skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they clearly didn't anticipate that people would perceive it as anything but a breach of trust, that their device was working against them (even for a good cause, against the worst people).

And because of this they calibrated their communication completely wrong, focusing on the on device part as being more private. Using the same line of thinking they use for putting Siri on device.

And the follow up was an uncoordinated mess that didn't help either (as you rightly pointed out with Craig's interview). In the Neuenschwander interview [1], he stated this :

> The hash list is built into the operating system, we have one global operating system and don’t have the ability to target updates to individual users and so hash lists will be shared by all users when the system is enabled.

This still has me confused, here's my understanding so far (please feel free to correct me)

- Apple is shipping a neural network trained on the dataset that generates NeuralHashes

- Apple also ships (where ?) a "blinded" (by an eliptic curve algo) table lookup that match (all possible?!) NeuralHashes to a key

- This key is used to encrypt the NeuralHash and the derivative image (that would be used by the manual review) and this bundle is called the voucher

- A final check is done on server using the secret used to generate the elliptic curve to reverse the NeuralHash and check it server side against the known database

- If 30 or more are detected, decrypt all vouchers and send the derivative images to manual review.

I think I'm missing something regarding the blinded table as I don't see what it brings to the table in that scenario, apart from adding a complex key generation for the vouchers. If that table only contained the NeuralHashes of known CSAM images as keys, that would be as good as giving the list to people knowing the model is easily extracted. And if it's not a table lookup but just a cryptographic function, I don't see where the blinded table is coming from in Apple's documentation [2].

Assuming above assumptions are correct, I'm paradoxically feeling a tiny bit better about that system on a technical level (I still think doing anything client side is a very bad precedent), but what a mess did they put themselves into.

Had they done this purely server side (and to be frank there's not much difference, the significant part seems to be done server side) this would have been a complete non-event.

[1] : https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/08/11/panzarino-neuen...

[2] This is my understanding based on the repository and what's written page 6-7 : https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
My conjecture wasn't that AirBnB is cheaper, but that the price of housing is what the market will bear.

Maybe the fact that a landlord that would usually have to find a new tenant though word of mouth or classified ads can now advertise to a much wider audience has the result of making the landlord more money and making housing more expensive.
By your logic, Germany should be annexing Austria and parts of Switzerland.
Long time vegan and successful knowledge worker here. I think this study does not closely reflect a modern western vegan diet.

1. There was no supplementation. A modern vegan should be supplementing or eating foods fortified in B6, B12, D, and DHA/DPA. This type of advice is really common among vegan resources and many vegan foods will be fortified with these types of vitamins (DHA/DPA is a bit more rare). There are non-animal sources for all of these vitamins. There is some debate on if DHA/DPA is as effective as consuming Omega 3 directly. Omega 3s can be found in adequate amounts inside many types of seeds, and seeds will have other valuable nutrients as well.

2. The study put people on a diet of soup with meat, soup with milk, or soup with oil. Oil clearly has the least amount of protein and nutrients compared to the other three. In real life humans have better diet choices.

3. The BBC article has a lot of evolutionary arguments for eating meat. In my mind historical dietary practices is as irrelevant as historical medical practices. Modern humans live under such different circumstances. We have a massive food surplus, our life span is 2x, our lifestyle is highly sedentary, we have access to a much greater variety of food and we have a much better understanding of nutrition and human biology. “This is the way things have always been done” is not a good enough reason for me to base my health choices on, and diet is one of the biggest health choices you can make.

Plant based foods are healthy for the human body, significantly better for the environment, and more compassionate to all life.
I’m sure this won’t get upvotes, but I recall Ron Paul basically saying that the U.S. meddling in the region even pre Sept 11th was a mistake from day 1 and inspired hatred that fueled terrorism. Now I guess we see what happens when that hatred simmered for 20 years. And damn, Biden, consider the timing! This fiasco was not even a month away from the 9/11 20th anniversary…
There are a few restrictions, but not very many. You agree to them before you move in, so you are expected to not move there in the first place if you don't like the rules.

I just refuse to live in one which solves it for me.
This is a very odd and hostile take, it's very common in tech communities to use numeronyms, take kubernetes being commonly abbreviated as k8s. Or working on internationalism as i18n.
Cornel West on Why the Left Needs Jesus
"most people would benefit from eating a lot less meat."

This is so true, as long as they are replacing it with fruits and vegetables. Many vegans are going to vegan anyway because of the ethical arguments. But holy hell, the western diet is severely lacking in vegetables.

If people ate lots of meat, but mixed with an equal proportion of veggies, they would be a lot healthier. But nobody does. It's highly processed grains and oils. Literally poison. Getting your typical American to simply eat less meat would probably result in a large uptick in consumption of processed corn products. Health would not improve.
> For those wondering why you can't just delete these files

Maybe I'm missing context, what files are you referring to?
Except that Apple will review the photos once you've matched 30 of them, so it's still not possible for the government to misuse it.
Interesting, thank you.

But the type conversion is on the results, not input. Is it guaranteed that we're always multiplying two 32-bit numbers and not two 64-bit numbers in "(uint64_t) x * (uint64_t) N"? Because looking at the code, it's more natural to think we're multiplying 64-bit integers, so we may need some CPU cycles to make "x" occupy 64 bits first, same for "N", and then do multiplication on them.
From where do the Korean battery manufacturers source their separators?
The victim needs to store the image in their iCloud, so it needs to not look like CSAM to them.
a friend of mine works for a airline logistics company. Since the begging of the pandemic they have been frantically stripping the interiors of passenger jets...Turning them into cargo carriers.
I can’t speak to NIF but back in undergrad I got to tour a similar facility at the University of Rochester[0] called the laser energetics lab. It’s a similar enormous laser.

If I remember, and it’s surely not exactly the same thing, a lot of the issue is around pumping down vacuum spaces. Targets at the lab were suspended from handgrown spider silk (the lab employed a resident spider raiser/silk puller). And they tried to keep the large laser cavity pumped to vacuum constantly because pumping things to ultra low vacuum with things like veto pumps just takes forever. Stuff outgasses and creates militorr of pressure for annoying periods of time. The same issue shows up post maintenance in semiconductor manufacturing. Prep and recovery for maintenance can take 10x the time of the actual maintenance action itself.

The facility itself was fascinating. Banks upon banks of capacitors in the basement that apparently sound like a gunshot going off when it’s fired. Giggawatts of power for picoseconds.

[0] https://www.lle.rochester.edu/
This sucks for those of us that have put a lot into RealSense. They were far more mature than what is on the market.
Do a quick web search for Dweck:

1) Results don't replicate.

2) Look up her article in Nature, which claims to be preregistered, then look at the actual preregistration. See the data mismatch.

3) Read her book, and look at the claims in the introduction. Compare those to effect sizes. Are the claims supported or contradicted even by her (already baked) data? By replication studies?

Read the Boaler books and studies. You'll find a lot of fake information too. Not just studies, but also historical stuff (e.g. passages about Einstein and other famous folks).

This is kind of an open secret in the ed research community. Everyone knows about it. Few dare talk in public. You can see outcomes for those who did. And for the general public, it's too technical. That a preregistration comes before data collection isn't something one can explain to a popular audience.

This is the culture at MIT, Brown, Stanford, and I believe many other elite schools. Those three are just where I have first-hand information.
Ojai bans "fast food" though the definition of that is a bit slippery - and so there are fast food places just outside city limits.
I am not convinced any self driving system is going to be dependent on RADAR in 20 years. Tesla was using RADAR and stopped because it just don’t really solve any specific problems well.

RADAR is great for collision detection and early breaking systems because drivers don’t depend on them. If they fail in an early breaking system noting worse happens. But self driving systems can’t accept failures like that. These systems would need to stop if their camera/Lidar system failed so what’s it actually useful for?
Another big factor might be that I live in the US. Generally speaking, everything you want to go to is a lot farther away here.
I assume this is a joke, but for those not aware: the correct calculation would be to take a measure of the original running time in terms of CPU cycles or some equivalent unitless value, and square that. You don't want to be squaring values with units attached, because squared hours (or squared seconds) are very much not simple units of time.
US & West in general preach about democracy and want/encourage countries like Afghanistan to go that path. And yet US:

1. Ran away from AF without taking lot of ppl who helped them in last many years. (There are videos on net to see on this)

2. President says AF was never about nation building [1]. Then what was it about?

3. Dragged/nudged allies to pour their soldiers e.g UK.

4. Already knew many years ago that they have lost and yet they lingered on.

5. Installed Hamid Karzai/Ghani govt and then made a deal with Taliban (which were surrender talks)

6. Knew that Pakistan is playing double game and yet did nothing about it.

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Afg...
Pardon me but do wake me up, please, asap, #10 in full by Ludovico van B has been recovered. likewise, Rothko's true last as well as the unknown and missed Watteau whom Sylvie Testud in 'Ce que mes yeux ont vu' aka 'What My Eyes have Seen' [2007] successfully uncovered ..
"kg per millions of litres of fuel" we consume lots of fuel, if 1kg per million liter that's between 5 and 6 thousands metric tons of cobalt per year. number two cobalt producer is russia with 6 thousand metric ton per year (first is DR Congo with 100 thousand metric ton).

Also rare earth are present in fossil fuel cars (Catalytic converter amongst other pieces):

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/13757/what-r...

But nobody ever talked about these before EV were a thing.
Encrypted disk images?
My guess is it was not enforced because it's a politicaloy savvy community and there wasn't sufficient outrage to justify enforcement.
Why is the burden on her to 'claim' her panel? What does it even mean to 'claim' a panel? Who set the law on that? Is a 'panel' some kind of property which can be owned? if so, how did it end up as google's property? what is the claim mechanism which makes it OP's property? If OP does successfully 'claim' it, can google re-claim it? what rights does the OP get if she 'claims' the panel?

google published false information which
-it has been informed is wrong and harmful
-it knows is wrong and harmful (evidence: they corrected it)

Google does this at scale. You seem to be implying that this means all people now have a burden to 'claim' their google panel so they can correct google mistakes. And that you have to claim the panel google's way.
The other link posted here is great info but might be a bit overwhelming. Some of the highlights of modern C++ to look into:

Lambda functions

Smart pointers = less need for *

Move semantics = less need for pointers, efficient pass/return-by-value

Type inference with `auto`

`nullptr` = strongly-typed null pointer type sans macros

`constexpr` = compile-time programming sans macros

Deleted functions = can prevent things like accidental copies

Range-based `for` = very similar to Java's for-each

That should mostly catch you up from C++03 to C++11-ish (language features only; there's plenty more to explore with library changes). C++14 and 17 had some refinements to those items so review the above in a current context for additional enhancements to them. C++20 adds some major things like concepts and modules, but starting there might not be the best idea to get up to speed.

(I'm a C++ amateur and hobbyist, so I might not be using 100% correct terms above! I'm also a very, very minor SerenityOS contributor.)
That’s a one-way ticket to the societal norm being marriages of convenience with zero regard for marital fidelity.
From what I understand, they are porting some established software like Qt and GCC, and presumably if there is enough interest and volunteers, more applications. However they also aim to write a core set of apps specially for Serenity from scratch, so it seems like the best of both worlds to me: a set of native, integrated programs designed to showcase the OS's specialities, with ports of popular FOSS programs, and since Serenity does aim to be "Unix-like", it shouldn't be too hard.

The incumbents in the field are absolutely overwhelming in their existing functionality, which makes it an extremely steep slope to climb for an upstart, unless they aim to fulfil a specialised niche. Linux struggled for years with lack of drivers. That's always the one of the chief roadblocks. If the OS can drive a broad range of hardware, then automatically users and ports of software will happen, but if it can only recognise a few generic devices then it will remain hobbyist. But thanks to the complexity of modern hardware, the task of even adapting Linux's drivers would be an enormous undertaking.
How can this be true?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/416139/full-time-annual-...

The average salary in London appears to be 40k? How can Google and quant finance roles be at or below average salary?
At least in the United States, this is absolutely false. A warrant cannot force them to do something they have no capability to do.
I wonder if it'll ever hit too close to home for Schmidt. https://imgur.com/a/Al7V662

(I guess that in his position it's pretty easy to point out this is news concerning another person.. good luck if you're a random nobody)
> what's bizarre to me is how strict Europe is with jus sanguinis

Asian countries are also notoriously hard to get citizenship in.

> Why are there zero barriers for a Greek or Estonian to live and work in Spain but tough immigration rules for the spawn of their 15+ latin american colonies, who speak the same language and have the same religion?

Could be worth exploring for Spain and Portugal.

There's a "transitive property" issue, however. It'd be hard to do this without, effectively, adding the former Spanish and Portuguese empires to the EU.

This would also run into the Monroe Doctrine, if you carried it far enough.

But it is an interesting idea.
> Unless 1000 developers fall in love and choose to participate

They're already half way there :)

Plus the goals of this isn't to be another Linux or Windows or whatever. It's to be an opinionated platform that's personal to the developers. That means even as long as there is just one developer on it, then the project is succeeding in its goal.
Site seems down, possibly HN hug of death
Vindicated?

This can’t be used for a targeted attack. It’s no different from the previous false posting making this claim.
I too am a level something Google Guide. It really frustrates me that Google is the medium in which we cooperate. I would prefer to contribute to an open, not-for-profit platform. Unfortunately, no such platform exists and if it did, I doubt it would be as good as Google Maps. Not because of a lack of programming, design, and other talent, but because the big tech companies have made it impossible to compete. With patents, control of user discovery (via Google Search), control of availability to users (via app stores and restricted capabilities such as Android Auto & Apple CarPlay), aggressive undercutting/loss-leadership (Google Maps is free to users but businesses pay a massive premium to be seen), wide-spread suppression of debate (say something bad about a FAANG? You might never be able to work there), and absorbing of potential competition (via acquisition of any small startup that innovates in the same space), it’s virtually impossible to enter the space and survive independently.
Taxes Run Amok
Charging station availability is a bit of a red herring though. Like you said, it's really dependent on charging overnight/when you're not using the vehicle. Obviously the viability will vary from person to person, but considering that a huge portion of car owners don't need more than 100 miles a day, just charging at home is a viable option. For those people, EVs provide a better overall experience.

I agree we need to improve charging station availability. With a few exceptions, EVs are generally not well-suited to long-distance travel.
It's ironic, because Facebook loves to talk a big line about "connecting the world".

But when the "wrong" people benefit from that connection, they find themselves swiftly cut off.

Now, I'm not saying it's wrong to cut people out of the network. (As we've seen quite recently in the US, deplatforming is quite effective at reducing the spread of extremism.)

But I think this particular incident demonstrates that there's an inherent paradox in trying to "grow the network" while also attempting to keep out "bad actors", one that can't be resolved entirely through automated tools, or simple sets of binary rules.

Situations like this one are always going to be a judgement call, where a real person has to decide who's right, and who's left (out). And I think the prospect of having that duty, of taking on the responsibility of judgement, scares Big Tech's executives more than anything else.
Compete for what?

It's an OS being build from scratch born from the desire to do it, and to have all things in it built from scratch. The project has immense activity.

I absolutely HATE this kind of comment, with it being especially annoying to read on hacker news. Why the hell does everything have to be about gaining a market segment. Why can't something be for the joy of it.
> since a restaurant will be more energy efficient at preparing food than an individual

Really? Most restaurants have a grill and deep fry vats hot 100% of the time even when nobody is there.
Sadly, the "cocktail party test" part is so true. How am I supposed to be proud of my work between that and "this one asshole customer" from Japan? (Tier 1's from USA are demanding, but reasonable).

We are woefully underappreciated industry. While we're B2B vendors, it's no rent-seeking sales-driven crap. It's actual innovation 1-3 years ahead what's in consumers' hands.

However, I think it is slowly beginning to change - with news about "chip sovereignty" initiatives and AI helping design SoC's going mainstream. People now realize how crucial ICs are when car factories close.
Told ya.
Sent from my S5 running lineageOS since 2015, now with MicroG.
Show HN: Tangram – Train a model from a CSV file on the command line
> We all know that to combat climate change sacrifices will need to be made like fewer cars and smaller houses (for compact, accessible cities).

This statement is tinged with the idea of sacrifice and loss that is unfortunately one of the hallmarks of the environmental movement. How about this? We can have an emissions-free future that is much more awesome than now with the same size cars and homes. Rewiring America explains how (hint: electrify everything):

https://www.rewiringamerica.org/

Of course, it's also a good idea to reduce our overall consumption, but if you tell people they're going to have to live "worse" lives for the sake of the climate — well I don't think that's true or helpful.
Question: Can algorithms affect matter?

Hypothesis: Algorithms can affect a lifeform's characteristics and behavior as much as genetics or more

Experiment: Test learning of behavior by birds to achieve greater fitness for long distance travel over water that supplements their genetic predisposition

Analyze: By substituting other birds with robots indisputably running algorithms, the learned behavior transfers to the bird not initially most efficient at long distance travel

Conclusion: Algorithms optimized the effectiveness of a bird's flight by correcting drawbacks in its behavior faster than genetic change would have

To me this reinforces the notion that through constructing positive habits and removing negative feedback loops I can override "default" behaviors that I believe are detrimental or simply not desired and replace them with heuristics that align with my overarching goals in life.
This can also be used to make Apple's system useless, no? If enough (millions?) of people were to, say, go to a web site and save generated gray-blobs to their phones, it would create enough false-positives to kill this system, right? Maybe game it and have everyone convert their various profile pics to these images.
Or 3. Disable iCloud Photo Library and have no scanning done at all.
That clears up my confusion. Thanx!
I was more pointing in the direction of "sets" in general.

Sets as such are mathematical entities. (Isn't there even a category of sets where sets are objects)?

But apparently not everybody agree as this got down votes; or someone don't see the parallels between sets and types? Strange.
Just make a hundred profiles with the name of Andrea Vassel and Larry Page's photo. This will get sorted out within the day.