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by treesprite82 5y ago
There are concerns without the images needing to make it all the way through their CSAM process. Apple is a US company with obligations to report certain crimes they become aware of, and NCMEC is a US government-tied organisation that dismi
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USA-only referred to which accounts would be scanned. Whereas it's theoretically a good thing to require the CSAM hashes to be verified by organisations in multiple countries (rather than a single US government-tied organisation that d
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Based on a Facebook survey where people self-selected their education level, in which a significantly larger proportion of respondents claimed to have a PhD than would be expected (compared to a random sample of the US). Still an interestin
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Often, despite all its disadvantages, on-device scanning would at least let know see what was being scanned for. But Apple have circumvented that with NeuralHash. There's no way for the user to verify that only CSAM is being detected -
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> It makes some good points in that the amount of data it would take to approximate it all seems far too large The article's way of estimating this is absurd, seemingly relying on the idea that a model can't generalise and must
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> evaluating the output of some NLP system regarding the above tasks is subjective [...] However, language understanding does not admit any degrees of freedom. A full understanding of an utterance or a question requires understanding the
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> They don't filter work in need of revision. This is literally described on the arXiv website: https://arxiv.org/help/moderation "What policies guide moderation before public announcement? " The page
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> Who is giving it the quick once-over? arXiv has 200 expert moderators spread through different fields to filter out papers that are blatantly misleading, unoriginal, non-substantive, or in need of significant review and revision. It&#x
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The original is pleasing in that it's removing the first letter each time.
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No existing project should break unless its developers take the action to upgrade (bumping the version of the library that the library manager is looking for). The reason I'd personally prefer package 2.0.0 rather than package2 1.0.0 i
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> A blankface is anyone who enjoys wielding the power entrusted in them to make others miserable by acting like a cog in a broken machine, rather than like a human being with courage, judgment, and responsibility for their actions. A bla
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> Like Apple built the iOS ecosystem, the App Store, and all the tooling around those that allow you to market a game to millions of new customers? I'd say no, not like that. He seems to be praising FOSS and similar. Even ignoring t
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The "magnet/metal sticking to skin" trick has been around for a long time. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVWMY8EZCA Comes down to the angle and stickiness of skin.
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That person would be acting as if only a binary "100% spreads virus" vs "100% doesn't spread virus" is possible/relevant. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science
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Here's what that line looks like currently: https://i.imgur.com/tougs6p.png (note: this is with the updated end-point at visitor center, probably won't have gone through loch previously) It's de-emphasised, d
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I see this held up as an example a lot, but the fast inverse square root algorithm didn't originate from Quake and is in hundreds of repositories - many with permissive licenses like WTFPL and many including the same comments. GitHub c
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> you pretend this glorified markov chain is something more I hate this belittling attitude that HN has towards projects in certain fields. It's like if I dismissed any progress in graphics as "just glorified triangle-drawing&q
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The easiest way to test this would probably be to try to get it to generate code/secrets that appear only in private repos.
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> Someone uses copilot to generate a Windows clone You could test this with one of Microsoft's products that is already on GitHub - like VSCode. I doubt you would get anywhere with just copilot.
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> because their NAS line had 0days? This vulnerability was reported in 2018 and remains unfixed, if I'm understanding correctly.
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> Aside from the seed number and the shuffling procedure, the whole process is self-contained, mechanical and free of any choices. This sentence would make much more sense if "and the shuffling procedure" was dropped.
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Using your headset requires linking a Facebook profile (with your real info if you don't want to risk its deletion), and this will use information from it to target ads. VR ads have a lot of invasive potential which I don't think
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> Mick West- a game developer is in no position to question observations of He's also a pilot and has been focused on topics like this for two decades - but his arguments don't require taking anything on trust or his authority.
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Lehto's videos have some crucial misunderstandings - such as about focal length and hyperfocal distance central the point of his first video ( https://i.imgur.com/8xAjbgg.mp4 ), and about weight affecting load factor in
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> I found 3 pentagon confirmed videos today of Unidentified flying shapes going super fast. Whatever they are, this is pretty surreal If you're talking about the 3 videos I assume you are, I'd recommend checking out Mick West&#
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> My Home button is gone, why. I put it there on purpose! Previously the home button was there by default. In 89 it's gone by default but can still be added back with right click -> customize toolbar. My guess was that Mozilla fo
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> Life exists here on Earth, and our standard best theories say that this was not a miracle, nor was Earth the only place such things could happen. Furthermore, our universe also seems very large (perhaps infinite). Thus our standard bes
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If the project is "no more similar to Replit than the 15 other (commercial!) ones you can find on Google by searching “run python online” or “online programming environment”." and uses none of Replit's internal design decisio
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The book describes its textures as "ready to be used in your designs, presentations, or comps, as backgrounds or for general visual information". The high price from new ( https://i.imgur.com/1H2Dp9F.png https:&#x
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Here's a good explanation of the Nimitz FLIR1 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ

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