skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
please don't - CSV is a perfectly fine textual file format for many things that can be used by the technical and non with a wide range of support in applications and programming languages.
Not only is a taser still a lethal weapon in some circumstances, its effects dont necessarily last for the remainder of a flight. Most likely use would be to temporarily subdue someone to then restrain them.
You can only motivate someone so much. You need to try and understand why they are not motivated considering they have the skills. Best way is to ask directly in a way that doesn't put them on the defensive. If the situation is same after multiple feedbacks, you need to fire them. Working with an unmotivated low output person makes you miserable. It doesn't matter how skilled they are.
As long as it is text-based. At least you can actually look at a CSV and see what is going (wrong), as well as use all the text tools we have. Not that there aren't problems as the article points out. But some binary file based on the whims of a proprietary program...no thanks.
Chances are by the next sales report it will be forgotten. Let's see how deep the memory hole goes.
Where does it say anything that indicates #1 and #3 are both possible?
I think what it comes down to is that there are restraint systems that exist that are better than duct tape (and look better to other passengers). Why aren't these airlines carrying them as standard equipment?
A job is a job. Quit if you don't like it, and stay if you think it's better than where you were before. If you can land a FAANG job, you can land a non-FAANG job too (with enough effort and time).
> this needs to hit the court

How would that do anything?

What sort of damages could you get for having a wrong photo up?

Google would simply run a delaying action with its lawyers for a few years, and then "concede", pay her a pittance, and then in the next rev of the search engine, the problem would simply re-appear, and she'd have to do it all over again for the rest of her life.

I worked at Google for five years. Here's how they think (as a corporation):

* Everything has to be completely automated with no human corrections.
* So some percentage of errors, even horrible errors, are expected.
* And it's completely unreasonable for anyone to expect otherwise.
* So one of their mistakes fucks up your life and you try to do something about it, you're the asshole.
I haven't used Android as a daily phone since the EVO (I know, its been a while). One issue I had with Android and custom firmware was the time involved. Being on a computer all day, and often times at night, having to deal with tech support issues on my device is a hard stop (for me, personally, plenty of people love it).

That's the nice part of Apple's ecosystem - its pretty simple and requires minimum intervention.
Every other cloud storage provider has implemented scanning since 2011-2013.
Sure, the wires won’t be very long in a boat, though?
They also say:

> Table sugar, or sucrose, is a disaccharide made up of a molecule of glucose and a molecule of fructose joined together
What do you say about the people who have tested this and found nothing?
And CSV can be consumed and produced by spreadsheet software, which is useful to critical in many contexts where CSV is part of the pipeline. There the alternative would be to use xlsx files which… isn't necessarily any better.

Until someone gets excel to ingest and produce something in a better format, we're pretty much stuck.
You’re right that it’s a valid attack upon the people Apple pays to review matched images before invoking law enforcement, but no harm comes to the recipient in that model, unless they receive real legitimate CSAM and don’t report it to the authorities themselves.

Attempted entrapment and abuse of computing systems, which is an uncomfortable way to phrase the WhatsApp scenario, would be quite sufficient cause for a discovery warrant to have WhatsApp reveal the sender’s identity to Apple. Doesn’t mean they’d be found guilty, but WhatsApp will fold a lot sooner than Apple, especially if the warrant is sealed by the court to prevent the sender from deleting any CSAM in their possession.

A hacker would say that’s all contrived nonsense and anyways it’s just SWATting, that’s no big deal. A judge would say that’s a reasonable balance of protecting the sender from being dragged through the mud in the press before being indicted and permitting the abused party (Apple) to pursue a conviction and damages.

I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.
Note that many of the 'attacks' happened when staff were at home, not in the embassies. So this would have to be some sort of spytech deployed in diplomats' homes.
The job market in this field is pretty strong right now. Go somewhere else. There are lots of funded startups and smaller companies recruiting.

It is not weird to churn around early in your career to find the right fit. Try not to do it too much but one or two rapid hops on a CV is not strange.
Their source of salaries is Glassdoor which seems to be focused on base salary alone.

They should have used levels.io
>That said, what is the option when someone starts shouting obscenities throughout a flight?

Ignoring them until they tire themselves out.
I have analogous experience working on projects/organizations that have experienced potential terminal neglect, though not at FAANGs. Probably I'd accept that your hours will be longer than acceptable, if that's a tradeoff you can handle. What you get in return is avoidance of the feeling that you spend all your time accomplishing nothing.

From there, it's building relationships, documenting what gets accomplished, and trying to meet people where they are so that they can maybe get something done (and not break other things.)

That's from a managing perspective, but if you are determined to not coast, that may be what you'll be doing.
CSV does not open in Excel, unless you play the usual tricks first...
Google should technically blacklist most of their sites, they blatantly link to their own properties to boost the SEO ranking of all their online properties

The fact Google is too lazy to stop a bunch of conglomerates from monopolizing the internet is the most disgusting part
Curious, what is the book?
The “allegedly” and “known fact” in your last two sentences are wildly dissonant. It’s a known fact that this is alleged?
If you do business in the US, a US court can compel you to stop doing so, even if you're not there.
Perhaps my wording was poor. I went back in and cleaned it up a bit and added a little more context about my MSG parallel.
How exactly do you justify this? If mass psychogenic illnesses were so easy to instantiate, they would be extremely common. That's just not how the world works.
The first line of the article says seat belts and plastic hand cuffs.
Hopefully they keep their word about being more moderate than their previous time in power and if so, maybe the people of afghanistan could attain some well deserved peace and prosperity. I have my doubts that leaders of a battle hardened organization like theirs can be moderate instead of hardline/ultra conservative, but I truly hope they are.
This information seems like it would be of interest to the board of directors at companies paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to employees.

I assumed that they would have hired management that takes labor costs into account.
Wouldn't choke a child, but restraining and talking to him might/should help.
> If they don't get into legal hot water

I think that's what they're worried about, hence the notice.
based on the rule that cell phones have to be turned off to not cause potential interference with ground networks - the idea of a taser going off and accidently hitting the fuselage seems worse...
CSVs are plain text, and that's huge, plus they have a few other advantages:

1. You can read them without any software

2. Streamable row by row

3. Compress well

To be honest most of the points in this article could be addressed by standardizing a method of defining a schema for the CSVs. It could even be backward compatible by appending the definition as metadata on the header column or as a separate file.

One thing that would be good to have is a standardized method of indexing CSVs so that random access is possible too, though that would be more involved.
Web mini game about the prisoner's dilemma
Their source of salaries is Glassdoor which seems to be focused on base salary alone.

They should have used levels.io for a better source. It includes bonus and rsu.
That's not what you said initially. Nice bait
> Phone: Pinephone

Talking as a Pinephone (and iPhone 12) owner, I think the software is starting to show promise, but the SoC is nowhere beefy enough.

If I’ll go this route fully and make a Linux-phone my daily driver, I’d seriously consider the Purism Librem 5 instead.
The link to the original site is at least canonical. The link to the original site is at least canonical. Should OP have posted your link, or https://archive.is/JeJDP?
Doesn't look like to be true in my experience. On occasion, I do indulge in very sugary food, but most of the sugar I get these days come from fruit, which is packaged with fibers and other nutritious stuff.
This kinda of sounds like "let them put a camera in my living room, I'm not doing anything wrong".

The biggest complaint here is clearly this is not where it'll end, and it's not a unique hash, so there will be false positives. And since it's publicly announced, this is very unlikely to catch any producers of CP, and would only catch the dumbest consumers. So it's an invasion of privacy with very little chance of having a noticeable impact.
Hitler was a fan of Ford's. Complete opposite. Hitler used Ford techniques. Your assertion is probably "common knowledge" but it is completely wrong. You should probably read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich before commenting further on that window of history. There are also several documentaries that cover this as well. An especially good one is: Hitler: A career (1977).
Can you explain why you think CALEA would apply to what Apple announced?

And why such application would have had to wait until Apple announced this? In other words, if the law can force Apple to do things in general, why does the law need to wait for Apple to announce certain capabilities first?
Ideally excel would just speak sqlite. Not import/export or connect via odbc, straight be an sqlite client.
They wont' reap shit, it's not like all those minerals are sitting out there at the Kabul International waiting for the CCP to haul them to China.

But also, so what???

Are we supposed to envy those poor bastards?
This was the leading hypothesis for years, including for me, but even about a year ago I was considering betting a lot of money on a prediction market that it's indeed an intentional deployment of a weapon. I've found myself arguing the case with people on HN on several occasions, in part because I'm extremely conspiracy theory-skeptical in general and felt like people were wrong to dismiss this as any other silly conspiracy theory circulating around.

One factor worth noting is the consistency of the self-reports of the phenomenon and the symptoms, subsequent brain scans showing concussive injury, and medical diagnoses of brain damage.

At this point I'd definitely bet if I could find a way to. I'd say I'm about 85% confident it's a weapon. And unless there's an elaborate false flag or psyop going on, then if the claims in this article are true, it seems Russian intelligence officers are likely the ones responsible for at least some of the attacks: https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro... (Oct 2020).
Sorry, I was trying to satirise the argument for why it should be Argentinian, where the fundamental (but generally unsaid) reason is "because it's close to us".
It's really not the norm though, to be clear. 500k-1M is really outliers (senior staff engineer with 20 years career in a private bank etc...)

Most of the jobs are "normal bay area" salaries, but cost of living in Switzerland is as high or worse as San Fransisco, roughly.
yeah, why not replace a dense human readable easily generated format with a third party format that requires installation of compiled binaries and an over the wire protocol
They handed over a hard copy of their private key, a printout. The FBI went to court to demand a machine-readable copy. Then they shut down.
This isn’t true at all.

If the creation of fakes is as easy as claimed, Neuralhash evidence alone will become inadmissible.

There are plenty of lawyers and money waiting to establish this.
Looks like a japan only model. I should have known by the name, Let's _____ is a really common Japanese product trope. You should try "Let's Corn!" sometime. Its uhhh, japanese.

How do you suggest getting one of these things or getting support for it? I'm not against foreign market hardware but they can be a real pain in the ass for many. Last japanese laptop I had was almost 20 years ago, an ultraportable Sony. It was interesting but finding drivers online back then was a challenge.
Tokamaks are inherently pulsed machines. No material will change this. Stellarators are very similar to tokamaks but do not use a central solenoid/transformer to induce the poloidal twist: they use the geometry of flux surface/coils/vessel. Stellarators are steady state.

Tritium breeding blankets have been the answer to question 2 for longer than I've been alive.

The real engineering challenges lie in divertor physics and strike point materials.
For the bankers they do :-).
No use staying somewhere where you're unhappy. You can try to stick it out, if that suits your long term goals. But you only have one life to live. Consider what it's worth to you.
I work for Twitter and the health coverage is quite good. Max annual out of pocket is $2000 and mental health is covered 90% from the first dollar.

I pay $1000/year for my policy.
> why the law would require Apple to add the capability for ...

This isn't the sort of thing that is mandated by law, but rather requested behind the scenes by espionage, er, "law enforcement" agencies. They might be more or less friendly deals; nice monopoly you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to it...
How do you know that? If they all work at the same embassy, it seems much more likely that an attack was made on the embassy that manifested into symptoms later on, at home.
Someone trying to kick through a window or open a door does not pose any threat to you.

The door will not open. The window itself is strong enough to withstand any kick that someone could put on it, but that is largely irrelevant as there is the a scratch pane, and that additional window with the tiny hole in the bottom in front of it for additional protection.

If you're holding a choke hold beyond the point someone has passed out, i.e. "risking killing them", then YOU are the danger to others in that situation, not mentally ill dude trying in futility to exit the aircraft at 36000ft.
Mobilizon 1.3 Released
Assange: “The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out” (2011)
Worry about your review. Everything else is secondary. Don’t try to turn the team around lol.
> It's an evil but it's still the least among evils.

Nope, you can use a degoogled android. There's still a matter of hardware that's not open but there's not much we can do that without sacrificing a lot of usability.
I don't agree with giving up csvs until the following conditions are met:

1) A truly open format is available and accessible. Csvs are textfiles. There is no system around that cannot open a textfile. If the format is binary or requires patents or whatever, then it's a non-starter.

2) Applications have a speed increase from using csvs. To wit, I loved csvs because often they finish preparing much faster than a "formatted" output in excel, etc. and sometimes I just want to see the numbers, not have everything colored or weird features like merged cells in excel, etc.

3) The new format should not be grossly larger than the one it is replacing. Extracts in Excel format are orders of a magnitude larger than csv in filesize. This affects run-time to prepare the extract, open it (memory constraints, etc.)

Is there truly a problem? The author is not forced to use csvs.
Why did it have to be removed? Why not just put it in maintenance mode without adding new features if there is not enough demand?
Xlsx (office format for almost a decade now) are zip and XML all the way. Not fun to look at, but totally readable by a human.
Psychogenic illness, and The Placebo Effect, should be mandatory in every high school biology class.
Sugar has brutal cravings but they disappear after a couple days. If you cut sugar for a week, the physical craving won't be a factor - they are much easier to surpass if you go in with that expectation.
Hahahah. Allow me to submit mine as well:

"I Cannot Fathom A Use Case For CSV So I Would Like To Ban Everyone From Using It For Any Reason"
> Apple hashes all of your photos offline [...]

No, only the ones designated for upload to iCloud.

> [...] it’s about governments forcing Apple to do things with this new weapon

Governments can already force Apple to do any kind of scanning, "weapon" being built already or not.
Yeah it should have been called Kansas Flu. That pandemic was one of the more disastrous aspects of the multifaceted disaster that was Wilson's dishonest entry into WWI.
LOL, no

The only appropriate replacement for CSV would be a better defined CSV that gave hard requirements for things like field quoting
Disagree. We should go with the original source as the article might be updated. Not sure if Outline automatically updates, but archive sites would not and they seem to be the more common paywall bypass here.
"Then, with all due respect, the attacker could just download actual CSAM."

If you didn't have Apple scanning your drive trying to find a new way for you to go to prison then it wouldn't be a problem.
Around 6 hours of active usage and around 16 hours of idle time (exact values depend on what's kept enabled and the signal strength of course). Currently it does not suspend to RAM at all, which is how PinePhone achieves longer idle times.
I've been moving my organization to Sqlite and Parquet depending on the use case.
Every few years an article like this pops up. I find it tiring - because they are primarily from a software engineer's viewpoint who is probably trying to write a parser and needs to handle the edge cases. As a data scientist, I receive and process around 75GB of CSV every day - of course I don't process it manually. Our processes have been running a few years now and millions of dollars of revenue rides on it. I don't see any need to retire anything, and am pretty sure our processes will be working and running 10 years from now. The only thing which will change are some statistical models which make use of this data.
They have a high level marketing video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-f4CxFBtx4 . It sounds like they're on the 6th generation machine having raised $880 million. I'd love to hear more details!
If you are placing images covertly, you can just use real CSAM or other compromat.
The thing is, I need a hefty library to write parquet. I can write a CSV with a couple fprintf statements and a loop. A parser isn't much harder if we can make assumptions about CSV dialect ahead of time.

If I'm trying to make an exportable format for a data logger with an SD card running on an ARM microcontroller, it doesn't get much easier than CSV. Sure, I could save space by rolling my own binary format, but then I have to provide a PC application to read it (and realistically, the user is probably just going to want that application to dump to a CSV anyway!).

I agree that for many use cases there are much better alternatives, but one of the reasons CSV is so popular is because it's so simple. It shouldn't be used for multi-gigabyte datasets, but for many simple use cases it works great.
Yeah okay funny, but widely used? I've never heard any of these formats. Can someone give a short and biased opinion which one is the best?
The whole point of CSV is that it's simple. You don't need and special libraries. If you can write hello world to a file you can make a CSV and more often than not it'll just work. Yes somethings, like DNA, shouldn't be CSV files. But don't blame the tool for bad craftsmanship. There are more things that it works for than doesn't.
As a side note dates should be ISO 8601
Why is this so surprising? This is something people have been doing for decades in most welfare societies.
Yes, of course everyone will have visceral fat. Having more of it is associated with diabetes, heart disease, etc. People with lots of subcutaneous fat but relatively little visceral often have better health outcomes, even though they also can look pretty flabby.
To be fair, once you get past the initial setup, everything mostly Just Works™. But still, I completely understand not wanting to deal with installation and the potential consequences if something goes wrong. (I nearly bricked a device from a botched installation once, so I know how stressful that is.)
> The article mentions Gandhi. Many in India have been vegetarian for millennia, including many Brahmin. It seems to have worked for them over the past 3000 years.

There's a lot of B12 deficiency in India, for example:

> Conclusion: Prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency is 47% in north Indian population. People with diabetes have higher vitamin B12 levels than general population though still have high prevalence of deficiency. This data shows that Vitamin B12 deficiency is widespread in Indian population.

https://www.ijem.in/article.asp?issn=2230-8210;year=2019;vol...

The study is mentioned in the article.
I'm a human and I love CSVs. What other format can I open in a spreadsheet, access through cat/grep/awk, and easily load into any programming language? Any other format has to sacrifice one of these three things, and that's bad. It's this trifecta that makes it so versatile and human friendly.
Hash collisions happen by design in the perceptual hash, its supposed to give equal hashes for small changes after all.

Something I find interesting is the necessary consequences of the property of small edits resulting in the same hash. We can show that this is impossible to absolutely achieve, or in other words there must exist an image such that changing a single pixel will change the hash.

Proof: Start with 2 images, A and B, of equal dimension, and with different perceptual hashes h(A) and h(B). Transform one pixel of A into the corresponding pixel of B and recompute h(A). At some point, after a single pixel change, h(A) = h(B), this is guaranteed to happen before or at A = B. Now A and the previous version of A have are 1 pixel apart, but have different hashes. QED

We can also ATTEMPT to create an image A with a specified hash matching h(A_initial) but which is visually similar to a target image B. Again start with A and B, different images with same dimensions. Transform a random pixel of A towards a pixel of B, but discard the change if h(A) changes from h(A_initial). Since we have so many degrees of freedom for our edit at any point (each channel of each pixel) and the perceptual hash invariant is in our favor, it may be possible to maneuver A close enough to B to fool a person, and keep h(A) = h(A_initial).

If this is possible one could transform a given CSAM image into a harmless meme while not changing the hash, spread the crafted image, and get tons of iCloud accounts flagged.
I think the main reason traditional faraday cage style tech isn't deployed is the missions of these facilities. It's not just about blocking signals from the outside, you may be limiting or mitigating collection equipment or even broadcast equipment. I will say, anyone that's worked with portable broadcast / collection equipment (microwave or sat) are given clear directions to watch where you walk and no "cross the beams" because of various side effects to include sterility.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it's some weird counter effect from multiple systems internally that have been deployed at these sites.
AB testing?