skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You correctly classified 26 of 30 (86%) images!

> You identified 14 of 18 (77%) AI-generated images.

> You identified 12 of 12 (100%) human-made images.
This was posted a couple of days ago and I found it pretty informative.

https://tmewett.com/c-tips/

Edit: I guess search isn't indexing stories for a while now.

Here is that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773043
Anker has provided a statement (at end of article):

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/eufy-camera-cloud-uploa...

"With regard to eufy Security’s facial recognition technology, this is all processed and stored locally on the user's device."

Running a simple face recognition algorithm locally seems entirely possible. Just measure distance between the eyes, distance to nose, etc., and keep a local database of all the faces encountered. Most of the time the basestation is not doing much except storing the video stream, so it may have enough spare capacity (say capacity that would otherwise be used to stream video to a phone) to also train an AI in the background, even if it takes 30 minutes per face. Whether that database/training gets sent back to eufy and is added to a global face recognition algorithm is a different matter. Running an AI can require very few resources depending on the algorithm. Training takes more resources but can be run over the long term. Smartphones are perfectly capable of running and training a variety of ML algorithms and a basestation that can handle many video streams is likely to be more powerful than a smartphone. They might even outsource the computation to your phone.
Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?
I've be a pretty avid reader of the Economist for a number of years. It doesn't align exactly with my political values but I've always found the writing to be of high quality, even if I don't agree with their opinions per-se. I feel like it has a good selection of articles on local and geo-politics, culture, technology, and of course finance/economics. In the last year, I've found the quality of it to have plummeted. I'm not sure whether it's a changing of the guard and the new generation of journalists doesn't mesh with my sensibilities anymore, or perhaps my radar for spotting narrative manipulation and tabloid click-bait has grown more pronounced with all the journalistic malpractice in recent years. Either way, I've not found myself enjoying it as much as I used.

As such, I'm debating on an alternative that fills the niche it has beside my morning coffee. My question to you all is, does anyone have favorite of theirs that is comparable in quality, breadth, and is available in print not just digital? Preferably something with a UK/Euro/Global focus, not just US. Anything that keeps me relatively well informed, while sparking some intellectual curiosity, and teaching me something I didn't already know.

So far the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the Jacobin, le Monde Diplomatique, and the New Statesman are all in the running, so I'd like opinions from readers of those and how it compares. Tech-first magazines are also interesting to me, but I'd like at least some political news scattered within if possible.
ZF is among my favourite companies in the realm of automotive and transportation in Europe, when it comes to transition to EV: used to be mainly into mechanical transmissions, had to switch to electronics with an impressive speed, now trying to leverage their mechanical background in new paradigms. If everything goes as expected this will become the next management model to be studied and narrated!
Sounds like a job for an adblocker
I use to think so but noe I think unpredictable and cruel humans are scarier. You can debug/troubleshoot a machine but people's free will and complexity makes them dangerous.

If a robot sues me, I can sue its operator. If a person shoots me, they can claim an accident, self-defence,qualified immunity,etc... so robot operators have a good incentive to be right when they fire.

The scary part isn't the bots but who controls them.
Usually, it happens insidiously. After 30-40, metabolism slows down and it's easy to very slowly gain weight, even for people who didn't have weight issues before. Losing weight can be quite hard. To me the solution is to monitor my weight and avoid junk food as much as possible. I never drink soda, avoid fries. Sometimes you have no choice (e.g. traveling and no easy healthy options), then I try to only eat once or twice a day.
It’s not a book, but I revisit Munger’s Psychology of Human Misjudgment nearly every year to remind me of the various biases that we are all susceptible to and to hopefully keep them at bay as much as possible. Link:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ca3e714d74562b554c38...
Symbian was the last weird built-from-scratch OS that shipped a massive amount of units (over 100M in 2010).

In its last years it got a POSIX compatibility layer. Before that it was hard to even use C strings — which I presume was considered a feature by the Symbian API designers, but unfortunately they made their design choices in the mid-1990s using a subset of C++ that didn’t age well at all.
My guess would be that fair use makes this an abuse?

They're using the images only as much as is required to debunk them being photos they're believed to be.

If you can't refer to something you're trying to discuss our debunk it makes it difficult to do so, does it not? I'd call their use here "evidence" or something along those lines.

If they were presenting the images as their own or for artistic viewing purposes, I could see her argument, but they're not, they're trying to start a conversation about how they're not what they appear or claim to be.
Ok, but what do you mean by a "still life" of 21 cells? Is that a rectangle in a larger field or is it an arbitrary set of cells?
> to detect bicycle dogs.

What?
This is the right advice, but few people will follow it.
From the image: "Operating systems known to have run curl"

How many of them are supported in mainline Curl, aren't POSIX and aren't dead operating systems?
So you'd basically be running a static IP VPN service, where users would have to pay upfront for the IP, and then pay a monthly fee.

How is this going to be competetive? You can get a Elastic IP from AWS for $3.50 per month when not in use, $0 when in use, and the cheapest EC2 instance is $3/month. And there'd be no $50 upfront cost per IP.
You don't have an option.

Apple does provide software updates for longer, but the moment they're cut, most apps will stop getting updates. This is because Apple's lack of backporting APIs forces developers' hands to raise the minimum supported iOS version often.

Android devices do receive less software updates, but your apps will keep supporting pretty old devices for the most part. Of course there's the security part, but that's a different issue.
So is Windows (certified even!), which is exactly my point. It's not a practical and useful abstraction.

If anything, it's even more problematic, because Windows is "wierd" and people go out of their way to create special approaches to handle it. For macOS, too many developers think it's "just posix, ya know, like Linux" and then walk into horrible compatibility edge cases.
A tiny state manager for React/Vue/Svelte with many atomic tree-shakable stores
Just an FYI, the logo on the site you posted gets deformed on mobile when there’s not enough space for it and the buttons on the right to live all on the same line.
> But going as far as sending death threats

Did that really happen, though?

Yes, it's the internet and there are lots of crazy people out there, but on the other hand "I've been threatened" is a quick and easy way for trying to erase/blur things you'd prefere not to be inspected any closer.

Maybe she was gambling. If nobody had noticed this fake, this could have been a HUGE thing and a start into another lucrative career, maybe get an award or two. After all there are these once in a lifetime shots and people take them and it's a big thing. And you might look up to those and hope for your personal shot of a lifetime and be tempted to help yourself a bit...
Sorry tuners, the 2024 Ford Mustang will be harder to modify
one VPN I would never pay money to
>Getting someone put on the FBI's radar is a great way to ruin a life. If you can target anyone you wish this way, that is a lot of destructive power to wield, akin to swatting.

Doesn't even have to be the feds. Local .gov attention is more than sufficient to make life indefinitely reasonable.

I think anonymous tipping needs to be curtailed to some degree. When simply being investigated is only slightly short of a probation sentence in practice one's right to know the evidince against them and the public's right to be privy to the proceedings should apply.

Edit: In the general case, not this specific one.
Not everyone can make those changes (it requires to have some energy at first at least, and the ability to stick to it), and those interventions are actually used already (and have been for a long time) so I assume this may lead instead to some research on targeting the metabolic pathways
> That's a weird and derogatory way to talk about people who appreciate having a standard which makes it easier to write cross-platform software.

When I say "POSIX fanbois" I mean "fanboys" (people that are unreasonably attached to this standard and try to use it everywhere without being level-headed about its usefulness). That probably doesn't include the people who actually wrote the standard, which are all (in my experience) pretty reasonable and realistic about the limitations of things they've created.
What would be a more comfortable way for you to approach new things? Serious question - you say you’re too timid to try these things, which I totally understand.

What do you feel would be an easy way to ease you into new experiences? Someone to help you along? An experience in a medium or setting you’re comfortable in?

This is really the big problem of our time. Old sources of meaning have fallen apart (livelihood, family, community) and I see so many people with a similar sense of emptiness.
After porting ZeroTier to Windows years ago I then had to merge some helpful person’s pull request to remove a lot of profanity that didn’t look professional.

I discovered things about the Windows driver, installer, and networking subsystems and APIs that are best described by pinhead from Hellraiser: “I have such sights to show you.”

No other OS comes close. Definitely not the fruit company one or even commercial Unix (yes Solaris and AIX still live). Most Linux package management is a tire fire but the OS is pretty nice.

I blame backward compatibility coupled with what seems to have been a series of fits of overengineering that now must be carried along as boat anchors.
People go off the grid for numerous reasons. Some want to test their survival skills and see if they measure up to live without the modern conveniences so many take for granted. Others seek to reduce their living costs by doing much of the labor involved with survival themselves – divorcing themselves from dependence on their employer and the economy’s whims.
I recently sent my Steam Deck for RMA, and interestingly in the packing instruction to send it, Valve tells to do a factory reset. Which I did.

First I thought it was to simplify their tests when they get it, but now I'm thinking it could be to make sure technicians don't have access to my personal data.
Individuals' favorite songs' lyrics reflect their attachment style
Remind me what age Elizabeth Holmes was when Theranos had been at its peak.
If you're taking a once in a lifetime shot people will surely be curious.
At my university I asked about these flashy new machines which I'd never have a chance to use, I was told they were slow. That was way back then.
Elon Musk Is Turning Twitter into a Haven for Nazis
> App Store needing the latest IOS to install new apps or update my current apps

Is this a new requirement? I don't recall this on older devices over the past few years.
So in your post to incorrect others on 'thats not how explosives work' you got absolutely everything wrong about how explosives work. Typical HN.

> You wouldn’t ever give your enemy deliveries of repackagable charges.

Where did you get this preposterous idea? Do you imagine a major military will send out it's soldiers to collect labdmines on purpose to dissasemble them and take out tiny amount of explosive? And after loosing dozens of soldiers and huge amount of time to get explosives of dubious age and quality, do what with it?
My point was criticising your underlying assumption that the lack of diversity is due to an unwelcoming environment, presumably as a result of intolerance to certain characteristics.
She doesn't seem to be trying to, it looks from her website that she's quite a successful digital art / composite creator and that's what she claims to be.
No. We did not.

Hindsight shows we were wrong and distracted on the wrong thing. Society doesn't care about flu this year, and it's hitting just as hard as covid was. Yet, all I see is messaging on Covid still.
76% whats your score?
I think the grey area is that it is not clear that there was a reason to "debunk" anything. Other people, not the photographer (as far as the evidence shows), misrepresented the photographs.

If the photographer misrepresented them then yes it probably if fair use. However it's probably more grey than that, although may still be fair use. It's complicated.

However, if we take her statement at face value, I can completely see why someone who is now (potentially) the victim of an internet pile-on and death threats would want to use any means necessary to make that stop.
Additional advantage of Rust is the extensive macro system. The ability to generate a bunch of versioned structures out of a common description, all with their own boilerplate and validation code, is invaluable for this kind of work. Some of it can be done in C++ with templates as well, but the ergonomy is on a different level.
I weigh around 1.64 Ezra Pounds...
If you're running Debian you can also let the system package manager handle it, eg webext-ublock-origin.
> I guess the job market is about to shit the bed.

It probably is. All the indicators are looking bad.

A good number of my friends have either been laid off, or are at risk of layoffs.

A lot of places are implementing hiring freezes and other cost cutting measures.

A number of founders I know are desperately hoping for an acquisition or exit in the next year.

Investors are getting a lot tighter on the purse strings.

Everyone I know in finance is pretty much buckling in for a wild fucking ride.
I have no insight and Musk seems that he wants to release interna to the public, but overall I believe this council did not do good work at all. Banning Trump was questionable in my opinion, regardless what you think of him. Even some of Europes leaders were critical of it and they are usually not the best friends of Trump.

So, frankly, I think it is good that some other people get the chance to do it differently.

It is true that stores like that from Apple and Google are a problem. But politics usually doesn't try to curb their power, they just try to get it under personal control. That would happen in Europe, there are too many particulate interest, especially with the referenced act. This is for government and big tech against the users.
I noticed this since yesterday
In Brussels, Fighting Misinformation Online
I don't think I learn much from books. They're good for exposure and direction but haven't made so much an impact on the things I've internalized that let me think about and solve problems.

What has done the most for me is actually running into lots of problems and solving them by digging deep, finding the cause, and a good way to solve it. One thing that's been invaluable is the idea that any problem can be solved, any system can be understood (as well as necessary to solve a problem), and that everything is fair game and in scope for solving the problem (thinking outside the box? there's only the box you put yourself in).

Nowadays, I'm mostly learning how to better explain the thought processes behind good software engineering that is all about tradeoffs and not about following rules or applying patterns without assessing applicability.

Another superpower is always to think of the simplest thing that will work. Avoid using fancy words or creating abstractions that make software seem sophisticated and complex when unnecessary. That only lowers the limit of how complex a problem you can solve. If you get really good at thinking and solving problems in simple ways, you can solve much more complex ones when called for.

I would suggest an entirely different path: play Go, the board game. The rules are incredibly few and easy to learn. The tactics and strategy limited only by imagination and ability to count/execute while balancing priorities (important vs urgent). Another thing that it teaches is the counter-productivity of ego. There's odd parallel I've noticed where getting good at Go makes you better at other things and vice versa. I've taken a year or more off playing and when returning to the game, find I quickly get back to my past level and beyond. Alternatively, if a bit masochistic play StarCraft 2 ladder ;-)
> Transfer 69 FTX coins onto a card at a secure terminal, and pay by handing it to the hooker.

Nah. Part of the strip club experience will always be showering the strippers in dollar bills... and why would you do regular payments for hookers with a special token?! Almost all credit and debit cards (=EMV cards) already can do this by NFC and you can also use watches and phones for this, the problem rather is:

- sex workers are pretty much banned from conventional payment methods and networks because sex work is illicit in many countries and even where it's legal, many sex workers prefer hard cash because chargeback fraud aka "post nut clarity" or actually stolen credentials is so common

- whenever you start a new payment scheme - because you are doing precisely this! - you WILL have to follow banking laws and regulations: customer identification, anti-smurfing and other money laundering measures, compliances for data protection, reports to banking authorities... an insane mess to do right. Of course, you can also hope to do a Bitcoin... but given the penalties if you are ever caught by the authorities, it's not worth it.
In addition to whatever else you do, it would be great if you uploaded each book to the Internet Archive/Open Library, with as much metadata as you can provide (title, author, publication date…). IA will automatically convert to a few different formats and provides good futureproofing that the unique information your scan provides will never go away.
I do think it's symmetrical that, if we use senators to clear land mines, we should use rats to ratify the convention.
Wall Street Journal?

It doesn’t have an euro focus though.
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It would be great if there was a tool that shows you where deoptimization is taking place. IIRC the Chrome Javascript profiler once flagged functions where optimization failed, but this feature is not available in current versions of the devtools performance tool. Although deoptimization is logged, I am not aware of a way to trace the entries back to the source code.
I'm a lifer. Early 30s. Been here 8 years. I've tried to leave, but my boss/team are excellent and moving has always appeared high risk/low reward.

I've been lucky that my boss and I have an excellent relationship. I have more influence than I would have elsewhere. Our group has been given expanded responsibility and is relatively high profile.

No doubt I'll have to leave before I retire, but I doubt it will be in the near future.
You can pipe to xclip to get it into the copy buffer. Then "shift-insert" is often the right paste when "ctrl-v" doesn't work.
3.9 is less than half in inflation here. Is it not for you?
Correct. I said "basically" and linked to the primary source for the detailed definition. It's not possible to know what a person is doing if they are not part of a program that follows them. For example, I have been unemployed many times for months and there is no way to track me because I was not on unemployment or using any program in my job search. Therefore, acc to Dept of Labor stats, I was not "unemployed". "Unemployment" is not the full picture.
Little Bobby Tables' cousin Xavier S Scripts strikes again.

% wget -q -O- 'http://localhost:8080/hello/%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22oops%22)'

Hello, <script>alert("oops")
"MAP"?
I hope you're able to take the right path to, it's a hurdle but possible.
Look into the app Calibre.

But it would still be a lot of manual work.
There have been a lot of GoL variants over the years, but I don't remember running into any attempts to vary the speed of evolution in different locations on the same grid.

The idea that all neighbors move to the next tick simultaneously is a fundamental assumption in cellular automata in general. If you try changing that, the optimizations that allow us to simulate CAs at any kind of reasonable speed ... all stop working, pretty much. It's kind of painful even to think about.

Which means there are probably very interesting rules out there somewhere, where CAs run faster/slower depending on pattern density -- it's just going to be very tricky to explore that particular search space.
Where can I find these studies? The only one I can see mentioned on the website is using runtimes over 2 years old and doesnt include either wasmtime or wasmer (which are, AFAIK, the other major runtimes at present).
The photographer only added the disclaimers after the criticisms. So she definitely misrepresented them.

Also for the criticism fair use exception to copyright to apply, the criticism actually doesn’t have to be correct. Rather it just has to be criticism.

The DMCA also isn’t meant to be used to stop a pile on or protect people from criticism that is leading to death threats. It has a narrow use and all of this drama around it doesn’t affect whether or not this is fair use or not.

Also given that we know the photographer misrepresents things are we sure there are real death threats? Basically she is now the victim and blaming the accuser while also trying to silence the accuser. It is all so drama filled.
The Spectator has
- generally high quality writing
- a quirky (but data driven) approach
- a longer history than any other magazine
- a UK focus
- a right wing bent, but with plenty of left wing ( or apolitical) writers for balance.
Might be a solution?
I gave up on the Economist after 20years 20 years ago, for much the same reasons you state!
CNLohr does a lot of super cool stuff. I highly recommend checking out more of his stuff. How I think of him is similar to how people talk about Fabrice Bellard: He keeps pumping out reliably cool stuff in pretty different areas. His streams are cool too.
That... still doesn't explain anything to me?

Like, say the embedding of a patch was just a vector (a, b, c, d). To have the attention layer "understand" position, you could just concatenate the patch's position to get (a, b, c, d, x, y). I understand that.

What I don't understand is:

- Why on earth are cosines involved?

- What does that mean:

> During training, these embeddings converge into vector spaces where they show high similarity to their neighboring position embeddings — particularly those sharing the same column and row

Does it just mean that the network learns that "x = 1" is similar to "x = 2"? Because presumably, that's not very valuable by itself, is it? It's something you could easily hardcode.

Presumably there's a step where the network goes "if there is pattern A and pattern B and both patterns have a short distance between them in the positional embedding then we have C" where A B and C are neural network magic... but your article is explaining that step, I don't understand the explanation.