skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Long time ago there was a trend to outsource to india. It didn't end well from what I remember.

This is a narrative that often gets repeated on HN and reddit but IT outsourcing to India has been increasing in the past 20 years. IT outsourcing now makes up 8% of the Indian GDP, 50% of Indian exports, and is on the receiving end of half of the Foreign Direct Investment into India.

Within India people from other fields are rushing to coding bootcamps because salaries in IT outsourcing are so much higher than any other field.
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One does not need to go to court to have their life ruined by accusations. Ironically, there's quite a few examples of this over the years for alleged CSAM.

One example that sticks out in my mind is a pair of grandparents who photographed their grandchildren playing in the back yard. A photo tech flagged their photo, they were arrested, and it took their lawyer going through the hoops to get a review of the photo for the charges to be dropped.
> Yes, although I'm sure a sufficiently motivated attacker can obtain some CSAM that they are reasonably sure is present in the database, and generate the NeuralHash themselves

Remind us what the attack is here? The neural hash and the visual derivative both have to match for an image to trigger detection.
I would rather have a bag over my head. I've always had a fear of something over my mouth because my allergies are usually so bad I breath through my mouth.
> elicit more reasoning-like capabilities from them.

But will a branch-and-search with some-noisy-evaluator get us there? Obviously this is easier with some domains.

Or maybe simply using increasing large "prompts" or "input specification" to specify the desired end result. There might be a while scaling law hiding there ..
I think this is a great, high-profile example of how keeping things open helped quickly identify a critical problem.

AFAICT the hash function / perceptual model is openly available, or, at least, easy to find online.
You need to taper off. And I mean really gradually over weeks. Sadly, they don't even work for me, yet doctors are hellbent on me trying them and won't prescribe anything else. Guess I'll die lol
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I wondered about reporting biases, which makes sense - I suppose levels.fyi is more popular in the US. Thanks for sharing that data!
Edited to add source

Im not an expert but someone pointed out yesterday [0] that this technology is a bit further from practical than implied by the article. This milestone of ‘ignition’ is declared because the laser energy making it into the fusion fuel is less than the energy produced by the fusion fuel.
But this is ignoring the fact that there is significant (85% if I remember correctly?) loss of energy as the laser travels through the housing around the fuel. And even more importantly, the laser itself is very inefficient and loses something like 99% of the energy that it pulls from wall power.

So even in lab conditions, we need to produce several times more energy to even call it ‘ignition’. And this is not mentioning the many and difficult issues with scaling from lab scar to real-world power plant scale.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28213763
We don't know how the human review is going to work. Countries with fewer resources are going to find it easier to just arrest/detain any suspects, instead of spending time and money on figuring out which reports are true.

All you have to be is accused of CP for your life to be destroyed. It doesn't matter if you did it or not.
Also, all of the "situations" where this could be abused are already applicable on all other platforms. There's no reason your Ex couldn't upload CSAM to your Google Photos account, or to your Facebook account. Google Photos and predecessors have scanned since, what, 2013?, and would detect it, and would report it to law enforcement.

Despite this having been a possibility for almost a decade... there's a suspicious lack of headlines of this attack occurring.
Yes, but that won’t work since innocent looking photos won’t match the visual derivative.
> Why should I?

To reduce the risk of malware delivered via your browser?
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Pouring out a cherry coke for Warren Buffett.
> Fluffy handcuffs and ball gags are available in the galley

Please don't make low effort posts like this here.
In fact, you see the same problem in movies where you either have big tentpole blockbusters or smaller low-budget movies ( like Blumhouse or A24 releases) or indies. There aren't many mid-budget (I guess that's around 50-75 million USD ??) movies made any more.

Yes, you do have breakout hits in that space once in a while, but not enough for studios to risk them without big name stars. Or more commonly actors who fund their own productions.

In both industries the case can be made that the market has made the choice and whiners should STFU. But then we should also make peace with what's lost in return.
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I can relate. For me it's not as frequent - but once in 2-3 months, I have an "attack" leading me to have 3-4 bars of chocolate, or 4-5 bags of chips or something similar with high sugar content. There is one more edible thing which helps during these kind of attacks, but I cannot publicly talk about it.
You’re fooling yourself if you don’t think the government has a dozen other ways to backdoor you. Heck they basically just have packet scanners sitting on the networks of all the major telecoms, and almost certainly have compromised SSL root signing keys so they can trivially decrypt your traffic. Anything that goes over the network is fair game.

Love it or not, we live in a police state enforced by surveillance. Most Americans are just waking up to this because they’re not a member of a population actively oppressed by the police. Socialist / anarchist / labor communities that are more than shitposting groups meet almost exclusively in-person because their communications have long been targeted by law enforcement.
Handcuffs (not fluffy, as mentioned by a sibling). No key, just a latch. They are easy to release in case of emergency.

Source: was cabin crew and use of cuffs was part of the training.
Isn’t United a union shop? Can’t the members talk any sense into the union?
One does not need to reverse the CSAM hashes to find a collision with a hash. If the evaluation is being done on the phone, including identifying a hash match, the hashes must also be on the phone.
I've completely cut out sugar from my diet and one side effect has been, pretty much all anxiety has gone away. It's like a light switch was turned off.

Now, if I'm in a truly stressful situation, I still get anxiety, but I think it's _appropriate_ anxiety. Big difference.

I also focus a lot better and I'm more clear headed.
I guess I am confused a little. Are park rangers or maintainers actually going through "wild" areas and removing the carcasses? Why? I am not sure I would even think of such an area as "wild" then. Heck, I'm not sure how you would even keep up with doing that.
You are talking about the brake for if the cable breaks. I'm talking about the control system that prevents the doors opening while it is moving, opening in between floors, shutting down if there is a problem, etc.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator#Manual_controls
I just finished my latest project, building an AI art installation at home, generating 100 % unique artworks on the fly. Just push the button below the screen and another one will be displayed. When the button has been pushed, the old artwork is deleted and can't be retrieved again.

Setup:

* An Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX was used for all logic, machine learning inference, art kiosk GUI etc.

* A StyleGAN was used to generate the artworks, trained on ~5k images of abstract art.

* A passive infrared sensor (SR602) was integrated with the Jetson to reduce screen burn-in. When no movement has been detected around the installation within a pre-defined threshold, the screen shuts off until movement is detected.

* A custom control box was built, encapsulating most of the electronics.
> built-in not-so-smart code editor feels somewhat painful to use after VisualStudio and IntelliJ

What is missing from Lazarus' editor? I never used IntelliJ but from my experience with Visual Studio (up to 2019 IIRC) i've found Lazarus' editor to actually be more featureful than VS in pretty much everything i tried: syntax completion (ctrl+space), code completion (automatically writing code for missing declarations, syncing interface and implementation, implementing abstract methods, overriding parent class functions, etc), code navigation, etc.
I feel like I'm totally out of the loop on this. My understanding is that Apple scans for CSAM (as it legally is required to) when it uploads files to it's cloud storage. What's the problem and who exactly are you expecting to provide cloud storage and not do this?
The 'no longer acceptable' startup
By the way, what's the difference between WindowMaker and AfterStep?
I mean, at the moment in aviation history, they would be wearing a mask. I don't think that's going to be easily removable if you're cuffed.
Their point is that the attack vector being described isn’t new, as CSAM could already be weaponized against folks, and we never really ever hear if that happening. So the OP is simply saying that perhaps it’s not an issue we need to worry about. I happen to agree with them.
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Yes, that standard American rebuttal. We have better houses than in a favela. We have better health care than Eritrea. Our transportation is better than Kazakhstan … oh shoot, wait, they have more high speed rail than the USA. Scratch that.

I’ve lived in Japan and their housing is far superior. It is newer in general, well-built, quiet, warm, efficient, comfortable, functional, and cheap. American housing stock is none of those things, at twice the price.
> someone mentioned that it can also be used to train a decoder network to reverse any NeuralHash back to its input image.

That someone is simply wrong.
Virtue signaling to unseen consequences. (VSUD)
So, by force.
I concur, my experience too. Cultural differences is a big one. Both for the finished product, and with regards to organisation costs which are often invisible, just felt and never accounted for with numbers.

I'm less familiar with 4. But seen many cases of data leaks. It's very challenging to figure out the purpose, competing is only one.
Let's say you have 100,000 rows of data, and in a column all but 3 of those values look like dates. In a real office, which is more likely: that you are working on some set of data that just happens to look like a date 99.997% of the time but isn't a date, or some guy mis-entered or modified 0.003% of the data?

The I-want-to-put-data-in-my-table-which-closely-resembles-an-incredibly-common-format-but-is-problematic-if-mistaken-for-that-format-oh-and-I-can-not-be-bothered-to-google-how-to-turn-off-autoformat niche is not very large. I don't work for microsoft and I don't have copies of user data, but I would be willing to bet my entire life savings that over 95% of the time someone pastes a series which appears to have mismatched data types in the columns, the series actually does have mismatched data types in the columns.
I believe it is, if you have iCloud Photos enabled.
You feel vindicated because someone made one image look like another?
Even an average contractor can have experience doing something your team has never done.

Let’s say you are at the end of the line and it’s time to move from Python 2.7 to 3.x

- Has anyone on your team worked professionally with Python 3.x? (No they’ve been working on this codebase the entire time)

- Has anyone experience moving a codebase? No.

- Once the code base has moved, do you need 1-2 extra people to maintain it? No.
Whenever I hear the term “This is the way things have always been done” I always retort back,

"If we had continued doing things as they have always been done, we would still be hunter-gatherers on the African savannah, and civilization wouldn't exist."
It would depend on your route to work. There are also billions of routes to work and other places that should work as well.

Maybe if enough routes work that people find it worth to buy.
Deciding to ban something you don't like and then actually going through with it because you're rich enough to afford to shoot yourself in the foot or the people negatively affected are small/powerless enough is "wealthy suburb chock-full-o'-busybodies" 101.

Banning gas stations is just the California equivalent of a suburb in North Carolina banning a litany of alcohol related businesses.
Some people here in comments believe that whoever gonna check reported material on Apple side will never ever flag false-positive. We already know that NCMEC database itself don't exclusively contain child porn, but also some other photos that closely related ot CSAM. Even if those photos don't have actual CSAM on them. But let's ignore this fact.

Do people who believe in behevolent Apple understand that CSAM don't all have some big red "CHILD PORN" sign on it? No demonic feel included. Like any porn we can suppose that many of such images might not even have any faces or literally anything that make them different from images of 18yo person.

When you think well about it brute-forcing actual porn or some jailbait images doesn't sound that impossible. All you need is a lot of totally legal porn and some compute power. Both we have in abundance.
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"Fruit cellar!"
Imagine there are two groups of 30-year-olds:

A) Those who were offered university places, but decided not to go.

B) Those who were not offered university places.

I would expect group A to have a significant 'earnings premium' over group B. Even though neither group attended university, group A are more likely to be smart, hard working, lucky, or whatever drives career success.

If you want to estimate the earnings premium of a university degree, you have to compare the folks who went to university with other folks just like them, i.e. with folks in group A. Not with a mixture of groups A and B.

> Is there another thing you would attribute it to?

Yes, some of the earnings premium is due to the students pre-university chances of success.

> It's not hard to simply ask "of this profession,
> what is the salary of those w/ a degree, and those w/o" at the national level

This wouldn't measure the thing we're trying to measure, because it suffers from selection bias.
Flight attendants aren’t exactly know for being big and beefy.
The article opens:

> Unruly flyers aboard United Airlines may be detained by seat belts and plastic hand cuffs, but duct tape won’t be one of the tools utilized
Yeah, I would have zero hesitation choking that person out if they were trying to kick a window or open a door. Even if there is a risk of killing them.
I think rejecting one of million apps and angering one developer is a bit different than reporting someone about a child pornography/abuse, ruining their life and making a global scandal that can put future iPhone sales in jeopardy.
A carbon tax. The rest is gravy.

Also, NIF is not a fusion power research project. Articles that discuss both NIF and fusion power research confuse the public.
Apple does not claim they own all iPhones.

The legal principle is the same, actually. The law says you can install whatever software you want on an iPhone and Apple cannot stop you (jailbreaking is legal). But the law cannot force Apple to make it easy for you to do so.
I don’t see how handcuffs are better? They have the potential to injure the agitated person as well as crew trying to restrain the perp. Duct tape is gentler as well as does the job it’s being enlisted to do.
I am not switching.

I already had a deep mistrust for "cloud" services irrespective of who the provider is. My position on "cloud services" meant I have never used any Apple cloud services.

I see no reason to switch away from what is otherwise a very high quality platform. This is perhaps especially the case on the phone side where the overall security and privacy in general is better than Android.
Fairphone 3+ is great
Would lead paint help?

https://www.yshield.com/en/
Surprised Elementary OS 6 wasn’t first mentioned for desktop
I consumed a LOT of sugar until very recently through soft drinks and sweets. Gave it up basically from one day to the other.

And somehow I don't really miss it, except for occasional "a <sweet thing> would be nice" which surprises me in the sense that I expected I'd be having cravings.

Just "quitting" liquid calories also made a huge difference for me in terms of caloric intake.
The last sentence is the simple truth that no amount of Apple marketing dollars can hide.
I think it is not just about the reward for eating something sweet, but simply about blood sugar levels. I found in the last couple of years I needed to maintain a certain amount of sugar, especially during difficult mental work, otherwise I would get a headache or not have enough energy to work. I remember as a kid, it used to be the opposite. I was able to skip breakfast without problems, whereas others would easily get a headache in school.

I'm trying to cut back on sugar, as in my mid-thirties I'm starting to slightly get the feared dad-bod (extra viscerial fat which is very unhealty).

In the beginning it was rather difficult but after one or two weeks I found I can go longer without sweets. I guess eating slow-burning carbs and non-carb calories is an important factor.

Does anybody here know if it is true that the body adapts to how frequent sugar is available? I don't mean full blown keto, but just dropping the snacks and sugary drinks and having larger pauses between glukose spikes. I've read about it and it matches my experience but it's hard to tell how much is backed by science.
Or just grab one of those AI generated, "this person doesn't exist" photos .... although there might be copyright issues with it. But there is a Contact Me where you could ask for permission.

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
My rudimentary understanding is that the brain needs glucose to work properly. Especially for intellectual work.

Sugar is a shortcut to get glucose, however it burns fast so if you want to keep the same buzz you'll have to take more sugar. So a vicious cycle of ups and downs will arise.

In contrast, one can take slower-burning glucose sources. The good news is that this stuff is objectively measured by the Glycemic Index; here's a table for a good variety of foods. https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glyce...

On a good week I'll stick to low GI foods and take no chocolate / red bulls. Will feel productive, and notoriously energetic.

Still one can mix and match - sometimes out of a self-assessment will intentionally seek a short-term boost which (I hope) will not decline sharply because I also ate low-GI foods.
> looks like someone with the same name as the author? that seems kind of unlikely

Unlikely, yes, but not impossible.

> I mean at that point you’re advocating for the author to not have any identity

I am not advocating that at all. Please don't put words in my mouth.
Well, maybe, but maybe not. Seems like they've been seized on as a wedge issue for natural gas, and if people "must" have them then we "must" maintain a whole natural gas infrastructure for them and can't limit its use for new construction. According to this article, a fair amount of effort goes into astroturfing the cause: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/how-the-foss...
Regulatory capture and incompetence, par for course of industrial complexes - where lawyers make more profit via the most successfully, doing whatever dark patterns to earn more profit/extract more from society, then having more $ to pay lawyers, and it's also initially funded by VC industrial complex.

It's ultimately why I believe control mechanisms must be abandoned, no patents (or if allowed, perhaps only for 3-5 years to give a head start but longer than that is clearly harmful and costly to society and innovation/competition).
I think I got the other way. The less sugar I eat the more anxiety I have. That's why it's so difficult for me to lose weight.
No, that is not how it is dealt with. A DNS hostname can be entirely numeric as well. For example, add 'search in-addr.arpa' to your resolv.conf.

We deal with the ambiguity by making it clear that if you expect to use DNS names that look like IPv4 addresses, you're going to experience the pain of unexpected behavior. I see no reason this general expectation couldn't also have been set for 16-segment hostnames that look like hexadecimal IP addresses.

Alternatively, a full IPv6 address without any '..' abbreviation could have been defined to start with a period. Then there would be no ambiguity.
Nor do scientists claim this blob of cells has feelings, but here we are.
>> They can’t use a warrant to force you to videotape someone

Maybe in the narrow context of US domestic child pornography investigations. In the wider world it is very possible for police to force such things. Even in the US, CALEA demands that certain companies develop abilities that they would not normally want (interception). The principal that US companies need not actively participate in police investigations disappeared decades ago. On the international level, all bets are off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...

"by requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have built-in capabilities for targeted surveillance [...] USA telecommunications providers must install new hardware or software, as well as modify old equipment, so that it doesn't interfere with the ability of a law enforcement agency (LEA) to perform real-time surveillance of any telephone or Internet traffic."
On a recent Delta flight I was seated near the front and got a good view of this. When one of the pilots came out to use the lavatory one of the flight attendants stood with the food service cart turned sideways blocking the aisle at the front of the business class cabin.
Maybe it's been edited, this wasn't buried but right at the top, well before bit you quoted:

> Unruly flyers aboard United Airlines may be detained by seat belts and plastic hand cuffs, but duct tape won’t be one of the tools utilized
On reflection, yes, there must be warrants involved. I'm raising my estimate of how likely it is that innocent people get raided due to this. The warrant would properly only be to search iCloud, not some guy's house, but I can easily see overly-broad warrants being issued.
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> I would like to hear the arguments that one would give for it not being a weapon.

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but when it does the simplest correlation is often pointing at the correct causation.

Could be a weapon... Or, could be two technologies the US regularly deploys to its own bases interfering with each other (perhaps some standard-issue State Department tech and some classified self-snooping tech the NSA or CIA deploys to monitor its own agents who are considered sensitive national assets?). That would explain why the incidents happen only on US bases and not, say, to any other adversaries of the Russian or Chinese state.
No, it’s not possible.

If you think there is a credible mechanism, please link to it.