skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand they are going to make perceptual hashes of images, but what are they going to do to videos?

Did they not see Fight Club where frames were added on videos? Are they going to hash each frame from videos as well? All 60 fps 4k videos? I’m sure that a lot of people saw that movie, and some of them might be pedophiles.
It really looks like an half assed solution
I think it's pretty clear from the description that it's only a ~250 line toy project. Looks like it's meant to act as a test for implementing the same project in different languages.

Given that all the implementations were around 10% of each other it doesn't seem like a particularly conclusive result (as far as line count goes, which looks like it was the main metric). At that point minor things like code formatting will make a lot of difference (for example the C# solution is the shortest, but they're using a more concise brace style than the standard one for C#).
> I can get enough people to agree with me, we can pass laws

while that's true in this case of vacancy laws, it is not a universally applicable rule to be followed blindly.

Just because a large number of people agreed with a certain set of actions, doesn't mean those set of actions are good to undertake for society. Look at how venezuela got to the place they did, via democratic elections. The a majority of the people wanted the gov't handouts, and wanted nationalization of private property by force.
I would go with the Erlang approach. Just die FFS. Let the process monitor restart you if you deserve to live.
Ah, a helpful comment. I meant to write

there's the southern hemisphere's Sweden a.k.a. New Zealand, the big government paradise

I can't edit now but thanks for pointing out something in a reasonable way.
Is this the first time you've read a news article? If all the quotes lined up exactly then it'd be propaganda.
People could and did develop their own photos.
I apologize for my comment. I posted thoughtlessly while in a bad mood after a rough day. I wasn't trying to start a flame war. I really didn't mean to start such a huge thing. I felt fairly ashamed seeing all the responses it generated. It wasn't productive and isn't accurate and doesn't even really reflect my beliefs.

If anyone who was offended by my attitude and comment reads this I apologize. Anyone who works hard for someone else should be valued, whether you work with your mind or body.

My comment was ignorant and just not true.
As an expat from Canada living in Latin America and using a number of services from both regions, I've had similar probems, also these same problems with other services from specific countries outside of where I live that I need to use due to work.

Overall, this general location-obsessed balkanization of online servicces, websites and pages has become ridiculous. A great number of tech companies and websites, in ther fixation of "giving users a more localized, personalized experience" (in part mostly just tracking the shit out of them obsessively) have actually done more to break the ease of using the internet as a traveler and in ways that are ironic as helll when one considers the supposed ideals of an internet that was supposed to help more people become MORE global in their access to media, content and services regardless of where they reside or travel to.

What we're seeing is an absurd, almost fuedalized regression of what should and easily could be fully delocalized platforms, which ruins them in the name of supposedly making them better. It's tedious, annoying and increasingly common.
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> Am I getting a Pixel and putting GrapheneOS on it like a total nerd? FUCK.

Thanks for depicting people who care about privacy and act on their beliefs as "total nerds", that's an encouraging attitude.
What do you mean by "alienated"? What do you want specifically? What do you do, if anything, for fun? What do you mean by "those people are usually working with more than I am"?

I hate to say it so crassly but lots of people get stuck in depression b/c they don't have a sex life. Orgasm is like a reboot with exploding rainbows and can clear out the cobwebs and open a road to a new future. So, if you're not getting any, then I recommend that you get laid ASAP if at all possible.
> Apple states point-blank that they will refuse any demands to add non-CSAM content to the lists.

How would Apple know if non-CSAM was added to the list? Apple does not and cannot curate the list. Apple only receives hashes from NCMEC (and other unnamed government agencies). The government does not allow Apple to verify that this list only contains CSAM. This pledge from Apple is at best misguided at worst intentionally dishonest. Of course nobody can make Apple add non-CSAM to the list: Apple doesn't maintain the list.
The last thing Reddit wants is to take responsibility for unpopular but necessary moderation.
I don't know how common it is, but people do drive like this. From a 2012 news article [1] about Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto at the time:

Reporter: "Sir, there's a picture that went out on Twitter this morning of you reading while still driving on the Gardiner [Expressway]."

Ford: "Yeah, probably. I'm busy."

Reporter: "So you read while driving?"

Ford: "Yeah, probably, yeah. I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man."

Later in the article:

In October, Ford was accused of illegally dialing numbers on his cellphone and talking on it as he steered his gold minivan westbound along Dundas Street West near Spadina Avenue.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/busy-rob-ford-admits-...
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> And everyone on one side f the aisle was like, yeah! Get 'im! Damned liar(s)! It's their platform, they can do what they want. It's not the government so it's not censorship. They only censor bigots.

I'm not from the US thus I have no dog in the race, but even I am fully aware that the rhetoric regarding "it's their platform, they can do what they want" is a very specific realization of the much broader and weaponized argument of "it's their business, they can do what they want" that has been used extensively for years by the political party that supported the incumbent candidate.

The "it's their business, they can do what they want" is an argument used extensicely to whitewash the attack and persecution of minorities and political rivals, as is epitome by the infamous "gay wedding cakes" meme.

So ultimately what this argument illustrates is that there is a political and ideological movement in the US which is adamant in demanding they should be immune to the rules they actively force upon others. Up until that moment, the incumbent's party was very adamant on the concept of arbitrarily denying access to goods and services to what they perceive as political and ideological reactionaries. That sentiment suddenly shifted once the consequences also applied to them.
“To snitch” also means “to inform”, whatever it is that you do, right or wrong. So yes, you are both right and wrong :)
Thanks for the article, I am not sure I fully understand it. Could you point to the section about the missed email? Also, do I understand it right, that emacs doesnt integrate well with llvm? (maybe that explains why in llvm presentations ppl use the 'other' editor, I always wondered why not use emacs)
> Who buys Full Self Driving for 10k and thinks you can’t pay attention?

People who understand how English works? Like, if I spend 10k on something that is "Full Self Driving", I'm paying for the ability for it to drive itself, fully. That is to not watch the road. It's right there in the name. Otherwise call it "Kinda Self Driving"

But given the accidents where people turn on FSD and go to sleep, clearly not everyone thinks that. And the better FSD is, the more crashes are avoided and the higher that percentage is.
How about "put your files in this folder then double click this icon (shell script ) ?
Theoretically, though its far-and-away the most media maligned vaccine, and many clinics have ceased carrying it (I specifically have close contact with a few pharmacists who run rural CVS pharmacies; they sent their entire stock of J&J back, and regional has stopped sending more. its all mRNA).
Error in what I called it. The point not only holds up replacing Autopilot with Full Self Driving, but is actually strengthened.
I really thought John Cheever was a fictional character of the Seinfeld TV show. I feel really stupid right now
I’ve read your comments, and they are a glass of cold water in the hell of this discourse. This announcement should force people to think about how they are governed - to the extent they can influence it - and double down on Free Software alternatives to the vendor locked reality we live in.

Instead, a forum of presumably technically savvy people are reduced to hysterics over implausible futures and a letter to ask Apple to roll back a change that is barely different from, and arguably better than, the status quo.
If this comment is the best that you have to offer, why even bother? Are you drunk?
Thank you for that clear summary.
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Note that the meat of this study is in the downloadable PDF:

https://github.com/stanfordio/publications/raw/main/20210812...

For those averse to PDFs, highlights are in this Twitter thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1425885324563996673.html
The main benefits from being a digital native are not knowing computers, but the results. Which might only be because they are more pronounced in the young -

ie. Less drink driving accidents (Uber), they commit less sex crimes (Access to Adult material), access to heath information.

What is interesting is they are kinda the first generation with IQ's less than their parents in a hundred years. This would not be expected given they are living more abstracted lives.

This is where the article fails. Digital native should have more abstract minds and learn abstract things quicker. Not automatically know them. That's a curriculum fail. If they are failing to learn abstract ideas at the speed of digital immigrants (their parents) then there's a problem. That's what the IQ drop implies but the article doesn't seem to indicate either way.
Innocent? INNOCENT? are you not fucking aware how judicial systems are constructed? I swear, it makes feel that to kill myself is the only solution sometimes! It's illegal to be gay in some countries, and you're born that way.

By writing this comment I violated laws for profanity (writing "fucking" in a public forum), posting about suicide (see roskomnazors' github block over a repo with humorous description of suicide), claiming that some people are born gay (falls under the law of "protection of children from negative information" that even applies in some EU countries).

Innocent! Hah. Give us a name, and we'll find what you're guilty of...
Why not reintroduce black bears to Manhattan?

Interestingly enough, wild animals are not destroying the property of wildlife activists or lobbyists. This isn't to say that wild animals were never a problem in NYC or NW DC. Those animals were killed a long time ago, thereby allowing the public to conduct business more safely. With their corgis safe within their condos and no real skin in the game, there's something hypocritical about the whole ordeal.
Maybe faulty video decoder on your phone? (Or maybe another device, but that's rather unlikely due to instant fallback to software decode if there's a problem.) The video is in a weird resolution, so your decoder may tripped up there.

Here's a photo instead: https://imgur.com/a/l5pj5Ac
Wearing a mask is a medical intervention for you??

wearing a mask is not about protecting you, it's protecting other people. If you don't value other people's lives, don't wear one it won't help you personally.

Ok ... so where is the evidence that they don't work?

Current scientific consensus is on my side of the debate:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8

If you know better, do the experiments and the analysis, get it peer-reviewed and we can talk again.

If you are ok with the consequences that you might kill people, don't wear a mask. Fine with me. Just don't tell anybody afterwards that you didn't know and that it was just a guess.

i feel this discussion as tedious as the discussion about vaccinations:
https://twitter.com/nathanTbernard/status/142511666690879488...

People are no mannequins ... people die.
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In many ways Reddit is the "social media infrastructure" many other sites pretend to be.
It bothers me just in general how Facebook will respond to antitrust action with "But you allowed it at the time!" Yes, but you also directly lied about your intentions and went right ahead and did the thing you said you weren't going to do with these products, be it Insta or Whatsapp or whatever
If they could grow in a truly unchecked manner, sure, but this generally isn't a concern with apex predators -- their population is kept in check by availability of resources. We see this in action with the wolves in Yellowstone, which remain federally protected -- the wolf population stabilized at around 100 animals.

https://nywolf.org/2019/01/wolves-naturally-limit-their-own-...

So it's probably vanishingly rare that wolf packs would need to be culled. Most of the concern over wolves, from what I've seen over the years, has historically come from

- game hunters, because when you remove wolves from an ecosystem, game animal population does grow in a relatively unchecked manner;

- ranchers who see wolves as an existential threat to their livestock and therefore livelihood.

The latter tends to be rather overemphasized by ranchers, from all the evidence I can find; they happen, but statistically, livestock is far more likely to be killed by coyotes. (It's not impossible that if the ranchers let the wolves alone they might suffer less carnivore predation: coyotes and wolves don't like to share territory.)
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> You're looking at one person --that's the problem. People only see things in front of them.

It wasn't a single person. It was the vast majority of a political party, involving people in government, military, law enforcement, and useful idiots required to fill in a mob.
Thanks for sharing the quote. Funny that this was written by a professor of the University of Wisconsin and dealt pretty directly with the killing of wolves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_like_a_mountain is an interesting read.

"Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of many a newly wolfless mountain [...]. The cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf’s job of trimming the herd to fit the change. He has not learned to think like a mountain. Hence we have dustbowls, and rivers washing the future into the sea."

This was written in 1949. So many decades have passed and yet here we are, struggling with what should be such a straightforward problem.
> I also have found teaching someone how to be even marginally capable of contributing to a Github project from scratch to be a very time consuming and frustrating thing. Think, having your graphics designer able to make commits, or having someone who only wants to update docs.

The question really should be why do we want to use git for version control when people really want an backup system where they can essentially update files by uploading a new version of the file.
Yeah I've faced both of the first 2 issues. I'd also like to add that it has no options for searching which makes it useless since I want recent results, not something years ago
Imagine a 6502 at 3.4 GHz.
But with Apple's CSAM proposal is NOT possible to have an iPhone that Apple isn't continuously scanning.

Sure it is—just don't use iCloud Photos. They've been quite clear about this.
Did you research before asking "which cities didn't?" Or only after I replied?

"Denver taxi medallions" seems to return nothing indicating they have one.

Los Angeles doesn't seem to have one either
It's entirely possible for one innocuous picture to look like an illegal picture in that database, and if they do look similar, they'll have similar perceptual hashes. That's the point of perceptual hashing.
> Software engineers are craftsman.

Software engineers are engineers.

In a discussion specifically about positioning one’s work as being more economically valuable, IMO that’s a distinction worth making.
Should this fact be reassuring or even more frightening ?

Because it’s something to push back against governments by saying « I can’t ». But it’s a societal issue if a corporation can say « I don’t want » to a government.

It’s really not the same thing and Apple just burned their « I can’t » card and are implying they can just say « no » to governments. Which is quite an even more dystopian thing.
If I understand this correctly the db would be on the client/browser. Thus any persistence would happen via local storage or such. But:

1. People often reset the cache on their browser, after all it is just a cache. SO a big benefit of databases which is persistent data is kind of not there. Juts rest your cache.

2. The second great benefit of databases is that they are multi-user. There can be in fact millions of users. But this benefit would not be there if the database lives and executes in the browser.
Yeah, poor guy. He earned so much credibility with his no-nonsense, straight-shooting communication style full of poignant truths that it’s such a mystery why no one took him seriously on a subject in which he was so clearly well-versed and knowledgeable!
Here let me try:

What's important to understand is, Docker exists because Oracle made Java too scary to touch, thanks to big ongoing lawsuits against Google, and demanding royalties just for running a JVM server. Also the JVM is fast, but it's slow enough that it's within striking distance of a full cgroup, running a full Linux kernel.

So it made sense to just create Docker, and allow people to abandon things like jruby, and just run normal Ruby in a Docker container.

WASM is what people would have wanted when Docker was created. A bytecode format like JVM, but faster, and not encumbered by big bad Oracle's coffer-rattling.

So in other words, if WASM had existed when Docker was created, people would have just recompiled their apps for WASM bytecode, and would have also recompiled things like MongoDB and MariaDB for WASM. Things like network syscalls would be replaced by traps to the webassembly runtime.
I'm a nerd and don't take it as an insult. Rather as "going full nerd on this" in the sense of giving a lot more importance and effort to a small detail in an already full life.

And even if it was not, let's not get upset for every quip, I don't want to live in a world where bloggers have to ponder every word because they are afraid of offending someone. A bit of spice is ok, the dose makes the poison.
It’s worse than that. 1kg of hydrogen may be 33kWh from a heating value perspective, but it only gets you like 60 miles of range in a car like a Mirai. Compared to a Model 3, which gets 4 miles per kWh, that puts the hydrogen at roughly 15kWh of useful energy. Also, the automotive price of hydrogen is about $13-16/kg in the only place with hydrogen fueling stations in the US, ie Southern California.
I've recently discovered pacdiff [0] to solve that problem, which helped me clean up about 30 leftover .pac[diff|new] files from my everyday desktop machine.

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> According to the complaint, authorities in Pakistan invited various companies to submit proposals, including Motorola, Nokia, and Huawei

This sounds surprising, are Motorola and Nokia really in the police IT systems business? The common factor among the 3 companies seems to be that they make mobile phone related things.
Youtube current censorship outrage with abusive video take downs is a proof that perceptual hash false positive are a massive problem.

Even if the tech has 1 in a trillion chance, it will happen a lot with billions of people generatin thousands of ilage every years. And of course, the hash database being abused.
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Why do you think essentially no one is complaining about using ML to understand the content of photos…

At last in Apple's case, ML is used only if a minor child (less than 13 years old) who is on a Family account where the parent/guardian has opted-in to the ability to be alerted if potentially bad content is either sent or received using the Messages app.
It's quaint to think back on the Tiger days when the final 10.4.11 combo update weighed in at a "whopping" 180MB: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL170
>and it's easier to deal with than a huge upgrade every 6 months or more.

I ran Arch but moved back to a LTS , it is not about stability but mostly I don't want surprises, my file manager works fine for me now , who knows the next version would remove or break something that will be maybe fixed in a different version but would also introduce a new bug.

For my IDE I keep 3 versions just in case some bug or stupid UI change is introduced, for people like my I think as stable base where you can update only the programs that you want/need is a better solution. I also have the option and used it to get backported kernels and nvidia drivers to get better vulkan support - I am at that point in live where I would dread to see that there is an update pending and there is a new kernel or video driver version available.
I'm also surprised they managed to get around copyright infringement. Posting 10 second clips of TV shows as GIFs still doesn't count as fair use I'm pretty sure.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of perceptual hashes, then. If two images look similar to one another, then they will have similar perceptual hashes. That's the point of perceptual hashing.

They aren't doing simple hash matching, they're doing fuzzy matches on the hashes, so there will be far more false positives than just hash collisions.
I also noticed the same in many people, as well as myself. And I do not think the other commenters are correct in their explanations.

At least in myself, I can clearly see that in my 20s I had a much more sedentary lifestyle, sitting in front of a computer a heck of a lot more, having less social life and eating _much_ worse (processes food, sweets, coke) and still being able to maintain a normal BMI.

If its not metabolism it must be some other mechanisms that allows people to do it, but metabolism seems the simplest one.
Slippery slope argument are a very good thing when talking about abuse of power, because history proved again and again that potential very often becomes reality: humans are opportunistic greedy creatures.

We absolutely need to address slipery slopes for all things that are related to freedom and democracy.