skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And as we all know, national borders are decided by plotting capitals on a map and running a mathematical process to minimise distance from capital, right?
I agree, it makes diagnosis much harder. It's certainly not a free lunch to lock things down. Sometimes that is what's required.

I've just spent a fair bit of time working on allowing very limited access to prod by devs to investigate core dumps. Took a lot of argument to get that, but the alternative was moving the core dumps out of prod, and that wouldn't fly due to the sensitivity of data that might be exposed. It's certainly not easy working in a highly secure environment.
This might not apply to all LZ based programs/algorithms but compress (an old Unix utility based on the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm) fell out of favour after it ran afoul of patent issues (you can read more about it on the compress Wikipedia page [0] and a section of the GIF Wikipedia page [1] which covers more about the enforcement of the patent). From what I can gather though, it enjoyed considerable success and was pretty much the standard utility for compressing data on Unix. I think eventually though it would have been replaced because other algorithms (bzip2, gzip, etc.) have slightly better compression ratios (even if they are more computationally expensive).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enfo...
Upgrade to Flux v2 to keep OpenFaaS up to date
They are probably using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance to have a leeway which again adds to a potential of having more false positives.
I found it!

Apocalypse: Generic System (Systems of the Apocalypse Book 1)

I haven't read the sequel yet, though.
The article blames over-industrialization and under-investment into water treatment.

Instead of a large planned wastewater treatment plant, the powers that be decided to inject wastewater at 50m depth. They had hoped that the bulk of the wastewater will be pulled into Black Sea and not be their problem.

But this plan backfired, and phytoplankton bloomed beyond the ability of other organisms to eat it. As a result, less oxygen is available in the water, fishing has collapsed, mussels turned poisonous and can't be harvested or farmed any more.

Penny-wise, pound-foolish :(
Like this one: https://flickr.com/photos/tonysanchez/2526100122
I can guarantee nobody will see the inside of a courtroom, on charges of possession and distribution of child porn for possessing multiple images of grey noise (unless there is some steganography going on).
I'm being facetious I understand no one will ever stop making cheap fragile clothes out of synthetic fibers and people will never stop buying them.

I just don't think paying money to someone who can't even solve the problem that is being caused is going to solve anything.
What I've learned transitioning from a founder to product manager
> I think software would be better if coders read mans and other documentation more often (and standards like RFC where it is applicable).

MAYBE the quality on average would increase, but less software would definitely be created.
What makes you think they're using MD5 anywhere?

Even if they were, it wouldn't matter, because NeuralHash is non-cryptographic by design.
> if there's a possibility of e.g. faces on fbi's most wanted being snuck into the dataset

Sure, it's possible, but that doesn't seem to have happened in the past decade of PhotoDNA scanning cloud photos to match hashes provided by NCMEC - why would it suddenly start happening now?
Nick, I’m very sorry to hear of your troubles. I’d love to hear more about what our industry can do to shift the tide back towards serving those in need of care better. My mission is to maximize wellbeing, and it’s appears you are aligned with this perspective.

If you are an investigative journalist or class action lawyer, please feel free to reach out to me. I’m easy to find.
The security issues were such that the product should be tainted forever, or at the very least for the next ten years.
An Australian Hatchery Uses Automation to Count Crayfish
Yeah, I thought like that too. It could’ve been better though.
> a single WhatsApp message can contain up to 30 images

A fair point, yes, and somewhat scuppering towards my argument.
When I was in the kernel group at Encore in 1990-91, I had a habit of never becoming root legitimately. Every time I needed to be root, I cracked it a new way and then patched the hole behind me. It got a bit harder over that time, but never really enough to slow down my regular work. The moral of the story is that, even without people deliberately creating ways to run arbitrary code as root, people who are merely oblivious to security leave plenty of holes.
> I also think that those downvoting you might've applied the principle of charity and taken the best interpretation of what you've written or at least ask.

There are far too many people who assume/assert false accusations of rape are the norm for the principle of charity to apply here.
Austin Is Capital of Homes Selling at Super Premiums
Improper fitting N95s are still vastlt more effective than proper and improper worn cloth masks, that’s due to the electret fiber charge :)
I did tech training years ago, and the company I contracted for had me interview with some of their team to discuss customized on-site training. I think I got the call because I was one of the closest people to their SC office, and would have been able to do multiple on-site weeks without much issue.

But... someone on the call didn't like my description of classes (like object/class stuff), from what I remember - disagreed with both some of the material and some of what I'd said about classes. FWIR, he didn't like them at all, and thought classes were "too much overhead" or something along those lines. I'd indicated that we could customize the material to focus on whatever they wanted to focus on. They were onboarding something like... 10-15 developers every other week, and this would have been a "crash course"-style "everyone learn the same thing to get started" - a combination of "our internal processes" but also "industry standard stuff" from an outside company.

We didn't get the gig, and I think they just settled on "in house only", IIRC. This was probably... 2009? Knowing they were adding ~20 developers per month was already an indication they were growing organically pretty fast (imo).
Went to the same visa process recently. It left me with the feeling that foreigners were viewed with suspicion.

> I doubt British people know how bizarre the policies that arose from their voting are either.

I assumed this actually was a consequence of their voting (seems in line with Brexit).
Jitsi won't consistently work at scale and is (like most webrtc only applications) a terror to debug. You can basically forget about using it with someone that has issues.
That's a fair point about the tensor product being more central in algebra. But I think the 'friendliest' introduction to tensors is the multilinear function viewpoint. IMO it motivates the tensor product.

I'm not familiar with the infinite-dimensional case. Do you have an example of a tensor that isn't a multilinear function on a product of vector spaces? I'd be interested to refine my understanding here.
It’s going to be practically impossible for most researchers to vet the CSAM detection tool without Corellium. It’s already very difficult with Corellium, but Apple is going out of their way to ensure such research is infeasible in most cases. That isn’t limited to their CSAM detection tool—hence the lawsuit that predates that tool.

Apple is claiming that researchers can vet the CSAM detection feature while simultaneously attempting to take down organizations that make such research possible. It’s a stupid statement on their part.
People have always been "human natives"
We are all human, but none of us understand how humans work (mainly speaking to psychology on a biochemical mechanistic level here)
How the way you move can change the way you think and feel
I think that programming is the most confused discipline there is. I've mentioned this in previous posts. In any other field there is usually an established body of knowledge, either in science of professions like accountancy.

In programming we're still arguing about whether the debits should go on the left and credits on the right, or vice versa. By that I mean, facetiously, we're still arguing about what programming language to use.

Most new sciences - e.g. electronics - gather a mature body of knowledge relatively quickly. We know exactly how transistors work and how to use them, for example. Nobody argues about how to calculate the current flowing through a wire.

This, to some extent, happened in programming, especially early, but the matter still seems far from settled.

Some poster on here once noted that there are no new paradigms in programming. Their argument is that not functional, OO, or other invention, as good as they are, constitute a paradigm shift. A paradigm shift is so fundamental that it uproots our whole conceptions about how the universe works; like the shift away from using epicycles to describe the motion of planets to using a theory of gravitation.

I've been tinkering around with microcontrollers lately, and it has given me a perspective that I suspect many don't have. I like C++, and I think it's suitable for high-level programming, due to things like deterministic garbage collection and niceties like strings and vectors.

But I've come to the conclusion that C++ is marginal, at best, on microcontrollers. Things tend to be far more static, so these niceties do not bulk large. But C++ also needs extra fiddle if you start from scratch. Things like exceptions need effort to implement.

C is low-level. You get to build things block by block. If your microcontroller supports some nifty hardware acceleration feature, then you can use that.

And that's the thing. A high-level language is an abstraction. It can't decide what should happen at a very low level. So you have a convenience, but you also take a hit.

So perhaps looking for a better language is a chimera, because how you do something is dependent on what it is you're trying to do. It also means that C is never likely to go away as a language, and that C++ was a clever idea in that it built on C.
More current-day developers are nostalgic for Windows 95/NT than for Motif because of sheer exposure. It's the same for me: Windows NT UIs have a vibe of "good old days" for me, whereas Motif UIs feel like ancient history that is unrelated to me personally.
Primes of life: Why each decade comes with its own superpowers
False dichotomy. You should UNEQUIVOCALLY not be FORCED to choose one of those. You shouldn't choose one of those at all. I do not need to be treated like a criminal.

Facebook et al scans server side because they have liability. Tell me why apple thinks they need to scan locally? They dont have liability, which is even worse. It means they're doing it for other reasons. Plenty of people read that as "wow apple is so kindhearted they did this without the business incentive". And you know what? They didn't. They might even have good intentions. But, as the saying goes, the path to hell is paved with good intentions.
They need workers, so either they pay workers more to make it worth commuting, or move location to be nearer to workers. Or go remote.
People are not going to lose money to go to work.
What specifically about the project and the technologies are unmotivating to him?
Google was not standing on a pedestal preaching privacy. In contrast Apple was trying to appear as the privacy conscious hardware/software vendor. To now implement such a blatantly obvious stepping stone to dragnet surveillance of actual devices is such a hypocritical move that it beggars belief.

Ignoring the whataboutism in your question, we know that privacy once lost is practically impossible to get back. Once the genie is out of the bottle and Apple is doing on device scanning, what's to stop 3 letter agencies and governments around the world to start demanding ever more access? Because that's exactly what's going to happen. "Oh it's not a big deal, we just need slightly more access than we have now."

10 years down the line, we'd have people's phones datamining every piece of info they have and silently reporting to an unknowable set of entities. All in the name of fighting crime.

There needs to be pushback on this crap. Every single one of these attempts must be met with absolute and unconditional refusal. Mere inaction means things will inevitably and invariably get worse over time.
No they didn’t. They did settle, but they subsequently appealed a week later.
Thank you both for the tips.
Apple claimed 'one in a trillion' chance of a collision. This is a great example of why you should not trust such an assessment.
It should be noted that Malcolm X thought exactly the same. His Nation of Islam's goal was to establish a separate nation for African Americans within North America. [0]

(not agreeing or disagreeing with the idea btw)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam#Black_national...
Generate a picture of a woman using https://thispersondoesnotexist.com and put it as official profile picture, and all the problems are solved
“We, and I personally, believe
very strongly that more information
is better, even if it’s wrong,”
said Eric Schmidt, executive
chairman of Google[1]

I am reminded of this quote over and over when I encounter those things that are (TIL) absurdly called "knowledge panels". They often confidently present completely wrong information about even trivial things (like the weight of a specific camera or lens).

It is distressing (but not really surprising) to hear they are having disastrous consequences about more complex and obviously ambiguous queries, queries that no so-called "AI" should ever be answering, without a prominent disclaimer that the information was generated by a fuzzy-logic computer program without the ability to actually comprehend the topic at hand, and that therefore the information may be completely and utterly incorrect. (Such a disclaimer would obviously destory this "feature", though.)

I've always charitably assumed that Schmidt was trying to make some point that is less insane than the quote first sounds, like "correct information will eventually triumph over incorrect information if you just give people all the 'information' you can". But Google increasingly offers me information in ways that seem like he and they just, like, literally meant that quote as it reads.

(Also, even if that was the point he was trying to make, it's been thoroughly disproven over the past several years.)

[1]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/17/google-eric-schmidt-cyb...
That's not actually a solution. What do you do when someone holds the door open? Unless you have someone next to each door ready to boot such people out of the train, you simply can't stop yourself departing late.
Can't wait for CSAM to cause or enable some repeat of the icloud issues a while back.
Chinese espionage tool exploits vulnerabilities in 58 widely used websites
STMicroelectronics Packaging Facility in Malaysia Closed Amidst Covid-19
Why is Orion unimpressive? Because the author didn't include visible representations of wavelengths that are outside of the range of human detectability?
Beyond that, are we seriously going to ignore the fact that eventually this system will share the private photos of someone's naked kid with some random subcontractor? How is that even remotely OK? Or that it will find and share actual CSAM with said subcontractor?
I don't know if that is actually proven. It isn't like through a lot of history women have had much choice about the whole thing, nor could they leave someone toxic in many cases. Is it an "effective life behavior" if you don't have a lot of other choices?

You could use the same words to state that hetero marriage is "proven", when realistically, people didn't have the choice.
Any integration with Notion on the roadmap? How do teams migrate from JIRA to Tara?
> All criminal accusations, including true ones, should be treated as false until the accused is proven guilty.

No, they need to be treated as unproven, a very critical difference.

Just to be clear, witness testimony, including testimony FROM THE VICTIM, is evidence of the crime. Just for some reason, in rape cases, we go all wonky with this principle.
Ask HN: Lego launched a product with our logo in their cover image
We are a low code/no Code platform for building internal tools. Ironically we do educate customers at times that NoCode is like lego block approach of building software with pre-built blocks.

You think we should be concerned about our logo being used by Lego. If it should be concerning then what options you think we have?

References
Our logo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/DronaHQ_...

Lego Dot: https://www.auchan.ro/public/images/hfd/hec/h00/lego-dots-ra...
The Free State Project has a similar plan for New Hampshire.
Just like any autoencoder, it is not about getting back the exact original, which is of course impossible. It is about summarizing the image in 96bits information, which is quite enough to leak the gist of the original image. For example, [1] talks about reversing Microsoft’s PhotoDNA.

> but you should be aware that "similar" to the network need not mean "similar" to a human.

With techniques like GAN and DLSS, it is quite possible to generate some photo realistic image being enough similar to the original one, or at least leaking some private information.

[1]: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
10 bucks they don't.
The antitrust laws are a dead letter.

Facebook buying two of their competitors resulting in crickets.
Another “tick noob” question. When going hiking in woods I avoid trails where I may “brush” against bushes or twigs or branches etc. In other words prefer wide trails. Would that be an effective way to avoid ticks? Or is there a chance ticks “fly” in the air or are passively transported in the air via wind etc? (I did say I’m a tick noob ;)
The person I was replying to was trying to minimize the crap job that Amazon workers were subject to by comparing it to job conditions 100 years earlier. I applied the argument to his example to show how silly it was to dismiss current working conditions like that. What he was doing is the same arguments used for the last 40 years to make our work lives worse and worse. Like I said, it's a race to the bottom mentality.

I mean what point do you think he was trying to make? That he respects the hard work steel workers endured? Sure, I guess, but I suspect the overriding narrative he was trying to convey was that Amazon workers ain't got it so tough. They should suck it up. That's how I read it.

Remember how Chinese workers were killing themselves in factories and the first counter argument was along the lines of, "their lives were much worse before, they should be thankful for those jobs." Guess who's propaganda that was.

Not sure how it was inflammatory but your scolding / virtue signaling wasn't very constructive either, bud.
This picture shows the difference after the city of Dunedin, New Zealand, changed all its sodium lights to shielded LEDs: https://i.redd.it/hxxp2c3ksdh71.jpg
Wait ... what? Only for Hacker News?
I admit that I have not done enough research to have a strong opinion on this, but why is Apple taking this on themselves? As far as I can see, this outrage is because of "scanning on iPhone" that is wildly out of user's control. Why can't Apple be like others and say we scan the shit out of what you upload to iCloud(and it is in our Terms and Conditions to use iCloud)?

Almost all tech people know that iCloud (or its backups) are not encrypted, so they can decrypt it as they wish.. and those among us that are privacy conscious can comfortable turn iCloud OFF(or not sign up for one) and use the iPhone as a simple private device?
Firefox focus blocks ads in Safari too. Any content blocker will work in Safari, as far as I know.
I feel bad for you young guys. You get so much less than I did to do a job that is just getting harder.
‘Massive wake-up call’: Crypto faces growing legal crackdown
I moved to Wipr after being disappointed by changes in 1Blocker.
> The innovations in the blue color field might seem trivial but they are absolutely real.

Not an innovation in the field per-se but nevertheless an innovation that improves the daily routine of many people working in the field is the mobile phone and especially the very cheap data and voice subscriptions (compared to 10-15 years ago, say).

Just yesterday I had to call a locksmith at my apartment so that he would fix something at the bathroom door. During his entire intervention (45 minutes - one hour) he was also on his phone (via headphones) talking with one of his other coworkers and at some point with (what seemed to be) a close relative. That reminded me seeing the same scene with a public cleaning worker from our city talking with someone close on a phone (friend or relative) while raking the autumn leaves in front of my building.

Again, it's not something that improves their "productivity" or anything like that but imo it reduces some of the alienation of being cut off from your friends and close relatives for at least 8 or 9 hours a day because of work.
> solid reasons to believe that the accusations are untrue

this is not how the concept of accusation works
> You can also prove this to yourself by contriving an IR function that contains more SSA registers than machine registers: you'll see that, in addition to any ABI constraints, LLVM will be forced to spill any excess SSA registers back onto the stack.

Having more SSA register than machine registers does not mean there will be any spilling as unlike SSA registers, machine registers can be reused once the old value is no longer needed.
This just sounds anxiety inducing for you and all the other unfortunate people dragged into this mess because of an automated algorithm.

I hope someone here can help you solve this issue. I won't be surprised if you got more press coverage that it will help.
The “Not Financial Advice” Advice for the Curious Crypto Consumer
Science fiction writer Greg Egan spent years trying to fix this exact problem [0]. Searching him on Google now, it looks like he eventually succeeded, but it involved years of posting photos of "himself" which instead called Google fools [1], as well as placing a plea on his home page for his fans to downvote the misleading images on his knowledge panel.

[0]: https://www.gregegan.net/ESSAYS/GOOGLE/Google.html

[1]: https://www.gregegan.net/images/GregEgan.htm
I think the problem isn't limited to Microsoft Outlook but to anything bound to ActiveDirectory: Randomly, sometimes multiple times per day, sometimes not for a week, Teams, WebEx and Office365 will re-reqest credentials. In some cases they continue to work even if you ignore the prompts, sometimes they don't...
The sentences after explain why higher voltage is more efficient than lower, they don’t say anything about AC vs DC efficiency. The Skin Effect is also not mentioned anywhere in the article.
I asked G ‘how long has X been a senator?’ It returned the ages of the senators, not the length of the terms. It is going downhill.
You think such a thing can happen to the best of all possible worlds, where the powerful always abide by the law and never have politicians in their pockets, and the state only serves and never defames, threatens, or blackmails people?
These are dishwasher about 20 years ago not modern. Modern dishwashers are so "efficient" that they are not really removing much. Often I am finding dished come back out also dirty after, so now I spend more water and time on a hand wash again.
It hasn't happened, and it's absurd to think that it would happen. That's the point.
I'm not getting it. It must be some sort of coincidence. Your logo isn't even on the front box of the lego, and your "logo" just happens to be similar to a combination of one of the legos

I'm just confused, correct me if I'm wrong.