skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> instead of grocery shopping twice a month, ditch that wasteful freezer and walk to the farmers' market

Middle class Victorians, in England at least, had things delivered. I imagine that quite a lot of cosplay characters are middle class.

In fact food delivered to homes of all types was a normal feature of life in England when I was a child in the 50s and 60s. Milk, eggs, etc., every weekday morning delivered directly to the door before breakfast, grocery van came to the street once a week, bread van twice, another van came a bit less often selling lemonade and other drinks.

Of course these services were not universally available, we were lucky to live in a moderately affluent town with a prosperous working class.

We didn't have a freezer until 1966 and I'm not sure that we suffered from the lack. But once everyone had both a freezer and a car those services became unprofitable and eventually disappeared.
Right. So, sending actual CSAM would also work as an attack, but would be detected by the victim and could be corrected (delete images).

But a conceivable novel avenue of attack would be to find an image that:

1. Does not look like CSAM to the innocent victim in the original

2. Does match known CSAM by NeuralHash

3. Does look like CSAM in the "visual derivative" reviewed by Apple, as you highlight.
This is the classic headline of "Guy compared <good thing> to <bad thing>" but when you look closer, what they did is employ a metaphor (or Devil's advocate).
Show HN: Simple Image encrypt/decrypt using Python
I don't know why you'd even go through this trouble. At least few years ago finding actual CP on TOR was trivial, not sure if the situation has changed or not. If you're going to blackmail someone, just send actual illegal data, not something that might trigger detection scanners.

>> What has changed wrt targeted attacks against innocent people?

Anecdote: every single iphone user I know has iCloud sync enabled by default. Every single Android user I know doesn't have google photos sync enabled by default.
I would sue. I wouldn't even attempt any of the hacks the folks here in HN are recommending... we are talking about a business (Google) impersonating the OP online; that's serious. Unfortunately, suing costs money. It's a shame giants like Google don't give a damn about these things.
Cuba tightens control of internet after protests
Thanks a lot, its now fully trollable.
Is it’s usage behind a special entitlement?
The one that adds a lot to the retro look for me was the colour scheme - look at how each section has different colours.

The combination of typography, colour scheme, borders, corners, and margin used doesn't add up to a "unified look and feel".

Anyways, I made the discussion go off tangent here talking about the website and not the language itself :D
I would ask a legal designee such as an attorney to do this for me if I was not interested in a Google account.
Oh do come the hell on.

I know what I look like in a shop. I know what the clerk knows about me.

I know what the clerk can only guess about me from my appearance.

This is the clerk picking your damn pocket to find examine the contents of your wallet before returning it without your knowledge. You didn't agree to it. You now don't know what they know - but - and this is the real kicker - you probably think you do.

Nobody ever gave informed consent for of this surveillance which has been a massive bait and switch. It does /not/ map to going into a store and having the clerk watch which product you look at before assisting you.
Most people do not realise how much light and haze pollution we have today compared to 200 years ago. And how visible the stars were. Even remote places today are not the same as the atmosphere still has more particles compared to 1800s
Twitter Refuses to Ban Taliban Accounts but Vows to Remain ‘Vigilant’
The YouTube RSS feeds have been down for extended periods a few times in the last few weeks.
Yeah I've previously worked on some constraint programming tasks and it was fun but mind-boggling.
Headline implies that Apple sued Corellium because of their CSAM research, but that's not at all related. This is quite clickbaity.
> was then replaced with the pastor in New York again

Get the first person who was attacked to be party to the lawsuit. It’s clearly lible as it’s harming their reputation leading to an attack and they are aware it was incorrect the second time they make that connection.
Crypto exchange Binance hires former US Treasury criminal investigator
> The term “commute” is typically used for the daily drive to work. You seem to be using it for something else.

Maybe in the US where driving is prevalent, but in many other places your "commute" is simply your trip to work. In Toronto, Canada, many people commute via transit (TTC). We have a commuter rail system for the region (GO).
Sometimes even assembly is too high level too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eunYrrcxXfw
And this drastically slows down diagnosis and fixing of production issues in my experience. Particularly performance issues. Probably by a factor of five or more.
Modern dishwashers encourage you to do nothing more than scrape off any leftover food, there's not "you are supposed to scrub".

(essentially, the instructions are to remove the same things from the dishes you would remove if hand washing them in a sink with no disposal...)
Fusion is a poor kind of science. It's very inward focused, answering questions that are relevant to fusion but not much else. As pure science, it would not merit the $$$ being focused on it.
The decision was not meant to be fair or rational, but to find some clever pretext to punish the greedy noble and reward the honest peasant.

The story is fiction of course, Vlad would not have presided over so small issues. The unjust nobles and noble peasants are also stereotypes of popular stories like this.
A notable topic to throw in the bag here is GPU shading languages.

LLVM project is used to compile many different shading languages into a similar IL, then compiled into a bytecode for GPU. The project has been really useful for managing all the compiler infrastructure needed for graphics nowadays imo.
Strawman.

I choose no cloud storage plus device that doesn’t scan my data.

You argue for the former, which isn’t implemented, vs the latter, which I assume is reality anyways for all cloud storage providers.

We can have this discussion if Apple implements the former. If this was the goal, they would’ve announced it like you suggested.
Also, this XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/538/

People are getting nerd-sniped about hash collisions. It's completely irrelevant.

The real-world vector is that an attacker sends CSAM through one of the channels that will trigger a scan. Through iMessage, this should be possible in an unsolicited fashion (correct me if I'm wrong). Otherwise, it's possible through a hacked device. Of course there's plausible deniability here, but like with swatting, it's not a situation you want to be in.
I’ve been using 1Blocker on Mac and iOS for years and every once in a great while I have it disabled temporarily and can’t believe people what people have to deal with where everything is covered in ads. Every once in a while some feature on a site doesn’t work so I click disable content blockers for that one page temporarily then all is good or can always just open up chrome for a particular site on those rare occasions.
I previously had two MacBook airs, and then switched to the XPS 13 & Ubuntu + gnome.

And presently I have been given a MacBook Pro for a recent job.

From a software perspective, I now love the XPS. And all the hardware on that model more or less worked out of the box. And any minor issues, I was able to fix with some tweaking. Which was annoying at the time, but always granted me a stronger appreciation for and understanding of how my computer worked.

18.04 to 20.04 upgrade was a pain, had to re-apply many changes I’d made during the initial install. But since then it’s been smooth sailing again. No day to day problems.

Things I once missed about OSX, I now realise are better on gnome. Capability to snap / move windows around with keyboard controls.

But the MacBook keyword is just damn nicer. And the touchpad. Tho I hardly use that now. I use an external keyboard, but I’ll probably buy a Mac external keyboard for my XPS now, as the recent move back has been a stronger reminder of how much nicer they are.

Gaming and music production are the only things I haven’t been able to do on the XPS. Not that I do any gaming anymore. And the focus rite 2i2 worked straight out of the box with reaper, which was cool. Tho if I were doing anything more serious I’d just get a Mac. Would not touch windows.

All in all, for dev, I’m happy with the XPS and Ubuntu.
There's no such right and even if there was, it would lead to perverse situations such as Britain getting to claim Calais which is closer to London than Paris (94 miles versus 147!).
I don’t have much of an opinion here except that it is silly to write “I am aware of the details” when someone gives you a helpful explanation and you are obviously not aware of the details, as you had just asked a question betraying.
Famous Self Portraits
> Did Apple use the bad images to train the neural network?

NCMEC did, certainly, but I don't think Apple ever got the actual images themselves; just the resultant hashes.
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> The decision was not meant to be fair or rational, but to find some clever pretext to punish the greedy noble and reward the honest peasant.

Right, and this isn't how the decision should be made. He shouldn't be trying to find a clever pretext to punish the person he doesn't like and reward the one he likes! Those kind of shenanigans rightly destroy the public's trust in the justice system.
IBM's Alternate Future of Electronics [video]
I see it like you. So I guess it makes sense to evaluate the ROI of American universities based on the guild you’re joining. Kinda sad.
How can this be a patent? It’s as ridiculous as the one click buy. Don’t your legislators see how these things are not at all useful and are only used to bully? How they only create useless overhead? How it prevents progress and incremental innovation? How it induces fear into small businesses and creates perverse incentives for large ones?
> but your average C# program requires writing a hell of a lot more boilerplate code than your average VB6 program

Not actually true. I just created a new C# Windows Forms application in VS, dragged a button onto a form, double clicked and it took me right to the event handler ready for me to do something. There's no additional boilerplate or ceremony required.

Now sure there may be a whole bunch of code sitting in the "Form1.Designer.cs" partial class, but that's for the designer to manage, not you. And VB had this as well but the VB environment hid this until you went looking for it.

Writing Windows Forms apps in C#/VS2019 is as easy as it was back in the VB5/6 days. I say this as a former VB4/5/6 (and, cough, ahem, MS Access) user knocking out all sorts of stuff back in the 90's.
Take a look at my definition of the "mathematician's tensor" in the top-level comments. The rank of a tensor is the number of row- and column-vectors you need to feed the tensor to get it to return a real number. AFAIK it's not related to 'rank' in the sense of the rank-nullity theorem.

To move from the mathematician's definition to the ML definition, pick a basis for your row and colum vectors. Now if you want the (i, j, ...) element of the multidimensional array, gather the vectors with one in the i-th position and zero elsewhere, the j-th position and zero elsewhere, etc. Then feed them to the tensor in that order.

It's easiest to see how it works with row vectors (rank (0,1)), column vectors (rank (1, 0)) and matrices (rank (1, 1)) and work from there.
Haha. What possible market is there for knowing which other binaries Zoom (desktop) users run? OMG Zoom users also run Chrome, cat, and init! That'll be $10k please.
IIRC, Apple will only scans if iCloud photo is enabled:

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...

> This feature only impacts users who have chosen to use iCloud Photos to store their photos.
Phoronix is running some benchmarks again which should be coming out in the next days.
Edit: I did find it, but only because somebody else pointed it out. Guess I suck at reading. Also search for "derivative" failed to find it.

This thread was good https://twitter.com/fayfiftynine/status/1427900272148246530

Be specific, because I cannot find it.
Hydrogen made from renewables and burning in combined cycle turbines would likely be far cheaper than fusion.

Fusion would be horrible for ships. Ships are volume constrained, and fusion reactors are very large.

Land constraints are not globally significant at current energy demand. The world is constantly hit by 100,000 TW of sunlight; average global primary energy demand is about 18 TW.

In space, DT fusion reactors will be inferior to fission reactors, which will be much smaller and lighter for a given power output (and also much simpler).

It's very difficult now to make a case for fusion. In the past, the case was something like "fission will be a big winner, but then we'll have trouble with uranium availability and safety and waste, and fusion, while slightly more expensive than fission, will still be cheap and solve these problems." But that's not how it turned out -- fission failed because it was too expensive, and fusion being even more expensive than fission makes it a nonstarter.
Correct. I am quite disappointed in the editors.
Have you not worked a minimum wage job in the US? It's incredibly easy to gain phone access to semi-trusting people.

If you don't like someone (which happens very often in this line of work) you could potentially screw someone over with this.
> the multiplicative method ensures that all the integer values possible for the result have the same probabilities

Uh, you can't do that for any non-power-of-two K. The multiplicative method doesn't remove but only moves those lower probabilities around when used without rejection.
I personally think it's feasible to support a Vulkan->Metal translation layer. Khronos already supports a project that does this, so Apple could take ownership of that responsibility. This would encourage developers to bring their graphics applications to Apple platforms.

The idea isn't to support multiple APIs, but to translate Vulkan into your API since it's a well-documented standard. The main issue would be API incompatibilities, which is the main place Apple could add value.
Yes what Apple does is slightly different technically : they run a network on device, then when you upload the picture to their Cloud services, they attach the hash generated to the picture.

It's only on their servers that they will do the check against the database of CSAM content. So in that sense, it's pretty much the same that what other providers do, it remains attached to their online service, and they check the hash against the database instead of checking the picture (as others do).

If you don't use their iCloud service, the hash is never checked.

I still don't think having the client as part of the system is a good thing, but in terms of abuse it's about the same thing.

What Apple's system allow is a way to do a check while keeping the data encrypted in some 3rd party service. That part certainly raises questions should it be extended.
What is a tensor part 1:
https://youtu.be/MkYEh0UJKcE
What is a tensor Part 2:
https://youtu.be/Lkpmd5-mpHY
Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08090
Not being an employee (for a while or forever) doesn't mean not being able to support yourself. Yes, super-rich enjoy this freedom (of movement and living where they please), but there are lots of people who are rich/sustainable enough to contribute positively to any economy but current immigration systems doesn't allow this in most countries.
It seems like the people most affected by this are the ones whose photos are being displayed. Why are they not dealing with this?
FYI, all you can do after claiming and being verified is to 'suggest' edits. These suggestions seem to be automatically considered, and pretty much all I've found you can do is to suggest links to add. You cannot alter or remove. Source: am verified as an authorized representative.
Just saying the evidence the IRS wants that you are a bona fide resident of PR is in many cases identical to what a state auditing you wants to see to prove you live in another state legitimately.

Substantial connection tests and such
> But scanning someone's locally stored images on a device that they own is a completely different situation.

They're only scanning photos that you upload them to iCloud Photos - this is not (currently) a blanket "we'll scan all your local photos whenever" situation.

> It's the difference between the airport checking my luggage for illegal drugs

... and FedEx/UPS checking your outgoing packages for drugs.
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-european-parlia...

There you go, next
Serious question: Why do you browse the web without an ad blocker? I can't imagine subjecting myself to that kind of torture.
Physicists in California Achieve 'Historic' Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
> Even so, the economics are such that heavy industry might become a seasonal job.

Or it will move to locations where seasonality is not as important.
In my experience with internal dev teams there are very rarely any real deadlines. They do exist; fixed product cycles, government mandates, but most of the time its made up arbitrary marks in a calendar, sprint deadlines (yes, these are deadlines), quarterly goal deadlines, yearly objectives etc.

Deadlines are just lazy management, we feel we need to set deadlines to motivate people and drive delivery, the problem is that the motivation is built on fear and are very poor at actually achieving quality outcomes.

One of two things is likely to happen with deadlines as your main motivator (a) they are ignore completely with very little impact on a workers motivation, this is likely a very disengaged workforce or (b) they are feared and drive an individual to try to hit the deadline not matter the cost either in quality or their well being, both are ultimately bad in the long run. Also we're also susceptible to Student Syndrome [0] which can exasperated scenario (b).

I believe that we are constantly stuck in rewrite cycles because we are forever rushing to meet arbitrary sprint deadlines.

Leadership should be using development metrics to try to estimate delivery velocity and understand the selected priority order for delivery, but don't turn those into deadlines, keep the system in control so that you can be accurate to your projection.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_syndrome
Correct timeline:

August 2019 - Apple sued iOS virtualization provider Corellium for copyright infringement and DMCA violations

December 29, 2020 - Apple loses copyright claims in lawsuit against U.S. security bug startup

August 5, 2021 - Apple announces new protections for child safety

August 17, 2021 - Apple says researchers can vet its child safety features. But it’s suing a startup that does just that.

Unless there is an iTimemachine I struggle to see how Apple sued a company in August 2019 for saying in August 2021 it will vet help vet its CSAM tools announced in August 2021.
> There is no queue.

Any country that has a number of people who would like to immigrate of whom it will not accept all and will chose who to reject has a queue. How that queue is implemented, orderly, disorderly, corruptly, unjustly, ridiculously, incompetently or at various times all of the above. Some get in, some don't, it's a queue. It may not be a fantasy of an orderly queue where everyone is served in order in good time and without knowing about it, it does not surprise me to hear you say it is emphatically not that.
Think of a priority queue if you must with priority being given by a random number generator tempered with both nonsense and corruption. You jump places in the queue by being designated higher priority. Have you jumped forward enough to be accepted and if not what can you do about it - this is the only question for those trying to get in.

Who are you taking vs who are you rejecting? That's if you're already in. You can't take everyone. The world is a nasty place and this is one of the emotional sharp edge of it. You will reject people whose stories break your heart. You don't get a choice about that.
> In no other country I'm aware of can you show up, give birth and they will definitely give the child a passport unless the mother or father is a diplomat.

If you are not aware, then you haven't looked very hard:

> Subsection 3(2) of the Citizenship Act states that Canadian citizenship by birth in Canada – including Canadian airspace and territorial waters – is granted to a child born in Canada even if neither parent was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident except if either parent was a diplomat, in service to a diplomat, or employed by an international agency of equal status to a diplomat. However, if neither parent was a diplomat, the nationality or immigration status of the parents do not matter.[28]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#Continental_North_Ame...
I still fail to see the value in filtering out candidates by whether they know this rule that still nobody has given any actual arguments for.

"If you Google this string, you'll find the arguments" is a logical fallacy. You are claiming that there are arguments for why this rule is true, but not providing any. If anything, the only thing this statement proofs is that you are not able to explain why doing this is even a good idea.

And FWIW, I actually google this and none of the first 5 results actually explained why this rule makes sense. They were all posts of the form "20 rules to blindly follow when writing a resumee".
I would think there is way easier ways to frame someone with CSAM then this. Like dump a thumbdrive of the stuff on them and report them to the police.
Enormous lasers have created the highest-pressure conditions on Earth
SpaceX has historically only sued when they weren't allowed to compete. I can't remember them ever suing where they competed but lost.
> and can be disabled with a jailbreak if you're really paranoid

Except that if I’m really paranoid, I’m not going to skip security updates. And those updates will probably render known jailbreak exploits useless.
I'm sure the reviewers will definitely be able to give each reported image enough time and attention they need, much like the people youtube employs to review videos discussing and exposing animal abuse, holocaust denial and other controversial topics. </sarcasm>
Thanks for the descriptive answer mate. I honestly don't know much about it. But I've read about the LISP family and ML family of languages. There are too many to choose from. I've decided to learn F# and have been going through some tutorials. I'm enjoying it quite a lot. ATS sounds like a good combo of abstraction meets bare metal.
This is also a good way to understand the priorities of the buyer or decision maker. Forcing someone to stack rank priorities in the scope negotiation separates must haves from nice to haves. This is even more important when you deal with Requirements By Committee.
Yes, they got to keep my solution. I basically told the guy "You are free to propose your own".

As to open sourcing, not going to happen.

Companies treat the code as if it was tangible good. If you give it to somebody else you are loosing value.

Which is super strange, because code needs to be maintained and why not have other people do it for you if they find it valuable and worth maintaining?