skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, since apple _definitely_ isn't sending CSAM photos to your phone so they can be differ. Most likely, the visual derivative is a thumbnail or blurred version of the image.
Why is this post getting flagged? Whether you agree or not, hiding it won’t make it go away.
If you can't get vaccinated for health reasons you're exactly the type of person vaccinations help protect.
I love your work, ever since the first time I saw one of your IC RE posts I felt really humbled and inspired by it so I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for doing it.

Thanks!!!
If you can get jailed for speech, you can get jailed for encryption.
But lighting is actually something that Spring does very well ?
They also take disturbingly long to load, and every interaction is noticeably delayed. At least in Win10 you can compare how long they take, since it has both. I don't think I've ever had to wait for Control Panel to load on every version of Windows prior to 10, but Settings needs a loading screen.

The responsible monstrosity is none other than UWP, which also added a loading screen to the Calculator.
"this is rather provocative in a city and state which does not require identification"

I've spent not more than a couple of weeks in total in the NY and during that time I was required to produce identification more times than I had in years spent in various continental European countries - where in theory you were obliged to carry Id with you at all times.

Just because I wanted to buy a beer or order wine with food in a bar or restaurant. I was in my late 20s at the time.

It's just what you're used to.
If you and your family are vaccinated then you have nothing to worry about. Right?
Don't shed on my family bro.
Cool project. Wouldn't padding all generated images with a few items that match CLIP get around this though?
And some people are just dolts. It's just my opinion but I believe he falls into that camp based on first hand interactions.
you might be right - there's certainly a cultural thread that the 666-worriers are just being triggered by.

it's really a belief that the state is malign - and the further away (ie, federal), the worse. which is ironic because feds get vastly more scrutiny than some podunk local government.
>Would I have a problem with being on a list that, from my perspective, I can't tell the difference between being on it, and not on it?

>I don't know, I wouldn't be able to tell. If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody's there to hear it, does it matter to anyone whether it makes a sound?

Spoken like someone who hasn't had the long arm of the law drop in on them before, or a person who "doesn't care about that liberty anyway, so why not vote it away?"

Just because you don't see the problem doesn't mean it isn't there. Just because you didn't see the tree fall, doesn't mean the world is uneffected. These are concepts 3-4 year olds manage to divest themselves of once they grap the permanence of objects. Just because you don't get much out of a liberty doesn't mean that it's cool to force the loss of it on somebody else. Liberty is to be treasured and protected. The selective relinquishment, revocation, or limiting of one for anyone should be a Big. Frigging. Deal.

The fact people are so cavalier with wisking away the freedoms that underpin American Civil Life on mere suspicion of something that the State is not even required to be transparent about should disturb everybody.
Yes, Equifax largely leaked many people's identity.
>Do you mean the millions of "long covid" cases which already exist today?

Long covid has yet to be scientifically proven.
I wasn't picking up on any doom/gloom and thought it's was ok broad coverage of the area.

> The algorithmic moments that he finds unequivocally creative — AlphaGo's "truly creative act" or the Continuator's emulation of Bernard Lubat — du Sautoy qualifies as "exploratory creativity." Combinatorial creativity is exemplified by François Pachet's Flow Machine creating a jazz synthesis of Charlie Parker with Pierre Boulez. As for transformational creativity, du Sautoy hasn't yet seen it, but he is prudent enough not to rule it out, allowing for the possibility of meta-algorithms "designed to break the rules and see what happens."

This seems as balanced a description as I could expect.
Presumably because of the overwhelming number of comments from people unable to express themselves in a civil manner.
That's not true.

Unvaccinated have a much higher probability of catching, spreading, and evolving new variants of the virus.

Vaccination protects individuals, but does not prevent the disease. There are still vaccinated patients showing up to hospital ERs (granted, at a substantially lower number than unvaccinated).

If 80+% of people get vaccinated, the virus will have a much harder time spreading and evolving.

As it stands, the virus is still having a field day. I don't want unvaccinated, higher probability infectors/spreaders around me and my loved ones.

If you love this country, do something for your fellow Americans and get vaccinated.
I build my own furniture. It costs me more than something I could buy of equivalent or better quality. That's not the point.
What would you be trying to learn from the sample? A small sample would not be representative of what people see; a large sample would give the same results as the report.
To be clear, it isn't that a national identity database doesn't exist, they just can't force you to have a national identity token (that is a power divested to the States). Several legislative attempts have been made to link that database to some other token that is de facto mandatory even if they don't control it, like (currently) State ID. The challenge is, then, that they can't deprive citizens of rights for not having a token over which the Federal government has no control. The States have not been cooperative in this regard across the political spectrum, albeit for different reasons. So at the national level we either have optional ID tokens, like passports, or mandatory IDs that are not tokens, like SSN.

There isn't one court case that informs the boundaries of the Federal government and ID, and how the government may facilitate the linking of an existing identity token to their database, it is diffused across many. The policy and regulatory practice in the Federal government threads a convoluted path through this precedent, with myriad loopholes and workarounds, and exploiting gray areas that have not been adjudicated. I've worked in this environment, which is the only reason I know about it. Every time they create a database on US citizens, they must articulate the title authority that both allows that database to exist and to be used (use and existence are, somewhat dubiously, deemed separate authorities which notionally allows them to collect data if they don't look at it -- this reasoning is not well-tested).

In practice, the US government outsources identity stuff to companies like Lexis-Nexis, which rely on duck-typing to determine identity since this doesn't require the person being identified to carry a token. Just about everyone carries an ensemble of tokens that are sufficient for identity purposes if you have fewer database building prohibitions than the US government.
Googling “desk ornament” returns nazi merch
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I'll just drop in my thoughts on pricing that I wrote up back just before Slack.

https://www.brightball.com/articles/screenhero-this-is-your-...

Good luck and I'll be keeping an eye on it!
Recent and related:

Intel is giving up on its AI-powered RealSense cameras - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218354 - Aug 2021 (10 comments)
sounds like a future NFT market
Manipulation and lies typically are clever, otherwise people wouldn't fall for them.
> Are you implying there is a chip in the vaccine allowing them to control you?

This is a rather disingenuous comment.

Since the fragile card stock vaccine record is not practical to carry everyday & everywhere, this will push people towards installing apps on their phones. This opens the door to digital tracking.

Next, strictly speaking, having the app is not sufficient. You also need to show ID. Which ID?

> “Identification” means an official document bearing the name of the individual and a photo or date of birth. Examples of acceptable identification include but are not limited to: driver’s license, non-driver government ID card, IDNYC, passport, and school ID card.

Great. Now there is the problem of how to check these are not faked. Bars/restaurants have all sorts of methods and some of them actually involve scanning your identification[1].

Please add two and two together and recognize two-pronged approach to constant tracking of everyone's everyday activities.

[1]: https://viage.com/
> Releasing known-bad code is something nobody would do

Mmm. I guess it depends how mischievous people are.

Is https://crates.io/crates/misfortunate known-bad code? Take misfortunate::Comte which claims to be an ExactSizeIterator but lies and with a simple "tap" from your wand produces an infinite number of cloned Rabbits ?

OK, how about Mara's https://crates.io/crates/whichever-compiles or https://crates.io/crates/nightly-crimes ?

I mean, maybe I'm a bad person for writing misfortunate, but is Mara, Rust's library team lead, a bad person?
Never been so happy to be on a prepaid plan.

Kinda funny the plan I bought from walmart because I'm cheap had no credit check so no dob/ssn and it turned out to be significantly more secure than what was available if you shared your credit info with tmobile.
private blog network, old SEO trick where you have multiple websites that appear separate but are owned by the same person and link back to each other to boost SEO. Google bans the practice but all these huge media companies get away with it. If a small fry did it all their sites would be removed from Google

at their scale, I wouldn't be surprised if they had multiple people on Google Search team bribed. They'd lose billions if they actually got the penalties they deserve
executive dysfunction could be due to so many things.

How did it begin and how did it progress?
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US History's Biggest Biological Attack Was Committed by a Hippy Cult
Discussed at the time:

How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16269954 - Jan 2018 (92 comments)
Sorry to hear about the Kinect delay. The device works very well in my experience.
The flood of illegals has brought in a lot of people with covid, among other diseases to the south. If the federal government cared about covid and my safety they would protect the southern border. Just more evidence of how two faced they are behaving.
You could've distilled your answer to the question by simply saying, "Pure speculation based on a faulty assumption that only US citizens are on this list".
First read about this idea in March 2020 when it was going around various conspiracy-related circles. Now you see people making extraordinarily dishonest arguments like, "well you need a yellow fever vaccine to go to Zambia and this is basically the same thing" or "this is just like needing a driver's license." Someone on Twitter aptly described this phenomenon as the "that's a crazy conspiracy theory"-to-"it's always been like this" pipeline.

You can tell that they are trying to roll this and the other mandates out as quickly as possible before it becomes clearer to people that keeping their "fully vaccinated" status (and the attendant freedoms which used to just be a matter of course in 2019) will require getting re-injected at regular intervals in perpetuity.

All these permanent changes to our lives and erosion of our freedom, being meekly accepted to combat (supposedly) a virus that's killed a fraction of the number who died in the 1918 Spanish flu. It's really something to watch.
Is there really a legitimate reason for this post to be flagged? This is the literal text of the rules one must obey if one is going to set foot in NYC.
Xi is of course not including the humungous wealth and incomes of his high party comrades. Though I've read he leverages his knowledge of these to consolidate his personal control.
Just in case to have some recorded proof: https://archive.ph/OIIel
Indoor entertainment is not necessary for "participating in life".
You're thinking of the Xerox Star, not the Alto. An Alto running Smalltalk had a windowing environment, but not what you're used to. The Star had a full WIMP system with desktop metaphor, also not one you'd be used to but very powerful and intuitive.
They're not that good but people will tolerate poor quality.
Richard Bartle releases his classic “Designing Virtual Worlds” book for free
Ask HN: Has distributed SQL come of age?
At work we're exploring ways of scaling our database layer, ideally achieving horizontal scalability in both read and write throughput. A few years ago horizontal write scalability could only mean you either explicitly shard or adopt one of the distributed NoSQL key-value stores.

I've sat on the sidelines though as "distributed SQL" became a new category- first with Cloud Spanner, then with CockroachDb, TiDB, MariaDb XPand, etc. They promise near-linear horizontally scalability, atomic transactions across instances (required for us), real online schema changes, and a compliant SQL interface.

It seems almost too good to be true if you're already tied to relational databases, which we are. I never hear about real companies with massive scaling needs using them though. Are they mature enough to be trusted? Does anyone have real-world data about performance or reliability? The literature is sparse.
It also reminds me that computer magazines were ~500 pages when I was a kid.
Not specific to CCDs, CMOS sensors also have Bayer filters. Actually, fancy cameras with CCDs skip bayer filters all together by using prisms to split light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-CCD_camera
And Qatar is not better in that regard.

>Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r...

Thank you FIFA for knowing it beforehand and give a shi* about it...once more.
I mean that there is no semantic comprehension or knowledge of 'Neil Armstrong' (as a specific person), 'land' (as an action), and 'Mars' (as a place). It's not a mishearing because computers don't mishear ASCII-inputs like we might do with auditory signal.

I get the same result when I Google 'when did Lance Armstrong land on the moon', 'when did Buzz Lightyear land on the moon', or 'when did Lance Armstrong land on Mars.'
in a loose sense, mathematics, and its associated notations are a form of encryption
It depends on the film. Without getting into a long rambling film analysis, there are certainly films (Inception is probably one), for example, in which the ending really is ambiguous and those assert otherwise are probably looking a little too deeply into discerning patterns in the tea leaves. There are others (probably including Total Recall) where there is a logical argument to be made as to why the film actually ended in a particular way.
They’re scanning users’ data on users’ devices. What do we call that if not snooping?
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Even MCU controlled SPS often times have pure analog control loop, where A/D and MCU is there mostly there for monitoring and perhaps digital control of some loop parameters, but the software is not an integral part of the loop itself...

Which is perhaps for the good, if you look for example on the boost topology, where saturation of the inductor leads to the shorting of the input through a switching transistor to the ground... :)
Hmm, but then how does this explain the popularity of games like Factorio or Satisfactory on Twitch ?

Because they are in a different category, not (usually) played as PvP ?
> Don't shed on my family bro.

You say that ironically, but that's exactly my point.
Something to note here is that in the hash collision that was discovered, the two images look nothing alike. One is a picture of a dog, the other is blobby grey static.
Yeah that issue is a masterpiece.

You should also check out the BYTE Smalltalk issue:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
How is an unvaccinated person a danger to a vaccinated person? If they are then what is the purpose of getting the vaccination?
Indeed yes, for instance statement like "President denies allegations of beating his wife" is damming all by itself.
I think it's reasonable to flag posts for the content of its comments as well as the content of the post itself.
Do Christopher Nolan films have a reputation for being baffling? I've never had that experience with them.

On the other hand, we just saw The Green Knight and that one will throw you.
Yes, except for #2 those reasons apply essentially as-is to in-memory b-trees if you replace “memory” with “cache” and “disk” with “memory”.
Thanks for investigating that!

An accumulator is when we add an extra parameter to hold the "loop variable", like this:

bool doit(int n, bool acc)
{
if (n == 0) return acc;
else return doit(n-1, !acc);
}

bool isEven(int n)
{
return doit(n, true);
}

The function is now tail-recursive and behaves similarly to this loop:

bool acc = true;
while (n != 0) {
acc = !acc;
n = n - 1;
}
return acc;

According to the comment on the top of the file, apparently llvm can create this accumulator variable if the operation is associative and commutative. That's because after introducing the accumulator, the evaluation order is outside->inside instead of inside->outside.
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Great documentary about this subject (German): https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfzoom/zdfzoom-digitale-di...

Personally I'm not even that sad about this German situation because often "improving" things digitally means centralizing them so you suddenly have one big database of 80 million germans containing all their data. A hack of that is way more dangerous than a hack of a single municipality's database. The larger the database, the larger the payoff for the hackers.
Where is "most viewed posts" defined? How many views make a post land in that category?
It doesn't create interesting conversation. Already there are anti-vaxxers here pounding their chest and asserting themselves.
> The freaking out about "oh no I gotta write a small library myself" is absurdly overblown here

This isn't a good representation of the argument. People don't want to write libraries because it's more valuable for everyone to spend time writing features using existing libraries, provided there are good libraries available. People aren't "freaking out", they just have deadlines, and you know, other things to do with their lives besides write code that has already been written.
Doing that would mean the NeuralHash would change though. And you'd have to not only get CLIP to identify CSAM in the generated image but also negate the parts of the generated image that are causing CLIP to label it as "generated" (while still colliding with the target NeuralHash).

Unclear how hard this would actually be in practice (if I were going to attempt it, the first thing I'd try is to evolve a colliding image with something like CLIP+VQGAN) but certainly harder than finding a collision alone.
> and high vaccination rates.

It's high relative to the south or florida but the order says the vaccination rate is 56%.

Seattle has a 78% vaccination rate [1] and SF has a 71% rate [2]. NYC is pretty low rate of vaccination relative to major libral cities. It seems that boston, a comparable east-coast city has a closer, but still higher vaccination rate of 65% (link somewhat out of date) [3]

[1]
https://kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/health/communicable-dis...

[2]
https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-vaccinations

[3]
https://www.mass.gov/doc/boston-vaccination-data-report-july...
I said "require issued IDs to vote". Countering with "there are many forms of ID that are accepted" doesn't really feel like you're arguing against what I said.
My university used it as the student id, so who knows how many hundreds of places that got copied. Including smeared all over the virtual desktop systems as it was your login identifier.
Insert "its a trap" meme here...

Sounds like the same play Valve tried to pull off on the person who stole the HL2 code back in the day https://www.wired.com/2008/11/valve-tricked-h/
very good idea samsung, your starting to do it right.
> There really is no sound concept of "the more similar the hash."

Perceptual hashes are not cryptographic hashes. Perceptual hashing systems do compare hashes using a distance metric like the Hamming distance.

If two images have similar hashes, then they look kind of similar to one another. That's the point of perceptual hashing.
I was under the impression that support for PWAs in Safari was poor, or at least not rapidly following the spec, as Apple would prefer you develop a native app.
I doubt that Missile Command was written in Smalltalk, probably in BCPL or Mesa like most of the software for that machine was.

EDIT: http://www.portlandmonthly.com/portmag/wp-content/uploads/20...

"Avie Tevanian: In undergrad school I
did something strange-I studied with TV
in the background. I remember they had
a lab that was mostly for grad students, but
they let me in. For computers back then,
they had Xerox Altos, which later inspired
the Macintosh, and I'd write games while
watching 1V. I'd write my own games,
and I created my own versions of Defender and Missile Command as an exercise.
My Macintosh versions of those two
games are still out there, free on the public domain. Missile Command's actually
not too bad - it teaches valuable lessons
about survivability in a nuclear holocaust."
Probably that it's one of those topics that generates a lot more hysteria than rational discussion.
There is a partisan split: 65% of Democrats, vs 28% of Republicans, think the government should restrict false information, and 76% vs. 37% think tech companies should.
Ongoing related threads:

Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219068 - Aug 2021 (542 comments)

Convert Apple NeuralHash model for CSAM Detection to ONNX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218391 - Aug 2021 (155 comments)
I always wondered if this was a good ratio. I get that green usually has the strongest signal and thus better low-light performance. For bright shots, I find that preserving higher resolution in blue results in higher perceptual resolution of the final image. You can simulate something like it by using an extreme 'night mode' more-red/no-blue display mode and watching a 4k video.
Yes, this was the intent. However, many States have refused to implement the requirement to give the Feds access to their databases, even if though the ID conforms to standards, and the Feds don't have a lot of leverage to force compliance.
I understand what you say but FPC and Harbour just show that writing portable c code is actually possible...

https://github.com/harbour/core#supported-platforms-and-c-co...
I was involved in the green party in a small town in the US a long time ago and we went through a phase where we were threatening "direct action" in terms of putting up signage for bike paths, improving signage for the bus company, etc.

Those threats got us an audience with the director of the bus company who thought we had a lot of good ideas but that it would take a while to get funding to implement them.

Our organization broke up in 2004 because we couldn't decide what to do about the presidential election, but the bus company implemented most of our ideas over the next five years.
You are right, I thought the Star was just the commercialized version of the Alto. The Star looks much more like the Xerox Docutech that I got to use a little bit in school.