skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn’t matter if there are collisions if the two images don’t actually look the same.

Is that really true? My understanding is that the manual reviewers at Apple only see some kind of low-resolution proxy, not the full-resolution image. I'd also be shocked if the human reviewers were shown the original, actually CP image, to compare to.

Given that, it's not necessary to produce an actual visual match, it's just necessary to produce an image that when scaled-down looks like CSAM (e.g. take an actual photo of a kid at the beach and photoshop in some skin-coloured swimwear with creases in the right places).

> Do people honestly believe a single CSAM flag from an “innocent” image is going to result in someone going to prison in America?

The attack I'd worry about here is similar to swatting. Someone who doesn't like me sends a bunch of images like the ones I described above (not just one), they end up synced to iCloud (because Apple wants _everything_ synced to iCloud) and Apple reports me to the authorities, who end up knocking at my door and arresting me.

Even though I'm innocent, I'll probably have most of my computers confiscated for a while and spend a few days locked up.

> PhotoDNA has existed for over a decade doing the same thing with no instances that I have heard of.

PhotoDNA's algorithms and hashes aren't public, so it's not clear how an attacker would exploit PhotoDNA in the way that people are afraid will be done for Apple.

PhotoDNA also isn't, as far as I know, part of a product that aims to create unprotected backups of the phones of nearly a billion users. Apple really wants you to upload your whole phone to iCloud. The only comparable alternative is Google's Android backup but Google does the right thing and end-to-end encrypts that.
I just bought a Toyota at MSRP last week. I was considering waiting a little longer, glad I did not.
China has a plausible pretense to invade Taiwan. Okinawa? Not so much.
And this is why corporate breakups are often as rude and traumatizing as the swipe card rejecting entry, you contact security and they tell you that you’ve been fired. I don’t know how we can be a better society, but I know we’re not there yet ;)
I thought the same thing at first glance, but it looks like the author is just reusing an existing spec https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/csv-dialect/
Just a guess, but I'd assume this is a step in that direction?

One somewhat related item -- the federal prohibition of alcohol (Amendment 18) and its repeal (Amendment 21) -- stems from the commerce clause, which enumerates the powers held by the Federal legislative branch: including the regulation of intrastate and interstate commerce. IANAL or a constitutional scholar, so grains of salt.

Fun fact: though the 21st amendment came into being in 1933, Mississippi was one of the last states to repeal a state-wide dry law in 1966. [0]

[0] https://www.mdah.ms.gov/timeline/zone/1966/
I meant more why this kind of directory lost coverage overall as cell phones came in. Maybe it was just really that unpopular to have the name, address & number be public by default.
> People have different perspectives

You make my point for me.
Rain is intermittent sure, but there's many earthship homes in New Mexico that catch rainwater and are mostly self-sufficient. They get like 2 inches of rain per year, and on dryer years maybe need to pay $100/year for water to be delivered/trucked in.

I think if we could catch a lot more water than we allow to evaporate, especially in places like Utah where we've been flooding lately and are STILL in a drought.. I can't wrap my head around that. Why aren't we trying to collect all that excess water like a rancher trying to catch stray cattle that wandered onto their ranch?
For what it's worth, Apple claimed to find a _lower_ incidence of false-positives when it used pornographic images in its test[1] (which makes sense; images containing humans is probably more aligned with what the model was trained on than nematodes)

This is an important note. Is it the case that this algorithm is trained for humans or not? the 1/trillion false-positive rate might imply it is trained with a broader set.

Thank you for those helpful tidbits.
It's true that it's not strictly necessary that the "backing taxation" for this scheme be specifically on income, but due to historical circumstance this the largest pillar currently supporting the US system. Theoretically income should be related to productivity so it is a reasonable backing to balance against inflation. The onus is on those who'd like to replace the system to justify a better alternative.
Not even controversial...
Cigarettes are 21 in the US as of three years or so ago.
You could use TypeScript IaC like AWS CDK or Pulumi with FaaS like AWS Lambda or Cloudflare Workers.

End to end TypeScript from IaC to FaaS.
If I don't write down everything I need to do, I will forget 1/4 of it, sometimes including crucial or time-sensitive items. Same goes for context, info that needs to be included in X deliverable, etc.
What if it was a billion smaller magnets? Over time they would clump up with other debris and other clumps, and the mass would make the orbits decay faster. This is my very uninformed idea, maybe magnets just have such short range that it’s not feasible at all
He probably asks.
OnlyFans pushes SFW app on iOS and Android as it tries to shake adult image
Outside gatherings were banned for a while here, so even masked groups in public parks were not feasible.
It won't tell you what the bacteria exactly is. It only tells you whether it is a bacterial infection and what antibiotic you should use to treat it.
Why make things so complicated (so they fail)?

Just pass a bill removing it from the Schedule 1 list! It's absolutely illogical for it to be on that list.
It gets nowhere near as hot or as cold as most of the US. It is like most northern European coastal countries...maybe negative temperatures in winter, maybe 29 degrees on the hottest day in summer...the only months where the weather is really different are July and late December/January. Weather is pretty much the same all year round apart from that (just to be clear, I live in a coastal area close to the Netherlands).

The non-coastal regions of the US are more like Eastern Europe where you can get 35 degrees in the summer and -20 in the winter.
Mined elements poisoning the ground you say?
Food prices are insane right now. I used to leave the grocery store with a spend of ~$90 now I average ~$120. Its anecdotal but it adds up.
Allows you to increase the length and thickness of the
It can go on the Internet. It’s just that this subsector of the Internet has rules. I don’t think anyone will complain if you blog about your thing.
Not minimum wage certainly, but less. Not sure how significant an expense salary is for the TSMC though as a fab is very capital intensive.

https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202106300017

"The median employee salary at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, reached NT$1.81 million (US$64,874) in 2020, up from NT$1.63 million a year earlier."

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/TSMC-Salaries-E4130.htm

Process engineer is like $73K/yr

So these, very skilled, employees probably get like ~15% less in Taiwan. No idea what Taiwan's employer tax situation looks like.
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck

Aaron Schwartz reviews growth mindset. It really changed how
I approach things and I’ve attempted so many things I would have previously not tried because of reading that.

I know it’s silly to recommend a blog post about a book but it’s so well summarized that it’s better than the book IMO. The book seems to dilute the power of the message with a whole bunch of words and details.
Differences between Analytics Eng and Data Eng based on job descriptions
No, that accurately describes it. Try looking for jobs in boring industries, not anything that tries to be a startup or is a purely web-based company.

You watched Joshua Fluke? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-91UA-Xy2Cvb98deRXuggA
Why is it good on google?

Privacy for your children, as long as parents don't mind jumping through hoops created by google to fix a problem created by google. With I'm sure google-standard support (fuck you if it doesn't work and you aren't friends with a senior employee) to go along for the ride.

It's the appearance of doing something while leaving 99.999% (estimated) of the children's pictures right where they are.

Actual privacy would be proactively removing all images of under 18s from search.
Great question. Human arms are also very bad in rigidity, repeatability, etc. but we manage to do great work by adjusting. Of course we try to move and rest on things to get out of the error-prone postures (so in effect moving from this to a gantry type of configuration), and need to measure, create jigs and templates, etc. but there is something here to be covered by sw for sure.
Machine Learning's Crumbling Foundations
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

The concept of norms, laws, and social customs being set my the most stubborn and intolerant among us: "The Minority Rule", by Nassim Taleb.
I've tackled this by telling everyone that from 9am to 11am I'll be working offline with no IM or e-mail access. Even if the rest of my day is filled with meetings I don't feel too anxious because at least I've least accomplished something in the morning.
I'm not even sure you need to drop all of these. Lots of functionality could be centralized. The Apollo Lunar Module did everything with just one embedded computer. We've probably just traded more chips for shorter wires in many such cases.
As a counter point: most IDEs come with defaults for many things and offer the ability to customize. Whether it's better to have defaults that you have to override or have no pre-configured tools seems dependent on the user and the tool. I've personally been turned off by how much work it takes to get vim functional on the same level as my other tools and have often wished someone had put together a better starting point and explained how to integrate, extend and customize. I like that if I want to, I can build up from zero to a totally personalized vim setup, but I don't like that most of the time I have to start from zero and build a totally personalized setup.
These scenarios sound rather like "the wrong side of airlock" stories[1]. Why would China go through an elaborate scheme with fake child-porn hashes, when it can already arrest these people on made-up charges, and simply tell Apple to provide the private key for their phones, so that they can read and insert whatever real/fake evidences they want?

[1] I'm stealing the expression from this excellent article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...
Citing reputable sources is necessary but not sufficient. In practice, wikipedia seems to care about the appearance of citation more than citation itself (a number of studies have shown that using [bracketed footnote numbers] boosts the perceived credibility of preceding claims. [1][2]) On wikipedia, citing claims is a cargo cult.

As for fixing errors on wikipedia myself? I gave up on that years ago when I tried to fix a few mispellings and had my changes reverted by bots within a minute.

[1] https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_0...

[2] https://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/environment/nutrient-manag...
> It always puzzles me why China is so antagonistic with its neighbours.

> The issue is that China needs energy and other natural resources to sustain production which the US and allies can effectively blockade.

You just answered your own question.

They are so hostile, and aggressive exactly because of that immense insecurity, and fear.

It's the mental model you pickup growing in any red country: you never acknowledge your weaknesses, lest you want them being instantaneously exploited.

On other hand, you feign a polar opposite. It's everywhere in China:

— Far from rich people in small towns buying fake Ferraris

— Dumb companies hiring fake "big name foreign executives" to mumbo jumbo their plans to investors

— "Advance to retreat" tactic

— Chinese businessmen hiring a service of "fake thugs" and tatooing themselves to appear "tough mafia men" to scare off actual mafias
I'm not sure the federal tax revenue is the big motivator here. Currently most (all?) cannabis operations are paying MASSIVE federal taxes under rule 280E. Federally legalizing should substantially reduce the effective federal tax rate on the cannabis industry.

Now, you might offset that by having MORE cannabis business revenue nationally, instead of just in the legalized states, but don't think the IRS isn't getting their piece of the pie already....
This isn’t true. The db is blinded. We have no way of knowing what’s in it.

It would be trivial to have the same payload on each device, and extract different answers using the matching server side db which varies by country.

Perhaps not trivial, but just short.
It will be faaaar slower. If it is a good alternative depends on your need. Benchmark your situation
Maybe I'm disgruntled and didn't know it, but I can imagine reading that scenario in a book in some kind of fictional universe, but I really can not imagine things happening this way on the real life.
> The current goal is to analyze queries

Then you should focus on the optimization phase. Where indexes, table statistics, etc are involved. The parsing and even translating sql from one dialect to another wouldn't give much for you to analyze.

I'm assuming you want to learn about query performance and execution plans?

Frankly, if you want to analyze queries, just install the rdbms, set up a data warehouse and use the tools available to analyze query plans/etc. There are so much that affects queries beyond the actual sql since the hardware and data load affects the queries. You could run the same sql query and end up with wildly different query/execution plans depending on how the data/tables/indexes are changed on your system.
While most of the above is ease to agree with, there is this uneasy feeling that one could change "two parties" to "one", and use it in a Chinese context. Which would also hold true, after all there's nothing wrong with a single party system as long as it is democratic and consists of a wide spectrum of political ideology?

Well, in practice there kind of is. It probably doesn't have to be that way, but just from what little experience I have, I wouldn't hesitate which one I'd rather live in. The more heterogeneous system tends to bring a more heterogeneous culture and with it a wider range of ideas.
> By the time the FBI comes knocking for your devices, they have a lot of evidence, not a list of hash collisions.

Not necessarily. The FBI knocks on your door when they have convinced a warrant-signing judge, that’s there is probable-cause, or that additional information can be collected to build a case in which the defendant will ‘plead’ or make a deal for sentence reduction. 90% of defendants make a deal and never go to trial because by that time the stakes are so high a guilty verdict includes the harshest possible sentence.

FBI only needs to convince you they can win a case or the judge that there might be fruit behind a locked door, they don’t need direct evidence. It’s really up to the judge.
I am just going to say....That little blurb about SSC/ACX kinda caught my eye. I had/have never heard of this persons blog.

And now I am down a rabbit hole. Probably for a while. But thanks for that. Seems like the world needs more thinkers like this person, and everyone, including myself could learn a lot from them.
> Why would we do that if the fabs themselves don't think it is worth paying their equipment manufacturers enough to afford their own chips?

Because there is a global chip shortage that is making life substantially worse for the vast majority of Americans. And because markets are tools used by man, not the other way around.
I can't disagree with your first sentence more. The current crop of legislators, both D and R, have shown that they're not above opposing something just because the other side came up with it.

And I do think that evangelicals still have quite a stranglehold on the party, but they have more pressing priorities.
Too late to edit but I meant to say "are not"
>But how long before it scans everything, and there's no way to opt out?

Do we think this is detectable? If yes, then why worry about it if we will know when this switch is made? If not, why did we trust Apple that this wasn't happening already?

That is the primary thing I don't understand, this fear rests on an assumption that Apple is a combination of both honest and corrupted. If they are honest, we have no reason to distrust what they are saying about how this system functions or will function in the future. If they were corrupted, why tell us about this at all?
You're going to have to explain why it's a binary choose between banning cars or not.
We actually use these as part of bulk loading CSV s into SQL server 2016 because bulk insert can't discern commas in a field with one being used as a delimiter. Pain in the ass to debug with though.
Exactly!

OP should also consider being perhaps less inflammatory with his language. Be mindful of others.

Simply complaining won't help you, OP. Be proactive and seek to synergize[1].
If you are Einstein-level smart, then why don't you synergize with people instead?
In a gearbox, every part counts. The smaller gears and the bigger gears do play a role in the final transmission.

Learn to make the best out of a given situation. If you can't or don't want it, you can leave and go somewhere else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effecti...
They have already drawn that line, or at least the EU right to be forgotten has. All sorts of results are missing when searching from an EU member state (or the UK).
I'm not sure I agree with it, but we seem we'll past the line already...
Imagine this scenario.

- You receive some naughty (legal!) images of a naked young adult while flirting online and save them to your camera roll.

- These images have been made to collide [1] with "well known" CSAM images obtained from the dark underbelly of the internet, on the assumption that their hashes will be contained in the encrypted database.

- Apple's manual review kicks in because you have enough such images to trigger the threshold.

- The human reviewer sees a bunch of thumbnails of naked people whose age is indeterminate but looks to be on the young side.

- Your case is forwarded to the FBI, who now have cause to turn your life upside down.

This scenario seems entirely plausible to me, given the published information about the system and the ability to generate collisions that look like an arbitrary input image, which is clearly possible as demonstrated in the linked thread. The fact that most of us are unlikely to be targets of this kind of attack is little comfort to those that may be.

[1]: https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX/issue...
We have this problem to some extent as well, but I've fought back pretty hard with some improvements having been made on my team. We have no meetings on Wednesdays and Fridays and also make as many meetings optional as we can. Time fragmentation and establishing a routine is still a big problem for me at work though. This is the only negative of the WFH experiment I'm finding. Too easy to have meetings when meeting space isn't a factor. I feel like we're working though this at least though so I'm confident we'll get there.
Multiple Republicans in positions to know what their policy is have repeatedly stated that they see obstructionism as their path back to political control.

You don't need to be a cynic, just listen to what they're saying.
Stephen Kings book “on writing” discusses this issue.

From his perspective, and I agree with it, the way to get creative in writing is to be consistently writing every day.
> Americans could never do this, he said. We would not trust the builder to make a building so watertight. We would not trust the window manufacturer. We would not trust the water authority to keep the water level perfectly constant. Our insurers would not insure this. Our families would not buy it. Our regulators would not permit it. Our builders would not attempt it.

As a Dutch person, it would be easy to feel a bit flattered and proud. But instead I'm gonna have to take the modest pill and call bullshit. Building is sort of my hobby, I've stripped (to the studs if it were American ;)) down and rebuilt my house in the past 4 years, and while doing so have watched endless youtube videos of builders, many american.

From my perspective there's only one thing in that paragraph that's correct, and that's that in the US you wouldn't trust the water authority to keep the water level. That's not even an American thing per se (although the US is infamous for aspiring to be independent from government), but mostly a Dutch thing. My house is 5 meter below sea level, a window being 6" above the water line is just not a big deal when you've got that in mind. It's not just I'm at risk of a moldy basement. If the government fucks up, everything would be under meters of water.

The U.S.'s has excellent building quality and whenever something is not up to snuff locally you just import from Germany. The U.S. is also not as homogenous as the tiny Netherlands are, you could have a cardboard sheathed house in Texas, or you could have a thick walled brownstone house in Chicago.

Also we don't have as many talented tradespeople. Our education system is geared towards getting people to work desk jobs, I think the U.S. system spreads the talent a little bit more evenly. In the past 30 years or so, we've mostly been building cookie cutter houses, the only thing you could say is we've been working on fancier cookie cutters.
> why not have a little more creativity while you're in the process of blatant speculation?

Bayes’ Theorem and the fact that probabilities exist smoothly from zero to one on hypotheses.

For the same reason that you consider checking your kitchen table for keys before you contemplate their disappearance into the quantum froth.

Alternatively, “show me the code”. Let’s see what you’re talking about in specific instead of hiding in generalities.
Holy hell you're right. How did I not know that/forget that?

Guess it shows how much smoking cigarettes has been reduced in society (or how out of touch I am...).
Related, the Indian Government (Telecom Department) bullied Apple into building an iOS feature for reporting phone calls and SMS by threatening to stop iPhone sales in India.

Apple complied.

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/mobile-tabs/app...
I learned SPARQL recently, and would agrre its complicated to get info out of Wikidata.

However, having read the article, they didnt have an easy time with scraping Wikipedia either.

So I'd probably still recommend people look into wikidata and SPARQL if they want to do this kind of thing.

Theres a few tools that generate queries for you, and some cli tools as well:

https://github.com/maxlath/wikibase-cli#readme

It makes Wikipedia better too, in a virtuous cycle, with some infoboxes like those that he scraped being converted to be automatically populated from wikidata.
Reversing mergers is completely appropriate when the merger is found to have caused harm to competition after the fact. It would be a crazy world if the FTC didn't pursue that.