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Hello! I made a few videos that explain how incremental Reading works:
1 Topics: https://youtu.be/1ZNsn8IL-TM 2 Incremental Reading core analogy: https://youtu.be/Wme2RLm1jWY 3 How Incremental Reading makes micro learning easy: https://youtu.be/piqq1kwYL5s
Spoiler alert: basically incremental reading is like using save states when playing a game with an emulator. As one might save their game state before and after a challenging section in a game, when you find a difficult to understand/explain idea, incremental reading makes it easy to pause and synthesize that idea before moving on. At the end also it’s good to summarize the ideas to yourself and simplify that explanation, and then use SuperMemo to memorize that explanation. Incremental reading is hard to explain why it is so useful, I’ve been using SuperMemo every day for 15 years and I still feel like I am learning new things
Don’t imessage and whatsapp automatically store all images received in the iphone’s photo library?
This is now totally off-topic, but I'd like to know if there is any Googler at all working on adding location tags to their text-to-speech model.

Hearing Google Assistant/Maps mispronounce German street or city names in an American accent is very grating to the ears. The pronunciation of a location name should ignore the language spoken, right? (Ignore for a moment the edge cases, like München vs Munich... although the voice says, "Munchin'," which is wrong in both languages!) And it can't be too complicated to borrow phonemes from another language where they don't exist... Right? Your American text-to-speech algorithm encounters an umlaut, then generate the correct waveforms from a language with umlauts.

(I'm sure someone reading this is jumping up and down, yelling about the "photo of a bird" xkcd.)
For #4, I know for a fact that my wife’s WhatsApp automatically stores pictures you send her to her iCloud. So the grey blob would definitely be there unless she actively deleted it.
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> I think it's a bit funny that German government is complaining to Apple

The German government isn't complaining. Looking at the original German article it was a single parliament member from an opposition party that wrote a letter to Apple.
Safari will be using ANGLE soon too (and thus support WebGL 2 finally).
And it's disgusting and water where I live is cheap and plentiful. Hate water austerity imposed on everyone because of megacities and people living where people shouldn't live.
You won't get rid of individual transportation. This just won't happen, even if you triple or quadruple investments in infrastructure. Getting into a city core is actually readily available in most places.

The solution has to be to make individual traffic CO2 neutral.
Being married is a proven effective life behavior. So is saving money, etc. Progressive ideas, by contrast, pretty much by definition lack demonstrated effectiveness. They have unknown and typically unpredictable effects on society.

I’m not suggesting that corporate enforcement of behavior is the best way to go. But we should obviously do it for things that are proven to work before we do it for things that are untested.
I wonder what our pictures of space will be seen as in the future.
the issue is step 6 - review and action

Every single tech company is getting rid of manual human review towards an AI based approach. Human-ops they call it - they dont want their employees to be doing this harmful work, plus computers are cheaper and better at

We hear about failures of inhuman ops all the time on HN. people being banned, falsely accused, cancelled, accounts locked, credit denied. All because the decisions which were once by humans are now made by machine. This will happen eventually here too.

It's the very reason why they have the neuralhash model. To remove the human reviewer.
Why is this getting downvoted? It’s very true, just the accusation of committing such a crime (regardless of whether the person was acquitted or not) can easily ruin many facets of a persons’ life.
They look at the contents of the "safety voucher", which contains the neural hash and a "visual derivative" of the original image (but not the original image itself).

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
> the NeuralHashes of which, unless I'm mistaken, are not available

Given the scanning is client-side wouldn't the client need a list of those hashes to check against? If so it's just a matter of time before those are extracted and used in these attacks.
Seems the pastor should sue Google for defamation of character.
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I suppose quite a lot of developers from Google read HN. Do you have any internal blog or some other social media to post this?
Or google is so big you can't do anything even from inside?
Because I worked in similarly big (although not so big) company and you can fix a lot just by posting such things internally. Because at the end of the day most people do care of such things.
Unfortunately, it is very likely to be possible. Adversarial ML is extremely effective. I won't be surprised if this is achieved within the day, if not sooner tbh.
I think you may have attracted less downvotes if the phrasing was changed to "Yes, just like false accusations of rape, it doesn't matter that you prove it was false afterwards."

I also think that those downvoting you might've applied the principle of charity and taken the best interpretation of what you've written or at least ask.
It somewhat sinister, because what we're doing is essentially pitting the stakeholders' past priorities against the current ones. But it's effective and I wish they were aware of this more.

One other trick I have up my sleeve is to do an, ahem, quick sort of tasks with the stakeholders. There's a degree of cunningness required to pull this off, but it works.

Hilariously enough insertion sort is less effective, because it's too obvious.
Just yesterday, here on HN there was an article [1] about adversarial attacks that could make road signs get misread by ML recognition systems

I'd be astonished if it wasn't possible to do the same thing here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204077
This is outdated reporting, Apple did drop the suit against Corellium a few days back.

Funnily enough the same NeuralHash has already been generated for completely different images, so good luck explaining why your 4th of July pics cost all of your safety vouchers to Apple/FBI
I got an ad overlay from the top of my screen, a growing banner from the bottom, and a fade-in pop-up over that. Within five seconds of loading the page, precisely 0% of it remained unobscured.
I am aware of the details. The episode of Brass Eye comes into context here, the relevant clip being as follows, showing exactly the issues of competence.

https://youtu.be/_U-7L1tmBAo
I assume these "non-private image derivatives" are downscaled versions of the original image. But for downscaling there also are adversarial techniques: perturb an image such that the downscaled version looks like a target image. See https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/08/03/machine-learning-adversar...
All criminal accusations, including true ones, should be treated as false until the accused is proven guilty.

This is a fundamental tenet of human rights in western, small-l liberal free societies.

The fact that this is controversial these days is literally insane to me.

The consequences of throwing this fundamental system out the window is that you get the sort of nonsense that happened with Assange, where he was literally never even charged yet completely and thoroughly discredited due to headlines containing the word "rape" when no such thing ever happened.

(If you have been misled to believe otherwise, I encourage you to read the direct statements of the women involved.)
The only other country with such liberal application of jus soli is New Zealand. In no other country I'm aware of can you show up, give birth and they will definitely give the child a passport unless the mother or father is a diplomat.
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How is informing people about report where they can find information about this exactly thing "bad tone"? Kids should decide rationally and in the same sentece you criticize article for telling them some degrees have bad ROI. They should guess and make up this info on their own, I guess.

Also, in fact, if you look at where people apply, they go mostly for business sounding degrees. Cinematography and what not are not where majority of students go.

Students and families in fact are trying to guess which schools or degrees are good for them. Informing them about reports that actually measure them is better then having to guess.
Already covered in the article:

> In the lawsuit, Apple argued that Corellium violated its copyrights, enabled the sale of software exploits used for hacking, and shouldn’t exist. The startup countered by saying that its use of Apple’s code was a classic protected case of fair use. The judge has largely sided with Corellium so far. Part of the two-year case was settled just last week—days after news of the company’s CSAM technology became public.

> On Monday, Corellium announced a $15,000 grant for a program it is specifically promoting as a way to look at iPhones under a microscope and hold Apple accountable. On Tuesday, Apple filed an appeal continuing the lawsuit.
> But a machine learning researcher might want to double the precision of an experiment. In that case, the new result implies that they might have to quadruple the running time of their gradient descent algorithm.

> But for other applications, like in numerical analysis, researchers might need to square their precision. To achieve such an improvement, they might have to square the running time of gradient descent

I don't quite understand this. Say f(p) is the complexity of gradient descent for precision p. The first paragraph seems to imply that f(p) = c×p^2, so that f(2p) = c×4×p^2 = f(p). However, the second paragraph then just seems to imply that f(p) = c×p. Am I missing something?

Incidentally, I love that Quanta brings attention to work mostly just on the basis of how important it is. 99% of the other stuff you hear about new research is really just driven by PR departments at the researcher's home institutions.
It might be be cheaper than fission. More complex reactor vs less need for thick containment walls and likely fewer NIMBY issues. Decommissioning costs are likely significantly lower. Operating costs and downtime are more questionable as you don’t need nearly as much security or to deal with enrichment and spent fuel. No need for radioactive plumbing etc. Even just constructing fuel rods is shockingly expensive.

D-T requires extracting tritium from a breeder blanket which will likely be very expensive. But the ratio of T:D can be lowered the more efficient the design, with pure D-D designs avoiding that issue entirely.
That feature got pulled last year and hasn't existed for over a year and a half now.
> Even one person's life inconvenienced is one too many. People working at Google: where is your conscience? If one of your family member was affected like this by a service provider who you have no control over, how would you feel?

This is an over-reaction. Someone being inconvienced is something you think should affect people's conscience? And it seems like OP could take control here and do something. They allow people to claim a knowledge panel however OP seems to only ask for things to be changed in a knowledge panel. It seems to me they provide the tools for OP to solve the issue but OP refuses to do so. I also wonder if OP choose to flag a problem or issue a legal removal request.

I doubt very much that you sit there and feel shame and contemplate how you have inconvienced others and even when you've done so in a more purposeful way.
> Apple is installing spyware on devices you own

I don't get it. Have they hacked your phone? In that case isn't that illegal?

The real answer is that it was never "your" phone. It was Apple's. They are installing spyware on their own phones. There is no "breach".

The solution is simple, buy a phone that you really own. Don't rent one from Apple.
Is it so hard to understand? Some people don’t use cloud storage for precisely the reason that the photos are not encrypted.

Now they can’t even use their phone for storing photos.

The thing with "only when iCloud is enabled" is only for now. It’s trivial to make Scanning all photos default in a future version.
ATS seems like a "Worse is Better" approach to dependent types and linear types. It exposes all of their power at the type level, and the value level allows both ML-style high level programming and C-level bit-banging. That's really useful for

Yet to actually use that power, developers are pretty much left to implement everything themselves.

The nice thing about Rust's borrow-checking approach is that common patterns can be inferred and checked. Linear types ATS offer the same power, but force developers to jump through more hoops 'manually' (and likewise for dependent types, compared to the fancy inference/proof-search approaches of languages like Idris)
(This may not help OP, but in case anyone else was thinking thi.)

Anecdotally, Hawaii is not. A lot of people think they can "start over" there, and it's next to impossible unless you already have a salaried job lined up before you move.

If anyone moves there, I highly recommend getting a local 808 number. People there are very nice, but they still discriminate against outsiders.
They are the third party...
It is laughable that "tech giants" are going to great lengths these days in cahoots with elected politicians and warlords (equally), to crack down on "misinformation" and yet when their own algorithm and callous management propagate damaging misinformation, no one can crack the whip on them, so to speak.

As others suggested, this needs to hit the court and be brought to the notice of regulators too. What if one day this deceptive "knowledge box" gets someone lynched? Am sure this has already happened if the lens is broad enough. Nevertheless they cannot be allowed to associate random photos with unrelated content without repercussions. At the very least they should have a channel where the general public can reach them and they take prompt action based on the merits of the case.

It's laughable how feudal, unaccountable, unreachable and unregulated the tech industry is, while they have a deliberately cultivated oversized impact on society.
Husband got a Jag i-Pace a few months ago. 400 km range. Haven't even bothered to get the fast charging equipment installed yet at home just give it 240 volts at night.

Its never been under 50%. I think for the vast majority of city and suburban folk, 99/100 trips are not an issue.
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iMessage no, WA by default yes, but can be disabled.
The [city] government can build housing according to need just as any other infrastructure.

This would however go against a lot of interests, both institutional and citizens with a large mortgage, that depends on high housing prices. So it's rare. But one can see Vienna, Austria, as a good example of where the government takes an active role in building housing and can show a great result in low rents and high availability.
Convincing fake profiles seem to be targeting hobbyist groups on Facebook
My recollection was that Google was outgunned by Baidu and similar Chinese tools, who were being actively supported by the CCP, while Google was half-tolerate. At the same time, it was losing security, IP, and reputation. There was a nice PR play around it, but I don't think "Google could have made a ton more money by helping China to build the tools of repression." It's better to build those in-house.
So fundamentally there’s a lot of mechanism around keeping secrets but the source material is available. Hmm.

https://youtu.be/eU2Or5rCN_Y
The foundations are understood, in a 'chemistry is just the Schrödinger equation' kind of way. Any amount of research and engineering is still needed to make machines which can move themselves effectively, be energy-efficient, and interact with the messy and unstructured wider world.
I agree with you—as I said above, my point is conditional on “if we are going to have corporate paternalism.” I don’t think we should.
If the decoder was "trained" on and only works with predictable data, then it might be the algorithm that's illegal, but if a completely new illegal image is created, hashed, fed into the decoder and the decoder produces a valid illegal image, then the illegal data must be in the input, not the algorithm.

This is basically rule 1 of testing neural networks: if the testing data is different from the training data and the results are still correct, your network is "reading" the data correctly and not just memorising a list of known values. I guess this means you'd also need to prove that the decoder doesn't turn most hashes of non-illegal images into illegal images, but if you also did that, you'd have a pretty strong case that the illegal data is in the hash.
For the server side component, the challenge is knowing the target of adversarial generation since, again, the perceptual hash used is secret. At that point, you are reduced to the threat present in every other existing CSAM detection system.
Without commenting on the policy I think you're missing the maths.

I can earn $x here or $(x - y) to be in the uk. In the UK I get healthcare on the NHS. I move. I quit / am fired / co goes (creatively?) broke. And I keep the healthcare on the NHS and have time to start a family before deportation etc.

Think about large values of y or indeed kickbacks. Does the firm really want /me/? Or do they just want cash which they get by paying very low (or taking a fee from me) as I get an end run around the immigration system to get healthcare without making the contribution, queue jumping better qualified, harder working, more civic minded people with greater compassionate grounds for being accepted? As ever there's a continuum. "Clearly this person is legitimately... ...then the unexpected thing happened." ends up being harder and quite expensive to identify and enforce fairly and equitably with a public service doing so.

I say nothing of the UK's policy here or its implementation as I'm ignorant. Assuming entrepreneurs won't spring up to arbitrage any system hole they can is naive. Immigration is super-emotive at the best of times especially arbitrarily unfair treatment and those who feel like they're losing from it (rightly or wrongly).

That's the general case being made. Immigration policy is super hard and you kind of have to willfully fortify your compassion as well. More than 700 million people on this planet have no safe drinking water and would want to migrate to any wealthy country under almost any circumstance. Plenty are literally dying to do it. How can we not feel for them? Being compassionate reduces to deciding how many people your country can take easily, with effort, or the level in which society collapses. 700m immigrating in a year will probably achieve collapse.

"What then must we do?"

I haven't got a good answer or indeed a better one than fight corruption everywhere and anywhere under all circumstances.
So the person would have to accept and save an image that when looks enough like CSAM to confuse a reviewer…
Yes, that flabbergasted me the most in this whole affair. Shouldn't we assume that he achieved his Diamond status by steadily upvoting himself all this time? Good god.
Kenneth A. Ross mentions it in passing in his 2006 IBM research report (a great paper btw):

"We can interpret a 32-bit hash value v as a binary fraction, i.e., the representation of a number between zero and one whose digits after the (binary) decimal point are given by v. Given a hash table size s, we can obtain a slot number by multiplying s and v and shifting right 32-bits. This way, arbitrary table sizes are possible without using expensive division or modulus operations. Computing s∗v can be performed with one 32-bit multiplication (generating a 64- bit result). If s is a 16-bit number, as might be expected for a small hash table, then two 16-bit multiplications, a shift, and a 32-bit addition suffice."

Kenneth A. Ross, Efficient Hash Probes on Modern Processors, IBM Research Report RC24100 (W0611-039) November 8, 2006

https://dominoweb.draco.res.ibm.com/reports/rc24100.pdf
> [¹] Or, "PTA", which isn't much nicer. Any ideas on what to call this that's less vulgar, but still derisive?

Sponge bath?

> 1. A quick sponge bath by hand, using a wet washcloth or a pre-moistened towelette, to extend the interval between showers or clean up after casual sexual intercourse.

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whore_bath

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sponge_bath
If it’s a visual derivative, whatever that means, then how does the reviewer know it matches the source image? Sounds like there’s a lot of non determinism in there.
> consistent behavior across a wide range of vendors

It depends what you mean by consistent. Vulkan is a lower-level API and has many things specific to particular kinds of hardware, even if they're ostensibly supported everywhere.

For example, it is easy for a Vulkan application that has only been tested on desktop GPUs to have serious performance issues and graphical artifacts when run on a mobile GPU. With OpenGL it would at least render correctly, and it might even be performant.

It's an API where you have to be explicit about everything, and therefore you have to be very careful what you wish for. I'm a bit worried about how long-term preservation of Vulkan games will work out.
I wasn't even aware those cameras existed. How's it that companies keep killing products when they essentially invest zero into marketing them? Seems like they didn't even try ..

The concept of the RealSense cameras seems really interesting, especially for building IoT projects that require a lidar or face detection for authentication etc..

At $249 and $369 they also seem really affordable for those projects... what a pity.
I've been looking at stuff in this space and there are a few options on the market (most out of stock at the moment).

Check out options like the Yeti 6000x. You can buy a transfer switch to go with it for powering a few circuits. The 6kwh battery could run things like your fridge and computers for at least a day.
The whole point flew over your head. If it's unchanged to the human eye then surely the human reviewer will see that it's a false positive?
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Despite tropes to the contrary being very popular around here, not everyone who shops at Walmart is living paycheck to paycheck.
Maybe the AI has become self-aware. It's now picking off it's enemies, slowly, strategically, one by one.
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> Of course, grey noise will never pass for CSAM and will fail that step.

Never? You sure that one or more human operators will never make this mistake, dooming someone's life / causing them immense pain?
Only partly related, since it deals with a specific type of data (English language Wikipedia), some of you might enjoy reading about the Hutter Prize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize