do that?
Please don't do tit-for-tat flamewars on HN. They're tedious and nasty and against the intended spirit of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How is a highway overpass not a bridge? I would classify it as one.
Won’t cooling be an issue? On earth you need a ton of water to cool nuclear
I'd appreciate feedback on possible reasons why my comment got multiple downvotes. Did my attempted explanation of CAPTCHAs come off as condescending? I specifically tried to avoid that. I also wasn't criticizing the parent commenter for not being able to come up with an explanation in the moment. Or was there something else objectionable about what I wrote?

Edit: OK, in hindsight, my explanation was incomplete. I should have added something like: The general idea is that Zoom is asking you to do something that a computer program can't reliably do. Unfortunately, as computers get better at performing simple tasks that used to require human intelligence, it becomes more challenging for a computer to determine that you're a person and not another computer. That's why it has gotten to the point of asking you to click on the tiles with traffic lights.
Indeed, I can't find a non-VBA GoL implementation for Excel.
Yup, the horrible thing is not the current system itself, but the precedent they set.

And if it's a semi-exact match algorithm like they say, it won't actually prevent any new abuse from happening.
Well, if you can manufacture high power aluminum cables on the moon, it would be worth some extra pain setting it up. Assuming any real plans for permanent settlement.
if the U. S. President attends a live sporting event and all involved have instructions to show it but it never did was he ever the U. S. President?..
"Trevor Moore tells kids about 9/11": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq6p4wX88Z0
(Context: I teach computer security at Princeton and have a paper at this week's Usenix Security Symposium describing and analyzing a protocol that is similar to Apple's: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentat....)

The proposed attack on Apple's protocol doesn't work. The user's device adds randomness when generating an outer encryption key for the voucher. Even if an adversary obtains both the hash set and the blinding key, they're just in the same position as Apple—only able to decrypt if there's a hash match. The paper could do a better job explaining how the ECC blinding scheme works.
There's also the other side - assuming NCMEC and law enforcement are good actors is a flawed premise (as has been proven time and again). What if the CSAM database has non-CSAM images there, or non-CSAM hashes?

One could argue which is more likely, but the fact remains that the entire premise of this system is flawed and it seems the only way to play this game is to not use iCloud photos at all (though it's possible that malware could bypass that and turn on iCloud sync as well as upload the photos too...)
Disclaimer: I didn't the whole paper
This paper is based on the assumption that when the Israeli vaccine campaign started, everyone were allowed to get the vaccine.
In truth, only at the start of Feb people older than 35 were allowed to get the vaccine.

Also, this is a sloppy work at best. No statistical analysis (what about confidence intervals?) whatsover. Total waste of time
I just find it very amusing that simple pictures of outside in the US are being described as "unbearably depressing". A pretty good signal that modern urban design in the US is creating very ugly and depressing spaces.
A better way to make safer transportation that may free drivers of the menial work of driving is to design cities that don't require people to drive.
It could also be that not everyone finds car-centric reality (as depicted by those photos) uplifting.
Htlc.me message when i tried to buy your file : Send Payment Failed

Payment failed to send. This can happen due to temporary network connectivity issues or an unexpected server error.
>like they were taken by a decade-old smartphone.

It's more that its cropped from a much larger photo and the AI has detected that something is here but it isn't 100% on which thing it is out of a few possible candidates. The sharp stuff is already clearly identified.
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Even with a VPN and encrypted DNS?
More Control on Video Call
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Some details on the technology/licenses being acquired: https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-T-C-20210806-00096/12345289
I miss the simple next button from the early kindles... Do we really need everything be touch screen?
That's the big point they don't address. Apple can't possibly check every hash of every file some obscure organization is sending to their database, especially in foreign countries.

If some men in black walk into the offices of some nice little child protecting service in Ohio and demand that they put some additional hashes into the database because otherwise something bad could happen to them or their families, does Apple really think they would decline?

It doesn't matter how secure the system is, the vulnerability is that virtually anyone can input virtually anything into the database without Apple even knowing and expose selected users that way.

This failure point is now at the heart of iOS and macOS and it's baffling that Apple doesn't see that or doesn't want to see it.

My guess is that they're somehow forced to implement this and try to talk their way out of it with some strange PR pieces which are only convincing their most naive users.
How do you prevent users from selling illegal content? Do you really want to be anywhere near that?
Just tried it (Arch Linux AUR: assol). One thing I liked is the option to use de-saturated colors. Sadly, it crashed when I reached 99/100 orbs...

It definitely is a funny game.
Currently, it only integrates with the Lightning Network via LND. You would have to modify it to support BAT. However, BAT would probably not be a good choice. BAT transactions are slow when compared to Lightning Network payments. Also, since BAT is a token on Ethereum, the fees would likely be prohibitive for small, or even medium size payments.
Increase HTTP performance by fitting in the initial TCP slow start window
George Orwell dealt with this in the second half, the "London" part, of "Down and Out in Paris and London.". Good read.
Amazom were contributing changes back to Elasticsearch before the license change - the license change basically explicitly says "you can't run this as a service and sell it to people".

With this in mind what could Amazon do? Their options were:
A. Stop selling their Elasticsearch service, or
B. Fork Elasticsearch.

This change from Elastic is really shitty though, and sort of proves that all their finger pointing at Amazon saying that they're acting against the spirit of open source was all bullshit.
Thanks for trying it out! Is the failure persistent or does it work when you retry it?
One thing businesses across the US do to keep surplus from cutting into profits is to destroy it before trashing it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/07/new-york-cit...
If the bash script had an incorrect value due to an implicit conversion, then yes, the rust implementation is clearly a win.
Wow, I read the link - it's even worse than I thought. After 21 years in orbit, so few scientific papers, and almost none in top tier publications.

What a colossal waste of money for so few results!

Sorry to point out that the emperor has no clothes - I realize that HN is the home of scifi fanbois.

(For example, prestigious publications have single-digit article counts, while ones I don't recognize have two-digit article counts. So almost all of the ISS papers were not high-quality enough to make it into a real journal, and divided by 21 years, most counts round off to zero. As I said - and I want my taxes back.)
If you read 4 paragraphs into that article, you will find out
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Reverse DNS is pretty lousy for this, truth be told. Perhaps a couple of decades back there was a reasonable chance of reverse lookup bearing some relation to the host component of the URL that led to the exchange of packets. These days, I'd consider such commonality to be a surprising exception.

In particular, don't interpret that 68% figure of bijection to mean the reverse lookup will be meaningful. I'd wager a large number of them are public cloud instances, and a PTR string ending in "compute.amazonaws.com" isn't likely to be a famous bookshop. Hey, consider yourself lucky it wasn't a NXDOMAIN.

Note that DNS is not actually normative for HTTP. The standard does not specify how names are resolved to endpoints; it defines no service name or equivalent/alternative record. For years the standards committee has (quite shamefully and negligently in my view) relied on tacitly squatting the address (A/AAAA) record. This architectural wart forces workarounds for consequential misbehaviours both in HTTP (such as aliasing at the domain apex), and in other protocols besides since everyone else has to tiptoe around the entitled gorilla. I suspect the workarounds thus employed further contribute to the fingerprinting options available.
Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler would be proud.
We don't host Agora instances, aside from our test instances, so we cannot prevent users from selling illegal content. Any useful technology has the potential for abuse, and Agora is no different.
Why does Apple even bother with encryption? They should just skip all of the warrant requirements etc and use their iCloud keys to unlock our content and store it unencrypted at rest.

Maybe they can also build an api so that governments can search easily for dissidents without the delays that the due process of law causes.
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It's always a trade-off on what technology you use. You can easily use HTML files and edit them directly, but you'll soon find pain-points that plain old HTML can't alleviate.

That's when the layers of complexity begin to creep in...
I feel like censoring the mail of those working on the first atomic bomb is different from intercepting the mail of civilians.
I think a good commercial VPN would provide this functionality if you get used to change ip connection on a regular basis.
Great debugging story, but I have to ask why someone would want to run something like Cassandra on Windows anyway. I'm not at all surprised Cassandra has dropped support for it as the article mentions.
> Wikipedia identified the scientific name of the plant as Maerua oblongifolia, but had no photos of it.

How about this photo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maerua_oblongifolia#/media/Fil...

In this Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maerua_oblongifolia

Maerua oblongifolia (syn. Maerua arenaria, Niebhuria arenaria) is a low woody bushy under-shrub sometimes scandent to 2–3 meters high, with a thick root stock and thick leaves, and strongly scented flowers, occurring in India, Pakistan, Africa and Saudi Arabia. In Telugu this plant is called by name Bhoochakra gadda (In Telangana) and Bhoochakra dumpa (In Andhra). In Tamil this plant is called by name Poomicchakkarai Kizhangu (பூமிச் சர்க்கரைக் கிழங்கு). This is a tuber that naturally grows in areas closer to fountains, especially in hills. Tribes and others collect the tubers, which are sold as a quick street food, in many Indian cities and towns.
The e-readers are great but the apps are frankly garbage. They take forever to launch, gatekeep TTS, and have laughably few display options. It's great if you want blazing white text on a black background or brown text on an infinitesimally lighter brown background but God forbid you want grey on black or to listen to a book there's no audiobook for. Other ebook apps like Moon+Reader make the Kindle app look like a pathetic joke.
My Computer Just Became Self Aware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPzJjNQaYEA
Could it be that ASP (native to x86) was using x87 floating point in its default 80-bit mode, whereas Java (trying to get results more consistent cross-platform), had switched it to 64-bit mode?
NTSC draws each frame as two fields; first the 240 odd rows, then the 240 even rows, for a total of 480 interlaced rows, or "480i".

However, older video game consoles (such as the NES and SNES) typically output a malformed NTSC signal, designed to trick the TV into drawing just the odd lines, over and over again, sometimes referred to as "240p". As a result, it's effectively 60 independent frames per second, not 30 frames of two fields.
Is there a good websites listing the ways being spied on can affect you personally?

Would be great every time a "I don't care if the NSA watch my dick picks, bro" naive person bring this to my face again.
But you don't have to show humans the noise when you're getting humans to determine the ground truth, only the neural network. I think the noise exists to trip up CAPTCHA bots.
There is a controversial article trying to explain how the dating power of beta males reverses after a certain age (from their perspective).

Why Women Lose the Dating Game
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/why-women-lose-the-dating-g...

Jordan Peterson also touches upon his theory on how the recent extremism of the feminist movement raised an entire generation of women "not needing men", as an attack on traditional roles and patriarchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYa93WlPt3I
Facetious as this is, I can't imagine this is anything other than Apple's endgame here.

The best of both worlds: keep advertising their privacy chops to the masses, while also allowing any and every government agency a programmatic way to hash-verify the data passing through their systems in real-time.
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