skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go back to work for a startup? Large organisations are large beasts, with their own culture and way of working. Every project has tons of stakeholders and everything is moving slowly.

In my experience, you'll only really get to solve problems at a startup. At a FAANG-sized many decisions are likely made "by committee" or by some higher up, and your project is always at risk of getting blocked for political reasons.

If you enjoyed working at startups in the past, I'd go work for a new one that you're finding exciting!
CSV will never go away. But surely we can build better systems to handle all the complexities and variability in CSV? If we can handle image recognition with all its complexities, we can handle the more constrained variety in CSVs. There are only so many variations to CSV files, and perhaps a better preprocessor is the answer here versus asking for the near-impossible task of "retiring" CSV.
Show HN: A R notebook with a spreadsheet interface. Also, works with big data
distributed working is a totally different thing than outsourcing. We are talking about companies having more options for their mode/base of operation and talents. We are not talking about corporates sacrifying quality control by adding layers of managerment in other countries in an attempt to abstract away the development process.
I find JSON “array of arrays” to be a better solution while also remaining human-readable. Especially when formatted as one array per line, analogous to CSV.
I’ve been at a couple FANG companies in my career. Generally I worked with extremely intelligent people, but I did sometimes work with people who didn’t care… not that this makes it any better.

Are you able to switch teams? Can you find or take ownership of a specific part of a project that’ll keep you sane and motivated? Are you able to fix the specific tooling on your team or for your project that you don’t like?

Is the tooling really backwards 10 years, or is it that you’re unfamiliar with it and just out of your comfort zone?
This assumes that the reasons the unvaccinated are unvaccinated are independent of why they might end up hospitalized due to a Covid19 infection.

If they were not vaccinated because they were not deemed healthy enough to be able to handle the side-effects of the vaccine, then their inherent susceptibility to hospitalization is higher and the favorable comparison mostly indicates that the vaccinated population is healthier not that the vaccine is effective.

The vaccine might be effective, but to establish its long term efficacy requires people of similar health status assigned to vaccinated/not vaccinated groups. Of course, the control arms of the vaccine studies were busted about nine months ago, so that is not possible.
> I've told this to lots of people who work in other division (that I can trust) and they've said the easiest thing is to just accept it as it is and coast. I've never done that in my career and don't think I could do that.

This is one of the reasons I usually disqualify people with long stints at FAANG on their resume.

If you plan to get back into startups, you may not want to stick around for too long. Another option is to jump to another FAANG where maybe you’ll be lucky to find better people/culture.
Normal people yes. People hopped on something? I hope they have options, though maybe the best is off board them at the next airport and bill them.
According to a lawyer, I could sue for “false light invasion of privacy.” Unfortunately, the pastor doesn’t live in a state where that tort is recognized. In any case, Google just fixed the knowledge panel-so thank you guys so very much for commenting and discussing my post! I exchanged dozens of emails with Google in April, then they just started ignoring me after that, all the while rotating images in the knowledge panel. A few days ago they had the audacity to send me a survey about my experience with the knowledge panel support team.
Yes, the suspicion is a "known fact". Openly talked by the CIA, although there is no proof: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/10/russia-gru-directed...

I don't see a problem with the sentence.
> I think people are just getting a little too worked up over this whole thing.

They aren't, but the blame is misguided. This isn't a problem with Apple. What is Apple going to do if they do detect something identified as CSAM on your device? Refuse to sell you another? Oh well. The real worry is what other parties will do if they get ahold of the information. That is what needs to be fixed. Apple is exposing the underlying problem, not causing the problem themselves.
Don't try to fix everything. Pick small battles and things and fix them one by one.

You're not at a startup where "fix all the things ASAP or we die" is the driving force. Settle in and work on making things better, even if it's just to keep you in play as you investigate other options.

A year of improving a team would give you a solid foundation for an internal transfer, for example.
Yeah for sure. When I said I’d have zero hesitation choking someone out in my other comment I meant in a situation in which they could not be restrained. Teenage boys can be pretty big and strong, unlikely at 13 but some 16 year olds can be 6 feet tall and 180lbs.

Like I’m definitely not sitting there going “oh well I guess since we couldn’t hold them down well just have to hope the window doesn’t break”.
If Jane from accounting and Bobby from marketing know those trick (and they do) then Csv does open in excel, and its replacement has to do at least as good.
Well, both groups also have many more children than average, thus requiring ever-expanding amounts of real estate.
> The ultimate result in my opinion, when no job is safe from outsourcing, is going to be the decline of wages and the middle class in America.

This result has been evidenced already over the past 5 decades or so.
right ... wouldn't they need to at some point start narrowing things down?
That doesn't qualify as "good enough to be compiled by humans". We need something dumb and easy you can author from scratch with any text editor, and read/understand with just `cat`.
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"staffed with below-average IQ people"

I'm not sure why your co-workers' IQ is your concern. To come out of the gate with a comment like this sounds like you have a strong disdain for them.

Part of your reason for joining the company was the paycheck. I assume the checks aren't bouncing.

My advice is the same advice I would give to many people: Learn from your coworkers. Understand the problems that the team and the company face. Make incremental improvements.

If you really want to you can work late every day and at weekends. It's your choice. Bear in mind your job won't love you back.
I've started keto to lose that work for home bonus weight but so many thing changed for the better. I can go on seemlinly forever without a snack and my energy levels are very stable. I also improved my cooking skills because no restaurant or food delivery around me deliver appropriate food for the diet.

On the other hand I can't handle alcohol anymore. Drinking 1/3 of what I could handle makes me feel sick and hangovers are common. I might be wrong but I suppose the body uses lots of sugar to sintetize alcohol.
CSV was a thing long before I was born, so I'm not privy to how it came about. But at least in day-to-day work, the single biggest drawback of CSV in my experience is the fact that the comma and most of the other common delimiters occur regularly in real data, forcing all of the cumbersome escape sequences. To say nothing of someone misplacing a quote somewhere and throwing off the cell count.

So, question to the greybeards: when this format was coming about, why didn't we use one of the dedicated Data Structure separator control codes (e.g. File/Group/Record/Unit separator) that were part of the ASCII standard?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Basic_...

It seems like it would've saved us all several decades of headache.
XSLX covers a lot of ground in this area, works with the market leading spreadsheet program, but there are also great libraries to encode and decode them in Python, Java and other languages.
The steganography is not to fool the NeuralHash, but to fool the viewer.

The NeuralHash would "see" the planted image, but for the viewer it would appear innocent.

I am trying to say that a person reviewing image manually, without special tools will not be able to tell if the image is a false positive and would have to report everything.
As far as I understand it, the kind of (excessive) fat you put on in the gut region is more dangerous than the kind that is under your skin and distributed over your body, as it is linked to diabetes and other diseases.
Ah, never mind, you're right:

> Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM is designed with user privacy in mind. Instead of scanning
images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image
hashes provided by NCMEC and other child-safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database
into an unreadable set of hashes, which is securely stored on users’ devices.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Which format would you propose if I am writing a .NET tool to produce a file to be consumed by Excel?
Ask HN: Need advice, worst position in my life
I completed my undergrad in 2019 from very mediocre clg in India. After undergrad is over, I decided to pursue for master in usa and applied to fall 2020, and was doing job in meantime.

Pandemic hit and I had to defer the admit to fall 21.
Now fastfoward to 2021, 2nd wave hit, which complicated getting visa. I was not allowed to reach late to university and university told me to either request for defer or be physically present on start date. I applied for defer request (spring 22). And, It was rejected stating that you can reapply, and now they closed spring admission for international stating that they're full. I am planning to apply to others univ, but i am afraid that they will also do the same or will pick only few best applicants.

I left the job in june month which made things even worse.

What should I do ? I have already wasted 2 year chasing this and my scores are also invalid or need improvements to be consider good application for next fall.

I have planned to apply to couple of them, but i am afraid of getting rejection in all of them. and very few good university do spring for international.

I would like to know what should i do next. there is huge part of me which want to pursue master and there is another which says f** it, and join some good company.
When you criticize the TSA, nobody thinks you're a terrorist. You can criticize invasive measures and most people get it.
it gets even more fun when you can generate images that are imperceivably different to the human eye, but produce different (and controlled) hash values. (see shazam decoys and adversarial images). not sure if collision is really the right term here though as similarity hashing intentionally hashes multiple images to the same hash.

in other news, my google phone just helpfully scanned all client side images, rounded up everything it thought was a meme and suggested i delete them to save space. i wonder if that feature has telemetry built in...
Yes. The over-simplification of dopamine as some sort of pleasure chemical is frustratingly common.

Everyone seems to want to be able to explain every emotion and behavior as the byproduct of a neurotransmitter, e.g. "I'm addicted to the dopamine hits from my phone", "I'm sad because my serotonin is low", "I'm on an endorphin high from that workout", etc. etc.

Besides many of these examples being flat-out wrong, emotions in general are immensely more complex than the simple release of a single chemical in the brain. The belief that everything bad in the brain is just a "chemical imbalance" is a really harmful one IMO, as it turns people away from truly understanding their problems, and replaces any sort of deeper understanding with a desire to simplify everything down to pseudo-scientific brain chemistry quick fixes.
I had tried configuring one a couple of weeks ago, but the website was having problems.

I haven't owned a PC laptop in several years - the last one I tried was a System76 with an abysmal keyboard. Turns out I need to type to have a functional laptop!

I ordered one of these Framework machines today, should ship in September. Seems promising. I am hoping that things just work after I install Linux on it and I can get down to writing code with minimal setup and configuration.
Agreed. There’s no way you can get away with not having a global team unless you’re a small company operating in a small market.

The company I work for now has a team in India and the difference in skills is night and day compared to my last job. The turnover is much much less as well. I suspect they pay better and don’t rely on scummy 3rd party “coach you to pass the interview but have no real experience” providers.
Just curious - what tricks are required? localc opens csv without an issue.
Damn, how terrible it is that the afghani government, made of entirely afghani people, are going to exploit the wealth of the land they have historically lived on, instead of white saviors.
I'd be curious how the attack could transfer across models. Apple would have access to a huge amount of information about target image that they could include in their analysis and would be denied to the attacker.

The crowdsourced attack idea would also be contingent on thousands of people willing being flagged as pedophiles.
> It’s funny to see this site gather so many upvotes while the server is down. I think by now everyone knows very well that software engineering salaries are higher in the United States.

And this fact that the site is down PERFECTLY highlights the [insert derogatory adjective here] of some development and design mindsets floating around in SV. Rather than having some content laoded by an HTTP server, we send over a javascript framework that then PULLS the content and lays it out, and we show a LOADING SCREEN in the meantime. It's using the web server and browser to completely reinvent the webserver and browser, for no gain and an inarguably worse user experience.

The fact that part of the throbber image is the "object not found" placeholder from browsers is so perfect for the site that the irony is absolutely self-recursive.
As I mentioned down-thread, I can generate a CSV with a couple of fprintf statements and a loop. I definitely can't do that with .xlsx. There is almost zero friction to bolting CSV export capability to an existing system, which is part of why it's so popular.
What Makes a Great Scientist?
No, matches are not verified on the phone. On the phone, your image hash is used to look up an encrypted/blinded (via the server's secret key) CSAM hash. Then your image data (the hash and visual derivative) is encrypted with that encrypted/blinded hash. This encrypted payload, along with a part of your image's hash, is sent to Apple. Then on the server, Apple uses that part of your image's hash and their secret key to create a decryption key for the payload. If your image hash matches the CSAM hash, the decryption key would unlock the payload.

In addition, they payload is protected at another layer by your user key. Only with enough mash matches can Apple put together the user decryption key and open the very innards of your image's payload containing the full hash and visual derivative.
I just want to make a statement (which I'm willing to discuss): sugar is a recreational drug, not a food. We should be having it rarely, and always with be mindful that it's taxing our bodies, hence the need for breaks. Chronic usage is, in my understanding, highly associated with almost all chronic disease.
This is what you say when asked, "Why do you want to join XXX?". Say it long enough, you internalize it and accept it.

FAANG usually don't hire for a specific team, you get matched after. It's a crapshoot where you end up, but they usually let you transfer relatively easily if positions are opened.
> I’ve lived in Japan and their housing is far superior. It is newer in general, well-built, quiet, warm, efficient, comfortable, functional, and cheap. American housing stock is none of those things, at twice the price.

Don't houses in Japan only last 20-30 years? Isn't the only reason they're newer in general that they have to be rebuilt so often? Houses in America last way longer than twice that, so only paying twice as much seems like a bargain in comparison.
Why not put a sensor for all of the above? Seems like the obvious thing to do for information safety reasons, as well as health reasons.

The only situation where it wouldn't make sense to do this is if we already knew the cause, and it was something we had built.
https://i.imgur.com/2Ko0UqZ.png
Don’t disagree, but “magic spaceray”? Really? We’re in 2021
> On the fringe, good luck using banking apps

Tried that yesterday on CalyxOs with anonymous MicroG account and my banking app works fine. No problem with contactless nfc payments.
FYI, The WHO "best practices for naming new human infectious diseases" (2015) are the reason why COVID-19 has that name, not any Geographically-linked name. Times have moved on since the "Spanish" flu.

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/163636/WHO_...
https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-pra...
Translating Harry Potter from Japanese to English
They are also indistinguishable from the symptoms of overworking for months. Or severe depression for that matter. I think it bears investigating but I agree with you that there is such a simple answer of pyschosomatic illness here that we must have some real proof. Otherwise I worry that all this hyperbolic coverage will do is increase the number of people experiencing symptoms.
> Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM is designed with user privacy in mind. Instead of scanning
images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image
hashes provided by NCMEC and other child-safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database
into an unreadable set of hashes, which is securely stored on users’ devices.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Well, I already had low sugar intake and fairly healthy nutrition (almost no processed food) but still had to lose weight. So I tried intermittent fasting because it got so much hype. All I can say is that it didn't work for me at all, it was essentially impossible to work or concentrate on anything, and I even gained weight! Lack of sugar has the most severe impact on me, it really makes me dumb.

I now do some "moderate" calorie counting, rough estimates over the day, conscious decisions what I eat and occasional exceptions allowed. So far it looks promising. But I sometimes absolutely need sugar in order to be able focus on work, and if its just in the form of some grapes or a banana. As long as I have to use my brain, I don't think a no sugar diet could work for me. (Even worse are artificial sweeteners, but I suppose their negative impact on the brain is not very controversial anyway.)

This is only anecdotal evidence, of course. From what I've learned from the net on diets is (i) what works for someone may not work for someone else, and (ii) information on the net about dieting ranges from unreliable to contradictory.
Also, "will the other side adopt it?"

After working with so many retailers and online sales channels, things that are considered "legacy" or "outdated" by the HN crowd doesn't seem like it will go away unless both sides make a change. There are numerous articles posted on HN about how "FTP is dead" or no one uses it anymore, when it's far from the case.

Even Amazon's marketplace and vendor files are still using SFTP and EDI files. They've recently made changes, but it's been slow and hasn't had widespread adoption.

There's also the universality and "simplicity" CSV provides to the non-computer literate, and convincing them to make a change to a new standard provides itself some non-technical challenges. CSV is a bad standard, but it's the best one given what it does and its flexibility.
"What no one disputes is that, beginning in late 2016 and continuing until August 2017, a total of 24 US diplomatic personnel stationed in Havana, Cuba, experienced audible or sensory phenomena emanating from a distinct direction. When they moved, the sensation disappeared or lessened. Some described pressure-like or vibratory stimuli akin to air “baffling” inside a moving car when a single window is partially rolled down. The stimuli lasted for as little as 20 seconds to as long as 30 minutes.

"The diplomats experienced the stimuli in their homes or hotel rooms, although family members and other hotel guests remained unaffected. Immediately or in the days and weeks after, the subjects reported an array of neurological impairments, including disorders of balance, sleep, vision, hearing or cognition. Headaches were also frequently reported." [1]

[1] https://journals.lww.com/neurotodayonline/Fulltext/2018/0322...
> But then people latched on to the idea that it was caused by some kind of sonic device or hitherto unknown weapon targeting embassies.

Possibly prompted by historical precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Signal
> That being said, I can’t even use Signal on them without some major configurations.

Sadly bridging Signal into a matrix home-server and just using a matrix-client from the PinePhone/Librem is probably the simplest option.
The window pane that the passenger has access to is not the pane in contact with the outside of the aircraft.
The parent comment said displace place jobs just like Chinese manufacturing did to US manufacturing.
It was a Playstation exclusive and probably enjoyed peak popularity on the PS1 and PSP. I think Wipeout HD for PS3 is the best one, but it was almost definitely a fan service title.

Fast and Furious movies in the early 2000s made street racing and crash-based racing games more popular. So cross-platform games like the Burnout series succeeded, as did NFS:Most Wanted, where you had to outrun patrol cars in officially licensed supercars from Ferrari, McLaren etc.

On the underground side, NFS:Underground and the Midnight Club series were king.
"I've told this to lots of people who work in other division (that I can trust) and they've said the easiest thing is to just accept it as it is and coast"

The Big Head character from Silicon Valley is again proved to be (like all the characters) spot-on accurate. Mike Judge is sorely underappreciated.

My $0.02 advice: you seem smart, hard-working, and self-motivated. Become a consultant and be your own boss. Use the FAANG creds to demand a high rate. It's a market, and you can leverage your abilities as services you can offer. Work it to your advantage.
At work you have the same IP. Your coworker may have googled what he was taking about. This is a much easier explaination than a constant mic monitoring for arbitrary phrases
I'm still very skeptical but humor me,

Given these anecdotes from Wikipedia:

"As the officer pulled his car into a busy intersection, he suddenly felt as though his head were going to explode. His two-year-old son, in a car seat in the back, started screaming. As the officer sped out of the intersection, the pressure in his head ceased, and his son went quiet."

"In 2019, a White House official reported experiencing debilitating symptoms while walking her dog in a Virginia suburb of Washington; the incident was publicly reported in 2020."

The most common explanation is microwave radiation. So, how large of a device do people think it would take to induce these symptoms?

Speculate, what would this device look like?

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EDIT: China used microwave weapons against India in a border dispute. How similar are the symptoms?

https://eurasiantimes.com/has-india-finally-acknowledged-tha...
As I remember it, Glade would output an XML document structure representing the UI which could then be loaded via libgtk. It seemed like a nicer model than code generation, though I don't remember much about how it worked.