skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGI draws upon dozens of fields. The facet of AI Safety and Risk Mitigation consulting is where I started, and I was heavily influenced by Dr. Roman Yampolskiy. By the time we met in person I was already designing a bootstrap. It was a joy to get my hands in the code. When you find your real meaning for being on this earth, you won't refuse anything to go after it.
Usually postprocessing requires significant computing power. This is something that might matter for people maximizing battery usage. But another person in the same thread says in the case of Zoom it's the opposite - the web app seems more CPU-intensive.
If you're careful about water usage and use cold water, you'll always beat a dishwasher. Another thing people often forget about dishwashers: you're supposed to pre-scrub the hard shit off the dishes. Well, you just did half the mechanical work yourself, why not finish it?

I think part of it can also be (at least for me) upbringing. We always handwashed our dishes, and only used the dishwasher a couple times per year for big events.
If you're dealing with bigger threats, you need a more powerful weapon. Sheathe the Hanlon's razor, and unholster the Hanlon's handgun: "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by systemic incentives promoting malice."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691282
If you haven't tried DeepL, its like Google Translate, but a lot better.
Yes. Could be that you have to check what operators is available when you move from one framework to another using ONNX. One example is ONNX.js that make it possible to run the model using JavaScript, made by Microsoft. If the operator is not available (ex. ArgMax for WebGL) you have to switch to something equivalent and retrain. List of supported operators for ONNX.js:
https://github.com/microsoft/onnxjs/blob/master/docs/operato...
My guess is they are still tracking you. Kind of like how fb creates shadow profiles for people who don't have an account. So they do all the same tracking, you just don't get to see it in a nice dashboard!
I think it's because we think of the drink points as molecules which can indeed move and rearrange in ways that continuous points cannot.
Developer Reveals Exploitative Nature of Game Contracts
It might be useful to read the threat model document. Associated data from client neural hash matches are compared with the known CSAM database again on the server using a private perceptual hash before being forwarded to human reviewers, so all such an attack would do is expose non-private image derivatives to Apple. It would likely not put an account at risk for referral to NCMEC. In this sense, privacy is indeed preserved versus other server scanning solutions where an adversarial perceptual hash (PhotoDNA is effectively public as well, per an article shared on HN) would trigger human review of all the account’s data.
PlasticArm-First-Flexible-Processor
On the desktop OS, almost everything (but it must be me). Data manipulation, programming "calculator" (suppose you need to compute something, but with loops conditionals and functions), "/usr/bin" commands, desktop widgets (say, the interface to granularly set the brightness on my laptop), desktop applications (really all sort of things here - anything with a GUI).

An example comes to mind of something pending: there is a recorded debate I should listen to, but of the three participants one is a screamer-in-the-mike and another a low-bass-baritone-in-the-distance. Loop through the audio data compressing the "hypnotist" and the "maniac" at similar amplitude levels, using different wave transformations at different times and with continuity, then compile a command for future cases: a task for your swiss-army-knife PureBasic.

In a way, there is a specific spirit behind it: you are given a computer: the most basic, natural thing you want to do it is code on it. PB represents for me "the default coding system that should have come with the OS" - as some computers had decades ago.
I'd say there's still a difference in that while DSLRs and smartphone sensors have individual readouts for each colour channel, scientific instruments do not. So a DSLR or smartphone camera still outputs a multichannel image with a single sensor while scientific instruments are strictly monochrome.

They don't take multi-channel pictures in a single shot and each full image represents a single channel. HST for example has three cameras - one per channel - while the MER cameras have a single sensor with multiple filters.
It doesn't matter whether the feature is active right now - its presence means it is only a matter of time until agencies will want to have access.
Please don't be a jerk on HN. Note this guideline:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

With a comment like the GP, it's actually the upvotes that cause the greater problem (unintentionally), because being at the top of a thread puts a spotlight on a post which brings out things that people otherwise wouldn't notice, or at least wouldn't attack them for.
Check out hackdesign. It is really good, but its not guided and with quizzes. But the content is really good!

https://hackdesign.org/
https://hackdesign.org/lessons
Yes, at some point she would still need to "claim" the "knowledge panel" for herself by complaining to Google. But having accurate info in the community-curated Wikidata graph (that's used by pretty much every Big Tech firm out there btw, not just Google) ought to ease that process by avoiding that "Knowlege Graph" entry being fed from less accurate sources.
It became a vintage Soviet photopaper with a weird name.
> 23.65 tonnes of plants were required to make just one litre of the petrol available at your local station

The correct number would be closer to 3.54 tonnes of plant material. The other 18.91 tonnes aren't spent. They are instead fully recycled and re-enter in the system (or go away out of the oil processing chain).
You can technically hide an adversarial collision inside a complete legit normal image. It won’t be seen by human eyes but it will trigger a detection. In addition, you can do the complete opposite by perturbing a CSAM to output complete different hash to circumvent the detection. All of these vulnerabilities are well known for perceptual hash.
Just because the open web is being murdered by Google and FB, does not mean we have to go along with their progrom. We need to stand up for what's right, not for what's winning today.
I have had a Librem 13" v3 since Feb '19. It's good.

I did have a second hand v3 which had a bad mic. Purism replaced after confirming I legitimately bought it. I've had no issues with the second one.

It performs well. I code web apps and do some photo editing on it and it's fine for both. RAW processing can be a little slow.
So it was quite literally introduced as a trojan horse.

"We're so excited to bring you all these new features and bugfixes in iOS 14.3, plus one more thing you'll hear about and object to in future. Too bad."
It's the mechanism meant for untrusted links, and it's the prescribed way for instance to open a link in the user's default browser. If Chrome took that link and started sending the user's password hash, that'd clearly be Chrome's fault. Same with, say, an ftp client that listened for ftp paths and would send replayable hashes as the first step. It's clearly SMB's terrible protocol. Yes they removed UNC paths to hack around this... but they shouldn't have to. Nope should they be expected to have known about this particular Windows footgun, IMO.
> since gas stoves are less efficient and much worse for the environment than a kettle.

It is not obvious at all and requires calculations.

When you use electric kettle you use energy which was obtained mostly from coal and gas (60% of it in the US) and efficiency of the conversion is less than about 40% on average (limited by efficiency of a steam turbine). Then about 8% of this power is lost during transportation/distribution.

When gas is burned in a gas stove 100% of its energy converted to heat. The only problem - some fraction of this energy heats a room instead of a kettle. But it is not bad if you had to heat room anyway (where I live 8-10 months out of 12 I'd prefer indoor temperature to be higher then it is).

I expect this loss to be smaller than 50%, but I've not found credible numbers for this.

Efficiency for an oven may be low because it measurably heats a kitchen, but ovens is another story.
Defeatist. Most of us are able to say no to such jobs.
Thanks for the nitpick, I should have been more precise and write move value from memory to abstract register otherwise it is indeed confusing. I will fix the article and mention your comment.
This is hardly surprising. Governments are not unified bodies, they are inherently built of groups of at worst directly opposing or at best mildly aligned individuals claiming membership to some political ideal and/or club.
If I follow you maximum demand to buy labor is at $0/hr.

But if don't pay labor, no one is going to buy your product at the end of the day. If you pay more for labour, that's more money to spend on product and services.

There's an optimum somewhere between the two.

Presenting only one side is a polical statement.
SesamX, the affordable finite element software for small and medium businesses
Very unlikely you’re a ‘subject’ - that’s a very specific legal status designed for complex internationality edge cases which almost nobody uses any more.
big O() notation is simply not precise enough (and not meant to be) to be used in such nitpicky discussions. Everything is O(1) for a large anough constant, for example O(live time of the universe).

There are other notations like small o(), Omega(), omega() or theta() to capture the asymtotic runtime behavior more or less precisely.
The follow on to that saga found potential unsafe water supply to 750,000 New Zealanders. Years later the situation is reported to be little better.

This bit alarmed me: “In December 2017, a government-commissioned inquiry found that 20 percent of New Zealand’s drinking water was “not demonstrably safe,” meaning at least 759,000 people could be exposed to disease-causing contaminants. It found that there were about 35,000 cases of acute gastrointestinal illness contracted via reticulated drinking water each year.”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/99591173/state-of-ne...

https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE2102/S00058/new-zealand-town...
You are right, I'd be pretty surprised if such a statement came from the government itself. But this complaint is actually only from some members of the parliament belonging to the Digital Agenda committee with the chairman being a member of the opposition.
Well said. In Liar's Poker, the author has an Art History degree. That book inspired many young people at the time to work on Wall Street. Several of my friends who went to work at various trading desks did not study business. One of the most successful (highest "ROI") majored in Philosophy.

The idea of an uneducated electorate that increasingly gets its (mis)information from social media and aims to "earn" its money only from venture capital and online advertisers is, IMHO, frightening. However, the bigger picture is not something these "ROI" analysts ever seem to consider.
We have simple research "fusion reactors", to the point where we know a lot about fusion. That's not the hard part. Making the real production system is the hard part.
CVE in jsoup: users should upgrade to version 1.14.2 [CVSS 7.5]
Crafted input may cause the jsoup HTML and XML parser to get stuck, timeout, or throw unchecked exceptions
Linux user here, not NetBSD. My exposure to NetBSD is infinitesimal. But ...

I saw a video on "rump" kernels awhile back. I also heard that Andrew Tanenbaum ported/is porting Minix to NetBSD. NetBSD has an "anykernel" approach which separates the kernel for the drivers. So you can impose your own flavour of kernel on a bunch of pre-written drivers.

This struck me as a potentially mind-blowing win for NetBSD. Why isn't every RTOS, embedded system OS, toy OS,experimental OS etc. based on NetBSD? I don't know the reason for this. Maybe it's part NIH, part open secret that nobody's heard about, and a large part to do with getting over the hump of integration.
When the sky still crystal clear to see. The reason why almost polymath at that era also mastering astronomy.
Already been noted, but what an unbelievably sinister sentiment. "Effective life behaviors" which include being married. Social conformity enforced through corporate power with the approval of the state, and people willing to countenance it as long as the mores being enforced are reactionary instead of disingenuously "progressive".
Run the numbers. 400-500W of solar provides enough energy per day. Two 150ah batteries can handle the peak load.
Immediately? I suppose extracting and hosting people who want to leave. The taliban want them gone anyway - so they won't have to kill them. Long term - move towards communication that is uncensorable, can circumvent country-wide bans without VPNs for those who know. They can easily block twitter but not bittorrent
I apologise. Here's the expanded version.

The writer was asserting that employment in service industries hasn't returned to pre-Covid levels because people don't want to work, but immediately goes on to describe seeing several closed places of business in that sector. That seems schizophrenic (in the dictionary definition), and makes it seem like he has done no real research.

Casually boasting about air travel, one of the main carbon emission sources, during the pandemic and in the context of the global warming caused floods and wildfires in Europe, makes the writer seem entitled and tone-deaf. Complaining, even jokingly, about service not being normal in a pandemic just makes that worse.
CES 2022 to Require Attendees to Be Vaccinated Against Covid
If you were a driver, and you "achieved" W2 status, would that make you an engineer?
This basically invalidates any claims Apple made about accuracy, and brings up an interesting point about the hashing mechanism: it seems two visually similar images will also have similar hashes. This is interesting because humans quickly learn such patterns: for example, many here will know what dQw4w9WgXcQ is without thinking about it at all.
Pinentry-touchid: GPG pinentry program for macOS that allows using Touch ID
Is it just me or does the play buttons triange in the screenshot look horribly uncentered. Seems like the like positioned based on minimum/maximum horizontal extend whereas aligning the "center of gravity" with the circle center might make more sense.
Now that you mention it I seem to remember a book where a programmer beams himself into a world where he can then live like a wizard because he can affect it with his programming. Also can't remember the title, but it was a fun read.
Yes, it does evoke unnecessary violence. If it's modern warfare and a guy is piloting a drone over a little screen and kills dozens of people, it's still war and violence even if he's not bayoneting them directly. If it's postmodern warfare and a guy is piloting a meme over a keyboard and kills hundreds of thousands of people, that's still war too. Ingenious war, but still war.
Really disgusting idea: I wonder if it's possible for someone to use this as a 'discriminator' in a GAN to configure a generator to recreate the CP this is trying to avoid distributing in the first place.
Falklands is much closer to Argentina though - they should belong to Argentina by right of proximity.
The images are sent for manual verification before you're turned in, so no.
This absolutely needs to be done. Also, does Apple deploy different models for different regions/cohorts?
Then the bet doesn't payoff. Are you implying that only actions with 100% probability of pay off should be taken?

Because otherwise it's not much of a counter to say "did you know it's possible that this might not work?"
Google already implemented much the same thing many years ago. Apple is playing catch-up.
> Bitcoin manages to perform ~7 financial transactions a second, whereas this 'proof of work' manages to assign jobs for ~300 million people.

First, obviously, no it doesn't.

But second, even if it did, would that be more or less than 7 transactions / second?
> If hypothetically we wrote in English right-to-left instead, then we'd write our numbers right-to-left

If you read the article the author shows you that in RTL langs (where our current number system originated from) the numbers were also RTL. We just stuck to the convention.

Interesting how this little bit of RTL snuck into Europes otherwise LTR languages to the extend that when i type a number in a spreadsheet it changes the allignment to with this... Interesting/insightful article!
This piece started pretty nasty.
>I smiled and introduced myself as I sat down beside her. She handed me her MacBook silently and the look on her face said it all. Fix my computer, geek, and hurry up about it. I've been mistaken for a technician enough times to recognise the expression.

'I'll need to be quick. I've got a lesson to teach in 5 minutes,' I said. 'You teach?'
'That's my job, I just happen to manage the network team as well.'

She reevaluated her categorisation of me. Rather than being some faceless, keyboard tapping, socially inept, sexually inexperienced network monkey, she now saw me as a colleague. To people like her, technicians are a necessary annoyance. She'd be quite happy to ignore them all, joke about them behind their backs and snigger at them to their faces, but she knows that when she can't display her PowerPoint on the IWB she'll need a technician, and so she maintains a facade of politeness around them, while inwardly dismissing them as too geeky to interact with.

The amount of contempt for this person because she just looked at him feels absolutely huge.

> All through their lives, I've done it for them. Set-up new hardware, installed new software and acted as in-house technician whenever things went wrong. As a result, I have a family of digital illiterates.

In my opinion this feels like a huge part of the problem. Of course most people aren't passionate about software and all the inner workings of computers. For the mainstream and general population, the better way to have them learn about computers is to educate them.
The way to do it is to make them learn to solve their own problems, understand what went wrong and guide them to handle it themselves for next time.

"Just making it work" whilst considering the other person a fool because they don't know much about computers creates this "us vs them" mentality. The geeks vs socially adept people.
Just like Jury duty
We did do more rigorous testing after that which confirmed the hypothesis
BBC Africa Eye Forensics Dashboard
This isn't a good idea.
I'm interested in where the OP lives. As I live in NE UK, so probably as emotionally and culturally far away from London as possible.

There were def times that I thought I'd made an error career-wise however, that's not the whole meaning of life. And there are interesting jobs outside of London. OP would probably be very competetive skills-wise compared to locals.
I wasn't able to find much of interest from their desktop client, as all of the data is encrypted and I'm not sure how to grab an SSL key from a desktop app for use in Wireshark decryption. If somebody clever wants to help, please let me know.

I did take at their privacy policy and didn't see anything that explicitly states they are collecting info about running applications. "and other" leaves room for interpretation... Regardless, my main concern after viewing this isn't that they are snooping my running processes and sending that back to home base. Its that they are openly keylogging and tracking everything under the sun, and can view every aspect of the meeting's content (audio, video, text, etc) and share it with 3rd parties like law enforcement and others.

Source: https://zoom.us/privacy#_qhklx843v2zq

> Device Information: Information about the computers, phones, and other devices people use when interacting with Zoom Products, which may include information about the speakers, microphone, camera, OS version, hard disk ID, PC name, MAC address, IP address (which may be used to infer general location at a city or country level), device attributes (like operating system version and battery level), WiFi information, and other device information (like Bluetooth signals).

> Meeting, Webinar, and Messaging Content and Context: Content generated in meetings, webinars, or messages that are hosted on Zoom Products, which may include audio, video, in-meeting messages, chat messaging content, transcriptions, written feedback, responses to polls and Q&A, and files, as well as related context, such as invitation details, meeting or chat name, or meeting agenda. Content may contain your voice and image, depending on the account owner’s settings, what you choose to share, your settings, and what you do on Zoom Products.

> Product and Website Usage: Information about how people and their devices interact with Zoom Products, such as: when participants join and leave a meeting; whether participants sent messages and who they message with; performance data; mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes or actions (such as mute/unmute or video on/off), and other user inputs that help Zoom to understand feature usage, improve product design, and suggest features; which third-party apps users add to a meeting or other Product and what information and actions the app is authorized to access and perform; features used (such as screen sharing, emojis, or filters); and other usage information and metrics. This also includes information about when and how people visit and interact with Zoom’s websites, including what pages they accessed, their interaction with the website features, and whether or not they signed up for a Zoom Product.
And that's why we need to push our respective representatives to adopt laws that prohibit any kind of personal content scanning without a warrant. Personally, I would be ok if this scanning were applied to cloud-stored data that is shared to the public (e.g. social media platforms), but that's about it.

From the technical standpoint, Apple's implementation seems sound, although it does raise strong concerns about the future applications of the technology. Strong privacy laws can prevent abuse.
Thanks, I also tend to have JS disabled, and saw that you added a note now.
Thanks for your thoughts.

WHAT WE DO
By not doing sales I mean that customers can register and use our product and pay for it without being forced to speak to a human being.
We have few transactional flow emails but we do not try to establish a one-to-one relationship with every customer.
We offer chat support and email support but that's it.
I do contact restaurants on Whatsapp asking them to be alpha users in new products to get feedback. My intention though is more to get feedback rather than make a sale.

I do have an understanding of the strategy of many competitors. Sales are not my forte and I prefer to pursue other strategies where I can outdo my competitors. I've a background in software engineering but I did acquire a lot of marketing skills to have the startup succeed. I do not wish to get in high-touch sales. I'm not good at it and also I don't think it's a good strategy with restaurants which are SMB (small and medium business).
The SaaS plans for restaurants range in the 15-100$ and I think is a classic example where nets will catch more customers than spears.

What's your background? Are you in sales?
> a feature that is not even going to be active in Europe

Just wait until some bought-off cronies in the EU Parliament pushes for this feature. Never forget the Article 13 events!
Do you have any more info on this right of proximity? It’s nearer to me so it’s mine is that about it?