skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and, btw, some hypothesize the awkwardness comes not from a lack of empathy, but actually hyperempathy,

I don't think it's either; I think it's a different empathy. For some, it might be a subset of “normal empathy”, and for others it might be a superset, but those are probably exceptions. From talking to people, it seems like strong empathy with the easy-to-imagine (e.g. familiar) experiences of others, but less empathy with unfamiliar experiences of others – sometimes to the point where it's hard to tell the emotional state of others, or even predict how they'd react to certain situations.

I'm guessing this has something to do with the "harder to model other people as being different people" thing that some people have – see the “pencil in a Smarties tube” test.[0]

[0]: https://www.toxicdrums.com/smarties-pencils-child.htm
Foreign Companies in Ukraine with R&D Centers
but what if you don't want to be identified? Because to claim panel you most probably have to provide some evidence it is you.
on the other hand, what if you don't know/don't care about some google panel about you. But other people get harmed by it? If someone really lost their job just because his photo was attached. Who should be blamed and how this person should fix this if there is no tools to remove panel?
So I don't see this as overreaction. If you make something that can do mistakes that can cost someone their job or harm significantly, you should provide some ways it can be fixed fast. And not via months of talking with a wall.
> For a 3D object like a glass

A glass is not convex so this theorem does not apply. You'd need other fixed-point theorems for that. If the glass has a handle the result is trivially false (consider rotating a doughnut, this does not have any fixed point).
The article says that even the military didn't get paid because of corrupt officials were looting everything. Also see wikipedia on the subject of ״Corruption_in_Afghanistan" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Afghanistan . Interesting that I don't see this mentioned too much in the mainstream media.
> In the mean time they lock your account which means your entire digital life stops dead until their review process is done.

Do you have a source for this, or are you just making things up?
Google and every other cloud storage provider has been scanning images that you upload to their servers. This is perfectly justified, since they would be legally and morally accomplices to whatever illegal thing you were doing. But scanning someone's locally stored images on a device that they own is a completely different situation.

It's the difference between the airport checking my luggage for illegal drugs and the police showing up at every person's house once in a while to check if any drugs happen to be on the premises.
Headline is deliberatly implying that they are suing a startup for veting their CSAM tool. Fake news.
Norway used that as the standard order until 1951, when an official reform changed the language to LTR. This was due the older way of stating numbers causing confusion when reading phone numbers and similar. It's still not universal, but younger generations generally now state numbers universally left to right.
Yay. 2 free stories remaining.
> the perceptual hash used is secret

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.

> At that point, you are reduced to the threat present in every other existing CSAM detection system.

A difference could be that server-side CSAM detection will verify the entire image, and not just the image derivative, before notifying the authorities.
But the remarkable thing there (and with all other adversarial attacks I've seen) is that the ML classifier is fooled, while for us humans it is obvious that it is still the original image (if maybe slightly perturbed).

But in the case of Apple's CSAM detection, the collision would first have to fool the victim into seeing an innocent picture and storing it (presumably, they would not accept and store actual CSAM [^]), then fool the NeuralHash into thinking it was CSAM (ok, maybe possible, though classifiers <> perceptual hash), then fool the human reviewer into also seeing CSAM (unlike the innocent victim).

[^] If the premise is that the "innocent victim" would accept CSAM, then you might as well just send CSAM as an unscrupulous attacker.
You have misunderstood. NeuralHash is the visual derivative. Read [1] carefully, it's a very confusing document even for experts - nowhere is there a second step to this process where some second type of "visual derivative" is matched.

The NeuralHash is what matters, solely.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
For me the whole page is just some kind of abstract image captioned "MS Tech" with a tiny shred of the actual article at the bottom of my screen.
I’m sorry, what is your point? I legitimately don’t understand what you mean.
While it does sound hypocritical, it is good to see the democratic process working as intending, and some politicians trying to find the right balance between the "needs vs wants" of those elected to power.

Yes, there is a need to thwart the production and distibution of child sexual abuse material. Yes, there is a need to monitor communication (following due process) to protect a democratic nation against those who want to harm it. A government in power however, will often seek to go beyond its "needs". In this particular context, they want, and demand, the right to unleash surveillance on everyone, without any due diligence or monitoring. This obviously has more to do with their desire for more power and control, than the actual needs of the nation.

While "cloud scanning" has some how been grudgingly accepted by many of us, Apple's CSAM tools go beyond that and lays the foundation for a future surveillance network that the BigTech and power-hungry governments have long been desiring. With this kind of technology (with legal backing) the BigTech get unrestrained access to our personal data that they can monetise. The governments gets the power to scan all our devices for content the government deems inappropriate (anything they deem illegal and / or that threatens their hold on power).

Apple's CSAM tools are thus a direct assualt on our rights - with it, we are no longer considered "innocent, until proven guilty". We also lose our right against self-incrimination. In a democratic setup, if a government accuses anyone, the burden of proving the accusation is on them. But if Apple's CSAM tools is extended into a surveillance network that is always monitoring for "illegal" content, the whole process will be turned around where we citizens will now have to bear the burden of always proving our innocence. Our rights, and democracy, go for a toss with this.

We should laud the politicians who bought up this issue in Germany and are defending the democratic rights and values that we all want to see prevail.
> which means they generate very little heat

This is incredibly important to note. Buck-boost converters enjoy efficiencies beyond 90% in even the most pedestrian implementations. This makes their efficiency directly competitive with transformer-based designs (95-99%).
Depending on what algorithm apple uses to generate the "sample" that's shown to the reviewer it may be possible to generate a large image that looks innocent unless downscaled with that specific algorithm and to a specific resolution
No one is “ uncorruptible or uncompromising”. They just have to start looking from scratch.
It is widely practiced in the Western Hemisphere. Which is why you can be Mexican or Panamanian and run for president of the US.
There is indeed a flat productivity metric. But of course, a programming language being a tool, its impact on productivity varies from product to product.

I think my previous comment stands: Do you need fewer people to develop and maintain the product? That applies to every situation.
Big-endian is how we write each byte in a hex editor, and so big-endian should be more intuitive. If we have the number 0xDEADBEEF and view it in a memory dump, a big-endian system gives:

DEADBEEF

And a little-endian system gives:

FEBEADDE

Only one of those reads naturally. As long as your increasing memory order goes from left to right, as is the norm.
From the article:

> "He was trying to get around getting caught, he was trying to keep it inside his email," said Detective David Nettles of the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce reports the station. "I can't see that information, I can't see that photo, but Google can."

"email" here is presumably Gmail, which Google owns and is responsible for. The dude was storing illegal data on Google servers in plain form. His personal devices were only checked by LEOs after a warrant was issued. Definitely not the same as Apple scanning the images on your device (not their servers).
The complaints are an integral part of curating and maintaining the privileges of office life relative to the more demanding working class jobs.
That's mostly interest among astroturfers, not actual green groups. There was a bit of interest among some genuine greens about a decade ago, but that evaporated as solar and wind continued to decline in cost and the nuclear renaissance flamed out.
Caffeine appears to reduce the volume of gray matter, effect being reversible
Better link https://newatlas.com/biology/lab-grown-mini-brain-organoid-e...
Yes of course. If the actions of a collective group are causing harm to others, I expect members of the collective to feel responsible. This is how we build a caring society.

If my actions have caused pain and suffering to others, whether deliberate or not, it does distress me until I have alleviated that somehow. If I do not have a way to alleviate their pain, the guilt of having inconvenienced them stays with me for a long time. That is how I stop myself from doing such things again in the future.

Do you not care?
https://newatlas.com/biology/lab-grown-mini-brain-organoid-e...

>Using stem cells from four donors, the team made 314 brain organoids in 16 batches, with around 72 percent of them forming optic cups. These structures began to appear by the 30-day mark and matured within 50 days, which the team says is a similar time frame to when human embryos develop retinas. The study shows that the technique is reproducible, although further work will need to be done to keep them viable for longer, in order to use them for study.
Not OP but the fundamental problem is workers not having enough power to ensure good working conditions. There are lots of ways they can get more power - labor shortages, unions, workplace democracy, regulations (kinda) - but you gotta fix the problem, not the symptoms of it. If managers are scared of pushing their workers too hard because they could be voted out, managers will get a lot more reasonable.
holy fucking shit, so many idiots in this thread that have no idea what they're talking about.

there are plenty of reasons to hate apple. this isn't one of them
> Is it about water use? What if you don’t run the water while you soap your dishes and only rinse them in a rinse tub?

Yes: if your dishwasher has the Energy Star rating then it must use ≤15L of water using the normal cycle per the EPA. This is half the volume of a small sink and a one-third or less of larger ones.

Most people run the water. In the US the average flow rate of a kitchen faucet is 8 L/min (2.2 gpm), so you can quickly use up 15L even just rinsing.
Very interesting. Perhaps, since the US is large and population density is (compared to many countries) not so high, this model might lead to more harmonious relations between the different “warring” factions in American society. Less civil unrest, fewer marches, protests, etc. A sort of calming voluntary segregation.

Given the country’s vast size compared to European nations, and individual states latitude for difference, I can’t help but think efforts to homogenise are both unnecessary and unlikely to succeed.
It wasn't just you – the pandemic did make it hard to focus on anything
Cross-posting from another thread [1]:

1. Obtain known CSAM that is likely in the database and generate its NeuralHash.

2. Use an image-scaling attack [2] together with adversarial collisions to generate a perturbed image such that its NeuralHash is in the database and its image derivative looks like CSAM.

A difference compared to server-side CSAM detection could be that they verify the entire image, and not just the image derivative, before notifying the authorities.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218922

[2] https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/08/03/machine-learning-adversar...
Take the same person with the inartistic desire to learn. Offer them an excellent library with vetted books. Give them 2 years to focus on this learning full-time. Surround them with like-minded peers so they can share ideas and grow together. Add world-level experts to stimulate and group discussions. Guarantee them a job at a company they respect, starting at $150k, if they do well at the end.

Will these things make a difference to their self-study course? Is this difference in trajectory worth $100k? Enough people say yes, and very few of those who actually did it regretted their choice.
It seems pretty noncontroversial to me that managers are more likely to promote people they like, and that this effect magnifies at higher ranks where performance metrics are less objective. Obviously a worker who only focuses on politics is going to be seen as redundant pretty quickly, but I've seen some very good workers who didn't get the promotions they should have because they didn't engage with politics at all.
I grew up handwashing too but I disagree with your assertion.

Firstly, you can't wash with cold water because soap doesn't activate with cold water, hot water also kills bacteria and helps cut through grease.

Fats themselves are hydrophobic and without activated soap you wont get them off... enjoy your "filmy" dishes.

Second, humans expend a lot more energy than you think. The act of standing and using our arms releases varying amounts depending on physical fitness but averages somewhere in the 1kg/h ballpark. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjphysiol/50/2/50_2_199...

Dishwashers use about 1800 Watts and are commonly run for 30 minutes, the average co2 in the USA is 0.92lbs per kWh.

Meaning it's _basically_ the same.

Then there's the freshwater usage, which is the real kicker, because dishwashers use significantly less freshwater, and freshwater filtering is the largest environmental impact of washing dishes (not the direct co2 output).
That would require a software update and would definitely not go unnoticed. Would you rather they implement scanning on server side and never be able to enable end-to-end encryption for iCloud Photos? I imagine that might be the end goal, otherwise I don't see why they wouldn't have just done it on server side.

Sure, this system still has the potential to be abused, but if I had to choose between "end-to-end encrypted with local scanning before upload, which can maybe be abused but has a higher chance of being noticed if it is, and can be disabled with a jailbreak if you're really paranoid" and "not end-to-end encrypted, Apple can inspect my whole photo library whenever they desire, which can go completely unnoticed due to gag orders forcing them to hand data over to governments, not even requiring a software update, and you are completely powerless to do anything about it except for not using iCloud Photos at all", I would definitely choose the former.
Not really comparable to photo of a bird, because using the geographic bounds for what language spoken there should work in 99.99% of the cases.

(I have my phone set to english, because I prefer it like that, despite living in austria, europe. Street names are one of the reasons I rarely ever use google maps for navigation)
If I’m reading this right it seems like the neural hash runs on both MacOS and iOS, since the weights can be found on both systems. I though the neuralhash was only running on iOS?
Attention mechanism in NLP – beginners guide
finally finished my post about attention mechanism in NLP. There is 100 posts about it - let it be 101
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject

Exploring this rabbit hole evoked vague memories of Canadians holding British passports until around the time my parents were born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Canadian_nationalit...
Memory leak analysis using Bytehound memory profiler for Linux
This is basically trading one reliability issue for another. The one chosen by the professor is reliable in excluding some students, the ones who actually care about their privacy, from the conferences.
Why fight the algorithm indeed. Post this photo in several sites:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/blogs/bits/posts/google_brin...

and call it Andrea.
> getting your foot in the door is all that counts

Keep in mind that the quote you're responding to was from an IBM old-timer.

That context, back then, was that IBM was well-past having its foot in the door and was walking around in all your business! There's wisdom in "not accepting an invitation to failure" in that context.

You're right though, estimation is all head-games, especially when bids are involved.
There are many people who are incorruptible or uncompromising, we usually dislike them.

Maybe "not sympathetic" would prevent me from being nerd sniped. :)
It doesn't seem likely that a person can have social interaction with others if everyone sets up their own website.

...at least not until some distributed social network becomes standard.
Show HN: I made a clone of FTL in two weeks, and I open sourced it
Again I understood the reference to be the "world" / "global". So entirely NOT ambiguous. I don't understand why you are mentioning "Harvard". It's simply in America. The world -- surprisingly -- is much bigger than this.
> Simple, instead of grocery shopping twice a month, ditch that wasteful freezer and walk to the farmers' market down the block before dinner each night.

This might be a positive though. Having moved to the UK years ago, the average trip to the supermarket is for around a few days of food, a week at most here. The supermarket is 7 minutes by foot or a 4 by car. It means we buy a lot more fresh items, and this is natural due to the limited amount of freezer space we have (60/40 fridge and no chest freezer in our house). It's arguably better than the experience I had back in Canada plus for the same quality of food, it's much cheaper over here.

So it isn't exactly the same as the olden days with wet markets and whatnot, but it's much closer to it (they even have manned meat, fish and deli counters at our local).
> I think the idea is the man has children and a wife to feed to keep him in place and coming in to work, and also to keep him so busy and tired he stays out of trouble.

A bit cynical, but this is in my opinion a large part of the reason why politics is so utterly dysfunctional these days: when large parts of the population don't have the time to participate in democracy because they have to work two or more jobs to make rent, there are a couple effects from that:

1) the weight of those rich enough to go voting matters more. Basically, vote day not being a holiday in the US gives the votes of rich people and old retirees vastly more weight than they should have in a world where everyone had equal possibility to go and vote.

2) the opinion of those who have enough time and resources (paywalls...) to access decent journalism matters more, because under-informed people voting "by outrage" got manipulated in their decisionmaking process.

3) People who have to worry about getting fired for getting sick definitely won't unionize or go on strike.
A startup is making 'real' milk, cheese, and ice-cream WITHOUT COWS
Apple NeuralHash code API is already available since iOS 14.3
That assumes that 96 bits of information are sufficient for (in some sense) uniquely describing the input image. Which, on the one hand, is of course the purpose of the system, but on the other is also clearly mathematically impossible (a 360x360 RGB8 image has 3110400 bits of information).

That is, for each 96 bit neural hash value, there exist (on average) 2^3110304 unique input images that hash to that same value.

Again, these are of course trivial facts, which do not rule out that image recovery (in a "get back something that looks similar to the original input" sense) is possible, but you should be aware that "similar" to the network need not mean "similar" to a human.
It's a hard problem in a way. If my language is localized to English, am I more likely to understand the native pronunciation of a street, or the English mispronunciation?
Vlad Țepeș is commonly used and invoked in 'national democratic' fascist imagery, from frequent invocations by late fascist leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor[0] to the official symbol of the short-lived 'United Romania Party' (PRU) [1], to Facebook posts by the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR)[2]. He is usually seen as a (a) a symbol of law and order, for the way he is perceived as having been extraordinarily tough on crime, impaling criminals; and (b) a Christian fighter against the Islamic (Ottoman) Turks, similarly to the recently sainted Ștefan cel Mare and other historic leaders - a common source of nationalistic, xenophobic pride in Romanian fascist circles.

Links in Romanian.

[0] https://m.poetii-nostri.ro/corneliu-vadim-tudor-in-tara-lui-...

[1] https://m.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/politica/pru-partidul-...

[2] https://m.facebook.com/alianta.pentru.unirea.romanilor.a.u.r...
The contrast of articles currently on the HN front page is amusing.

We have this article that discusses changing home design in order to limit cabling losses (crazy) and not using "high power" appliances that we associate with modern life... and another article discussing Livermore labs achieving net positive fusion, a milestone that seemingly hints we're on the cusp of a carbon free renaissance of power generation.

Schrodinger comes to mind
Show HN: ETSD – Transmit sensitive data encrypted across your organization
The GDPR would be the model to follow I suppose. In that case the rules would apply to anyone physically present in the EU whether a citizen or not.
The cited report includes an extract of all programmes in .xlsx format [1]. There are some surprising majors towards the bottom of the <= 10 year ROI:

* Neuroscience - 21% proportion w/ ROI

* Biology - 27% proportion w/ ROI

* Anatomical sciences - 45% proportion w/ ROI

* Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology - 46% proportion w/ ROI

Why might this be?

[1] https://thirdway.imgix.net/Program_Level_PEP.xlsx
There’s literally a page showing “NeuralHash + visual derivative” in the thing you posted.
Ah, that's a shame. Good to know, thanks.
It mentions a tripartite agreement with France and Switzerland. Does anyone know who the third party is?
I suppose some might reason that if something that serious happens they'll be out of business anyway, and just make sure the responsibility can't follow them if it does happen and the business does fall.

Those that specialise in holding other party's data like this will have liability insurance to cover significant events financially (though there is of course still reputational risk to consider) and processes in place to try make sure such events don't happen so calling on that insurance never needs to happen.

> if someone hosting your data gets hacked

It wouldn't be if any someone got hacked, just if something they are responsible for fails and enables a data leak, so they are not accepting third-party risk unless they themselves involve third parties in the mix. Proving you are not the source of a leak could be an interesting proposition though.