skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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500K is not a large enough dataset to determine that. The collision rate could plausibly be 1 in 500K (or even a bit higher) and have no collisions in the sample.
You just kind of flew right past the point of his saying. The point wasn't "mornings are the creative period", it was that you force yourself to be creative by doing it every day.

It's like that other adage about artists and critics. I'm paraphrasing here: "Critics will get together and talk about meaning and form and style. Artists will get together and talk about where to get cheap turpentine."

It's almost you don't worry about the actual creative part of things. Just do things. Most of it will be bad. If you're counting on only creating good things or let creating bad things discourage you, you'll never actually create.

Maybe you do feel wrung out after a few hours, but maybe if you honestly kept at it for another hour, you'll get a second burst. Maybe not. Maybe it happens sometimes, maybe not others. The real point is that unless you try it every day, you'll never find out.
Man, wouldn't you love to be the developer who gets assigned the feature to commit these horrible secret privacy violations with deeply evil ethical problems?

You don't even have to implement the feature. All you need is really good proof that you were asked to, and now your job at Apple is secure, along with a huge raise, for years if not for life. Something commensurate with what you and they both know they would lose in the PR damage and possible EU fines.
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I have to admit that the conclusion is something I "want" to believe. So while I tried to do the analysis fairly, in a Bayesian sense, I can't fault you for some skepticism!
It is, but it's not a very good one. Think about the billions that have gone into reinventing the taxi industry, the hotel industry and the food delivery industry. We don't call it 'picking winners' however, because it's not the filthy public sector doing it. And also because none of Uber, Airbnb or DoorDash can really be considered a 'win'.

State-backed capitalism has its faults, but they usually try to move billions into a strategically important area that benefits a large enough section of the economy.
I have been doing k3s on a Digital Ocean droplet and I would say k3s has really given me an opportunity to learn some k8s basics without truly having to install and stand up every single component of a usable k8s cluster (ingress provider, etc) on my own.

It took a bit to figure out setting up an https cert provider but then it was pretty much off to the races
From the article:

Take the example of a geometry problem in Chapter Two:

“A farmer has 36 individual fences, each measuring one meter in length … the farmer wants to put them together to make the biggest possible area.”

This problem is completely inappropriate: It cannot be solved without very sophisticated math, rarely studied even in college.

Really? It's been a while since I've had high school math, new or otherwise, but how hard can it be? Obviously you arrange the fences in a 36-sided polygon that's as close as possible to a circle.

That can be represented as 36 pointy isosceles triangles, each with the pointy bit having 10 degrees angle and the base having one unit of length. High school trigonometry to work out the area of one of these, multiply by 36, and done. Easily within the skills of the high school curriculum I had.

What am I missing?
flipping the subject - my ex-colleague, a kind and talkative man, was deeply upset when a dot-com fired and locked out his co-worker over lunchtime, with no advance notice at all. Was it a "security problem" or was it slaver culture from the Third World in charge of personnel ? I mean, this is the Bay Area / Silicon Valley here, I am actually not kidding about slaver culture. The "money" wants complete control, and sees brusque, abrubt and no-alternative contract management as a big plus. Maybe this leads to a security problem mentioned as the topic? Talkative, kind people do wonder ...
I imagine that if you're on these forums and you, first, don't recognize your own shortcomings; don't understand or care about how you've emotionally affected those around you; always assume you're the victim even when you're in a position of authority and care; and refuse to acknowledge or accept the other person's point of view - then this is not just a defense mechanism against online criticism, but the actual reason you've become estranged from your children. This is kind of obvious to me, but at the same time parents really do seem to blame their kids, as if it was god who gave them rotten ones instead of accepting the responsibility for making them in the first place.
Reddit doesn't let people pay directly for content. You can gift awards but those aren't really worth anything.
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Maybe this is a shot in the arm for anonymous devices. Somebody buy a bunch of GSM devices and resell for cash.
How’re you handling the MasterCard suspension? Are you able to onboard new accounts now?
Title needs fixing.
Thank you, that's a perfect example of the sort of thing I was fishing for with my question.
> And robots.txt has been a thing since forever.

Unfortunately, both archive.org and the affiliated Archive Team now intentionally ignore robots.txt files.

Archive Team, in particular, wrote a very irritating and condescending screed called "ROBOTS.TXT IS A SUICIDE NOTE" [1]. Apparently, they don't understand that not everyone wants their stuff backed up forever and they treat anyone who disagrees with them as a moron. And that manifesto wasn't written by some random team member, it was from Jason Scott himself.

I know that Archive Team isn't officially part of IA, but they are tightly integrated with their archiving operations. It's a bad look.

[1] http://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Robots.txt
Very cool, but why is one fictional fairy-tale story ("Moses parts the Red Sea") included among historical facts?

Either keep the list factual, or include other notable fictions that illustrate the idea.
One of the current owners is the guy behind myfreecams - he knows how to run a porn site (and get cards to work on it).

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If the CCP says "put these hashes in your database or we will halt all iPhone sales in China", what do you think Apple is going to do?

I think that the real risk is, "put these hashes in your database or we will stop all iPhone related manufacturing in China".
Yes, and same situation in every mining-related commodity market. Multiple time delays of order several years. Large up-front investments. Large uncertainties in payoff. Look at the multi-year price behaviors in those markets and see too if there is much stability.
It has always been technically feasible for them to have software on the phone that scans everything on the phone. I don't see how this changes anything. Apple is trying to avoid scanning in the cloud so that the data can be E2EE and not subject to being stolen by someone that gets access to their servers somehow.
> That collision will flag you, and now they know you harbor doubts and will come get you.

Only if that government has worked out some deal with Apple whereby such an anti-government meme would end in the government being notified accordingly. Don't forget that you need a sufficiently high number of collisions, for one, and that those collisions are audited by Apple before being sent to law enforcement.
The problem is that fields aren't ordered in the JSON spec, so fields being ordered in Avro's dialect of JSON automatically makes it non-standard JSON which makes it difficult to use standard tooling with Avro JSON.
This is so karmically perfect.
Where are you supposed to go to find interesting images now? Asking for a friend.
It feels like you're viewing this as a purely hypothetical question and ignoring reality. No company is 100% good or bad, and it doesn't make any sense to force all possible interpretations into good/bad.

>If not, why did we trust Apple that this wasn't happening already?

I do not trust Apple. I don't really trust any major tech company, because they put profit first, and everything else comes second. I believe that a company as large as apple is already colluding with government(s) to surveil people, because if a money-making organization is offered a government contract that involves handing over already collected data, and it was kept secret by everyone involved, why would they refuse? I know that's very cynical, but I can't see it any other way.

But that's beside the point, which is that what apple is doing is paving the way for normalization of mass government surveillance on devices that we're supposed to own.

>If they were corrupted, why tell us about this at all?

So that we can all get used to it, and not make a big fuss when google announces android will do the same thing. It's much easier to do things without needing to keep them a secret. This is in no way only about apple, they're just breaking the ice so to speak.
There's more and more of us, at an accelerating rate. Kind of makes sense that conflicts around the 2nd most life-sustaining substance would also escalate.
I oft wonder about my unique high school education of the early 1970s - a South Texas public school with a mix of working and professional class families. High percentage of hispanic and black, very few asians. History teachers that did not just teach dates and places but discussed causes and effects. Math teachers that did teach sterile rote methods. Science teachers that taught the future (both my chemistry and physics teachers emphasized the coming wave of computational power). Shop and automotive teachers that taught critical thinking and creative problem solving. Over 20% of my senior class took calculus. English teachers that taught us to read for meaning and to analyze literature and discussed stuff such as Stranger in a Strange Land. Almost half went to college and about 40% received scholarships.

The 21st century of public education does not seem capable of providing this experience. What the heck happened? Or was this a unique, one-time period?
I think "The Vine Effect" would be apt
> The end result is that some peon at Apple has to look at the images and mark them as not CSAM

Btw, this reminded me of a podcast about FB's group to do just this. Because it negatively impacted the mental health of those FB employees, they farmed it out to the contractors in other countries. There were interviews with women in the Philippines, and it was having the same impact there.
Need to keep that supply of junkers coming though!
Paper (open access): https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6484/1362
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To over simplify, let's say that you have 100 people in the market: 90 people who can afford $100 per card and 10 people who can afford $200 per card. In typical times, you charge $100 per card and sell 100 cards, earning $10,000 in revenue.

Now you have a chip shortage, and you can only produce 50 cards. If you charge $200/card, you only sell 10 cards, earning $2,000 in revenue. If you charge $100/card, you'll sell all 50 cards, and earn $5,000 in revenue. So it can still make sense to keep the price lower if it makes you more revenue overall.
I'm aware of how the system works. Those are still your private files which were supposed to be encrypted and which were revealed (either partially or fully, makes no difference) to another party. That fact that this review process is even possible means that the encryption on the backups can't be trusted.
Dang... The MIC must be needing money right now with this and Afghanistan
Agreed. Same with stocks. It's all gambling.
And you could certainly create a nuanced bill that understands that weed edibles don't share any risk of lung cancer with smoked weed.
To be specific, they are banning sexually explicit content (masturbation and sex), not nudity.

A lot of OF creators only do nudes and nothing sexual.

I personally know models making 6 figures and they don't even do nudes on OF.
The more interesting point about hash collisions is probably less about accidental clashes and more about intentional clashes. If the hashes in the CSAM database were known publicly, and people began generating intentional clashes with innocuous images, and those images were on many phones, it could basically DOS whatever manual process Apple creates.

Basically it could become an arms race where, say, free speech advocates convince people to just keep and share some images and overwhelm the process. Then Apple adapts to new hashes, blocklists known false positives, and the cycle repeats.
Hey, I'm the author of the article, I sneakily put that bit in just to see who notices the absurd of it. ;) But sorry for the resulting triple-takes!
With respect to breaking down tasks, a trick that sometimes works for me is that of I don't want to pick any tasks of my to-do list, spend 5-10 minutes to break up existing ones. That way you don't need to break them down at the start, and you break them down to the point where you're comfortable doing them, when it's time to break them down.

It gets harder and harder to procrastinate when the tasks are smaller and smaller.
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There was a war in that HN thread too lol.
In general, the examples you cite are of early entrants being outcompeted by later entrants. Zimki was shut down despite (or because of?) it's success and experiencing he initial stages of hypergrowth. The successful PaaS entrants didn't show up until after Zimki had been defunct for a while.

You could also characterize this as "innovative startup strangled by acquiring behemoth or clueless greedy investors" which brings to mind a different set of examples, but that's not much more interesting.

What makes Zimki interesting IMO is that Simon Wardley successfully "timed the market" of technological change, clearly explained his thinking, and has since applied the same logic to make other correct predictions (or give good strategic advice).
It's neither. The US is in an incredibly bad position right now because of three decades of under investment. After closing too many public yards after the cold war now the USN is barely able to keep up with regular maintenance during peace time of it's vessel's, let alone during a war. The average age of most American vessels is greater than that of their sailors. All while they're asked to face down the PLAN which now outnumbers them and is newer.
I thought the thesis about how different people privilege emotion over facts, how emotion is reality for some people, was very interesting:

> The difference isn't a matter of style, it's a split between two ways of perceiving the world. In one worldview, emotion is king. Details exist to support emotion. If a member gives one set of details to describe how angry she is about a past event, and a few days later gives a contradictory set of details to describe how sad she is about the same event, both versions are legitimate because both emotions are legitimate.

> [...] Emotion creates reality.

> In the second worldview, reality creates emotion. Members want the full picture so they can decide whether the poster's emotions are justified. Small details can change the entire tenor of a forum's response; members see a distinction between "She said I'm worthless" and "She said something that made me feel worthless." Members recognize that unjustified emotions (like supersensitivity due to trauma, or irritation with another person that colors the view of everything the person does) are real and deserve respect, but they also believe that unjustified emotions shouldn't be acted on.
I watch several channels on YT, and I think they have excellent value (educational like 3Blue1Brown, entertaining like Davie504, musical like Ichika Nito and so on). I really enjoy watching/listening to them especially when I do something around the house like cleaning. But the moment they said they go OnlyFans and I have to pay $10 in order to watch them, I can't imagine I'd switch.
Facebook might not be angels, but at least they don't facilitate the invasive and dehumanizing practice of involuntary drug screening.

I would prefer not to work for either company, but if forced to choose, I'd go with Facebook every time.
This is the definition of authoritarian. We need to make this list public ASAP! If you have a copy, please do humanity a favour.
Part of the point is they don't have to do anything nefarious specifically. Taxing earned income more than investments is a choice. Billionaires aren't especially charitable proportionally as far as I know. It isn't self evident giving to favorite causes should substitute for paying taxes. And you left out the other deductions and credits.

Splitting payroll taxes is just sleight of hand. Changing who pays nominally doesn't change the fact an employer budgets a specific amount for payroll, the government gets a specific portion, and the employee gets a certain portion. The equivalence isn't even controversial in economics. And the article said full compensation including a typical health plan. So the calculation included money they aren't actually being paid too.
And what if the FBI demands that Apple leadership genuflect toward an oil painting of J Edgar Hoover? The FBI can demand all sorts of things. In this case, Apple isn't tracking collisions as small as 1 photo.
Both would be bad for apple. Chinese sales are already significant enough to their bottom line to comply.
As a fellow Canadian (living in the UK currently), we may like to think of ourselves as an independent and sovereign nation, but we are very much tied to the hip with the US in terms of defence. Our food security strategy hence is also aligned as such.
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Current FB employee. Opinions are my own.

For me, FB is a great place to work. It's easily the best in terms of comp, leadership caring about employee well-being, career advanced, internal mobility, that I've experienced in 20 years in the workforce. I'm around 40 years old, I work on challenging problems, and feel like I'm making a significant positive impact in the world.

HN is probably not a great place to get this information - I expect this thread will devolve quickly. I suggest you work w/ your FB recruiter to connect with current FB employees, so you can ask them directly - there's a program where you can shop for a current employee who will answer any/all questions you have.

If you put an email in your profile, I'd be happy to connect.
The UK Gov seems to be doing an ok job - https://github.com/alphagov
At this point it will be the OS without on-device scanning that wins for me.

It's amazing that Apple is still thinking about moving this idea forward, but they must think they are untouchable and can do what they want.

And it adds insult to injury that two very different images can generate the same NeuralHash value.
Because that sounds more like an ideologically-driven venture than something that would be good business.
It's a dollar cap - process enough dollars per month or per year, and Visa/Mastercard takes notice (as mentioned by Vice). For all the furor, taking payment via crypto's not viable outside of specific niches. Or rather, OnlyFans did the X vs Y of kick x-rated content off the platform vs get kicked off Visa/Mastercard's "platform", and is going with option 1.
Payment processors need to be declared a utility. Any legal business shouldnt have banks playing morality police.
Oh Im sure I’ve broke things that just haven’t been observed yet!
This seems incredibly odd given that OnlyFan's primary payment processor is CCBill, a massive payment processor focused solely on adult content.

Here is opportunity #3928 for Stripe to step in and earn their valuation and flex their payment muscle and allow adult payments.
Where Did the Web Archive Go?
Did you know any japanese before traveling there?
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While its cool drawing this iteratively is not really something that scales well. Better to use the GPU which most devices have today.
I agree with your points, but poaching talent is just fine in my book. And profitability should be considered, but not required. Most national defense programs are ``profitable'' in that they are paid by us. Chips are a cheap strategic win in the scope of things. TSMC's entire operating budget is a miniscule line item next to the cost of threatening supply chain to downstream industries, or strategic loss from TSMC being nationalized by China (or ... going to war to defend against that)
Ask HN: What is your forum software of choice?
PHPBB and it's ilk like vbulletin seem to be dead.

Discourse seems to be fairly popular these days. I've enjoyed using it when I've come across it in the wild.

Any newcomers to the scene I am unaware of?
Agree, furthermore, those sites are content scrapers from other sources.
Nuclear armed countries going to war is supposed to be an extinction level event. That's the whole point. It's supposed to be unthinkable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
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Visa and MasterCard are pretty evil enterprises, and it's fairly inevitable at this point they will either need to be destroyed or regulated.
Yup, I had the same situation some months before, even though I knew wikidata was a thing.

I know javascript and had the pages at hand.

I looked at wikidata and some pages about, but still had no clear idea how to use it and no motivation to digg into it. Because js just worked with a small custom script, to retrieve some pages and data.
What's crazy is there is so much straight pure scam crap on the internet the FTC does nothing about. I mean, stuff that is obvious consumer harm. In my case I tried to cancel a subscription 30 days in advance recently (nearly 1K per year).

These situations are solved with regulation. But not the regular kind of regulation, but one that forces business of a certain type to have simpler procedures for actions like canceling, procedures that also keep a public record that some authorities can readily inspect and do instant arbitration.

It's possible to make it work. Once there is no incentive for the companies to stall your cancelation or complaints, they suddenly lose interest and use their resources to do productive work. How do I know it works? I've seen it in action for the last decade or two: if you want to change mobile providers (in Spain, not sure about the USA) you just start a suscription with the new one. The former receives the notification and you don't even need to deal with them, except for one call offering you a counter-proposal.

A similar system could be implemented for many other suscriptions services.
Maybe you can also think about "Maximizers vs Satisficers" as in this article: https://www.psychologistworld.com/cognitive/maximizers-satis...

Trying to find "the best option" or trying to totally control the outcome is counter productive. You lose your options, you lose your time.

While being satisficer you accept some parts that might not be perfect and your life moves forward. You open more options as you are not stuck on picking exactly the right washing machine and you open time and headspace for other avenues.
It is very beautiful and interesting to me that Stoics and Buddhists arrived at very similar conclusions despite being thousands of miles apart and having little to no contact.