skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice app! I'm designing a todo app myself.

- I've noticed HN hates demos that require creating a new account. Personally, I don't mind but it would be nice if there were less friction to try it out. (I just use a password manager to generate and store unique passwords for each site. KissTodo was password number 456! That said, I would drop the mandatory digit in the password.) I'm actually creating a system that supports anonymous accounts that can be upgraded to full accounts like on StackOverflow.com. Another option is to have a demo account that is periodically reset. Or magic email signup/login...

- Suggestion: display the keyboard shortcuts with the '?' key (see how it's done in GitHub, YouTube, Gmail...)

- Speaking of shortcuts, some of the default keyboard shortcuts are not possible on PC because there is no COMMAND modifier key. And I didn't notice the shortcuts could be edited. Even after figuring it out, editing the shortcuts was a little awkward. And weird things happen if the shortcuts collide with the browser's shortcuts...

- How do you close details? I guess backspace works, but it would be nice if it were "Toggle Details" so the same shortcut could be used.

I've tried out so many todo apps. Usually I take a peek, then never log in again. I like KissTodo because it's fast and simple. I might try using it a little longer ^^
What captivates me about the drawings is the range in detail and accuracy. Keep in mind that naked-eye observations are difficult, limited to the colour sensitivities of the human eye, and often are working at or near the limits of perception --- the fanciful details on Mars are extrapolation of a very small blurry rusty dot.

The detail of the sunspot images is exquisite.

The other aspect is that until the advent of photography, all image preservation was mediated by the human eye, mind, and artistic ability, and often the 2nd or further-removed hand accounts and relating of original events or objects. (See Albrecht Durer's rinocerous for one of my favourite examples of this.) The century or so from the mid-19th through mid-20th century where direct analogue impressions of images, sound, and movement were possible gave us a period of robustly reliable records (within the limits of equipment, and still subject to manipulation). The age of computer-modified and -generated imagery once again leaves us with high-fidelity images which may have remote, little, or no bearing on any actual reality. This includes, for what it's worth, many of the NASA images provided, which are more data interpretations than realistic representations of astronomical objects.
You'd have to talk to them directly to hear about the people who are completely satisfied with their lives in strict religious groups. Naturally, such a group isn't for everyone, and drama and conflict make more interesting stories, so that's what you see in news and fiction.
Do I need an incident debrief?
Takeaways from how I finally stopped adding sugar to my tea/coffee
Getting a request for a provocative picture of eating a corndog was definitely the most funny to me. The Chris Hanson moment was usually when the victim suggested a real date or offered to send a pic of his willy. I'm not THAT committed to humor.
Depends. Are certain groups disproportionally more likely to benefit from said accusations?

Sorry, it needs to be said. It's easier to take one side of an argument when it's less likely to affect you personally.
CBD oil, tincture dropper until your tongue.
T-Mobile Data Breach Included Personal Information of Almost 50k Customers
I think that there is not. It was created for specific purposes at one project when I have to be aware of store images in specific path because of security reasons. At this moment it was clearly one simple way to crypt dataset with without any information loss. (data was further used to feed neural network architecture).
I added additional power outlets in my house to locations above existing outlets, and I had to struggle to get the push in clamp to release the wire at least half the time. I guess the builder used the cheapest outlets, but the screw option is much easier for servicing.
USB-A 5v 1A managed to power my macbook M1 much to my amazement, which is faster than many desktops.
Math Anxiety (2020)
The cynical take is a product of talking to engineers, not scientists.

The tragedy of engineering is that in any market niche, generally only one technology can win. The others are driven to extinction. It's like ecology's "one niche, one species" rule. As Freeman Dyson pointed out, this is not like science, where multiple complementary theories may coexist. We build chips from silicon, not GaAs or superconducting niobium or any of the other possible technologies that were considered over the decades.

An engineer, if he's old enough, will have seen many technologies come up then fail and die. There are more ways to solve problems than there are sufficiently distinct problems, so this is inevitable. When fusion competes with fission, and wind, and solar, and geothermal, and..., it's a fight to the death. The notion that fusion is inevitable is a stacking of the mental deck to just assume fusion will win this competition.
It reminds me of the gravity wave detectors. It boggles my mind that we are able to build machines that can measure such staggeringly tiny effects.
There aren't separate stats for stationary firetrucks, but looking at all collisions with emergency vehicles (including at high speed), it's in the order of magnitude of 15,000 collisions with more than 3 trillion miles driven.

Tesla is so many orders of magnitude worse in this area than human drivers that it will be laughable for them to try to resort to Musk's usual lie -- that Teslas are better drivers than humans.
Who can say it's even the truth though. Do you have a reference? For sure she would have filed complaint or something. It's super convenient no one has questioned you on this...
If the developer is very skilled, then he has been motivated in the past. Skills do not develop in a vacuum and it takes work to develop mastery of a varied skillset.

That means you are not dealing with someone who cannot get motivated. That's the good news.

The bad news is that there is likely one or more things that have demotivated him. A big part of a team lead's job is to remove friction that may grind down your devs. If I were you I'd try to remove demotivators, because with them there you are going to have a much harder time motivating him.

A big thing you can do to remove the demotivators is to find the friction, and remove it. Easier said than done as there are many sources of friction: bureaucracy, health concerns, meetings, busywork, bad skill to role fit, toxic co-workers, and more. But if you can find and eliminate any of these, that will help.

Another thing to consider is that if you have one demotivated person with visible signs, you may have other people feeling demotivated who just aren't to the visible stage yet. If it sounds like I am talking about demotivation as a contagious meme, it's because I've found that to be the case in the past.

Do you do monthly or quarterly one-on-ones with each of your team? Do a one-on-one with them, find out how they are feeling, their goals and aspirations, their pain points. Make it clear the one-on-ones are off the record, and honor that. I've found it sometimes helps to do a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats/Risks) chart for each team member and use then when planning work efforts.

Once you have removed the demotivators you have now brought him back up to around zero motivational drift, but he is still not motivated. This where incentives like work from home, more independent project work, conferences, flextime, team building etc. come into play. If possible, encourage people to work outside - sunlight helps with mood and health in many ways. If he has financial issues, without going into specifics o individuals, see if you can persuade your company to offer the benefit of a wellness plan that includes both physical and mental therapy. In the long run this will be an amazing benefit for your company.

Use the material from the one-on-one with him to determine which incentives to use. Remember to offer these incentives to the team as a whole. Also remember that all behavior, given sufficient context, is rational from some point of view - there are reasons behind his behavior.

If all of the above does not work, it may be time to counsel him out. I am not talking about firing, but about sitting him down, explaining that it seems like he is not a good fit for his role or company, and asking if he will let you help him find a new job with another (noncompeting) company. If he is amenable, have HR help him look for a job and find something that motivates him. This process itself will give you valuable info on what demotivated him in the first place, that you can use to prevent further attrition.
It doesn't excuse anything, but it does matter
I'm sure aesthetics play a large role too, lidar is not only costly, it's bulky and ugly.

To a layman the sole reliance on cameras seems like one of Tesla's biggest mistakes.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/early-end-to-federal-unemplo...
Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows
People are saying that, by default, WhatsApp will save images directly to your camera roll without any interaction. That would be an easy way to trigger the CSAM detection remotely. There are many people who use WhatsApp so it's a reasonable concern.
What are you actually claiming here? You stance is unclear.
I was in a similar situation to yours when work required me to become a C++17 expert practically overnight.

Bjarne (inventor of the language) has a "blue book" that is very good and pretty comprehensive (if a bit dry and academic). I read it cover to cover in a couple days - not really retaining everything but learning what I didn't know. Then I read Scott Meyers's Effective Modern C++ to get up to date on the latest thinking and really nail down some of the finer points.

YMMV but this worked well for me to get a good feel for C++ the language. Mastering the STL and/or Boost is a journeyman job, though, as is mastering (any) build system. Of course there is no substitute for firing up the editor and writing real code.
I'm against this change from Apple but weren't they already doing this scanning in iCloud? Couldn't someone use it the same way against a "political rival and enemies of powerful people"?
> That is no reason to jump to a default "assume the accusation is false".

That's also not what I was trying to say. I only explained why testimony is far more doubted in rape cases than in most other cases. In general, I agree with you that accusations should be treated as unproven, so neither false nor true; we have a justice system to give a final verdict.
It's just policy and tools. Regardless of the tools used certain policies are enforced.

The robots/technologies are just tools. You have opreasive govenments spanning generations without robots and you have democracies as well.

I certainly want more robots around to do the boring and risky jobs.

Even if wars are conducted using robots(which is pretty innevitable) I see it as a good thing. The best tech wins instead of the most barbarian or the better propaganda machine.
The real question is: how did they manage to burn trillions of US taxes with virtually no oversight. I mean even south Vietnam didn't fall three days into the US pullout.
> that is clearly not

For one, you can't know if that's true as the image could have been manipulated to appear as such. For example you wouldn't know if a kind of steganography has been used to hide image in an image and that neuralhash picked on a hidden image.

> but I don't understand how they can get it on someone's phone

There is many vectors. For example you can leave phone unattended and someone can snap a picture of an image or since a collision may look innocent to you, you would overlook it in an email etc...
For a successful fusion power crash program?

This 45-year old analysis [0] says that 15 Bn USD 1978 (63 Bn USD 2021) stands between us and a first gen reactor. Afaict that is still accurate as we have been on the Logic I path since then. How quickly you want to spend that 63 Bn USD dictates what logic (II-V) you're on.

0. https://fire.pppl.gov/us_fusion_plan_1976.pdf
Yes, they shouldn't.
Yeah, I agree. And I do think it's a benefit when you're having a conversation about one of those words, and so will be reading/writing it over and over. But as you point out, to casually use it once in a conversation would more likely be confusing or annoying, unless you know the people you're talking to are already aware of it.
I would think a Message with the attached photo from a burner phone/account would be enough.
Some people see those charts and immediately recognize something they already knew. It's fine that you didn't. It's not as though there are that many links in this whole thread. I appreciate anyone with the stones to counter an argument by data with an argument by xkcd.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...
For some it's stupid for some it's less clear.

Instead of driving to the gym and bike 1h you may commute by bike (with enough safe paths its pretty nice, not perfect but pretty nice and health improvements come very rapidly as a bonus).
> and there is no law who requires them to "scan" on device

Yet. The demands by "concerned parents" (aka fronts for secret services, puritans/other religious fundamentalists and law-and-order hardliners) to "do something against child porn" have grown ever more strong and insane over the last years. (And you can bet that what is used on CSAM will immediately be used to go after legal pornography, sex work, drug enforcement, ...)

Many current and powerful politicians don't understand a single bit about computers, to the point of bragging of never having used one (e.g. Japan's cybersecurity minister) or having assistants print out emails daily and transcribing handwritten responses (can't say more than that this is the situation for at least two German MPs) - but there are young politicians who do, and will replace them over the next decade hopefully. That means it's last chance for lobbying groups to get devastating laws passed through, and we must all be vigorous in spotting and preventing at least the worst of them.

And what is suspiciously lacking in Apple's response: what are they going to do when they are compelled to extend the CSAM scanner by law in the US, India, China and/or EU? It's feasible for Apple to say they'll just be sticking the middle finger towards markets such as Russia, Saudi-Arabia or similar tiny dictatorships, but the big markets? Apple can't ignore these, and especially India and China are heavyweights.
Build more of course.
Any matches are matched again server side to thwart this type of attack.

>Once Apple's iCloud Photos servers decrypt a set of positive match vouchers for an account that exceeded the match threshold, the visual derivatives of the positively matching images are referred for review by Apple. First, as an additional safeguard, the visual derivatives themselves are matched to the known CSAM database by a second, independent perceptual hash. This independent hash is chosen to reject the unlikely possibility that the match threshold was exceeded due to non-CSAM images that were adversarially perturbed to cause false NeuralHash matches against the on-device encrypted CSAM database. If the CSAM finding is confirmed by this independent hash, the visual derivatives are provided to Apple human reviewers for final confirmation.

They also fuzz this process by sending false positives I think?
> There is a reason the verdict is "not guilty" instead of "innocent".

Both verdicts exists, actually; the latter one is just far rarer (since it is both harder to prove and usually not what is argued about).
I understand doubt, you don't know me. But I'm not sure what you want?

She's now an officer in my son's startup.
Love it. Unintended consequence of complaining about lack of tasty food, someone shares their favorites. Now I have some new places to go!

I feel like we're having a debate about the health of some natural ecosystem.

You're describing an area 25mi x 14mi--We got signs of healthy ecosystem here. 1 wolf over here. 2 black bear over there. 1 brown beaver.

My rant is about just what you can find in a 1mi radius (time to spill the beans--of Glen Cove). And all I'm seeing in my ecosystem are squirrels.

If I'm going to drive, then I'd go to Hicksville, Floral Park or Flushing for Indian Cuisine.

Don't get me wrong. I invite you to visit Glen Cove for Central American cusine, and Italian cuisine of Campania and Tuscany.

And you can get a hamburger in 8 places. haha

Full disclosure, I work in consulting for the restaurant industry (not in Glen Cove). I love tasty food, and I also like to understand business decisions. So when I find bland tasteless food, it makes me sad. When I find a new businesses which decided to compete for a share of the same customers selling similar fare, I'm baffled.
Demand for IT workers inside non-technology companies varies greatly based on the set of projects under way. Large projects are funded as capital projects with finite end dates. Companies want to vary the number of workers in response to demand, hence contingent workers. They commonly hire for expertise in a particular area, so that no training is needed.

Technology companies, in contrast, see technology workers as resources whose labor can be converted into products to sell. They hire for flexibility and willingness to learn, assuming that people will need to adapt their skills to what the company is needs. They typically set an overall headcount goal for the company with no specific end date.

A 25% deal as a contractor is a very bad deal - 90-95% for good contractors is not uncommon.
> A devastating scenario for such a system is if an attacker knows how to look at a hash and generate some image that matches the hash, allowing them to trigger false positives any time.

This is my understanding too. But is this not also true for other (cloud-based) CSAM scanning systems? Why is Apple's special in this regard?
The recommendation, remember? The research? She was a PhD student.
That can be fixed with idle real estate taxes. They would have to at least rent them.
YouTube has the content. I can put my stuff on the others, and send my friends links no problem. However when Dave Richards posts another old time machine shop video it is only to YT - I can think of several more awesome channels that are only on YT.

I don't know how to solve this problem.
IIRC, in this[1] video Andrej Karpathy mentions radar was mostly redundant, and in addition was occasionally harmful (sending conflicting signals vs. video), so they got rid of it to reduce cost and complexity.

[1]: https://youtu.be/g6bOwQdCJrc
In Canada there is significant overhead for a FTE, When I used to be a contractor for my own corp I realised how much overhead the company has on top of just salary, health insurance, CPP, EI etc.., Also as a contractor it was a win for me because I can take dividends instead of salary and pay less taxes.
I dont think easy to let go is a factor because they can layoff a FTE with two weeks pay and my contracts usually have similar clause to terminate my contract.
In my state (Montana) there is a law that vehicles must move one lane away from a parked emergency vehicle (leaving an empty lane between you and the emergency vehicle). I wonder if Tesla's firmware understands it needs to do that?
Patient trolls that buy ads in the nytimes? Know nothing about them but that's my guess
To be fair, log_2(1 trillion) is only about 40 bits.
Excuse my lack of knowledge on the subject, but from a few comments/articles it seemed that although Tritium can be recuperated through contact of the charged neutrons with lithium "blankets" surrounding the enclosure, it is still incredibly hard to achieve self-sustainability, to the point where we might need fission reactors just to produce that isotope. Am I missing something or isn't Tritium not so readily available?
The problem is between promised results and actual results. Fusion promised results would be here 40 years ago. Cry wulf often enough and nobody will invest in you.
Yeah, nothing makes sense except cost. Even for these kind of level 2 system, they should be forced to have camera + lidar + radar. There is no reason to not use as many data sources as possible. If it is to expensive, work on that. Batteries used to be more expensive too but they focused on that. Spend some of your stock on lidar/radar acquisitions.
Note that a hash collision is not the same as a pre-image attack. Though it seems to me that finding the latter is also feasible.
Ridiculous. So if I use malware to insert CSAM on your iPhone, you're "actively" committing a crime? CSA is a crime, but a person suspected of that must be properly tried through the judicial process. Private entities can also monitor what passes through their premises, but they have no business planting continuous surveillance functionality on your premises without a court warrant.

Everyone knows that the worst CSA happen in lawless countries and regions. This is mere pretext to build generalised surveillance infrastructure, or more importantly, normalise the concept of being continuously surveilled by faceless entities. That is the big push society is heading generally towards. It started with CCTV and will end with brain implants, unless society decided enough is enough at some point instead of endless hair-splitting.
Her professor counseled her against reporting. They needed the contact to get PhD students positions and recommendations. Reporting it online meant throwing up obstacles to herself for holding other academic positions.

A PhD student is hostage against the system.
I would add that it's misleading to generalize the experience of tech workers to workers at large.

We're in a weird and fortunate spot because we work as in a well capitalized industry as highly specialized skilled artisans. So often we get autonomy, leverage, and a good paycheck. This is not the experience for workers in general.
Firewalls and middleboxes can be weaponized for gigantic DDoS attacks
You don't need to do that, just use images that collide with the hashes.
Humans do have a problem with this. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=police+car+hit+...
Radar has serious issues detecting stationary objects. Which is why early automatic cruse control systems had minimum speeds, they simply don’t work in stop and go traffic.

Lidar on the other hand has no problem with stationary objects, but cars can’t depend on it in all weather conditions. Which means full self driving cars need to be able to operate based on vision like we do. I would expect all level 5 systems to use Lidar especially if costs continue to drop, but it’s not as clear cut as you might think.
Second preimage attacks are trivial because of how the algorithm works. The image goes through a neural network (one to which everyone has access), the output vector is put through a linear transformation, and that vector is binarized, then cryptographically hashed. It's trivial to perturb any image you might wish so as to be close to the original output vector. This will result in it having the same binarization, hence the same hash. I believe the neural network is a pretty conventional convolutional one, so adversarial perturbations will exist that are invisible to the naked eye.

This is useful for two purposes I can think of. One, you can randomize all the vectors on all of your images. Two, you can make problems for others by giving them harmless-looking images that have been cooked to give particular hashes. I'm not sure how bad those problems would be – at some point a police officer does have to look at the image in order to get probable cause. Perhaps it could lead to your Apple account being suspended, however.
But then you're searching and finding child porn images to send.
Google is right to cut remote workers’ pay (short term)