skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a dangerous way of thinking. Just because you have a common enemey (AfD hating all things Europe and therefor hating this stupid law), does not make you a friend or even a good ally.

Also whataboutism of the highest order! Of course there have been people found to be Nazis in other parties throughout Germany's history. Still no reason whatsoever to even remotely accept them today.
10 pounds just evaporated into nothingness and a few images barely above dalle-mini...
A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later
But my point is that this seems to have been a gradually growing problem for some time, but the recent spike from covid is likely a temporary bump greatly exacerbating it. It'll drop down again. Then, gradually, climb back up to where it is now. If it reverts to the mean quickly, it still won't take that long to get to where it transiently is now based on a straight line trend so maybe it's just a point of pedantry.

tl;dr at a glance it looks like lingering effects of covid have pushed the english health care system into a state a single digit number of years ahead of schedule. It will likely wear off, but getting back on track isn't much of a relief.
Your strawmam is accurate, stroke survivors will need an ambulance. But you're forgetting that a lot of people get driven to emergency by friends or family. And if those bystanders pass a private hospital on the way to public emergency, they could decide their friend / family members life is worth the extra cost. Of course it wouldn't work for everyone, but it would ease the pressure on a failing system.

Also your tone isn't conducive to a constructive discussion and is not appropriate when responding to someone who is suggesting ways to make the world a better place. Just because you can't imagine someone's idea working doesn't mean it's a bad one.
I had thoughts the same way myself (viz. response to overstimulation) but I'm not even remotely certain how to get hard numbers behind such a thing.
This is why I don't have a Dropbox account anymore.

I am extremely fortunate that the account that was deleted without recourse only contained data I had copies of on my hard drive, and to my knowledge law enforcement isn't involved.

The article fails to mention the stress and trauma of being accused of having CSAM. That remains to this day ... I'm posting from an alt because even the false accusation carries a potentially career and family destroying stigma.
What is a “belief-update on the part of the observing agent” Can you clarify?
...All sports cars I've had occasion to drive have woefully undersized brakes. I ...uh... Learned that in a way that resulted in two sets of soiled trousers, that I'm pretty sure the other person will never forgive me for, even though both of us by the grace of God alone came out of the experience with little more than a "Holy Shit".

Blind hills with left turns just past the crest are no joke.
Ask HN: Many-to-Many relation by default, is that a good strategy?
Defining entities and their relationships at the start of a project is difficult if the requirements keep changing frequently or are not defined (for example, in a startup setup).

So, in that case starting with Many-to-Many relationship for entities, and then optimising the relationship as things become clear is a good database design strategy?
Yikes, I wouldn't boast about being scared of a govt. That's on the cusp of being fascist.
I still use <ESC>. Call me weird.

I wouldn’t be so comfortable speaking for an entire legacy user base so casually.
The calm before the storm of the web taking over everything. Interesting to remember how big MUDs were, or gopher, usenet, FTP, etc.
Or the current Twitter drama is precisely why it is an interesting story for the media.

That said, given foreign influence campaigns in the news in the last 6 years, this would’ve been news then too. I’m sure it was news back in 2010 when the FTC ordered it to fix the problems.
> F. that, the only viable solution I see for my country is an exit from the EU

Genuine, not loaded question: and then what? What do you expect to happen?
When the local Chipotle opened down the street from my office lines were out the door at lunchtime. And yet if you got in line ... it just kept moving, never stopped.

Behind the counter were 4 people (including the cashier) making the burritos. They were fast, communicated efficiently, and very accurate with orders.

Immigration enforcement put some pressure on Chiplotle and they were all gone one day. Replaced by 7 locals behind the counter who didn't listen to each other, were insanely slow and all around bad at their job. It was hard to go in there and order and watch them just kinda ... be there, but not do much right.

Fast food might not be the best measure, but man those folks worked efficiently and accurately.
I read the original NYT article as well.

I disagree with the position that the "AI failed." I suspect that the images were pretty much dead on for suspected child abuse image from how they were described in the original article.

What I think is terrible about the story is that Google seemed supremely uninterested in investing any effort whatsoever in helping their customers recover from the false allegations. The customers ended up losing all of the information that they had stored on Google, and the company seemed to treat exoneration of the hideous crime that they accused the customers of to be a triviality not worth their effort.

I am a big fan of Google's technology, and I am deeply wedged into their ecosystem for my personal life (Android, Google Maps, Google Photos, Gmail, etc...). I even pay for premium services. But, it's clear from how they treat Youtube creators and stories like this that, as a customer, they are wholly indifferent to customers as individuals. You have to play defense against their tech.
> It "boasts" about 88% accuracy in "grooming" and 90% accuracy in new CSAM

Aside from principals, this is actually very nice accuracy technologically.
It sounds like a nightmare. Much like my YouTube suggestions, which now are mostly my kids' planet videos, and my wife's workout ones.
I found the source article much more illuminating: https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape-using-computer...

I don't find the headline graph that convincing. Firstly, it's only based on items in this museum's collection, which is quite a biased set as it says in the article.

Secondly - if you actually look at the colour chart closely, you can see that although there is a trend of more grayscale objects in the collection, within the coloured section there's also a trend away from almost everything being some shade of yellow, orange or brown towards a much broader range of hues. Blues, greens and purples seem much better represented.

It looks to me like ~70% of the colours were basically "brown" in the 1800s, and now ~40% are white/gray/black. Seems more a reflection of modern objects being made more out of metal and plastic and less out of wood than anything else. Again, this is putting aside the clear bias in the samples here.

I'm sure there are trends going on (and the car colour one seems legit to me) but I think this overblows it a little. Fashion ebbs and flows.
I think the point they are trying to make is that unless someone already has history as Mac/iOS app developer, they are in practice not even considering Swift when doing a project that targets Linux, regardless of how good the libraries are or are not.

If we exclude the aforementioned group, then adoption of Swift for non-Apple platforms seems like an almighty bust (close to nonexistent?) compared to the lofty goals the Swift team were mentioning in the early days.
People keep saying this because they’ve read up on history and know that never before has banning speech led to any positive outcome.

The resentment builds up over time, the bans add fuel to the fire, and the “ bad speech” only comes back later in greater numbers and even worse forms.

What’s worse is the “bad speech” goes underground and begins communicating in less obvious ways.

You’re looking at this through a 10 year lens thinking “we vanquished Alex Jones, and we will defeat the next one.”

Look at it through a 100 year lens and you might see a different picture.
What's so bad about server rendering
You see this with auto dealerships, etc. as well. There's a real tendency to stock the neutral white, silver, black, grey colors rather than brighter colors which I assume are more polarizing. If someone needs a car, stock cars that pretty much everyone will live with given the need, as opposed to cars that some may love but others wouldn't be caught dead in.
Nothing is being hidden. High deductible health plans have been popular, especially among younger consumers. The federal government has specifically promoted those as a way to hold down healthcare expenses, and enrollees receive income tax benefits.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db317.htm

Health plans are required to meet network adequacy requirements.

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/network-adequa...
Even though I frequently make note of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, I'd still rate journalists higher than randos.
Scott Hanselman states he stopped because he was tired, not that he's switched mediums. The Tiktok / YT comment was a joke; he still does lots of media for his job though.
It is possible, but it isn’t very feasible right now. Maybe in the future?
> neither is drastically increasing the use of lithium batteries without a plan for disposing of them later.

The amount of battery in an ebike is miniscule compared to an EV. On the same order as the utility battery in a car. You could give everyone in europe an ebike and use less battery than is in EVs in california.
Sony says the Playstation VR2 is coming in early 2023
> 10x more Cubans, Haitians, Brazillians crossing the border

Do you have a source for this?
Salads are gone. https://fortune.com/2022/06/09/mcdonalds-is-scrapping-parfai...
Not even close to resembling the current situation.
On the other hand, if you want to fan the conspiracy flames, he does have strong ties to Dorsey (via Stripe and Twitter) and Dorsey has always been Team Musk, especially re: the takeover.
Firefox 104
So many people don’t understand this. It’s not even clear if Musk does.
Moltex Energy talks a lot about that. It is actually pretty nice, some things stay in the salt, some leave it. The most dangerous stuff that shows up in the news a big scary cloud coming over from Japan to the US would still be in the salt.

Some other things that you really don't in your fuel, like Xenon and Krypton will bubble out.

So I think overall it is an advantage.
Because it's too easy to be bad at that as well. Just look at the thread where "Edwin" (I use quotes because it may or may not actually be Edwin) says "sorry, hit me up" and then the repsonse is "bitch, we did but you never replied back" (emphasis mine, but it was there if you read between the lines).

Now, "Edwin" looks even more pathetic and bot like
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I'd posit cars are lasting longer, and thus retaining their value, making resale more worthy of consideration than it might have been decades ago.
The hardware certainly looked nice (I have a "turbo" slab in my collection!), but the performance was "meh" at best. NeXTstep needed a lot of resources, and late 680x0 was no match for an early Pentium. It's no wonder NeXT ported to x86.
Here you go: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cheerpj-applet-run...

CheerpJ does exactly that: it ships a full JVM implementation (including Swing/AWT, Threads, ...) that runs in JS/Wasm inside your browser. The Applet Runner extension detects applets in the page and runs them through CheerpJ.

The example that you list seems to work.
This headline seems factually incorrect given what the post actually claims was said. What's described isn't a 10% error rate, but rather 90% precision. It seems like the actual thing which would be called (type I) error rate isn't discussed at all.

I can only imagine that the reddit post was written with that title in bad faith/to promote fearmongering. It seems like this nuance escaped the majority of the commenters on HN as well.
Its always the same answer. People stuffing their faces with garbage food and chilling on the couch all day. Apparently there was an explosion of obesity in UK during covid. These people clog up all the available supply leaving very little for the rest. Its the same story everywhere. Ppl whine about funding, shortages ect but no one cares about if we can do something about the demand.

Govt pushed covid vaccine on young healthy people saying its good for the community if we all get it and its our duty to society. So why isn't getting off the couch and going for a walk considered duty to society.
> Not to beat a dead horse, but I think that this again speaks to the fact that it's a choice.

Your choice here is to live by a code, and more specifically the code you formulated. That's exercising control over your actions, which I don't dispute is a choice.

But why do you follow that code? Do you feel that that code is good for society? Good for your family? Good for you personally? The answers to those questions are your beliefs. Absent some kind of new insight, could you flip a switch and choose to believe that that code is deeply harmful?

And if you do encounter that invalidates those beliefs and makes it obvious that they are wrong - can you still hold them? Definitionally I would say once you know that they're false they are no longer your beliefs.

Suppose I believe that humanity is facing incredible social, economic, technological, and environmental threats and yet our governments and societies cannot even agree that these are threats and when they do their reactions are half-hearted; that I believe the economic system we in has provided lots of powerful people and lots of ordinary people with a vested interest in protecting the most destructive parts of our status quo; and that I think most of these problems are incredibly time sensitive and if we can't address them in the next half-century then we will see cascading failures in the environment and human civilization that cause incredible amounts of death and hardship.

This all sounds very bleak, so you have to imagine that seeing peoples' comments about how pessimism is bad for your mental state, how we should be optimistic about the future because theoretically all our problems are solvable, and how we've solved problems in the past so we'll definitely solve these ones too just bounces off of that. It often feels like people are talking around the major structural problems that are not on trajectory to being solved by focusing on little bits of tech that seem like maybe they'd help in a way or extrapolating lines out from the last that can't obviously be extrapolated.
That's a good point. Sort of interesting.
Are you suggesting law enforcement personnel should be embedded in Google to do the confirmation of CSAM?

Someone has to confirm CSAM and report to the police. Or would you rather an auto-report directly to the police from the algorithm that flagged it with no human oversight?
It's probably not coincidence that that piece is in there ...
> What evidence would convince you that they are sincerely trying to protect children?

If they sent people into the the real world (where the children are), instead of passively spying on bits and bytes

> HNers believe this conspiracy theory about their own governments

Not a conspiracy theory, and not specific to HN. I dare say it's a mainstream opinion, which explains why they can't openly admit to it and the document had to be leaked (similar to Edward Snowden in the US). This comic predates HN: https://i.redd.it/ifb8agngc7dy.jpg
I used Corpspeak pretty much exclusively for the year I spent as an entry-level analyst at a consulting firm, because--as a consequence of all the points mentioned in this article--it was cognitively easier. If writing is like creating a painting from scratch, Corpspeak is like a coloring book. Instead of mixing your own paint, you pick from a finite number of predefined crayons. Instead of needing to decide on a subject and composition, you just need to pick what image you want to fill in.

Corpspeak abounds in places that value "being in motion" over "getting results", since when you use Corpspeak, you don't actually have to think about what the best course of action is--the best course of action is always "organizing a connect with the relevant subject matter experts to draft action items for a discovery yada-yada-yada". This requires zero thought--it just requires knowing a list of buzzwords and being able to string them together. This is really easy to do! When promotion season came around, I was asked to write a report of why I deserved one, and I wrote 1200 words in a half hour--that's 40 wpm, about the average typing speed of someone just copying text! And I was complimented on the thoroughness and perspicacity of what I wrote. I got the promotion--just in time for me to find a better opportunity and bounce.

Nevertheless, I do believe there's value in Corpspeak. The reality at most companies (even ones you care about) is that a lot of the communicating you do is more-or-less inconsequential, and doesn't actually need to have a lot of care and thought put into it--and being able to let your eyes glaze over and engage in the conversational equivalent of cruise control saves cognitive resources for stuff that actually matters.
higher resolution also makes CGI looks worse, plausibly from being passable to just distracting.
Try not to sweat on a electric bike when the average temperature is 35 degrees Celsius, on average.

You sweat only from thinking about moving out of the shade.

Electric bicycle are poor alternative to e-motorbikes, and even the wind at 120 km/h does little help regarding warm weather.
That's just not true at all. With the current nationwide housing shortage and sky-high rents, developers will jump on any opportunity immediately. All you need to do is set the right zoning code and streamline the approval process.

Check out this tweet series for many examples: https://twitter.com/search?q=turns%20into%20(from%3Amnolangr...
When I was about 11, I remember I asked for disk images of Logo for Apple ][ or something along those lines on Usenet.

Someone at a university cancelled the message, but then felt pangs of guilt. He emailed me an apology and then offered to send me the disks through the mail. I emailed him back my address, and he sent the disks to me through the "snail mail" as they called it back then.
Entitlement is a weird concept, especially since it is now used as a pejorative only to connote false senses of entitlement (i.e., when people believe they are owed things but have no logical basis for the belief). This deprives us of the language to describe situations in which people actually are, legitimately, entitled to certain things.

I am of the mindset that the decent functioning of human society is an entitlement and that people who deliberately cause dysfunction (such as Davos assholes, who are deliberately destroying the U.S. middle class to set some weird kind of example) should be treated as reneging criminals and removed from power using whatever means are necessary. Some people coat doorknobs in feces (or, say, found companies with terrible cultures, support capitalism past its deserving end-of-life) simply because they enjoy the thrill of being the cause; others among us, people of culture, are entitled to a society that protects us from the fecal spreaders. That's literally why we permit the state to exist; so it will protect us. However, it does a terrible job these days.

But yes, it is true that, absent the existence of human society, I am owed nothing (since the lions and gazelles and wolves clearly owe me nothing).
It truly doesn't matter, given Musk waived due diligence. Unless the number of bots is enormous (think 75% or more) then it won't make a material difference.
Ha, the memories… it used to be a nice discovery tool. Whatever happened to StumbleUpon?

Good to see there’s a refreshed version.
This is not a constructive approach to fight child abuse. Such scanning is just a pretense for the state to be able to access private communications and it needs to be stopped right in its infancy. States accessing too much information has been a large detriment on society as it is and those responsible need to be deprived of office and responsibility.

Child abuse needs the help of people invested in children to detect instances of abuse. Internet surveillance can only do so much. The best approach is to delete any content immediately to not let it spread. This is done pretty much anywhere, you won't even need legislation. Perhaps connection info might help authorities, but I guess most perpetrators will take that into consideration as well.
This seems great.

I've been using the unmaintained node-osmosis lib for years, maybe it'll motivate me to finally move from it.
I don’t think anyone is saying you can’t question their pricing. My disagreement is solely with the very confident assertion that this is done to prevent upgrades with no awareness of all of the other reasons.
Sorry for context I live in Australia and the OP said he’s from the UK. Both places have Universal Health care so “full time benefits” are not really a thing here. I just started responding to recruiters that I was only interested in contract work 20-30 hours a week and increased my hourly rate by 30% to compensate for no paid leave / superannuation contributions.
It strikes me as a microcosm of the political dysfunction in the rest of the system.

Republicans keep lumbering along because the Democrats turn a lot of people off. One way they do that is spending a lot of money without regard for results and having a big party to celebrate -- like simply spending the money is a victory.

Even the Green Party is shocked at what it costs to build a bus stop and when the bus is 45 minutes late chronically nobody at the bus company sees it as a problem. Everybody else just gets in their car and does things to pour sand in the gears like vote Republican. Some people will accuse them of racism and there is some of that going on, but the attitude that you can spend money on things endlessly and never care about results seriously damages the legitimacy of government and is one reason we can't have nice things.
Non-Machine Learning Image Matching with a Vector DB
As part of the development of a system that requires searching by image, we needed to compute feature vectors for use with the Pinecone vector database. All the research we could find focused on either ML approaches, which were untenable due to hopes to perform vector generation in the browser, or hamming distance vector comparison, which are untenable for large scale search.

The README here contains my research into several algorithms' performance, and the repo contains the code that performed the data gathering.

The site alt-text.org is still alpha quality and under active development, and the library backing it is quite small so most searches will fail, but feel free to play around with it.

Twitter users can help build the library with the link in the upper right corner, though it does not yet work on mobile.
I think it's a pretty open secret that Twitter is a fairly broken company. It's no surprise that their security practices are bad, because all their practices are bad. It's also very difficult to view this in isolation when you have the timeline of (1): Fired in January, nothing happens. (2) Musk makes offer for twitter then reneges. (3) Months before the lawsuit gets decided re-emerges with accusations.

What happened that caused him to suddenly start whistleblowing now, and not in January? Was it the same thing that caused Ken Paxton in Texas to start investigating Twitter?

This just looks like pretty plain mud-slinging from Musk's team to be honest. Especially since the Whistleblower seems to basically be blowing the whilst on himself.