skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the script below, it looks like it uses a gradient function for loss so that it learns to approach an image that generates a collision. If the case that the hashes themselves, being a result of a neural network, can be reverse engineered into pornographic images then does that raise a legal quandary?

Apple said that the risk of collision is "1 in one trillion" which for a hash function would be terrible. We also don't know what the one trillion images they tested against were. If you upload your regular porn to iCloud, it's likely that pornographic images will raise more false positives than say, pictures of sunsets.
But it does take a state to load out an MQ-180 with hellfires that will automatically target anyone whose IMSI has been within 100 yards of someone in the "disposition matrix".
I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929
"Better" does a lot of work for you there. I find being less afraid better than being more afraid as much as I find being alive better than being dead.
typically in CPython its just a sign that the code is fairly old, or at times (as with the unittest module), that an API was ported from CamlCase language at least partially.
I feel the slow progress to date will mean we will overshoot the 1.5 C by another 1.5 C and that will be a disaster.
How does one country persuade a neighboring country to stop burning coal/oil? Cruise missiles?
Not if the price is raised through taxes.
The investigation would be about NASA's reaction, not the mistake itself. So Americans investigating Americans about a (potential) American problem.

Russia's incidental to the nature of the trigger.
We do that incessantly!
Is this actually a widespread belief held by adults? I think the first time I came across it expressed was in Airplane II - “Well, let's see: First, the Earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil.” - where, like, the naïveté of the statement is the joke, right?

So then when Pixar movies have an oil company called ‘Dinoco’ in them, I’d always assumed that’s as part of that same kind of knowing ‘obviously only a child believes oil comes from dinosaurs’ reference.

The idea that oil could be made from dinosaurs is just.. on its face, it’s not plausible, right? It can’t be something people are actually taught. Please.
Yes, this ^^^^^^

> The proposed attack on Apple's protocol doesn't work.

With all due respect, I think you may have misunderstood the proposed attack @jonathanmayer, as what @jobigoud said is correct.
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>>"I have also read that Vietnam vets did a lot of drugs while in Vietnam but most of them quit when they returned to the US and did so without any kind of treatment."

I have read elsewhere that something that makes a big difference when quitting drugs is change your environment totally. That means, the group of people you spend time with, but maybe, also, work and even home. Moving away to another city or country probably helps.

Frequently, we don't realize to what point we are our environment.
Better governance would surely help.

"How California became far more energy-efficient than the rest of the country" [2019]
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/31/1864690...

TLDR: California Energy Commission's performance standards, which automatically improve over time at predictable rate, instead of administrivia of targets, specifics, picking winners & losers.

More background:

"Climate change policy can be overwhelming. Here’s a guide to the policies that work." [2018]
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/16/180963...
Amazon sellers pester customers over bad reviews
I have installed the "I don't care about cookies" plug-in. All cookies are deleted when I close my browser.
It is about the usage of 'just'. So while in the first case people think the just is justified, the before mentioned data indicates that only a few people manage to 'just' do it. The order of percentage of ppl beeing able to do it is the same as something which seems very hard to do (the everest thing). So while objectively they are comparable it shines light on that the usage of 'just' is bad in both cases while the subjective perception is very different.
Not sure if I can make it clearer.

Edit:maybe I was thinking to complicated in this reply. The analogy is: you have two different things which can be achieved through doing a specific thing, but doing this thing is hard in both cases so using the word 'just' is not appropriate which is easier to see in the example.
> who essentially do all the work for Android already

They don't, that's the whole point. They do the bare minimum of booting up a barely-usable, heavily hacked downstream kernel, and call it a day (or rather, move to the next device release). "Proper" support is left to the community.
It’s frightening how some people think everything should be about money. Profits are not everyone’s goals nor should they be.
> Despite feedbacks with weathering rates, much smaller imbalances would have resulted in the complete removal of atmospheric CO2 in less than a million years. Without evidence of such dire consequences, lignin production in the absence of lignin decay for more than 100 million years into the early Permian is untenable.

The study addresses CO2 levels closely, as well as other significant pieces of evidence. I would tend to assume the peer reviewers at one of the world’s most prestigious journals thought to Google up historical CO2 levels.
Make use of the "donate" link in the sidebar!

I have no idea how much he brings in from thankful folks like us who recognize how much time he's saved us, but it's surely not as much as it should be. I set aside a chunk of money every year for supporting software authors, and Nir comes up in my list every few years.
I've looked at MusicXML as an intermediary format to convert to from MIDI but found it to be overly complex and ended up just using the MIDI data in JSON form directly. This worked well except of course for the fact that MIDI is quite lossy (rests aren't in there, slurs are implicit, there are no 'beat' markers and so on).

Music formats are tricky, some are more suitable for performance, some more for archival storage or composition. It's enough to drive you bonkers at times, especially if you want exact representation and slowly you realize you are just not going to get it perfect no matter how hard you try.
Both Gab and Parlor would have done fine if they had been allowed to create their own platform. I am assuming here that paypal will not dump a google competitor, nor will AWS.
I don't know much about the wellness scammer but that's a poor way to support your stance.

Azodicarbonamide has been banned in quite a few countries. It's only listed as safe at 40 parts per million. It has possible carcinogenic products in the form of other carbazides. It doesn't have a large amount of research/testing on it. It is a known lung irritant and caused respiratory issues in factory workers who produce it.

You may be okay with random hydrocarbons being added to your food. But not everyone is as naive as you.

Notice, you changed the topic to a kook and then invoked ad hominem. Very bad intentions. Much lack of substance. Dishonest attempt to convince others through baseless assertions. So shameful.
fair enough, in the context of energy savings you'd have a point, but I was mentioning this as a general problem even for non pressing issues

it seems to me that we could still provide more with less (resources and time), without going in analysis paralysis
Sometimes you need government mandates otherwise the industry standardizes a model that actually costs the consumer more. Bumper height and construction for example should be standardized because the incentive is for ineffective bumpers.
Forward visibility and pedestrian impact standards need to be set to prevent monster grills. A lot of this will actually lower total cost of ownership at little or no cost.
I googled a little bit. There are many videos with comments about this snack.

As mentioned it could be Maerua oblongifolia
Here is a scientific paper:
https://www.ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT1892916.pdf
I think it's a bit odd to call this "net zero".

If there are more trees, there's more oxygen.

Sure, if a tree dies this is eventually reverted but it also makes room for a new tree (unless humanity claims the land).
List of Recent Anti-Asian Attacks in the SF Bay Area
I’ve used Emacs for several years now, primarily on Linux but also MacOS.

I never recommend it to new users without the caveat of time investment; it’s a disservice to just say ‘Emacs is great’. It’s great in the same sense as a large box of Legos is great—for potential, not OOBE, which is (in my opinion) fairly mediocre.

My second unpopular opinion: Elisp is a significant barrier to entry for users. Changing this would blow open the doors to adoption and evolving the tool, I think. But it will never happen.
> The point isn’t that they are ‘only’ making $145 a month. It’s that people are willing to be abusive to other humans over it.

In this case, you have to look at the investment people make into getting that $145. Creators are very invested, and the $145 is often in itself a huge source of disappointment and frustration. Imagine being sold being superstardom and a life of luxury and getting $145 (which probably doesn't cover your costs) and having random people complement you in public on how you look naked. I think I'd be a little frustrated, too had I fell for that.

> It’s like those annoying relatives that are willing to throw away any authenticity in their relationship with you in order to hustle their shitty MLM product that is making them next to nothing.

The are being exploited by the MLM, who sold a dream of business success, self-realization and wealth. Usually at a time in their life where they were in a state of financial failure. Like the exploited creator, they often spend thousands to get hundreds and end up being socially humiliated by their attempts at lead generation.

The irony in all of it is that for some it works.
Improving Responsiveness in Text Inputs
I'm totally buying it. look at the scale of intensity. rioters are no fun. but they possess no existential risk to America, and withdrawl was a tactical option if needed. I'd also say few protest groups qualify as rioters. there is some rioting, some destruction of property, some physical force that did happen in the various month long "riots" ongoingly but for the most part at a very small scale. mostly I'd classify the groups as being protestors or a crowd, not rioters.

amassed violent insurrectionists threatening & overrunning a seated us congress, which you are sworn to protect, & where backup has not arrived, is a genuine horror the likes of which I never expected anyone in my lifetime would have faced.
I wouldn't say you are in for a world of hurt but you'll have to accept that the package will periodically update and in the process kill your containers/vms. My primary objections to snapd are:

1) updates are pushed/applied and services restarted on an arbitrary schedule which means you can't test updates prior to rolling them out or otherwise control when a service is taken offline by an update

2) snapd doesn't log to standard OS logging facilities and the logs it does have are cleared after 72 hours

3) snapd pollutes home directories with a directory called "snap"

snapd is a poorly conceived project written by people that are profoundly ignorant of how real services and servers are actually operated. Despite having the above flaws repeatedly pointed out, the developers have shown zero interest in taking actual concrete actions to address them.
I wonder when they will start clamping down on people wearing glasses and evacuate cities.
idk man, Discord thinks a picture of my fingers is explicit content, google Lens thinks my gf's cat is a dog, tesla can't detect people _asleep_ at the wheel...

AI is fun until you start applying it to real world issues, then it crumbles apart.
With pornographic features... i installed tor-browser
Should follow up with DO after a period (say 72h).

A company that big would be in trouble to ignore DCMA notices.

Could also try contacting upstream providers if worth the trouble.
I found this very interesting, thank you for sharing!
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Understanding Heidegger on technology (2014)
> All research and code posted on them gets a quick once-over; good work gets the attention it deserves; bad work is quickly ignored.

What is the basis for all these claims? Who is giving it the quick once-over?

Crowd-sourced review and information, despite some strengths and high initial hopes, has a record of extraordinary misinformation and disinformation. Why would we want to use that system for scientific research?

I prefer careful peer review, standards for announcing funders, etc.
The utopianists saw what they had wrought, and did not like it.
We have program registered till date. The software company went bust. You run the software with correct time and it runs.
Games that use the system clock to timegate stuff. Nier Replicant, for example, uses the system clock for its gardening minigame. You have to wait 24 real hours for your plants to grow, or change the date in your system.
This happened on Steam before. The real issue was that I accidentally locked the reset password function, but instead of saying Steam just game me infinite captchas. I finally found my initial password.

So it’s probably blocked you for some reason, and instead of saying this it’s giving you infinite captchas.
Timed license or something? I’ve heard of SAS but have never used it. Any good?
You know, that was my initial reaction reading that comment, but thinking about it a little more made me realise that if you pass the noisey images to humans, they can validate if the noise is such that the signal is gone.

I don't know if that's what they're doing, but it would be a clever way to do data augmentation.
>It's the worst in places that are the most religiously strident places like California. In general, you'd need land for solar panels equivalent to your entire neighborhood to merely duplicate and provide your current energy use just from your own home. And that doesn't even cover EVs being charged!

Math please. A 100 square foot solar panel would generate around 150 kWh per month given around 5 hours of sunlight a day. The average household uses under 1000 kWh per month. So you'd need around 700 sqft of solar panels to cover that which fits on the roof of a single story house easily.

edit: And plenty of people sell electricity back to the grid on average while having rooftop solar panels.
Yes definitely. I have trouble just introducing Python type hints, despite the clear insanity of working with a large convoluted untyped codebase.
Yeah, I think they could have gotten it to work eventually, but a what cost. I think even Apple realized it was going to be too expensive and they probably began playing with the magnet idea and realized it was a bit more eloquent than trying to line up the phone properly on the mat each time. The number of times I put my phone on my wireless charger mat wrong and it doesn’t charge renders it an almost useless device. Sure I could carefully line it up each time, but then what make it superior to just plugging it in? The whole selling point is convenience. The wireless phone charger stands are better. The magnetic Stands better still.
Ah, ah. I wanted to say no, but after reading more and more the method they offer is actually much more evil than it seems.

In the ShellExecution function, if you actually comes from C programming you can get confused:

Could the parameter "string | ShellQuotedString" mean:

"A string which has the binary flag ShellQuotedString on"
= "A shell quoted/escaped string" +/- "a string of sub-type ShellQuotedString"
which would imply that the developer has to take this responsibility.

or it means "string || ShellQuotedString", as in param is a "string OR ShellQuotedString"
which in this case the behaviour is unknown.

(well, now I know it's the second one :| ) but it's fun to read
If Apple is to keep their word about guaranteeing the privacy of non-CSAM photos (which this whole discussion is about them not doing a very good job of), then they would only be able to do that with photos stored in iCloud because of this technical specification as to how the identification process works. That being said, other photos across your device are still monitored in a different way. For example Apple will scan photos that you send or receive via iMessage to automatically detect if they're nudes, and if you're underage, they will block them/send a notification to your parents.
That's just authoritarianism with extra steps.
It's possible that in few years we'll switch to e-ink anyway. But we'll stuck with architecture based on minimising natural light "annoyance" for a very long time.
Under your scenario (which I realize matches real life) they would still have to think about it. They wouldn't just have an instinctive reaction without any thought.

It would take a company filled with perfect people to avoid having anyone even think about doing the wrong thing. Part of being human is considering the wrong thing and then doing the right thing. (Or not, sometimes.)
> in lieu of a camera we made a $2000 gift to clean water in Africa, it saved more lives, trust us

Wait, so do you mean you don’t care about the extra cost at all, and you don’t care if Chevrolet charged you a lot more than the cost of a backup cam in order to donate? It’s just the government safety rule you object to?

Or are you saying you think backup cameras cost $2000?

And why didn’t you acknowledge the valid point that the economic value to society of backup cameras is in reduction in accidents, and not limited to loss of life situations?

Are you being honest with a dollars per life calculation? It seems misleading. What about the property damage value, how much is that? What about injuries?

According to the stats I found with a quick search that were used to justify the backup cam rules, there were 15,000 injuries per year in addition to the ~200 deaths. And one third of all backup related deaths are children under 5. What is the economic value of a child, and are you sure it’s less than 5.7 million?

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/04/07/2014-07...
I know this is a tough thing to consider, but:

Isn't this a problem generally with laws against entire classes of media?

Planting a child abuse image (or even simply claiming to have found one) is trivial. Even robust security measures like FDE don't prevent a criminal thumb-drive from appearing.

I think we probably need to envision a future in which there is simply no such concept under law as an illegal number.
I taught this stuff for years and never came across this. Excellent post.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruniquel_Cave
Im going to release 5 pieces of proof in the next 5 days
The US government intentionally made it inconvenient and infeasible to include encryption at a key time in technological development, and I think it had lasting consequences.

Yes, if the internet community had acceded to their demands to use the clipper chip, that would have been one route to them lowering the barriers they had put in place to encryption. They also could have just recognized that widespread encryption was in the national interest without the clipper chip, instead of deciding it was opposed to it.
It is truly awful that publishers do this, however there is a certain website-that-shalt-not-be-named that is papering over that gap while we researchers get our shit together.
It's so difficult to find trustworthy independent publishers in the Windows world and Nirsoft nails it. Tools that are designed to empower users with zero strings attached - seriously helpful stuff.
Of course you can't control an addiction, because your brain, or body is asking for it. But when you are aware that you are addict, there are ways to overcome it.

The fact that you don't have the energy, or motivation or anything else to fix it is that you either don't feel like it is going to be better without your addiction or you are not able to maintain the long term work needed. And both of those case are a choice. These are not easy choice, like choosing the color of your socks on the morning, they are difficult choices, but they are still choices you are making.

And when I talk about addictions I dont only talk about big trauma, most of addictions are along the lines of people not being able to prevent themselves to eat chocolate everyday.

People who think you just need to get over depression, have never been depressed.
Ever watched old commercials? It feels like they were less "in your face", not constantly jumping up and down for your attention. Calmly spoken and more likely to actually say something about the product. That shift is another indicator of the shift of things getting dumbed down in a way.
Would like to read something on the cannibalization phenomena re: your last paragraph. Link me if you can.
Do you think the US military doesn't understand the concept of secret papers?
It's not a legend, it's easy enough to confirm.

https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/BookPreface.html
Sliding infinitly far on your socks is totally easy in a world where you ignore friction and the human need to eat/sleep/etc.

Similarily it is totally easy to imagine getting fit/slim by ignoring the forces acting on someone who is obese. Of course one can do that if it fits with ones world image, but I tend to like my models closer to reality.

Don't underestimate what it does to a kid if e.g. one parent has troubles expressing love through any other means than cooking. Suddenly love comes in the form of food. Similar with situation where ancestors nearly starved — this can fuck up multiple generations. Both examples will take conscious effort to tackle one's psychological drivers, maybe therapy, but quite certainly a lot of time and effort.

Think about a bad habbit you tried to loose and multiply it by a magnitude then you get a glimpse of what this would feel like for an actual obese person (note: I am not obese, neither have I ever been obese). This is why "just eat less and move more" as a statement is ridiculous: a bit like "have you just tried not to be poor" or "have you tried not being depressed all the time". While factually correct it displays ignorance of the forces at play.
Euclid got Euclidean geometry, and that’s not nothing.
A few of the candidates did get the exact answer or were within 10% of it https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nyc-mayor-candidates...

I think only one was “an order of magnitude” off.
‘Drop an image’? Mobile devices exist…
"We traced the call. It's coming from inside the house!"
In case someone has some direct knowledge or credible sources: I'm not sure what is stopping reform at a political level. Who is the political constituency that obstructs open access? The publishers seem too small, and the science and higher ed constituency too large.
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He's like the Stephen King of programming - just extremely prolific.

His full list of tools is jaw dropping:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/index.html

(The IP tools have been very helpful in the past. I've got a new install now and that's a reminder for myself to get set up again; will use the donate link too.)