skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very cool and helpful. I have a lot of fond memories of the Desolation Wilderness.
Well we didn't market it like that and while technically it is consulting for a period of time, it doesn't have to feel that way.

The interview process was similar to any other company, but at the end we asked the candidate to do a short project (20 hours or less), which they would collaborate on with someone internally.

So only the best candidates made it to the project and hopefully at that point there were pretty sold on the company.

Did we lose some candidates? Sure, but we also didn't have any hires we regretted after changing to it.
You might want to look into OSMCoastline, a separate piece of software written specifically to make the coastline usable for renders: https://osmcode.org/osmcoastline/
The pure mendacity of this statement strikes me as appalling and frankly entitled and classist.

Thousands of workers don't have the enormous privilege of seeing their family every night. All those travel workers, remote health workers, and oil field workers manage to make it work.
The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms
My friend, this was never about “data that causes harm to children”.

This is a carefully chosen stated reason for Apple to add this functionality to avoid user pushback. The actual uses will vary from country to country, but on the whole will not result in the protection of anyone other than the government or ruling party.

In countries with less civil freedom this will be exploited and used as a tool of oppression against minority political groups.
my 2011 13" macbook pro, still chugging along... maybe there is Quality control issues on 2015->2021 models, but the 2011-2013 era seem good? less infatuation on thinnest laptop ever woo /s
Instapaper has this, and can even be set up to send a weekly digest.
Pretty good, at a glance.
I've read Ray's books. He's a big talker that writes speculative science fiction, but he doesn't do anything.

As the parent poster said, there is zero reason to take him seriously.
> Humanity is an existence proof for human level AI, and it seems arrogant to assume that our brains are at the limit of what is possible.

Why? Is it arrogant to assume that Turing machines are at the limit of what is possible to compute? Perhaps, but we also have good reasons to believe that to be the case. If you're just talking about things like computational speed differences or being able to control powerful machinery and weaponry, then those are already available for humans to use, and can already be used by humans to do bad things much more effectively. It seems to me that any future improvements in computational speed, memory capacity, etc. will also continue to be available to humans as well as any strong AIs we might develop.
Mars is a good example of differing constraints leading to choice of different technologies, indeed.
If you read what the website says, they are only asking for anonymous tips about abortionists who violate Texas abortion laws. So, if you submit a tip about a known pro-life individual, they will quickly be able to check that they are not actually an abortionist.

The title that OP chose is a lie.
How do you know they want more money if you don't interview them?
Not quite yet, but I'm happy to chat: adam at evidence.dev
My wife and I actually just wrapped up our OMSCS degrees and had a kid during the program (and the pandemic, but that's another thing). Not sure about your situation but it was definitely doable.
Your devices should not betray you, period no exceptions.

I dont care if it will save billions of lives, your devices should not betray you.
What about the key that decrypts the private keys?
One way is to hash the user_ID to generate the “noise” that is consistent for that user. Then repeated queries are the same, so the average is identical to all samples. Averages only work if your samples aren’t correlated.
Chargebacks exist because human error and fraud exist. Irrevocable transactions make it easy for people to be left with the choice between taking a loss or having to sue, and a LOT of people prefer to pay slightly more not to have to worry about that.
> This site demonstrates no danger at all. Hash collisions like this are expected.

Collisions are expected. Being able to create a preimage on demand is not.

The entire scheme risks running afoul of Goodhart's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law). By calculating the neuralhash of an image in a publicly-known way (so the calculation can run on the user's device), someone distributing illicit material can modify said material to deliberately collide with a known-good image.

This provides a reasonable guarantee that the illicit material is not in fact caught by the on-device scanning, and if the illicit material is later added to the "known-bad" database the collision with the known-good image will decrease the signal/noise ratio of the whole monitoring scheme.
Why do I feel like this was a publicity stunt?

I still refused to go past the landing page.
> - It has been proven that the automated flagging system can be fooled

This statement is absolutely false. No such proof has been presented anywhere, including in the linked article.

Adversarial Neuralhash collisions are expected and the system is designed avoid false positives if they are encountered.

Here is the relevant paragraph from Apple’s documentation:

“as an additional safeguard, the visual derivatives themselves are matched to the known CSAM database by a second, independent perceptual hash. This independent hash is chosen to reject the unlikely possibility that the match threshold was exceeded due to non-CSAM images that were adversarially perturbed to cause false NeuralHash matches against the on-device encrypted CSAM database. If the CSAM finding is confirmed by this independent hash, the visual derivatives are provided to Apple human reviewers for final confirmation.”

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...
Government construction of lots of housing was tried in the 60s and late 50s, with numerous public housing projects. It's generally considered a failure, because once the units were constructed the government had little incentive to maintain them. It was also a key pillar in enforcing de facto racial/class segregation.

Removing barriers to subdivision and construction can work though. That's the approach that Houston takes, and it succeeds at keeping home prices low, even if you do get occasional negative consequences like homes built inside a flood reservoir.
Only in the US afaik...
> In our experience, the BI layer is the weakest part of the modern data stack. The BI layer has a poor developer experience, and decision makers don’t really like the outputs they get

Totally agree, very interested in trying this out. FWIW I've tried and been frustrated by Looker, Metabase, PowerBI, Superset, Redash.

I do think that while dbt does a great job with dimensional modelling, the BI layer is still required to provide some aspects of metric modelling. Is this something that Evidence is looking to solve? From what I've seen it looks more to be a pure frontend visualisation rather than a tool for managing business metrics. Looker and Metabase do some good work in this metric management space, Superset and PowerBI much less so.
Exactly the same. My Mac Pro literally hasn't crashed one time I think. I have it loaded up with the 2 HDD mount, 1 NVME SSD for scratch, a capture card, W5700X MPX, and a Wacom attached. No issues in Blender, Clip Studio, nothing. I thought I'd regret the purchase but it's probably my favorite computer ever (makes a good footrest too)
He said not to long ago that he was actually hoping to be less famous and relevant by moving to Spotify. He wanted less lime light. However to him it backfired as more people are talking about him although less are probably actually listening.
Fresh is "fresh but with IntelliJ and a large project open", but without all the background NGINX etc installed.

Once one app starts lagging, they all lag. Terminal, TextEdit, Safari, Notes, IntelliJ, everything.

I'm well north of 130wpm, but I don't think that matters for the issues that my Macs have had to deal with, as I used to be well below 130wpm and still experienced such issues.
Ironically, the biggest russian torrent site is just a phpbb forum and it is wonderfully organized and very well moderated. Easy to find the content you want.

Fun fact: previously it tried to cooperate with the content owners and removed content by request, so the UX was considerably worse. But then, someone successfully litigated to block them 'forever' in Russia, so... They restored all prevoiusly removed content and now it has almost everything I ever wanted. Great win!
Realistically it would take decades, or great strides in usability, for cryptocurrency to really reach the main stream to the point it could be considered a serious alternative for credit cards.
Wow that's cool. Now of I can create these snippets to output as SVG then I can add it to my GitHub readme!
There isn't a single-human point of failure because even if Apple thinks your 30+ hash collisions are real CSAM, they'll send it to be examined by NCMEC who may then forward it to the FBI who may then forward it to a prosecutor... all of those people would have to fail in their jobs for hash collisions to matter.
I doubt it. It sounds like OnlyFans had established themselves pretty well. I think this would only spook people as it creates uncertainty about the future.
That implies constant growth is the only measurable metric. Probably it is for Spotify, maybe for Rogan, but it doesn't have to be.
Is it?

Humans have been optimizing for information transmission between individuals for a long time. Not just our hardware and neural nets have been optimized, but the structure of the information itself.

It is quite possible that you need such a large set of compex interactions to develop intelligence that intelligence can only develop in reality. It is possible that the process for doing this inherently inolves a chaotic system that makes duplicating or paralleling that development impossible. I don't see any reason why these artificial intelligences with divergent chaotically emergent capabilities would have to be able to teach each other things as easily as we do.

I've long been of the opinion culture / "social software" is vital for producing knowledge for humans and that this social software has been fine tuned and iterated upon for a very long time (and possibly co-developed with the evolution of our brain hardware so that both are co-specialized for each other). This software is likely very specialized to our brain structures and might not generalize well to other intelligence substrates. Thus even if we do develop neural network structres that can run on silicone and match human level intelligence, those entities would still need a lot of interaction with reality to develop their own culture that would allow them understand the world at the level we do. Edit: Is it even possible to efficiently run the necessary theories of human mind on non-human brains to operate effectively in our epistemic landscape? Communication requires huge amounts of inference using theories of mind to resolve ambiguity and add implicit information.

It is possible that we can "recompile" human knowledge to run on other types of intelligences, but I suspect this will be far more difficult that commonly expected. Just look at how hard (nigh impossible) it is today to even boostrap a new general purpose computer without depending on the output other general purpose computers.

We simply do not understand cognition or semantics well enough to know the answers to these questions adequately or with any degree of certainty.
Straight out of Quigley
New internet service calls for a new router
can you explain?

Apple have said that if you have x amount of hash matches/ collisions to a set of images you'll be flagged to the authorities?

This site has proven now that it's easy to create pictures whose hash matches (colides!) thus potentailly flagging lots of poeple
The USB port fried while I was staying at a hotel. Might have been something fishy there...
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I think the obession with 'thin' laptop that crept in towards 2015 onwards has something to do with it
> It has been proven that the automated flagging system can be fooled

This is incorrect. You need the actual NeuralHash for the collision attack to begin with, but the device only has blinded hashes so you have no hash to begin with.
Not the poster of the original comment, but I just visited your website (I live in Berlin), I found it very informative, pleasant and readable. Well done.
I don't believe they should scan user data. User privacy is of utmost important (even more than slim risk of doing whatever). Do you want companies to have free reign scanning anything you use for "unauthorized" activities?
Is this not the case in most of the world?
me and my SO both work in areas in which have to operate 24/7. (healthcare & telecom).
Usually, you either arrange this far in advance with your team. (My SO has to give in her holiday period preference for summer atleast a year in advance) or you manage it with coworkers (my case, so atleast one of our team is present during the summer months).

Working during the peak holiday seasons usually isn't too bad because vacations are more expensive, so going outside of season is better. (but not possible if you have school aged kids).

Also, tons of downtime to get errands fixed that have been left all year.
I’ve always been puzzled by the “You accept these cookies” banners. Some have an ‘accept’ and ‘don’t accept/let me choose’ and some even come with a ‘X’ to close the banner.

So what does it mean when I either click the ‘X’ or simply do nothing and leave the banner there while I read the article? What does it mean when I use reader mode and basically ignore the question whether I accept them or not?
Doctors are no better or worse than car mechanics. Some are meticulous and think about the end result, others follow Mitchell’s or whatever and feel threatened whenever customers try to tell them what they think is wrong.
> There is no reason we know that brain emulation is not possible.

Well, neither is there any reason we know that it's possible.

You're just demonstrating your apriori biases ("the brain is just a computer"), nothing more.
No, they shouldn't scan data. Apple's role is not the police and they don't have the responsibility or moral imperative to scan for illegal imagery on their customers' phones. In fact it's the opposite. They should be in service to their customers and people's devices especially should be in service to its owner. On-device scanning violates this premise.

There are things you can use technology for to help combat CSAM, but this is certainly not an acceptable way to go about it. Creating tools to help report abuse and illegal imagery in their software, for example, could be useful. This is not.
Besides some of the ARM options like the Honeycomb that have been mentioned, there are also the POWER9 systems from Raptor Computing Systems. Much more expensive than the x86 systems, but I feel compelled to mention them, since they have mATX boards with most of those yummy features (fewer SATA ports but higher RAM capacity, for instance).
Please don't start again :)
I read the abstract and had the same concern. In fact I was ready to reject the whole thing, partly thanks to the blunt wording. However, I downloaded the PDF and... yeah, that's not Tourette's.

I have/had Tourette's (like most, I grew out of the worst symptoms after adolescence) and the media portrayal of it is pretty awful. These symptoms align with the portrayal, not the reality. Tourette's should be diagnosed by a neurologist, not a GP, and this doesn't sound hard to distinguish.
I have far fewer obligations in my 50s than I did in my 30s. Kids are gone, I’m happily married and not in the dating scene, I am settled in a home. Other than work and hanging out with my wife, I don’t have anything else going on. But back when I was dating and then had young kids and then even older kids (with all of their activities) I had a ton more obligations outside of work. It started going down in my mid 40s and now I’m totally free. I don’t intend to retire for 15-20 more years, that is a lot of years of zero obligations someone could get out of me.
To add some context...

When photos are uploaded to places like Google images they are scanned for this material.

Apple is currently only processing images that are being uploaded to iCloud. So, these are photos people intended to upload to them. This means it's not unwanted upload of photos to Apple servers. That is happening anyway.

Note, I think scanning should happen on Apple servers and not the phones. This is an invasion onto the devices in my book.

I wonder if this is a way to scale the system and reduce their servers and power use.
This is, in a word, horse-shit. Fannie and Freddie's automated underwriting systems don't even take into account any racial or ethnic factors when determining eligibility. There is something missing here, and the AP has done everyone reading this a disservice by publishing this article in it's current form.
It's been 16 years. Is the singularity any nearer? Is there any evidence that the singularity is any nearer?

So, how "near" was the singularity in 2005? How accurate was Kurzweil?
If the author has kept the same power supply/charger this whole time, it's certainly possible that that could be a lemon too.
It’s really frightening that “AI risk isn’t real” is rapidly congealing into a tribe-signaling _political_ stance that generates reliable terrible articles like this one and the one in the Washington Post a few weeks ago. You’d think with Covid still killing thousands of people a day the media would more able to recognize that fault mode and not repeat the “Covid isn’t a problem, because saying that it’s a problem would be racist” error of February 2020, but apparently not.
> As a general question, why would someone write age/birth date in a CV?

If someone graduated university in 1986 (or 1976), it doesn't matter if they've written their birth date on their CV or not.
The children are used as a manipulation tool - if you talk about CSAM, your videos are being demonetised and reach is being reduced and people don't want to be associated with it in any way or being attacked for opposing the idea of protecting children.
If they said from the outset that they are going to scan phones for any illegal content, the push back would be much bigger.

So now they have a wedge that they can gradually use to expand what is going to be scanned and when.

This is a classic power move straight from 48 laws of power.
> I believe that they should scan user data in some capacity, because this is about data that causes harm to children.

I think this is actually a pretty weak argument. Children may be vulnerable, but so are many other segments of the population, including those with disabilities, the elderly, and so on. I guess my question is if we're trying to protect children, then why not go all the way? The answer is because going all the way is dangerous: where does it stop? Why here but not there?

I think a better argument would be: we should scan phones for X because X is illegal, and we've deemed, as a society, that X is wrong/bad/punishable/etc. But the problem with that argument is that we already have ways of checking phones/user data for X, and, thankfully, most have to go through a legal process of probable cause, obtaining warrants, and so on. Apple's proposal completely circumvents the legal system.

This is a complicated question that I'm sure will be litigated in court in the next few years. SCOTUS has ruled that drug sniffing dogs (e.g. in airports) are constitutional, whereas using infrared imaging (e.g. for finding drug grow houses) is not. Are hashing algorithms more like drug sniffing dogs or like infrared imaging?
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This is an excellent question, and it's one of the areas where we think we can do some pretty novel things with our approach.

There are a two main cases of this idea that we have spent time thinking about.

1. Truly static report.

Here, you would need to condition your SQL queries so that they continue to return the same results over time. E.g. your `where` clause restricts the results to 'on or before' the day of writing. Evidence will continue to build the report on a schedule, but the results will never change so long as your historical data is constant. You can do this today.

In a future state, we've talked about rendering a snapshot of the report and checking that into version control, so that even if your underlying data is a moving target, you can hold onto what the report looked like at a moment in time.

We're kind of mixed on that idea of snapshotting reports themselves though, it's just so much better to build your data warehouse such that it is actually retaining the historical data, but we recognize sometimes that's not practical. TBD on that functionality.

2. Recurring report with static commentary

Here, you have a recurring time-bounded report, and you occasionally want to mix-in commentary that's only relevant for specific time periods.

With Evidence, (this part is from svelte kit) you can mix paramaterized pages, and static pages on the same route. So if you had 'monthly mrr growth report', you could use a parameterized page to generate the report for every month into history and into the future, AND, you could include versions of the report with hand-written commentary for any specific months where it was needed. So if someone navigates to the February 2021 page, they get the standard parameterized version, but if they go to January 2021, they get the handwritten January version that explains that there was an acquisition which drove the big pick-up in MRR.

This one is a bit tricky to explain, but we will build some examples.
"Porn artist" might be taken to mean the people who make pornographic drawings/animations. Actors aren't colloquially referred to as "artists" most of the time; they're called actors.
Agreed, but you still have some trouble if the grid cell is aligned next to a body of water or some other obstruction, since you can deduce a higher certainty then.
My significant other owned a 2011 MBP and experienced the same thing... She didn't know about the recall and I didn't get a chance to investigate and find out until after the recall window was closed. I can't really avoid using a Mac for work, but for personal use it has definitely trained me to avoid Apple products when at all possible. She would concur with you that her 2011 MBP was a terrible investment.
Even absent external commitments (which, BTW, also biases towards men), older folks are often more resistant to 60 hour weeks since they've either observed or experienced burnout and understand that these unsustainable death marches typically result in lower productivity, more bugs, bad code, and mounds of technical debt.
It's not impossible in principle, but:

- we don't understand enough about the brain to emulate it.

- we don't know how to model the brain.

- even assuming we had the required scientific knowledge, there would likely be major engineering problems.

So, in other words, it's not impossible in the same sense FTL travel is not impossible, our scientific understanding does not categorically exclude it, but making predictions as to when it will happen is kind of silly, because it will likely require several fundamentally unpredictable scientific breakthroughs.
Interesting connection to this comment thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222108