skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do have a Linkedin account and I use it for 2 things:

- occasionally search for jobs

- add my colleagues as connections

I never:

- read posts

- give likes

- share, follow, post anything

- enable notifications

It works great!
> It's kinda like Education: if you come in thinking you're going to make money

Your statement can stop there.

There isn't some huge amount of money sloshing around in education when contrasted to healthcare.

In education, you're fighting over pennies. If you want money in education, you have to target the "tutoring" level which is boutique and caters to those with extra money.
The universities did get the scans. They're in the HathiTrust project. The public gets access to scans of out-of-copyright works. University faculty, students, and other researchers can get access to in-copyright works too.

For the general public HathiTrust is like Google Books with worse search and worse UI but more books readable in full. Sometimes I search Books and then go over to HathiTrust when I find that Books has unreasonably restricted viewing of some search hits.
> But for some applications, accuracy is less important than precision. Precision has to do not with delineating the perfect second but rather with creating extremely regular ticks, or oscillations.

I don’t follow here, doesn’t accuracy follow if you have a precise oscillator? What is the difference between an accurate or a precise clock?
I think I explained it adequately. An attacker gets some hashes likely to be in the database. The attacker modified legal pornography of young looking people, perhaps closeups of genitalia, to match the child porn hashes.

There are plenty of examples of US persons being charged for lawful pornography which a prosecutor accused of being child porn, I linked to one such example-- where the accused was rescued only by the testimony of the actress, and where the prosecution had expert witnessess testifying that the images of an adult were images of a child.

The attacker in this case would know the origin of the images and could point to them. The victim would have no idea where they came from.

I have searched the case law, and can find no case where the NCMEC provided an image for comparison. Are you aware of any?

You also seem to have continued to move the goalpost. Being merely accused of possessing child porn would be extremely damaging to a person. The fact that they might escape conviction by a jury after years of legal ordeal, incarceration, and having their reputation ruined, is not that much consolation.

> The idea that new images of nudity could be caught in it is because

This is an absurd claim. I have demonstrated (https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX/issue...) that it is possible to alter existing images to match an arbitrary neuralhash resulting in a perfectly normal looking image. This point is not a matter for dispute, anymore.

I could easily do so with a nude or pornographic image, I only chose to use SFW pictures out of good taste.

My interest in apple's scheme arouse out of their malicious use of cryptography to shield their actions from accountability. I didn't even hear about the imessage nudie scanner until some time after. You can be certain no such confusion applies here.
At that point the problem isn't the science behind DNA, it is the fact that your freedom depends on a jury understanding statistics. But at least there exists the opportunity to challenge the evidence on objective grounds, that unfortunately requires an expensive professional expert witness...
Building new useless shit is the secret to succeeding as a developer.

You either build some shit or end up not getting a promotion / new job.
My employer doesn't even really allow personal electronic devices on the network, though there is some provision for visitors of course. So if you need a phone they have to provide you one, same for a computer. The same security constraints also basically prohibit accessing work stuff from a personal device. We can't even get webmail, we have to access a managed desktop-as-a-seevice and get our email from there if we are on a personal device. And the facility is big enough that cell service sucks.

I really appreciate the work/life firewall. Impossible to work on personal devices, impossible to use personal devices at work. And the security posture of them can be different
The distinction between precision and accuracy in the article leaves a lot to be desired. Couldn't we just redefine the second to be X number of ticks of this clock?
Not even needed. After the pandemic, many countries (e.g Costa Rica, Croatia, Malta) are interested in attracting remote workers and are offering year-long, renewable visas, some of them waiving any kind of tax-residency requirement. It is a smart move for them, because it basically treats nomads as perennial tourists with high spending power.
This, a million times. Now that Mojave is starting to get dropped, Linux is exactly what the doctor ordered for me. I feel a lot safer in a system where I can check the locks instead of being told "the door's closed, you're fine."
Well, that was quick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Yep. It's better to assume this can happen. Still very unfortunate :(

I am just finishing https://deploymentfromscratch.com/ for anybody that wants to learn how to do it.
Recently joined a FAANG and did this same thing last week. 0 chance I'd install company software on my personal device.
My guess is that it was just a way to rebut the accusation by bragging about working there. I’m not sure that it worked though.
You're pretending that you're brave and opposing fascists in a world with pretend-fascists, which is so absolutely pathetic and dangerous that I can't even express it. The answer you replied to was "much better than" your reply... The future doesn't look good, I just have to try to think about other things, or I don't know what I'd do.
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Why can't we continue using the International Certificate of Vaccination and Prophilaxys? [1] It already exists, and has been used for Yellow Fever Vaccine Certificates for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of_V...
Those sectors (except construction) are also very well defended by interest groups against foreign workers in the usa.

It’s okay to hire an Indian fresh off the boat (with a visa) to code at Facebook (probably after an older or more expensive domestic worker is unhired) without a license but it is unthinkable that say public school teachers face the same competition.
Right. And once you start doing corrections you are basically making another ML model to turn “what happened” into “what should have happened”.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/nuG3A

https://archive.is/teC0m
They’ll give interviews to most and downplay the difficulty of the interviews on social forums in order to keep the accept rate low. You have to be an intellectual elite in order to pass the interviews either way.
The problem being that its normal every day people who are corrupt: supporting wars and spewing CO2E and then crying its all the fault of big oil...
Almost everything that isn't a necessity.
The documentary "The Queen of Versailles" documents the wife of a time-share mogul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQW9Ks0GZUQ
So you're aware it was noncompliance that reduced the effectiveness of those measures, and you think... those measures shouldn't have been taken at all? I'm not clear on what the alternative was, apart from that.

There's a difference between what's reasonable and being perfect. I think they were absolutely reasonable solutions, since I haven't heard a peep about any better ones available, and even with noncompliance they are helpful.
There is nothing to see here, please move on.
It implies that the "tick" intervals in atomic clocks aren't always the same length in time, they just average out very well. While the new sapphire clocks have a more consistent tick interval.
It is indeed curious to pose this question on a forum populated by folks who are unrepentant about their extremely high carbon footprints.

I wouldn’t expect serious answers.
Collaborative filtering doesn't work for us
My guess would be that it's interesting and achievable work. It is probably being done by people who have never built a messaging app so there is lots to learn.
Why wouldn’t the agreement be standardized at least per country or jurisdiction?

For clarity, I’m not asking to see contracts with peoples names or addresses. I’m asking to see what I would assume to be the actual terms one would be entering regardless of which specific property or others involved.
You mean the secret to being a developer is... developing?
Good insights, thanks for sharing!
Assuming that all of Florida has the delta variant, right now 53% of all adult ICU patients is with COVID-19, and the total people in hospitals with COVID is about 79 per 100K. So I don’t understand why anyone thinks this variant is less dangerous. https://www.fha.org/covid-19.html
I mean, PTSDs only started being documented about a century ago, for instance. Before that, sufferers were just called wimps.

Of course, you may want to use a dated definition of violence, which doesn't account for the evolution of our medical knowledge. You may find out that it's not very helpful to establish an open discussion.

> even the WHO definition

A quick lookup at the WHO page [1] further clarifies this point by listing different types of violence:

> This typology distinguishes four modes in which violence may be inflicted: physical; sexual; and psychological attack; and deprivation.

This is not an invitation to debate the definition of violence, though, and my initial message isn't an appeal to a rhetorical debate. This topic is covered by an extensive litterature, and my initial message was merely a reminder of what people currently understand to be violence.

[1]: https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/approach/definition/e...
The article uses innuendo to suggest that nonconsensual videos were very popular on the platform and that its proposed policies will improve performers' conditions. These questions are not seriously examined, but the article is focused on sensational stories and big numbers while skipping context and consequences.

https://newrepublic.com/article/160488/nick-kristof-holy-war...
#2 because if the virus gets an update it might make sense to give the immune system an update, too (the same way we do with the flu, by the way).

#3 because it further reduces the risk to get even mildly sick at little to no cost. I'll continue to wear a mask on public transport even after this pandemic is over. I don't need to catch the flu or even the common cold either, if I can avoid it.

#4 because it enormously helps with keeping new infections at a minimum. Hence, further lockdowns neither required nor justifiable anymore.
Vaccination has shown better health outcomes even in already infected persons[1] - getting both is the best protection and there is no rational reason to refuse the vaccine.

1. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2782139
Cyanide salts would probably do it. Last adult who takes it chucks the container into the brush as their last action. The first responders have no way of determining that was cause of death, and it'd wait on the report from the corner (which will take days) or for someone to find that piece of evidence which tests positive for the chemical (which will also take days). There's 1,500 murder-suicides in the United States every year. A naturally occurring bubble of gas that kills an entire family is something that tends to happen zero times in a year. Poisoning as a means of murder-suicide is going to be uncommon but we can all think of Jonestown and Heaven's Gate.

We just don't like to think that is possible, but the coroner has probably seen enough horrible shit go through their table that humans do to each other than they'll have to take the time to rule it out.
This is a great tool. I wish there was something like this for Gstreamer, as i use it more than ffmpeg.

FFMpeg and gst, and the external encoder libraries, contain alot of simd optimzied code.

Any benchmarks for how the ffmpeg wasm version compares to a ffmpeg native build in terms of decoding/encoding?

Also discussed here btw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24987861
Check out the QWOP AI videos on YouTube for a 2d version

example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WQnwNFqJM
Too broad. "If selling jewelry is legal, it's possibly for a fence to pose as legitimate; whereas if selling jewelry is not legal, any appearance of selling jewelry can warrant scrutiny."

Some people offer things for sale which they don't have any right to sell. That doesn't imply that those who do have that right should be prevented from exercising it just to make things easier for law enforcement. You do more direct harm by unjustly prohibiting the activity than you stand to (possibly) prevent.
Incorrectly believing you'll be penalized is still the company's fault, because you're going to be penalized at some point and the company is hiding what that point is. Taking the PTO becomes a gamble.

Nobody would accept a job where the company told you "well, it's unlimited pay. Just tell us when you need some money and if it's not unreasonable we'll give it to you."
Wow, I didn't know that was a thing.thank you!
I think it’s an important distinction that the OP here is about a contributor to the Fedora project. That is a voluntary two-way arrangement with consent of both parties, no matter the technology in the middle.

> If I send Bitcoin to someone in China, and they happen to send Bitcoin to someone in Iran, who broke the law?

There are some cases where a scenario like this could violate the law. Particularly if one of the parties is a financial institution subject to anti money laundering laws.

But yes, someone in China could download Fedora off of the internet and send it to someone in Iran. But this still doesn’t have anything to do with using a fancy technology, nor is it relevant to OPs scenario.
>There are actually some pretty good database courses at CMU for example, that go into what is required to build databases from the ground up.

Can you name or link a few?
You could look at cpu cache statistics with and without it enabled. Memory access can definitely be a bottleneck. But I guess it wouldn't make too much sense in this example (maybe?). But if it is stalled on memory access, maybe disabling hyper threading gives you more cpu registers and/or cache space.

Think Brendan Gregg's blog has some pertinent info about this topic.
"It is incredible to me that climate change is still considered to be nonsense by so many people."

Well, having hysterical kids screaming around climate doomsday, doesn't help.
I think it kind of is because it's got a similar binding affinity to heparin. Heparin is a first responder chemical in the immune system. Coopting a low level part of the immune system like that is rather more dangerous than if it were getting entry via some other mechanism. On the other hand I could be wrong about this.
I am becoming more skeptical of that outcome unless we can kill it dead globally. It seems probable to me that this is going to go on in perpetuity like a much more deadly seasonal flu.
Nice! I’ve actually read an article about Costa Rica recently saying that it’s a really good place to live. But that article actually pointed out that living costs are a bit high there and are more of a downside of the country. But you’re now saying they are low? Have to say that I’m from Germany, so depends what is the comparison. But Germany is not really cheap, and that article was from a German author.

Another thing that I'm always wondering about with tropic countries is: How about malaria and other diseases there? Is that a problem?

Because actually two weeks ago I had to kill seven mosquitoes in one single night here in my flat in Berlin/Germany. So I’m wondering how this would be if I lived in Costa Rica lol
> This isn't being global, which was my point: this is being US-centric

That's fair. Interpreting or framing this as [the US valuing a specific kind of influence on Iran over them valuing the benefits of collaboration] makes sense.
No one has 40-50 close friends. Certainly not friends who you'd consider buying a house for.
Certainly it's not a career that rewards maintaining legacy systems or cleaning up technical debt.
Why Tim Cook thinks Australia is a perfect tech breeding ground
>You being able to imagine a fictional evil parallel system isn’t a valid criticism of what Apple is actually doing.

Right! And where did I criticize them? All I did was ask, “What guarantee do we have that Apple will, always and forever, only scan for data that comes from NCMEC/CSAM/IWF?” and then gave an example of what such a scenario might look like when another user responded to me.

I expressed a concern (I even used that word, and not "critique" in my last post that you responded to) that this type of scanning could be expanded in the future, but I have not criticized them broadly nor have I criticized this specific program. How has that not been clear?

If you think I’ve done otherwise, I’d appreciate it if you could quote what you interpret as a critique, so that I may work to avoid such confusion in future conversations similar to this.
https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX/issue...

I posted some examples that look like totally normal images, they're no harder to produce, you just need to noise-shape the gradient descent so that the introduced noise has a spectrum similar to the image. E.g. just feeding back a gaussian highpassed version of the error signal is sufficient.
I sent a message through support and they sent an email asking to verify my address and the last 4 numbers of my account # - all of which I'm not going to provide via email. I stated as much in my email and did not hear back.
Not for youtube. I made a video and got stuck at $85 or so which has been sitting there. And the gate to get any ad revenue at all has been raised so I'd have to get pretty serious to get the hours watched to earn the remaining $15
>Bacteria can mutate in direct response to antibiotics. Viruses cannot mutate in direct response to vaccines.

What do you mean by this? Are you a Lamarckian?
It has to end at some point, and for me and most other people where I live in the US, it mostly has.
> this is not a few months problem

I agree that it was never a few months problem - but I think we had a window to stamp it out and low vaccination production and adoption rates have killed that window dead. I don't believe it's impossible that we beat this - but I would not be surprised if mutation rates simply outrun vaccination adaptation.
Long interview with Tim Cook. (Disable JavaScript to jump pay wall.)
It might be a nice boost to your confidence to apply at a time when everyone is looking for talent and you'll get more callbacks.
Doesn't look like it's actually being shut down. Just a re-org under Jeff Dean and some other leaders? It could have just been a leadership issue, but I don't want to suggest that Google has given up on Health altogether.
It's the epitome of what people have come to expect from Silicon Valley bro culture to exploit child programmers instead of paying them cash.

Roblox developer business model should be renamed Dickensian Development.
Just a note. ikve turned down very well paying jobs doing stuff I'd like over poor/greedy IP assignments and NDAs.
No company should have IP to everything I create on my own time, on my own hardware, at my own expense, not related to the companies product. i had a company try to get me to sign up for that, adn for 3 years after employment ended.
> I don't remember what I ate two weeks ago

But that is not what they test the cutlefish on! They check if they seem to recall foraging patterns. In case of a modern human a foraging pattern would be knowing how to get to a grocery store, select the items you like, perform the higly abstract ritual of “paying at the cashier”, get back home and prepare the food.

Do you have problems finding your regular grocery store? Can you recall your personal preferences as you are staring at the items? Did it ever happen that you went home and couldnt figure out how to prepare what you usually do? If you can pass all of these you would probably also pass the test these cuttlefish passed.

If you also exhibit seasonal patterns in your foraging, like for example preparing a turkey once a year, or going wild for pumpkin spice latte in certain seasons then you are over performing really.

If you have ever drove past a grocery store just to get to your favourite pizza place that shows that you are able to delay your gratification. Heck, even if you just were able to drive home from the grocery store to warm some food up shows that already.

I understand that these all feel flippant, but we didn’t asked the cuttlefish what they had for breakfast. We observed how they behave, how they feed themselves. Most healthy humans would also pass similar observations and tests with flying colours.
This happened to my mother in law but luckily she was wise to the scam. She said the reply was almost immediately.
Stopping is different from slowing. Slow water keeps streams from drying up in the summer. Lots of stories of seeps and seasonal streams coming back after years of having dried up.
Won't the next update still wipe out your system changes, putting you back to insecure openssh password auth, etc., or do they have a system to merge your changes over now?
> Keep in mind that you have to also collide with another perceptual hash function that only Apple has to trigger a match.

If it's another neural network I wouldn't be shocked if the adversarial preimages worked across both-- it's not uncommon for blackbox generalization to work for adversarial examples. It would be very likely if someone (maybe the attacker) made their own version of neuralhash and then generated examples that passed both theirs and apple's public one.

Privacy wise, if there were two perceptual hash functions Apple should have used the more restrictive one on the devices too -- because even if they decide to not report you, your privacy is still invaded if they inspect at your images at all.

The neuralhash function is extremely easy to attack. We should not have any confidence in the competence of its authors, so we shouldn't expect their undisclosed mechanism to provide a great deal of protection.

A secret second hash also will not be secret against a state attacker who will have access to this function by virtue of being trusted to create the databases for Apple.

There is, however, a very simple technique they could use that would provide almost perfect protection: They could stop invading the privacy of their users and refrain from scanning their private content!
There could be issues with creating accurate copies of this. You could still get very precisely spaced ticks but not get an accurate measure that could be replicated around the world. A standard doesn’t work well if there’s one extant copy you can compare against. That’s why they’re working so hard to create a new standard kilogram where it could in theory be replicated without reference to the original.
Sure but then the question is "Should we leave an account with history of compromise in place that will lead to chargebacks or should we just permanently disable it"