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WebGPU is a specification for safe, efficient, cross-platform access to the GPU. It is intended to provide a small set of core primitives that are widely implementable without compromising safety or performance: attention is paid to both use from many client platforms (such as Rust, C, JavaScript, and WASM) and to implementation on many graphics backends (not only in terms of Metal / DirectX 11/12 / Vulkan / OpenGL drivers, but also in terms of trying to choose core features that are actually implemented on things like mobile GPUs, which are often left out of powerful modern graphics abstractions).

wgpu-rs is an end-to-end implementation of that spec, for a Rust frontend and many backends. It is designed so that the same code can be used on the web (via WASM) or on native, with no changes to the implementation; however, you can happily ignore the WASM compilation target and just use it natively. It also includes some extensions for widely supported features that aren't available on all GPUs, that you can request if you are willing to restrict the platforms you run on (this is especially helpful on native).

As you can see, the fact that it implements the WebGPU spec is very relevant because it inherits all the nice properties of the spec (efficiency, safety, and portability), as well as because there is a specification that you can refer back to in order to figure out (mostly) what the behavior is supposed to be. There is nothing misleading going on here about saying it's a WebGPU implementation. If there's anything misleading, it's probably the name of the spec (but that ship has long since sailed).

The other two major components of the system are:

* wgpu-core. A cross-platform, safe, efficient, pure-Rust implementation that is used by wgpu-rs, but does not actually implement the full WebGPU spec, and is not really designed for ease of use. It is mostly intended as the basis of other implementations of WebGPU frontends, such as wgpu-rs, wgpu-native (C bindings), and implementations of backends in larger systems like Deno and Servo.

* wgpu-hal. A cross-platform, efficient, unsafe, pure-Rust implementation that primarily exists to abstract away differences between platforms targeted by wgpu-core. The lack of attention to safety means it can often approach or match the performance of the native drivers, but also makes it extremely hard to use, and the exposed API is very closely tied to whatever wgpu-core needs (this is a big difference between it and the older gfx-hal, which was intended to a broader unsafe abstraction layer for independent use).

These two systems are not as cleanly tied to WebGPU, but they are still primarily intended for use by clients that implement the WebGPU spec. That said, this is not a requirement--there are a few other abstractions built directly on top of wgpu-core or wgpu-hal, and they do not consider themselves as WebGPU implementations (because they aren't!).
I don't follow the point you are making here. The goal of the algorithm is to match images so I would expect similar collision rates regardless of what image was matched against what set of hashes. The exact rate of collision will obviously vary slightly.
What's an example of being first to market and winning a big market?

I can't think of any. First to market isn't the advantage that people think it is. It might be more important for smaller markets, perhaps.
"- The human reviewer sees a bunch of thumbnails of naked people whose age is indeterminate but looks to be on the young side."

Given how most companies have barely paid, clueless and PTSD suffering human reviewers, a litany of mistakes is to be expected.

We should expect all the coherence of the twitter's nipple policy, except now it put you in jail or at least ruins your life with legal fees
Spinning Instagram and Whatsapp off of Facebook seems like it would benefit everyone except facebook stockholders.
Not 100% immunity - a high level of people with antibodies.

This doesn’t give you immunity, but means that you are less likely to catch it, if you do catch it you are much less likely to need hospilisation and even less likely to die from it.

The rates of hospitalisation are creeping up, but at a significantly lower rate than previous ‘waves’.
This seems like the owner/EIC threw a temper tantrum when it seemed like he wouldn't retain all the power anymore.
+1 for chosing fabric

Consensus can be called Proof of Authority, established through negotiations. Highly scalable. This could be achieved without Fabric, or Blockchain, but Fabric has a lot of the common features needed for such a system anyhow.
Yes I am a parent and a founder. In fact, when I started, my 2 kids were toddlers and infant. The key is to figure out what your goals are and work slowly towards that. There is no right or wrong answer. Do what works best for you. You want to quit your job ? Go for it if you can manage. You want to do this on the side ? Go for it. But totally doable if you have the discipline.
> That means that a sphere drawn at geo altitude has a surface area around 300x as large, and the volume of a 2km space above and below these altitudes is 5000x as large

The size of a sphere at geostationary orbit altitude is essentially irrelevant, because the only reason you go to geostationary orbit is to be geostationary, i.e. in a narrow band at the equator. The other 99.9% of your sphere is completely unused.
We are talking about how everyone who gave Apple money now has a potential probable cause vector that they didn't before. Everyone running the software is a suspect by default. Ask black Americans how they feel about setting the bar low for probable cause.

"Following the 2004 Madrid train bombings, fingerprints on a bag containing detonating devices were found by Spanish authorities. The Spanish National Police shared the fingerprints with the FBI through Interpol. Twenty possible matches for one of the fingerprints were found in the FBI database and one of the possible matches was Brandon Mayfield. His prints were in the FBI database as they were taken as part of standard procedure when he joined the military."

"The FBI described the fingerprint match as '100% verified'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield
This is technology is going to disrupt the construction industry! Looking forward to increased adoption as DigiBuild continues the momentum they have developed.
I don't agree, taxes provide the platform that runs everything. Taxes are group spend to improve the entire platform that is the country.

The people in charge are just like you and me, they are trying to improve things and work really hard.
It would still be less relentless if common individual behavior was to keep personal information private instead of posting everything about yourself on social media.
I can see a lot of Toastmasters clubs using some form of this technology.
I assume they will end up like Tumblr after it went Safe for Work. Still around but nowhere near as popular and a shell of its former self.
It was a useful tool. Still would be. Online searches for people are hard now.
But note, those were limited databases. Phone number and address. No birth dates, security numbers, etc.
It was a tool, not a weapon.
Ten ounces is a lot of marijuana. For reference, one ounce typically costs $200-300, and is enough to roll roughly 50 joints. If you were buying for friends, even one or two ounces would be more than enough.

If you're buying more than ten ounces of marijuana at a time, you're buying it for resale. Even a heavy user would have a hard time justifying that large of a purchase.
Meanwhile 94% of England's population has antibodies....Let's move on shall we?
Your scenario makes no sense. You can just skip all of the steps and skip to "the FBI, who now have cause to turn your life upside down." If the evidence doesn't matter, they could've just reported you to the FBI for having CP, regardless of whether you have it or not and your point remains the same.

Not to mention your scenario requires someone you trust trying to "get you." If that's true, then none of the other steps are necessary since you're already compromised.
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I'm also interested in seeing orwin's argument expanded. I'm a tad skeptical of crowding-out arguments, which often rest on a faith in the wisdom of markets that goes beyond that which can be justified.
I don't understand technie people on HN being okay with apple breaching the spirit of the 4th amendment and becoming the FBI agent in your phone. Scanning the stuff in the cloud is one thing but this is crossing a line. I am shedding all my apple hardware over it. If you want to trust them fine but one day it will bite you on the ass.
T-Mobile does not allow Account Takeover Protection on prepaid plans
T-mobile, victim of a recent large data breach, provides an ambiguous feature called "Account Takeover Protection". This feature is intended to protect against SIM swaps.

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/account-takeover-protection

There are a few issues I want to raise attention to:

1. TMO does not describe what these protections are.
2. The feature is Opt-in for every line on a plan. This requires starting the click through process multiple times per #.
3. The feature is unavailable to prepaid customers.

Why make this feature opt-in?
Why exclude this feature from prepaid plans?
These are abysmal security practices. Just because we are desensitized to these features doesn't mean we should ignore the bad practices.
Ostensibly, payment providers block this type of thing because it has higher fraud risk, but this makes me wonder: do countries where credit is less fundamental to payments have the same problem? My understanding is that in the UK, for example, you could make a deposit to a betting site with the same payment card you use to buy milk, since it's more secure than a credit card and the counterparty assumes less risk.
If it's so easy to modify NeuralHashes, won't "CSAM networks" just rotate the hashes of their "collections"?

If you can make an innocent picture collide with a CSAM picture, presumably you can also edit a CSAM picture to have a random hash not in the database?
In this case you may be perceiving a different type of bias than you assume.
my google voice # is actually my former sprint #. still gets blocked by some banks, though almost all of them that do block, have options for e-mail or voice call, so doesn't impact me much.
here's one that animates a CSS radial-gradient and centers it on the click location https://gist.github.com/rojobuffalo/3a4f108937ffcd318c70
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They left off the attempted coup d'état of Bolivia by the Quantum organisation to seize control of their water supply in the 22nd Bond Movie, Quantum of Solace (2008).

Arguably this 'event' drew more public attention to the potential of Future Wars over Water than the rest of the list combined.
Good luck surviving that exodus. Dropping porn killed Tumblr, Onlyfans doesn't have anything that makes it stand apart from competition like Patreon.

For sex workers, there is ManyVids that will eat their lunch.

Only benefit out of this, maybe nsfw Reddit will be worth a visit again when most of the OF ~~spammers~~sellers have gone.
I don't think that he's showing them what they have to do. Unless acting like he does in the scene is what they're supposed to be doing as salesmen? I don't know too much about sales so if the lesson was the all that the other salesmen need to be douchebags with their clients just like Baldwin's character was with them, then that lesson has gone completely over my head.

To me it looked like he's shaking them up a little. But the motivation from being shaken up doesn't last long especially if it isn't supplemented by actual skills. Let's say that one of these salesmen is really pumped up after this meeting - what happens the next time they're on a call with a client who isn't interested? What does that salesman know now that they didn't know pre-Baldwin-speech? What can they do differenty? Nothing as far as I can tell. And if the argument is that they all have the skills and it's all about the motivation, then that sounds very much like something from the soft generation that you're describing in your comment.
I have a dumb Kessler syndrom question, but I don't really have the physics to answer it myself.

I've been told that worrying about the longer-term implications of systems like Starlink aren't so terrifying because these satellites are in LEO. Specifically, the time for that kind of junk to de-orbit is on the order of 5 years, so the worst case scenario for this junk is to wait it out.

However, if we get a good set of bouncing space junk, how does that affect this? The vectors generated from the parts two colliding small object might be in any direction, including outward?

My physics isn't that great, so I am left with this question:

is it worth thinking about the small bits of junk re-orbiting other junk? Would that push out the timeline of being able to simply wait out a incipient Kessler syndrome?
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As someone founding an early-stage startup, I really appreciate hearing your thoughts on this and it's very encouraging to know I'm not alone.
The elephant in the room is named Biden. Even if this gets past the senate, is there any reason to think that the president would sign it? The bill sure isn't veto-proof.

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/biden-remains-opposed-to-mar...
For now. There is no technical hurdle preventing them from scanning everything locally and reporting back.
We aren't yet. Overpaid doesn't mean owner or power. Look at pro sports... Corporate and politicians are still in power, because corruption in those niches rarely ends in accountability; yet cases like Snowden and disgruntled techies can end up as social outlaws.
I'm a cryptocurrency advocate, but for the average person transacting with crypto is still insanely intimidating and a pain to set up properly. Maybe paying with stablecoins could work but that is still a lot to ask of your users who are accustomed to paying for things with a credit card.

Want to buy something? Open a Coinbase or Gemini account, hook up ACH or wire transfers, wait a week for the deposit to be made, then send 'dollars' to this really long and complicated looking address. If you send it to the wrong address you are SOL.
Super interesting. Wonder why anyone would pick something like DynamoDB over this moving forward? Seems like you lose serverless pricing, easy scaling for free, and global replication but you gain performance and don't get locked into a proprietary database.

EDIT: I guess you get secondary indexes and other sorting/querying options beyond what the Redis API offers. Also looking at current instance pricing for MemoryDB, looks like this won't work for large datasets. You'd need to have a data retention policy in place to archive "cold" data.
We started using Pipeline schedules in my past job to regularly trigger pipelines to e.g. rebuild Docker build images, clear caches and other sorts where you normally need shell access to a cronjob.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/schedules.html

Similarly, you can trigger pipelines from various angles https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/triggers/ using the API.

If you are looking to combine it with events on-demand, the webhooks may come in handy. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/webhook...

Agreed, some adhoc actions are project specific, though you can programmatically walk through them in API client code, for example searching for a group and triggering all project's pipelines.

https://python-gitlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/gl_objects/gr...
https://python-gitlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/gl_objects/pi...
> Apple now has over 1.5 billion users so we are talking about a large pool of users at stake which increases the likelihood of even a low probability event manifesting

This is an extremely good point. If the whole system, end to end, after all safeguards (e.g. human reviewers which can also make mistakes) has a one-in-a-billion chance to ruin a user's life, then statistically, we can expect 1-2 users to have their lives ruined.

What's even worse, when those individuals are facing whatever they're facing, they'll have to argue against the one-in-a-billion odds. If there are jurisdictions where defense lawyers don't get access to the images their client is accused of, and prosecutors and judges don't look at the images but only at the surrounding evidence (which says this person is guilty, with 99.9999999% certainty), Apple may have built a system that's statistically expected to send an innocent person to prison.
Of course were Instagram and WhatsApp competitors.
Not on the service side but at the user base. FB users switched to Instagram and WhatsApp, that's why they bought them.
I'm not sure which is worse, the robot-voice videos or the no-voice-waving-hands-music ones.
citation needed. Why do "we know" that markets can't solve these issues?
>> it's not obvious how we can trust that a rogue actor (like a foreign government) couldn't add non-CSAM hashes to the list to root out human rights advocates or political rivals. Apple has tried to mitigate this by requiring two countries to agree to add a file to the list, but the process for this seems opaque and ripe for abuse.

> If the CCP says "put these hashes in your database or we will halt all iPhone sales in China", what do you think Apple is going to do? Is anyone so naive that they believe the CCP wouldn't deliver such an ultimatum? Apple's position seems to completely ignore recent Chinese history.

Apple policy << Local laws and regulations. It's very hard to believe their policy is anything less than a deliberate PR smokescreen meant to disarm critics, because it has so many holes.

Edit: just thought of another way Apple's policy could be easily circumvented and therefore cannot be regarded as a serious proposal: get two countries to collaborate to add politically sensitive hashes to the list (e.g. China and North Korea, or China and Cambodia). That doesn't even require Apple to be coerced.
40,000 deaths, sure, but flying cars would certainly be going faster, and well, they are in the air, the danger is at least an order of magnitude greater. And that doesn't factor in the people on the ground underneath these vehicles. The vast majority of the time when a car has a mechanical or electrical difficulty, the driver simply pulls over to the side of the road. Such a difficulty in the air is suddenly a life-or-death situation. Just look at some of the crappy, barely running autos on the road and then imagine them flying above your house.
I feel like you could just set it up with a smart contract. No need for anything special, if payment is received, you automatically get your cut.
> The Founders did not write that into the Constitution.

Because the founders wanted voting to be controlled at the state level, not the federal level...

> Propaganda is what you're writing.

Historical facts is propaganda?

So what is propaganda? That only landowning whites could vote? Democracy came from the ancient greeks? That ancient greeks owned slaves and only allowed wealthy slave owners to vote?
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Are we going to need to reverse engineer every single Apple update to make sure the feature hasn't creeped into non-iCloud uses? Is the inevitable Samsung version of this system going to be as privacy-preserving? How are we sure the hash list isn't tainted? All of these problems are solved by one principle: Don't put the backdoor code in the OS to begin with.
It is being collected, that’s what dam’s do. Economy of scale means letting the water runoff into streams etc and just building a single collection point on a river is vastly less costly than millions of individual storage systems on each property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_and_reservoirs_in...

A fair amount is required to flow out of state due to laws and water treaties.
The US is an ally and it is somewhat harder to punish a nation state than a company. Why would Apple take the risk? China can't exactly reveal that they are banning an American company for not spying on American citizens, and it's not clear what convincing pretext they could provide instead, so I don't think they would actually go through with a ban and Apple would probably just call their bluff.
This is a fantastic paper/manifesto on the use of models like BERT -- and how we should think about them in the near and far future.

"AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of models (e.g., BERT, DALL-E, GPT-3) that are trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks. We call these models foundation models to underscore their critically central yet incomplete character."
In the military, it's a big deal if a rifle or something goes missing. They take this kind of thing very seriously. It's very concerning that they lost so much gear. It goes to show how much of a botched operation his was.
Generally, if a product requires talking to a sales rep, it's not marketed towards my interests (hobbyist automated microscopy and astronomy), and the product will be too expensive.
Fairly good explanation of it being about far more than nudity. They have created a casino like experience for emotional interaction.

https://youtu.be/ji5qepCx-8s
I've seen them brag about revenue, and it looks amazing. That said the porn industry if filled with liars, and I don't believe anything w/o and audited results.
The scenarios where losing GPS would cause immediate issues (naval and air transport) have built in that possibility in their training for ages.
Rise of delta variant and waning immunity are fueling breakthrough infections
This seems like a great idea.

I assume a forward looking city could hook directly into your apis to process things faster.

By fair housing will become the biggest issue in the next 50 years or so.

Would love to see case studies where your shown to reduce costs by a significant amount. Good luck !
That is a lot of people who are suddenly going to need to find work...but I think a lot of the sexually themed OF's will migrate to other cam websites. I wonder how much money OF will lose because of this decision?
There's a startup using a similar principle to address a related challenge: getting and staying focused on a task. I tried it and it was surprisingly effective. https://www.focused.space/
(Disclaimer: I know one of the founders)
Considering I didn't know about:

- PhotoDNA

- CSAM scanning on cloud photo platforms

- the acronym "CSAM"

Before this whole Apple client-side scanning debacle... seems pretty likely. A lot of privacy-focused people also avoid Google and Microsoft cloud services like the plague and trusted Apple up to this point to protect their privacy. The fact that Apple was (and is) scanning iCloud Photos libraries for CSAM unbeknownst to most of us is just another violation of that trust and shows just how far the "what happens on your iphone, stays on your iphone" privacy marketing extends (read: not past your iphone, and sometimes not even on your iphone).
That should be a myth by now. Would be interesting if e.g. Stripe could share the fraud statistics for onlyfans. The banks probably do this purely to keep up appearances and avoid potential bad PR.
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That's my question, too - I thought OnlyFans was a hosting platform for personal porn sites; I remember there was a big uproar a few months back when some TikTok influencer joined the site and started posting non-adult content. People were upset that they were diluting a site that's specifically for adult content.