skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this is something to do with temporal integration periods in the HDR or AGC processing in the camera, in which case it might be an algorithm developed by an camera imager supplier (for example someone like OmniVision) rather than Tesla themselves. Does anyone know which imagers Tesla uses in the cameras on their cars?
Indeed this is not new and has probably been happening for many years already. There are services advertising on dark net markets to “ruin someone’s life” which means you pay some Ukrainian guy $300 in Bitcoin and he plants CSAM on a target’s computer.
This seems disingenuous at best. Even on the very first day that Google launched if you typed those things into it, you would get 'the most relevant responses' which is all that these are, a search engine providing the most relevant response to your query. At some point the tool and its underlying algorithms have to operate on a good faith assumption which this twitter person was clearly not operating on.

There may have been some tomfoolery going on with that twitter guy as well and/or in the intervening time Google has improved the algorithms to handle people trying to get silly results. This is what I got trying to repeat his first query:

What year did Tom Hanks land on the moon

1995
William Broyles Jr. Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise.

For his second query, it makes perfect sense to me why google returned what it did (still returning the answer he got, but notice he conventently cutoff the paragraph of text that includes the saturn 5 rocket and the statue of liberty, possibly the only document on the web to have both in the same sentence, explaining why you got that return.

which rocket launched the statue of liberty into the ocean?
The Saturn V rocket
The Saturn V rocket was 111 meters (363 feet) tall, about the height of a 36-story-tall building, and 18 meters (60 feet) taller than the Statue of Liberty. Fully fueled for liftoff, the Saturn V weighed 2.8 million kilograms (6.2 million pounds), the weight of about 400 elephants.Feb 21, 2018
Apollo 13 (film) - Wikipedia
You're wrong. Scanning is NOT required by US law. The law says IF [1] you know about CSAM, then you MUST report. If you don't know, you don't have to report. And it is not your legal duty scan. Law even has privacy sections [2]. But if you DO scan, then you must report.
So all these CSAM scan is bullshit. Companies can stop scanning if they want to.

[1] 18 US Code 2258A

[2] 18 US Code 2258A -> F.1, F.2, F.3
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I have only had the pleasure to see the milky way once. It was in the middle of a loan stretch of road in arkansas. I have not seen it since then, 25 years ago. I am the only person in my neighborhood who turns off the porch light at night. I want to see that again and to share it with others. But alas I do not think it will happen :(
Jira tickets (and Tara tickets) are going to have user data (including poorly-defined user requirements). Turning that into synthetic data with Synthesised will almost definitely lead to developers building software that does not match the original requirements.
Getting unreasonably angry is usually a pretty good sign that you're trying to distract yourself from a good point that was made
Land Is not a replicabile resource
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Compiled and (admittedly briefly) tested yesterday. It's small, and fast although run virtualized. There are some quirks here and there, but for an OS in its infancy it's normal.
Not an easy task, however I'd like one day to see it ported to ARM platforms. All those small and cheap Pi-like boards or TV boxes seem just the right platforms for it.
It was the last British territory in France, holding out until 1558.

https://tudorhistory.org/glossaries/c/calais.html
Unless it is no more than the average, in which case it may not be a systematic failure. Which was their point I believe?

A systematic failure would be striking every emergency vehicle for instance.
Not related, but related: I could definitely use a consistent, coherent, pixel-perfect Windows 95 theme package for Linux. QT, GTK, DE does not really matter, as long as they blend in properly. Something like the adapta-project.
> There is something I can’t explain that is missing from today’s games that I see in older games

That'd be the fun.

Buy a Nintendo Switch.
> Another thing people often forget about dishwashers: you're supposed to pre-scrub the hard shit off the dishes.

Once you’ve removed the bones and massive solids, the modern dishwasher can do an astounding job on the rest. Put a little detergent in the prewash (or on a Bosch, just in the tub) and let the machine do the work. (I also grew up washing dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. It’s almost never needed now, but old habits die hard.)
Absolutely nothing wrong with that (I grew up hanging clothes on a line and using gas stoves, for example), but suggesting these kind of regressions as a drop-in solution to our modern lives is misguided.
> the whole scoring-scene is completely different.

Hollywood, amirite?
A bounds-driven analysis of “Skull and Roses” cards game (2013) [pdf]
It wasn't exactly random. They had the same ( very common for the country) name and country of origin. And multiple decades of difference in age.
Show HN: Should I sell the picc.io file sharing site
How much would a site like https://picc.io for file sharing be worth?. I am thinking of selling it
https://picc.io
I suppose some that have "left tech" still browse HN, but I think you're right, many that have "left tech" will likely also stop browsing HN and similar forums.
I disagree with you, too.
Is it ? I checked your link and they separate clearly which features comes to which OS, here's how I read it :

- Communication safety in Messages

> "This feature is coming in an update later this year to accounts set up as families in iCloud for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey."

- CSAM detection

> "To help address this, new technology in iOS and iPadOS"

- Expanding guidance in Siri and Search

> "These updates to Siri and Search are coming later this year in an update to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey."

So while the two other features are coming, the CSAM detection is singled out as not coming to macOS.

But ! At the same time, and I saw that after the editing window closed, the GitHub repo clearly states that you can get the models from macOS builds 11.4 onwards :

> If you have a recent version of macOS (11.4+) or jailbroken iOS (14.7+) installed, simply grab these files from /System/Library/Frameworks/Vision.framework/Resources/ (on macOS) or /System/Library/Frameworks/Vision.framework/ (on iOS).

So my best guess is, they trialed it on macOS as they did in iOS (and put the model there contrary to what I had assumed) but choose not to enable it yet, perhaps because of the rounding error issue, or something else.

Edit : This repo by KhaosT refers to 11.3 for the API availability but it's the same ballpark, Apple is already shipping it as part of their Vision framework, under an obfuscated class name, and the code samples runs the model directly on macOS : https://github.com/KhaosT/nhcalc/blob/5f5260295ba584019cbad6...
Yes but the article also says:

"Part of the two-year case was settled just last week—days after news of the company’s CSAM technology became public."

And

"On Monday, Corellium announced a $15,000 grant for a program it is specifically promoting as a way to look at iPhones under a microscope and hold Apple accountable. On Tuesday, Apple filed an appeal continuing the lawsuit."
Things moving too fast to sell DLC skins for them.
Remember when there was the case of unexpected speeding leading to accident by one OEM?

It doesn't matter the question of "Oh, what was the accident rate when people where unexpectedly speeding?"

What matters was that single type of car by one OEM. If that OEM has some type of problem with its cars, then its a systematic failure which needs to be investigated and resolved by that OEM.
Honestly, I think he's right. (Disclaimer: I work for Google. Not on Search or anything closely related.)

Anyone who uses Google Search often knows that the results you get are generally right... 95% of the time or so. Even if they tried their damndest, they wouldn't be able to get anywhere near 100% correct. In fact, CGP Grey made the point in several of his YouTube videos and podcasts that even peer-reviewed, accepted papers and history books are sometimes wrong or based on flimsy evidence.

What Google search results tell me are what beliefs there are in the world. Many times you'll get multiple results (e.g. multiple pictures of different people under Image Search).

Most of the time the truth itself is not super critical - I want to buy this lady's book. Does it really matter what she looks like? - and when it is, I know that sometimes Google is wrong and depending on how much it matters, I double-check with other sources.
> 7. Apple reviewer....

This part IMO makes Apple itself the most likely "target", but for a different kind of attack.

Just wait until someone who wasn't supposed to, somewhere, somehow gets their hands on some of the actual hashes (IMO bound to happen eventually). Also remember that with Apple, we now have an oracle that can tell us. And with all the media attention around the issue, this might further incentivize people to try.

From that I can picture a chain of events something like this:

1. Somebody writes a script that generates pre-image collisions like in the post, but for actual hashes Apple uses.

2. The script ends up on the Internet. News reporting picks it up and it spreads around a little. This also means trolls get their hands on it.

3. Tons of colliding image are created by people all over the planet and sent around to even more people. Not for targeted attacks, but simply for the lulz.

4. Newer scripts show up eventually, e.g. for perturbing existing images or similar stunts. More news reporting follows, accelerating the effect and possibly also spreading perturbed images around themselves. Perturbed images (cat pictures, animated gifs, etc...) get uploaded to places like 9gag, reaching large audiences.

5. Repeat steps 1-4 until the Internet and the news grow bored with it.

During that entire process, potentially each of those images that ends up on an iDevice will have to be manually reviewed...
> You’re assuming you’ll still have the employee if you refuse.

If the employee quits, you're in this situation once (and you'd be in it anyway). If you allow it and set a precedent, you might end up in this situation far more often and with worse consequences if you decide to change your mind.

> The point is that once you have no leverage over employees [...], you cannot establish what is not or not okay on your own.

Sure you can. You just need to find people that are okay with what you're okay with (and the same thing in reverse, of course).

I don't think leverage works in this case either way. If you have employees that are willing to let you stand in the rain and sabotage your business [0], you need to find new ones anyway. Leverage only let's you avoid the inevitable for a small bit in exchange for burning a bridge.

[0] I'm not saying that this is necessary the case in OPs scenario, but it plausibly might be.
This is a great response - thanks for following up.
GitHub pushes users to enable 2FA
Sure, you could buy a house in the extremely small cities of Ohio with little to no jobs or economic future. I doubt many are. Almost all the population growth in the US is in major metro areas. If those cities are close to commute to Cleveland, Columbus, or Cincinnati, sure.
Labor is the highest percentage of costs in service industries. Hence the incentive to keep labor costs down.
The earlier post headline was more clear: "Palantir bought $50M in gold bars in August as cash pile grows"

Having too much of one thing puts one at risk of a black swan event.
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Velocity is derived. It's scope/time.
A vulnerability by itself is not that dangerous, but in combination with a sophisticated attack, or another vulnerability can be disastrous. State actors have the resources to exploit a number of unknown bugs in combination with this collision to have Apple's systems flag persons of interest.

This, combined with human error during the manual review process might result in someone getting reported. Seeing as twitter (and other social media sites) jump on the bandwagon whenever someone gets accused of being a pedophile, this might destroy someones life.

The entire story might seem a bit to far fetched, but based on past events, you never know how bad something 'simple' as a hash collision can be.
Bullshit Jobs are kind of welfare: lots of People almost rely on them for a decent lifestyle
Did DOD give a reason why they went with MS when AWS is being used by most of the world. The only reason was because Trump hates Bezos so Amazon was right to fight back.
OK, now I'm curious. How does darknet stuff actually work?

Is there some darknet search engine that you access over Tor and type whatever illegal thing you seek such as "child porn" or "stolen credit cards" or "heroin" or "money laundering" into and it points you to providers of those illegal goods and services reachable over some reasonably secure channel?

Or is it one of those things where someone already using a particular child porn or stolen card or money laundering or heroin selling site has to put you in contact with them?
Put it this way – when newspapers wanted to know if Biden had spoken to world leaders about the Taliban, they asked the NSA.

I think it’s safe to assume at this point that many politicians in the US are compromised by domestic intelligence agencies.
The people problems stay, of course, but larger corporations have the advantage that a) hiring an additional employee is not as big of a financial hit and b) they usually have larger teams, where load balancing tasks or filling in for a missing employee is not as big of an issue. That's what I meant by it is easier for them :)
And now you will be accused of trying to hide illegal material in innocuous images.
It sounds like an awful experience. Was this recent or 30 years ago?
Scope is sometimes fixed too, ie through contractual obligations. Velocity can be increased by pulling more resources in - to a certain point.
A systematic failure is striking every emergency vehicles in the same circumstances.

So it needs to be investigated what are the circumstances and the OEM needs to resolve the issue.
And ignited the impossible to extinguish electric car batteries in its vicinity
This is surreal. You're a volunteer google guide, you're actually helping google by being a local guide. And now they're having free work done for them by you. Now does Google have the worst customer service, or does Google have the absolutely most terrible customer service?
It depends. NT users with Linux (specially Slackware) with FVWM and a bunch of Lesttif/GTK1 tools for sure they are nostalgic on Motif and even Athena. At least a bit.
You can ungoogle yourself from both TV and YT just fine. The viable alternative is to spend your time on something else, internets are big.
I think you need to use pytorch or tensorflow to create the network and train it. After training you export it to ONNX. I suggest you to convert from ONNX to Openvino.
That's besides the point though. There's still a human that's able to react to new situations (albeit very slowly) on the road. Teslas apparently can't do that very well. The question is: how do we fix this? And is this potential for regulation? For me personally, this is one of my biggest hangups with these new technologies: they're black boxes. We don't know how they work, and they change all the time. Companies can get most of the general cases correct, but as for the panoply of edge cases, how do we approach them? How should insurance companies approach them? Whose at fault here, who pays who?

There's just so many unanswered questions with automated driving that a lot of people don't really want to solve, they just want the technology out there and we'll worry about the edge cases later...as in, we'll worry about it when people start dying. "Move fast and break things", that retarded shit. I hate it. This SV frat programmer mentality is now bleeding over into automobiles, an industry that does indeed need to be shaken up, but not when it's at the expense of lives.

Treating driving software like it's a fucking web application that can be fixed later is malicious negligence.
>Is no one else put off by the tone of this article?

Not really, it's just a more personal retelling of something anyone in a skilled domain knows exists.

If I were to tell a more professional version of the same phenomenon, I'd make it a story about cross functional collaboration at the office. There are two major categories to those interactions, the first where the differently-skilled people respect and understand the complexities of each-others' domains, and understand the point is to bridge that gap. Then there are those who are annoyed that a problem has strayed into a skillset they don't have, and make it quite visible that they're annoyed it's not already a solved problem (without the context to know if it's something reasonable to expect to already be solved and/or care to learn if it's actually something quite easy they could do on their own).

And it's not about software skill. The first time people interact with our legal department, it's usually because they were asked to send documents over for feedback, and just shoot them over cold. The first phone call with one of the lawyers is the "freebie" where they're forgiven for not reading the documents to the best of their ability first. The lawyer teaches our team members enough about what they're looking for and how to annotate documents with what is/isn't relevant to the business context of the documents and whatever technical background they need before sending them over.

On the other hand, we have people who are deep into one technical field and have day-to-day dependencies on something only slightly outside their wheelhouse. When they hit a wall and ask for help they'll often get if from someone who loves the thing, will talk your ear off about it if you let them, and really like teaching people about the thing. But the person asking for help has already mentally shutdown and are too exasperated to learn anything as they go.

Helping laypeople with technical issues is often interacting with someone who's (at best) coming from a helpless and defeated position. It's not their fault, it's just the way society teaches people to think about tech. But it does breed resentment towards the people they have to rely on, and on top of that it's already uncool to know about the stuff. You sorta have to be blind not to see the "just give me the answer and then fuck off forever" attitude from many people that hate the fact they're seeking your help. It's why I feign ignorance on many technical matters outside work ("no, my job involves different kinds of computers and I have to go our IT department for this stuff too").
Not necessarily.

If you know the method used by Apple to scale down flagged images before they are sent for review, you can make it so the scaled down version of the image shows a different, potentially misleading one instead:

https://thume.ca/projects/2012/11/14/magic-png-files/

At the end of the day:

- You can trick the user into saving an innocent looking image

- You can trick Apple NN hashing function with a purposely generated hash

- You can trick the reviewer with an explicit thumbnail

There is no limit to how devilish one can be.
There you go https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features
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Use a fake photo as provided above, algorithmically generated. Or use a photo of Sergey Brin or Larry page, they deserve the credit for this "feature" eh?
For an overwhelming majority of Zoom users, scaling over 1k users is not a concern.
Large human population is an issue. But if you accept that as a premise, Megacities are more efficient in terms of resource usage than equally-sized but geographically dispersed populations.

As for water usage, think first of agriculture, then industry. Only after that do cities come into play. Cities are relatively small water consumers.
If a company is paying you $X in annual salary your cost to them is basically double that if FTE (insurance / benefits / perks / etc.) so contractors can be "cheaper".
And yet a simple call to the local Walmart demonstrates that Medicaid and ACA doesn’t cover the HPV Vaccine.
The reverse of your question is very interesting.

In 2000, W2 contract programming rates were about 2x employee salaries, $75/hr - $100/hr vs. $75k - $100k/year plus stock options.

In 2021, W2 contract programming rates are less than employee salaries, and often there are issues with Obamacare penalties, $75/hr - $100/hr vs. $150k - $250k/year plus stock options.

In 21 years, W2-style contract rates have not increased in Calif., while other states like Texas have caught up to Calif.
Yes. Talk to any police or first responder, they have training to cover this. For this and some other reasons is why police often approach stopped vehicles from the passenger side, further off the road and shielded from oncoming traffic by the vehicles.
>Are there other major costs to company of a full time employee that are significant relative to the salary?

Yes. There's accounting/budgeting/HR jargon of "fully loaded"[1] as in "fully loaded salary" or "fully loaded cost" of an employee -- which is a higher amount that's calculated by the company. The extra costs in a fully loaded salary include health insurance, 401k match, vacation, etc.

Depending on the company benefits and overheard structure, the fully loaded cost could be ~1.2x to 2x the salary. E.g. it costs the company ~$375k behind-the-scenes to pay the $250k the employee "sees".

Therefore, your intuition that $250k salary == $250k billed-by-contractor is actually not an apples-to-apples comparison. The $250k-contractor costs less than a $250k employee. Other non-salary reasons for contractors include having a flexible size workforce -- especially for non-strategic projects. Instead of bad press headlines announcing, "layoffs of X employees", just cancel the contract.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22fully+loaded%22+salary
A police raid on a person's home, or even a gentler thorough search, can be enough to quite seriously disrupt a person's life. Certainly having the police walk away with all your electronics in evidence bags will complicate trying to work remotely.

Of course, this is assuming everything works as intended and they don't find anything else they can use to charge you with something as they search your home. If you smoke cannabis while being in the wrong state, you're now in several more kinds of trouble.
I'm not necessarily anti-capitalist, but it's so frustrating that a huge percentage of the best talent, compensation, and tech stacks goes to industries that aren't doing anything actually useful (finance, fintech, adtech)*. There are so many organizations in farming, space travel, healthcare, etc. that would be very well served with receiving the best talent and having the best tech stacks/workplace culture, but when the result of a business model is "acquire a huge pile of money" (finance, fintech, adtech), you'll end up with the biggest pile of money with which to find the best and pay better.