skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually read your comment, along with the linked PDF, in full multiple times in an effort to make sure I wasn't missing a point you were trying to make. Before I continue, I want to make it clear that I fully understand that adding non-CSAM content into the existing NCMEC/CSAM/IWF environment would more than likely raise a lot of red flags. You and I have an understanding there.

As it happens, I still think you're missing the point that myself and others are trying to make. Perhaps the following is a better way of phrasing my inquiry:

What guarantees to we have that Apple will, always and forever, only use the NCMEC/CSAM/IWF system to scan images on phones? By that I mean, isn't it perfectly plausible that Apple can leave the NCMEC/CSAM/IWF system in place, as it is described in your post and the linked PDF, and at the same time partner with [random body X/Y/Z], who has their own database of [whatever] that they scan separately from the NCMEC/CSAM/IWF system? These two different scans wouldn't ever need to communicate with each other, and could run at the same time.
This, these charges are damning once they are made. Plus the countless legal dollars you are going to have to front and hours spent proving innocence and that's assuming the justice system actually works.. Try explain this to your employer while you start missing deadlines due to court dates.. The police also could easily leverage this to warrant hop. As they have been found doing in the past. I think the bike rider who had nothing to do with a crime and got accused because he was the only one in a broad geo location Warren is all the president of of you need that this will be abused.
Right, because humans are infallible and never abuse their position either.

And we are not talking about some underpaid contractors making life altering decisions.

And we are also not talking about a system where just a false accusation can and will destroy one's life irreparably.
License files (and copyright) aren’t omnipotent. I understand why you might feel the ethics lie in a different direction, but the established legal precedent is that parsing and building search indexes or neural nets is generally fair game regardless of what the copyright holder wants.

You mentioned robots.txt - there’s no legal enforcement behind that either. Notably, the Internet Archive bot ignores it completely.
Not with SEPA Direct Debit (which accounts for most of my online payments); I can "return" (get back) money spent like that easily via my bank.
Zipping two files is an obvious nonstarter. CSV won because it is simple.
Would you still get the tax deduction?
> Practices such as agile, DevOps, MLOps, and AIOps are introducing reproducible operational tools that add rigor to the discipline.

Let me stop you right there. This is cargo cult bullshit. The Agile Manifesto said "Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools", and they said so with good reason.

As an engineering manager your cardinal rule is to maximize velocity towards whatever higher level goal you are given without burning out the team or causing other long-term fallout. All else being equal, this means clearing as much time for ICs to do work, and adding only as much process as necessary to avoid doing the wrong work. Of course you also have to manage the emotions of the team, and deal with all the shit flying around sideways and upwards as well.

So how do you do this? Well, that's a hard question, let me start by saying what not to do. The first thing is definitely not to reach into your trusty bag of tools and pull out a predictable and reusable framework, especially one with a lot of thought leadership behind it with abstract promises of "impact" by someone who doesn't even know what business you're in.

No, the first thing should be to assess your situation: what are the goals, who are the players, how are they feeling, what are the major challenges, etc. Only from that starting point can you have any hope of putting together a sane process. And once you do you should not settle too deeply into the comfort of a familiar rhythm—yes regular cadences and rituals can be a huge boon for your team's productivity, but as manager your job is to be constantly surveying the landscape and seeing if there's a way to do better.
The California Water Wars are really interesting[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars
ML Meets the Rigor of Law
It's not, it still the same bullshit where you need to predeclare everything that is written bellow in your file or elsewhere

C++20 modules from 60 years ago when people didn't know how to design modules

They haven't looked at how languages such as D/Rust/Zig/Swift are doing, instead they went blind and they built a "new" thing with the limitations of their old design

What a shame
Though whether that's a convenient excuse for prudishness or not, we'll never know (because you can't collect data on chargebacks if you don't allow any sex sites to make charges in the first place).

Banks are notoriously risk-averse. This is a disruption waiting to happen for the first person who can crack handling sex-worker credit card payments despite the banks.
> I know several folks who would love something like this

We’d love to talk to them! If you have any contacts who’d feel comfortable talking to us and influencing where we go from here, I’d love to hear from you / them at cody@wakasaba.com

> I think the key is going to be in arriving at the right set of gestures for the right audience...

This makes sense. We’ve mostly been working with Pilates instructors, but this is a good reminder to talk to people running all types of remote fitness classes.
The Sablier protocol (https://sablier.finance/) trustlessly streams crypto/stablecoins on a second/hourly/daily/monthly basis which covers use cases such as subscriptions.
Vaccine breakthrough cases are expected and normal. The CDC only bothers to count those that result in hospitalization or death, and fortunately the vaccines greatly reduce the risk of those bad outcomes. In the long run most of us will eventually get infected; it's basically inevitable.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...
This is a common reason that’s given, but I haven’t seen any proof. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is surprisingly overblown and the industry doesn’t actually have that bad a problem with charge backs
Yes, in Vegas many are checking ID for use of credit card exactly with this reason in mind. It is so common for pickpocket that otherwise they have too many such issues.
So in your mind because bad thing X is already happening, it's completely OK for bad thing XY to also start happening?
>†Yes, I have a slightly strange life, I know.

No you don't. There are many people who are become porn actors as a result of only fans. That is likely why this is happening.
Your questions have no readily available answers. Don't be suckered in by the occasional HN fever, which in this instance may manifest itself in asserting knowledge about type-II level technological challenges, from our pre-type-I mechanical pedestal.
Network effects. Start with taboo yet high demand market then pivot.
Idea: Apple should make this hybrid smart TV, desktop monitor, and smart display
Prepaid cards including virtual cards are available in Europe..
Beat Up the Poor
Stolen items are fenced on eBay. The payment processors don't have an issue with actual crimes like theft but want to impose a moral code on legal behavior.
> They don't object. They throw tantrums because they didn't get a 2 week advance warning of something happening.

“Something happening”… or “adults deciding things while ignoring the needs and desires of the children”? Most of these situations follow a pattern, in my experience:

• Society decides what things may matter and what things may not.

• Adult unilaterally changes things that It Is Unreasonable To Care About.

• Child is not allowed to care about them.

• Child is not allowed to object.

• Child is not allowed to be distracted by the change from What The Child Must Pay Attention To.

• Child must pay attention, immediately, and cease this ridiculous behaviour.

• Child “has a tantrum” (a word that does not distinguish between “deliberate disruption as a protest / spiteful action”, “inability to contain frustration / anger” and “meltdown”).

> Mental disorders are bad by definition. Psychologists don't put behaviours in their diagnostic manuals for nothing.

I never claimed that they did, and you're not addressing what I've said.

> I suggest you go read through the DSM.

I suggest you have a little look at DSM II's “302” section.

> This category is for individuals whose sexual interests are directed primarily toward objects other than people of the opposite sex,

“hampered in their function” requires you to define “function”, and that's usually defined as “ability to fit into society's little box”. While we've made the box a bit bigger (when we don't have to put much effort into it), plenty of benign-of-themselves variations in what people are like are still outside that box, and still punished unnecessarily.

If cyanide was a regular ingredient in food, people with normal levels of mitochondrial rhodanese would be “hampered in their function” – they wouldn't be able to eat even a tenth of the cyanide-containing food a normal person could eat without straight-up dying! You or I would therefore have a disability that just doesn't exist in our society, without any change having occurred to us.
What Happens on Facebook?
> What it means is that for the consumer parts we have some extra dark silicon in the design, which ultimately might help thermals, or absorb defects. But it does mean that AVX-512 is probably dead for consumers.

Is it just me or does this sound mindbogglingly stupid, even for Intel?
The ease at which we let foreigners buy our American Real-estate has been bothering me for years.

I can't prove it, but it seems like too much foreign capital that is buying our land is ill gotten, and allowing crypto is just going to make it worse.

I believe we are the Only country that allows foreigners buy property with a phone call, or email.
Sure Jess. Any day now...
This is why we need fully private and untraceable cryptocurrencies like monero, pirate chain and mobilecoin. Someone should tell the people at onlyfans.
What exactly was wrong in the example clip you provided?

To me, it looks like the car rightfully stopped because it assumed the person was going to cross the parking lot.
I'm amazed on how much mis-information is spread. Featured we are talking about here is for reporting spam number which is a done by user not automatically. This is widely available in Android already.

Correct me if I'm wrong but this feature needs an app install from the app store.
Apparently the LTT OnlyFans was very popular when it was around.
Finding a Way Back from Suicide
None of the things you listed are really comparable. What does the cost of running schools and police and fire and so on tell you about whether the cost for a transaction is reasonable.

That being said my understanding is the cost sources from risk involved in credit risks and other guarantees on credit cards not the actual transaction of the money. E.g. debit cards have far lower merchant fees but don't assume any of those risks. From that perspective the premium makes more sense, not because you give tips on a meal that are larger.
Good.

Onlyfans is extremely exploitative, and part of the business model is to groom underage girls into doing pornography. There have been many news reports of only fans ignoring reports that underage girls are selling pornography of themselves on their website; something which onlyfans profits off of.

They are pimps, and seem to be okay with pimping out children and encouraging children to enter the sex trade. I hope that some of them end up in prison.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57255983.amp
I have zero sympathy.
It’s not about morals, it’s about chargebacks. That’s why.
I've been thinking about doing something like this forever, but never taken the time to sit down and do it. (And probably couldn't have done a particularly good job of it anyway.) My main usage scenarios are:

- using my hand as a mouse in space-constrained situations where I can't have a physical mouse

- dance class, so the instructor can seek through music, especially for rewinding to the same starting spot over and over again. (This is from the days of in-person classes; it drove me nuts that the instructor had to keep walking back to his phone and then getting it a few beats off)

- spellcasting game

For many uses, I'd be really concerned with false positives. I don't want to have to pin my arms to my sides to avoid triggering something. I'd also want it to be pretty robust to different angles, so I don't have to get my hand exactly parallel to the camera. (Seeing yourself is pretty good for smoothing this over, since at least you'll notice when you're not pointing in quite the right direction. But some applications would be much nicer if they were usable without seeing yourself.)

Overall, this feels more like a tech demo than an application. Sadly, you'll probably have to pick some niche to focus on, because I think the tradeoffs are going to be very different. And dance teachers and yoga instructors don't have much money. (WakaSaba also doesn't exactly suggest the functionality to this English-speaker.)
In US you can go to many store and get such a card, pay with cash. Downsides are that some merchant (mostly internet ones) will check and refuse to accept such pre-paid options.
This is absurd
My argument doesn’t hinge on the excess spending. Rather, the increase of costs due to a labor shortage, chip shortage, construction materials shortage, etc. is having a compounding effect across the whole economy.
Boolean v3.1.3 dependent on node = 16.7.0
I’m afraid this one’s more about illegal content and KYC than fraud. Sorry.
The feeling is mutual. The devices we own are now being used to actively police us.
> Ultimately things like C++ code completion and intellisense require a lot of work and code to get right, and NeoVim/Vim attempts are not there yet, for example I had to give up when the only way to figure out what compilation flags a project uses meant configuring it manually.

Not sure if I understand this right, but have you heard of https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear?

It intercepts compilation calls to generate a clang compilation database used by C and C++ LSP implementations. This way you just have to compile the project the normal way, only wrapping the initial call (for example, to `make`) with bear: `bear make`.

Once you have the database, a LSP server like ccls should work out of the box with the project.
That doesn't solve the majority of issues brought up here. Just like it wouldn't solve all the things you mentioned about your colleague posting things you aren't happy about.
Are these workspaces limited to people who own the oculus headset?
I think that in terms of speed and performance we've hit a plateau but there is still room for improving physical space

I imagine that our hand held devices will at some point replace our desktops alltogether, allowing plug and play wireless connections to our monitors, etc and letting us run the most advanced software & games directly on the same devices we currently use to text and make phone calls. But we're not there yet
Arsenical Bronze
Getting access to a regular web app would be sufficient to perform that kind of abuse. It just would be more difficult to automate.

It seems to me that the difficulty of getting the victim to grant access to the attacker remains the same for both the web app access and the API access.

The advantage for the attacker of getting the API access is that they can more easily automate the performing of subtle frauds over a longer period of time, thereby avoiding the detection. But a determined attacker can automate that via the web app as well.

That is why it seems to me that the difference in fraud capabilities over both channels is, in principle, negligible.
Advice on what it takes to drive innovation in remote work environments
Because "technology."
You can run King's Quest I-VII (and countless other classic adventure games) via SCUMMVM [1]. Falcon 3 and Comanche can be run via DOSBox [2]. That 2013 Mac can easily play almost any game from the DOS era using one of these two fantastic open source projects.

[1] https://www.scummvm.org

[2] https://www.dosbox.com
> If someone washes dishes for a living by choice because they love it, good for them. If someone is compelled to in order to feed their kids or leave an abusive partner, then we should all be ashamed of that.
I've worked at both small and large companies in periods of rapid growth.

With 2x YoY growth you are always onboarding. You need to be multiplicative with your onboarding efforts. This means writing quality onboarding documentation, mentoring mentors, and codifying parts of the onboarding process (e.g. groups to join, permissions, etc.). Making other engineers effective is a very valuable use of time when so many people are ramping up at once.

It can feel exhausting, but mostly invigorating. There's always a feeling of energy; the hardest part can be setting boundaries to not let it consume your free time.
They can't ban everything, since at the extremis you could buy crypto from eBay sellers.

But in the long run you are right: to avoid MasterCard and Visa we should move everything to crypto. It is the only way to control our own destiny.
>the 'Chad' signifier

What do you mean by this?
Women, especially attractive women always had this option, historically it was just usually done through marriage.

Arguably one can claim that marrying upwards isn’t always bad and quite often they are loved and cared for but in the end this is nothing new.
Sad to see this didn't get picked up on here. It's very much worth the time and provides real insight to what has been going on there.

Thank you for sharing this.
There wasn’t any guarantee that Apple didn’t have and use such technology before they made this feature public, or even already was running it in the current version of iOS.

If you trusted Apple not to stealthily run such technology before, the question is how much less (if any) you trust them now.

If you didn’t, I don’t think anything changed.
Comparing Reddit to one book is not a proper comparison. Instead, compare Reddit as a whole to books as a whole. Most books are not worth reading.

> It is important to learn to tell good shit from bad shit

That would apply within Reddit, as well. Find the good subreddits and the good comments.
It's Gene Roddenberry's 100th birthday and Oatmeal has a comic on his life pivot
Then you charge a higher merchant fee.
Yes, already now buying cryptos is ridiculously difficult. Any reputable operator requires KYC, which is a similar process to opening a bank account including submitting a photo ID. That's a pretty good deterrent for the random Joe against signing up on a porn site even if it's all legal.

While cryptos in of themselves are decentralized and inherently unregulatable, people forget that the interface with the real financial world is very much vulnerable.
In a really bad situation, couldn't someone make a hard Ethernet link to something connected to the public internet?

I wouldn't be surprised if some other non-us government or 5 has already established this kind of stuff. The amount of computers accessing the classified info intranet would be very, very large I would imagine, such that a few modified computers here and there would go virtually undetected. Just look at all the classified crap abandoned at Afghanistan for example.
name collision: https://mathigon.org/tangram
Covid Vaccines Are Less Effective Against Delta, Large Study Finds
"...Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s messenger RNA vaccine lost effectiveness in the first 90 days after full vaccination, though that shot and the one made by AstraZeneca Plc still staved off a majority of Covid infections. When vaccinated people did get infected with delta, they were shown to have similar levels of virus in their bodies as those who hadn’t had shots. This suggests that vaccinating large portions of a population might not protect those who don’t get inoculated, casting doubt on the idea of achieving herd immunity..."

"...We’re seeing here the real-world data of how two vaccines are performing, rather than clinical trial data, and the data sets all show how the delta variant has blunted the effectiveness of both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs, said Simon Clarke, an associate professor in cellular microbiology at the University of Reading..."
Yeah, from a programmer's perspective the difference is vast. From a regular user's perspective, not so much.
My day job is drawing and yes, there is routine. There are also all kinds of tricks to convince myself to start working on something even though I am not feeling the Muses beam raw hot inspiration directly to my hand, completely bypassing my brain.
There are many of us that DO care! Unfortunately, even though we are many, we are still a small minority among the general population, or probably even among software developers.

Convenience and fashion tend to trump security and principles for most people. (Oftentimes, I'm one of those people as well, though I try not to be. It's exhausting to be an activist 100% of the time. But let's keep at it!)
So the opening move would be to invade a non-hostile country to ensure you have all of the chips! Then once that is secure, you can then target the country you actually want to have hostilities with. I can see no flaws with this plan. Execute!
Nearly certainly everything would nominally be in fiat and at the time you pay in crypto, they would credit you the value of the crypto at the time of payment.

I can't imagine they're going to go through the effort and risk of effectively hedging their crypto risk through securities markets, which would come at a premium.
The labor shortage is the catalyst for sustained inflation
Sounds like something HR would try
Rattlesnakes' sound 'trick' fools human ears
Unsure as to whether booting porn will enable any other recruitment of more other providers. OF is synonymous with young girls (over 18 but still young) selling nude picture for everybody under certain age. That is what everybody is thinking when it is mentioned. If you tell somebody under 30 you have OF subscription and bookmarked site yes, but only for watching gardening video, people will think you are joking.
I'm as surprised as you are that a giant like Apple doesn't just tell them "go ahead, ban iPhones, see how popular they'll become" to someone as powerless as the government of India. It would be a huge free publicity campaign for them in the rest of the world while the public in India would either put pressure on their government or buy iPhones via import websites.

For additional fun, strike a deal with the #2 non government owned carrier in whichever country you do this to. Offer the iPhone at a special rate for a few months. They would kill the government telco while selling record numbers of phones with free publicity. And at the same time scare any other government into not trying this kind of stunt with Apple ever again.
Given that payment processors are an oligopoly, and it's incredibly difficult to build another Visa or MasterCard, they should be regulated as utilities (or at the very least, similarly to telecom providers), and be required to be content-neutral.

Just like Comcast can't tell me I can't download porn, Visa shouldn't be able to tell me I can't buy it, either.
Right obviously the hashing isn’t going to be injective and therefore there are lots of silly images that hash to a given value. The question is whether it is possible to efficiently find plausible images with a given hash.

Think more like a “deep dream” than these adversarial attacks.
Look into "Operation Choke Point". It was an Obama era DOJ program to control payment processors in order to block things they didn't like.