toxik

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931.
by toxik 5y ago
I can restate what I said again for you: I can generate noise that makes the Hamming distance or whatever metric you prefer arbitrarily large without changing the contents noticeably.
932.
by toxik 5y ago
Yes, they have. Consider being more careful with your tone in talking to strangers online, you come across as arrogant.
933.
by toxik 5y ago
Why is this so surprising? This is something people have been doing for decades in most welfare societies.
934.
by toxik 5y ago
I think you're overestimating the capabilities of neural networks here, and especially ones that we know the exact weights for. It is fairly trivial to generate invisible noise that makes an input image get an entirely different hash.
935.
by toxik 5y ago
Edit: I did find it, but only because somebody else pointed it out. Guess I suck at reading. Also search for "derivative" failed to find it. This thread was good https://twitter.com/fayfiftynine/status/14
936.
by toxik 5y ago
You have misunderstood. NeuralHash is the visual derivative. Read [1] carefully, it's a very confusing document even for experts - nowhere is there a second step to this process where some second type of "visual derivative"
937.
by toxik 5y ago
That this tech is sufficient to spy on the population, but insufficient to defeat even basic evasion.
938.
by toxik 5y ago
So the naysayers were right all along, from the original repository uncovering the "NeuralHash" private APIs: > Resizing the image yields same hash, even down to below 200x100. Cropping or rotating the image yields different ha
939.
by toxik 5y ago
This seems like a fairly negative assessment of the facts. I think many people turn to online dating voluntarily, not as some sort of last ditch effort to find a partner. Au contraire, the people I found in the typical settings where you me
940.
by toxik 5y ago
I just want to provide counter data here, and I know many others who met their longterm partners on Tinder actually.
941.
by toxik 5y ago
The fact that you're talking about probabilities sort of proves my point. You're instead saying it could be worse, and I'm saying random execution times in your critical paths is generally undesirable. It depends on your appl
942.
by toxik 5y ago
Ulrich took it personally, thinking it was somebody stealing from him. I'm convinced Metallica would have faded to irrelevance far earlier if people hadn't downloaded their music. A lot of musicians still think this way, "I s
943.
by toxik 5y ago
When an app tells you it’s stealing your data, I would say you should believe it.
944.
by toxik 5y ago
This is neither the time nor the place to talk about my work ethic. Cleaning my desk or going through my inbox instead of doing whatever needs to be done is just my brain cargo-culting "working at a computer in an office", not unl
945.
by toxik 5y ago
They do in fact not have erratic behavior, they are quite predictable. The cuckooing process, on the other hand, is not predictable by design.
946.
by toxik 5y ago
Interesting question, or even a simpler one: an isosceles triangle.
947.
by toxik 5y ago
Ah, O(wildly erratic) insertion. Great for that jittery feel to your programs.
948.
by toxik 5y ago
Sure, asymptotic time complexity only says anything about the asymptotic behavior. On the other hand, I have had far more cases of things blowing up due to cubic or even quadratic time complexities than I have for linear; linear is what you
949.
by toxik 5y ago
Good news then, it’s also linear time like the marginally faster but enormously grotesque for loop provided previously. I would take that clarity of intent a hundred times over squeezing a couple of comparisons out.
950.
by toxik 5y ago
To be fair, this is exactly the type of thing you’d expect China to be good at, unilateral decision making.
951.
by toxik 5y ago
And the super weird body language. It's cool that they tried but really this is so far from what can be done using video editing tools today.
952.
by toxik 5y ago
It's easy to see why they wouldn't reintroduce power user tools once removed. It's sucky, but all mass-market tech is like this, constantly adapting to fit some lowest common denominator. Power users just aren't that.
953.
by toxik 5y ago
GP may be saying that senior devs tend to s---t all over people's code. I've certainly seen it happen. But I think that's more of a personality trait (well, lack of empathy) than anything else.
954.
by toxik 5y ago
It's a word-for-word copy of that glorious comment.
955.
by toxik 5y ago
I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Wi
956.
by toxik 5y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but how do you achieve this? There needs to be some institution that is always ready to buy the coin for $1 a piece, and ready to sell coin for $1 a piece.
957.
by toxik 5y ago
Sorry, the categories are all mixed up. SV is a region in the SF Bay Area. Sweden is a country. Nice PR piece though.
958.
by toxik 5y ago
We stand for progressive* ideals *where profitable
959.
by toxik 5y ago
"Some KPIs are positive"? I had no idea HN was this backwards. More people have moved out of poverty than ever before. Quality of life is improving in so many places, just not around /you/. Amazingly cynical point of vie
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by toxik 5y ago
We have had unprecedented growth and development in the world, it's just that bad news sells more papers. Don't let it bring you down!

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