skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I think about it is that the attacker has plenty of time (years) to either guess or discover the viability of an attack. For example, inspecting packets and reverse engineering, correlating photos with police visits, creating a hash database using black market data, etc. will all be used to determine if an attack is working.

Same thing goes with the worm. Posting infected memes is one way and that’ll passively get some downloads. Another way is to text the pictures via bots to people and hope their SMS is iCloud backed up. The point is if someone figures out how to make an attack, they (or entity they sell it to) will almost surely spend great effort in social engineering the distribution.

I agree that it’s probably not the right term. My main concern though is that the class of attacks that is effective against one model will likely be effective against the entire class of similar models. So Apple’s main defense is the limited feedback loop caused by keeping part of the modeling private rather than a traditional computational complexity defense, which would allow disclosure of the entire implementation. It’s taken one week for the proof of concept to be demonstrated and most of that was likely boilerplate API code; it would take perhaps even less time to retarget if Apple disclosed the entire implementation with a different model. The demonstrated attack was textbook material, so it’s not unreasonable to believe that all attacks are textbook material.
"A resource arrangement that works in practice can work in theory." - Elinor Ostrom

Good thing that old thought experiment isn't based on empirical evidence from the real world as the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics showed us [1]. In both cases, it's in all participants interest as the GP said but there are some further conditions that Ostram outlined. It turns out in the real world, those conditions are met more often than not and can clearly met in this case.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Research
Although there is a "social security trust fund," it's an accounting fiction. Functionally the money you contribute goes to the general US treasury fund and payments to beneficiaries come from the general US treasury fund. It's really just a pay as you go entitlement.
I second both of these. Even though they write a lot about tech, you can replace the specific technologies with the modern day equivalent and it's still relevant. For a lot of the topics, I haven't come across anything else that better articulates it.

The next level is getting into the mind of Kathy Sierra. The idea that helping people become passionate -- or badass, as she later rewords -- is an end in itself. This isn't just about tech.
It's not a good thing for those 25 other engineers.
I am not claiming we should not have dams, or refrain from using dams to provide hydroelectricity. My point of contention is the assertion that hydro energy has less catastrophic failure modes than nuclear (presumably fission). Clearly the failure modes for hydro dams are at least on par with those of nuclear installations, given that we have historic evidence that they can inflict tens of thousands of casualties.

Hypothetical scenarios can be constructed for both methods of power generation (What if Braidwood plant melts down, somehow killing the 5 million people living within a 50 mile radius? What if the Three Gorges Dam busts, inundating an area inhabited by 600 million people?[1]) Either way, it is far from obvious to me that hydro has the superior safety profile, especially when their fatality rates are on the same order of magnitude even when the Banqiao incident is removed[2]*.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210620174812/https://www.japan...
p/opinion/2020/09/01/commentary/world-commentary/big-china-disaster/

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

* Sovacool et al. (2016), the source of the data in [2] includes a hydro fatality rate per tWh 2.4x larger than nuclear when Banqiao is included.
The original flexitarian...
We do not have flacs or 320kbps mp3s. We have crappy 158kbps webm (youtube) which has the same audio quality like an 64 kbps mp3.
Magnetic hard drive to SSD gave the same type of boost...
Good timing for the article. There have been numerous bird-strikes called out recently. You can listen to them on VasAviation's youtube channel or on LiveATC. It seems to be a weekly occurrence.
This looks great.

I run single person company (proprietorship), do you think KarbonCard can help me in running my business in any way? or it is designed for bigger companies?
but they're literally one if-statement away from doing so
Yup! In 2008 I was in my first job, working for a defense contractor, and my boss seriously could not wrap his head around the idea of me voting for Obama. In his mind that should have gone completely against my own self-interest.

But he also saw the job as a lifetime career, which is partly generational and partly just a different mindset because a lot (most?) of the engineers there were former military.

I will say, though, that his mindset generally made for a very friendly and nurturing team experience.
> I wonder if anyone in the world has both conditions. That would be interesting to understand how they think.

I think maybe I do? I’ve know about the aphantasia and it wasn’t surprising to me because I always felt like I was missing something when people used phrases like “picture $thing in your mind” but now you’re telling me everyone is talking to themselves in their heads, too? It’s actually so hard for me to wrap my head around I think I must be misunderstanding...
Numbers that lie to you (2020)
> What you contribute is what you get out

That simply can’t be because what you get out is based on how long you live, which is a ‘known, unknown’
Indeed, there seems to be a difference worth noting between "industries that currently employ a large number of the population with little transfer of utility to other industry" and "objectively basic needs for a society".

I figure there are also different definitions of strategic depending on the size and capability of an economy. The US is large and geographically fortunate enough that it theoretically "could" be almost entirely self-sustaining if it set its mind to it. Fuel, semiconductors, transport, lumber, food, guns.
Predicting what's next for the data stack, with dbt's Tristan Handy
This is the first LibreOffice in ages that made me trash my user preferences (on Mac). It was unusable after installing over 7.1. Completely locked up on almost everything.
That alleviates drinking water. These are agrarian communities. It’s like proposing desal to irrigate the San Joaquin valley —expensive!
Back then we had a LOT more tariffs. Free trade is a new thing. Tariffs are taxes too, just way more regressive since they raise the prices of almost everything.
To be clear, a large component of the "hyper scale bureaucracy" is nominally privatized within the military industrial complex.
> Sometimes, we left things out because we felt like the authors were well known enough not to need our help

This is exactly the opposite methodology as would be desirable in a "best of" list. Best ___ you haven't heard of could be useful still.

Also 3 body problem isn't worth reading and although Ancillary justice isn't a terrible book I wouldn't list it on a best of list.
it certainly does have hindsight bias, on both sides. The Satellite TV and Radio industries spend the money to launch.

Back in the 90s (during the age of early GPS), Motorola (iirc) tried to launch a satellite phone company too.

NASA isn't that big of a customer. DirecTV was a huge consumer of rockets. As it turns out, SpaceX doesn't sell to them because they own their own rocket company.
A nation state would have to require Apple to change the algorithm on the device, requiring an OS level update.

Just by forcing Apple to add a bunch of image hashes they can't do anything, it'd still require multiple matches before Apple can see the images.

Oh and the OS sends fake encrypted "matches" at random to Apple's servers so that you can't use even that to fingerprint the user.
They're governed by a separate OpenAI Nonprofit which is why I said "sort of", but yes it's more profit than non.
It’s literally unreadable to me.

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“Show this thread”
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“Show this thread” just opens a full page Twitter sign-up modal. Being subject to such games is degrading enough that I refuse to play along.
I’m in the same boat. Unfortunately, I don’t see myself continuing to donate to them, given the terrible job they’ve done on this topic. I trusted them to bring nuance and clarity —- really liked what they did in response to the cash bail discussion in California —- but this was too much of a miss for me.

I’m still a fan of the ACLU, even with their spotty record on gay rights, but it might just be a matter of time.
Would we recognize an extraterrestrial message if we received one?
Cost makes it still essentially zero sum, unless we get actual cheap fusion off the ground anyway. Very few countries can afford to use water from desalination at any scale, and even for them the cost of it is an order of magnitude or more than using existing runoff - when the runoff exists.
They have access to a "visual derivative" (which I suppose is their way of saying "thumbnail") but it probably wouldn't help if the adversarial example is normal porn. This being said, once the authorities are contacted, they will have to work to obtain the full image, because if all they have is a thumbnail and a voucher, the evidence would probably be thrown out in court.

As for using it for other things than CSAM, well, for one, Apple would know, because the thumbnails would show political memes, so they'd have to be in on the conspiracy. They probably don't want that liability. Furthermore, the hashes are supposed to be auditable: a third party could check that they are what they are, a court order could order such an audit, and it would be suspicious for Apple to refuse. They wouldn't want to include anything that could piss off any sufficiently powerful government or, say, the EU, because they are likely to figure it out. And if they give different hashes to different citizens, that will also be obvious.
That's the same reason why food security is so high up on domestic priorities also. If a country is dependant on other nations for food, then in case of war you just need to target their logistics chain to starve them into submission. All those subsidies make sense, if you view the nation-state as primarily concerned with its own survival.
The manufacturers add a significant markup I imagine.

My original point is what's the cost benefit ratio boundary of enforced safety laws?
Fair enough. I'll say, it helps to indicate you're not being serious in that situation; that's hard in text, but something like a "well akshually" (as a deprecating reference to https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy) preceding it would help.
You didn't answer the question. You only said how you'd prefer the money be spent. Perhaps I poorly worded it, so let me be more clear: without taxation, where do you get the money to begin with?
There are two different definitions of breakeven, and science journalism is usually not good at making those distinct (and yeah, often the press releases from the institutions don't help). "Scientific" breakeven is the first milestone we'll hit, and that's what NIF is claiming to be close to. You're referring to what's known as "engineering" breakeven, which is harder to achieve and requires yet higher fusion yields. Unless you hear otherwise, assume that anyone talking about breakeven means "scientific" breakeven -- if they'd achieved "engineering" breakeven, they'd make sure to spell that out!
I just rewatched that scene - he isn't saying anything meaningful. He's being rude, telling people how much money he makes and telling them to "just close".
Docker Swarm?
I've been using my 2012 desktop without any discenible issues. The only thing I can't do is edit 4K video and for that I use my 2019 Macbook. I've been toying with the idea of upgrading my desktop but I have no compelling reason, and the idea of reinstalling all my applications (I'm still on Windows 7) makes it really unlikely. To be fair though, I don't play games on it.
Microsoft produced the boondoggle 'Office Open XML' formwat in reaction to the moves made by several large organisations to standardise on the Open Document format as used by OpenOffice et al. Microsoft reacted like they often did: they created their own 'open' format, deceptively named 'Office Open XML' to make it easy to confuse with the OpenOffice XML-based format and submitted it to standardisation bodies in the hope that one would bite. ISO - which already standardised the Open Document format - did, giving Microsoft a weapon to wield in any bidding war on which file format should be adopted as a standard.

I called OOXML a boondoggle because that what it was. Microsoft's documentation of the format consisted of a several thousand pages long semi-binary dump of the files produced by Microsoft Office - which are not much more than memory dumps containing binary blobs, poured into an XML container with vague descriptions of what the data types actually were - often no more than 'as produced by Microsoft Office version x.y'. A large portion of the original OOXML files consisted of blobs of binary MS Office data, making it close to impossible to implement that version by non-Microsoft entities. When pressured Microsoft agreed that the current versions of Microsoft Office were not producing 'standard-compliant' OOXML but that this would change in newer versions. Well, the future came, the OOXML format was cleaned up and documented so as to be interoperable but Microsoft never adapted Microsoft Office to the standard, instead producing its own iteration of 'the standard'.

In short, the only reason why they every produced OOXML - the 'standard' - was to use it as a club to wield in negotiations. They never meant for it to be an actual data interchange standard, they never aimed at having third parties stand on a like footing with regard to which version of OOXML was meant to be canonical. It was, and still is, meant to be a box to tick on a compliance list for getting large contracts, not a file format standard to which their products would be tailored. Their vision is whatever is produced by the latest incarnation of Microsoft Office is 'the standard', just like before.

The real question to be answered here is why ISO went along with this charade when they already had a working file format standard in the Open Document format. They could just have said 'no' like other standards bodies did, Microsoft could have been made to implement the ODF format and the world would be a better, more interoperable place.

So indeed, Microsoft should not be allowed to use a file format of their own design when implementing their own software while selling it as if it abides by an ISO standard.
MIT's “Small ITS” Logo timesharing system
No, that's not really fair. Someone poor might spend all their income on consumption to stay alive. Someone rich is going to save a lot of their income. Effective tax rates would be higher the poorer you are.
Prior to the mid 20th century, a poll tax was implemented in some U.S. state and local jurisdictions and paying it was a requirement before one could exercise one's right to vote. After this right was extended to all races by the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, many Southern states enacted poll taxes as a means of excluding African-American voters, most of whom were poor and unable to pay a tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax
> But, again, if you're also annoyed that social story telling IRL happens with interruptions and digressions and background noise

Really, this pub/Twitter comparison doesn't work. Yes, interruptions happen IRL, but they aren't systematically happening every other sentence. Also, you can use body language or talk louder to ensure you're understood IRL. Internet communication doesn't have the same luxury.

Disruption while consuming information in the browser is a different animal compared to person-to-person contact.
Looks potentially interesting and I might check it out. At first glance, a few caveats and potential deal breakers occurred to me from a non-technical perspective:

- the 14-day trial (PoC'ing something like this in anything less than 8 weeks is just not something that happens in my experience, especially if upper management is involved and you still need to build the infrastructure around it)

- lack of lab licenses for free or cheap (I'd want to put that through its paces myself for a significant amount of time and dogfood it before recommending this to clients or moving over a large org)

- seeing 20 or 50 licenses min. purchase requirement is particularly disappointing when positioning yourself as a Citrix alternative. There is a ton of small outfits in niche industries out there with a requirement of 5 to 15 seats who might jump at this if it performs well.

- lack of attractive education and non-profit pricing which, again, might be a particularly thankful and interested target audience.

VDI is awesome, flexible and efficient if it performs well and is done right. Unfortunately in practice too often neither is the case. However the concept's potential still has a future if it sees further improvement and innovation. Cloud gaming, among others, shows that algorithms and tech stacks exist that can make this happen.
The Elixir Version of this:

1. Absolutely block. Everywhere it makes sense. Use this to serialise stuff (e.g. if I send a ping I want to wait for a pong before I send a different message). Take advantage of the fact that you've separate things into a process (Elixir term - green thread/fibre) for each task, e.g. each connection to a different node is its own process.

2. You can absolutely just use timeouts, but there are a few ways of doing it depending on context. Operating things as a state-machine is usually the clearest way to do things and if you get the event "timeout" before you get the event "response" (or similar) you can handle all that very clearly.

3. Yup, good advice. In Elixir this is also about separating pure functional code, from the 'process machinery' that runs it. Mostly because pure functional code is easier to test!
PG's essays opened my eyes to starting a startup (rather than working as a employee). This in turned made me wealthy and pretty much changed my life.
Over the last year or so, I started get obvious spam (weird spellings with numbers or other characters and such) in my Gmail inbox on average once a day.
To be clear, the content being scanned in messages is not a hash check against a database. It’s a plain old nudity detection algorithm similar to what Facebook has.
this. If you look at all the strategic industry subsidies, you will see this common denominator. Corn in the US is stupidly subsidized, so much corn that it ends up in car tanks. But guess who will not have a famine even if the worst war + disasters strike?

Car factories might not make good tanks, but the mechanical engineers and tooling knowledge is invaluable and can't be scaled up overnight.

Same with solar panels, there's a reason both Obama and Trump imposed protective tariffs. One of the few areas both parties agree to. PV panels are the future of energy, so you need to have domestic factories no matter the cost.
I'm not a scientist, so I might be missing some nuance, but it strikes me that the experiment could indicate a million other things that are not "Ritalin causes the brain to focus on benefits of work rather than its costs".

For all I know it could mean the person gets to believe more in their capacity to do the hard tasks. Or it could mean that the person feels less distracted and more willing to engage. Or many other things... Am I missing something?
This assumes an efficient global market, without interference from other state actors.

If other countries are implementing protectionist policies, like keeping semiconductors for themselves or supplying other nations first to curry favors or improved relationships, for example, it might be in another nations interest to increase fab capacity with its borders to avoid being vulnerable to those political and diplomatic factors.
The subheadline-
>More than 90 policy and rights groups ask company to abandon plans for scanning phones of adults for images of child sex abuse.
What are your thoughts on ballscrews vs r&p? Is whip an issue with higher ipm on a long machine (4x8)?
Hashicorp Nomad
So happy to see Tade Thmpson's Rosewater Trilogy on this list. It's a truly unique scifi vision that really deliveries from start to finish.
I wish Google had some way to set parameters on this sort of thing, because I often find that the default "try to assume that the user meant the most common thing" is useful, but I also often find it bothersome. And if Google isn't willing to give us a more robust customizable search, then another player should.
Thats a good question, I would love to be able to use just one finger and treat it like making marks in sand, however thats challenging as if you don't have a "touch" sensor to let you know when you're touching the paper.

I would love to be able to use my wacom, but I suspect thats a long way down the list of feature requests that are important
It optimizes "waste an unpredictable time doing arithmetic without side effects, then return 1" to "return 1 without looking at the input". The relation between that machine arithmetic and the Collatz conjecture is irrelevant.
If you can make an infinite tweet chain then compressing information cannot be an argument since it isn't something necessary. And if you cannot, you may potentially be unable to provide all the information you want or worse needed for the topic at hand. In any case a blog post isn't required to be big in size with very condensed text.
How to Standardize Postal Address Data
Yes, because heavy industry produces light and heavy armour, and heavy industry is also required to produce military drones and other weapons.
Elite Education
Funily enough my quote was from their on device machine learning api released in 2017 - https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/api/
Highly visible industries tend to get a disproportionate number of subsidies, because the population can relate to them, and politicians aren't that clever either. Film and television are good examples, and fishing tends to get a lot of attention too.
This is a pretty light on math/AI podcast in the series of podcasts between Rogan and Fridman. Some small talk about Boston Dynamics and Elon Musk, but more discussion surrounding Renzo Gracie and Wim Hof (sp?), if I'm recalling correctly.

It was not my favorite discussion between the two, but they did touch on the Russian education system, which was kind of interesting. I enjoy Rogan when he has scientists and comedians on as he usually lets them talk on the subjects they are interested in, but Lex Fridman seemed to want to discuss the Topics that Rogan was interested in, which was a little disappointing.
iMessage data is getting scanned with a broader set of heuristics than iCloud data, while it’s supposed to have air tight privacy.
When you report, what are you saying the credit limit is? Utilization is a huge factor in your credit score and you technically don't have a credit limit for this product.
Regardless of whom he has on why are we giving Joe Rogan oxygen here.
NeXTSTEP Release 3: A Demonstration with Steve Jobs
You'd have to have a lot of energy to knock something from VLEO to GEO.

I don't see it being a possibility, but I could be wrong, maybe someone smarter than me can do the math...

Space is vast, if you have debris with a lifespan of 5 years, you won't accumulate enough for it to be unavoidable, and the issue will literally solve itself.