skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can reasonably compare "European" house sizes using London as an example. The UK is small and ancient. We literally don't have the land necessary for building big houses in cities. There wasn't much land to start with, and changing the use of land that's had buildings on it for 1000 years is incredibly hard. The same is true, with less of a supply limitation, for most cities across Europe. Houses were built many hundreds of years ago, and replacing one with a bigger one requires knocking down the whole neighborhood.

By comparison the US is brand new and has abundant land. Add to that the fact that many houses in the US are timber-framed things that are easy to change and extend, and you have a recipe for big homes.
High-speed camera captures a water jet's splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
It's actually not, but even if it were, that would be yet another reason CSAM scanning is completely irrelevant for government spying.

Any spying really. It's much easier to just look at the images themselves.
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.

If the shift toward remote work really comes to fruition,
I fully expect EU software salaries to rise. I’ve hired a lot of excellent remote developers in European countries. The trick is to pay them American-level wages, which are often substantially higher than what they could get locally. When you’re paying that much, you basically have the pick of the best developers you can find. Not only that, but they’re extremely grateful for the opportunity.

The obvious downside is the time zone difference, so this only really works once you’re large enough to have a whole remote team and someone able to manage them in their time
zone.

This is also why I don’t believe the rise of remote work (if it actually happens) will be as good for US workers in major cities as they want to believe. There is a lot of underpaid, highly qualified talent on the international remote market.
google cache: "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."

-_-
It's not really end-game, because the original hashes are, themselves, hashed and not available (so you don't have a hash to work towards). And second, even if you somehow managed to get over that huge leap, raw noise won't pass Apple's review, so you have to reverse-engineer a new image that looks like CSAM, to match a hash you don't have. Big leaps required.
Create a fake image with thispersondoesnotexist, and use it everywhere as your own. Would also be a cue to talk about the reasons why you need to protect your identity and what violence can lead to.
Google will spin out Waymo and GM will buy it. Mark my words.

Tesla is the only serious contender so far. They're the only company with real life cars on real life roads all over the world. It's not just the technology, it's deployment of the technology at scale. It's a platform.

Comma.ai is good too and I think it'll be a great option for adding AI-like capabilities to future and past "dumb" cars.

I see right around 0% chance for Cruze and others. They'll never figure it out. Chinese companies might though.

I think we'll see Tesla, some emerging Chinese automaker contenders, lots of current brands with smart features, and technology like Comma.ai. The future isn't just "does a car have AI?", it's the combination of the hardware of the car, battery management, routing, and platform.

Still curious about what Apple intends to do here.
If TurboTax 2021 comes out in 2023, there's no reason for it to exist.

I don't work on tax software, but I do work on software that has to support externally specified processes that come into force on Specific Dates.
What happens to your brain when you give up sugar
Oil prices literally went negative last year when speculators did exactly that.
What Kiko chooses to do with the technology is not important. What's important here is that in spite of what it may seem like on the surface, building a device that is capable of ... this is a remarkable scientific achievement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaWPYOLuT8
I visit Europe about once a year, and am low key avoiding visiting most of the former Yugoslavia because of this.

I agree that having a rush of tourists in a country not accustomed to them can cause problems for both the tourists and the locals that resent the sudden influx.
It’s incredibly stupid because your Apple ID will get terminated for abusing Apple services.
> Is a 'panel' some kind of property which can be owned? if so, how did it end up as google's property?

You're asking how a component on Google's website belongs to Google? What?
Immutable SQL Beta Testers
RealSense was reasonably big in industrial solutions, either directly or as part of solutions from robotics vendors.

I know of them from trying to optimize bin packing of items in transport racks :-)
with lower salaries, and they are trying to justify it by the “lower cost of living”, which is not actually lower. The only the exception is Switzerland - FAANG salaries here aren't lower, because this country has so legendary cost of living ;)
The big difference is that cloud providers do the scanning on their own infrastructure. If you don't want something scanned, you don't upload it to the could, that simple. But here, your own device is snitching on you.
I'm guessing the size of their presence in Europe in total is way way smaller than in SV alone (not to mention entire US).
I said unlikely: they maintain an e2e backdoor in iCloud Backup. Technically, e2e encrypting iCloud Photos at this point would be a no-op as Apple is already escrowing the device e2e keys in the backup (eg for iMessage).

I doubt they'd bother doing e2e for iCloud Photos if they're intentionally not doing it for iCloud Backup.
But how does this exact attack and scenario not also apply to Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc... who are also doing the same thing on their clouds servers?
I've worked at adtech companies. They were not providing people with any value. The entire business model is built on manipulation and psychological trickery.
For consistency, they'd need to block Google, Facebook, and everyone else who's scanning all your uploaded content.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
Huh. TIL I was born a British subject, but lost the status in 1987.
Are there any businesses or tech teams that are currently adopting Sturdy as their version control?
Describing self-driving car research as a "race" reminds me of a movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2GEKV1dOgY
How is health coverage for FAANG level and other large tech companies in the USA? That has always been a concern of mine moving to the USA.

It wasn’t for a FAANG, but one company I interviewed for in the USA wasn’t going to give me health coverage for 6 months.
Discussion yesterday based on a better source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28211726#28214165
What a wise man does in the beginning, a fool does in the end.

I graduated in the 80's in UK, and it was the best time of my life. I had no debt. Fantastic! If I was asked to make the same decision again, I'd probably decline. The idea that I'd start my young adult life tens of grand in the hole - a mini-mortage - strikes me as highly unpleasant. As far as I'm concerned, these guys take their "return on investment" calculations and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

"But blippage," I hear you enquire, "aren't you being irrational?" To which I respond: "I'm not the one who's insane here."

Of course, it's not "wrong" to want to get an education especially when the job prospects are good at the end of it. Still, if you couch things in terms of "returns on investment", then I'll figure that either you've a bridge that you're trying to sell me, or you're severely lacking in common sense.

Yeah, sure, maybe at the end of the day it's just me that doesn't "get" it, but still, I don't like debt, and I suggest that you don't, either.

University fees escalate ever-higher, and people keep coughing up based on Groupthink. In my not-at-all-humble opinion, of course.
Santa Cruz, CA—no new "big box" national retail chains allowed since the early 2000s (or maybe even 90s, I forgot). So they're all in Capitola, 5 miles away, creating incredible traffic on Highway 1.
FWIW, I'll add this as a former Lenovo employee. Lenovo got their hands slapped pretty hard over that deal, and up through the time I was there (near the end of 2019) all of the people in and around my group took consumer privacy very seriously, and were very committed to making sure we never wound up making a mistake like that again.

Now... could upper management still make a decision to push something like that and make it happen? Yes, in principle. There are no guarantees. But based on observed behavior / communications that I saw inside of Lenovo I would not expect anything like that. Still, I can understand a measure of skepticism based on that whole debacle. It was a huge black-eye for the company.
I'm hanging my clothes next to the dehumidifier. We need the dehumidifier anyway for the basement. It dries the clothes in no time, they're already on hangers, without wrinkles, and without wearing them out like the drier does.
my two cents as someone that worked in Europe and the US:

> time off

I get 21 days in the US, but any holiday that falls on a weekend I am guaranteed to get on a weekday.

Ultimately it ends up somewhere around 30 paid days off I would guess. Back in Germany, if a holiday fell on a weekend, I just lost it.

> government paid health care

In Germany I had to pay 7.5 percent of my salary + my employer had to match that. When I was freelancing I had to do the full 15%.

The US clearly has the worse healthcare system overall, but I pay a LOT less for MUCH better service. That is however just because of my employer and on a population level it's a catastrophe.

That being said, my impression is also very skewed by FANMAG and the average experience is probably worse.
The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
I've tried inference on the python version of onnx and it usually varies between hitting a OOM limit (while with TF it works fine) to being an order of magnitude slower. Even if the codebase is still being changed I don't see much reason for people to use it other than as a convenient distribution format.
American houses are absolute shite. Americans think they have nice houses because Americans are the least-informed people history has ever known.
Chinese giant panda gives birth in Singapore on seventh attempt
Strings Attached: A Short Intro to Attributed Strings in SwiftUI
"...but you should be aware that "similar" to the network need not mean "similar" to a human..."

EXCEPT... neural hash also claims to be robust to modifications to images that would result in a similar-to-human-image. If the 96 bits is enough to tag such similar-to-humans results, why couldn't a brute force approach yield such similar-to-humans images? Indeed, a nefarious person intent on producing CSAM could set-up something like a generational-adversarial system that the produced CSAM images using the hashes along with other clues.
> no genuine software development companies in Europe. Software jobs there are mostly internal (enterprise) software development or customization, and not software product or service development

There are plenty of companies who make software product(s) as their main/only line of revenue in Europe. What there isn't, however, is FAANG style companies that are huge, very high profile companies (there are big technology companies, e.g. SAP, but none that I can think of that are so consumer-facing as FAANG).

> In Europe, you go, where? In another company that is not different from previous one.

Yeah, this simply isn't the case. Different companies are different to work for.
It's clearly not the scanning you are opposed to, it's the reporting. Apple apps, well a lot of apps, already scan all your content, for classifying images, doing OCR, extracting dates and addresses etc. That is nothing new, it's omnipresent.
Which is great, but why not at least maintain the about:config flag that turns it off?
> "Which Apple will dutifully install and run, because they're required by local laws."

Which Apple have stated that they won't do, and have designed the system so they can't do that without it being found out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28221082

Can't you at least post accurate information about this system and support outrage based on facts instead of fantasy?
If I wanted a prenup, I wouldn't have gotten married. Nothing wrong with staying together without marriage.
Funfact: all elevators have a safety system invented by Mr. Otis, which haven't changed much since.

So your comparison doesn't make sense.
> I think by now everyone knows very well that software engineering salaries are higher in the United States.

It depends. In Switzerland for example salaries as as high as anywhere in the US while the taxes are somewhat lower.
But how do salaries compare if you exclude SV? the labor market seems much more normal in Europe and highly skewed in the US
30-40 years after being invented.
my own software development specialty (in California) was massively outsourced to the Ukraine in the late 90s. So, your prediction is old news.
What country is this? In Portugal you only need a declaration under penalty of perjury that 1) you are employed or self-employed (no need of a permanent contract), 2) that you have enough money to support yourself and your dependents and that you have health insurance, provided such requirement applies to Portuguese citizens in your country of origin (leaving asides the students here). In particular the national law that transposes directive 2004/38/EC (Lei n.º 37/2006) says in article 9, n. 4:

> [...] Without prejudice to the dispositions in chapter VII, Union citizens or their family shall never be removed in the following circumstances:

> a) [...]

> b) When the Union citizens entered Portugal to seek employment and they prove that they continue to keep seeking employment.

Chapter VII only says people who joined to country to look for employment are not entitled to social security even after 3 months (which applies across the board).

And when I registered in the Netherlands I don't remember having to provide proof of employment too, though they might have had that information on file. In any case, it was not a permanent contract.
I had troubles mentioning the nicotine studies to people last year, I'm very glad someone else noticed that one, too.

My fear is that rationality no longer actually matters, that we've witnessed the birth of a cohesive cult. The contradictions and reversals are a feature then, allowing members to show their faith in the face of obvious reasons to doubt.
Believe it or not, this has become a political issue where conservative media is trying to spin this as people being too lazy to work, or welfare being too good. This is being called "the war on work" by conservative media [0]. The goal is to get popular support to weaken an already laughable welfare situation in the US so that workers have no choice but to go to work at terrible wages/benefits/conditions. This is a shared goal of conservatives and business owners.

This also further divides people because of the consistent use of the "Welfare Queen" [1] stereotype by conservatives to vilify people on welfare.

0 - https://reason.com/2021/06/01/the-bipartisan-war-on-work/

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen#In_political_dis...
And he's just retweeted a reference to this thread…

https://twitter.com/sohkamyung/status/1427919846985986052
I've driven (and overall enjoyed) a Nissan LEAF (pure EV) for the last 6.5 years. It's true that 99/100 of trips are not an issue, because many trips are short. Back/forth to work, back/forth to lunch, back/forth to sports, back/forth to the post office or grocery store.

Those quickly add up the 99% of trips (as measured by getting into the car and going somewhere). Those 1% of trips really impact your overall satisfaction with the car, though. I don't remember all the times the car effortlessly and nearly silently took me to work, but I do remember when I couldn't go to visit a friend or play in a softball tournament because my wife needed to use the ICE car for something and the LEAF couldn't do the trip. Or where we had to carefully plan who was going to take which kid to which activity and who was going to take the dog to her chemo appointment and in which car. If you "plan it wrong" in an ICE or hybrid, you lose 10 minutes. If you "plan it wrong" in a BEV, you lose an hour minimum (and more in a LEAF; mine has been DC fast charged twice since new, once before delivery and only once have I found and used a CHAdeMO in the wild).

I liked the LEAF (as the person who maintains our cars, I absolutely treasure it), but I suspect my next car will not be a pure electric. Teslas are more money than I choose to spend on a car. (Taycan is way more.) I'll probably end up with a 10-year old ICE car that will do everything I need for 20% of the purchase price, 30% of the insurance, and 150% of the marginal cost per mile, which is fine as we drive each car only about 3-5K/yr.
How is this scenario unique to Apple but not everyone else who does scanning? e.g. Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc...
Stop being so sanctimonious, it's not constructive.
Can you do this after you've moved to the other country (ie just take a few days trip to ND and move your residence from CA to ND)?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to ship the semen? Less entertaining for the donor, of course.

Though, if the goal is to maximize the donor's entertainment, I don't see why we're using artificial insemination.

...

Have you ever seen a stud bull get shipped to a farm?

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I feel this could end very badly. Like,

Form AirBnB.

...many years later...

All real estate is unaffordable.

Like, there'd be throngs of George Clooneys and Barack Obamas with weird recessive diseases.

And a bizarre fan-club in China of Vladimir Putin babymommas.

...

Didn't Stephen Colbert have a product like this? (I swear, if it had been real, some people would have bought and used it.)

...

We'd recreate that unexplained prehistoric situation, preserved in the genetic record, where a population bottleneck shows up only on the Y chromosome.
This article was pretty critical, not sure why you're saying they paid for it.
> So this is 95% just employers being unwilling to raise wages which will fix most shortages pretty quickly.

Don't be so quick to think this. Society can't just poof into existence more qualified skilled workers. It takes years to train nurses and a decade or more to do so with M.Ds/O.Ds.

Right now, traveling nurses are being offered pretty insane salaries, up to and including low five figures a week. It hasn't helped bring more people in, or fixed the burnout. People are just traveling to work for the highest bidder. I suspect most are planning to leave the game after they've saved up enough money.
Couldn't you say the same about Alaska being closer to Canada or Russia even? Shouldn't they have control of Alaska?
If you want to check the software engineering salaries in Europe, you can go to this page:

https://techpays.eu/countries/netherlands (Right now, it only has Netherlands)

The owner of the project is Gergely Orosz. He likes to talk about salaries on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/

One of his tweets that contrasts the salaries in Europe vs US is this one: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1424751510995406850

I also made a similar project. It has mostly the salaries data in Indonesia, but there are few salaries data in Singapore and US. This is the project: https://predictsalary.com/salaries
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Yes, I didn't mean to give the impression that it was an XPS specific issue, though I see how it looks like that's what I was saying. I've had similar memory issues, in particular using browser based applications like g-suite, on other linux machine as well
Apple also runs ads everywhere on its really expensive phones, mind. They're ads for other Apple products.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/17/the-paywalled-garden-ios-...

A Google Pixel has far fewer ads than an iPhone these days.
I interviewed at RV years ago for a backend position. During the interview I was told they didn't think I was sure if I wanted to work backend, frontend, or devops (I'm pretty sure devops wasn't the popular term back then...just can't remember what it was). They couldn't give me an explanation to why they thought that. Only thing I could think of is the different tech/prev positions I had on my resume. I guess I would of had more luck now since companies like full stack engineers(I don't know if that is still the trend). Also I too left the interview having no clue what they did. Glad I didn't get the position since I've know so many engineers complain about the place. Also I ended up finding a great job and coming up on my 10th year anniversary.
Or Apple says researchers can vet its CSAM tools as long as their results agrees with their ones.
When I was in school at the U of R, I lived with a woman who worked at the LLE. It was fascinating to hear her stories. She showed me a storage building there that had stacks and stacks of Unix workstations piled up collecting dust, because they had had classified info on them and so weren't allowed to be sold or thrown away even though they'd had all their storage removed. That was painful, all I wanted was one. Nobody would notice. She said no. :( But I did manage to get remote access to their Cray-2 by agreeing to do some free sysadmin work for them.

U of R has some pretty sketchy nuclear past history though, as the hospital ran some tests in the 1940's of injecting some unwitting patients with plutonium, uranium, and polonium to see what would happen. There's an almost abandoned tunnel (actually, it may well be abandoned at this point) that goes underneath Elmwood Ave between the medical center annex and the hospital proper which has a very old, very locked door labelled "isotope storage chamber". Creepy.
It's been said that anything which gives you a high can become addictive, so using that definition I'd say sugar could be addictive (certainly I seem to experience a kind of "sugar withdrawal" when I try to cut it out).
Why should there should be a flag word before IDentifier, indeed the answer is.

[constant variable name] = value

is not the right thing?
Here's an interesting adversarial attack. If we reverse engineer the Apple NeuralHash format and replace these files, we could create a system that does a DDoS attack on Apple's manual verification system by flooding the system with false positives caused from a faulty NeuralHash. This would overload Apple's manual review system and effectively make it uneconomical to run.
The base rate of results doesn’t necessarily matter when you are talking about two different causes. For a stuck accelerator, you are comparing the same cause (stuck accelerator) leading to the same result (fast acceleration leading to dangerous driving conditions). You can’t compare the base rate of fast acceleration leading to dangerous driving conditions, that can happen for many reasons, including intentional driver choice, and make any meaningful conclusion. Because the base rate of an equipment failure (stuck accelerator) leading to fast acceleration, and the base rate of individual driver choice leading to fast acceleration aren’t the same thing.

It is the same here. Comparing individual human choices and errors leading to striking emergency vehicles with an equipment failure (Tesla’s detection and control software) leading to striking emergency vehicles is not a comparison and it is no more an excuse to not hold Tesla accountable than it would be to not hold Toyota accountable because their accelerators stick less often than a teenager decided to mash the gas on his new car and wrecks it.
A “government’s request” is different from a country’s law. “This process” is not the only process by which third parties can breach your privacy.