skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pick any network doing NAT, attempt to make a connection. It will be denied. NAT devices are both firewalls and translators and if you don’t have a configuration for port forwarding, be it via established connection or manual configuration, the connection won’t get through. And importantly this is a configuration the user doesn’t touch.

And scanning IP spaces is insanely easy to parallelize and uses so few resources an arduino can be used to scan. Given enough nodes it’s instant. And with every windows box on the planet globally routable, bonets will never be stronger.

But let’s pretend this is true and say it takes too much time. What about when it doesn’t? What happens to your security via obscurity then?
Typically even within residential areas the issues isn't people per se, it's lawns and golf courses. And those are absolutely not evenly distributed or used.
This happens with google too (though thankfully much less often): when it expires your credentials, it could be for mail, calendar, drive, meet, etc., it all redirects to just a generic "log into google" form, with no mention even of what you're logging into, to allow you to remember, "ah yeah, I had a docs tab open".

I think password managers matching domains with credentials might help a little here, but it normalizes finding random tabs with "google" asking for creds down below the point of noise. It often happens right as I log in in the morning to go into my first meetings, and I'm rushed.

Somewhere, someone has likely exploited this by now.
ONNX != onnxjs

ONNX is a representation format for ML models (mostly neural networks). onnxjs is a just a browser runtime for ONNX models. While it may be true that onnxjs is neglected, please note that the 'main' runtime, onnxruntime, is under heavy active development[1].

Moreover, Microsoft is not the sole steward of the ONNX ecosystem. They are one of many contributors, alongside companies like Facebook, Amazon, Nvidia, and many others [2].

I don't think ONNX is going away anytime soon. Not so sure about the TF ecosystem though.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/releases

[2] https://onnx.ai/about.html
Peter: This is really important, when is the soonest you can you get it done?

You: Oh, I didn't realise how important it was. Let's say 10 months then, to make sure everything is alright.

Peter: Ten months!

You: You're right, it's really critical work, let's make it 12.

(Wish I had the balls to do that :)
the blacklisted hashes are openly given to thousands of companies by a foundation called the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, in both PhotoDNA and MD5 versions of the hashes.

Yes, I can't give you an open link, but I imagine at least hundreds of thousands of people have access to download them. Some companies with better security than others

It only takes 1 guy to sell it to an NSO-type company, who would then use it to target attacks for $$$
A kinder, gentler decapitation for all those who oppose us.
Apple has publicly stated 30. Plus, there would be a manual review of the images before forwarding to law enforcement. I don't see this collision attack leading to innocent people being handed over to the police. The worst-case (best-case?) scenario is that Apple gives up on the whole hashing system and then there will be zero chance of there ever being end-to-end encryption of photos in iCloud.
It would help if Tesla was fined $1B for false advertising then... Even naming the whole thing "Autopilot" qualifies as punishable offence, in my opinion.
Web3.Storage – Decentralized Storage Made Simple
For those wondering why you can't just delete these files. On Mac OS Big Sur and later, the system OS is signed by apple and in order to actually delete these files you need to go through a whole bunch of steps that apparently requires completely disabling FileVault (full disk encryption).

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/395508/can-i-mount...

So in the end we'll be left with a choice.

1. Allow Apple to scan your files.

2. Disable any kind of encryption letting anyone who steals your laptop access all your files.
See also Kiryas Joel, New York:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York
It's weird that the article mentions supplements so often yet reads as if the author had never heard of them or considered their use to make up any deficiencies in a vegan/vegetarian diet.

As someone diagnosed with a serious iron deficiency as a child that later went vegetarian, I never noticed an issue, however immediately noticed after taking creatine for work outs that my mental faculties improved. People just need to pay attention to their bodies and monds; most people would be better off if they did, not simply vegetarians.
> most people I know, working in IT, are barely able to afford a livable apartment to raise a one-kid family. Hell, most end up living outside of Paris

I really don't see this as a problem. Paris proper has boundaries and is space constrained, making it extremely expensive. Living in the suburbs in the same metropolitan area is perfectly fine. And there are plenty of cities there with good transport links to Paris itself.

> And they live in a town with a direct to Paris suburban train stop. Many, many towns in the suburbs don't even have a train stop at all, so you'd have to catch a bus first to then catch a slower train.

"Many, many" is an exaggeration. Most cities in Ile de France have a train station, and a lot of those that don't and are dense are getting trams, metros lines. Those that do remain affordable, as long as you aren't immediately outside of Paris or westwards.

Driving in Paris is unsustainable. Driving daily 2h because you live in a house in a village of 1k people is unsustainable.

I have colleagues living in small villages that take their car to a train station, and take the train to Paris. It's a decent tradeoff for the people who live in the middle of nowhere.

Discouraging it to the maximum possible
Hi!

Been running Linux on laptops for years (over a decade). Everything from XPS to Thinkpad and System76.

My first recommendation is to check the Linux distro wiki and see what hardware is officially supported. Ubuntu, RHEL / Fedora, and the major distros have lists and tell you what is officially supported; even sometimes down the the piece of hardware (i.e. Thinkpad fingerprint reader) and precise serial numbers. If you're not going to look at the distros wiki or you're not sure what distro you're going to run, the general rule of thumb is the older the hardware the better chance it is of being supported.

Now, my personal opinions:

I've owned two Thinkpads (x270 & x220), had a dell XPS 13 from work ~4 years ago, and my wife currently owns a System76 Lemur Pro (I have a Thelio Desktop). I've run Ubuntu and RHEL flavored distros on all these. Personally, the Thinkpads blow the Dells and System76 in terms of quality out of the water, and I'd argue they do with hardware support as well (if you're running RHEL / Fedora). The System76 works great with Ubuntu since the drivers and firmware are open (and POP!OS), but I'm not impressed with the quality of the product. Keyboard is low quality, as well as finish (footpads ungluing, finish on keys / track pad coming off, etc.). Dell makes a nice computer, but when I had my XPS 13 there were some major issues with HiDPI (I'm sure it's fixed now). I also didn't like the keyboard and the charging port was finicky.

Gonna be honest, you're going to get a downgrade. Not even just hardware, but software as well. Battery is much worse. Hibernate / suspend / lock is much worse. Linux (GNOME) is still a much better experience on a desktop workstation. Also, for what it's worth, I run RHEL 8 on my desktop workstation, and my next laptop will be a macbook air to pair with my iphone se (first gen!). Everyone's needs are different, but for mobile computing I'd rather have 15 hour battery life, software / hardware harmony, and be able to drive to an apple store for a replacement when my nephew spills apple juice on it when I'm out of town visiting family.

Another thing; supply chains are still really messed up. You're looking at 4+ months lead time for a custom Thinkpad right now. Just something to consider.
I really love Croatia, it's a beautiful country, but I don't want to deal with the Croatian government.

If conditions were more fiscally favourable, if there were better private schools, an english speaking expat community, I'd definitely move there.

I think Montenegro is doing pretty good in that regard. Taxation is straightforward and reasonable. That attracted private capital. Good private schools started popping out, the Tivat marina was built. It's also the first country to be in line to join the EU - which is not something I consider positive, but it's certainly a sign of the quality of the country.

Sadly Croatia is still not there and, frankly, I doubt it's going to get there anytime soon.
Croatia is like a poorer version of countries in the EU: high and complex taxes, which get converted into mediocre services after passing through an inefficient government. The only difference is that European countries are richer and therefore the services are marginally better, even if they're getting worse and worse over time.

I understand my anarchist solution can be seen as radical and it's not going to happen, but even moving in that direction would be helpful.
Auto import could be turned on?
> But for other applications, like in numerical analysis, researchers might need to square their precision. To achieve such an improvement, they might have to square the running time of gradient descent, making the calculation completely intractable

There is an easy way to counteract this. Let’s say your original runs in 1000 seconds. Squaring that would give 1000000 seconds. That’s a jump from under 17 minutes to over 11 days.

The fix: measure everything in hours. Your original runs in 0.278 hours. Squaring that gives 0.077 hours. Squaring the precision now makes it run 3.6 times faster.
I drove a fully electric car over the weekend within 100 kilometres of Stockholm.

No. The tide is not turning. The vast majority of charging stations are inside the city. And the vast majority of places in those stations a slow, 3kW ones, with a sprinkle of 11kW in between. There are maybe ten 50kW ones in the entire Stockholm area.

If the only thing you do is commuting, and you have a place to charge your car overnight at/near your home, then you can drive an electric car. For anything else? Good luck.
Pirate bath/shower is what I've heard them called: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pirate%20bat...
Newspaper “Priamur'ye”
I'm not in favor of assuming that everyone's guilty until proven innocent.

But, as a side note...

I get the feeling that a lot of people assume that the CSAM hashes are going to be stored directly on everyone's phone so it's easy to get a hold of them and create images that match those hashes.

That does not seem to be the case. The actual CSAM hashes go through a "blinding" server-side step.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
No categorisation system is perfect, so there will always be cases that fall through the cracks, but most countries try to offer a spread of visas that cover most of the kinds of positive contributions to the country that they want to attract, without permitting too many who will be a drain instead. Work visas are by no means the only option, but if you're arguing that you're going to contribute positively to the economy then you need to be able to demonstrate that.
Thank you for this. I had heard of the shortcuts allowing you to achieve this but never got around to it.

Took me all of 10 seconds to set it up, thank you.
Not all want to fight the just fight. By fighting you become the victim twice.

Yes, you may save others but I cant blame someone for makinf the pragmatic choice for their lives and family.
> Facebook, the owner of WhatsApp, said it had blocked the number on Tuesday, along with other “official Taliban channels,” and added that it was actively scanning group names, descriptions and profile pictures on the messaging app to try to prevent the Taliban from using it.

> Facebook said: “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under US law and we have banned them from our services. This means we remove accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban and prohibit praise, support, and representation of them.

> “Preventing communication between people and the Taliban doesn’t help Afghans, it is just grandstanding,” said Ashley Jackson, a former Red Cross and Oxfam aid worker in Afghanistan

Yeah talk about grandstanding - as the article mentions, why wasn't this done years ago then? I'm sure Taliban members are smart enough to avoid obvious "group names, descriptions and profile pictures". It's sad that the people most affected by this decision will likely be innocent folks who genuinely need help.
> This problem is actually pretty obvious to fix and you don't even need a neural net

So can be controlled collisions as such.

Simplest FMCW radars are more than enough for every emergency braking system on the market.

It's not uncommon to even use them in parallel with some more "brainy" radar imagers like on Mercedes cars. That is to make a collision preventable in case the main imaging computer hangs, or crashes.
There are two variables, time and cleaning standards. People clean to a higher standard with modern tools in general (in general, but not in all specifics).

My grandma took a bath/shower once a week - she grew up when a bath meant bringing water in from outside by hand, heating it on a fire, and then you had to bring it back outside to dump it - I sometimes shower twice a day, and I still use less effort over a week to get clean than my grandma did back in the day.
That's not a patent. It's a published application, which was abandoned after being rejected by the USPTO. This can be verified on the USPTO's public PAIR system.

The broader point about yokels from rural TX is less true than it used to be. Post 2012, as a practical matter, to assert a patent, you have to survive an IPR challenge, where a group of more experienced technical staff at the USPTO decide whether the invalidate your patent in an adversarial proceeding.
Isn't the number of people living paycheck to paycheck more a measure of how few people save money vs how many people work more than they need to? I imagine plenty of people fall into both categories.
"it's often banned in many home owners' associations, and banned in many apartment leases"

That seems extremely inappropariate. Are there no restrictions on what they can ban, like can they ban children or cooking curries?
Why even keep Apple in the loop? Why not just allow government to submit scanning models directly?

Which Apple will dutifully install and run, because they're required by local laws.
Would that work recursively?
not even a good job of blaming the victim.

OP's use of a name isn't responsible for this. It isn't the name on the book. People reading the book wouldn't have reason to think it was about a pastor in another country. And in the other direction, people looking up that pastor by name would not be immediately let to the book.

OP might not have "claimed" the 'knowledge' panel, but they certainly did work very hard to have it taken down or removed.

The harm here is pretty much entirely due to google.
So apparently the code for NeuralHash has been on iOS devices since 14.3 hidden under some classes. This guy found it and rebuilt the whole thing.
It shouldn't need to be like that but it is the case.

It has nothing to do with the merits of the case itself the tactic a company like Google employs is to just file reams of paperwork, discovery, delays, motion for this and that and each of them have to be considered and discussed and pushes thibgs out at least another day or two. They then use this tactic to extend cases into years.

Although a lawyer will work for a certain cut of the reward they need to eat in the meantime and won't because the case isn't being completed, and isn't going to trial, plus it eats up an enormous amount of time and effort for the lawyer involved cutting into other potential cases.

Eventually you have to call it quits and Google wins because the case never went to trial because Googles legal army was able to delay everything by abusing the legal system.

In short as the PHB from Dilbert once said "we're using the law to keep justice away."

That's what's happening right now.
We all know that to combat climate change sacrifices will need to be made like fewer cars and smaller houses (for compact, accessible cities).

Is this really a sacrifice?

I can't see the US ever being willing to make these sacrifices though. If you compare the $/sqft for housing in the US vs. Europe the difference is shocking (even in big cities like Seattle vs. London), same for gasoline prices, etc.

I would be more concerned with urban design and zoning than square footage. Bigger house means more maintenance, and bigger lot means more mowing. I for one, hate mowing.

The US has become accustomed to unparalleled comfort and luxury, with central air conditioning and multiple cars practically the norm. If anything, I imagine they'll try to enforce strict emissions controls on developing nations to have the pretence of doing something.

A car is not a luxury. It is an unfortunate and out of control necessity that helps increases the cost of living and make societies less egalitarian, because it is a requirement to use car to do anything of note.
Thanks for the tip! Fortunately, I only get ~25 emails a day. No mailing lists for me!
NeuralHash is a perceptual hash, not a cryptographically secure hash. Perceptual hashes have trivially findable second preimages by design, as the entire point is for two different images which appear visually similar to return the same result.

It's not particularly surprising to me that a perceptual hash might also have collisions that don't look similar to the human eye, though if Apple ever claimed otherwise this counterexample is solid proof that they're wrong.
Something is wrong with your dishwasher or drain system.

I thought the same, and then it turns out that my garbage disposal was broken and obstructing the speedy removal of waste water from my washing machine. Fixed that and now my dishes come out clean.
An hour of labor with modern tech is far more productive than an hour of labor with 1890 tech. The modern person can perform far more work in the same time or the same work in less time. Even if you split the difference the net result when applied to chores is a much cleaner household.
Anderson Paak just recently got this tattooed on him [1]
“When I’m gone, please don’t release any posthumous albums or songs with my name attached. Those were just demos and never intended to be heard by the public”

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/08/17/anderson-paak-gets-tat-warning...
Also sodium lights don't create so many headache-inducing shadow patterns.

For example, a street I walked by regularly for almost whole my life recently (in the last few years) got its lighting replaced - each sodium lamp is now replaced with a LED array with no (or ineffective) diffusor. In other words: each spherical source of light got replaced by a bunch of point sources.

Last time I walked down that street during night hours, I got a vague feeling as if I was playing an old videogame, because both the road and the sidewalk looked like a low-resolution texture viewed up close: full of smudgy blocks that result from texture upscaling. Except those blocks moved in a weird dance, making my head spin when I focused too much on it, kind of like looking at moving Moiré patterns.

Turns out, this was the pattern of shadows thrown by leaves of a tree, when illuminated by half a dozen point light sources.

That's my only complaint, though. LED lights are a win overall.
ScummVM
This is the impression the headline gave me as well.
DC is used where you want direct battery backup, meaning the battery bank voltage is directly supplied to the equipment. This makes the system more reliable as there are no power supplies or inverters to fail. The system can then be composed of simple fuses, breakers, switches and relays to control power flow.

You can even design the system so that the batteries are in parallel with the power supply and load making the system uninterruptible by default.

A lesser known standard is 110V DC used in electrical substations and switchgear. They cover a lot of ground and cable runs can be hundreds of meters so the higher voltage allows longer distances with minimal line loss.
My sympathies to the OP. As others said the authority that the Google misknowledge panel implies is the most worrying of all.

Can one claim and opt out of knowledge panel at all?

My knowledge panel is bare except for my birth date which is correct but not something I want to go around sharing publicly.

Can I remove my birth date from the knowledge panel?

Should I claim the panel and try to add generic information or just ignore it? I would much prefer the 2nd option.
Plausible deniability or not, it could have real impact if Apple decides to implement the policy of locking your account after tripping the threshold, which you then have to wait or fight to get unlocked. Or now you have police records against you for an investigation that lead nowhere. It's not a zero impact game if I can spam a bunch of grey blobs to people and potentially have a chain of human failures that leads police knock down your door.
Only if we figure out how to get off this one solitary rock and expand beyond the solar system. The sun (Sol) will continue to go through its natural processes which will see it expand larger than the Earth's orbit. That will be the end of physical Earth, but life as we know it will have ended before then.

So, I'm not sure who the "we" will be that will have less than 14 billion years.
"Whatever the truth is, isn’t it about time we found out?"

Most other vegans I know seem to be very aware of the nutrition issues, and take EPA/DHA supplements and extra vitamins. "Nootch" - nutritional yeast - is also a very common ingredient used to boost vitamins and minerals.

It's of course hard to be 100% sure what's safe, but then eating meat also has it's risks - heart disease, cancer, e. coli. etc - as well as environmental costs.

Going vegan is quite a big step, and most people would benefit from eating a lot less meat.
See harry8's reply.
But my main reason for nipping this in the bud, is a trend I see wherein shitty behavior somehow becomes okay because it looks clever, as in: hey, I didn't think about that. It's not clever, it's deceptive, rat-like, low behavior. That's something else than clever, in my book. And you probably never thought of it because you're a human being, who doesn't regularly come up with ways to f*ck people over.
> Many lawyers are willing to work for something like 30% of whatever payout they manage to get

The printer screwed up the ad, it was supposed to read "Works on contingency? No, money down!"
I'm entirely in support of this entire thread. It would really murder the soul of change for change's sake Linux UI people if users were allowed to stay on Windows XP UI forever, but with modern features and bugfixes.
"If you're a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to our legal system." - Peter Thiel
Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United States
On a side track, MFC C++ is the best offer current on MS stack for C++, as rediculous as it may seem.

They introduced a C++ Builder like with C++/CX for WinRT, but apparently too many people inside Redmond wasn't happy to have it around, so now you get to use its replacement (C++/WinRT) as back on Visual C++ 6.0 and ATL.

Pity that C++ RAD tooling similar to C++ Builder is seen as not for real developers.

So the trend to write GUIs by hand on C++ is the only path known to many devs.